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The Daily Dispatch: June 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], Ohio and Pennsylvania. (search)
The enemy Approaching! --By special courier from Romney, Hampshire county, we are informed that the Federal forces, to the number of 1,000, arrived in that town on Wednesday, at 12 o'clock, and took possession. A forward movement is hourly looked for, and Winchester is beyond question the next point to be advanced upon by the miserable mercenaries of a corrupt and profligate military dictator. Men of Frederick, arouse, and prepare to meet the invader of your soil. Your honor demands it. The sanctity of your homes, the protection due to your wives, your mothers and sisters, demands an instantaneous rally. By all the memories of the glorious past, by all the demands of the exigent present, and by all the hopes for a successful future, we conjure you to rally to the standard of your State, and prepare to give Lincoln's ruffians a warm reception.--Winchester Republican.
The Daily Dispatch: June 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], $20 reward. (search)
address you a short letter from this point, composed of a little news, small matters and things in general. There is a good deal of excitement here, owing to the fact that a large body of the Northern despot's hirelings have taken possession of Romney, about forty- two miles distant, and are expected to march on this place. However, this point will not be so easily taken as Romney, which in her patriotism and zeal for the Southern cause, had sent nearly all her men away to drive back the ruthRomney, which in her patriotism and zeal for the Southern cause, had sent nearly all her men away to drive back the ruthless invader from the soil of the Old Dominion. Troops are coming in great numbers, and it is believed that they will welcome those minions of tyranny at the point of the bayonet, and greet them to bloody graves. Our company, the "Liberty Hall Volunteers," composed of the students of Washington College, Lexington, Va., numbering seventy, arrived here yesterday evening, together with a regiment from East Tennessee, with whom we fell in at Gordonsville. The citizens here are very hospitable ind