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The Daily Dispatch: may 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], Affairs at Harper' s Ferry. (search)
night on their way to Harper' s Ferry, and we encountered on the road yesterday, within five or six miles of the same place, a squad of six stout recruits for the Virginia service from Baltimore county. They were furnished with some money by our party, and reached their destination about noon. The conduct of the Baltimoreans during their march through this section has been much commended. They appear to have abstained from every act which should excite prejudice against them. Montgomery county is represented in the camp by a large number of her young men, and Charles and Prince George' s counties ditto. The variety of uniforms to be met with at Harper' s Ferry is almost endless, embracing more styles than the "Regulation" book has recorded for a half century, and presenting nearly every shade of colors. It is evident, however, that the pompons ideas of old tie-wig Europe, that a soldier should be literally "dressed to death," have been effectually exploded, and that a more