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The Daily Dispatch: June 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], Walker's Rifle Battery. (search)
Walker's Rifle Battery. The Fredericksburg News quotes from a Northern report of the Aquia Creek battle, which pays a strong tribute to Walker's Rifle Battery. The writer says: "There was no dodging the shots from this battery, for in avoiding one, if you could see it, you might run your head against another, they were so incessant." He says the battery on the hill moved lower down and sent a ball from a rifle cannon just astern. He also says: "The enemy now fired in volleys; Walker's Rifle Battery. The writer says: "There was no dodging the shots from this battery, for in avoiding one, if you could see it, you might run your head against another, they were so incessant." He says the battery on the hill moved lower down and sent a ball from a rifle cannon just astern. He also says: "The enemy now fired in volleys; gun succeeding gun in such rapid succession that I had to close my note-book, in which I had been, to this moment, recording every shot from ourselves and the enemy. The balls, or rather slugs, fell around us, across the bow and the stern, and over our deck, as thick as hail. "One ball went so close to my port ear that I felt what I had often heard and read of before — the wind of the ball. The enemy, in fact, fired with admirable precision. One ball struck a long boat, another tore off
The Daily Dispatch: June 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], $10 reward. (search)
communicating to me the resolution of the Virginia Convention to visit me at such hour as I may appoint. It will afford me great pleasure to receive you and the members of the Convention at 8 o'clock, on Monday, the 17th instant "Very respectfully, "Jefferson Davis." On motion of Mr. Tyler, it was agreed that when the Convention finishes the business of to-day, it will meet again at 7 ½ o'clock this evening, for the purpose indicated above. A letter was also read from Secretary Walker of the War Department, thanking the Convention for its courtesy in inviting him to a seat in the Hall whenever he might chose to visit its sessions. A series of resolutions were submitted by Mr. Tyler, eulogizing the gallant Magruder, Hill, and their officers and men, for the recent brilliant victory at Bethel Church. Mr. Tyler followed the reading of his resolutions in a speech of great eloquence and force. There was, he said, but one instance on the whole page of history that co