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The Daily Dispatch: April 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], Military movements. (search)
Military movements. --Three companies of Georgia troops passed through this place yesterday en route for Virginia. Two of them were from Macon, viz, the Floyd Rifles, commanded by Hon. Thos. Hardeman, and the Macon Volunteers, Capt. Smith. The other company was the City Light Guard, Capt. Colquit, from Columbus. These companies were composed of the very best material. They are all fine looking, soldierly fellows, and seemed to be withal gentlemen in their conduct and feelings. The spirit and enthusiasm which animated them may be imagined, when we say that a lawyer who was a private in one of them told us he had been married but one hour when he left home; and we afterwards learned that there were two or three others who were similarly situated.--God grant they may return in safety to their brides. We heard two capital speeches at the depot where the troops were assembled--one from Hon. Roger A. Pryor, who is now a Colonel in the Confederate Army, and the other from the