The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-08-03
Incidents of the Raid I'm Mary
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From the Richmond Examiner, July I'll
We have before us a letter from an Off
Ger, giving a sketch of the operations of
the cavalry during the recent invasion of
Maryland and the District of Columbia.
We give below all of the letter that is
necessary to the interest of the narrative,
a part of it we consider it proper to with
hold :
WHITES FORD, ON H Potomac,
We are back over the river, after a ten
days s%ojourn in Maryland. What all the
results of our expedition are do not yet
see, but suspect they are In
many respects the raid is certainly a sue
cess. x We left Staunton about the
9th of june, the infantry passing down
the valley pike, the cavalry along the
road parallel and to the west of the pike.
We (the cavalry reached Winchester on
the Sd, and on the 4th attacked General
Sigel at Leetown, from which, after a Sc
we're struggle, he retired. At noon we
struck the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
and telegraph, and Immediately pressed
on toward Martinsburg. On the 4th our
infantry took Shepardstown, from which
the Yankees were driven with loss. We
here took a flag from the LIST New York
Cavalry. On the 9Th we crossed the Po-
tomac and proceeded to S~barpsburg, and
thence marched to Boonesboro and Mid
d~letown, skirmishing a little with the
! Yankees at the latter place. On the 9Th
we drove them to the suburbs CT Freder
lex, but our orders would not permit US
to take the town consequently we saw
no one there. On the 9th we stated on
our raid. The army marched on Monoc-
cacy Junction, while we struck to the
east for the railroads.
Marching rapidly and changing horses
as fast as. they were broken down, we
passed over the State. AT daylight on
the 10th we were at Reistertown, IL
miles from Baltimore /; and at 9 o'clock,
A. NJ. we were at C~ockeysville, on the
Northern Central Railroad. Major Gill
NOR, with the Second and part Of the
First Maryland cavalry, pushed on, while
We burned the bridges at Coekeysville--
Next day Major Gilmor destroyed all the
bridges on the Philadelphia and Balti-
more Railroad, captured a train and Ma
jor General Franklin, and rejoined the
command at Poolesville on the 18th =
From Cockeysville Johnson's brigade
swept around Baltimore, appearing almost
simultaneously on so many different roads,
at intervals from six to 10 miles apart.
that many different columns were repor-
ted to be advancing at once on Baltimore.
On the 11th we struck the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad at Woodstock, and on the
18th the Washington and Baltimore Road
at Beltsvillc. AT the latter place we fell
in with the Yankee cavalry, which we
routed in thirty minutes. By this time
Mr.. Abraham Lincoln did not know
whether the United States had seceeded
or not. We had cut all communication
between Washington and the Moth. At
ter-reuting the Yankee c~uvatry VIC cuugh+
a passenger train of nine cars, and a COM
missary train laden with sugar aud coffee.
Several citizens told us that Lincoln had
gone over the road in a burden train a
short time before our arrival. We re-
NAMED at this place (Beltsville) until or
dered to rejoin the army.
A party sent by Gen. johnson burned
Gov. Bradfords's house, with everything
in it except the ladies' clothing and the
piano. Gen. johnson ordered this to be
lone as a retaliation for the burning Of
Gov. Letcher's house by Gen. Hunter
It was a harsh measure as far as it affect
ed the ladies of the family but just ven
geance can take no account of persons
The manner of the burning was, however,
very different from that at Lexington -
The young men engaged in it treated the
family with the greatest respect, assisted
them in removing their clothing, and car
ried their piano out for them. A quaint
ty of gold found in the house was given
to one of the young ladies on her assur-
rance that it was her property.
Some of the incidents of our ride were
amusing. We fell in with Painters cele-
brated travelling ice cream saloon, with a
quantity of ice cream aboard. We
had no r%ations, and vanilla, lemon and
other ices, were issued to the whole ccm-
mand, who ate until they could eat no
more. This was the first time the whole
brigade ever fed on ice cream.
Our loss, from the time we left the ar
my at Frederick until we rejoined it at
house, was one officer, Lieut.. Ede-
lin, Company b. First Maryland cavalry,
or wounded, and two men captured.
started on Saturday, the 9th, and re-
joined the army or Wednesday, the 18th,
been out of the saddle only twice
that time, and marched eighty
at a stretch.