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The Daily Dispatch: September 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], A Charmed life. (search)
The battle of Bull Run. --A correspondent of this paper writes that the charge in the battle of the 18th of July was made by companies of the 17th Virginia Regiment--the Loudoun Guards and the Alexandria Rifles; that they were ordered to the charge by Major George W. Brent; that Captain Marye only commanded the Alexandria Rifles, and that Captain George R. Head commanded the Loudoun Guards. The writer of the communication makes this statement for the purpose of correcting General Beauregard's report, in which, as our readers will remember, it was said that "some of our troops had pashed across the stream, and several small parties, under command of Captain Marye, met and drove the enemy with the bayonet," If our correspondent is right, and General Beauregard wrong, it was from no desire on the part of our gallant commander on the Potomac to deprive the several participants in the charge of the honor due them. Unintentional errors in such matters may be committed, but those who
The Daily Dispatch: December 16, 1865., [Electronic resource], Latest from Washington by mail. (search)
thers, charged with feloniously taking a horse, was sent on for trial. A. H. Settle, of Fauquier, entertained an audience, on Monday night, with an essay on the manners and customs of the present day. A squad of Federal soldiers have been engaged the past few days in burying the dead on Ball's Bluff battle-field. They completed their task on Monday night. The house and lot in Leesburg known as the Gilmore property was sold on Tuesday for seven hundred and seventy dollars--George R. Head purchaser. A revival of religion has been going on in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, of Leesburg, for the last ten days.--Loudoun Mirror. Alexandria. The remains of the late Colonel S. Wilson Prestman, who was killed on the Danville road by an accident, last winter, were brought to this place on Saturday last, and interred in Christ Church Cemetery. Bryant Hall, who was tried by a court-martial in this city last summer and sentenced to one year's confinement in