Judge Wooward therefore said “I cheerfully consent so far as I have any interest in your movement, to your resort to arms in the defense of the State.” He probably did not know that the Nation was engaged in a deadly war to preserve the life of the Republic, and Charles evidently forgot to tell him; but he did agree that the naughty rebels should not “with impunity tread the soil of “Pennsylvania.” …the valiant Charles with his thousand heroic Copperheads; and that they had marched on with eager tread to the scene of conflict, with drums beating banners flying and muskets gleaming. We did not see them march through Chambersburg, but we felt assured that they had found some shorter route to meet the foe, and that where the cannon boomed loudest and the hail of leaden missals was thickest, there was the pugnacious Charles leading his heroes and burying his dead.
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