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The Daily Dispatch: September 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], Moral epidemics. (search)
ring the boom of artillery over the river, just what it amounts to. General McClellan, who is constantly in the saddle, is well informed as to all the movements and plans of the enemy, and certainly prepared for them at all points — from Harper's Ferry to Point Lookout. We may add that it is utterly impossible that Beauregard contemplates a serious movement against the fortifications on the other side of the river. From Gen. Banks' column. Hyattstown, August 26. --Information has reached our encampment that there has been much firing across the river by the Confederates at our pickets, at various points between Conrad's and Harper's Ferries, since Saturday last, and it is reported that an attack was threatened on Saturday at Point of Rock.--The Confederate encampments above Leesburg have been moved back some distance from the river. Yesterday, two supposed Confederate spies were arrested by Captain Morrison's picket of the 12th Indiana regiment. They claim
The Daily Dispatch: September 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], "Order Raigas in Warsaw." (search)
One million dollars were this day placed to the credit of the Barings, of London, to be drawn against by our Ministers in France, England, Belgium and Holland, in payment for the purchase of arms. Dismissed from the service. Captain Gurdin Chapin, of the 7th infantry, a native of Virginia, having given proof of disloyalty, is dismissed from the service of the United States, to take effect immediately. From the Upper Potomac. Hyattstown, Aug. 28 --A gentleman from Harper's Ferry to day reports that the Unionists are leaving there in great numbers.--There are no rebel forces in that neighborhood, except about 150 cavalry, under Colonel Henderson. Advices from Martinsburg give the following intelligence: The rebels have succeeded in taking down and removing to Winchester two of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad locomotives.--They have also sent to the same place a portion of the machinery belonging to the company's workshops there, breaking up and disabli
The Daily Dispatch: September 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
would lead to dividing an army into two parts, with a river between them and an enemy on each side. Monroe and Hampton, which are the true bases of operations against Richmond, have been weakened to reinforce the army covering Washington and Harper's Ferry, and yet I doubt if there are on the South bank of the Potomac at this moment 40,000 men all along the lines, who could move out and offer an enemy battle, leaving any adequate guards in the trenches and garrisons in the lets-du-pont and workfore we have done hearing and seeing accounts of Bell Run, or, as it may be better called, of Manassas, unless some other action intervenes, as is very likely indeed. Gen. Banks, not findnig any advantage in occupying a point in front of Harper's Ferry, on the Virginia side, has, it is affirmed, with drawn all his troops to a position in Maryland, which commands the passages from the Ferry; and Gen. Butler, at Fortress Monroe, feels himself compelled to abandon his advanced works at Hampton