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The Daily Dispatch: July 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], General Beauregard. (search)
To be sent away. --The case of Henry Mycth charged with murdering Richard Washington in Prince George county, Virginia, eighteen months since, was determined, so far as the city is concerned, yesterday, by Aldermar Sanxay ordering the prisoner to be sent a Prince George county, where the offence we committed and where the witnesses all reside.
The Daily Dispatch: July 30, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 18 (search)
uilding, which is now used as a guard-house. The crowd threatened to hang them and attempted to take them from the hands of the soldiers. "In front of Willard's," says this morning's Republican, "the excitement was very great: one gentleman (sic) pushed his way through the crowd, and dealt one of the prisoners a powerful blow, nearly knocking him down; at other places on the route there was great trouble in getting them through the crowd." In like manner a Dr. Belt, a citizen of Prince George's county, Md., who was arrested for uttering "seditions language," only escaped being lynched by the mob through the active interference of some U. S. cavalry, who charged upon the crowd with drawn sabres. Beyond additional lists of the killed and wounded, and Munchausen-like stories of the feats of valor performed by individuals during the battle, the Washington papers of this morning contain absolutely nothing; in regard to the present and future plans of the Administration, they are omi
The Daily Dispatch: August 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
isted under the positive promise of the extra pay of eight dollars a month to their wives during their absence, but that they had only received one dollar, and their wives only three, during three months. They said, besides, that they had been each promised a small farm in Virginia. An officer who was in company with them corroborated this statement, and said he was sorry to confess that four-fifths of the men in his regiment had enlisted with this expectation. Another gentleman from Prince George county stated that at least three hundred more have passed in the neighborhood of Buena Vista. These have effected their escape from the District. They were swapping their coats and uniforms with the negroes for plain clothing, and taking from them anything in exchange that would cover their nakedness. The brilliant display of darkies in full dress uniforms, next Sunday, will be unusually attractive. Private information has been received here that a barbarous plan has been arranged b
The Daily Dispatch: September 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], Fairfax C. H., Sept. 7, 1861. (search)
Fairfax C. H., Sept. 7, 1861. One of those unavoidable accidents consequent upon war occurred in our midst last week, which for the time being cast a gloom over the whole regiment First Virginia Volunteers. Clarence Gwynn, a youth of about eighteen, of Prince Georges county, Maryland, belonging to Capt. Shaeffer's company, was shot by one of our pickets, owing to some orders given to the pickets and imperfectly understood, as it turns out. Young Gwynn was beloved by his whole company. He was a youth remarkable for the kindness and gentleness of his manners — pure in heart, tender and affectionate, and his death, whilst is must create a void in his family which cannot be filled, yet his parents can have the consolation that he died with no stain upon his pure spirit, and that he has been relieved, by a decreed of Providence in his early life, from all those His that affect our race. The tiractics of firing at pickets is I am glad to learn, being discouraged by ou
The Daily Dispatch: October 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], Candidates for Congress in North Carolina. (search)
and acting Brig. General, to be Major General of Volunteers. This forenoon, Major Gen. McClellan and staff, escorted by a squadron of cavalry, proceeded to the position of Major General McCall's division, where a grand review of ten or twelve thousand troops took place. Many distinguished and other civilians went there also, as well as the Precede Joinville and the titled gentlemen who accompanied him to this city. A haul in Charles county, Hd., &c. Upper Marlboro, Prince George's co., Md., Sept. 20, 1861.--On the day before yesterday, Col. Cowdin's First Massachusetts regiment, now doing duty on the peninsula, made a haul of two wagon leads of military clothing, arms, &c., destined to be smuggled across the river for the use of disunion troops. The capture was made near Fredericktown, about 15 miles from Leonardtown. Blath-Plack of President Lincoln. President Lincoln will undoubtedly have a special interest in the conflict now going on in Kentucky between
The Daily Dispatch: November 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], A Thrilling Tale. (search)
A Thrilling Tale. The Virginia correspondent of the Charleston Courier writes from Fairfax C. H. an account of the adventures of a Maryland gentleman, who had just arrived there, having been driven from his native State by the Lincolnites. The writer says: Three weeks ago he left his home in Prince George county, on a visit to his son in the Confederate army. After a journey of several days on foot and horseback, he reached the Potomac, crossed, and made his way to Fairfax. Hear he learned that his son was performing picket duty near Munson's Hill, and prepared to pay him a visit. While these preparations were going on, word was brought to the house in which he was, that the young man had been killed a few hours before. An hour after, the cold, stiff buoy of his only boy was brought to the village and laid in his presence. A bright, handsome lad of nineteen, full of the hopes of youth and the love of his native South, he had left his home in Maryland to fight in her c
The Daily Dispatch: November 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], The importance of a Southern Navy. (search)
by eight married children, thirty-three grand-children, and three great grand children. The family of the late Senator Douglas now live in the white cottage at Washington, his old residence, and near their mansion, in Minnesota row, vacated to be used as a hospital Mayor Cranston, of Newport, R. I. administered the oath of allegiance to one hundred and thirty-two midshipmen on board the frigate Constitution, on Tuesday. Fielder Cross, Esq., has died at Locust Grove, Prince George's county, Md., at the age of 92 years. He was said to be the closest white inhabitant in the county. It is estimated that there are in California 150,000 sheep. The wool clip the present year will not fall much short of five million pounds. Lieut. Russell, who distinguished himself by boarding the privateer Judith at Pensacola, is in Washington. He will command one of the new gun-boats. A California paper says that a second crop of apples is growing on many of the trees in Cont
The Daily Dispatch: January 2, 1862., [Electronic resource], Abolition of imprisonment for Deer in England. (search)
te in the Thirteenth Georgia regiment, from Upson county, Georgia, committed suicide on the 25th instant. The passport system is most strictly carried on in Poland. To get a passport to leave the country costs a Pole four hundred rabbles, which is about two hundred and eighty dollars. Cholera is making great ravages in India. At Caunpore the natives are the principal victims. At Kanadahar eight thousand people died in eighteen days. The barn of Mr. Wilson C. Finn, of Prince George county, was destroyed by fire on Sunday night last, and all its contents of corn and provender entirely consumed. A fire occurred at Nashville, Tenn., a few days ago, destroying among other property, 2,000,000 worth of Government stores. Col. T. L. Cooper, of Augusta, Ga., was killed on the 23d ult., near Manassas, by a fall from his horse. A clergyman in Boston preached, Christmas Eve, on "The End of the World about 1864-68." Not a single United States soldier now remain
The Daily Dispatch: January 13, 1862., [Electronic resource], Cutting. (search)
Senatorial election. The election of State Senator for the city of Petersburg and county of Prince George to supply the place of Dr. Claiborne, resigned, will take place on Tuesday, 14th inst. The candidates are W. T. Joynes and R. R. Collier.
The Daily Dispatch: January 21, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
Acknowledgments. --We have received from Mr. E. C. Mead, of Albemarle, $5, and from E. M., of this city, $5, for the benefit of the sufferers by the fire in Charleston. From J. H. E. we have $5 for the Thirty-sixth Regiment. From the patriotic ladies of Prince George county we have a box of socks, comforts, and drawers for the soldiers of the Twenty-second Regiment. The collection is most seasonable and of excellent quality, and will, we are sure, be most gratefully and gladly received by the Regiment.
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