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The Daily Dispatch: October 31, 1862., [Electronic resource], From our army in Northern Virginia. (search)
r on Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning that the enemy were crossing the Potomac in heavy force at be and Point of Roe and that their cavalry were in the neighborhood of on the Shenandoah river. Of the movements of our army we cannot speak. Ending their so colours in the lower Valley, our forces off actually destroyed the Baltimore and Ohio, and the Winchester and Potomac Railroads. The Edstarers read was tern up from the neighborhood of Mr. John's in Morgan county to within of Harper's Ferry — in all, a distance of some forty miles. All the depots on the read were torn down or burned, and the fine hotel, belonging to the company, at Mar. lusburg, was committed to the flames. The crost and stills of the road were taken up and fired, and the heavy iron laid on and bent by the heat, so as to render then dt for use. The Winchester road was destroyed entirely from Winchester to Halltown, some twenty-five miles. The lowered end of this road was destroyed within right and in he
The Daily Dispatch: October 31, 1862., [Electronic resource], Still Later from the North. (search)
and Herald, of the 18th inst. An "advance" of McClellan's army commenced on Sunday morning. The following account of the movement is given in a dispatch dated Harper's Ferry, the 23th: At daylight this morning the cavalry force of General Pleasanton, with four pieces of artillery, crossed the new pontoon bridge at Berlin, eight miles east of Harper's Ferry, and proceeded direct to Lovettsville in Londoun county. At Lovettsville our cavalry entered about eight o'clock in the morning, and the few rebel pickets stationed there fled before them in the direction of Leesburg. The people of this loyal town, especially the ladies, received our troops army from the vicinity of Winchester and Banker Hill. The recent rain have not materially interfered with the lords at either Shepherdstown or W Port. At Harper's Ferry the water rose tow inches, and the Shenandoah was increased four inches at the same point. The ren in considerable numbers, continue to show themselves