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The Daily Dispatch: August 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway (search)
Various reports are circulating in the camps that the Confederate militia are collecting at various points in Upper Virginia--that a regiment was at Shepherdstown on Sunday, and that an encampment was visible from the Maryland Heights. There is great activity at headquarters. Maryland Secessionists continue to be brought in for prowling along the lines.--Some important arrests have been made. No attack is anticipated at present from the enemy. The work upon the bridge at Harper's Ferry is progressing, and it will shortly be passable. The weather is rainy and the temperature cooler. The general health of the army is good. Sandy Hook, Aug. 14.--Yesterday evening the freight train from Baltimore, arriving here about 4 o'clock, brought intelligence that a fight was progressing at Berlin. Other rumors were also circulated that several regiments of the Confederates were approaching the river opposite Berlin from Lovettsville for the purpose of erecting a battery to s
The Daily Dispatch: August 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Intercepted Epistles. (search)
of the Confederate States." Now the reality of his situation opened to him. He "felt homesick," he says, "because he could not hear from home." At length he had two letters from home. He has passed through Lynchburg, and in due time reaches Harper's Ferry. Here is his account of his first Sabbath at the Ferry. "Sunday, May 19--What a cold day for the 19th of May; everybody is acting as if it were Monday; all firing guns; cooking, playing cards, &c.; had a dress parade, Colonel Jackson ins from home and the "prospect of a fight," and the recovery of Stephen, he becomes more cheerful. June 19--Received a box of cake and a pistol from home, with more letters; glad to get them at any time. The regiment is withdrawn from Harper's Ferry. What follows will help to show at what time the reinforcements reached Manassas Junction. Sunday, July 7.--We were ordered to fall back to our old position near Winchester; some of the men thought it was a retreat, and began to grumble