Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Lamar” in article pos=79 of The Daily Dispatch: may 21, 1861., [Electronic resource]:
...roops are now holding them at bay, and have sent for reinforcements.
The dispatch arrived here last evening, and to day about one hundred men have left here, and I understand about two hundred from Lamar , and two hundred from the Red river counties, and about two hundred from Dallas.
You may soon expect to hear of another victory for Texas.
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