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“Our News is Cut Off and We Are Under Rebel Rule”

| June 16, 2013

The total collapse of Union forces at Winchester on June 15 sent hundreds of stragglers careening through southern Pennsylvania en route to Harrisburg via the Cumberland Valley. Their wagon train, numbering nearly 500 fully loaded wagons, sped through the southern towns at breakneck speed, saying the Southerners were fast on their heels. As June 16, […]