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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: July 18, 1864., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Maryland (Maryland, United States) or search for Maryland (Maryland, United States) in all documents.
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The War news.
We give elsewhere all the news received from our army in Maryland since our last publication.
According to the Yankee accounts the Confederates were retiring in good order from the front of Washington, after having given the Lincolnites a terrible scare, and accomplished the destruction of much properly.
We can but wish it was in our power to record the blowing up of the Federal capitol and other public buildings in Washington as a sequel to the expedition, but we suppose our commanders acted upon the condition of affairs surrounding them.
As it turns out the movement will have a good effect, in so far as it shows the Yankees what the Confederates can do. Before this gigantic expedition the raids of Sheridan, Wilson and Kantz dwindle down to a small compass, and may be regarded as really nothing in comparison.
A gentleman who came down the Potomac last Tuesday states that the river was literally alive with transports, loaded with troops, on their way to Wash
The situation.
Such intelligence as we have had with regard to the invasion of Maryland has come almost exclusively through Yankee sources.
Judging even from these, we perceive that it must have been completely successful.
The invaders went where they pleased, stayed as long as they pleased, departed when they pleased, took away what they pleased, and destroyed what they pleased. --They carried off, for instance, or destroyed one million of bushels of grain, all the horses worth carryingy know more than we do. For a long time, at least, they seem to have been as ill informed as could be desired, if we may judge from the conflicting stories with which their journals abounded.
Taking it for granted that it was not sent to subdue Maryland, and drive the Yankees from Baltimore and Washington, we think we may presume, even from what the Yankees themselves say, it has been eminently successful.
What its further objects may be, we know not; nor if we knew, should we feet at liberty