hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
The Daily Dispatch: June 17, 1861., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Your search returned 4 results in 2 document sections:

The Daily Dispatch: June 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], The fight at Aquia Creek. (search)
y evening was repelled with spirit by Commander Thorburn, as I did not reach the battery until very near the close of the engagement. In writing my official report, I labored under the impression that the shot from Capt Walker's battery during Friday's engagement tell short, although it diverted the fire of the enemy; but the admissions of that enemy prove the fire of the rifled battery to have been effective, and that my impression was an erroneous one. During Friday's attack, Lieut. Barnes, of the Safford Guards, bore a message from me to Capt. Walker, and returned with his reply; his course being along the causeway over which the enemy's shot was sweeping. On the same day, too, if I remember aright. Lieut. Botts, of the Washington Guards, came to the battery, and tendered his services. On Saturday, Lieuts. Yancey and Eckies of the Tennessee volunteers, with two others whose names I unfortunately do not know, volunteered their services at the guns, just before t
The Daily Dispatch: June 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
Amelia Minute men. --The above company mustered into service yesterday sixty-four strong. This is the fifth company that this staunch old county has furnished, out of a muster roll of 450 men, all told, in the county. The "Minute Men" are officered as follows. Captain. Thos. N. Coleman, (formerly Colonel of militia;) 1st Lieutenant, F. R. Farrar, (formerly Lieut. Colonel of militia:) 2nd Lieutenant, Rev Richard Mcliwayne, (Pastor of the Presbyterian Church in that county;) 3d Lieutenant, Jesse H. Barnes, a local Methodist preacher.