. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . e runningnow this was of little consequence; it was hot and dusty. The railroads in the what was more important was that a turnpike Shenandoah Valley had been torn up, the road—unusually fine for that region of stiff, red bridges destroyed, communication made pre- clay — led in almost a straight line for thirtj carious and difficult, and Shepherdstown, miles to Winchester on the south: it was cornered by the bend of the Potomac, lay as the scene of Sheridans ride and stretched if forgotten in the bottom of somebodys northward, beyond the Pot
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . e runningnow this was of little consequence; it was hot and dusty. The railroads in the what was more important was that a turnpike Shenandoah Valley had been torn up, the road—unusually fine for that region of stiff, red bridges destroyed, communication made pre- clay — led in almost a straight line for thirtj carious and difficult, and Shepherdstown, miles to Winchester on the south: it was cornered by the bend of the Potomac, lay as the scene of Sheridans ride and stretched if forgotten in the bottom of somebodys northward, beyond the Potomac, twenty miles pocket. We were without news or knowledge, to Hagerstown. Before the days of steam this except when some chance traveler would had been part of the old posting road between repeat the last wild and uncertain rumor that the Valley towns and Pennsylvania, and we he had heard. We had passed an exciting had boasted a very substantial bridge. This summer. Winchester had changed hands more had been burned early in the war. and only. than once ; we had been in the Confederacy andout of it again, and werenow waiting, in an exas-perating state of igno-rance and suspense, forthe next move in the greatgame. It was a saying with usthat Shepherdstown wasjust nine miles from every-where. It was, in fact,about that distance fromMartinsburg and Har-pers Ferry — often-men-tioned names — and fromWilliamsport, where thearmies so often crossed, both to and from Maryland. It was off thedirect road between those places and lay. as Isaid, at the foot of a great sweep in the river,and was five miles from the nearest station on * The reader is referred to the May and June numbersfor illustrated descriptions of the battles of South Moun-tain, Harpers Ferry and Antietam.— Editor. i1 *-»-•■TV «■ Wmm J*^^rl>Z?%.-Jit*r&%,
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