THE INVASION: Inglorious End of the Great Raid; Flight of the Rebels Across the Potomac (7/14/1864)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 7/14/1864

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The Skirmishing Before Washington--Repulse of the Rebels--Retreat upon Poolesville--They Recross the Potomac at Edwards' Ferry--Partial List of Casualties.

WASHINGTON, Wednesday, July 13.

Skirmishing had been constantly going on, and our troops had acted strictly on the defensive until yesterday evening, when the rebel sharpshooters becoming annoying, it was determined to dislodge them from the front of Fort Stevens. This was effectually accomplished amid the shouts of applause of those who witnessed the action. The rebels retired in hot haste, leaving at the house of F.P. BLAIR, at Silver Springs, a hundred of their wounded, including eleven officers, and their dead upon the field.

Reconnoissances this morning showed that the rebels had disappeared during the night from the front of our fortifications, after firing a number of buildings they had previously occupied as a shelter for their sharpshooters.

Scouts report that the rebels were this morning recrossing the Potomac, nearly opposite Poolesville, driving before them about 2,000 head of cattle, which they had stolen; while a dispatch received by Gen. HALLECK, from Rockville, says the retreating rebels passed through that place at 3 o'clock this morning, moving in the direction of Edwards' Ferry.

The rebels near Bladensburgh moved off between 8 and 10 this morning, taking the road westward, and carrying with them a number of horses, cattle, &c.; stolen from that neighborhood.

The militia and volunteers and employes in the several departments of the Government were called out to-day, and performed the duty assigned to them. There has been no extraordinary excitement in Washington.

Several squads of rebel prisoners were brought in, to-day, and taken to the Old Capitol.

Our killed and wounded, of yesterday, amounted to about two hundred.

Major CROSBY, Sixty-first Pennsylvania, has had his left arm amputated.

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The Invasion: Inglorious End of the Great Raid – 2-5
The Rebel Raid – 5
From Gen. Sherman’s Army: Large Captures of Prisoners – 5
The Iron-Clads: Interesting and Important Letter from Capt. Ericsson – 5-6
The Extradition of Arguelles: A Legal View of the Case – 6-8
Work of the Sanitary Commission – 8
Editorial: The New Rebel Movement – Its Character – 8-9
Editorial: Our Army Correspondence – 9
The Rebel Guerrillas – 9
A New Telegraph Line to the Pacific – 9
Naval Practice Abroad – 9
Honors to an American Tar – 9
Gen. W.F. Smith – 9
Up or Down – 9