IMPORTANT WAR NEWS: The Position and Intentions of the Rebels in Maryland; PROBABLE VISIT TO PENNSYLVANIA (9/9/1862)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 9/9/1862

[Homer_J_Simpson]

ACCOUNTS RECEIVED IN WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, Sunday, Sept. 7 -- Afternoon.

The intelligence received here last night, and additionally confirmed this morning, of the occupation of Frederick City, Maryland, by the rebel forces naturally excited much surprise, mingled with indignation and alarm.

Frederick is about sixty miles from Baltimore by the railroad line, and forty overland from Washington, by way of Rockville, Darnstown and Poolesville, Md.

There are but limited opportunities here of obtaining information from that point, almost all the intelligence coming by the way of Baltimore.

The Government authourities received the news early yesterday evening in a written documentary form. During last night immense bodies of our troops were in motion for the Upper Potomac and elsewhere, and to-day the military operations continue.

Nearly all the rebel troops have apparently been withdrawn from our front. Certainly now no large force remains.

The next movement of the rebels is a matter of conjecture, but precautions have been taken to guard in certain quarters against possible damages by them. There is no doubt that large reinforcements of rebels were yesterday passing from Ashby's Gap, south of Leesburgh, as if intending to cross at Snicker's Ferry, which is between the Point of Rocks and Edward's Ferry. The rebels move in solid column -first, cavalry; next, artillery; then infantry, with their baggage in the rear. And these again are followed in the same order by similar descriptions of troops.

The people of the Valley have contributed to the subsistence of the rebels, and doubtless furnished them with all needful information.

Nothing has yet been heard from our troops at Harper's Ferry and Martinsburg, who are cut off from reinforcements by the movement of the rebels towards Frederick.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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Important War News: The Position and Intentions of the Rebels in Maryland – 2-4
News from Washington: Care of the Wounded from the Late Battle-Fields – 4
Condition of Our Troops at Cumberland Gap – 4
Editorial: The Rebel Invasion of Loyal States – 4-5
Rebel Recruiting in Maryland – 5
Editorial: Our General Officers – 5
Kentucky’s Capital Gone – 5-6
The Best Possible Way to Discourage Enlistments – 6
Editorial: The Capture of Garibaldi – Downfall of his Projects – 6

[chajin]

George S. Denison to Salmon P. Chase, September 9, 1862

Trivial question: did Mr. Chase pronounce his first name SAL-mon or SAA-mon?

[Homer_J_Simpson]

I don’t know. I wonder if his friends called him Fishy.