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Posted on 09/05/2022 6:58:47 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
WASHINGTON, Thursday, Sept. 4.
A farmer, from the neighborhood of Poolesville, Md., who is known to be thoroughly loyal, came in in this morning, and reported the following information:
On Tuesday evening, about dusk, a regiment of rebel cavalry appeared on the Virginia shore of the Upper Potomac, at a point nearly opposite Edwards' Ferry, having with them a small mountain howitzer, from which they fired several shots across the river, without effecting any damage. He also states that Union people are leaving Leesburgh and vicinity in consternation, some flying toward Washington, and some escaping into Maryland. He conversed, yesterday, with a Union man who left Leesburgh on Tuesday, crossing the river in the night, and who informed him that the rebels were marching on that place, some of their cavalry having entered the town before he left it.
One of the officers stated to him in the course of conversation that it was the plan of the rebel commanders to cross the Upper Potomac at several points in force, and invade Maryland and Pennsylvania, and give the inhabitants of those States a taste of the horrors of war.
Upon inquiry as to whether the Confederate force was sufficient for that purpose, the officer boastingly replied that they had force enough to march wherever they pleased.
From the same source I learn that the Maryland rebels have for a long time kept up constant communication with their friends in Virginia through this channel, and that rebel officers are frequently seen in that vicinity visiting their friends on furloughs granted by rebel Generals.
The route for communication via Leesburgh and Poolesville is now considered safest by the rebels, on account of the National gunboats stationed in the Lower Potomac.
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Stirring War News: The Rebels Attempting to Invade the North – 2-4
General Washington News – 4
The War in the Southwest: The Rebels Investing Bolivar – 4-5
The War in the West: The Expedition Up the Yazoo* – 5-6
Editorial: Position of the Union Cause – 6-7
Editorial: The Plan of the Rebel Campaign at the North – 7-8
Two Blankets – 8
A Good Example – 8
Hospital Comforts – 8
The Supply of Arms – 8
Gen. Halleck and the Three Months’ Volunteers – 8
*Something about that headline . . .
You got me interested. I will be back to watch it after I finish my posting chores.
Somebody needs to warn Union Col. Miles at Harpers Ferry that the best place to defend the town is on the hill tops around it.
I mean... he'd know that, wouldn't he? Maybe just remind him?
Oh, dear, and while we're warning people of things, somebody needs to tell Gen. Lee that it's illegal to leave super-secret national security documents just laying around for enemies to pick up & read...
I mean... it could generate a raid from the FBI, to search through Mrs. Lee's closets and young Lee, Jr.'s drawers!
Leaving super-secret materials just lying around is not advised. Neither is using them to wrap your cigars in.
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