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The Daily Dispatch: September 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], Our army correspondence. (search)
The Daily Dispatch: September 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], Camp star Martinsburg, Sept. 12th, 1862. (search)
The Daily Dispatch: September 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], Northern News. (search)
The Daily Dispatch: September 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], Our army correspondence. (search)
Capture of Harper's Ferry — the battle in Maryland.
From the moment that our armies testified their great superiority to the Yankees at Bethel and Manassas, we saw and said that their true policy was to assume the offensive, and never to depart from it. A contrary policy produced a series of disasters which brought the Confederacy to the verge of destruction, and had it not been abandoned at last, we are not sure that we should not, in the end, have become a subjugated and an enslaved peop d, and defeated a Hungarian army of 80,000 men. The third was that of Prince Eugene at Belgrade.
As far as we can understand the operations, from the very imperfect accounts which we have received, they were somewhat as follows: Our army in Maryland is divided into three corps, commanded by Generals Jackson, Longstreet and Hill.
Of these corps Jackson's was engaged in the siege of Harper's Ferry, and the other two covered his operations.
Conceiving it to be of great importance to raise th
The Maryland press.
We have received, through the politeness of Dr. King, who has just gotten through from Washington, a copy of the St. Mary's Beacon, published at Leonardtown, Md. This paper, which has always been very bold in its utterances against the Lincoln despotism, in concluding a sarcastic article on the "victories" of the Federal army, says: "Notwithstanding all these splendid victories and this unheard-of gallantry, the invincible Federal forces who were once at Warrenton are now behind the fortifications upon Arlington Heights." In noticing the entrance of our troops into Maryland, it says that many strong Unionists showed them every attention, selling them food, clothing, and articles of luxury, for United States or Confederate money.
Dr. King says that in Washington the Secessionists were delighted at the disasters to the Federal army, but the Unionists were consoling themselves that the Confederate army was now in a position where the "back- bone of the rebellion
The Daily Dispatch: September 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], Our army correspondence. (search)
The battle in Maryland--McClellan again defeated.
The reports with reference to the battle fought in Maryland on Sunday and Monday very as to particulars, but concur in the statement that the enemy was repulsed after Gen. Hill was reinforced by Longstreet.
The fight is said to have occurred at or near Middletown, in Frederick City, on the old National road and about fifteen miles from Hagerstown.
The most reliable statement we have in reference to the engagement is, that the fight commMaryland on Sunday and Monday very as to particulars, but concur in the statement that the enemy was repulsed after Gen. Hill was reinforced by Longstreet.
The fight is said to have occurred at or near Middletown, in Frederick City, on the old National road and about fifteen miles from Hagerstown.
The most reliable statement we have in reference to the engagement is, that the fight commenced between Gen. D. H. Hills's division, 15,000 strong and the divisions of McClellan, Burnside, and Sieged, amounting in all to some 80,000 men. The Federal force attacked and surrounded Hill, who maintained his position with changing fortune until night when he was reinforced by Longstreet's division.
The next day the fight was renewed, and the heavy columns of McClellan driven three three miles from the battle-field.
The troops under Gen. Hill are said to have suffered considerably, but o
The Daily Dispatch: September 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], Camp star Martinsburg, Sept. 12th, 1862. (search)