Some more soldier mentions regarding the town:
September 1862: We met no smiles; a decided Union sentiment was in evidence. (David E. Johnston, 7th Virginia)
28 June 1863: A nice little village. (Thomas W. Stevens, 20th Indiana)
27-28 June 1863: Four churches, five taverns, five or six stores, etc. (Franklin Boyts, 142nd Pennsylvania)
Circa 8 July 1863: Camped near this village of a dozen houses. (146th New York)
October 1862: Marched through town, people were waving flags and our men were cheering. ... 8 June 1863: The poor fellows left are too tired to raise more than a faint hurrah. Later that night the town was very lively. I took a room at a hotel and wrote a letter or two. (Col. McCalmont, 142nd Pennsylvania)
27 June 1863, 11 p.m.: Ladies serenaded us with patriotic songs and the bands played, we were received with great enthusiasm, waving of flags and white handkerchiefs. Quite a contrast to our reception in Virginia towns. (George R. Crosby, 1st Vermont Cavalry)
September 1862: Private houses, churches and the academy of music thrown open to receive the wounded. Bridge over Catoctin Creek had been burned. (Isaac Hall, 97th New York)
27 June 1863: Small town, very dirty place, went over to an old farmers and took dinner there with a couple of young ladies. (Lt. Samuel Sanders, 76th New York)
28 June 1863: Middletown has probably fewer disloyal men in it than Homer or Cortland. The ladies are all for the Union. But for orders not to leave camp I should attend church today. (Uberto Burnham, 76th New York)
25 June 1863: Very nice place here. (Daniel Zackman, 82nd Ohio)
Mid-1863: Headquarters in a house. (Henry Clay Christiancy, on Gen. Humphreys’ staff)
Mid-1863: Quite a good-sized congregation of houses and boasts two or three steeples. (Capt. A. F. Cavada, on Gen. Humphreys’ staff)
28 June 1863: Received by Union inhabitants with their usual hospitality (Abner Hard, 8th Illinois Cavalry.)
28 June 1863, morning: Pleasant village, nestled among the hills, a short distance from South Mountain. Some of the buildings show the marks of bullets fired here 11 September 1862; left morning of 29 June. (8th New York Cavalry)
27 June 1863: Rode into town last night with Capt. Clark and was invited by a citizen to take tea with him. There were some ladies there which made it all the more pleasant. (Surgeon Charles A. Wheeler, 12th Massachusetts)
28 June: Arrived, guards were thrown out, as was the custom, and it happened that the women and girls who were coming from Sunday school, which was held in one of the churches of the town, were compelled to pass by Charley Wilson, one of the guards. Wilson told them they could not pass. They became very much alarmed and began to cry, whereupon Wilson told them they could pass if they gave him a kiss. This each one did, and were allowed to pass by the guards. At this place two young women came among the soldiers and announced that if any had letters they desired to be sent, they should give the letters to them and they would be stamped and mailed. They gathered a large supply of letters, nearly all of which were unstamped, and so far as is known, every letter was mailed to its destination. (Simon Hubler, 143rd Pennsylvania)
June 1863: I stopped in a house in Middletown and the woman there gave me some milk and good bread and butter. (Wesley Boyle, 143rd Pennsylvania)
8 July 1863: A neat southern village of large size, contains two or three churches. (Capt. George Lockley, 1st Michigan)
Mid-1863: Middletown is a very fine place of about 800 inhabitants. Situated in Pleasant Valley, surrounded by a very rich country and encircled by mountains. We pitch tents about three quarters mile from the place after passing through the edge of it. (Stryker A. Wallace, 153rd Pennsylvania)
9 July 1863: Came to Middletown where Sallie Smith sung to the soldiers. Ate supper at Mr. Morrison’s. (W. A. McDowell, Cavalry Corps, 2nd Division, 3rd Brigade)
26 June 1863: Very nice Union town about 8 miles from Harper’s Ferry, this is one of the finest wheat growing country I have ever seen. (Jacob Thomas Zehrung, 73rd Ohio)
30 June 1863: Met with a fair reception; saw some of the “Secesh” spirit manifested. (Boies, 33rd Massachusetts)
Mid-1863: On reaching Middletown we found the street blocked up by a double row of wagons and a regiment of (Federal) cavalry. (Dr. D. G. Brinton, 11th Corps, 2nd Division)
7 July 1863, about 10 p.m.: We got into our old camp at Middletown about 10 pm. We were in the rear of the division, so we were last in; but we got all of our regiment in a small-sized wagoner’s shop out of the rain. (Marlow D. Wells, 157th New York)
Mid-1863: Our troops were warmly greeted, the stars and stripes flying from almost every house. (Horace Smith, 154th New York)
26 July 1863: Numerous instances of enthusiastic and outspoken patriotism. (William Wheeler, 13th New York Battery)