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How the Virginia "Unionists" made the escape.

--A dispatch from Hagerstown, Md. (June 20,) to the Northern press, says:

‘ Capt. Cook, well known for his distinguished services as commander of the Home Guard of Sharpsburg, arrived here this evening and reports that the Virginia pickets have reappeared at various points along the Poi river. Sixty appeared at Harper's Ferry the morning to arrest Union men who had returned there.

At 12 o'clock to-day a company of C appeared at the Ferry, when the citizen immediately crossed the river in boats, or any other available mode of escape. were fired upon by the Secession troops of nineteen citizens killed and wounded. Man had their clothing pierced with bullets.

Yesterday at two o'clock, the people above Harper's Ferry raised a Union The Confederates fired upon it. The pickets appeared also to-day at dam

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The Daily Dispatch: June 25, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. June 25, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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