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The Daily Dispatch: April 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
ospital; and en passant, it might be necessary to state, that immediately after the war-vessels passed the High street wharf of Portsmouth, Col. Hodges, with a detachment of his Regiment, in double quick time, repaired to the yard, and having battered down the gates, took possession. The Colonel, immediately on entering, sent to his private residence for a flag of Virginia, (his own property,) and ordered Capt. James C. Choate of the Rangers, to hoist it, but upon looking around he saw Lieut. Spotswood, a gallant officer of the late U. S. N., who had resigned his commission the day previously, and remarked to Capt. Choate that, he consenting, he would give the Lieutenant the honor of hoisting the first Sic Semper Tyrannis flag over the property of the late United States. The Hospital was taken possession of by Lieut. Col. Godwin, with one company of the Regiment, accompanied by Adjutant Wrena. Dr. Barrington was in charge at the time, who surrendered on demand on Sunday morning a