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The Daily Dispatch: July 31, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 8 (search)
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatchthe Virginia and North Carolina Irrepressible Junction P.O., Hanover county, Va., July 29 1861 Under this name it is proposed to get up a regiment of ten companies of 100 men each including officers making 1000 men. We are to wear citizens' clothes and to use such arrive as we can furnish ourselves. A pair of Colt's pistols, a bowie-knife and a double barrel gun, with Minnie ball or a good rifle; to pledge ourselves to serve during the war wherever the President may choose to place us; to serve without pay. The main object of this organization is to avenge the dean of Gen. Roberts Garnett, of Virginia, and Col Charles F. Fisher, of North Carolina. Those who wish to form such a regiment, will signify their assent by writing to men the above post-office and when we have 500 men we will report ourselves for duty, and go on increasing the number until it amounts to 1,000. The design is, that the number shall always be kept up
The Daily Dispatch: July 31, 1861., [Electronic resource], The late battles. (search)
posed, and had to be assisted off the field. This account has been furnished by one of his men, who says that his gallant bearing on the field inspired his company, one and all, with a determination to stand till the last man had fallen or victory won. We are happy to state, that both of these officers will probably be again at their posts in a short time, ready as before to meet the invaders of our soil and drive them back. Centreville. An incident of the battle. Norfolk, July 29, 1861. To the Editors of the Dispatch: I have heard many instances of the Manassas battle, but one of the most amusing was related to me by an eye-witness. He had ridden out on the Monday after the fight to view the scene of horror, when he came to the body of a New York Zouave having on a pair of shoes apparently new. While standing there, an Irishman of the Confederate Army approached, whose feet were incased in a pair of the aforementioned articles, pretty much the worse for wear. A