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The Daily Dispatch: October 22, 1861., [Electronic resource] 6 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: October 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], Ineligibility of officers of the army for Congress. (search)
Northwestern Virginia. --The new State Government in Northwestern Virginia is said to be carrying matters with a high hand. Carlile, Pierpont, Jackson, Harrison & Co., are playing Lincoln on a small scale, but in a spirit of truculence and cruelty which even that ferocious tyrant might envy.--Large numbers of true-hearted Virginians have been dragged from their homes and imprisoned in the Ohio Penitentiary, in Columbus, whilst hundreds have been indicted for treason before a Federal Court, under the auspices of John. J. Jackson, of Parkersburg, who styles himself Judge. The Enquirer states that hundreds of good citizens in Western Virginia have been seized and manacled, and some even put to death in the most barbarous manner by the armed bands from Ohio and the other States. Besides these individual sufferings, it is said that the obstacles thus presented in the collection of the State's revenue, will lose the sum of four hundred thousand dollars to our finances the present
The Daily Dispatch: October 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Mecklenburg. (search)
ching, and with anxiety to meet the enemy. Now, the inference here is, that "company A and a portion of company B" were not in the fight at all, but were off from the encampment on detached duty — while the facts are, they were ordered from their entrenchments during the hottest part of the fight and marched under the command of Major A. C. Jones, the shells and balls falling thick and fast around them, to assist in holding a position on the left flank — as will be seen by reference to General Jackson's official report to the Adjutant General, which says: "This brigade (the 5th) was reduced, in the course of the action, by the detachment of one hundred men under Major Jones, of the 44th regiment, to reinforce our left wing. This detachment marched in gallant style, under the enemy's fire, to the position assigned it in line." While in this position the enemy opened fire upon us from one of their batteries for one hour, in order to shell us out, but without effect — the balls and she<