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The Daily Dispatch: June 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway in Jail. (search)
We are indebted to Addison Hall, Esq., of Lancaster county, Va., for the following statement: To the Editors of the Dispatch: I will give you a heavy, but very nearly correct account of an encounter with the enemy at the residence of James W. Gresham, Esq., on yesterday, June 24th. I am now at the house of Mr. Gresham, and from him and others gather the following facts: At about the hour of 4 o'clock P. M., the steamer called the Star passed up the Rappahannock river as far as Towles' Point, just below Urbanna, and, returning immediately, stopped opposite Mr. Gresham's, and within about six hundred yards of the house, A large barge, armed with two swivels, and a small rowboat, containing together about fifty men, put off for the shore, and the men landed.--Some ten or twelve men, armed with muskets and side arms, came up the bank to the house, professing to be in pursuit of fowis, which Mr. Gresham informed them they could not get from him. Whilst in the house, the company
The Daily Dispatch: September 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 16 (search)
ued, he ordered all of the provisions and furniture to be put into the boats, and, as if animated by the bold spirit of the dying Lawrence, hating to give up the ship, he remained on board until they arrived within a few hundred yards of him. He then quietly left her to her captors. Independent of the vessel, they only got 39 bushels of wheat belonging to Mr. R. Doggett, as fortunately she had just commenced to load. After capturing this prize the steamer proceeded on up the river as far as Deep Creek. Here she fell in with a small sloop called the "Good Egg," Captain M. T. George. The Captain narrowly escaped falling into the hands of those fiends in human shape. She had nothing on board of any importance. The "Extra" belonged to W. H. Armitage, Esq., the "Good Egg" to Capt. M. T. George. They then left for the mouth of the river. Every night since this occurrence they run up and anchor under Towle's Point, thinking, perhaps, they may fall in with other prizes. Constantine