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The Daily Dispatch: may 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
rs. Editors:--Having seen no authentic statement of the occupation of Alexandria, it may be of interest to your readers to know some of the details. Early on the morning after the election, (about 3 o'clock,) notice was given that preparations were in active progress for the occupation of Alexandria by the Federal troops. The Captain of the Pawnee came over with a flag of truce, and notified Colonel Territt that the troops in town must surrender or evacuate by 9 o'clock. By order of General Lee, commandant of Virginia forces, the troops were ordered to evacuate. Having done so twice before, the order was not promptly obeyed, our indeed was the notice sufficiently exciting to make them do so. In accordance with the Punic character of the Administration thus far, the Federal troops were burried in, and captured the larger portion of Captain Ball's company, and, it is said, handcuffed them, put them on board a steamboat, and marched them up to Washington and through their str
The Daily Dispatch: may 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], How the Southerners Treat prisoners of war. (search)
ution, Peter Johnston, at the early age of sixteen, left Hampden Sidney College against the will of his father, and joined Lee's celebrated Legion, with which he served as ensign through the war with great bravery and distinction. His father gave t Prince Edward county in the Legislature of the State. Peter Johnston and his Revolutionary commander, the celebrated Lee, cherished a cordial regard for each other throughout their lives, and the careers of their respective sons, Gen. Robert EGen. Robert E. Lee and Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, have been, like those of their fathers very much identified. We believe they entered West Point together, and graduated together, were alike distinguished there by talent and application, and have since devoted theAlbert S. Johnston, he who commanded in Utah as Brevet Brigadier; Jos. E. Johnston the subject of the present notice; Robert E. Lee, now commanding the Virginia forces; and C. F. Smith, a very accomplished officer of Northern nativity, still in the