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The Daily Dispatch: September 13, 1861., [Electronic resource] 3 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 1 1 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.36 (search)
s, originally the old Randolph estate. Major James Breathed was born February 13th, 1838, in Virginia, at Fruit Hall, Morgan county, near Berkeley Springs. At an early age his father and mother moved over near Hagerstown, Md. Young Jim Breathed was sent to St. James College, near that place. After being there some time he concluded to study medicine, which he did in the office of Dr. Mac-Gill for two years; then he went to Baltimore and took a course of surgery under the celebrated Dr. Nathan R. Smith. He received his diploma and graduated as an M. D. at the age of twenty-one years. He went to St. Joseph, Mo., shortly afterward, and began the practice of medicine, remaining there until Virginia seceded, on April 17th, 1861. All his relations were strong Southerners. The late Governor Jackson, Marmaduke, Jeff Thompson, and Price were making war speeches, advocating secession. Breathed was with them, being a relative, and in the fire of youth, he determined to go into the serv
The Daily Dispatch: September 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], The empire of Loudoun (search)
Maryland State peace Convention. --This body assembled in Baltimore on Tuesday last. Every county in the State was represented--Gen. Benjamin C. Howard, of Baltimore county, was nominated as candidate for Governor of Maryland, and A. Lingan Jarreti, Esq. of Harford county, for Comptroller of the Treasury. A committee was appointed to prepare an address to the people of the State. Before the adjournment, Prof. Nathan R. Smith, the presiding officer, in response to a vote of thanks, alluded to an attempt to break up the Convention, and said: "If twenty knives had been plunged into me, I would not have left the stand to which you called me; and I desire the Convention to oppose any action that tries to intimidate them. Peace and Union go together; war and Union, never." it appears that a party, who had entered the hall for the purpose of disturbing the deliberations, got on the platform and cheered for Gen. Scott and the stars and stripes, and raised a Federal flag. They were,
The Daily Dispatch: September 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 15 (search)
Federal telegrams. The following are the latest dispatches published in the Northern papers: Skirmishing across the Potomac. Washington, Sept. 10. --Considerable skirmishing took place last night between our troops and those of the enemy, near the Chain Bridge. A large scouting party, under command of Gen. Smith, advanced during the night as far as Lewisville, seven miles distant from Chain Bridge, where they were attacked by the Confederate pickets. John Dwinelle, of company H, New York 79th regiment, was killed, but two officers, one a major and the other a captain in Col. Stewart's Virginia regiment, were taken prisoners by our forces. They refused to give their names. Two privates of the New York DeKalb Regiment fell into the hands of the Confederate pickets this morning, near Hunter's Chapel, to the right of Ball's Cross Roads. A Confederate soldier, who had lost his way, was taken and brought by our cavalry to the Chain Bridge to-day. A lar