| From the National Republican
(Washington, D. C.) |
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| October 3, 1861 |
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| [Mail Correspondence of the Associated
Press] |
| From Darnestown, Sept. 30 |
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| A gentleman in our service has
just returned from his home in Virginia, and brings the following
intelligence from the region above Harper's Ferry: |
| At Leestown, on the Winchester
railroad, three miles east of Charlestown, were located about three
hundred irregular cavalry, to guard Charlestown against the threatened
demolition of that place by our forces at Sandy Hook if our pickets
there were fired on. |
| Captain Henderson, of the
rebel cavalry, although severely wounded by a private, is not dead, as
reported. He has nearly recovered from the effect of his wound. His
command, together with Turner Ashby's cavalry are protecting the
laboring force engaged in tearing up the railroad at Kearneysville,
above Duffield station, and guarding the shore at Shepherdstown. About
three hundred men were dismantling the remaining locomotives, and
loading rails, &c. They are also employed in procuring copper from
the locomotives and shops, as well as spouting, by order of the rebel
Government, for the manufacture of percussion caps. |
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