The Story of the First Defenders : District of Columbia, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts
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army, commanding a detachment of sixty unmounted dragoons, in addition to a small number of other guards on duty at the Arsenal, balked the designs of the insurgents, as when a large force from Hall- town were within twenty minutes march of the place Lieu- 'it L I FLAG OF RINGGOLD ARTILLERY, 1861. The First Defenders, 19 tenant Jones ordered the buildings to be set on fire, and they with nearly 15,000 muskets were destroyed. Within fifteen minutes after the firing of the buildings and the escap...e of Lieutenant Jones and his men across the bridge into Maryland 900 Virginia Militia inarched into town and before the next day nearly 5,000 insurgents occupied the place. These are brief sketches of two important coincidences of the iSth of April, constituting a part of the program already matured for the capture of the Federal Capital by the secessionists of Virginia and Maryland. While Harper's Fern- was burning and the mob of Balti- more were obstructing the pathway of citizens through her midst, the rebel conspirators down South were violently rous- ing the passions of the people and inciting the cry : " On to Washington !" It resounded through all parts of the South and was re-echoed from mountain to plain by thousands who had been incited by lying pretences of leading traitors to arm themselves to strike at the heart of their mother, the government of the union of states.
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