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The Daily Dispatch: July 18, 1864., [Electronic resource], The movements on Charleston. (search)
sand men. It is said that General Breckinridge spoke of the rebel movement as one designed to relieve Richmond, but a man of his address and experience would hardly reveal strategies designs. The preservation of the mention of Mr. F. P. Blair in due to the interference of Gen. Breckenridge, who was no doubt influenced by the friendly relations formerly existing between himself and the eminent owner. It is an interesting fact that at the time of the threatened duel between the Men Francis B. Cutting and Gen. Breckinridge, the letter repaired to Sliver Spring, where he was hospitably entertained and kept out of the way of the officers of the law while the difficulties were pending. The two Kentuckian passed part of the time in the use of the rifle, in which both excel, Gen. Breckinridge frequency referred in grateful terms to the times then passed under Mr. Blair's roof. The private papers of Mr. Blair, composed of correspondence with Henry Cray, Andrew Jackson and other men