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The Daily Dispatch: February 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], A British Troop in the Union army. (search)
the Speaker. Prayer by Rev. James A. Duncan. After the reading of the Journal of yesterday, Messrs. Foster, of Ala.; Chambers, of Miss.; Burnett, of Ky.; and Smith, of N. C., presented themselves at the desk of the Speaker and were duly sworn in. Mr. Jones, of Tenn., moved a reconsideration of the resolution adopted yestof stationery for the use of the House, and that he be instructed to draw his warrant upon the House for the payment of the same out of the contingent fund. Mr. Smith, of Virginia, moved to lay the resolution upon the table. Motion agreed to. The Chair announced the names of the following gentlemen, who compose the Ce, and Miles said committee. Mr. Russell, of Virginia, offered a resolution to the effect, that until further ordered, the printing of the House be done by R. M. Smith, the printer of the Provisional Congress, under the rules prescribed by that body. Resolution adopted. Mr. Boteles, of Virginia, offered a resolution requ
The Daily Dispatch: February 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 9 (search)
ven out of this department. F. W. Lander, Brig.-Gen. Skirmish in Western Virginia. The Cincinnati Times says that a skirmish occurred last Saturday on Linn creek, Logan county, Va. A detachment of the 5th Virginia regiment, under Capt. Smith, twenty-one in number, pursued and attacked thirty-two of Jenkins's cavalry. The result was a loss on the rebel side of eight killed and seven wounded, and the remainder captured, with upward of thirty horses. Of the Federals, one was killed and one wounded. The captured and their captors arrived at Guyandotte on Wednesday evening. Mr. Reader, our informant, is a private in Captain Smith's company, and was engaged in the affair. He gives an interesting account of the skirmish. The rebels were surprised, being employed, when attacked, in feeding their horses from the crib of a Union man, now a refugee. Among the rebels killed was Stevens, who participated in the butchery of a small party of Platt's Zouaves, sometime sin