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The Daily Dispatch: December 11, 1862., [Electronic resource], A traitor to his country. (search)
A traitor to his country. It was stated a few days since that Capt. Parker, of the U. S. gunboat Chicora, now devastating the country on the York river, was a native of Westmoreland county, Va. This is a mistake. He is the unworthy son of a gallant father, who was a native of that county; but the son was born and raised at the North, and married there. His relatives, with one or two exception, are fighting on the side of the South, and his brother, W. H. Parker, a gallant officer of the old U. S. Navy, resigned his commission and entered the Confederate service.
The Daily Dispatch: June 17, 1863., [Electronic resource], Additional from the North. (search)
ve, weepingly besought Col. Kilpatrick to make an effort to procure its return to her, a cloud of sadness passed over his face. It was not the value of the horse, but the associations with the memory of her husband, that impelled her to make this request. When among the multitude of animals it became evident that her horse could not be found, a sister, with more firmness and less excitement, almost sternly reproached her for asking favors of an enemy. While riding along through Westmoreland county a female was heard crying bitterly, as though her lamentations were caused by deepest grief. Approaching, we met a little girl, some twelve years old, and "in agony she cried" because the soldiers had taken their only horse. The mother was expressing both sorrow and indignation, and giving utterance to the sentiment that she did not believe a Government which permitted these things could prosper. Every officer who witnessed the grief of the daughter was moved to pity, and all regre
The Daily Dispatch: January 30, 1864., [Electronic resource], An important Measure. (search)
oup, to take the overland route to Halifax. The Legislature of Kentucky, on the 13th, passed a bill prohibiting the importation of slaves into that State. The influx of slaves, says the dispatch, has had the effect of cheapening the price of the stock on hand and overflowing the market. The recruiting bounties is causing great frauds in New York. U. S. Surgeon Kerrigan is being tried for passing two French sailors who had been enlisted drunk, and several Americans diseased and over the age. The Yankee war vessel Marblehead, which recently ventured into Stone river, S. C., and was badly riddled by our batteries, has reached the Brooklyn Navy Yard in a crippled condition. Rev. W. W. Walker, former President of the Lynchburg, Va., College, was among the prisoners carried off in the recent raid into Westmoreland co., Va. The Yankee Senate has confirmed the nomination of John C. Underwood, Judge of the United States Court, for the Eastern District of Virginia.
The Daily Dispatch: December 20, 1865., [Electronic resource], Fire. (search)
ill for negro suffrage in this District was, at the request of Western members, postponed till January 10th. Mr. Sage, editor of the Lebanon, Ohio, Star, and son-in-law of Tom Corwin, will be here to-morrow to take charge of his remains. the Congressional delegation will meet in a body to take notice on Mr. Corwin's death. General Williams C. Wickham, of Virginia, is at Willard's. A meeting was held Monday night to take steps to defeat the negro suffrage bill. Firey addresses — reading very much like some we have seen before somewhere --were delivered by Hon. T. B. Florence and others. A stranger, supposed to be a Mr. Atwell, from Westmoreland county, Virginia, died in Baltimore on Saturday last, under the influence of a powerful opiate. A decided majority of the clergy of this State gave all their influence to the cause of secession, and, as the war progressed, were often the most successful recruiting agents for the Confederate army.--Missouri Democrat.
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