BALTIMORE, May 26 – We learn there was some popular commotion in Hagerstown, Maryland on Saturday night and Sunday the same as here. A rebel newspaper office was destroyed. Prominent secessionists were punished very severely in all parts of town.
A report from Williamsport says as our troops retreated through Winchester the women fired on them, and the sick left in the hospitals were brutally treated and some of them wounded.
In view of active movements in contemplation, it is thought the rebels stand a chance of being caught in a trap.
Among those mentioned as being molested by the Union men yesterday, the name of Robert McLane, late Minister to Mexico, was erroneously given. This is incorrect.
BALTIMORE, May 27 – Private accounts from Martinsburg represent only a few rebel scouts in town yesterday and they shortly after retired without doing any damage.
The indications are that the enemy is retreating to Winchester.
All is quiet here this morning. A large police force is stationed along Baltimore street and in other localities to prevent turbulent gatherings.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 31, 1862, p. 4
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