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The Daily Dispatch: July 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], The President's Return. (search)
lant dead, as the champions of free and Constitutional Government. Resolved, That we approve the prompt and patriotic efforts of the Mayor of the city of Richmond, to make provisions for the wounded, and that a committee of one member from each State be appointed to co-operate in the plan. Resolved, That Congress do now adjourn. The resolutions were unanimously adopted, and Congress adjourned. Incidents of the battle. It is stated that while Gen. Beauregard was leading Hampton's Legion into the thickest of the fight, his horse's head was shot off by a shell, which also killed the horses of two of his aids, Messrs. Heyward and Ferguson, of South Carolina. The member of the Washington Artillery who was killed, and whose body was brought to this city by his father on Monday night, was Sergeant Joshua Reynolds. He behaved with great coolness and gallantry in the fight until he received his fatal wound. We heard of but two others of this splendid battalion who w
The Daily Dispatch: July 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], Liberal and patriotic. (search)
ual price, and the small venders "make," as Patrick Henry said, "the most of it" You have read Raymond's testimony to the Vandalic conduct of the Hessians at Hampton. If there is a righteous God in Heaven — if "justice and judgment are the habitation of His throne"--if hell be not a fiction and a farce, what will be the punishment of these fiends in the hour of death and in the day of judgment, who have desecrated that ancient church in Hampton, and violating the solemn and sacred repose of the dead, have hauled the tombstones from the foundations where the hands of broken-hearted relatives had placed them over dust, which to guard they would have dieds the great nation to whose example the world was invited?" I see also an extract from a New York paper, that these miscreants entered the house of a lady in Hampton, and breaking open boxes she had packed away little memorials in, threw the contents in the street; also, pitching into the yard portraits of the family. The wri