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The Daily Dispatch: may 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 10 (search)
ll were disappointed. As often as we know that troops are to arrive at the depot, our citizens and volunteers turn out to give them a hearty welcome. The six companies of volunteers which have been raised in this county, have been, and are yet very anxious to get into the contest. So far they have been pretty regularly and well drilled. Abingdon, as all are aware, has been made a place of rendezvous for the counties of Lee, Scott, Russell and Washington. A few days since Governor Floyd made an excellent address to the volunteer companies. As a matter of course, it was like all he says and does, right to the point. The members of the old political parties are down upon their former leaders and champions of the North--men whom each party delighted to honor. I refer to Cass, Pierce, Buchanan, Douglas, Cushing, Dickenson, Fillmore, Everett and Stockton. How manfully each of these "Northern men with Southern principles," in former days, contended for the rights of