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The Daily Dispatch: June 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], Incendiary documents (search)
ashed through the principal streets, yelling like madmen, and firing their pistols right and left as they sped along. Captain Marr, of the Warrenton Rifles, whose company was stationed in a meadow in rear of the town, on hearing the firing, ran out to ascertain the cause, when he was shot down and killed. This fact threw the Rifles into temporary confusion, the first Lieutenant being absent; in the meantime, the United States Cavalry again charged through the town, firing and yelling. Ex-Gov. Smith, who was temporarily here, hastened over to the camp of the Rifles, and rallying them, was proceeding to meet the enemy, when Col. Yuell appeared and took command. The Cavalry, in the meantime, came dashing through the town for the third time, when a well-directed volley emptied a number of saddles, and caused the hireling soldiers to beat a hasty retreat. Our men closed upon the Hessians as speedily as possible, and besides killing five of them, and capturing six or eight fine horses,
The Daily Dispatch: June 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], Marvelous Cues of a Snakes bite. (search)
Personal. --The following persons, among others, are stopping at the Spotswood Hotel, viz : Hons. Thos. L. Clingman of North Carolina, W. Porcher Miles of So, Carolina, Henry A. Wise of Va.; Gen. Samuel Cooper and Maj. Gorgas, C. S. A.; Wm. M. Browne, Assistant Secretary of State of the Confederate States, (late editor of the Washington Union.) and F. G. de Fontaine, special correspondent of the Charleston (S. C.) Courier. The following among others, were at the Exchange Hotel yesterday : Hons. Robert Toombs of Georgia, Wm. Boulware of Va., Wm. Smith of Fauquier, H. A. Edmundson of Virginia, A. G. Rice of South Carolina, and Gen. Stuart of Baltimore. Md.