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The Daily Dispatch: may 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
From Portsmouth.[special Correspondence of the Dispatch.] Portsmouth, Va., May 27, 1861. Fame was flaunting about the streets yesterday in her most attractive brocade. She seemed, however, too pert and fancy to prove attractive to the more sober-minded or less enthusiastic of our denizens, who received her flourishing amplifications and parade of words cum grano salis. All were so far deceived by her glittering show as to believe that a battle had been fought in or about Hampton, for many had heard the discharge of musketry and the enemy were seen through a glass — darkly, as it has turned out — from Sewell's Point, escaping for their life into the fort at Old Point. We were told that a battle had been fought, that 700 of the Baboon's hosts had been slam, 200 taken prisoners, and that the flag of the Confederacy, the glorious ensign of the South, now the beacon of liberty, was seen floating in proud and calm triumph at the farm of Mr. Joseph Segar. But this morning I h
The Daily Dispatch: may 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], Painful accident. (search)
Painful accident. --We regret to learn that Capt. Frost, of the New Orleans Light Guard, was accidentally wounded in the eye on Friday last, while drilling his company in the bayonet exercise, at their encampment in the rear of Portsmouth. The men in the front rank were kneeling at the time, and Capt. Frost leaned over to correct the position of a gun, which was wrongly held by one of the men in the rear rank, when an unexpected movement of the latter caused his bayonet to enter Captain Frost's eye. The wound was skillfully tended by the Surgeon of the Regiment. Though severe, it is not necessarily dangerous, and its probable that the sight of the organ will be preserved.-- Norfolk Argus.
The Daily Dispatch: may 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 31 (search)
Capt. Johnannes Watson, of the Marion Rifles, Portsmouth, has written a letter to the Transcript, denying that his company was disloyal to the cause of the South. Pocahontas at her levy Court appropriated $15,000 for the defence of the county. Each man is to have a fire-arm — each woman a pike. Well done little one! Mr. Samuel Moore, of Danville, has six sons in the service of the State of Virginia at this time; and still another, who is now absent, will enlist in a few days. A handsome church of the Presbyterian denomination was dedicated in Petersburg on Sunday last. The motto of Billy Wilson's brigade of New York Roughs is, "Give us foemen worthy of our steal." Thomas Wilson, late proprietor of the Shelby (N. C) Sulphur Springs, died at that place on the 22d inst. Col. Alex. R. McKee, of Kentucky, has been appointed U. S. Consul to Panama, New Granada. Thirty women were discovered in Ellsworth's Zouaves after the regiment arrived in Washin