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The Daily Dispatch: may 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], Affairs at Harper' s Ferry. (search)
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.the county of Bath. Warm Springs, May 14. The Bath Cavalry, Captain Richards, left here to-day for the war. They numbered some seventy-five stout hearts, which animated stout bodies, and there will be no more hardy, resolute and patriotic soldiers than they in the approaching struggle for liberty. They were addressed in stirring speeches by Messrs. W. H. Terrill, of Bath, and Wm. Skeen, of Pocahontas. After the troopers left, immediate measures were taken to organize a rifle company, to march at an early day. Mr. Terrill made an effective speech in behalf of organizing this and another company. Bath will give a good account of herself. Her riflemen will throw away no ammunition. C.
The Daily Dispatch: may 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], Law of the Navy. (search)
a large "Home Guard." The Court also ordered 400 or 500 lances to be made, to be placed in every house in the county, for the women to fight with if we should be attacked. There is also a powder mill and a gun machinery now in operation at Huntersville.--The gun factory turns out the best Sharpe's rifles, which are to be used for the defence of the county. Mr. J. E. A. Gibbs is superintendent of the works. A great many of the citizens of Pocahontas are descendants of the Warwick and Lewis families, and these people have the same spirit as their ancestors had. All honor is due to our worthy and energetic fellow-citizen, Wm. Skeen, who has been very active in raising troops, and seeing them properly armed and fitted out. I think, beyond doubt, Pocahontas will be a unit for secession on the 23d of May. If Lincoln attempts to send forces from Ohio, armed men will spring up from every bush to keep them back, and every hill-side will glisten with bayonets.Pocahontas.