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The Daily Dispatch: August 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 14 (search)
are up to the sky. A long heavy line of clouds floated away towards the Fortress, as if crying for help for the poor village, as I guided my, horse back to my quarters, and turning to look once more, sought rest from the excitement and fatigues of the night. This forenoon I visited the spot again. Nothing but a forest of blear-sided chimneys and walls of brick houses tottering and cooling in the wind, scorched and seared trees and heaps of smouldering ruins, mark the site of 'loveliest Auburn; columns of smoke rise here and there, from yet the seething masses, and desolation has marked its blighted path until a clear vista of the forests far beyond the town is afforded. The bridge was saved. It had been, as I have mentioned, dismantled about a rod from its father end. To a little barricade at the farther extremity, which, when the rebels commenced firing, sheltered two of our pickets, I saw Captain Stomph, of the German Regiment, and six of his men, march bravely in the fa