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is yours—nut rtnicinuur pieaci \ cdiscipline.19JOHNNY REB FORAGING.A correspondent of The Philadelphia Inquirer, writing from Frederick, Md., on June 24. 1863, speaking of .the damage done by the confederate forces to the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, says:The aqueduct on the canal at Williamsport has been blown up, the locks destroyed, and all the boats in the vicinity burned. The lock gates at Millstown Point wore also torn out, and six canal boats burned. At Green Springs the embankment was 'broken, and the water running out of the canal into the fields. He corroborated the statement of the other refugee that the canal was a perfect wreck from Williamsport to Cumberland, Md. The rebels have burned about 300 canal boats on the Baltimore and Ohio canal. They paroled the boatmen and drivers not to divulge any of their movements. and then released them after tak-J ing possession of the horses employed In towing the boats.“All the bridges on the railroad between the Oqequon and Cumberland have been destroyed, track torn up in many places, and water tanks -burned and demolished. At the North branch bridge, over the Potomac, they tired seventeen slfols from a 12-pounder, before they could break the top cord, the bridge being an Iron one, and a very fine structure. Only ono span of this bridge was destroyed. The bridge over the South branch was destroyed entirely. The bridges over Back creek. Sleep swamp, Sir Jolm Run, and Green Spring Run. were all burned, and the water tanks at Green Spring Run and Sir John ’Run were all burned. The devastation has been extensive and complete.”The same correspondent says:“He also saw two droves of fat cattle driven south through Martinsburg. and largo numbers of horses, the fruits of plunder In western Maryland and Pennsylvania.“A dispatch from Cincinnati last night says that the rebels who made the raid into Indiana on Sunday are still in that sfate. though their whereabouts are unknown- It was supposed they had pushed north of the Ohio and Mississippi rail-roaff. It is reported that 1.000 citizens of Indiana are encamped at Bloomington for the purpose of resisting the draft, and that they have pickets out for 8mfloa ornnrul the ♦nnrn 1 *
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Atlanta Sunny South
Atlanta, Georgia, US
Sat, Apr 07, 1906
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