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The Daily Dispatch: October 8, 1862., [Electronic resource], Latest from the North. (search)
e next day. The dispatches represent the Confederates to be entrenched at Bunker Hill, Winchester, and Martinsburg, though their pickets are in three miles of Harper's Ferry, supported by artillery. A letter says, notwithstanding the recently paroled Federal prisoners are required not to serve the United States in any capacity, yat this point. Coming here he took the cars to Staunton, and proceeded to Winchester, through the Shenandoah Valley. From Winchester, through Martinsburg to Harper's Ferry, he, with his wife and two small children, were compelled to come on foot. They had suffered considerably from hunger, and it is not surprising that the littmilitary positions and hospitals in this vicinity before his return — a task which will occupy him until Friday. There is great activity both here and at Harper's Ferry, and it is expected that the cars will cross the new bridge to-morrow. There is evidence that "somebody will be hurt" before many days transpire. From m
The Daily Dispatch: October 8, 1862., [Electronic resource], Franklin in Southampton. (search)
the campaign of Maryland, he has not a word to say of Harper's Ferry, where he had 11,500 qrisoners taken, or of that tremis previous disregard of truth damned him already.--At Harper's Ferry he lost seventy-three cannon, and the banners of a whoing. From the Rap island, all through the campaign to Harper's Ferry, they number about 11,500. At Sharpsburg our loss wass great as ours, even according to this statement. At Harper's Ferry he lost 11,500 at Sharpsburg 14,796, at Harper's FerryHarper's Ferry a gain. 3,000 killed, wounded, and drowned and sixty prisoners. Here his losses are 20,796 certain — part ascertained fromhis favor. 204 men. He claims 13 guns. We took 73 at Harper's Ferry. Balance in our favor, 60 guns. Taking the whole cam,500 killed, wounded, and missing.--The Yankee loss at Harper's Ferry was according to their own admission, the same.--Theserpsburg28 000 Battle with A. P. Hill3,500 Capture of Harper's Ferry11 500 Total95 000 Such we believe to be very nea
The Daily Dispatch: October 8, 1862., [Electronic resource], Purchase of Clyde steamers for running the Floored. (search)
of the indomitable courage it has displayed in battle, and its cheerful endurance of privation and hardship on the march. Since your great victories around Richmond you have defeated the enemy at Cedar Mountain expelled him from the Rappahannock, and, after a conflict of three days, utterly repulsed him on the Plains of Manassas, and forced him to take shelter within the fortifications around his capital. Without halting for repose you crossed the Potomac stormed the heights of Harper's Ferry, made prisoners of more than eleven thousand men, and captured upwards of seventy pieces of artillery, all their small arms and other munitions of war. While one corps of the army was thus engaged, the other insured its success by arresting at Boonsboro' the combined armies of the enemy, advancing under their favorite General to the relief of their beleaguered comrades. On the field of Sharpsburg, with less than one third his numbers, you resisted, from daylight until dark, the