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The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Dead infant found. (search)
. The turn-out on the part of the militia was quite creditable to them. During the present war, your correspondent has seen various divisions of the Confederate army, and has seen a number of the best regiments in the service; but he has yet to see any that can surpass General Floyd's Brigade. It is composed of the best material — large and able bodied men, well-drilled and disciplined, and admirably equipped for service — especially the cavalry. In speaking of the conduct of Colonel Gordon's Regiment, in the capture of Sherman's battery, in my last letter, it was stated in the caption as the 21st. It should have been printed the 27th Regiment. Since writing my last, one of the members of Captain Dennis' company, Joseph Gilkeson, who was wounded in the engagement, has died. In speaking of his conduct on the field of battle, Captain Dennis, in a letter, says: "All who were in the fight acted manly and bravely. Never did men show truer courage. For two hours our re
The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Gen. McClellan and the Press. (search)
ters and seamen, who had escaped from Fort Oregon, North Carolina. They give some startling intelligence of the doings on the North Carolina coast. At Hatteras Inlet there are three steamers and a pilot boat privateering. One of them, the "Gordon," ran the blockade at Charleston and of the Whole coast up to Hatteras Inlet ten days ago, since which time she has captured brig Wm. H. McGilvery, of Bangor, from Cardenas, with molasses, and schooner Protector, from Cuba, with fruit. The names of the privateers are the "Gordon," the "Coffee," side-wheel steamer formerly running between Old Point and Norfolk; steamer Marion, formerly a Wilmington tug-boat; and schooner York, a Norfolk pilot-boat. All of them are armed with rifled cannon. Those from Norfolk were taken down the canal to Albemarle Sound. Newbern, North Carolina, is the headquarters of these pirates. Ten gun-boats are being collected and mounted at Norfolk, to be taken down the canal; crews for them are now bei