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The Daily Dispatch: June 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], Abolitionists Won't fight. (search)
armed with rifles, bowie-knives, axes, hoes, rocks, sticks, &c., &c., waiting for the arrival of the enemy. This is a fair expose of the feelings of Western Virginia, East of Kanawha county, and should the day come when the Ohio men feel inclined to march through this section of country, my word for it, a stump-tail ox in fly time would be more comfortable. I learned that 3,000 men were in and around Lewisburg, anxiously awaiting their coming. Six hundred were on the march from Alleghany, five hundred from Monroe, and as many were ready to march from this county and Craig. When these people learned that the report was a false one, many threw down their arms, enraged at the idea of being disappointed.--All hoped it was true, as we are satisfied, that the march of the enemy through our mountain gorges will result in the complete destruction of every devil of them. The militia are rapidly coming in, in obedience to the Proclamation of Gov. Letcher. Sharp-Shooter.
The Daily Dispatch: June 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 9 (search)
ived from the North with heavy reinforcements, numbering 3,000. If this be true, as I have no doubt it is, not less than 5,000 troops are encamped at Newport News at the time I write. I am happy to communicate to you the departure of a large number of those noted Union- shriekers, who belonged to the Marion Rifles, and who lately voted for Abe Lincoln. They have gone over to their friends, to dwell among them in peace and love. Through the Captain of our steamer that conveyed them to Monroe, we learn more about the Harriet Lane. Lieut. Daniel, of our Regiment, learns from our Lieutenant Colonel, who had a conversation with the Captain of the steamer, who went aboard the Harriet on his visit to the Fortress, that three shots certainly took effect, one of them bursting the magazine all to pieces. The commander of the Harriet Lane (with whom he is well acquainted) informed him that six men were wounded during the engagement at Pig Point, but would not say that any were killed. I