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Smith Was Along and Knows Who isEntitled to th Credit—Teat s not init—Booth and Russell have A!l theHonors and Glory.Mr. John Smith, the well-known marble man and who distinguished himself at the time of the courthouse fire, stopped at the Mail office to puncture a little York balloon. This pa per took from the York Daily the yarns of one Test, a letter carrier there, who told how Cole's cavalry headed the forlorn hope out of Harper's Ferry and destroyed an ammunition train afterwards. That was Saturday.Mr. Smith said: A double injustice is done in that article as John Booth, of Breathedsville. who was killed about the time of the surrender, was the real hero.It was this way. Russell's Cavalry, an indept ndent body, offered to lead the way out of Harper’s Ferry then surrounded. It was because there was no hope to get the infantry out and but little hope remained for the horses. So they cast about and Russell's men were mostly of Sharpsburg. Will.airs-port and vicinity and Col. Davis, of the Fifth N. Y. said: They can leadus if anyone can. John Ihot.i came forward and said he would be the guide having been over the country between Harper's Ferry and safety in Pennsylvania many a time. So he and Col. Davis were first and Russell’s cavalry' next: Cole later. Booth skirted us around the foe until we hit around Sharpsburg where we got in touch with the foe. We sheered off and landed in camp meeting woods at Williamsport and stayed until daybreak and then w'e hit Gen. Jackson’s ammunition wagons and we got 87 safe. Some of the drivers pulled out the linch pins as we came up and those w'agons w'ere burned. If Test was there let him say if he remembers finding the corpse cf a Confederate general in one of the wagons just as we w'ere about to burn it. That may freshen up his memory. We then went on over into Pennsy. At Green-castle we. Russell’s cavalry, marched back to Hagerstown and camped here, the rest went on to Chambersburg with the wagons.The honor belongs to John Booth, brother of Dr. William Booth, of Ala-moso, Col., now, and to no one else. He was the guide of that desperation in the density of that ugly night and Mr. Tost does a great wrong when he tries to steal from him and Russell’s brave boys the vanguard of that daring deed. Let others of Russell’s, now in this county, speak up. They know what 1 said is true.
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Hagerstown Mail
Hagerstown, Maryland, US
Fri, Jun 05, 1903
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