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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: July 6, 1861., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Harper or search for Harper in all documents.
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A Printer hung.
--The Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun says:
The James McGaff, of Greencastle, Pa., mentioned by a Williamsport correspondent a few days ago as having been hung at Harper's Ferty, was Jas. Gaff, a compositor in the Congressional Globe office, of this city, and a member of the Columbia Typographical Society. Mr. Gaff was employed in the Globe office the last two sessions of Congress, and had many friends among the printers of Washington generally.
He leaves a wife and one child, who are at present residing in Greencastle, Pa.
Details of Tuesday's battle near Williamsport.
Several persons present at the recent engagements near Martinsburg concur, substantially, in the following accounts:
On Tuesday last the Yankee forces, numbering near 10,000, while approaching Martinsburg, were met by Col. Jackson's advance, consisting of a portion of Col. Harper's Regiment from Augusta county, about 700 strong, and a squadron of cavalry under Col. Steward.
The Federal forces, excepting Sherman's boasted battery, occupied a forest.--The Confederate troops advanced, under the protection of a rail fence, to within three hundred yards of the enemy.--Col. Stuart, with Capt. Patrick's company of Cavalry, from Augusta, opened the engagement by capturing the van of the enemy, consisting of an entire company of Pennsylvanians; a sharp firing was kept up for an hour and a half between the main bodies, with a loss to the enemy estimated at the minimum of 67 killed, 85 wounded, and 53 prisoners; when the firing ceased, a