| From the Richmond Examiner |
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| June 21, 1861 |
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| The War Movements |
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| Official Account of the Evacuation of
Harper's Ferry |
| The following dispatch has
been received at the War Department at Washington: |
| Point of Rocks, June 15 |
| To Hon. Simon Cameron, |
| We landed on the Virginia side
of the Ferry at 2 o'clock P. M. We were the first Union men that
crossed. We then passed over into the town, which was nearly desolate.
There was not a solitary soldier visible. A few of the poorer classes
were on the streets. The best houses were closed. The John Brown engine
house and magazine and armory buildings we have reported as saved. |
| Three cars of grain and coffee
for Winchester, for the engines to haul, were emptied into the river on
Friday, and also a lot of cotton. The car were marked "Miller Rifles,
Winchester." Five trucks, loaded with machinery and pipes, stand in
front of the hotel, marked "Richmond." Near the armory fifty flint lock
muskets were thrown into the river. Our boys are fishing them out. At
the camp grounds in the rear of the town there was nothing left of any
value. The town and surrounding country present the most desolate
appearance ever seen. |
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| A. H. Painter |
| {The cars were
probably Baltimore & Ohio RR cars captured by Col. Jackson and put to
use between elements of his command, or they were Winchester & Potomac
RR cars.} |
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