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The Daily Dispatch: August 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 12 (search)
Killed and wounded in the late battle. --The Lynchburg Virginian says: We regret to see that many of our acquaintances in the counties of Frederick, Jefferson and Berkeley, were either killed or wounded in the battle at Bull Run. Our gallant friend, Alex'r. R. Boteler, than whom a more chivalric son of the South does not live, served as a private in the company of his friend and neighbor, Dr. V. M. Butler, and was wounded in the action. Mr. Boteler was one of the first to shoulder his musket when Harper's Ferry was threatened, both in the Brown invasion and at the commencement of the present struggle. The Captain Avis who is killed was the jailor at Charlestown during John Brown's imprisonment there; and Captain G. W. Chambers, of Harper's Ferry, was the man who shot Aaron D. Stephens. Braver men than both these never drew a sword, and they each rendered service in Mexico.
The Daily Dispatch: August 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], General Toombs' Brigade--Second Georgia Regiment. (search)
r and in the recent affair at Great Bethel the Secessionists were well provided with artillery, and that their troops were sufficiently well handled to secure success. We suspect that the delay and hesitation which have marked the policy of the Federal Government are to be attributed mainly to the circumstance that Gen. Scott, an able and experienced officer, knows that militia regiments cannot, in the short space of two months, be converted into well trained and efficient soldiers. Gen. Butler, who directed the disastrous movement from Fort Monroe, was the other day practicing lawyer, who of course cannot be expected to become a General by inspiration. The Northern army appears to be in great want of officers, owing to the circumstance that the great majority of the officers of the regular army have thrown up their commissions to take service with the Southern Insurgents. In a few days we may expect to hear that Manassas Gap has been the scene of a great struggle, upon the is