. The history of the Civil War in the United States : its cause, origin, progress and conclusion ; containing full, impartial and graphic descriptions of the various military and naval engagements, with the heroic deeds achieved by armies and individuals, touching scenes and incidents in the camp, the cabin, the field and the hospital ; and biographical sketches of its heroes . se enterprises, taken was toward Williamsport. The enemy were left in undis-turbed possession of Harpers Ferry, until, at a later period, when theRebel generals perceived the greater importance of concentratin
. The history of the Civil War in the United States : its cause, origin, progress and conclusion ; containing full, impartial and graphic descriptions of the various military and naval engagements, with the heroic deeds achieved by armies and individuals, touching scenes and incidents in the camp, the cabin, the field and the hospital ; and biographical sketches of its heroes . se enterprises, taken was toward Williamsport. The enemy were left in undis-turbed possession of Harpers Ferry, until, at a later period, when theRebel generals perceived the greater importance of concentrating theirforces at Manassas, General Johnston evacuated the place, having pre-viously destro3^ed a vast amount of Federal property, and the publicworks erected there. After its evacuation, Genei^al Patterson, instead ofintercepting, if his force were sufficiently large for that purpose, the marchof Johnston toward Manassas, proceeded to occupy the deserted anddesolate town; and entered it on the very day on which the battle ofManassas wSs fought, and by the very road on which the Rebel generalhad marched from it. It was thus that neither of the enterprisesanticipated by the popular will was achieved by the division of GeneralPatterson. It was on the 2d of July, that his troops crossed the Potomac, by theford at Williamsport. The process began at dawn of day, and continued. BATTLE OF FALLING WATERS. 113 until near nightfall. Before the fording commenced, a skirmish tookplace between the Federal pickets, which had been thrown over theriver on the preceding day, and the Berkley Border Guard. GeneralAbercrombies brigade were in the advance of the Federal forces; andhaving crossed the Potomac, they continued their march on the turnpikeleading from Williamsport to Martinsburg, across the neck of land whichis formed by the bend of the river, which takes place at that point. Thepickets of the enemy were first seen at Falling Waters, five miles distantfrom Williamsport. They retired, and
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