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The Daily Dispatch: may 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], How the Southerners Treat prisoners of war. (search)
Personal. --There arrived yesterday at the Exchange Hotel and Ballard House among others, R. W. Irwin, Washington, D. C.; E. C. Clements, W. D. Longstreet, Harper's Ferry; J. H. Pendleton. Wheeling; Jas. Barron Hope, Hampton; J. Wilkinson, Va. Navy; Jno. Evans, Brazoria, Texas; J. R. Bryan, Gloucester. At the Spotswood, Col. Thos. Preston, S. C.; C. O. Sanford, Petersburg; Hon. T. S. Flournoy, Halifax; Col. Asa D. Dickinson, Prince Edward; Col. Joel Hays, Gloucester; and others.
The Daily Dispatch: may 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], Pensacola to be Stormed. (search)
aucy on the "Confederate States." We have plenty of good fresh beef, and good Virginia bacon, rice, beans, capital bread, coffee, sugar, salt, vinegar, and such etceteras as will make up a good fare. If our boys can't whip Abraham's lank Yankees, it would be a wonder. There are not enough men in and around Washington to take Harper's Ferry. Well-fed, well-clothed, and lively as our men are, we can present at this post the best soldiery in the world. Hon. Jere, Morton, of Virginia, and Col. Preston, of South Carolina, have arrived here, and now act as aids and advisers to the Commandant. The weather during the day is quite warm, but the nights are delightful. The irregularity of the mails is a source of great annoyance, and it is to be hoped that when our Confederacy assumes control of this Department, the grievance will be remedied. We mail letters, and sometimes several days elapse before a letter leaves for its destination. Not much news afloat here. Pen.
The Daily Dispatch: may 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], How the New York Regiment Behaved in the Mexican war. (search)
and able protector in the person of his master. I received on our way, from the hands of a lady, a bouquet, with the following words written on a slip of paper: "If God be for us, who can be against us?" That this should have fallen into the hands of the Chaplain, surely was a strange coincidence, and one which, I trust, betokens success to our cause. There are a large number of troops encamped here at present, embracing the two South Carolina regiments; another regiment, under Col. Preston, arrived this evening. The whole camp was thrown into great excitement this morning by the report that the advance guard of the Federal forces were at Fairfax Court House, about fifteen miles distant. The wild shouts of success to their arms which went up to the heavens, as regiment after regiment formed its solid columns into the line, surpassed any thing I ever heard in my whole life. The deportment of the Howitzers in this their first appearance on the anticipated battle-fiel