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The Daily Dispatch: June 23, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 19 (search)
kards would soon be diminished and die out. In a journey of several thousand miles, I have seen but two bar-rooms open, and I am a witness to the good effect of this almost universal stopping the supplies. Mobile is a great city. When I was there a month ago, the apprehension of attack was imminent. Yet the citizens, some from old Spotsylvania county, in Virginia, were full of pluck, and declared the city might be shelled and every house destroyed, but they would not surrender. Captain John Scott, a member of General Gladden's staff, wounded at Shiloh in the eye, was determined the Yankees should not get Mobile. He is a noble fellow, very popular, and from my county, Spotsylvania, Va. Hurxthal, too, and others, prominent merchants, all talked and acted in the same spirit. The city was game, though a little "skeered." On my return I found the excitement had subsided, and the preparations were complete — the "ram, finished — and no danger apprehended or regarded. The beauties