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Excerpt from Notes on the Rebel Invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania: And the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1st, 2d and 3d, 1863; Accompanied by an Explanatory Map
The Rebel cavalry, 1500 in number, under the no sorious General Jenkins, entered Hagerstown on the 15th Of June, at 10 - 35 A. M., in pursuit of Milroy's wagon train, and, moving onward rapidly, they reached Chambersburg at 8 - 21 P. M. Having thus advanced far into an enemy's country without a support sufficiently near, and-fearing an attack by our men, who were beginning to organize in obedience to the Gover nor's call, they deemed it prudent to make a retro grade movement. Accordingly they evacuated Cham bersburg on the 17th of June and as they had already gathered a large number of horses and cattle, which they had taken violently and without compensation from the farmers, it was vainly supposed, by many of our people, that they now intended to withdraw with their booty across the Potomac. They, how ever, retired only to the vicinity of Hagerstown, there to await the arrival of Lee's army.
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