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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: August 7, 1861., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Alabama (Alabama, United States) or search for Alabama (Alabama, United States) in all documents.
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Confederate prisoners of war at Washington.
The following are the names of the prisoners taken by the Federal foresee in Virginia, and confined in the "Old Capitol Building" at Washington.
We find the list in the Republican of that city, and presume it includes the names of all the Confederates who have been taken since the war commenced:
Sergeant T. J. Bates, Russell county. Ala; T. T. Buck, J. L. Coffey, and John W. Davis, Autagna county, Alabama; T. J. Chambers, P. G. Alfred, W. Toffin, Henry county, Alabama; J. H. Howard, W. A. Price, R. T. Pool, J. O. Perkins, Russell county, Ala., of the 6th Alabama regiment, and taken at Fairfax station.
Robert Paulding, Uniontown, D. D. Fiquet, Tuscaloosa, and J. J. Walker, Pickinsville, of the 5th Alabama, taken at Springfield, Thomas Hurston, Uniontown, 4th Alabama regiment, taken at Bull Run; M. M. Mallow, Alleghany county, Virginia, and J. T. Mays, Botetourt county, Radford Regiment, taken at Flint Hill; E. M. Haycock, Fairfax
[for the Richmond Dispatch.] Col. Egbert J. Fanes.
The gentleman whose name appears above is the Colonel of the 4th Alabama Regiment, and was cut down white at its head, in the desperate struggle made by it with the Northern Vanndale, upon the hotly contested field of Manassas.
Col. Jones is an Alabamian by nativity and residence, and a lawyer by profession.
For a number of years, although he has yet scarcely reached the meridian of life he has been one of the leaders of the North Alabama Bar. During the late war with Mexico, he left a large and lucrative practice, and repaired with a company which he had raised to the scene of action beyond the Rio Grande.
He had no opportunity while there of taking a prominent part in the campaign, which resulted in the fall of the Mexican Capital; yet he showed by the rigid and inflexible determination with which he discharged his every duty, by his energy, promptness and clearheadedness under all circumstances, that he possessed many