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The Daily Dispatch: September 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
ches of the Legislature, the people of the North will begin to feel that fighting is an expensive luxury, particularly if it be unsuccessful. Generals Banks, Butler, and the fortifications of Fortress Monroe--the Defences of James river. It will be weeks before we have done hearing and seeing accounts of Bell Run, or, as Harper's Ferry, on the Virginia side, has, it is affirmed, with drawn all his troops to a position in Maryland, which commands the passages from the Ferry; and Gen. Butler, at Fortress Monroe, feels himself compelled to abandon his advanced works at Hampton, which I described hurriedly the other day, and to retire to the cover of threatened by the enemy. His camp is intrenched and furnished with a few howivvers and field pieces, and heavy guns on the river face. I heard him apply to General Butler, when I was there, for horses and harness for his guns, as if he wanted to move them. He is a grim, sour, stern soldier of the old Puritan type, and it
The Daily Dispatch: September 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 13 (search)
tement here, and prompt measures will no doubt be taken to assist in driving away the vandals that have landed on the soil of North Carolina. I do not deem it expedient, however, to mention all I know about the action taken here in relation to the movement of troops, &c., although it is quite certain that there will be further news of hot work at the strong point alluded to in a very short time. The Old North State is now fully aroused, and she will not long submit to the intrusion of Picayune Butler and the depredations of his hungry minions upon her rich fields, extensive grazing lands, and productive vineyards of Catawba and Scuppernong. I am pained to announce the death of James Elickson, of the Granville Grays, 2d Regiment North Carolina volunteers. He died yesterday, and this morning, at an early hour the remains, attended by an attachment of his company, were conveyed to the cars of the Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad to be forwarded to his relatives. We have had her