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The Daily Dispatch: may 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 24 (search)
tender their services to the Governor for the war. We have amidst the gloom of civil war, cheering accounts of the growing crops in Maryland and Virginia. The Atlanta (Ga.) Beauregards have changed their name to the Stephens Rifles, in honor of the Vice-President. During the bombardment of Sumter, 2,861 shot and 980 shells were fired from the South Carolina batteries. Jeff. Davis Guards is the name of a company just organized in Lynchburg. J. R. Butler, Captain. Lieutenant Jones, who burned the Harper's Ferry Arsenal, has been promoted to the rank of Captain. Over 1,000 men are now employed in the Philadelphia Navy-Yard in fitting out vessels of war. Major Pugh, Brigade Inspector of Philadelphia, died Wednesday of congestion of the brain. Pelham Baonney, Esq, one of the most prominent citizens of Boston, died a few days ago. Alexander W. Lawrence, Professor of Mathematics in the United States Navy, has resigned. Mrs. Jefferson Davis gav
The Daily Dispatch: may 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 30 (search)
o go to Washington and request the so-called Government there to send more Federal troops to the former place to protect the Armory from the army of Secessionists, and also told the said Government that, " if Virginia did secede, Harper's Ferry would not. " One of these very men shouldered his Sharp's Rifle and called upon the citizens to come out and resist the State troops, stating that he had been assured at Washington that if they would stand by the Federal troops stationed there, the Lincoln Government would stand by them. Another one said he had " twenty good Union men at the Rifle works to resist the mob, " (State authorities,) and said, " Can't I get twenty more to assist Lieut. Jones ?" Such were the feelings then, and I am sure they are not much changed now; but with the exception of that rotten, contemptible, and which has always been a disgraceful, hole, this section of the State will, on the 4th Thursday in May, prove itself truly loyal to the " Old Commonwealth. " Rex.