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`` Stuart writes me that 2000 men , supposed to be the advance of McClellan 's army , are at Romney , and that he hears Patterson is also advancing from Chambersburg on Williamsport . His dispatch is dated this morning at nine o'clock . He writes from near Cumberland . No time has been lost , for that is eighty miles away , and it is but five o'clock now . How far have you brought this dispatch , sir ? '' `` I have brought it from Elmside , general ; twenty miles on the other side of Bath . A trooper brought it in just at midday , with orders for me to carry it on at once . ''