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wounded--30,000 Confederate prisoners--great Union victory at the Creek of Antietam, all of which are greedily devoured and believed. After Pope's defeat, there were 25,000 wounded brought into Washington. --Once the Confederates crossed into Maryland and the ght at Sharpsburg, eight thousand have been brought into Washington, one thousand into Baltimore, one thousand into Philadelphia, the same number into New York, and it is said that there are five thousand scattered about Frederick, Hagerstown, Boonesboro', besides others taken into Pennsylvania. The dead they were burying a thousand a lay for eight days, and then thought they would never get through with the job. Their officers being fully one half killed and wounded, and this is the great victory. The abolition element is wild at their frequent defeats and ascribe it to treachery among their leading Generals. "Thank God, however," they exclaim. "the men we fear — the Democrats of the North--are new rotting on the dung bill
e fact. I left Richmond and pressed forward towards the army with all the speed which the most imperfect means of transportation could afford. On my arrival here, I ascertained that General Lee had left Frederick with the army on his march to Hagerstown. I had the pleasure of meeting him for a few hours only on my native soil. For wise reasons apparent to all, this able commander immediately afterwards recrossed his army to the south bank of the Potomac, after having spent but a few days in al police, and lying in the shadow of Fort McHenry and of two powered fortifications located within the limits of the corporation. The advance of the army reached Frederick on Saturday, and on the Wednesday following the army moved off towards Hagerstown and became engaged in the movement of Harper's Ferry and the battles of Boonesboro' and Sharpsburg, after which it immediately returned to Virginia, where it now is. Thus the fact simply is, that the army made a hasty passage through one of the
The Daily Dispatch: October 1, 1862., [Electronic resource], A decision Adverse to the Constitutionality of the Conscript law. (search)
Dispatch from Lincoln. --On Monday last Lincoln sent the following dispatch to his home at Springfield: To Hon. J. K. Dubots; WashingtonSept. 13.--3 P. M. --I now consider it safe to say that General McClellan has gained a great victory over the great rebel army in Maryland, between Frederick and Hagerstown. He is now pursuing the flying forces. A. Lincoln.