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The Daily Dispatch: August 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], War matters. (search)
e her name higher on the scroll of fame which the historian of this war has already commenced to write. Shall not the star which answers to Illinois be brightest in the galaxy of the thirty-four? On many field of glory she has written an imperishable record of her prowess, and while the names of her Hardin, her Bissell, her Shields, and her Baker, and the gallant men around then remain, her fame is secure." Movements of the Southern privateers. A letter dated Ponce, Porto Rico, August 6th, gives the particulars of the arrival of the privateer Jeff. Davis in that port. She mounted five guns and had sixty men on board.--Ten men were sent ashore for provisions, but they not being allowed to land, the privateer was compelled to go in under the twenty-four hours neutrality rule of the Queen of Spain. The Captain General sent the war steamer Herman Cortez outside the harbor to see that she obeyed, as well as to watch her subsequent movements. The rebel captain boasted that he