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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 2: (search)
he enemy, having artillery and cavalry, crossed New-Market Bridge, threatening Hampton. At two o'clock, on the morning of the 5th, Colonel Wardrop, with nine companry, marched out, and took up position at the forks of the road, two miles from Hampton. Remained there until an hour after sunrise, when the scouts brought the inten, which, ten months after, was verified. During all this time, the troops in Hampton were busily engaged in finishing the intrenchments, sending detachments on watf the Vermont and New-York regiments, to make up a detachment to join one from Hampton, to start at one o'clock the next morning to attack Big Bethel, a position helremained at Newport News until the 3d of July, when it moved to the village of Hampton. Adjutant Walker writes, On our arrival at Hampton, we found the quaint old toHampton, we found the quaint old town deserted. Hardly a score of its former white inhabitants remained, although many negroes, especially old and very young ones, were still there. The troops had q
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 11: (search)
the 21st of December, the Governor addressed a letter to Lewis Hayden, a colored citizen of Boston, who, as we have before stated, had been a slave in Kentucky, but who was at that time, and is now, employed in the office of the Secretary of State of Massachusetts. Mr. Hayden was the Master of a colored Lodge of Free Masons in Boston. The Governor writes,— I send you with this note, for presentation to the Prince Hall grand Lodge, a gavel, made from a piece of the whipping-post at Hampton, Va. The gentleman who sent it to me says, This post or tree stood directly in the rear of the old court-house, and in front of the jail: while I was cutting it, about twenty colored men and women bore testimony to me, that it was the identical post or tree that they had been tied to; and had their backs lacerated with the whip. I also place in your hands, for the same purpose, a rude boat of straw. made in the woods by a poor refugee from slavery, Jack Flowers, who, after a protracted jour