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was surprised and disconcerted to find that the cars were suddenly detached from the train and from each other, and, with the troops still in them, were rapidly drawn by horses through the streets on a track running from the Philadelphia depot to the Washington depot, the two being about a mile apart.
Himself and the regimental officers were in the first car; others followed, and, until eight cars had thus passed, no detention or demonstration occurred.
But an excited
crowd meanwhile gathered along the track; the ninth car was received with hootings and insults, was detained by slight obstructions, and, before it finally reached the Washington depot, its windows were smashed by stones and bricks, and some of its occupants wounded by gun-and pistol-shots, the soldiers having also returned the scattering fire.
By this time the crowd, grown to formidable proportions, and fully maddened, succeeded in placing more permanent
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