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The Daily Dispatch: May 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], Portsmouth,Va May 11, 1861 (search)
is Meagher reached the capital last night. He was escorted from the depot to the quarters of the Sixty-ninth, in Georgetown, by a detachment and the band of the regiment. Alexandria is now said to be occupied by a thousand armed rebels. Yesterday afternoon a Washington volunteer, who ventured over there, experienced some rough handling. There is great rejoicing among the Massachusetts troops over the exploit which Col. Jones, of the Sixth Regiment, had performed. He learned that Winans' steam gun had been concealed in the train at Baltimore, and had escaped the attemtion of the inspectors at the Relay House. Col. Jones had a locomotive sent in pursuit of the train, overtook it at Ellicott's Mills, and there captured it. [Another account says that the steam gun was in a wagon attended by three men, on the way to Harper's Ferry. A great exploit! The in ventor, Mr. Dickinson, is said to have been one of the three. They were sent to Annapolis, as prisoners.] A Gov
The Daily Dispatch: May 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 8 (search)
Explanatory. --Thomas Winans, of Baltimore, has written a letter denying the statement that he had ever tendered the half million loan reported to the Marylanders; and declaring that the assertion in regard to manufacturing steam cannon for them is equally unfounded. With regard to the casting of cannon, balls and grape-shot, he adds the assertion is so far true that the same establishment was, with others in Baltimore, employed by the city authorities to furnish these articles, when they believed that the peace of the community required military aid. For this purpose the authorities made an appropriation of half a million dollars.