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The Daily Dispatch: July 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], Official report of a Skirmish — Improbable statement of an Indiana Colonel. (search)
enemy, who were reinforced to about seventy-five men. The attack was so sudden that they abandoned the horses and crossed to a small island at the month of Patterson Creek. The charge of the rebels was bold and confident, yet twenty-three fell under the fire of my pickets, close about and on the island. My fellows were finally driven off, and scattering, each one for himself, they are all in camp now. One of them, Corporal Hayes, is wounded, but recovering. Another of the party, John C. Hollins Crook, is dead. He was taken prisoner and brutally murdered. Three companies went to the ground this morning and recovered everything belonging to my picket, except a few of their horses.--The enemy were engaged all night in boxing up their dead. Two of their officers were killed, and they laid out twenty-three on the porch of a neighboring farm-house. I will bury my poor fellow to-morrow. I have positive information, gained to-day, that there are four regiments of Confeder
The Daily Dispatch: July 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], Ten Dollars reward. (search)
y acceptable, especially the ice. Col. R. Thomas, of Richard, was the hero of the affair, and he conducted it in a manner that at once makes him famous. Disguised as an old French woman, who could not speak a word of English, (poor creature!) he took passage on the St. Nicholas at Baltimore for Washington.--After getting down into the Bay he threw off his disguise, and with the co operation of his men, who shipped as New York Zouaves, he took possession of the steamer. He was joined by Capt. Hollins, of our Navy, at Point Lookout, who participated in the captures of the other vessels. We refer to the details in our news columns. This is a very beautiful addition to the number of the gallant and successful surprises by our brave Southern boys, since the struggle began. It is but the beginning, we opine, of a catalogue of daring exploits at sea that will greatly enrage the old ape, and ruffle the sweet and amiable disposition of old "Fuss and Feathers." Old French women will be