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The Daily Dispatch: October 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], Vice President Stephens and the hospitals. (search)
Leesburg, Oct. 27, 1861. Breakfast was over. The morning hours were fast rolling towards midday. The little stock of literature Manassas afforded was exhausted. Time was growing irksome, when some one proposed a trip to Leesburg, and the proposition met with a hearty approval from a party of "gentlemen of the press," who make it their business to cater for the reading public at the seat of war. The next question was to obtain passports. We found the Provost Marshal badly worried by a press of business, and in exceedingly ill humor.--His usual blandness and equanimity had been entirely upset. One modest request for his signature met with a flat denial. Here was a dilemma. "Fortune favors the brave" is an old adage, and we determined to act upon it, and to trust to luck and to our kind friends in the army to deliver us from all difficulty. The road was long and wearisome, but for thirty miles, or thereabouts, we rode without trouble. That night we reached our point of