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The Daily Dispatch: October 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
engaged in mercantile business, and was highly esteemed by our whole community for his many excellent qualities. His loss will be severely felt by the officers and men of his regiment, (Col. DeSaussure's,) of which he was Lieutenant Colonel. Patriotic Example to young men. The following letter from a veteran over 70 years of age, addressed to Col. Allen, breathen a lofty spirit of chivalry and devotion to country rarely excelled: Wolp River, Miss., Oct., 7, 1861. Lieut. Col. H. W. Allen.--Sir: I see in the Democrat your notice to the people of Harrison county, calling on us to be prepared in case of an invasion of our coast. Although I am now over seventy years old, I am and have been urging this course for the last month upon the citizens living in this neighborhood, and I think they are about to be stirred up. As to myself, I am ready at a moment's warning with my musket, ammunition and revolver. I lack a good butcher knife. Although old as I am, I think