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The Daily Dispatch: November 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], Arms of precision in Inexperienced hand. (search)
found many centuries afterward by an English traveler, who sold it to Richard the Third, and was used by him in the great fight, where he cried--'A horse, a horse; a kingdom for a horse.' The next time we hear of it, it had fallen into the hands of the family of Cornwallis, and when his lordship of revolution times was about to leave England for this country, it was presented to him with great ceremony, and brought over in two ships. After the battle of Yorktown it was surrendered to General Washington, on the 19th day of Oct., 1781. From thence it got into the hands of Gen. Scott, (not the one he left in a drinking-house in Richmond,) and was worn by him at Manassas, and left in his carriage just before the great Bull Run races began. --From a gentleman who now lives near Yorktown, the company, as before said, purchased it at great cost. You perceive, sir, from the scars and other evidences of age and hard usage, that it has done serious work in its time, and I trust, sir, that wit
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From Washington. English Government agents along the Southern coast — Resignation of Scott.-- Gen. McClellan superseded. Washington, Nov. 1. --The Federal Government has information that the English Government has agents all along the Southern coast, buying all ship timber, and measures have been taken to put a stop to it immediately. Nashville, Nov. 4.--A special dispatch to the Union and American, from Bowling Green to-night, states that the Louisville Journal. of the 1st inst., had been received, which contained dispatches from Washington, which announced that Gen. Scott had resigned, and that his chief clerk had fled from Washington, taking with him all the coast surveys and other important papers. The dispatch also states that Gen. Halleck had superseded Gen. McClellan.