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Capt. Johnannes Watson, of the Marion Rifles, Portsmouth, has written a letter to the Transcript, denying that his company was disloyal to the cause of the South. Pocahontas at her levy Court appropriated $15,000 for the defence of the county. Each man is to have a fire-arm — each woman a pike. Well done little one! Mr. Samuel Moore, of Danville, has six sons in the service of the State of Virginia at this time; and still another, who is now absent, will enlist in a few days. A handsome church of the Presbyterian denomination was dedicated in Petersburg on Sunday last. The motto of Billy Wilson's brigade of New York Roughs is, ‘"Give us foemen worthy of our steal."’ Thomas Wilson, late proprietor of the Shelby (N. C) Sulphur Springs, died at that place on the 22d inst. Col. Alex. R. McKee, of Kentucky, has been appointed U. S. Consul to Panama, New Granada. Thirty women were discovered in Ellsworth's Zouaves after the regiment arrived in Washington. They were sent home. Charles Lever, the novelist, died at Spezzia in the latter part of April. The fly is doing fearful destruction to the wheat in various sections of Indiana.
The Daily Dispatch: may 28, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. may 28, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.
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