SEPTEMBER 26th.\u2014The press here have no knowledge of the present locality of Gen. Lee and his army. But a letter was received from Gen. L. at the \u00a0department yesterday, dated on this side of the Potomac, about eighteen \u00a0miles above Harper\u2019s Ferry.<\/p>\n
It is stated that several hundred prisoners, taken at Sharpsburg, are paroled \u00a0prisoners captured at Harper\u2019s Ferry. If this be so (and it is said they will be \u00a0here to-night), I think it probable an example will be made of them. This \u00a0unpleasant duty may not be avoided by our government.<\/p>\n
After losing in killed and wounded, in the battle of Sharpsburg, ten generals, \u00a0and perhaps twenty thousand men, we hear no more of the advance of the \u00a0enemy; and Lee seems to be lying perdue<\/em>, giving them an opportunity to \u00a0ruminate on the difficulties and dangers of \u201csubjugation.\u201d<\/p>\n I pray we may soon conquer a peace with the North; but then I fear we shall \u00a0have trouble among ourselves. Certainly there is danger, after the war, that \u00a0Virginia, and, perhaps, a sufficient number of the States to form a new \u00a0constitution, will meet in convention and form a new government.<\/p>\n Gen. Stark, of Mississippi, who fell at Sharpsburg, was an acquaintance of \u00a0mine. His daughters were educated with mine at St. Mary\u2019s Hall, Burlington, \u00a0N. J.\u2014and were, indeed, under my care. Orphans now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SEPTEMBER 26th.\u2014The press here have no knowledge of the present locality of Gen. Lee and his army. But a letter was received from Gen. L. at the \u00a0department yesterday, dated on this side of the Potomac, about eighteen \u00a0miles above Harper\u2019s Ferry. It is stated that several hundred prisoners, taken at Sharpsburg, are paroled \u00a0prisoners […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":88021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-88607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news-of-the-day"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/John-Beauchamp-Jones.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}