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The Daily Dispatch: April 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], Virginia. (search)
ing the preparation necessary for effective service, being drilled five hours a day by the Cadets of the Virginia Military Institute, and such drill masters as the Colonel of the station (Gilham) may select. On Saturday last the First Regiment of Virginia volunteers, or rather a large part of it, pitched their tents there, and are now enjoying all the delights of camp life. There are also a number of companies from the interior of the State encamped there, among them the Danville Blues, Capt. Graves; the Danville Grays, Capt. Claiborne; the Lynchburg Home Guard, Capt. Garland; the Lynchburg Rifle Grays. Capt. Langhorne; the Spring Garden (Pittsylvania) Blues, Capt. Luck, and a large number of other companies, whose Captains we do not now remember. Every evening a large number of the ladies and gentlemen of Richmond make a visit to the encampment, where they are permitted to examine the many interesting features of the military life. The large number of soldiers upon the ground
The Daily Dispatch: January 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], Fatal affray. (search)
Fatal affray. --At Fort Worth, Texas, on the 3d ultima, R C Gillespie, son of Colonel Robert Gillespie, late of Tazewell county, Va. being assaulted by a man named Graves, used a revolver in his defence. The second fire proved fatal, Graves dying during the night While Gillespie was awaiting his trial, a man named Brinson fired at him through a window, the ball striking and passing through one thing, entered the other, and passing down, lodged near the knee. Gillespie, it is thought, wil3d ultima, R C Gillespie, son of Colonel Robert Gillespie, late of Tazewell county, Va. being assaulted by a man named Graves, used a revolver in his defence. The second fire proved fatal, Graves dying during the night While Gillespie was awaiting his trial, a man named Brinson fired at him through a window, the ball striking and passing through one thing, entered the other, and passing down, lodged near the knee. Gillespie, it is thought, will recover. Brinson has been arrested and bailed.
The Daily Dispatch: June 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], Notice to our Subscribers. (search)
d direction to the whole. The Mayor yesterday said in his court-room that not one-tenth of the free negro population of Richmond were charged with tithable, which one can well believe, knowing their universal objection to physical exertion, by which alone they could acquire sustenance. The officer in question has very properly, we think, directed the police to bring before him all free negroes who have not paid their taxes. Such parties will no doubt be committed as vagrants, and set to work either on projected fortifications for city defence or on the various streets that may need repairing during the summer months. Yesterday, John King, free negro, was brought up for the non-payment of his taxes and committed as a vagrant.--Bill Graves was committed for going about without a certificate of his freedom.--Scott Harris, Joe Gilpin and Kitt Scott were lectured as vagrants, and it is believed sent to jail, as the officers started with some half-dozen colored subjects to the lock up.
The Daily Dispatch: July 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
Stealing money. --A genteel appearing, but suspicious looking individual, calling himself Henry Howe, was before the Mayor yesterday, for stealing $46 from James Wilkinson, a short time since, at Mrs. Graves' boarding house, Franklin street. John I. Daniel, who lately boarded at the same house, appeared as a witness, but was arrested as a suspicious character. It is said that abolition documents were found in possession of one or both of the above men. The case was continued until Monday, and Howe and Daniel were sent to jail in the meanwhile.
The Daily Dispatch: July 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
Yankees wide every celebrate in that city. Our regiment is under the command of Col. Withers, who will no doubt prove himself equal to any emergency that may arise. Our soldiers are well drilled, and led on by our worthy Colonel and his subordinate officers, I venture the assertion they will make for themselves a name in the coming contest. We have prayer meetings and exhortations every night in camp, connected our distinguished Chaplain, Dr. Dabney. By his fervent prayers, his strong reasoning, and good advice, a wholesome influence is exerted upon the minds of the soldiers. List of officers in the Eighteenth Regiment Virginia Volunteers; Col. Robert. E. Withers; Lieut. Col., H. A. Carrington; Major, G. C. Cabell; Capt. Graves, Company A; Capt. Claiborne, Company B; Capt. Owen, Company C; Capt. Wall, Company D; Capt. Harrison, Company E; Capt. Booker, Company F; Capt. Conley, Company G; Capt. Matthews, Company H; Capt. Luck, Company I.; Capt. Spencer, Company K. H.
The Daily Dispatch: August 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], The New York Times on the War. (search)
Graves for the soldiers at Hollywood. --The Hollywood Cemetery Company generously gave a section for the burial of our soldiers dying in Richmond and its vicinity. Nearly a hundred graves now mark the spot. The additional labor imposed upon the small force at the Cemetery by the digging of the graves in connection with their regular duty, is very heavy, and should not go without some compensation to the company or themselves, while most of the undertakers receive the exorbitant sum of twenty dollars for a very plain coffin and the use of hearse in the burial of every soldier. More than a fourth of this sum might in every case have been saved to the Confederacy, or given to the grave-digger. We are glad to learn that some of our citizens, who have control of a part of the Hospitals in the city, have made a more equitable contract, which abates six dollars from the undertaker's price above named; and we hope the proper officer of the Confederacy will extend a similar arrangemen
The Daily Dispatch: September 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 14 (search)
31, 1861. A Soldiers' Aid Society was formed, and the following officers appointed: Mrs. Wm. Martin, President. Mrs. Robert M. Pulliam, Vice President. Mrs. Bland, Treasurer. Miss M. F. Pulliam Secretary. The following Committee was appointed to solicit contributions: Mrs. Francis G. Hancock, Mrs. Dr. Wm. B. Ball, Mrs. F. B. Clopton, Mrs. Augustus Hancock, Mrs A. E. Moore, Mrs. Dr. McTyre, Mrs. Beverley Hancock, Mrs. Jno. Ellet, Mrs. Gifford, Mrs. Junius Clarke, Mrs. K Graves, Mrs. Marx, Mrs. Jones, Rev. Mrs. Allen, Mrs. Jewett, Miss Ginnie Moore, Miss The. Moore, Miss Sarah Morgan, Miss Anna Winston, Miss Maria Fisher, Miss Sallie Cole, Miss Bettle Cole, Miss Ann Baugh, Miss Elz ayo, Mrs. John Robinson, Mrs. Isaac Winston, Mrs. Ben Hancock, Mrs. Wm. L. Fore, Mrs. John Burton, Mrs. W. G. Clarke, Mrs. D. Harcock, Mrs. James McTyre, Mrs. Wm. Manders, Mrs. Robert Winfree, Mrs. Mecon Trabue, Mrs. Henry Johnson, Mrs. Holman Duval, Mrs. John Rheims, Mrs. John Walker, M
The Daily Dispatch: October 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
Fort McHenry. Sent to Fort Lafayette. The Baltimore Sun, of the 19th instant says: The arrests of Robert Renwick and Isaac C. Mask on the charge of treason against the Federal Government have been noticed. On Thursday afternoon Dr. Graves, collector of the city, called on the Provost Marshal and solicited a permit to visit Mr. Mask at Fort McHenry, Mr. M. having been employed in his office. Dr. Graves was informed that it would be useless to go to Fort McHenry, but if he desireDr. Graves was informed that it would be useless to go to Fort McHenry, but if he desired to see Mr. Mask he could do so by going to the President street depot in the afternoon. Both Mr. Renwick and Mr. Mask were sent to Fort Layette. Messrs. Wm. F. McKewen, clerk to the board of police, and R. H. Biggar are said to be still at Fort McHenry, but are likely at any moment to be sent to New York harbor. Re-arrest of Senator M'Kaig. The fickleness of the Yankee Administration is truly amusing. If they should liberate one of their prisoners to-day, in all probability before
The Daily Dispatch: November 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], Special notice (search)
he French, and the absence of so large a portion of his fleet rendered it necessary for him to abandon the West India waters to the French Admiral Count de Grasse.--That officer, without being followed, was enabled to carry his fleet into the Chesapeake and render the capture of Cornwallis and the independence of the Colonies a certainty. Had not Rodney been without so large a portion of his fleet, he would either not have permitted him to go, or he would have followed him and, uniting with Graves, in all probability have defeated him in our waters. Cornwallis would have escaped, and the independence of America would have been postponed for many years. So St. Eustatia saved the American cause, and there would have been no plunder of St. Eustatia if there had not been war with the Dutch, and there would have been no war with the Dutch if Mr. Laurens had succeeded in sinking his dispatches. Mr. Laurens was sent to the Tower and confined, at first, with great rigor. After a while
The Daily Dispatch: January 28, 1862., [Electronic resource], Latest European news. (search)
sloops, propelled by screws, are now being built, and will soon be ready to take to its native element if the scarcity of lumber should not prevent its completion. We have lost some men lately by desertion, two, named Craves and Westcott, have been missing, and have been reported last as seen climbing the sides of a Lincolnite steamer.--One of the parties (Westcott) is a Yankee, and the other a Carolinian. It is not beyond the range of conjecture that the crafty Yankee entrapped Graves into the expedition for the purpose of desertion, without communicating his design. It is with profound regret that the news of the death of the venerable Ex-President Tyler was received here. The last of all the Presidents of the once United States, who living, was borne in the minds and memories of a once contented people, and who going down to the grave with venerable years and the esteem of his fellow-citizens has left no one who shall in the future be even a memorial of the high o
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