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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 16 14 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 15 7 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 8 0 Browse Search
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 6 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: August 18, 1862., [Electronic resource] 6 0 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2 6 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 6 2 Browse Search
Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War 6 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 6 4 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 6 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: July 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], Recent Deaths (search)
y and historical allusions, was enriched by an inexhaustible fund of pleasant anecdote, and sparkled with genial humor. We never knew a man of higher or sterner integrity; he pursued the right with an unswerving and uncompromising fidelity. Punctuality in every engagement, and strict method in all things, were prominent traits in his character, exhibited not only in the profession to which he had devoted the larger portion of his manhood, but in the new pursuit, of agriculture, to which he turned his attention when he abandoned a lucrative practice, and left our city some ten or twelve years since. He leaves behind him few or none of his contemporaries. He was the cherished companion of Wickham, of Leigh, Johnson, Stanard, Patton and Watson, and it is surely praise enough to say that he adorned even this association and contributed his full share to the interest of that attractive circle, which shone resplendent with genius, intellect and wit, and was never clouded by excess.
The Daily Dispatch: July 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], Notice to our Subscribers. (search)
; but they proved to be unfounded, as the Government had no such information. Another skirmish has occurred in Western Virginia, the results of which are represented to be quite important. Gov. Wise, with a body guard of fifty men under a Capt. Patton, was fired upon by a company of native Union men, near Sissionville, and forty of the guard are reported to, have been killed, and wise and Patton mortally wounded. There appears to be no doubt that such a skirmish occurred, but the report rPatton mortally wounded. There appears to be no doubt that such a skirmish occurred, but the report relative to Gov. Wise needs confirmation. In fact, it is probably too good to be true. There seems to be little doubt that a battle of importance will soon take place between Gen. McClellan's forces and the rebels at Laurel Hill, commanded by Garnett. The advance guard of the National forces was yesterday within a mile of the enemy, and Gen. McClellan was rapidly bringing up his men, preparatory to action. An authentic account from Fortress Monroe of the affair between a party of Hawkins'