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The Daily Dispatch: April 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Harper's Ferry Affair. (search)
Communication cut off. Washington, April 21st. --The telegraphic wires between Washington and Baltimore are down — supposed to have been cut by the Baltimoreans, as the Administration at Washington have control of the office in that city. The report about the Federal fortifications at Arlington Heights and Hoover's Hill, are by the most available reliable authority denied. The bridges on the Washington and Baltimore Railroad are reported and believed to be destroyed --there is no communication between the two cities. Joseph Segar, Esq., a member of the Virginia Legislature, has just arrived in Washington from Richmond. He reports that the secession sentiment is unanimous and universal in the whole of Eastern Virginia.
The Daily Dispatch: April 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], Tennessee. (search)
Gratuitous Insolence. Lieut. Washington Gwathmey, one of the most gallant and high-toned officers in the naval service of the late United States, resigned his commission a few weeks ago. In his letter of resignation he took occasion to state, modestly, but candidly, his reasons for the step he was about to take. They amounted simply to this — that he could not fight against the State of Virginia or the South. Of course the resignation was not accepted, and Mr. G. was struck from the roll. The low-bred vulgarian of the New York Tribune, proclaimed thereupon, to the world, that Washington Gwathmey, of London, hailing from Virginia, was struck off the roll for writing an insolent letter to the Secretary, or words to that effect. Now, we have not seen the letter, but those who have seen it, say that nothing is farther from the truth than this charge of impertinence. It was perfectly respectful, and could have been excepted to by nobody but a man accustomed to white negroes and