| From the New York Times |
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| June 17, 1861 |
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| Affairs at Harper's Ferry; Reports From Hagerstown |
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Hagerstown, MD., Saturday, June 15 -- Midnight |
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| An express messenger has just returned
from Harper's Ferry, having left there to-day. This afternoon he was
in the Ferry several hours. All of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
bridges had been burned, save two spans and about three hundred yards
of tressel-work. The bridge over the Shenandoah River is still
standing. ***** |
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It was reported at Harper's Ferry, that the locomotives
below Opequon {a creek on the eastern side of
Martinsburg} had also been burnt, with those at Martinsburgh,
numbering in all, seventy. |
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| {found at www.
nytimes.com} |
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