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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: March 4, 1862., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for West Virginia (West Virginia, United States) or search for West Virginia (West Virginia, United States) in all documents.
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--The place where Gen. Floyd repulsed the Yankees, in Western Virginia, is really named Corrick's Ford, though it has passed current for some time as "Carrack's Ford." It is in Tucker county. Carnifax Ferry, another well known place in the manuals of the present war, has heretofore here called and spelled "Carnifax Ferry." The latter is in Nicholas county.
Both places are named after individuals now living in their immediate vicinity.
Authorized to raise a regiment.
--Capt. Jno. S. Swann, of the C. S. A., has been commissioned by the President to raise a regiment in Mississippi, his adopted State, for the war. Capt. S. has seen active service in central Western Virginia.