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The Daily Dispatch: July 1, 1863., [Electronic resource], The ground in Pennsylvania. (search)
consists of a broad limestone valley, watered with copious and unfalling mountain springs, and having a soil of unsurpassed fertility. In 1850 this county yielded 837,062 bushels of wheal the greatest quantity produced by any county of the State except Doncaster. Limestone, marble and slate are abundant; the mines of iron ore are rich, and extensively worked." The county is traversed by the Cumberland valley and its continuation, the Franklin railroad, extending from Harrisburg to Hagers town and passing through Chambersburg, the seat of justice, which is 52 miles from Harrisburg. It has about 5,000 inhabitants, and manufactures of cotton, wool, flour, paper, and iron. The Cumberland Valley railroad, which forms the direct railway connection between Chambersburg and Harrisburg, is fifty-two miles in length. The distances from Chambersburg are as follows: To Scotland 5 miles, to Shippensburg 11 miles, Oakville 18, Newville 22, Alterton 27, Cartisle 34, Kingston 41, Mecha
The Daily Dispatch: July 7, 1863., [Electronic resource], Progress of the War. (search)
Incidents at Hagerstown and Williamsport. A correspondent of the Philadelphia "Press" relates the following incidents of the passage of the Confederate troops through Hagerstown and Williamsport, Maryland, into Pennsylvania. Writing on the 28th, the correspondent says: On this day two weeks ago the rebels began to cross the Potomac at Williamsport and two and a half miles above. The only opposition they met was Capt. Fiery, with a handful of men. * * The reception of Lee at Hagers town was cold, frigid, icy. Lee looked red, ruddy and robust. He came not in a carriage, as he did last September, but rode a splendid horse. Ewell was ghastly pale, fearfully worn and emaciated. The rebels have plenty of artillery; all they captured at Winchester is with them--275 pieces in all — brass howitzers, Napoleon and rifled Parrots, many are 12 and 16-pounders, drawn by eight horses. The whole army of the invaders is not less than 95,000 men; some here positively assert the