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The Virginia mountaineers.

The late report in the mountains that the enemy was marching upon Lewisburg had, at least, the good effect of showing the kind of reception they were likely to meet in such an attempt. The mountaineers turned out like hornets from their nests, each man armed with the deadly mountain rifle and a butcher-knife. With these weapons they stationed themselves in ambush, and in narrow passes, in companies of fifties and hundreds.--Old men, whose heads are whitened with the frosts of eighty winters, came armed, unwilling to give the arduous post to their sons. An invading enemy would have a gay time in attempting to make their way over the Virginia mountains.

The Daily Dispatch: June 11, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. June 11, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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