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The Daily Dispatch: October 14, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 9 (search)
From other parts in the neighborhood forces could be collected suddenly to swell the aggregate to some five or six thousand men. Fortunately the recent militia gathering established the organizations, which will now be useful for the people to rally around, to repel the invaders, and as the telegraph says that Governor Curtin has commenced sending forces forward to defend the State we presume that he has promptly called out those nearest and most serviceable. From the populous counties of Berks, Schuylkill, and Lancaster, help will no doubt go forward immediately, although the rapidity with which the rebels advance seems to give assurance that they have thoroughly informed themselves of the defenceless condition of the State, and have resolved to profit by it to the utmost. The natural inquiry, what is the object of the invasion, is not difficult to answer. Since the great battle of Antietam, McClellan has been gradually but slowly pushing his army forward into Virginia. Had