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The Daily Dispatch: August 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], Subscriptions to the Dispatch. (search)
ay. Gen.Butler will soon engage in a more active field of service. Adjutant-General Haines leaves Old Point to-day for Gen. Fremont's Department. The Union gun is now manned, but the 360 pound shells for it have not yet arrived. Professor La Mountain made two successful ascensions yesterday, having attained an altitude of three thousand feet. He found the Confederate encampment to be about three miles beyond New Market Bridge. There were no traces of Confederates nearer Hampton. A considerable force is also encamped on this side of James River, some eight miles above Newport News. The two cannon mounted on Sewell's Point, towards Old Point, he thinks are only large field-pieces.--There are probably a thousand Confederate troops there. The New York Herald, of Saturday last, thus notices Butler's movements, under an apprehension of an attack. General Butler, having received intelligence of the advance of the rebels from a deserter, moved a body of the N
The Daily Dispatch: August 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 14 (search)
The burning of Hampton.a Northern account. The subjoined account of the burning of Hampton is furnished by a correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer: Outposts Near Hampton, Aug. 8, 1861. One of the most splendid, and at the sameHampton is furnished by a correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer: Outposts Near Hampton, Aug. 8, 1861. One of the most splendid, and at the same time truly awful conflagrations, it has ever been my lot to witness, filling the night with its lurid glare and the silence with the crackling of its flames, has just laid the beautiful village of Hampton in ashes. My quarters are not far remoHampton in ashes. My quarters are not far remote from the scene of the fire, being on the opposite bank of the stream, a short distance further down; and when I awoke at midnight amid the firing of guns, and under the glare of the burning village, the scene presented was one to belong remembereur hours, since yesterday morning, from Yorktown; that they were now formed in line of battle a short distance back from Hampton. Quite an excitement was thus created in camp and at the fortress, and preparations were made for any emergency whi
The Daily Dispatch: August 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], The American war and European Mediation (search)
, where she was set on fire. The cargo of the prize was coffee, when was secured. Lieutenant Abbot and five seamen of the U. S. steamer South Carolina were taken prisoners and reached our bay yesterday afternoon. The name of the prize schooner was "George Baker." The three officers of the York came up with the prisoners. We had the pleasure of meeting with a gentleman from B elk river yesterday, who furnished us additional accounts of the outrages committed by the Lincoln vandals in Hampton. He states the previous to the evacuation of that town by the Federals, they went to houses, and with axes broke the most costly and handsome furniture including fine which had been left by peaceful citizens in their late escape from the town. Chairs and their cushion from them, and tables were smashed to pieces. On the walls of once peaceful dwelling the most obscene language was written, and the floors of parlors converted the most foul and disgraceful purposes. We ask if it is not en