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The Daily Dispatch: November 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 12 (search)
Darnrstown, Nov. 10. --Advices from Northwestern Virginia are to November 1. The chaplain who was taken prisoner at Ball's Bluff on the Sunday previous to that affair, preached a war sermon at Lovettsville, and at the conclusion opened a list and personally called upon all the young men present to enroll their names in the cause of the Confederate States. Col. Sincendiver had embodied all the militia in Berkeley county, and marched them in the direction of Romney. A portion of Col. Ashby's Cavalry were at Martinsburg to guard the movement of grain to Winchester. All remains perfectly quiet in Gen. Banks's Division. There is a perceptible diminution of typhoid cases among the troops. Last Sunday an alarm was caused in the camp of the Ninth New York by the appearance of three hundred cases of a new form of illness. On examination into the cause, it was discovered that underlying the leaves of the forest in which they had recently encamped, was ten inches of moist veg