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. The army will resume its march tomorrow, taking the Hagerstown road. Gen. Jackson's command will form the advance; and, will join the main body of the army at Boonsborough or Hagerstown. Each regiment on the march will habitually carry its north of west, through Turner's Gap to Boonsborough and Hagerstown, rather than on roads leading to Crampton's Gap and to tiddletown (the chief village of the Catoctin Valley), to Hagerstown and Cumberland. Lee, having divided his army in order. Pleasanton, leading our cavalry advance on the road to Hagerstown, encountered some resistance Sept. 13. at the crossinton, had pushed Longstreet forward on Jackson's track to Hagerstown, Sept. 11. whence six of his brigades, under Andersonntime, Hill had sent pressing messages to Longstreet, at Hagerstown, for help; and two brigades had already arrived; as Longkson and Walker, should it attempt to escape westward by Hagerstown and Williamsport, and thus be in position to assail and
street's, at Williams-port; both, uniting at Hagerstown, advanced, unopposed, on the track of Ewell,ion men independently, as it marched through Hagerstown, numbered 91,000 infantry, with 280 guns, aned into Pennsylvania without passing through Hagerstown. Considering that the Rebels had mustered t eye-witness on the Rebel side, writing from Hagerstown on the 8th: About the middle of the aftevery near me, upon the turnpike going toward Hagerstown; and the staff officer brought me permissiona, and passed up on the pike road leading to Hagerstown. After passing Boonsboroa, it became my turI do not know whether they brought them from Hagerstown, or from some other place. They made three on and take a position a mile or more nearer Hagerstown. As we moved up, we saw that the Rebels hadoved through South Mountain by Boonsboroa to Hagerstown and the Potomac; where Lee had of course arrendered more difficult by the rains, reached Hagerstown on the afternoon of the 6th and morning of t
's Ferry, with a heavy loss of stores, and taking post on Maryland Heights, where tlhe enemy did not see fit to assail him, but once more destroyed the Baltimore and Ohio railroad for a considerable distance, levied a contribution of $20,000 on Hagerstown, burned some buildings at Williamsport, and, raiding up into the border of Pennsylvania, scoured the country far and wide for horses, cattle, provisions, and money. The movement was so well masked by cavalry that the strength of the invading fe burned manufactories of warlike material, clothing, &c., throughout the South), he sternly forbad wanton devastation; and he was obeyed. Averill, with 2,600 cavalry, perplexed by the enemy's bewildering demonstrations, had fallen back from Hagerstown to Greencastle, and was but 9 miles from Chambersburg while Johnson and McCausland, with but part of the Rebel cavalry north of the Potomac, sacked and burned that town. He arrived that day but they had left; moving westward to McConnellstown,
t Malvern Hill, 165; captures 1,500 Rebels at Five Forks, 733. Griffith, Sergeant, 22d Iowa, captures 13 prisoners. 312. Grimes, Senator James W., of Iowa, his bill for the education of colored children, 266. Grover, Gen. C., reoccupies Baton Rouge, 327. Groveton, Va., battle of, 183. gunboats, captured and destroyed by the enemy on Red river, 550. Guntown, Miss., Sturgis routed at, 621. H. Habeas Corpus, Vallandigham's case, 489; President Lincoln on, 491. Hagerstown, Md., Longstreet advances to, 196. Haines's Bluff, Miss., Sherman's feint on, 303; capture of, 310. Hall, Col. A. S., 105th Ohio, defeats Morgan on Vaught's Hill, 284. Halleck, Gen. H. W., allusion to, 26; 35; 58; his army occupies Corinth, Miss., 71-2; summoned to Washington to act as General-in-Chief, 72; department of, extended, 113; his suggestions to Gen. McClellan, 169-70-71; his communications with Gen. McClellan, ordering him to withdraw his army from the Peninsula, 190-1-2;