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The Daily Dispatch: July 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Inelde of the war. (search)
— say in July and August. The troops at Washington and in the neighborhood are suffering greatly from diseases of the bowels and from small-pox. These troops, as well as Gen. Scott, were in daily expectation of an attack; and in order more effectually to repel it, they had erected a number of heavy batteries along all the approaches by which which we could advance upon the capital. A feeling of uneasiness pervades all classes, including those in authority, and the very mention of the name of Beauregard seemed to strike terror into the hearts of the Yankees. They appear to have a great horror of masked batteries. A tale is told in Washington that Old Abe went up with Professor Lowe in his famous balloon one day last week, to reconnoitre the position of the "rebel" forces. They had not proceeded very high before Old Abe, tapping his companion on the shoulder, cried out, "Hold, Professor, I think I see a masked battery just below us here. Don't you think we had better return ?"
The Daily Dispatch: July 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Incidents of a battle. (search)
Confiscation. Fairfax county, the neighborhood of Gen. Beauregard's operations, is infested with an unfriendly population, consisting of small Northern farmers, who have been permitted to buy property and live there in peaceful times, and who now requite the hospitality of Virginia by acting as spies upon the movements of the Confederates, or openly taking up arms in the service of the enemy. Under the law of nations, all property of an enemy is subject to confiscation, and there could be no more proper occasion for the operation of such a law than that presented by the Northern spies and traitors, who hold real and other estate in Virginia.