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From The Confederate States - Saturday, September 20, 1862GLORIOUS NEWS! Washington City Certainly Taken Stonewall at York, Pa. The Confederate Flag Floats on the U.W. Capitol Yankees Preparing to Decamp It would appear from the subjoined intelligence from an extra of the Thidobeaux Sentinel, that the Federal Capitol has fallen before the superior prowess of the Confederate troops. We are aware that it is not good policy "to crow before getting out of the woods," yet as all the intelligence received at this point for the past week, has tended to confirm the rumored capture of Washington City, we can no longer doubt that the glorious "stars and bars" now proudly floats from the dome of the Federal Capitol! All hail, then, to invincible "Stonewall" and his Spartan band! The following is the intelligence as contained in the Sentinel's extra: "To Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America: -- The Confederate States flag was hoisted at half-past eleven o'clock, A.M., on the United States Capitol, by the eight survivors of the second company of the Washington Artillery of New Orleans. We now hold the Capitol of the once prud [sic] Republic of America, under our control. Our army suffered immensely, but thans be to God, with his aid, we have got through gloriously." 
R.E.LEE, Gen. CommandingGen. Stonewall Jackson has taken the town of York, in Pennsylvania, and destroyed all the manufactories. He is now marching upon Baltimore, and will proceed to Annapolis. He took all the cannon at Arlington. Not one was spiked. The iron clad 290 Florida, has arrived safely at Mobile. There is said to exist a great panic at Philadelphia and New York. The gentleman who furnished these despatches, has been a prisoner of the Federals since the raid on Col. Kenner's plantation, in July last, and states that the Yankees are packing up in New Orleans, and he would not be surprised to hear of their leaving that city. A couple of gentlemen arrived in New Iberia this morning, from Baton Rouge, who state that they read a dispatch in the Mobile Register confirming the capture of Washington City. The dispatch also stated that if our forces had been 10 minutes sooner in their attack on the city, Lincoln and his entire cabinet would have been bagged. The archives are in our possession. The enemy's loss was very heavy. Gens. Pope, Banks, and Siegel are among the killed. Our loss is estimated at $25,000. |
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