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Poor Camp Stevenson
We left camp on Monday morning at the three o'clock and reached the Potomac river on the second day after dark, at the dam number five about Williamsport, there we reminded for four days breaking the dam in order the water in the Ohio and chesapeake canal so as to prevent provisions being carried into Washington by that road -
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Poor Camp Stevenson
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Sarah A.W. Poor letter
http://www.historichampshire.org/civilwar/rom-cw.htmWe arrived here on the 25 from Romney and know how long we shall remain. We were under marching orders tid morning but the oder was countermanded on accont of the wearther which wAs raning very hard this morning. we left Camp Stevenson an dMarch to Morgan the new County -
Sarah A.W. Poor letter
The yankees that were in Romney left also on double quick so that we volunteers had no fight at all except few of our cavalry and the militia. The Yankees in leaving Romney left behind them about five hundred barrels of carckers, a large quantity of flour , clothing, ammunition and good many things from there. -
Sarah
As we are coming to Romney by another road altogether , we met with an equal destrution. They killed an old soemaker and then burned him up inhis house. at another place again they killed another man , who had a wife and three or four small chilren -
Camp near Bunker Hill
It is the general opinion of the men and officers that we shall not stay here. We shall either advance again into maryland or retreat back up to the valley on account that we are too far from any railroad branch, and cant get for transportation -
Sarah A.W. Poor latter
The general came by one evening and looked very much pleased at the one of us. After we succeeded in breaking the dam, we came back to our old camp where we now are. Here we go to Romney to have a fight with the Yankees.
