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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 21 1 Browse Search
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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1861, November (search)
Sixty-sixth regiment N. Y. S. V., under command of Colonel Pinckney, left New York for the seat of war. Sixty-eight prisoners arrived at Tallahassee, Florida, in charge of a detachment of Captain Sheffield's company, the whole under Colonel M. Whit Smith. They are composed of Spaniards, Yankees, and Floridians, and were captured while engaged in fishing around the Florida coast in the vicinity of Egmont Key for the Federals at Key West. Colonel Smith says they are the crews of twelve fiColonel Smith says they are the crews of twelve fishing smacks, and that the craft captured are worth, in the aggregate, from thirty-five thousand dollars to forty thousand dollars.--Tallahassee Sentinel, Nov. 17. Gen. Patterson, at an entertainment given by the Philadelphia City Troop, made a statement in relation to his conduct while in command on the Upper Potomac, which appears to relieve him from the odium of failure to participate in the movement which resulted in the defeat at Bull Run.--(Doc. 169.)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1861, November (search)
everal occasions, and the matter was reported to General Smith, but he refused to interfere. This refusal of GGeneral Smith caused great indignation among the troops, and doubts of his loyalty were freely expressed in Padu Stripes over his house. Woolfolk, knowing that General Smith was senior officer, refused to obey General Wall In the mean time Woolfolk having appealed to General Smith, the latter sent his aid, Lieutenant Price, to o Wallace refused to obey the order, and sent word to Smith that the flag should not be taken down while there wk should sleep under a loyal flag one night, anyhow; Smith's aid replied he did not consider that any great honor; whereupon Wallace's aid knocked Smith's down. General Paine sent Wallace assurances of his cooperation. As General Smith had nobody but his discomfited Lieutenant to enforce his order, the old flag still waves. Therrence, however, was the subject of an order from Gen. Smith, deprecating the mutinous spirit manifested by th