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The Daily Dispatch: June 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], Arrival of a British war steamer. (search)
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.statement of the late Skirmish in Warwick county. Charles City Co., June 19, 1861. Yesterday we buried the remains of Samuel W. Prior, a member of the Charles City Troop, who was killed whilst on vidette duty, two miles below Warwick Court-House, on Sunday last. The facts connected with his death, as they were gathered from Sergeant James H. Crump, who came up with the corpse, are these: The deceased, in company with Hill Carter, Jr., of the Charles City Troop, and a member of the Hampton Troop, was proceeding to and near his post, when they discovered a man in a field near by.--While watching his movements, they discovered a body of men, numbering from 20 to 25, in the bushes, attempting to surround them. The Yankees, finding that they were seen by Prior and Carter, who had advanced a little ahead of the Hampton Troopers, rose and commenced yelling, when the latter fired into them with double-barrelled guns. Prior's first barrel fai
The Daily Dispatch: June 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], A deserter shot. (search)
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.from Fairfax Court-House — interesting account of the Vienna fight. Camp of Advanced Guard, Fairfax C. H., June 19, 1861. Here I am, seated on a stump, full five miles away from camp, on vidette duty, writing on the back of a book upon my knee, to send you the news of the last few days. Events have been quite stirring in the meantime, and I should have written early yesterday, but waited to get all the information that I could, as well as to get reliable. On Saturday last, we learned that the First Regiment South Carolina volunteers were on their way to this place, under command of Col. Gregg, from their camp at Centreville, distant about 7 miles to this post, and that we were ordered back to Manassas as soon as they should arrive. While we were on dress parade, about seven o'clock in the evening, we heard their drums sound on the road just below us; we remained standing in line until the head of their column appeared, and met th
The Daily Dispatch: June 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
n Army movements.advance of troops.affairs at Washington.the reported battle in Missouri, &c., &c. From the Baltimore papers of Thursday last we make up the following summary.--The reports given by the enemy of their own movements are doubtless in many instances false. We know that they frequently give accounts of skirmishes with our troops, which in reality never occurred. Gen. M'Dowell's column, &c.[special Dispatch to the Washington Star.] Falls Church, Fairfax county, Va., June 19, 1861. --Gen. Schenck, with his staff, rested last night at a farm house within a stone's throw of Wm.Taylor's Tavern, on the Washington and Leesburg Turnpike, one mile below, South of this point. At Taylor's Tavern there are two Connecticut Regiments encamped, under the immediate command of Brigadier General Tyler, while the two Ohio Regiments rested last night on Riley's Hill, about half a mile nearer (than Taylor's Tavern) to Gen. McDowell's headquarters — the Arlington House.