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The Daily Dispatch: July 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], $40 reward. (search)
a county, passed through here this morning to join Col. Stuart. "The Militia of Frederick, Clarke, Shenandoah, Rockingham, Page, Warren, Jefferson and Berkeley counties have been ordered out for six months or the war, and ordered to rendezvous here. Berkeley and Jefferson have not, as yet, responded to the call. A squad of men, however, left here by railroad this morning for Jefferson, to draft them into service. "A large body of Federal troops passed up the Potomac, opposite Harper's Ferry, on Sunday. "It is believed that the Federal force at Martinsburg are being daily reinforced. "I would call your attention to the fact that you have not in your account of the fight at Falling Waters, on Wednesday last, done justice to the Continentals, of this place, under Capt. Avis, who led the vanguard in the action, making a gallant charge on the enemy, doing great execution. Too much praise cannot be said of Capt. Avis for his conduct in the battle. Captain Avis was Cap
The Daily Dispatch: July 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], A Shower of fish. (search)
A National Foundry. --The Raleigh Standard calls the attention of the Confederate Congress to the immense beds of coal and iron on Deep river, N. O., and zealously urges the establishment of a National Foundry there. The coal, it is said, is equal to the best Cumberland, and the iron ore, by a cheap process, can be easily rendered equal for gun and cannon purposes to the Marshall iron of England or the importations from Norway, formerly used at Harper's Ferry.
The Daily Dispatch: July 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], A Shower of fish. (search)
the river road leading from Alexandria. On Saturday the Maine Regiment, over one thousand men with two heavy batteries of artillery, crossed the river into Virginia. On that day, also, the 19th and 28th Regiments (New York) started for Harper's Ferry. The 12th New York Regiment left to-day at 2.30 for the same destination. The 34th Regiment, New York volunteers, who arrived here on Friday night, and were quartered in Woodward's building, started for an encampment north of the city tced with their eight-pound (James' patent) field-pieces at the monument on Saturday. The guns had a range of little over a mile. The projectile used was the eleven-pound percussion bomb. The 38th and 5th New York Regiments have gone to Harper's Ferry. The 1st Maryland and 15th Pennsylvania Regiments are at Frederick, Md. The 30th New York Regiment arrived here yesterday. Gen. Lyon, with 1,700 men, left Booneville on the 3d instant, for the neighborhood of Cairo. The 71
The Daily Dispatch: July 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Northern Congress. (search)
red a joint resolution, that the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to remit all duties and imports on all arms imported since 1st of May, which have not actually been paid, and on all arms which may be imported prior to the 1st of January, 1862, for the use of any State which in good faith is aiding in suppressing the rebellion now waged against the United States. Referred to the Committee of Finance. Mr. Hale presented a petition for the relief of Roger Jones, who commanded at Harper's Ferry, and was obliged to destroy public and private property there, and of volunteers in the service of the United States. Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. In the House, Mr. Upton, of Virginia, (!) offered a resolution requiring all officers in the service of the United States to report to the proper department the names and numbers of such persons as may be released upon parole on taking the oath of allegiance. Adopted. Mr. Cox, of Ohio, presented a resolution referri