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The Daily Dispatch: July 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 7 (search)
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.from Manassas Junction. Manassas Junction. Camp Walker, 5th Reg't, S. C. V., June 30, 1861. All is quiet in our camp to-day, and has been since the fight on last Sunday night, when one cow fell mortally wounded, at the first fire, by a sentinel whose vigilant imagination, after calling her three times without a response, conceived in the dark shade a Yankee in cow's skin, a la mode the Trojan horse, endeavoring to enter our lines; and, intent upon immortal glory, in futuro, and beefsteak in presento, he let slip his deadly rifle and "fetch her," heels up. The alarm having subsided, and the smoke of the battle mingled with the somere shade which deceived the faithful guard, he was ordered to be arrested, and the cow to be skinned. On trial: Plea, "heard of Trojan horse and Stich like." Our excellent Col. Jenkins, no less generous than strict, forgave the sentinel, with a kind admonition, and sentenced the cow to be removed hence, as unw
The Daily Dispatch: July 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
Army orders. --The following general orders have been issued from the Department at Washington: First--Those volunteers who are now in service in the United States for a longer period than three months will be mustered for payment, to include the 30th of June, 1861. Their officers are cautioned that the troops cannot be paid upon muster-in- rolis, and that rolls proper for this purpose will be sent to them, which, when filled up, they will return to the Paymaster General, in this city, that the pay rolls may be made therefrom. Second--The existing regulations upon the subject of the appointment of sutlers in the army are hereby rescinded, and henceforth these appointments will be made by the Secretary of War. It having been ascertained to the satisfaction of the War Department that Capt. Maury, Assistant Adjutant General; Capt. Carter L. Stevenson, of the 5th infantry, and 2d Lieutenant Dillon, of the 6th infantry, entertain and have expressed treasonable designs