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The Daily Dispatch: may 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], Affairs in Virginia. (search)
dy bridge of Lodi. No cost would have been counted — no odds would have been collated. I cannot close this communication without paying a passing tribute to the "officer of the day" above mentioned. He was none other than our friend, Dr. W. R. Vaughan, of this town. Visiting the picket-guard, on this side of the Mill Creek Bridge, and within musket-shot of the Fort, Dr. Vaughan's attention was called to a body of men advancing under arms. He reigned up his horse, and with his spyglass Dr. Vaughan's attention was called to a body of men advancing under arms. He reigned up his horse, and with his spyglass coolly observed their movements. When within sixty or eighty yards of him, they halted, and a single soldier approached Dr. V., saluted him, and opened a conversation relative to this movement of men. Dr. V. asked if he was a commissioned officer. The soldier answered no, "I am, sir," said V., "and I can confer with none other than a commissioned officer." The Sergeant —— for such he proved to be — retired, and soon returned, saying that Col. Dimmick, who was leading the men, would be