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The Daily Dispatch: April 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], Virginia money. (search)
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.enthusiastic demonstration in Smythe county. Marion, Smythe County, Va.,April 15th, 1861. Last Saturday was a gala day in our village. Our new military company, the "Smythe Blues," numbering 60, rank and file, paraded in the morning, and certainly exhibited a degree of proficiency in the drill which was remarkable, considering the short time which has transpired since the organization of the company. At 2 o'clock P. M., the members of the company, desiring to give a public manifestation of their way of thinking, unfurled to the breeze the flag of the Southern Confederacy on a pole ninety feet high, fired a salute of forty guns, and gave three cheers for Jeff. Davis and the Southern Confederacy. Loud calls were then made on Capt. A. G. Pendleton, Jr., of the Blues, for a speech, who responded gracefully, in his usual felicitous and eloquent manner. Several other gentlemen were then called upon, all of whom made patriotic and el