. soldiers whenthey got there. Kilpatrick laughed and remarked thatthey kept no account of cannons, as they just rode over them. When I got to the gatethat goes into my farm I told the General I lived there, and would stop; but he requestedme to go with them to Monterey and see the fun; sol went with him. We ran against therebel pickets at Clermont, a quarter of a mile east of Monterey. It was then gettingdark in the evening. After passing Clermont about 150 yards the rebels fired three orfour shots with grape aud canister, and then
. soldiers whenthey got there. Kilpatrick laughed and remarked thatthey kept no account of cannons, as they just rode over them. When I got to the gatethat goes into my farm I told the General I lived there, and would stop; but he requestedme to go with them to Monterey and see the fun; sol went with him. We ran against therebel pickets at Clermont, a quarter of a mile east of Monterey. It was then gettingdark in the evening. After passing Clermont about 150 yards the rebels fired three orfour shots with grape aud canister, and then pulled up their battery and retreated. Idont think they killed any of Kilpatricks men with the battery, as they fired too soon,and the grape and canister went over our mens heads; but it made some of our men re-treat, and caused a great deal of confusion. I told Kilpatrick if he would dismount aregiment and go down through the edge of the woods, he could flank them and capturethe battery. He did so. but they had retreated by the time our men got to s (/, Jf$. J7^cc_ HISTORY OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 371> Kilpatrick asked me which way I thought the wagon train was going, and where Isupposed they would strike the river. I told him they could go by Smithsburg andBoonsboro, and cross the river at Sharpsburg, or go by Leitersburg and Hagerstown andcross at Williamsport. He asked me if there was any road that I knew of that I couldtake a regiment and head off that wagon train. I told him there was. That I could takethem by Mount Zion and then down the Raven Rock Hollow and strike Smithsburg, andif they had not taken that road, we could cross to Leitersburg and there we would strikethem for certain. It was the 1st Vermont regiment, commanded by Colonel Preston thatI was with. When we got to Smithsburg we found everything quiet, as the Rebels hadtaken the Leitersburg road. The Colonel asked me what was to be done now. asthere were no Rebels there. I told him we would rind plent
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