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The Daily Dispatch: May 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Montgomery. (search)
were sent him by the ladies of Montgomery, some of whom, it is said, devoted almost the whole of Sunday and Monday nights to the patriotic work. Large bodies of troops are being sent to General Bragg's assistance. The indications favor an early conflict. To-day the Continentals, a magnificent Mobile company, of one hundred and sixty men; and the Sumter Rifles, numbering over an hundred, besides other companies whose names I could not learn, reached this city en route for Pensacola. Gov. Brown remarked a day or two ago that if thirty thousand men were called for from Georgia, there were so many tenders of services pressing upon him he would be forced to draw the companies necessary to complete the requisition by lot. Three of Virginia's Commissioners to Congress arrived in this city on yesterday--Messrs. Brockenbrough, Staples and Campbell. The military power recently shown by the Old Dominion, to bring into the field at least one hundred thousand men, as brave as ther
The Daily Dispatch: May 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Montgomery. (search)
One of the Browns. --The Ashburton (Ohio) Sentinel of last week gives the subjoined item. Orrin Brown is a son of old John Brown: "On Monday, in Trumbull, Orrin Brown had his left hand torn off by the premature discharge of a cannon which was being discharged in honor of the volunteers. The hand was so badly torn that it was found necessary to amputate it just below the elbow." One of the Browns. --The Ashburton (Ohio) Sentinel of last week gives the subjoined item. Orrin Brown is a son of old John Brown: "On Monday, in Trumbull, Orrin Brown had his left hand torn off by the premature discharge of a cannon which was being discharged in honor of the volunteers. The hand was so badly torn that it was found necessary to amputate it just below the elbow."
The Daily Dispatch: May 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Portsmouth (search)
m. Porter then granted them permission to proceed to Pensacola, remarking he thought Bragg wished the use of the boats for the purpose of conveying troops to Santa Rosa Island, and that they would be badly whipped after Bragg got them there. While the Keyes and Lewis were rounding to and getting under way the Brooklyn came up and orderd them to follow her to the Sabine? Through some misunderstanding the Keyes had got under way for the bar. The Powhatan and Brooklyn both fired across her bow, when she again rounded to. A boat's crew of armed men were put aboard her. The two transports were compelled to jay under the guns of the Sabine until this morning, when Lieut. Brown endorsed on their papers, warning them not to attempt the entrance of the harbor again or he would have them sent North as prisoners of war, and their boats sold as prizes. The Powhatan followed the Keyes and Lewis on their return home till they passed Perdido river. They arrived here safe this evening.