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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1. 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: March 19, 1862., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Jackson at Harper's Ferry in 1861. (search)
as I could, and request them to be at the hotel by 7 in the evening to confer about a military movement which he deemed important. Not many such officers were in town, but I found Captains Turner Ashby and Richard Ashby of Fauquier county, Oliver R. Funsten of Clarke county, all commanders of volunteer companies of cavalry; also Captain John A. Harman of Staunton-my home-and Alfred M. Barbour, the latter ex-civil superintendent of the Government works at Harper's Ferry. See page 125 for a l had been ordered to Harper's Ferry. Without this reinforcement we knew the guard there consisted of only forty-five men, who could be captured or driven away, perhaps without firing a shot, if we could reach the place secretly. The Ashbys, Funsten, Harman, and I remained up the entire night. The superintendent and commandant of the Virginia Armory at Richmond, Captain Charles Dimmock, a Northern man by birth and a West Point graduate, was in full sympathy with us, and that night filled o
The Daily Dispatch: March 19, 1862., [Electronic resource], The iron-clad steamer Virginia. (search)
The vandals at work. From information deemed perfectly reliable, we learn that the Yankee vandals in the Valley of Virginia are prosecuting their outrages with great spirit. In the town of Winchester, the elegant residences of Senator Mason and Col. Angus W. McDonald have been burned to the ground; together with their valuable contents, including libraries and furniture. In the county of Clarke, besides enticing hundreds of negroes a way from their homes, the incendiaries have laid in ashes the fine mansion, stabling, &c., of Major Oliver R. Funsten, of Ashby's cavalry regiment. Other outrages, equally disgraceful to civilization, have been reported, but it is needless to detail them.