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The Daily Dispatch: may 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], An Indian War in Michigan. (search)
uct works in this city. Most of the principals engaged upon the works, Chief Engineer Myers, four of his assistants, Captain Meigs, corresponding clerk; and Mr. Rivers, whom Captain Meigs left in charge of the Capitol when he went to Fort Pickens, Captain Meigs left in charge of the Capitol when he went to Fort Pickens, have all seceded, gone South and joined the traitors. Complaints have been made that the four hundred men referred to above originally were organized into four companies by Myers, and that they were disloyal, and being stationed at Drover's Rest, oe line of the canal, were evidently engaged in bad business; accordingly, Secretary Cameron issued an order to-day to Captain Meigs to disband and disperse the four companies named, and to see to it that the horses and other property belonging to thld. Except that Mr. Myers was not the Chief Engineer of the Aqueduct — that none of his assistants did resign — that Captain Meigs is not a corresponding clerk — that no companies existed — that the road to Harper's Ferry does not run by Drover's