Photo of General Robert Milroy. He is in a US uniform, has a mustache and full beard, and full hair swept upward in front.
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June 20, 1863 – Pennsylvania Invaded!

ADVANCE OF THE REBELS UNDER GENERALS EWELL AND TRIMBLE.

BATTLES AT MARTINSBURG AND WINCHESTER.

EWELL REPULSED AND MILROY HOLDING OUT FOR REINFORCEMENTS

Ewell, Erans, Early, and Rhodes in Command of the Rebels.

Milroy Surrounded at Winchester, Cuts His Way Out to Harper’s Ferry.

THE REBELS AT CHAMBERSBURG.

THE NATION TO THE RESCUE.

HARRISBURG, June 15.

The rebels entered Chambersburg at 9 o’clock to-night.

HARRISBURG, June 15.—The telegraph operator left Chambersburg at 9 o’clock to-night, some time after the rebels had entered the town. His instrument is now in operation five miles east of Chambersburg, at Scotland Bridge. A. G. CURTIF.

THE STATE CAPITAL IN DANGER.

HARRISBURG, June 15.—Midnight. The rebels occupied Hagerstown at noon to-day. From there they advanced in three columns: one on the main road to Chambersburg, and one to the right, and one to the left. Each column has 5,000 cavalry, besides infantry and artillery.

Illustration of a large body of cavalry crossing a river.
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June 19, 1863 – Movements Of The Confederates

HARRISBURG, June 18.—It is stated that a body of Confederates has gone from Cumberland, Maryland, to Romney, Virginia.

The authorities are busy organizing the troops, who continue to arrive in large numbers.

The work on the rifle-pits and fortifications on the other side of the Susquehanna is still going on. Much activity there, at Camp Curtin, and everywhere else in and about the city.

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June 16, 1863 – Whereabouts Of The Rebels—Invasion Of Maryland

MONOCACY JUNCTION, 2 P. M.—While there is no doubt that the major force of the rebels which had besieged Winchester are still in Virginia, it is generally believed that the cavalry and artillery, under Jenkins, who had the fight with Gen. Tyler at Martinsburg, have crossed into Maryland, either above or at Williamsport. It is asserted here quite confidently that rebel cavalry were in Hagerstown at 8 o’clock this morning, but the only positive fact I have been able to learn is that the telegraph line between Frederick and Hagerstown has ceased entirely to work. As there was no storm to damage the line, the inference is that it has been cut, and of course that the rebels have done it. It was a so reported at Harper’s Ferry that a small force of rebel cavalry had been in Sharpsburg. The stage which left Hagerstown early this morning, passing through Middletown, arrived at the usual time, having met with no interruption; nothing having been seen or heard of the rebels along the turnpike.

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June 12, 1863 – Negroes as Soldiers

We have been permitted to make use of the following extract from a letter of a highly intelligent and competent officer of a Massachusetts regiment at Baton Rouge. The letter is under date of April 30, 1863 :

“And now for the most important feature, the negro troops. I have seen two regiments of them, and I must say that I have seen many white regiments that will not compare with them. They very far exceeded my expectations. I much prefer them to white troops. They obey ail orders given to them cheerfully and with alacrity. They drill remarkably well and their camps are neat and clean. One regiment was officered by white officers entirely, and in the other the field and staff officers only were white, the officers of the line being black. The feeling of the generality of officers here is in favor of blacks, and if we get as good a set of men as those in the regiments we have seen, we shall be perfectly satisfied. The feeling here in regard to them is rapidly changing in their favor. We look upon the whole matter as a fixed fact.

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Reception Of The New York Regiments

NEW YORK, June 8.-A grand reception of the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth regiments took place this afternoon. The escort comprised the Second, Seventy-first, Sixty-ninth and Fifty-sixth Infantry regiments, together with a regiment of cavalry, a battery, and the City Government.