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Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.Affairs at Jamestown — the recent battle, &c. Jamestown Batteries, June 13, 1861.
In compliance with your invitation to send you the news, I nibble my pen in order to get together a few ideas, if possible.
Unfortunately, in a wooden shanty like the one in which I write, tormented by flies by day and mosquitoes by night, my ideas are very much like raw recruits.
There is no use in telling them to keep step, preserve their distances, or keep silence in ranks.
They wont hold up their heads or pay attention until I am nearly driven mad by their abominable confusion.
Our companies in high spirits at the news of the attack and defer it of the enemy at Bethel Church.
As yet we cannot know the number of the killed and wounded, but we are sure that our men did their duty bravely.
The guns were heard here several times during the day, and when the boat arrived with dispatches and gave us first the news, no description could be written o
The Daily Dispatch: June 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], Wilmington, N. C., June 13 1861. (search)
Wilmington, N. C., June 13 1861.
In pursuance to a call meeting, our citizens met at the Theatre last night, for the purpose of adopting resolutions concerning Northern persons who had domiciled in Wilmington for twenty years, and those who are leaving and those who have left.
Messrs.J. L. H. and J. R. B., men who have made their fortunes in Wilmington; men, as I may say, who have been raised from the lowest pit of poverty to throes of riches, crept quietly out of town a day or two ago, in the igee hours of the morning.
There is a general suspension of all kinds of business to-day.
Service in all the churches.
Worrill.
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.what Amelia county is doing. Amelia County, June 13, 1861.
1 notice communications from several counties telling what their counties had done in raising and equipping volunteers to drive back the Northern barbarians Amelia county, with only 480 men between 18 and 45, has already sent and had mustered into service four companies, and has just raised and equipped within a few days another splendid company of between 60 and 70 men. with two ministers as officers; one the Rev. Richard McIlwain, Pastor of the Amelia Presbyterian Church, the other the Rev, Mr. Barnes, of the Methodist Church--the whole amounting to about 300 men; and five gentlemen in the county have 20 so is in the field: L. E, Harvie, Esq.,4; Mr. Taylor, 4; Mr. Ryall, 4, Mr. Kitt Roberts, 4; and Capt Jackson will have 4 as soon as his son, Dr Jackson, recovers from a broken hand and joins his company.
I think these facts are worthy of record, and may stimulate other counti
From Manassas Junction.[Special correspondence of the Dispatch.] Camp Pickens, June 13th, 1861.
The unfortunate Mr. Taylor, who was accidentally shot by a member of the Alexandria Rifles, has since died of the effects of the wound.
Mr. John T. Alvey, of Richmond, of the Governor's Guard, lost his horse and saddle at the hands of Lincoln's scouts.
The sad intelligence has just reached us that a Mr. Furcron, of the Powhatan Cavalry, was shot by our own guards and immediately killed.--Mr. F, who was out on duty, left his post and went to a spring to drink.
There he saw several soldiers who he supposed belonged to the enemy.
He immediately wheeled, put spurs to his horse and darted off. The soldiers who Mr. F. mistook for the enemy, ordered him to halt; which, refusing to do he was immediately fired upon and killed, they supposing him to belong to a scouting party of the Federal troops, from his failing to stop when commanded.--Such intelligence mingles sadly with the
From another correspondent. Camp Pickens, near Manassas Station, June 13th, 1861.
A melancholy accident occurred on yesterday.
Mr. Warren S. Fureron, from Chesterfield, a member of the Powhatan.
Troop of Cavalry, commanded by Capt. John F. Lay, who was one of two videttes stationed about three and a half miles from the Camp, having gone a few hundred yards from his post to a spring, was shot by a member of Capt. R. T. W. Duke's company, from Albemarle.
Mr. Furcron was a new recruit, and did not have on the uniform of the Powhatan Troop when the unfortunate mistake occurred.
His remains were escorted with military honors to the cars, and sent home under guard to his parents in Chesterfield county.
A damper has been cast upon the officers and corps, beyond even the casualties of a long-expected encounter with the enemy.
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.the National fast day. Gordonsville, Va., June 13, 1861.
This day was observed throughout the whole of this community, according to the proclamation of the President of the Confederate States, as a day of fasting and solemn prayer to God for a blessing on our Southern cause.
All necessary business was suspended, every store closed, and the quiet and solemnity of a Sabbath reigned around.
Religious services were held in the Presbyterian Church, conducted by the pastor, Rev. D. B. Ewing.
All the denominations united in the services, and all seemed deeply impressed with the solemnities of the occasion.
Never was more unanimity manifested in any cause, than that with reference to which this solemn convocation was held.
The very servants all seemed to enter with hearty zeal into the objects of the day, and testified their approval by contributing their means to sustain the war in which their welfare is so much at stake.
The contributio
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.false alarm — departure of troops, &c. Lexington,Va., June 13, 1861.
A few mornings since our town was thrown into excitement by the announcement that the enemy designed making a sudden attack, with a view to secure the arms contained in the Arsenal at this place.
The news spread rapidly through the country, and at an early hour the stalwart mountaineers were seen gathering by numbers in Lexington, armed with rifles, fowling-pieces, and such other destructive weapons as they could secure.
A courier was dispatched in the direction of the Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs — which place, it was rumored, had been burnt by the enemy — to ascertain if the report was correct.
In the meantime, the utmost activity prevailed amongst the citizens, who were soon prepared to give Lincoln's mercenaries a warm reception had they dared pollute the soil of noble Rockbridge by their foul tread.
The report was, however, soon contradicted, and in due ti<