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The Daily Dispatch: May 6, 1862., [Electronic resource], Subjugation an impossibility. (search)
Installed in office. --Major Elias Griswold was yesterday installed in office as Provost Marshal of Richmond, vice Archibald C. Godwin, who has been assigned to duty as the custodians of all the Yankee prisoners at Salisbury, N. C., at the unanimous request of the residents in that section of country. Major Godwin will have charge of a battalion in Salisbury, whose duty it is to take care of the 2,000 prisoners at that place. Major Gibbs, the former commandant of the post, has raised a Major Godwin will have charge of a battalion in Salisbury, whose duty it is to take care of the 2,000 prisoners at that place. Major Gibbs, the former commandant of the post, has raised a regiment since being there, and will take the field at an early day at the head of as brave a set of fellows as can be scared up in a day's walk. The new Provost Marshal is a lawyer of eminence in his section of country — the Eastern Shore of Maryland--a Breckinridge elector in the last Presidential contest, and for years a violent opponent of Thos. Holliday Hicks, the renegade Governor of glorious old Maryland. For many manifestations of Southern sentiment old Hicks ordered Griswold to be arr
The Daily Dispatch: May 6, 1862., [Electronic resource], Revolving steel and iron forts. (search)
Sword Presentation. --An elegant and serviceable sword was presented to Capt. A. C. Godwin, late Provost Marshal of Richmond, at 6 o'clock yesterday evening, by many of his personal friends. As noted elsewhere, Capt. Godwin has been assigned to another field of duty. During his continuance in the important office which he has held here, Capt. Godwin discharged its duties satisfactorily and with promptness. A native Virginian, and a lawyer of fine attainments, observation, travel, and study of human nature, had peculiarly fitted him to grapple with and instantly decide questions which would have puzzled one less experienced. To judge of the many perplexities that beset the occupant of the office in question, one has only to station himself so as to hear the multiplicity of difficult questions hourly craving solution. A consciousness that he has done his duty is the soldier's highest reward, next to the approbation of his countrymen, and we believe Capt. Godwin possesses both