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The Daily Dispatch: October 25, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
rom bodies of the enemy that would be able to resist it, you are desired to cross the Potomac above Williamsport, leave Hagerstown and Greencastle on your right, and proceed to the rear of Chambersburg, and endeavor to destroy the railroad bridge oveing, and were supposed to be en route to Cumberland. We proceeded northward until we reached the turnpike leading from Hagerstown to Hancock, (known as the National road.) Here was a signal station on the mountain, and most of the party with their fproceeded in the direction of Mercersburg. Penn., which point was reached about 12 M. I was extremely anxious to reach Hagerstown, where large supplies were stored but was satisfied, from reliable information, that the notice the enemy had of my appmy real route and object. I started directly towards Gettysburg, but having passed the Blue Ridge, turned back towards Hagerstown for six or eight miles, an I then crossed to Maryland by Emmettsburg, where, as we passed, we were called by the inhabi
The Daily Dispatch: October 25, 1862., [Electronic resource], A Growl from Bermuda. (search)
at battle, have been laying four miles from Williamsport, on the road to Sharpsburg, suddenly, last Saturday evening, left their encampments, and, with ten days rations, marched up the Potomac to Clear Spring and joined the brigade of Gen. Howe, which had been occupying that post since the raid of Gen. Stuart. This movement of Couch's division created but little comment, for it had been anticipated several days; but the movement of two brigades of Smith's division from the vicinity of Hagerstown, where they had just arrived to wash and dress themselves in preparation for the winter, instantly gave us all to understand that either the right wing of the Army of the Potomac was about swinging over to Virginia or the left of Gen. Lee's army was on the point of paying us a visit. At this hour, 10 P. M., everybody looks as if another great battle would be fought before long on this side of the Potomac, out not on the sell of "My Maryland," but on that of our Pennsylvania. From Ke