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The Daily Dispatch: June 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 15 (search)
ia county, with only 480 men between 18 and 45, has already sent and had mustered into service four companies, and has just raised and equipped within a few days another splendid company of between 60 and 70 men. with two ministers as officers; one the Rev. Richard McIlwain, Pastor of the Amelia Presbyterian Church, the other the Rev, Mr. Barnes, of the Methodist Church--the whole amounting to about 300 men; and five gentlemen in the county have 20 so is in the field: L. E, Harvie, Esq.,4; Mr. Taylor, 4; Mr. Ryall, 4, Mr. Kitt Roberts, 4; and Capt Jackson will have 4 as soon as his son, Dr Jackson, recovers from a broken hand and joins his company. I think these facts are worthy of record, and may stimulate other counties to do likewise. The citizens of the county and the County Court together have subscribed over $10,000 for their equipment and support of their families. P. S.--Yesterday afternoon a hardy looking company of Irishmen, sixty-three strong, arrived in town from She
The Daily Dispatch: June 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], An interesting document. (search)
ble military skill, much less genius, in his whole career. His stand-up fights with the British in the late was were valuable exhibitions of game and endurance on both sides, but no generalship was attempted or required. In the Mexican war, General Taylor whipped the poor devils so often and so thoroughly before General Scott appeared upon the field, that the latter, with the aid of Lee's engineering, had a comparatively easy task to accomplish. He made one or two awful blunders notwithstandiwas there a more complete back down than Jackson forced upon Scott. He was foolish enough to pitch into old Marcy, and Marcy replied in a cool and excoriating epistle, which scarcely left a whole spot upon his body. He fell out with noble old Gen. Taylor a man so just, so self-poised, and so amiable as well as valiant, that no one was ever before his enemy, except the enemies of his country. And last, but not least, he tried the game of "rebel," which now fills his soul with horror, against h
The Daily Dispatch: June 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], Federal outrages at Hampton. (search)
From Manassas Junction.[Special correspondence of the Dispatch.] Camp Pickens, June 13th, 1861. The unfortunate Mr. Taylor, who was accidentally shot by a member of the Alexandria Rifles, has since died of the effects of the wound. Mr. John T. Alvey, of Richmond, of the Governor's Guard, lost his horse and saddle at the hands of Lincoln's scouts. The sad intelligence has just reached us that a Mr. Furcron, of the Powhatan Cavalry, was shot by our own guards and immediately killed.--Mr. F, who was out on duty, left his post and went to a spring to drink. There he saw several soldiers who he supposed belonged to the enemy. He immediately wheeled, put spurs to his horse and darted off. The soldiers who Mr. F. mistook for the enemy, ordered him to halt; which, refusing to do he was immediately fired upon and killed, they supposing him to belong to a scouting party of the Federal troops, from his failing to stop when commanded.--Such intelligence mingles sadly with the
The Daily Dispatch: June 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
when spoken to speaks rather slowly I bought him from Capt. Belcher near Fairfield Race Course, who owns his wife, and about whose premises he may be lurking; or he may have hired himself out as a free man on some of the public works near the city, or attempted to escape with some of the volunteer companies leaving the city. I will pay the above reward for his delivery to me in Richmond, or in some jail so that I may get him. Jas. M. Taylor. je 15--3t Of the firm of Jas. M Taylor & Son. when spoken to speaks rather slowly I bought him from Capt. Belcher near Fairfield Race Course, who owns his wife, and about whose premises he may be lurking; or he may have hired himself out as a free man on some of the public works near the city, or attempted to escape with some of the volunteer companies leaving the city. I will pay the above reward for his delivery to me in Richmond, or in some jail so that I may get him. Jas. M. Taylor. je 15--3t Of the firm of Jas. M Taylor & Son.