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The Daily Dispatch: December 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], An interesting letter. (search)
Northwestern Virginia. --In Cameron's new scheme of partitioning Virginia, he has been good enough to annex us to Maryland, and to permit no portion of the Staisible" by any power short of the power of Heaven. It is true that Northwestern Virginia and the Eastern Shore have been overrun by a detested enemy, but it is t both these sections are now loyal to the Union. We know it to be a lie. Eastern Virginia can be imposed upon by no such fabrication of the most mendacious and unprer fails. It is believed that as many of the enemy have been killed in Northwestern Virginia in guerrilla warfare as have fallen in some of the regular battles. Thp up his hunting expeditions till the end of the war. The occupation of Northwestern Virginia, thus far, has done anything but strengthen the Federal cause. Whereas thousand troops, among the best the world ever saw, could be raised in Northwestern Virginia alone, who would prove their loyalty and devotion with the best blood o
The Daily Dispatch: December 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], House of Delegates. (search)
. The House met at 11 o'clock, M. Prayer by Rev. W. W. Bennett. A message was received from the Senate, asking the House to concur in the following resolution: Resolved by the General Assembly, That the public printer be, and he is hereby, required to publish, with the acts of the present session of the General Assembly, the permanent Constitution of the Confederate States. Concurred in. A memorial from C. W. Russell and others, concerning representation from Northwestern Virginia in the present General Assembly, was received. Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. A message from the Governor, enclosing a list from the Navy Department, as requested by resolution of the House, was received and laid on the table. Mr. Rutherfoord offered the following resolution, which was adopted: Resolved, That the Committee for the Courts of Justice inquire what amendments, If any, in the Criminal Code of Virginia are made necessary by the occupation of
The Daily Dispatch: December 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
The enemy's force before Zollicoffer caught the same Bull Run fever that seems to seize his armies in turn everywhere with equal violence. We published, a few days ago, their own melancholy tale of the dreadful flight. It was the most marvelous phenomenon we recollect to have read of in all the history of wars and marchings. The flight was precipitate and disastrous, and the loss of property immense. It suddenly relieved us of the danger which threatened us in East Tennessee and Southwestern Virginia. Then came the unaccountable retreat of Hunter from Western Missouri, and the capture of Montgomery and a hundred Federal army wagons, with their freight of arms and provisions. Finally, the array of troops and boats that was preparing in such formidable force at Cairo strangely disintegrated itself, a large portion of it going off precipitately to St. Louis to protect that city, supposed to be threatened by Price and McCulloch from a distance of two hundred miles. The eff
The Daily Dispatch: December 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], Extracts from Northern journals. (search)
e will, before another week, have some starling and glorious news. Your readers will not have to look long in vain. Instructions to M'Clellan respecting Fugitive slaves. The following has just been made public Department of State,Washington, Dec. 4, 1861. To Major-General George B. McClellan, Washington City: General: --I am directed by the President to call your attention to the following subject: Persons claiming to be held to service or labor under the laws of the State of Virginia, and actually employed in hostile service against the Government of the United States, frequently escape from the lines of the enemy's forces, and are received within the lines of the Army of the Potomac. This Department understands that such persons, afterwards coming into the city of Washington, are liable to be arrested by the city police, upon the presumption, arising from color, that they are fugitives from service or labor. By the fourth section of the act of Congress, appr