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Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862. (ed. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott), March 14, 1862.-skirmishes at Big Creek Gap and Jacksborough, Tenn. (search)
ible to bring off the quartermaster stores I caused them to be burned and the powder destroyed. Owing to the darkness of the night and the impassability of the roads the cavalry did not arrive till after the skirmish. Had the troops been able to get up in time I am satisfied that we could have succeeded in capturing the whole force. On the arrival of the cavalry we marched to Jacksborough, distance 5 miles, and there overtook the rear guard of the cavalry; killed 1 man and captured Capt. Edward Winston, of the Corps of Sappers and Miners. We hoisted the Stars and Stripes over the town, and on the 15th instant marched to Fincastle, and from thence to Woodson's Gap, where we encamped a few days. Learning that there was a manufactory of saltpeter in the neighborhood, I sent a detachment of cavalry with orders to destroy the same. They destroyed about 1,000 pounds of saltpeter, broke up the kettles, burned up the shed, and destroyed about 11,000 pounds of bacon and 20 sacks of flo
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.6 (search)
intellectually. Many of its members were over six feet in height. Virginia was noted for large men—Washington, Randolph, Henry, Pendleton, Richard Henry Lee, Bland and Harrison were six feet, their average being over six feet, and their average weight over two hundred. The longevity of some of the members of this Convention was also remarkable; numbers lived to be over three score and ten, and the following lived to be over four score: William Dark, of Berkeley; Henry Lee, of Bourbon; Edward Winston, of Buckingham; Humphrey Marshall, of Fayette, whilst Paul Carrington, of Charlotte, lived to be ninety-three and James Johnson, of Isle of Wight, survived the adjournment of the Convention fifty-seven years, dying at the ripe old age of ninety-nine. The Convention of 1788 presented as proud a galaxy of genius, worth, patriotism and public spirit as had ever shone in the councils of a single State. Its representatives were chosen from different pursuits in life—the judge, the merchan
The Daily Dispatch: April 8, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 8 (search)
A correspondent of the New York Herald regrets that at the burning of Pensacola, Fla., the houses of those "two arch-rebels Mallory and Chests were spared." Eight negroes were sold in Lynchburg, Va., Saturday, men, women and children, for $18,215, being an average of $2,277. There was a tornado at Vicksburg on the night of the 30th ult. The falling trees killing six soldiers and wounding 14. The City Council of La Grange, Ga., for the present year have raised the license for retailing liquor to two thousand dollars. Maj. Ed. Winston, a prominent citizen of Amherst county, Va., died on the 4th inst. Chas. E. Haynes, editor of the Casaba, Ala, Gazette, was drowned on the 28th ult. Mrs. Biandiana Dudley, who erected and endowed the Dudley Observatory, at Albany, N. Y., is dead. Postage stamps have come into use in Turkey. They bear a fas simile of the Sultan's autograph. John Anthon, a noted lawyer of New York, died on the 11th ult.