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The Daily Dispatch: February 12, 1862., [Electronic resource], Spanish defeat in Mexico (search)
South is to expect from a restoration the Union by Federal arms: A portion of if was occupied for some weeks, until Gen. Jackson drove them out by a troop of knives from Ohio. They advanced fifteen miles on the sparsely settled road leading from Romney to Winchester. The Captain of a Jefferson company stated to our informant, that on that road he counted the smouldering ruins of thirty- nine houses — burnt not in the retreat, but in the advance of the invaders some weeks before, when there wertwo places; but the heroic woman made her way through the bayonets of the savages and put the fire out Strange to say, the soldiers left. By what means the other two houses were spared, does not appear. The houses burned on the other roads near Romney brought up the number to fifty-five. The town itself, stripped of every fence and enclosure, and of fruits trees and sheds, for fuel, would have been burned but for the vigilance and energy of a more humane officer, (Col. or Gen. Lander, who hap
The Daily Dispatch: February 12, 1862., [Electronic resource], Late Northern and Southern news. (search)
vements and measures. The attentive of General Lovell was called to this fact and by an order issued yesterday he informed the public no passes would be granted henceforth to go to the Bay of St. Louis. But Ship Island is not the only place near our coast where the Northerners communicate with the traitors. Near Fort Livingston, for instance, there are seamen who, under the plea of going to se for fish or oysters, pay now and then a visit to the blockading vessels. The evacuation of Romney. A letter to the Lynchburg Republican from Winchester, Feb. 8th, says, that the evacuation of Romney, Va., emanated from the War Department, and that it was not done in consequence of any apprehended movement of the enemy. From the same source we learn that Gen. Loring left Romeny in a somewhat hurried manner, leaving behind a considerable amount of commissary stores, quite as much, probably, us the Yankees left when they evacuated that place. On the march, also, it is reported on good