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The Daily Dispatch: may 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
From Harper's Ferry.[special Correspondence of the Dispatch.] Harper's Ferry, Va., May 14, 1861. Since my last, varied has been the changes in the status of your old correspondent. By the date of this you will see I have changed my residence, and possibly my position as regards the war. The reports here are so various that a correspondent has a very difficult task to perform, if he sticks to the truth. We have the tenor of treason on one side and a lie on the other. But if between 3,000 and 4,000 men were on the ground. This exhibits a promptness worthy of Virginia, and which will tell woefully against the forces of Lincoln, who are to be sent to subjugate us. One thing is very certain, that if he commences on Harper's Ferry, he will have a happy time getting possession of this place and the surrounding heights.--I could, possibly, tell a great deal about affairs here, but it is sometimes not wise to tell tales out of school. We get the Baltimore Sun, Americ
The Daily Dispatch: may 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], Fayette McMullen. (search)
Fayette McMullen. --One of the Washington letters in a Northern paper says : Fayette McMullen has just got in from Richmond. He says there were 10,000 troops there, 10,000 at Norfolk, 7,000 at Harper's Ferry, and others were preparing to leave Richmond for the latter place. Nothing is talked of or thought of but military forces and military operations. Every other man is a soldier, and business is done gone forever. Mr. McMullen's business here is not made public, but he goes bacNothing is talked of or thought of but military forces and military operations. Every other man is a soldier, and business is done gone forever. Mr. McMullen's business here is not made public, but he goes back and forth unmolested. This information is corroborated by Wilson Jones, Government scout, who returned this afternoon. He says, that having traversed the entire route from Richmond to Harper's Ferry, he should estimate the number of troops at and between those two places at 25,000.
The Daily Dispatch: may 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 22 (search)
rn Abolitionist named J. B. Lips, who defied public sentiment and fired into a crowd in St. Francis, Ark, was shot at by the party, and sixty balls entered his body. Mexican news by the steamer arrived at Havana, confirms the report that Dorado had been beaten by those active partisans of the Church party, Mejia and Marquez. The "Jeff Davis Guard" was mustered into service at Lynchburg on Wednesday, making the sixth company which that gallant place has furnished. A company of artillery went this week from Augusta to Harper's Ferry in command of Rev. Wm. N. Pendleton, of the Protestant Episcopal Church. The elements of Farmville are providing for such of the families of about volunteers as may need assistance. Mrs. Lincoln is said to be making extensive purchases of dry goods and jewelry in New York. The report that two privateers have been to wed into New London is not correct. The steamer Supership was destroyed by fire at Montreal, on the th inst.
The Daily Dispatch: may 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], Affairs at Harper' s Ferry. (search)
ll war herself — for 300,000 bushels of grain will support for some time an army of 10,000 men. The correspondent of the Baltimore American furnishes the following description of the Virginia camp at Harper' s Ferry: No visitor to Harper's Ferry can well fail to have his attention challenged by the appearance of the Kentucky Regiment, not less by the greater frequency with which its uniform is seen over any other than by the striking appearance of the stalwart and keen-eyed men compolly detailed to guard the strongly fortified Maryland Heights, the key to the whole position. They know it to be a post of danger, and express an eager desire for the fight, which they believe is soon to occur. The number of soldiers in Harper's Ferry is but small compared with the expectations of those visiting the place. The effect is due to the care with which the forces there have been distributed through the town, the camp upon the hills at Bolivar, and upon the surrounding heights.