Posted on 06/24/2023 6:38:43 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, Sunday, June 21, 1863.
The situation is not materially changed since my last. STUART'S cavalry still range through the lower part of London Valley and hover about our forces in the vicinity of Aldie and Thoroughfare Gaps. No additional information concerning the position of LEE's main body has been received. Several circumstances combine to render the obtaining of information more than usually difficult. One is, the constant change of position by the enemy, and another is, the strict instructions latterly given by the rebel Commanders to their troops against giving any information concerning their position or organization when taken prisoner. This was strongly manifested the other day by a stray rebel who was picked up, and who said he belonged to no regiment, came from nowhere, and was nobody generally. On being informed that persons of that character found in our lines were always considered and treated as spies, he found his tongue quite readily.
There are now about 250 rebel prisoners at headquarters, including 10 officers, the captives mainly of the cavalry fights of the last few days. They are from the various brigades of STUART's force, who is getting all he wants to attend to at the hands of PLEASANTON's active troopers. One of the officers is a Lieutenant-Colonel of a North Carolina regiment of mounted riflemen, and he tells a very interesting account of his capture, which was made by Capt. BROWN, of the First Maine cavalry, on the 19th. He says he thought BROWN never would be satisfied, for he charged on him three times, and the third time succeeded. He esteems BROWN not only a very gallant, but a very polite fellow; for after he was taken,
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The Army of the Potomac: The Situation of Affairs on Sunday Last – 2
Doings of the Cavalry: Gen. Pleasanton Seeking a New Field of Operations – 2-3
The East Tennessee Raid: Col. Carter Operations on the Railroad with Three Thousand Cavalry – 3
Gen. Blunt in Indian Territory – 3
Pennsylvania and Maryland: Chambersburgh Again Occupied by the Rebels – 3-4
Postscript-Important from Maryland: Forty Thousand Rebels Under Gen. Ewell in the Boonsboro Valley – 4-5
The Rebels in Pennsylvania: A Skirmish Four Miles from Gettysburg – 5
Important from Vicksburgh: Advantages Gained by Our Forces on the 18th – 5
Movements of the Rebel Morgan – 5
Visit of Gen. Halleck to Baltimore – 5
Interesting Southern Items – 5
The Iron-Clad Battle: Particulars of the Capture of the Atlanta, or Fingal – 5-6
The Siege of Vicksburg: The Enemy Keeping up a Heavy Fire with No Effect – 6
Affairs in Indiana: The Rebel Raiders Still in the State – 6
News from Washington: Our Special Washington Dispatches – 6-7
Editorial: Lee’s Plans – 7
Editorial: Richmond – 7
Editorial: The Six Months’ Volunteers Liable to Conscription – 7-8
Editorial: The Crisis of the War – 8
Editorial: Reinvasion of Pennsylvania – 8
Just a week or so away from 160th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg.
I had a cousin with the 110th Pennsylvania Infantry Company ‘A’ who died in the Wheatfield. Tragic stuff... He had a brother who died in 1862 in Maryland and another brother who survived the war, but was taken prisoner May12th 1864 at the Spotsylvania Court House and interned at Andersonville.
History is fascinating stuff... Especially when you can connect to it through your ancestry.
Years later, when he applied for a Pension, the government labled him a deserter. He even named his son (my Great Grandfather) Grover Cleveland King....didn't work. Never got his pension.
Was still a member of the GAR for the rest of his life.
To be fair, G-G-Grandfather King DID fight in some of the most vicious battles before- Antietam, Fredricksburg, and maybe Chancellorsville. He basically fought in battles where it was a bloody stalemate, or the Union got their tails kicked.
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