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Lt.-Colonel Arthur J. Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States, June, 1863. (search)
We had the mortification to learn that Generals Lee and Longstreet had quitted Williamsport this morning at 11 o'clock, and were therefore obliged to toil on to Hagerstown, six miles further. This latter place is evidently by no means rebel in its sentiments, for all the houses were shut up, and many apparently abandoned. The few natives that were about stared at the troops with sulky indifference. After passing through Hagerstown, we could obtain no certain information of the whereabouts of the two generals, nor could we get any willing hospitality from any one; but at 9 P. M., our horses being quite exhausted, we forced ourselves into the house of tisfactorily about the ambulance, I rode slowly on to rejoin General Longstreet, near Chambersburg, which is a Pennsylvanian town, distant twenty-two miles from Hagerstown. I was with McLaws's division, and observed that the moment they entered Pennsylvania, the troops opened the fences and enlarged the road about twenty yards on
Lt.-Colonel Arthur J. Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States, July, 1863. (search)
train of plunder had been proceeding towards Hagerstown by the Fairfield road ever since an early ho one leading to Emmetsburg, and the other to Hagerstown. Major Moses and I entered a farm-house, in spirits. A short time before we reached Hagerstown there was some firing in front, together wit we seated ourselves upon a hill overlooking Hagerstown, and saw the enemy's cavalry driven throughr so long. About 7 P. M. we rode through Hagerstown, in the streets of which were several dead h. -Lawley, the Austrian, and I drove into Hagerstown this morning, and General Longstreet moved iduced me to General Stuart in the streets of Hagerstown to-day. He is commonly called Jeb Stuart, oe of insubordination. When I got back to Hagerstown, I endeavored to make arrangements for a horose. 9th July, 1863 (Thursday). I left Hagerstown at 8 A. M., in my conductor's good buggy, afhad safely crossed the Potomac before I left Hagerstown. The consternation in the streets seemed[6 more...]