THE INVASION: DARING ACTS OF THE RAIDERS; The Telegraph Cut Between Philadelphia and Baltimore (7/12/1864)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 7/12/1864

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Exciting News--Rebel Infantry at Rockville and Seventh-street Turnpike--Some Accounts make their Numbers Seventeen Thousand--Others Thirty Thousand--A "Reliable" Authority makes their Numbers Forty-five Thousand--Longstreet about to join the Raiders--Washington to be Attacked--Preparations made to Receive the Rebels.

BALTIMORE, Monday, July 11.

The news from Washington is exciting.

The Star says:

The skirmishing on the Rockville road that commenced at an early hour this forenoon was continued by the advance of the rebel force to a point about four miles west of Alleytown. There their progress on that road was stopped, and they disappeared in some other direction. Subsequently we hear of them skirmishing between 11 and 12 o'clock on and around the Seventh-street turnpike, near the Clagget farm and the residence of FRANCIS P. BLAIR, Esq. It is reported to-day that the rebels have burned the residence of Mr. BLAIR.

There were 800 infantry only in the force that encamped at Rockville last night, though panic-stricken refugees arriving to-day from the vicinity of Edwards' Ferry, report their crossing north at that point yesterday and to-day in large numbers, some saying 12,000 strong and others 30,000. BRECKINRIDGE is believed to be in command of their advance in this direction, and IMBODEN commands their cavalry, now hanging round our fortifications. All was quiet in front of our picket line upon what is known as the River Road -- that is, the road skirting the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal above Georgetown -- up to noon to-day.

The Star says: The numbers and purposes of the rebel invading force are confusingly conflicting. We give elsewhere the opinion entertained by many around us, that the rebel force is not of weight sufficient to undertake a serious attack upon the fortifications of Washington,

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The American Civil War, as seen through news reports of the time and later historical accounts

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The Invasion: Daring Acts of the Raiders – 2-5
The Pirate Florida: The Privateer on Our Coast – 5-6
Gen. Sherman’s Army: The Rebels Across the Chattahoochee – 6
Arrest of a Female Spy – 6-7
Rebel News: The War in Georgia – 7-8
A Wife Elopes with a Circus Clown – 8
Editorial: The Invasion – 8
The Georgia Campaign – 8-9
Editorial: The Naval Rebel Raid – 9
News of the Day: The Rebellion – 9
The Christian Commission – 9
Amusements this Evening – 9