Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-05-29
NEIGHBORING NEWS.

! ss~ss 49, 49,
From The Ssepherdstoaon Register
The fly is said to have affected the
wheat very seriously in Washington
and Montgomery counties. Maryland.
The annual commencement of Stor-
er College, at Harper's Ferry, will be
held Monday, May 31st. The Grafton
will be delivered by DIR. j. L. Phillips,
of India.
AT ANTIETAM.-There was an ex-
cursion from Baltimore and Washing
ton to the Antietam battlefield on
Monday last under the auspices of
the First Army Corps. 1t had been
reported that there would be from
three hundred to four hundred of the
veterans on the excursion, and when
the ninety-sixth visitors stepped from
the train at Keedysville there were
just eighty-fve vehicles waiting to
transport them the three miles Anti
etam. The visitors had been advised
beforehand to boycott all vehicles that
did not have the mark of the First
Army Corps-a small fiag-conse-
quently there was much swearing
done by the balance of the drivers.
Mayor r. w. Grove had charge of the
visitors. The vehicles varied from
the mule team and jolting wagon to
carriages, and the procession out of
Keedysville looked like camp-meet-
ing crowd. Gen. Longstreet was not
present. Gen. Edward S. Bragg and
a party, among whom were J. III.
Slime, the historian; Gen. w. w.
Dudley, ex-commissioner of pension
Gen. J. E. Dickerson, the adjutant
general of Hooker's division, and who
opened the fight of Antietam on the
Federal right, Major HI. l.. Crawford,
the first to open the fight at South
Mountain, and others, took the Smoke
town road. They visited first the
Dunkard's church and that portion of
the battlefield where the chief part of
the First Army Corps was located,
and where the heaviest fighting was
done September II, 1862. In this vi
entity the veteran General Mansfield
was killed. An party of the visitors
went out on the Hagerstown road to
the right of the church, to the place of
the famous haystack. The first party
proceeded from the right of the line
to the left, and passed through Bloody
Lane, where some very heavy fight
ing and great slaughter on both sides
took place. The Antietam on North
Bridge-over which Hooker's division
and the principal part of McClellan's
army passed-was inspected, along
Myers Mill. Dinner was partaken at
Sharpsburg, after which the party
went down to Burnside Bridge, mile
southeast of the town. named after
Gen. Burnside. Here Burnside was
held in check by few hundred Georg-
ia troops under Gen. Robert Toombs,
lodged on the crest of the hill. The
Twenty-second Massachusetts Regi-
ment fOrded the stream to the right
of Burnside and deployed to the right,
forcing Gen. Toombs back half a mile.
Burnside almost succeeded in turning
the right of Lees army and getting in
his rear; but General A. p. Hill's
light division of Georgia and Carolina
troops came up and drove Burnside
back, and kept him there all that
night and next day until Lee had eff
fected crossing at Blackford's Ford,
near Shepherdstown, and escaped to
Virginia. The two armies lost in the.
battle of Antietam over ten thousand
each. The National Cemetery was
the last place of interest visited. There
are about 60 eXUnion soldiers living
in Sharpsburg and vicinity, and only
one Confederate-Dr. Charles Russell,
of the Seventh Cavalry Regiment Of
Virginia. On Tuesday the excursion
lists visited the battlefield of South
Mountain. The Sharpsburg and Kee-
dysville folks who had made prepar-4
ations to dispense hospitality to about
four hundred visitors at so much per
head were greatly disappointed at the
smallness of the party.
Some of our most prominent citizens
have been cured of rheumatism of years
standing by that wonderful pain-banish-
err, Salvation Oil. Sold by all druggists
for twenty-five cents bottle.
From the Morgan Co. Papers,.
The crop of locust blossom is a
heavy one. The oldest inhabitant
says this means an abundant corn
crop.
Mr.. Ben Bushnell of Martinsburg is
in town and engaged in painting DR..
Green's residence on the hill.
Mr.. Blake Unger hitched his team
at the South end of town on Monday
with the check lines, the horses be-
came restless, backed and threw them
selves, and there was general break
up Of wagon, &c. Moral: Beware
how you hitch with check lines.
An effort is being made to establish
a ferry at Andrew Michael's on Sleepy
Creek, anda subscription, we are in
formed by VIM. Eppinger, will soon
be started to aid in the matter.