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The Daily Dispatch: September 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
thunder. It was then believed a general engagement had taken place; but the firing soon ceased, convincing us it was but a skirmish. Only a few meagre facts have yet been obtained of the affair, and I have waited up to the last moment for further accounts. What has been learned here can be told in a few words. --Early yesterday morning eight thousand of the Federals marched up to Munson's Hill, which our men were fortifying, and made an attempt to dislodge them.--Our advance consists of Longstreet's and Bonham's brigades, stationed near each other, and close by Munson's Hill. Long-street's force is composed of the First Virginia Regiment, commanded by Lieut. Col. Fry, in the absence of Col. Moore, who was wounded at the battle of the 18th; the Seventh Virginia, Col. Kemper, Lieut. Col. Williams, and Major Patton; the Eleventh Virginia, Col. Garland; the Seventeenth Virginia, Col. Corse; one Georgia Regiment attached at present, and several pieces of artillery. Gen. Bonham has four
The Daily Dispatch: September 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], Fairfax-Court House, Sept. 6, 1861. (search)
e returning to Manassas. The long-range Enfield guns, with which the skirmishing companies of the enemy are supplied, give them a great advantage over our pickets, and yesterday a Tennesseean was shot through the head at the distance of half a mile, and instantly killed. Three Confederate officers passed through Fairfax Court-House this morning en route to Washington, the bearers, it is supposed, of a communication from our Government at Richmond. The advanced position of Gen. Longstreet entails upon his brigade a large amount of picket duty. Many of the farmers and merchants of the neighboring counties have wagons at the various encampments filled with provisions and articles of merchandize, for which they demand the most exorbitant prices. In many instances whiskey has been sold privately to soldiers, and for the most ordinary article only one dollar and a half per pint has been taken from the poor soldier. Col. James L. Kemper, whose bravery and devotion to hi
The Daily Dispatch: September 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
een called to a communication from Fair-fax Court-House, signed "Ithuriel," which appeared in your paper of the 26th of August, in which there is the following statement: "The regiments immediately around Fair-fax compose the Brigade of Gen Longstreet. Many of them were formerly in the brigade of Gen. Early, of Franklin county, but became dissatisfied with him in consequence of an error into which he fell during the battle of the 21st--mistaking the enemy, who had hoisted a Confederate fl 7th Virginia Regiment sustained no fire on the 18th or 21st of July when I was not in front of it, and on the former day I had to sustain its fire, when it fired by mistake in rear of some of our own troops. It is the only regiment in General Longstreet's brigade, as at present organized, which ever was in any brigade commanded by me, and it was not taken from my brigade on account of any dissatisfaction with me which may have existed, if any there was. My brigade, when I was a Colone