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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 28. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Harper's Ferry and first Manassas. (search)
ially filling our two companies, the Southern Guard, Captain E. S. Hutter, and the Sons of Liberty, Captain J. Tosh, with an earnest desire to lend a hand in the defence of our State. The taking of Harper's Ferry was the first object that presented itself to our minds, and when, on Wednesday, Captain Duke returned from Richmond with authority to take 300 men to Harper's Ferry, our two companies, with the Albemarle Rifles, Captain Duke, and the Monticello Guards, Captain Mallory, from Charlottesville, offered our services. We immediately got ready, and that night, when the train from Staunton, with the West Augusta Guards, the Mountain Guards, and Imboden's Battery, from Augusta county, came along, we joined them and went on to Harper's Ferry, taking up different volunteer companies all along the railroad, until, when we reached Strasburg about 12 o'clock Thursday, where we had to take it afoot, our force was quite formidable, numbering some eight or ten companies, of seventy to ei