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The Daily Dispatch: August 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 16 (search)
that they are all, or nearly all, of the best and wealthiest families of the two counties, and are as fine looking a body of men as ever went into camp. They were met by a large number of the citizens of Elizabeth town, with a Southern flag, and escorted to town amid the cheers of the populace and the smiles and heartfelt greeting of the ladies, to Haycraft's Hotel, where they took dinner, prepared for them at the instance of the citizens. This company was equipped at the expense of Col. Forrest, of Mississippi, with sandies, bridies and blankets, and each armed with a pair of large sized Navy revolvers, a sword, and an escapee gun. The company numbers eighty-five men, and they are all well mounted. Western Virginia. A correspondent of the Louisville Courier, writing from Camp Bartow, Highland county, Virginia, speaks thus hopefully of our cause: A few days more will suffice to rid Western Virginia of every Yankee that now desecrates her soil. The heads of volunt