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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1861 , May (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1861 , June (search)
June 2.
Three thousand men, of Indiana, Ohio, and Virginia volunteers, the whole under command of Col. Crittenden, of Indiana, were assembled on the parade ground at Grafton, Va., in the afternoon, and informed in general terms that they were to start on a forced march that night.
They were then supplied with ammunition and one day's rations, and dismissed.
The men were full of ardor, expecting that they were going direct to Harper's Ferry.
At eight o'clock they were again assembled, and took up the line of march on the road leading southward.
A heavy rain soon commenced to fall, and continued all night.--N. Y. Times, June 6.
About midnight a squad of secession cavalry made a dash at the outposts of the Twenty-eighth New York Regiment, and fired upon them.
The alarm was instantly sounded and the regiment turned out, and a scouting party despatched in pursuit of the enemy, who retreated.
The fire was returned by the outposts of the Twenty-eighth, with what effect is no
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1861 , June (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1861 , June (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1861 , June (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1861 , August (search)
G. S. Hillard, Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-General , U. S. Army, Chapter 4 : (search)
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I., Analytical Index. (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 97 (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 245 (search)
The Grafton (Va.) correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette tells the following story of Capt. Benham's justice, meted out to a would-be assassin, recently arrested in that village :--A fellow was arrested hero the other day for selling drugged liquor to the sol-diers.
Capt. Benham sat in judgment on his case, and pronounced a strictly military decision--Make the scoundrel drink a pint of his own whiskey at once!
And the unfortunate liquor-seller had to drink, greatly to his disgust and discomfort.
He will probably survive, but there is no probability that he will want to drug any more liquor for the troops.