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The Daily Dispatch: July 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], History of smoking. (search)
but they had not even the courage to fire upon us from the roadside, though they were concealed by the darkness and the bushes, which were as thick as the hairs on a dog's back. We come back in a walk, after firing a salute of twenty guns immediately by the towardly devils. On the next day, the 19th, squads of four of our company took possession of the pike, within four miles of Phillippi, and waited patiently, in ambush, for the enemy's scouts and spies. Calvin Renick. Cyrus Creigh, Chas. McClung, Lewis Peyton and Addison Bell composed the advanced guard. About 11 o'clock three scouts came along They were halted by young Peyton. One of them drew a pistol and fired five shots at our young friend P., the distance being only about fifteen or twenty paces. Young P. fired upon him and broke the fellow's arm. Just as young Peyton fired, Calvin Renick let loose upon the rascals, and killed one of them instantly. This caused the sentinels stationed along the road to give the alar
The Daily Dispatch: December 2, 1862., [Electronic resource], Late Tankers raid into Greenbrier. (search)
Late Tankers raid into Greenbrier. I correspondent, writing from Lewisburg, furnishes us with some particulars of the recent plundering expedition of the Yankees into Greenbrier appears that the Quartermaster of Gen. Jenkins had provided some there hundred bushels of wheat at the farm of Charles McClung, in the extreme Northern corner of the county, on Sinking street. On Friday, the 7th of November. five four horse wagons, and two two-horse wagons were sent to this grain. The wheat was stored in a small out-houses or family school-house. The wagons arrived there just before night, and were only partly load of when darkness came on. The enemy's cavalry sent of near one hundred men, (from Summersville vis Cherry Tree Bottom and Cold Knob.) subtress advised of the circumstances by some had from the mountain North of the farm the arrival of the wagons, and made a decent from towards the Cold Knob after night, surrounding the premises, capturing the wagon mass and teamsters and
The Daily Dispatch: February 12, 1864., [Electronic resource], Expulsion of citizens from "Subjugated" towns. (search)
Expulsion of citizens from "Subjugated" towns. The first instalment of exiles from Knoxville has arrived at Atlanta, Ga., and is quartered in Washington Hall. There were about thirty persons in the lot, among them Rev. W. A. Harrison, a Presbyterian minister; Chas. McClung and wife, R. M. McPherson, wife, and five children; L. M Rogan, wife, and two daughters; Mrs. Wilson and daughter, Dr. Goodlip, Mrs. Hamilton and two children, and others. These persons were ordered to leave town in forty-eight hours, as will be seen from the following order: Office P. M. Gen. E. T., Knoxville, January 27th, 1864. Joseph Davenport: Sir --On account of your persistent disloyalty to the Government of the United States it has been decided to send you South, within the rebel lines. You are hereby notified to be at the railroad depot in time for the morning train to London, on Saturday next, prepared to leave permanently. As baggage you will be permitted to take your wearing appar