Identifier: boysof61orfoury00coff (find matches)
Title: The boys of '61; or, Four years of fighting. Personal observation with the army and navy, from the first battle of Bull run to the fall of Richmond
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896
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Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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nd concealed himself in the mountains of Pennsyl-vania, but who was hunted down by Fitz Hugh Miller ofChambersburg. Among the Rebel prisoners was this sameFitz Hugh, dressed in a suit of rusty gray, with a black ostrichplume in his hat, sun-burned, dusty, having a hang-dog look.He was a captain in the Rebel service. The Dutch blood ofthe citizens, usually as calm and steady in its flow as the riversof their Fatherland, came up with a rush. Hang him! Down with the traitor ! Kill him ! theyshouted. They rushed to seize him, but the guards kept thepopulace at bay. The excitement increased. Miller appealedto the guards to protect him. He was quickly hurried intothe jail, which was strongly guarded. A great change hadtaken place in the opinions of the people. They had been in-different to the questions ^ +1 1 , but the Rebel raid, bywhich they had lost thei aught them an excellent lesson. Self-interest is stimulant to patriotism. They even began to loo icency upon what John Brown had done.
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H OH a -»! o 1862.) INVASION OF MARYLAND. 115 The Rebels evacuated Hagerstown on the morning of the16th of September, and an hour later I entered it on the firsttrain, which was greeted by the people with shouts and hurrahsand demonstrations of joy, as if it brought emancipation fromlong bondage. Some of the citizens had manifested sympathywith the Rebels. Still there were groups of excited men inthe streets, shouting, We 11 hang the cusses. We ve spottedthem, and if they ever come back we 11 be the death of them,as sure as there is a God. The battle of South Mountain had been fought, and the hos-tile armies were concentrating for a trial of strength along thupeaceful banks of the Antic tarn. I was awakened at daylight on the morning of the 17th ofSeptember by the booming of cannon. It was a dull, leadenmorning. The clouds hung low upon the mountains, andswept in drifts along the hillsides. The citizens of Ilagcrstownwere astir, — some standing on the house-tops, listening to thein

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