. History of the lower Shenandoah Valley counties of Frederick, Berkeley, Jefferson and Clarke, their early settlement and progress to the present time; geological features; a description of their historic and interesting localities; cities, towns and villages; portraits of some of the prominent men, and biographies of many of the representative citizens. gement the marines had one killedj-and one slightly wounded. The insurgents had two killed and threetaken prisoners. The firing ceased, and the imprisoned citizens walkedout unhurt. The volunteers were then disbanded, all save the Jefferson G
. History of the lower Shenandoah Valley counties of Frederick, Berkeley, Jefferson and Clarke, their early settlement and progress to the present time; geological features; a description of their historic and interesting localities; cities, towns and villages; portraits of some of the prominent men, and biographies of many of the representative citizens. gement the marines had one killedj-and one slightly wounded. The insurgents had two killed and threetaken prisoners. The firing ceased, and the imprisoned citizens walkedout unhurt. The volunteers were then disbanded, all save the Jefferson Guards,who were retained in case of any disturbance arising. On Tuesday,information having been received that a large number of arms weresecreted in a house on the mountain, the Independent Grays of Balti-more were dispatched to search for them. They returned in the even-ing, having found 200 Sharps rifles, 200 revolvers, 23,000 percussioncaps, 100,000 pistol percussion caps, ten kegs of gunpowder, 13,000ball cartridges for Sharps rifles, one major-generals sword, 1,500pikes, and a large assortment of blankets and clothing of every de-scription. On Wednesday the prisoners were placed in the custody of thesheriff of Jefferson County and safely lodged in jail at Charlestown. * Afterward Gen. R. E. Lee, Confederate States Army.— Quinn.— JEFFEESON COUNTY. 441 An eye-witness of a portion of the affair related the following to areporter for a New York paper, which was published the day followingthe occurrence, October 18, 1859: The first attack was made by a detachment of the CharlestownGuards, which crossed the Potomac river above Harpers Ferry andcame down to the bridge on the Maryland side. The party of insur-gents on guard at the end of the bridge, were posted a little way off bythe canal. Smart firing occurred, and the rioters were driven acrossthe bridge. One man was killed and another arrested. A man ranout and tried to escape by swimming the river; a dozen shot
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