Posted on 07/15/2024 7:00:56 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Special Dispatch to the New-York Times.
WASHINGTON, Thursday, July 14.
A train came through from Baltimore this morning, leaving at 9 A.M. With the exception of five mud-cars, which the rebels burnt at Beltsville, and cutting the telegraph wire, no damage has been done; not a single rail has been removed from its place. There are no rebel troops between Washington and Baltimore. The raiding parties have all joined their main army, which has been falling back from Washington, and are now endeavoring to cross the Potomac at the different fords. It is thought they will be unsuccessful in their retreat, as sufficient troops have been sent in pursuit to defeat their object.
It is now ascertained for a fact that no rebel infantry were nearer Baltimore than Cooksville on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Maj. GILMORE volunteered to go to Baltimore and its vicinity with 125 picked men. This was the total force that was operating below Cooksville.
The guard, consisting of one hundred day men, stationed at Annapolis Junction, ingloriously fled from there on Tuesday, when the rebels were twelve miles away. The rebels have never been in the direction of Annapolis Junction or Annapolis. Their cavalry, with one piece of artillery, which took possession of Beltsville and held it for five hours, and also Bladensburgh, where they had a skirmish, retired and joined their main army near Washington, and are now in full retreat, trying to save their booty. The wires are all up and trains running again regular. Hostilities around Washington and Baltimore have ceased.
REVIEW OF THE REBEL RAID.
From our Special Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Wednesday, July 13, 1864.
The siege of Washington, not quite as long in duration as the siege of Troy, and hardly as glorious as Derry or Saragossa,
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The Raid: Final Flight of the Enemy – 2-5
The Escape of Gen. Franklin: He Runs the Guard while it is Asleep – 5-6
Our Baltimore Correspondence: A Connected Narrative of Events – 6-7
From Vicksburgh: An Expedition Under Ben. Slocum – 7
From Fortress Monroe: The Pursuit of the Privateers – 7-8
From the Army of the Potomac – 8
Department of the South: An Important Expedition – 8-9
Southern News: Rebel Accounts from Georgia – 9-10
News from Washington – 10-11
Editorial: The Rebel Incursion – 11
Popular Practice with the Rifle – 11
Need Watching – 11
Minor Operations – 11
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