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The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Current events. (search)
of my company have been made out since Thursday last, and are ready at any time the United States Paymaster may require them. Incident of the evacuation of Hampton. A New York paper says: Harry Pearson, the actor, well known in New York, has turned tavern keeper.--He last week started a restaurant at Hampton, VirgiHampton, Virginia, furnished it well, and was ready to commence operations, whet the rumor of the enemy's approach induced Gen. Butler to order the evacuation of Hampton — Pearson is said to have filled a cart with his most precious treasures, including a negro, and hurried away; as the rumors came closer, the wagon went on at a marvellous rate,Hampton — Pearson is said to have filled a cart with his most precious treasures, including a negro, and hurried away; as the rumors came closer, the wagon went on at a marvellous rate, Pearson on one horse and the negro on another — quite a picture for a comic actor to remember. If he can reproduce it on the stage some day, it will doubtless be highly applauded. [If this flying actor should ever happen to come into Dixie's Land in his theatrical peregrinations, he may have to account for that stolen negro<
The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
From Norfolk. [special Correspondence of the Dispatch.] Norfolk, Va., Aug. 9th, 1861. The Lincoln vandals, in their destruction of property in Hampton, Wednesday night, left untouched the Chesapeake College, a splendid institution, where it is reported their sick were confined. A flag was seen waving over it yesterdae destroyed, with probably many corn-fields, which, we are assured, were in fine condition. We have reason to believe that the fire penetrated still further into Hampton, and the total destruction must be immense. The fire was vividly seen at Craney Island, and is described to have been both frightful and grand. There is some quortunes of his section, by setting a few squadrons on our shores Should he do so, look out for Manassas No. 2 I regret to announce the burning of the town of Hampton, located about 2½ miles from Fortress Monroe. It was a snug, cozy, homelike looking village; the Main street, in summer, presenting the appearance of a long arbo
The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Express Company. (search)
The burning of Hampton. We forfeit a considerable amount of very respectable rhetoric upon the upshot of the burning of Hampton by our own forces, instead of the enemy. But it needed not that our invaders should burn that ancient town, to estHampton by our own forces, instead of the enemy. But it needed not that our invaders should burn that ancient town, to establish their reputation as violators of everything sacred upon our soil. They had already defiled the place, filling the venerated Church with obscene inscriptions, and permitting not even the dead to repose undisturbed in the ancient burial ground to the grossest and most horrible outrages, and conducted a system of rapine unknown in modern warfare. The burning of Hampton by them could not have blackened their characters, while it would have been a wanton act of vandalism, perfectly consist our invaders with the odds of three to one, as at Bethel, and to avoid the necessity of laying waste before them, as at Hampton — that town being commanded by that powerful fortress, built for the protection of Virginia, and which ought now to be i
The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Gen. McClellan and the Press. (search)
March of our troops down the peninsula, and the burning of Hampton. We learn from one of the participant in the expedition that terminated in the burning of Hampton, that General Magruder, with a part of his force, left the Camp at Yorktown onHampton, that General Magruder, with a part of his force, left the Camp at Yorktown on Friday week, and proceeded to Young's Mill, nine miles from Bethel, where he remained some days. Subsequently, he went to Bethel and then to within five miles of New Market bridge, where he remained all night Tuesday last. Early on Wednesday mornederalists remanded in their fortification. After waiting an hour and a half or so General Magruder marched towards Hampton. In crossing New-Market bridge the enemy's pickets fired and fled; one of our soldiers a Virginian) was slightly wounde a blaze, and by morning was reduced to ashes. On Thursday General Magruder returned to Bethel. The burning of Hampton, we learn, was considered a military necessity. It was as certained that it was to be made winter quarters for the Fede
The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Gen. McClellan and the Press. (search)
The burning of Hampton.Gen. Magruder's movements. [special Dispatch to the Richmond Dispatch.] Great Bethel,Va., August 10 --Hampton was burnt last Wednesday night by our forces under Gen. Magruder. Every house, including the Colonial Church, (the oldest on the continent,) was destroyed. The Federal pickets in the town were driven out by the Virginia Cavalry and Infantry, and five of them were killed. One of our men is slightly wounded in the cheek. The torch was applied by Virginians and citizens of Hampton. All the property, except that previously removed, was destroyed. For three days Gen. Magruder offered battle in front of Newport News, showing himself plainly; but the enemy refused to come out, though twice our numbers. Our camp was within two miles of the enemy's entrenchments, and in sight of his ships, where we could have been shelled. Not the slightest demonstration was made, however. There was little use in our attacking the entrenchments, from th