Civil War fact of the day. On this day in 1864, Jubal Earlys Confederates were converging on Harpers Ferry. HEADQUARTERS VALLEY DISTRICT, Leetown, July 3, 1864--8 p. m. Major General JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE: GENERAL: Your note of 4 p. m. is just received. You will have secured for the use of the entire army such public stores as may have been left by the enemy. All shoes in the private stores will be secured in like manner. You will seize all other goods in the stores in Martinsburg, and place them in charge of a responsible and competent quartermaster, to be confiscated for the benefit of the Government; and take the most efficient measures to prevent all plundering or private appropriation of these goods or any other captures. You will send a regiment on the railroad to Hedgesville to burn the bridge this side of that place and all bridges from there to Martinsburg. You will have the bridge over Tuscarora, and all bridges from Martinsburg to the Opequon, and over that stream burned; and move Gordons division on the road by Walpers Cross-Roads (near Kearneysville) and Halltown to Harpers Ferry. One brigade of this division may be left at Martinsburg to secure the public property and confiscated goods and the destruction of the railroad bridges, while the rest of it is moving to Harpers Ferry. If Vaughn is at Bunker Hill let him move by Smithfield and Charlestown to Harpers Ferry. If he has passed Bunker Hill move him by the nearest route to Harpers Ferry. I will move everything in that direction in the morning. I am, general, respectfully, J. A. EARLY, Lieutenant-General.
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