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The Daily Dispatch: may 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], The crops prospect in Florida. (search)
ther the spirit of resistance is abroad in the land. The men who cannot enlist can fight on their own hook.--The Home Guard in each invaded county can make themselves felt. If the war spirit which made Henry Clay exclaim, "he felt as if he could slay a Mexican," is alive in the State, many a "pet-lamb" will be cut off before the pitched battles are engaged in. Now is the hour for the partisan corps of the country to show their hand — corps of the sort that were led by Marion, Sumter and Hampton --made up of spirits like Hays, Chevallie, Walker and McCullogh. The regular defence will be ably and bravely conducted by our Generals and our armies; but it is the partisan soldiery who are a thorn in the flesh of the invader. We should make thorough work of these invading columns. They must not only be beaten in the field, but they must be utterly cut off. Not a man of them should be allowed to escape to tell the tale of rout and overthrow to his fellows. By giving themselves a few da
The Daily Dispatch: may 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Hampton. It seems a body of troops, companies of Zouaves, marched into Hampton Thursday or Friday, and marched back again, and the firing was simply the discharge of their arms after reaching their camp ground. So much for the famous battle. Hampton is completely deserted, and contains but two white inhabitants. The report also is that the tug Yankee has been captured a short distance up York River. That a Pungee with one or two hundred armed men went within hulling distance, for the to form a more perfect union."The Pocahontas returned empty on Sunday morning. On Saturday evening, there was a light or fire seen from the Northern extremity of Crawford street, of this city, opposite Norfolk, in the direction of Old Point and Hampton.--Some said it was the calcium light at Old Point; some that it was the burning of undergrowth and brush in the region of Tanner's Creek, where companies had been engaged in cutting it away to make encampments. Some others said it was the burni
The Daily Dispatch: may 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
From Norfolk. Norfolk May 27. --It is reported that the firing yesterday morning at Hampton was at a funeral of one of the soldiers at Old Point. The streets are full of the wildest rumors, and many dispatches predicated upon them should not be relied on. Load Stone. (Second Dispatch.) Norfolk, May 27,P. M. --The enemy have landed a great many troops to-day at Newport News, commanding the entrance to James River. All quiet here. No further news from Hampton. Powder.