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The Daily Dispatch: July 18, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
he expedition a sure thing, Gen. Lee has added to these forces a few divisions of his own army, and recommend of Gen. Ewell. The thing is not, however, probable. Ewell is not likely to leave the command of his corps for the inglorious occupation of leading a raid. Be this as it may, the whole expedition was carried on with an activity and a secrecy truly admirable Gens. Hunter, Sigel, and Wallace were either defeated or compelled to fall back. Martinsburg, Williamsport, Boonsboro', Hagerstown, Middletown, Harper's Ferry, Bolivar Seights, and Frederick fell into the hands of the rebels without even a struggle. During all the time the administration, instead of coming to the assistance of our troops in that region, lost a precious opportunity in providing for the defences of Washington and Baltimore, which were in no way threatened, and let the rebels, who might have been easily checked, have their own way in Maryland. Immense lines of railroad and telegraph are cut, bridges ar
The Daily Dispatch: July 18, 1864., [Electronic resource], The movements on Charleston. (search)
round Baltimore and Washington: The excitement in Baltimore continues to subside. The rebel forces that were around the northwest side of the city have all disappeared, and there were none reported during yesterday within twenty miles of the city. The situation in Western Maryland yesterday evening was as follows: There was no rebels on the north side of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. The federal troops hold the railroad from Monocracy to Cumberland, Martinsburg, Frederick, Hagerstown, Harper's Ferry, the South Mountain, &c, and all now occupied by Federal troops. The enemy evacuated Frederick City, but not until they had burned all the Government buildings except the hospitals, and had received from the authorities $200,000 demanded of them. They left many of their wounded behind in the hospitals. The medical director at Frederick reports the loss in the battle of Monocracy to be seven hundred and eleven in killed, wounded and prisoners on the Union side, and