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The Daily Dispatch: June 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], Federal outrages at Hampton. (search)
les by road from Fortress Monroe--in an air-line, probably a mile less; and about 8 miles by road from Newport News, and 5 by water — being between these two points. The population is about 2,000. We have had frequent rumors of a contemplated attack on our little town by the Federal troops since the war began, but none has ever been made, nor is the town, in a military point of view, worth the trouble of taking There had been no appearance of a hostile demonstration till Thursday, the 23d ult., when a regiment under Col. Phelps marched into the town, and remained about twenty minutes and quietly returned. This harmless and yet cruel raid, gave rise to the magnificent stories paraded in the Northern papers of the "Battle of Hampton," "Capture of Hampton,"&c. Fearing, however, that something more belligerent might take place, is the small military force we had (not over 150 men) were ordered to Yorktown, nearly every family has since left the place. It is now emphatically a "des