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The Daily Dispatch: November 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], (search)
Arrival of prisoners. --The Danville train yesterday brought in 45 prisoners, in custody of Captain Phelps, of Floyd's cavalry, and a guard of eleven men. These prisoners are all Virginia Unionists, except two Ohio soldiers. They were captured by our cavalry in Wayne, Kanawha, Boone, and Raleigh counties, on the 24th of October, while they were holding an election under the bogus Government of Wheeling. The poll-books, lists of voters, &c., were also secured. The whole number of prisoners taken was 58, of whom 8 were shot as deserters from our camps, and five others, who had taken the oath of allegiance to the Confederacy, and were found with poll-books in their hands, were left behind to be tried for treason. As a general thing, this party have a more respectable appearance than the majority of their stripe now in our prisons, but there are some hard looking customers amongst them.
The Daily Dispatch: November 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], Puritan Consistency. (search)
s be improper to speak fully at this time. Yesterday signals were discerned and read at this station to a distance of forty miles in an air line, so pure was the atmospheric medium. Lieutenant W. W. Rowley, of the Twenty-eighth New York Volunteers, has been appointed Assistant Superintendent, and Lieut. F. R. Shattuck, of the Massachusetts Twelfth, Quartermaster of this division. Arrangements are now being made to extend the communication to a much greater extent. Prominent Unionists in this county have conveyed intelligence to the proper authorities that "peace" candidates or their friends have been promulgating the doctrine that if they are elected Maryland will escape the taxation and drafting of militia contingents upon a vigorous prosecution of the war against rebellion. The sum of this teaching can only be construed into a proposed or ultimate resistance to the enactments of Congress, and rebellion to the Federal authorities. The muster rolls of this divisi