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Rebel Occupation Of Annapolis

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Day
23
Month
August
Year
1861
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Public Domain
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Phijadelphia, Ang. 16. I am cnabled to oommunica'e to you som!.' important and reliable iutelligence. The rebuls ure now fortifying botli sides of Malinas i'oiut, leaving larga wii rfago room on the extreniity whence fiftewi thonsand or more troops, u:;lt'ss prevented' wil] iu a short tuno dobirk. cross t'iu Potomao and Putuxeot rivera, and taku possessioD of Annapolis. Auother emute at Baltimore will immediately eusne, and thu bridges on thti r a ts led.ng to tbat . city Lo burut. Washington will tbeu ba eoupletelj isolatcd -the [Ueiioes of wbich it is u')t uecessary to ipeculate upon diarios a:id t Miry oou itieq aro cutiroiy seoeBaiofiist - in point of fect aro nearly depopuiated, so ; ïiiuiiy ut tlieir men having join'ed the I el toreos, and there is nothing in tlio worid to prevent tun thousand Houtberners from taking powesaiun of Annepolis, tlms eticouraglirg tbe borda of traitorn at, Balt i inore to rise siuinltaneously and break tlm railwaj communication bet ween aabiugtoo and tbe Nortli. Wbon tlns ' misfortune occurrod bofore, wh.ro w mld y; bave boen without tbe route tlirongli Áuuapolis, by the schema now noeditated to be obstruoted at tho satae time with tliat throagh Baltimore ï I havo mol lier matter of interest to say. Now Vork, Philadelphia and Baltimore papers and letters, aro earriod every : day in smatl veasels from Baltimore down tlio Uhesapea'ko nml up tbc ■ ent to lienediot, ttieiico to tlio Potoiuae, and ns SOOD as one of the steamers (whicb are " keeping open tbc liver1') has '■ piASud up or down tlio stream, a littlo bost pushes aoross from soma retirad . let, and tlio sanif Dight or the noxt j ning, theaa papers and lottors are at tho [ rebels' headquartera This Information is strictly correct and , reüablo, but I eau give you no stronger voucher than my oaine, and to say (hat I have reoeived my intelligenoe from per j sons with whoni I am woll aoquaigted and who, I know, ai e in a positiob to acquiro inforination on tbia head. I am a niombar of tho First Oity Troop, just j turned from Maryland and Virginia, ! wbcre we have been for the last tbreo mou tbs.

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