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The Daily Dispatch: may 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 8 (search)
d the enemy come to the attack, they would be very apt to run in and find us already armed and accoutred, as we do not get much play-time.--At 8 o'clock every man not out on duty is in his barracks. This is by general order from headquarters, and a good arrangement. On Sunday last, about forty members of the Maryland Legislature paid us a visit. What their purpose was is probably best known at headquarters, as, so soon as they could get permission, they repaired to the residence of Col. Jackson, commander of forces. Many accidents having occurred by the careless, and sometimes too free, use of sidearms, the use and the carrying of them daily has been prohibited. Yesterday another of the Kentucky Regiment was accidently shot by a pistol in his own hands. The ball entered his head under the eye-brow, and passed straight up through his head. This last makes ten cases of a similar sort. Large reinforcements are daily pouring in. They generally come in regiments, and bri