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The Daily Dispatch: may 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch. (search)
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch. departure of troops from Suffolk — Eloquentaddress, &c. Suffolk, Va., May 1, 1861. Everything is still moving. For the past week our town has been a rendezvous for troops, and crowds of eager fellows have bustled among us. The Sussex Light Dragoons, Capt. Belsch, 80 men, well mounted and armed; the Isle of Wight Rifles, Capt.--79 men, armed with the celebrated "Enfield," and the Smithfield Artillery, 75 men, Capt. Chalmers, with two pieces of ordnance and ammunition, have all been quartered here, which, together with our two town companies, numbering about 75 men each, made up a battalion of near 400 as fine looking soldiers as Virginia will send to the field. This morning, about 1½ o'clock, the deep notes of the bass drum were heard through our streets, to which the soldiers were solemnly marching to the depot of the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad--orders and a special train having arrived for them to report in Norfol