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The Daily Dispatch: July 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], Notice to our Subscribers. (search)
General's time is half taken up with trying traitors; the other day we caught a spy, (a German Jew,) with a clothing store worth $5,000. He was caught fair, and too plain to deny, and so he forfeited all his stock, which clothes our poor mountain boys. He was warned by the General that he would have to kneel upon his coffin, which made him turn pale; and when he was told that he had lost all of his pack, he blubbered like a baby. Three nights ago we had to select 350 men to rush up to Ripley; the Richmond Blues started at 1 o'clock, on one hour's notice, and got thirteen miles up Pocataligo river before they were overtaken by the horses sent to take them up. Lieut. Col. Patton was in command of two corps of cavalry, and three companies of infantry. The Ohio troops, 200 strong, had run to Ravenswood. The next day while scouting, our cavalry got into a hornet's nest of sharp-shooters concealed on a high hill. One of our horses was touched by a rifle ball, but no one hurt. The