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our troops have been driven back & are now in the forts about the city & in Alexandria. Pope & [[McDowell?]] are in disgrace & Gen McClellan is in charge of the defenses of the City. No cars have come from Harper's Ferry to day. I hope Father will come before those from Baltimore cease to run. The Company is afraid to send out trains lest they may fall into the hands of the Confederates who are advancing rapidly. Fredericksburg is theirs. 

Friday Sep 5th.    Went to a country ball at the hotel in Sykesville  Expected to be much amused therewith but was uneasy about Father. The Hotel looks upon the rail road & I took my station at the window to watch. Hour after hour passed but still no train. At last a distant whistle, a low rumble made my heart beat nearer & nearer it came but in the wrong direction. A [[burden?]] train shot by us laden with soldiery their arms flashing in the moon light. Then loud shouts as they [[passed?]] feebly echoed by the men & boys on the platform. What did this retrograde movement mean? are the enemy advancing so rapidly that Baltimore was in danger. The [[/moments?]] seemed long now. would the train never come! The dancers kept time to the fiddles in the Dinner Hall The moonlight fell softly & [[strikeout]] [[peacefully?]] [[strikethrough]] through the trees on the bank opposite Would the train ever come.
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