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army in the neighborhood of Hagerstown before McClellan would be ready to cross the mountain. Consequently D. H. Hill and Stuart were expected to delay McClellan's march until the operations at Harper's Ferry should be completed. On the 13th of September a copy of General Lee's order, giving the proposed movements of every division in his army until it should be reunited after the capture of Harper's Ferry, fell into the hands of General McClellan at Frederick. The copy so captured was thee troops engaged in conducting it. At once orders were issued to every part of the Federal army for a vigorous forward movement. Stuart found his cavalry pickets attacked and pressed back with unusual vigor. Everything on the evening of September 13th gave indications of a change in the mode of movement of the Federal army. Some one who had been a witness of the scene at McClellan's headquarters when the lost dispatch was brought to him came through the lines and informed Stuart, who then