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The Daily Dispatch: October 25, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
artillery, under command of Brigadier- General Hampton and Cols. W. H. F. Lee and Jones. This force rendezvoused at Darkavills at 12 M., and marched thence to the vicinity of Hedgesville, where it comped for the night. At daylight next morning October. 10th I crossed the Potomac at McCoy's, (between Williamsport and Hancock) with some little opposition, capturing two or three horses of enemy's pickets. We were told here by citizens the that a large force had camped the night before at Clear Spring, and were supposed to be en route to Cumberland. We proceeded northward until we reached the turnpike leading from Hagerstown to Hancock, (known as the National road.) Here was a signal station on the mountain, and most of the party with their flags and apparatus, were surprised and captured, and also eight or ten prisoners of war, from whom, as well as from citizens. I found that the large force alluded to had crossed but an hour ahead of me, towards Cumberland, and consisted of six re
The Daily Dispatch: October 25, 1862., [Electronic resource], A Growl from Bermuda. (search)
ll last night the rumbling of artillery, and the solemn tramp of infantry, was heard passing through the main street, and hundreds wondered and speculated what movement was on foot. The morning dawned, but the mystery remained unsolved. Two brigades of Gen. Couch's Division, which, since the great battle, have been laying four miles from Williamsport, on the road to Sharpsburg, suddenly, last Saturday evening, left their encampments, and, with ten days rations, marched up the Potomac to Clear Spring and joined the brigade of Gen. Howe, which had been occupying that post since the raid of Gen. Stuart. This movement of Couch's division created but little comment, for it had been anticipated several days; but the movement of two brigades of Smith's division from the vicinity of Hagerstown, where they had just arrived to wash and dress themselves in preparation for the winter, instantly gave us all to understand that either the right wing of the Army of the Potomac was about swingin