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The Daily Dispatch: may 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], Explosion of a locomotive. (search)
ntly seized on the railroad, with a promise that it would be paid for by the State. I saw and heard of from reliable sources of twenty-five or twenty-six thousand troops under arms in Virginia, with thirteen or fourteen thousand at Raleigh, in North Carolina, making a total of about forty thousand, besides numerous troops on the way from the South. As to the statement about no percussion caps being at Richmond, it is untrue. They were busy there altering the locks of muskets from flin likely to fall short of is powder. Many of the troops had revolvers besides bowie-knives, and they say that if they find the rifles of the Northern forces deadly, they will rush in with the knives to close quarters. The troops at Raleigh, in North Carolina, appeared to be quite raw. It was expected that in a short time there would be thirty thousand, fully armed and equipped, in that State. In several States there was dissatisfaction among militia officers of high rank at being supercede