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The Daily Dispatch: May 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], The War Movements. (search)
The War Movements. From a letter in the Alexandria Gazette, dated Harper's Ferry. May 9, we have the following detail of affairs as that place. Yesterday, information was received from reliable sources that Federal troops were moving towards this point. Immediately the Maryland heights which command the Virginia hills and mountains in the immediate neighborhood were occupied by a large body of men. The Kentucky regiment and several companies of Virginia troops, comprised this force. As the Kentucky troops, raised to a high pitch of enthusiasm at the near prospect of a fight, with elastic step and head erect marched across the bridge and defiled along the mountain side, from every point of the which nature has formed around the place, thunders of cheers arose, coming along and reverberating among the numerous gorges of this wild and romantic pass. The night, however, passed away without the slightest alarm, Harper's Ferry is now, I think impregnable. A seizure of the