Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-07-13

DIVISION, sixth corps. Ihe forces opposed were
the twenty-second and forty-third North Caro-
lima.
About 1000 workmen in the navy-yard were
called from the shops, at an hours notice,
formed into companies under Com. Montgom-
cry and mustered into service under Com.
Goldsborough, took arms at the arsenal, went
by railroad to Fort Lincoln and occupied rife
pits. One company was on guard at Benning
bridge. Ninety attaches Of the sixth auditors
Office, members of the union league, and every
department employe available was on duty
during the emergency. One thousand men en-
ployed at Giesboro' point were also organized
for resistance.
During the fighting on 7th street road the
house of Hon. F. P. Blair. at Silver Spring, the
present home of Admiral Lee, was used for
rebel hospital, q number being left on their re-
treat. The houses of Mrs. Reeves and Mrs.
Carberry on It'll street were occupied by rebel
sharpshooters who picked of our men, shoot
ing them through the head. The houses OF
Messrs. Richard Butts, VIM. Bell, j. II.
MoChesney, Mr.. Shoemaker and one occupied
by the family of the late VIM. Morrison on 7th
street road had to be destroyed. Farmers on
It'll street road drove their stock towards the
city for safety, but not being allowed to enter
it was seized and carried of by the enemy.
Citizens and policemen engaged in the fight
A Washington citizen who was at the Wilson
farm, near Sligo, while it was occupied by the
rebel army, said that the main body OF the
army did not appear before Fort Stevens
$4,000 men and 40 pieces of artillery parked
there. The rebels had 576 prisoners taken in
the battle of Monocacy under guard. He was
questioned by Gen. Gordon about troops in
Washington. The generals dressed like SOL
diers, in homespun gray. The officers did not
not say what would be done il Washington was
taken. but the soldiers talked freely, and said
''Not one stone would be left upon another"
The enemy retreated at IL p. IN. July IL. Ed.
Tyler, Washington boy, son OF Major Tyler,
- Il, - Al ~
front of Fort Stevens and left a letter at Mr..
Fenwick's addressed to friend in Washington.
He said he Understood Marshal Lamon was
living in his fathers house, on street near
It'll, and he would like to have the pleasure Of
burning it down. Marshal Lamon had four
valuable horses pasturing near Beltsville, which
were captured.
Mr.. G. W. Thompson, ex-member of the
Metropolitan police, who was managing
farm IA miles out on the 7th-street pike. was in
his corn house when he was surprised by four
rebels. "How do you stand on the goose?"
was asked "Out and out Union man; for the
Union foreverr' replied the ex-cop. The chief
of the party remarked "You are the first up
right man we have met, and shall be paid az
far can pay you. Six bushels of corn
we're taken, for which they paid a one dollar
greenback. Officers visited Mr.. Thompson
frequently and took horse and a colored man,
but sent them both back. They told him that
whenever they met man who came crying
anu piedulIlg sympathy Win the reDelllOn tney
took his horses. cattle and poultry, for they
knew him to be d-n sneak, especially
when he shouted and cheered for jeff. Davis
Before they left one remarked that they had
designed to take Washington, the plan being to
enter at three points simultaneousiy-Ten
town, It'll street and Baltimore road. But they
were deceived in the strength of the federal
force in the city. They said they had a good
many Westinghouse among them, many Of
whom they named.
Some Of the rebel batteries, which were
drawn into the state by hand, departed be-
site the Blair house, in grove, a copy of a
volume of Byrons works was found after the
retreat, with a letter on fy-leaf inscribed to
President Lincoln, as follows:
"NEAR WASHINGTON, July IL, 1864.
Snow. Uncle Abe, you had better be quiet
the balance of your administration. We only
came near your town this time to show you
what we could do, but if you go on in your mad
career we will come again soon, and then you
had better stand from under.
"Yours, respectfully,
"THE WORST REBEL You EVER Saw
''Fifty-eighth Virginia Infantry"
The preservation of Mr.. +. p. Blair's man
sion and contents was DUE it was believed
to the interference of Gen. Breckenridge,
doubtless influenced by former friendly rela-
tions between himself and the iminent owner
In a duelling affair between Breckenridge and
F. b. Cutting some years before he went to
Silver Spring and was kept out Of the way of
officers OF the law. The private papers of Mr..
Blair, containing vaiued correspondence with
Clay, Jackson and other eminent public men,
were carefully guarded from destruction. The
plate was transferred to the residence of Mrs.
Wilson, with a note from Gen. Breckenridge
The general was described al stouter than
when in the Senate, and he wore a full beard
Seventy badly wounded confederates were left
at the Blair house, and the dead and badly
wounded on the field were left unburied and
uncared for GF.