The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1862-09-18
Rockford, Sept. 18th, 1862.
The WARM Maryland.

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Rockford, Sept. 18th, 1862.
The War iN Maryland.
NEW YORK, Sept ia special tie the New
York Tribune says;
On Thursday, at a. M, the rebels main
body, consisting of a division under Jackson,
q division under Longstreet division under
D. II. HILL and possibly a fourth division,
which had been encamped at Urbana commenc-
ed marching through Frederick towards Hag-
erstown The movement began at m and
lasted till 8 D. m. The most liberal estimate
of the whole force is $4,000 strong, including
8 100 negroes. The negroes were mixed in
promiscuousl y with the whites: Many OF them
carried musket, sabre, dirk or bowie~knife.-
The vilest and worst looking person IN the
whole army contemplate, bloated blackguard.
was Howell Cobb.
We have been doing fine business to-day
in chasing up the rebels. About 500 prison.
ers have bden taken in skirmishes, and are
now arriving and being rapidly disposed Of
The rear guard of the enemy, fighting obsti-
nately, contested every inch of ground. Near
ly all the Maryanders who enlisted in the reb-
el army while in this vicinity have been taken
prisoners to day in the skirmishes.
To-day we lost in killed and wounded but
twenty-five or thirty. The enemy is said TO
have suffered severely from one or two of our
cavalry charges.
Two privates of the I'd Missi ssippi battalion
were captured this morning, near Leesburg,
and brought to headquarters. They anne
from Montgomery, Ala, by rail TO Gordonville,
thence afoot through Culpepper, Manassas, Cen
treville and Fairfax. They intended to Join
their regiment in Maryland. They agree in
saying that they were pressed into the rebel
service, and expressed satisfaction at being
prisoners But few troops are in Richmond,
they say, that city being little more than
vast hospital. They further report that Charles
ton, S. c., has been practically evacuated by
its citizens many becoming fugitives to dis
tant cities, and many others having encased
themselves in hastily built huts beyond the
limits of the corporation and range of ankee
gunboats.
The N. Y. Times correspondence, dated SUI
gar Loaf Mountain, Friday, says:
Last evening the Union Signal Corps went
up and occupied the crest of the mountain, and
signals were kept up throughout the night
There has been occasional skirmishing between
GAINESVILLE and the mountain, also IN the
neighborhood of Hyattstown, without material
results.
1t is stated that the enemy were yesterday
retreating or moving in the direction of Point
of Rocks. The Signal Corps saw from Sugar
Loaf Mountain body of cavalry proceeding
toward Frederick city, yesterday, about tour
o'clock D. M The only effective force of rebs
els in the state is believed to be cavalry.
Franklin's corps moved from near Darnes-
Vile this morning Cochrane's brigade yester'
day morning moved over the mouth OF the Mon
ocacy TO watch against the advance of more
rebel troops across the river, ana TO prevent
them recrossing to the Virginia SIDE
THE SITUATION IN 'MARYLAND.
Correspondence N. Y. Times.
HAGARsTOwN, MD, Six Miles from the
Potomac, Monday Eve, Sept. 8, 1862
arrived here to.day, and found affairs deN
cidedly on the rampage. At all the stations
between here and Harrisburg l found refugees
fleeing from their homes, in anticipation OF
visit from the rebel cavalry. at Greencast:e,
fifteen miles from here, were the editors OF the
Haoerstown Herald and Torch, the Union pas
per published here, and many other staunch
ITnionists of this place. We came in very slow
ly. ready at moments warning to back out OF
any rebel ambush, and beat a retreat, II necess
sarv, as far back as Harrisburg. Last even
| ing, the train left at midnight for Chambers
burg supposing that the rebels were close on
the village, They did not make their appear
ance, however. There is the most intense ex~
element throughout all this section OF country,
|
Gov. Curtin has issued stirring appeal, which
| is printed on small sheets of paper, and is be-
ling generally distributed through the portion
PENNSYLVANIA bordering on this county. Inc
people are fully alive to the crisis,and although,
| perhaps, poorly armed and drilled, will present
a bold front to the Vandals.
| All the troops en- route through Pennsylvania
are detained and massed at Harrisburg. prepar-
atorv TO being sent into this valley. A con-
I Il Ii hac oil
ready at moments nouce TO mafeh 70 any
point, % .e !. .,..-
As write, there is the most teverlsh ankles
ty throughout the village, occasioned by fresh
news that the rebels are coming. The belief
| in their coming is founded on the statements
| of nearly a dozen different parties, who have
come tonight from the direction of Frederick,
| twenty-six miles distant. have held lengthy
conversations with two of them from Mlddle-
town, six miles this side Of Frederick They
report that the rebel cavalry, to the number of
nearly 300, approached that place about ii
o'clock this forenoon. Soon after II CLOCK
some sixty of them charged into the village,
| shouting, "down with the flags" None of the
inhabitants, who-are nearly all Union, obey
| ing the order, they themselves, hauled down
the colors from two standards, and run up the
stars and bars. Meeting further down the
street a lady wearing Union badge, they
rudely snatched it from her breast, the party
openly proclaiming that they were coming on
| in large force to occupy Hagerstown tonight
and thus obtain possession of this railroad. l
know not how much Importance to attach to
these statements. Certainly much allowance
must be made for the excitement under which
all the parties were evidently laboring. We
| shall know very soon whether the reports are
true or not. Middletown is a small village. OF
some 700 or 800 inhabitants.on the direct stage
route between here and Frederick.
The mail leaves again tomorrow morning,
| and if the way continues to remain open the
Irregular stage will go over on Wednesday, morn
ling, returning at night. Military trains con-
tlnue to move as far as Harpers Ferry but no
passenger car comes further down than Cum
lberland. Mail communication eastward from
the Ferry was stopped on Friday last.
TUESDAY MORNING. o'clock
The train has left for Chambersburg, load d
down with prominent Unionists, and the tele>
graph operator has also followed suit, taking
his apparatus with him. Both will probably
return o-merrow if not, we are cut eff from
Iall communication with the outer world, j
w. Finegan and Andrew Bower, members OF
the Russell cavalry, raised in this county ano
stationed at Harper's Ferry, have just rode W
to the hotel, and bring good news. Sixty o.
the regiment left the Ferry early this morning
to rdconnoitre the Maryland Heights, opposite
the Ferry. They rode down toward Point o
Rocks, as far as Knoxville, six miles, and thel
struck off into the mountains, and rode to with
in two miles of Frederick, On the Molesly
Bluff, one mile and half out of the place, the
rebels have planted heavy battery. Securing
around through the Mountains, they captureG
nine cavalry at "Hager' s-hotel,' five miles froI
g Frederick, after wounding one in the thigh an
:; and another in the ahoulder-three at Middle
Q town, and four others at different places, max
. ling seventeen in all.
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