. The First Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers in the Great Rebellion: containing the story of the campaign; an account of the "Great uprising of the people of state," and other articles upon subjects associated with the early war period .. . Ferry,Leesburg and Manassas Junction and had establishedconnection between these points. The leaders of Se-cession hoped to carry Maryland \\\i\\ them into seces-sion, and Harpers Ferry was important to them, notonly because it commanded the Baltimore and Ohiorailroad, but also because it was the gateway betweenMaryland and Virginia, and these facts made i
. The First Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers in the Great Rebellion: containing the story of the campaign; an account of the "Great uprising of the people of state," and other articles upon subjects associated with the early war period .. . Ferry,Leesburg and Manassas Junction and had establishedconnection between these points. The leaders of Se-cession hoped to carry Maryland \\\i\\ them into seces-sion, and Harpers Ferry was important to them, notonly because it commanded the Baltimore and Ohiorailroad, but also because it was the gateway betweenMaryland and Virginia, and these facts made it equallydesirable that the Union leaders should seize the place,and Gen. Patterson, the commander of the Penns3dvania Militia was intrust-ed with the enter-prise of movingfrom Chambers-burg, Pa., where hisforces were assem-bling, less than fiftymiles from HarpersFerry, to cross thePotomac at Wil-liamsport, Md., andapproach HarpersFerry from the led to theseparation of theCOL. CHARLES P. STONE. ist N. H. Vols. from the force around Washington, and Col. Charles , on the loth of June was despatched with ist Vols., 9th N. Y. Vols., ist Penn. Vols., four battal-ions of District of Columbia Vols, and a small force of. FIR S T NE W HA MPS HIRE. 12 9 cavalry and artillery, to seize Edwards Ferry on thePotomac and, if practicable, to cross the riyer and con-tinue on to Leesburg, intercept supplies sent from Balti-more to Virginia and effect a junction with Patter-sons column if intelligence to be receiyed fromhim should justify it. Edwards Feny is only fourmiles from Leesburg and less than twenty miles fromHarpers Ferry and it was connected with Alexandriab} rail. B}^ a remarkable coincidence, Col. Epps Hunton,commanding at Leesburg, on the nth of June was or-dered by Gen. Lee to cross the Potomac and cut thedam at Seneca and Edwards Ferry and blow up theMonocacy Aqueduct so as to destroy the navigation ofthe Chesepeake and Ohio canal, and a small force sentout by
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