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The Daily Dispatch: May 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], The War Movements. (search)
the Potomac here is commanded by another battery.--Scouting parties range the country for fifteen miles North, East and West, also, upon the slightest alarm can communicate by a system of signal agreed upon, with headquarters. Another account from Harper's Ferry says: Detachments of volunteers were arriving at Harper's Ferry from Maryland, and especially from Baltimore, all anxious to join the armies of the Southern Confederacy, and to unite their fortunes with those of the State of Virginia. The Southern forces in the vicinity of Harper's Ferry were said to be daily augmenting. The object of the Virginians in burning the underwood away on the Maryland side was to obtain a full view of any hostile effort, and to keep the slope unobstructed. The reported laying of trains for the destruction of the bridge joining Maryland and Virginia, across the Potomac, is not credited, as the bridge could easily be destroyed by fire before any hostile force could approach by ordi
The Daily Dispatch: May 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], A Crack Regiment. (search)
The Traitors at Wheeling. Alexandria, May 13--The Tory Convention of Northwestern Virginia met at Wheeling to-day, for the purpose of concerting measures for a division of the State. It is rumored that over thirty counties were represented. The proceedings have not transpired. [Whatever may come from Wheeling by telegraph will have a Black Republican coloring. If thirty counties were represented there, it was (outside of Wheeling and the Pan Handle) by a few disorganizers. Carlile is the leading spirit in this movement. It will doubtless turn out that neither Weitman T. Willey, nor Wm. G. Brown, nor any other man of prominence, took part in the proceedings. The Pan Handle is making a tremendous splutter, but the country will not respond.]
The Daily Dispatch: May 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], A New Auxiliary for the Southern Arms. (search)
Resignations. --The Alexandria Gazette, of yesterday, says: Chief Engineer Jackson, of this city, who has recently resigned his position in the U. S. Navy, has arrived in this city from Boston, and will proceed to Richmond to tender his services to the State of Virginia. Dr. Asa Wall, (son of John F. Wall,) of Frederick Co., Va., who has been absent for some years in the service of the United States, as Assistant Surgeon in the army, returned home a few days since. Dr. Wall has resigned his commission in the U. S. army and tendered his services to his native State.