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The Daily Dispatch: October 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Mysterious Murder. (search)
dy manufacturers putting in bids for the rebel clothing contracts. Imagine the forts in our harbor all Fort Sumtered, and Commodore Vanderbilt's fleet transformed into privateers. Of the shoes, the clothing the good feed of Philadelphia, the rebels think with gusto; but who can describe their ecstacies at the idea of a winter in New York? "And then they will burn Boston, but no other city," Why no other city? Is Cincinnati sinless? Is Chicago, the homo of Ellsworth, innocent? Is Springfield, the residence of Old Abe, to be unfired? But Boston must not be burned before Toombs keeps his promise, and calls the roll of his slaves on Bunker Hill. The rebels have kept all their promises so far with such consistency that this one must be observed also. Then Boston may be burned, and then we lose all trace of the rebel army, and are left in doubt whether it returns to New York, or finds its Moscow in Boston, or is lost in the turnings of that cow-pathed city, or rushes further No
The Daily Dispatch: October 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 20 (search)
Last night the 19th Mississippi, a very large and fine regiment, passed through the village on their way to do picket duty some four miles below here. Poor fellows, how they must have suffered during the cold and stormy night. This morning the 1st Virginia started, also, for picket duty, and at an early hour we were roused by the music of their band as they passed through the town. They will bivouac near the Accotinck, about a mile from Annandale. Yesterday some scouts went into Springfield, but found none of the enemy there, nor could any signs of them be seen in the vicinity. His principal strength seems to be in the direction of Munson's hill. The fine grove of trees I mentioned in a previous letter upon the summit of Taylor's hill has been destroyed, and the fortification on White's hill, which we called Fort Walton, extended to that point. The pickets on each side remain as they did a week ago in the vicinity of Falls Church. Sometime ago the ladies of Warrenton