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MJMlit.if.88h,n,leitd•tCorrMpomtMr. nf Tm r«w* command, and a variety of other causesLetter from an Army Surgeon. i damped for a time the ardor of the army inw,„ M.r* I!, 1.3 t“fl',d « * “ «*“ Pf°P,e *' ,am': if J*One yenr .go to d»y, Oen. Ilank, entered 'hUI'd °“r «*«»!«». cl«tr»j-elt;J our confi. W Loch enter. Tlieee tecxe the flret Union lt;kccf »od coo,»d ur ’’'o'*1' w# Uad b“t,'° troop, which occupied the town after the rn'm,,tr lh' *«• fnr we areoutbreak of the rebellion. The rebel* with*ing; for we arc not fighting for Abolitionism, not for the President, not for Oen. McClellan,drew and remained encamped a little dia-lance from the town until in April, when, ... • ,, ,, , .Kle, and a flKl,t which i *nd our ,-,'t “ r:*U u*“ f“l-1 h .1 I lh Jk a ■ I. ■ ■ - 1not for any man, hut for American libertylooddhud7lee)Sit8-tddrt*% *an advance was mlasted for two days ensued. During the i , , _ , , . , t .night of the Mcond day, Jack™ withdrew I 00r cb't'“- “d *ow **“,n m ““l ‘e“* hi, force, up the valley. ThU waa the hat««••* mlnt.lc. men who ar.tl. of Wil.che.ter, in which Oen Hhiehl . I e**«'d ■ »*•» n'*1 «“• °f Prc1crv'rlgUivi.ion particularly di.lmguiahcd Itodt lhclr country', freedom and their own dear-• est rirlits and high'St interests. Let us standand in which he was wounded severely inthe arm.est rights and highby our resolution to light this thing out. Let us dedicate anew our lives and all thatIn June occurred the famous retreat of Oen. Hanks, in which Jackson with his whole force pursued him down the valley.Large quantities of Commissary stores weredestroyed, being burned at that time.Jackson, however, returned about as rapidly a# he had come, and made good his escapeto Hanover Junction to Join I^e previous,to the seven days’ battles l*fore Richmond. I ment ***. n»lion _#,,*n Jlve ! The town was soon reoccupied, and fortifications erected on the heights by Don. Williams. and guns were mounted on the works.wc have to the genius of American liberty. Hand in hand let us gather around the altar of our common country and swear by ths blood of our fathers shed for the establishment of American liberty, by all the glorious memories of the pn«t, and by the highest considerations of the future that this govern-r,Tit is bill must Ik* enforced and let no man who loves his native land say aught ngalnst it. Believe it, feel it, tell It to your neighbors. Every man owes his life to his country. Where is the man so craven-hearted as tot-dnist-toi-•8OAfter Pope’s defeat in the battles of Augustthe rebels moved up towards Maryland, and j, Winchester was hastily evacuated, the mag *ubmit to ** lhc fulr f%tue of lus anr.cstor* azines blown up, the heavy guns spiked and Weened, the most glorious memories ofthe troopsdrawn in to Harper* Ferry, when, the World'' Ui*lor‘ dW,OD,fd’ ftnd thel*au*shortly afterwards, they were surrendered tlful #ymbo1 of onr nationality and our grcat-almosi without a fight, and their commander, nPM 11 tt trailed in the dust by traitorsiL.tii.f «.s zIU tiitih thum tt» hi* mnnnnnri'n.11Iti*•! I- I1se■i-1i11l..fIr*-eiiCol Miles, being about the only man there who deserved shooting w us about the only man shot!After the hard fought battles of South Mountain and Antictam, a portion of thorebel army again occupied Winchester, whichthey continued to hold until the beginning of the present year, when it was reoccupied by Union troops. Gen. Milroy is in command here and has recently been promoted to Major General.I think it safe to say that there is force enough here to oppose what forces the cnc my has in the valley. There has been no fighting of late in this neighborhood except a few cavalry dashes, one of which proved rather damaging to the reputation of the 13thPennsylvania They lost about 180 menand were attacked by a body of rebels not a third of their ow n numl«r. They scarcely fired a shot, and lied for fifteen miles before ^ they could be rallied. That was about the i first time they had ever seen the “ Uray-backs,”Winchester is one of the oldest towns west of the Blue Rhlge, and is in the mlds of the beautiful and fertile valley of Virginia, and I had a population in 1860 lt;f about 4,'»00. It is the Couuty seat of Frederick—is 17 miles . from Harj»er’s Ferry by the branch R R of t j which it is the terminus. It was the home of Hon. James M. Mason, once a distinguishedS fcif Mto -4 mr | V . H. Senator and now a bogus minister at London. After the Union troops came here P j his house was demolished, and now, from turret to foundation stone, not a stone re mains ujmn another ; the negro houses, the out buildings, the fences, are all gone and i even the trees are many of them girdled.’ A Medical College waa Instituted here 1 some years since At the raid of old John Brown at Harper’s Ferry one of his sons was shot by the 1. S Marines. One of the negroes afterwards executed, as well as young Brown’s body, was giveu to the authorities of the College for dissection and forinstruction by demonstration. Their boneswere afterwards prepared and placed in the College Museum. Because of this, some of the soldiers it is said fired the building after the bones had been buried, an act certainlynot unnatural uiuler the circumstances, but in very had taste, notwithstanding, as in all civilized countries the Ixwliee of convicts, after death, are, under certain circumstances, given to the colleges for purposes of instruction.A fine spring supplies the whole town with excellent limeetone water by meant of pipes, so that the town is as well supplied as New York city, for it can lie carried to the tops of the highest houses. The streets and houses were lit with gas; hut there is no coal now. The rebels tore up tho railroad between here and Harper’s Ferry last fall, as well as some thirty miles of the Baltimore A Ohio railroad The ties were piled and the track laid across and then burned. OfBetter far to die tlmn thus to lie dishonored Let the people arouse in their might and smite this rebel horde blow after blow, until the last relic of the usurpers power is not only subdued, but uutll it is forever quelched out.*• ‘-Hand ’ th# gre*jn*l*» yonr own, my brave*.Will ye t»» a traitor'* niaee* tWill ys look Or gr. rner grare* 1Ark it ye wb« may ”He i* no true patriot who will not defend his country's flag and nationality. It wert better for such a man never to have been bom than lie a traitor to hi* native land, or even «ne who can stand coldly by while the bones of his friends ami neighbors lie bleach* iug uj»on a thousand battle fields when theynobly offered up their lives amid the ela-di of arms upon their country’s altar. \\ iih all true men there can le no compromise with traitor*. We must fight this thing out and at last we shall have a country', dear to us for what It has cost to preserve It, and shall leave behind us to our children an in-heritsince beyond price, and shall have proved ourselves to be worthy descendants of our ancestry to whose hallowed memory the world pay* homage.Gkokoe M. B*a«s.TruthiW'e call attention to the following p»s-sage of a letter from Krasins Brooks, oneof the editors of the New York L'rprett,writteu ul Washington on the 10th of February.“All wars must have an end, and this scourge lt;n our nation with the rest. But the reliels are not ready for pence, or to close the war. except upon their own terms. 1 hey would not even make peace by surrendering to them the fret- navigation of the Mbtsiaslp.pi, with the independence of the cottonHtates. They d« **ire the territory of the* Federal Capital all of Maryland, all the territory of the Old Dominion, all Kentucky, Tennessee and Missouri, and all the forts and arsenals on the Southern cn*t. They would not only dwarf the old Union, but destroy it. Such a surrender would not only' be pusiian-iuious and cowardly, but to disgrace us before the civilized world that every foreign power would rightfully spit upon u*. Better at onca lieoome the hewers of w»mk! and the drawers of water for the Southern Confederacy, than enter upon such disgraceful negotiation*. Life would have no charms, honor no home, peace no permam-ncy. Government no solid basis, in a country thus debated by its leaders.course the bars lient into every conceivable curve, and are useless until straighteuud. I understood this brunch is to be rebuilt immediately.I desire to add here a word in relation to the recent act of Congress for enrolling and calling out the national forces and for other purposes. The necessity of this law is apparent to every soldier, and it ought to meet with the hearty approval of every good citizen. One clause in the bill provides for the arrest of deserters, whose name is legion, and their return to their respective regimeuts. They ought by every principle of justice to lie at once restored to the service. This bill will cure this evil, but, besides, the necessity for calling out more troops when the term of service of the two years’ regiment* should expire is absolute. That will soon occur, and for reason* which 1 choose not o discus*, no more men could now be enlisted, while the maintenance of the Union depends upon keeping up the strength of the army.I believe we are fighting for the Union and the old fiag, and we have resolved to fight it out to the bitter end. For that purpose also we want the moral strength ot immense reserves.If the policy of the Administration in the management of the war, the removal of the idol of the Army of tbe Potomac fromA GoodIn the summer of 1861, a young man who happened to have flO.oOO burning in hie pocket, but whose fears counseled him to keep out of the usual channels of trade,called on one of our heavy shipping merchants, who is also president of a city bank, and asked lus advice as to how to use the money. The merchant suggested his investing it in a purchase of tar, the article at that time selling at only one dollar a barrel, withevery prospect of soon’being on the advance. The young man took the advice, bought ten thousand barrels of tar, and stored it for a rise. After keeping it until last full he concluded to realize on his investment, and sold it all out at *40 a barrel, or forty times its original cost, receiving his original capital of110,000 ami the slight accumulation of000 as a dividend thereon.A steam carriage, invented by a citizen of Massachusetts, has recently been tried with great success. It passed through Boston, and meeting a car on the horse railroad, turned off from the track and went around the car with as much case as if drawn by a horse. On a smooth road or on the rail, with sixty pounds of steam (the usual amount), the carriage can l»e run at the rate of twenty miles per hour. The weight of the carraige is G0 pound.Every real friend of Gen. McClellan will regret that he is sought after and feted by mere politicians. And if lie shall permit himself to be used by them, his position will soon become more perilous than it wa* before bis retreat from the Chickaliommy.The President has restored to the rank of Brigadier General of V’olunteers. M^jor II.W.Benham, of the Engineer Corps of the army, and has assigned him to a command in Gen.Hooker’s army.
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Middletown Whig Press
Middletown, New York, US
Wed, Mar 25, 1863
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