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The Daily Dispatch: July 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], Sketch of the Martyr Jackson and his family. (search)
ead, the cowardly rascals rushed upon him, one stabbed him with a bowie-knife in the stomach, and another driving his bayonet through his body and actually pinning it to the floor. In this position the corpse was kept from early dawn until 11 o'clock, before any of his friends or even his family were allowed either to see it or remove it. At one time it was seriously discussed among the enemy whether they should not cut the body into pieces and burn it. At length the orders came from Washington to allow the corpse to be removed. It was taken to Fairfax Court-House, and thence to the old family homestead where he was born, and near which his aged mother still resides, and there beneath the trees under which he gambolled in his infancy, and near the classic Potomac in whose waters it was his wont to bathe, he was buried by the side of his father. The old homestead now belongs to a Mr. Cutts, a Northern man, who has voluntarily fled from the State and taken up arms against the Sou
The Daily Dispatch: July 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], The earthquake in Syracuse, N. Y. (search)
Brigadier General Polk. --The Raleigh (North Carolina) Register has the following in relation to Brigadier, late Bishop, Polk: Bishop Polk is a native of this city, a grandson of Col. Thomas Polk, one of the signers of the Mecklenburg Declaration, and a son of Col. William Polk, who died here about the year 1860. The latter entered the Army and served through the Revolution. He was with Gen. Washington at the battles of Brandywine and Germantown, in the latter of which he was wounded. He was also with Gen. Gates at Camden, and with Gen. Greene at Gullford, and was severely wounded at Entaw Springs. At the close of the war he had attained the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.