Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: September 18, 1861., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Fairfax or search for Fairfax in all documents.

Your search returned 2 results in 2 document sections:

Army of the Potomac. the hostile armies — the flags — the Abolitionists of Fairfax --their fate. [Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch] Mason's Hill, Sept. 12, 1861. In sight of Alexandria and Washington, and in the midst of "war's alarms" on every side of me, the eye detects emblems of hostility. The rattling sabres and loaded muskets of our own soldiers meet it wherever it turns; the fierce steel of Federal bayonets is gleaming in the grey distance; and the flags of both nations fling deflantly their Stare and Bars and Stars and Stripes upon the breeze. The banner of the United States is waving in plain view from an eminence near Alexandria and gazing upon this badge of tyranny, and remembering the foul disgrace into which it has fallen, we feel like pointing our eager soldiers to the spot where it floats and invoking them to tear down the mocking emblem and trample it 'neath their feet. Nothing, however, remains of it but the outward form; each Star and
Army of the Potomac.[from our own correspondent.] field from Munson's Hill — the Hill itself — a soldier's Shelter and Heddquarters — Munson and Mason's Hill — Lewinsville — a little skirmish — the recent Artillery Duct — Fairfax. Faihfax C. H., Sept. 17, 1861. The view from Munson's Hill is at this time one of the most interesting, and withal the most picturesque of any I have seen in America. The broad expanse of country that stretches out before you; the succession of hill and valley as far as eye can reach; a foreground of green fields dotted with white farm-houses; beyond it a valley covered with pastures and woodland patches; in the distance the Potomac glistening the sunshine; the white sails that dot its bosom; the Maryland hills beyond, and standing out boldly from all the rest — the point of sight in the picture — the dome of the Captitol in Washington. On every side one seen nothing but objects of interest or beauty. On the left; is Hall