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The Daily Dispatch: April 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], Petersburg, Sunday,April 21. (search)
excitement continues unabated. While the ladies attended the churches to-day in large numbers, the proportion of gentlemen was much smaller than usual. Startling rumors have been rife — people hurried to and fro on the streets, or collected round the bulletin boards — the Court-House bell summoned the Home Guard to meet in the public square — and, everybody seemed anxious to render all needful service. Six volunteer companies left here yesterday afternoon for Norfolk, viz: Company A, (Grays,) Capt. Lyon; do. B., do., Captain Bond; City Guards, Capt. May; Riflemen, Capt. Dodson; Artillery, Capt. Nichols, and Lafayette Guards, Capt. Jarvis--numbering in all about 400 men. An immense crowd of both sexes and of all ages gathered at the depot to witness their departure. It was the most affecting scene I beheld; not only affecting, but painful and heart- rending; wives taking leave of their husbands, mothers of their sons, sisters of their brothers, relatives and friends --all invok<