Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1863-07-01
FROM HARRISBURG.

No Fighting of Consequence Xet-Sumbor
OF Kebei> IN the Cumberland Valley
10000, with i62 Pieces OF Artillery
General lee Still al Chambersburs-in-
teresting Statement of a Gentleman lust
from Lees Headquarters.
HARRISBURG, June O-[Correspondence of
the Philadelphia Inquirer. I-Artin nv firing
has been resumed this morning, somewhat in
advance OF the position held by our pieces yes
terday.
Our pickets have advanced a short distance
further up the Valley. Many of the officers
here expect cavalry dash from above into
the city at any time.
We have rumors here that Pleasan,on, with
his cavalry, is in the Immediate rear OF Lees
army, and advancing this way
Since writing the above, l learn that Pleas
anton has attacked the enemy al HagerSto1,u
with $4,000 cavalry, and the possibility is that
the mann force that threatens Harrisburg will
retire for time. A number of troof have.
arrived since my last letter, and have been
sent to eligible poins Militia companies ar.
constantly parading the streets, drilling, &c
capt. Boyd, who commands the LIST New
York Cavalry, and who is constantly harass
ing the enemy : ad vance, has lust come ia from
the front and reports the enemy TO be falling
BACK. capt. BOYD will keep close 10 their
neels, and report all their movements There
Is now no prospect of a fight near The city to-
treer. $3.50
have Just had an interview with q pan+la
man we'll known in Harrisburg and who has
just arrived from Cham hers burg having ma De
ms escape from that town yesterday morning.
MY informant was IN Gettysburg at the tim.
the Rebel troops entered the town The nlare
was occupied on Friday afternoon last hy four
thousand tive hundred Rebels under command
o! General Early; they had with them tvantv
pieces of light artillery.
The Rebel troops, forty-fTe hundred strong.
eheampea ABOUT one miles from Gettysburg
The next morning after the occupation tho
rebels left Gettysburg, after stealing every
thing they could lay their hands on Tbey
pursued their way for York by way of Han
over They left no troops whatever at Get
tysburg, and the same force occupied York
My informant harnessed up his horse and
wagon after the rebels left, and proceeded in
the direction of Chambers burg. His horse was
not taken by the rebels because he was stone
blind.
AT Stevens Furnace, which, by the way,
belongs TO Hon. ThaddeUs Stevens the rebels
burned everything, and what could not be
burned was destroyed. About a mile and a
halt further out my informant met the ont
posts of A. p. Hills CORPS
From this point to Fayetteville the Rebels
were encamped all along the road Every field
was occupied and their encampment stretched
Tor distance OF four or five miles Foraginp
parties Were being sent out in all directions
and the country was stripped OF every article
OF use to the Rebels. When nv informant had
reached Stoufferville he was informed by rebels
sho' oen. A,e was Just anead, and that his tent
was pitched in a field close at hand. The
Generals tent W as poin ted out by an orderly,
and my informant had a view of the redoutabIe
Rebel commander-in chief
When my informant arrived ut rhamhars
burg the division of Gen. Picket was passing
through the town, and they were followed by
HOODS Texan Rangers. The troops comprised
the rear OF Gen. Lees army, with the exception
of men who were left in Hagerstown and
vicinity.
The divisions of Ewell, Longstreet. u. Fl.
Hill Anderson, Hood and Picket had all passed
through Chambersburg short time before INV
informant arrived there and while he remained
These divisions numbered $1,000 men,
The whole OF Lees army Is undoubtedly in
the Cumberland Valley, with the exception of
the 1000 left at Hagerstown, and the troops,
$500 in number, that occupy York
The total rebel force now in PENNSYLVANIA
consists of about 40,50O men.
large force Of the rebels went out in the
direction of McConnellsvlle after Milroy,s
men, but had returned to Chambersburg
The rebels one hundred and slxty-two pieces
OF artillery, all known to have passed Though
Johannesburg forty OF them Were the hea viest
kind OF r1ned PARROTS; sixty-two were brass
heavy guns, and the rest were mostly brass
Napoleon guns, for the purpose Of throwing
shells. They had also number OF rified thin
mouthed guns.
Ny informant states that not more than ff-
teen hundred cavalry had passed through
johannesburg, and that comprises the entire
cavalry force in the Cumberland Valley.
The rebels took many liberties with private
cinzens atChambersburg. They would enter
stores and nick up what they wanted. In
many instances they would exchange their
hats fsr better Npes they saw on the heads of
VDayid Funstsa OF Alexandria, Va, now
Colonel Of the 18th -ginia Rebel Infantry, has
been elected to represu Mt the Alexandria dis
trict in the Rebel Cong1ss.
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