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The Daily Dispatch: June 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], Ten dollars reward. (search)
nsists of two small river or coasting steamers, without guns, and as he said, in taking over the resources of the South, "My house will be bleached many a long year before the Confederate State can hope to have a navy," "State rights!" To us the question is simply inexplicable or absurd And yet thousands of Americans sacrifice all for it. The river at Savannah is broom as the Thames at Gravesend, and resembles that stream very much in the color of its waters and the fever nature of its snores Rice fields bound it on either side, as far down as the influence of the fresh waster extends, and the eye wanders over a flat expanse of mud and water and green oaters and rushes, till its search is arrests on the horizon by the unfailing line of forests. In the fields here and there are the whitewashed square wooden huts in which the slaves dwell, looking very like the beginning of the camp in the Crimea. At one point a small fort, covering a creek by which gun-boats could get up behind Savann
The Daily Dispatch: June 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 24 (search)
Who is the Southern Major Captured by the Routed Lincolnites at Little Bethel? The "Old Lady" sends us the following, which conveys some important information not generally known: Many here believed that the unfortunate individual taken by the Federal troops at Little Bethel in their hasty flight before the pursuing Cavalry of Gen. Magruder, was none other than some plain farmer on the road, known by his neighbors as Major So-and-so, and whom the enemy seized upon as a trophy of their brilliant exploits at Great Bethel. But it has since leaked out that this prisoner of war, over whom so much parade is made, is the veritable Connecticut Yankee tin pedlar, formerly a resident of this city, Major Titus O. Rice, of the late Virginia Militia, and who was at large upon a parole of honor granted by Picayune Butler. The Old Lady.