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The Daily Dispatch: may 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
of Secession would be received. The Governor, meantime, is authorized to call the Legislature together at any time during the recess. It was stated upon reliable authority in Washington yesterday that there are only 1,500 Virginians at Harper's Ferry, and that they are not half armed, and very short of provisions. A deputation of Kentucky gentlemen waited on the President yesterday, offering two volunteer regiments to the Government from the western part of that State, in despite of South, in season for the people of Virginia to have fair play in voting on the Ordinance, and protection in the enjoyment of their liberty and property. It is not unlikely that the Alexandria Custom House, the Gosport Navy, Yard, and perhaps Harper's Ferry, will be re-possessed. It is doubtful whether Richmond will be attacked, although this stroke is strongly urged upon the Administration from several quarters. There is reason to think, however, that the advance upon Virginia will be ma
The Daily Dispatch: may 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
companies called for will assemble upon receiving orders for service. Given under my hand as Governor, and under the Seal of the Commonwealth, at Richmond, this 3d day of May, 1861, and in the 85th year of the Commonwealth. John Letcher. By the Governor: George W. Munford, Sec'y of the Commonw'h. [Schedule.] The following places of rendezvous are designated as the points at which companies called from the annexed counties will assemble: To rendezvous at Harper's Ferry, the counties of Berkeley, Clarke, Frederick, Jefferson, Morgan, Hampshire, Hardy, Shenandoah, Page, Warren, Rockingham. At Staunton, the counties of Pendleton, Augusta, Pocahontas, Monroe, Highland, Bath, Rockbridge, Greenbrier, Allegheny At Alexandria, the counties of Fairfax, Loudoun, Prince William, and Alexandria City. At Warrenton, the county of Fauquier. At Culpeper C. H., the counties of Rappahannock, Madison, Greene, Orange. At Gordonsville, the counties
The Daily Dispatch: may 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Washington. (search)
ndria is by it included in one of the new divisions. Should the Federal forces attempt to invade the State of Virginia, military men say that three routes only lie open to them. These three are, one from Harrisburg, by railroad, through Harper's Ferry to Winchester; one from Washington, over the long bridge, and through Alexandria to Richmond; and the last by water, from any Northern port up the James River to the Capital of the State. A great change, it is said, has taken place latelhe concealed fires which are burning in the minds of our innocent, lawful and peaceable citizens, remains to be seen. Several members of this regiment were arrested to-day by the police, for disorderly and riotous conduct. The news from Harper's Ferry is, that Gen. Jackson has superceded all other officers stationed there, and is now in command of about twenty-five hundred or three thousand men. The following is from the Baltimore Sun's Washington correspondence of May 2: The tro
The Daily Dispatch: may 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], Doings at Wheeling. (search)
Hdqrs Virginia forces.Richmond. April 28, 1861. General Order No. 4. I. The General, or other officers commating the Virginia Forces at Richmond, Norfolk, Fredericksburg, Alexandria, and Harper's Ferry, and at such other points as they may hereafter be sent in separate command, are required to submit to this office returns of their respective commands once in ten days, commencing on the first day of each month. II. The attention of all officers of the Virginia Volunteers is called to the regulations concerning Military Correspondence, as laid down in the Army Regulations of the late United States. Edition of 1857. By command of Maj. Gen'l Lee ap 30--6tR. S. Garnett. Adj't Gen'l.
The Daily Dispatch: may 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], Gen. Harney's account of his arrest and subsequent Adventures in Virginia. (search)
ald claims to have received the following narration from Gen. Harney: Early on Thursday morning I was apprised by the railroad conductor that we were at Harper's Ferry, and that there were indications of an intention to arrest me. I did not believe this was intended.; but a party of soldiers presently entered the cars, and athe public on the way. We were three days on the journey, which was made partially on wheels and partially by rail. I was treated on the route, as well as at Harper's Ferry, with the greatest courtesy. Regret was expressed that orders were such as to compel my detention. No disagreeable subjects were introduced, and no effort md not see more than half a dozen soldiers in all, and no fortifications and no batteries at Alexandria, which seemed like a deserted village. At Richmond and Harper's Ferry, it being dark, I saw few troops. At the former place I noticed, as I came away, three large secession flags in the main street; but the display of bunting w
The Daily Dispatch: may 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 30 (search)
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.Affairs at Harper's Ferry — loyally of WesternVirginia, &c. Martinsburg,Va., May 1, 1861. I left Washington and arrived here on the 22d of last month, and since that time have visited Harper's Ferry for two or three days, with the view of ascertaining what amount of damage the Fedking gun-barrels. Through the assistance of the late " Brown raid " on Harper's Ferry, the geographical position and the topographical defences of that place werea as that " Western Virginia is not loyal to the State. " Of the troops at Harper's Ferry, not one is from the Eastern part of the State. I have conversed freely wit of that " glorious Union " that was. The majority of the citizens of Harper's Ferry, I am sorry to say, are disloyalists; some went so far as to go to Washingtsionists, and also told the said Government that, " if Virginia did secede, Harper's Ferry would not. " One of these very men shouldered his Sharp's Rifle and called
The Daily Dispatch: may 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], Death of a United States Army officer. (search)
The demands of the hour. It is evident now that the Government at Washington is contemplating the total subjugation of Virginia, by re-taking the Navy Yard and Harper's Ferry, and by occupying Richmond and other places which offer strategic advantages, with the Federal troops. Nor is this all. While the volunteer forces of the North contain a few regiments of men taken from the respectable classes in society, the great proportion of those who have enlisted are of the most lawless and abandoned character — such as have long been the terror of the " solid men " of Boston, New York and Philadelphia. Whole regiments of these desperadoes have been rallied, -- not by the call of patriotism, but by the prospect of plunder, --and they spring forward to the ranks, fired by the anticipation of soon ramping and revelling in the field of lust and pillage. This war will act as a safety-valve to the great cities of the North, by ridding them of thousands of those who are designated