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The Daily Dispatch: September 19, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
From Tennessee. [Special Correspondence of the Dispatch.] Salem, Roanoke county, Va., Sept. 15th, 1863. We arrived here in this pleasant village, situated in the fertile Roanoke valley, to-day afternoon, and as we shall be detained till night, I have concluded to indulge in a few jottings, which, if they do not-prove interesting, may serve to while away time. Almost every one has heard of the famous Roanoke valley, noted, among many other things, as the birth-place of the eccentric and widely-known John Randolph of Roanoke; but no one who has never been here can form the faintest idea of the beauty of this serene and quiet spot — surrounded on every side by lofty mountains, now clothed in living green — the fields around divided in farms, on which are generally neat farm houses, inhabited by a generous and hospitable people, who seem to live and move amid plenty. A feeling of envy cannot fail to rise in the heart of the man of the thickly inhabited city, who is continua