The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1905-08-03
MARCHED THROUGH GARRETT.
General BraddoCh's Campaign
against the Indians $50 Years Acc.

corning BraddOCk Heights in
Frederick county and how this re-
sort, which has recently come
prominently into the public notice,
took its name: "a party of Hag-
erstown newspaper folk has been
trolley riding across two noun
tains and intervening valleys to
Braddock's Height and Frederick
and has discovered a region COM
parable with the Detachable Noun
tains and the Land Of Beulah. The
electric road that connects the
two fine Western Maryland towns
Of Frederick and Hagerstown,
crosses South Mountain a little
north of Turner'S Gap, where the
battle of South Mountain took
place, runs down into Middleton
and then closely follows the old
/ Western turnpike, which connects
Baltimore with the National road
at Cumberland. Braddock Heights
| gets its name from the fact that
it was the end of the first DAYS
march after General Braddock left
Frederick. In Frederick General
BraddOck and a portion of his
army were detained for a consider
able time while wagons were gath
ering to carry his army stores
westward. Frederick county then
extended from Baltimore and
| Prince Georges counties to the
western extremity of the province.
There were few settlements west
of South Mountain. Hagerstown
had not been laid out and the
oldest settlement in what is now
Washington county was not more
than 20 years old. While Brad
dock was in Frederick swearing
Justify because there were no prop
er wagons in Maryland for the
transportation of his supplies, Col.
George Washington, then but "a
years of age, was constantly in at
tendance upon him. He knew the
country and chafed and fretted
| because Braddock would listen to
nothing. Then came DR.. Benia-
min Franklin and played the cour-
tier sent by Penn to serve the
British General and England a
good report Of the loyalty of Penn
sylvania. Franklin gathered the
necessary wagons and pack horses
in the rich region west Of Phila-
delPhia, giving his personal
pledges to the farmers for their
safe return. He also had the Penn
sylvania legislature present to
each officer in the British Army a
box of provisions and supplies, in
Guiding costly wines and delica-
cies. When Braddock finally
moved he marched his relocated
veterans along the track where he
went straight across to the Poto-
mac at Conococheague settlement,
now the town of Williamsport, 10
miles distant, Braddock's route
through South Mountain is no.
table one. He passed through
Turner's Gap, through which
shortly after his defeat all the
settlers west of the mountain who
escaped the tomahawk fled for
safety, and Thomas Cresap and
his men marched back and forth.
Over the road which was made in
this gap Andrew Jackson, Henry
Clay, William Henry Harrison,
Zachary Taylor, Thomas H. Ben
ton, Sam Houston and Davey
Crockett were frequently trav-
elers, and Washington passed
through there more than once. In
September, 1862, the Army of
Northern Virginia, under Lee,
marched through the gap, and
following close behind was Nc
Clellan and his great army was
halted there for whole day by a
detachment of Confederates left to
impede them. Through this gap
the next July marched General
Meade at the head of his victo-
rious army from Gettysburg.
There are few places in the land
with more interesting history
than Frederick county. And yet