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The Daily Dispatch: June 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], The circulation of the Dispatch. (search)
press from Bunker's Hill has just arrived, sating that 8,000 men are lying there, at Martinsburg, and at various points along the Potomac, between Hancock and Harper's Ferry, including Col. Jackson's force. His five regiments are the 1st Virginia, Col. Allen; the Col. Preston; the 7th, Col. Gordon; the 5th, Col. unknown, and anoee pieces of cannon. Gen. Johnston is fortifying Winchester. A battery is being raised on a wooded hill overlooking the fair grounds. When he evacuated Harper's Ferry the whole column went to Charleston, thence to Bunker's Hill, where, when on sunday Gen. Patterson's column crossed the river, his whole force drew up in lineexclusive of the dragoons and artillery which accompanied Maj.Gen. McClellan. The fleet was evidently destined for the Kanawha country, but the evacuation of Harper's Ferry and other events rendered a change of programme desirable. There was a great excitement about the Baltimore and Ohio railroad deploy yesterday afternoon,
The Daily Dispatch: June 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], Notice to our Subscribers. (search)
o more companies were sent up the river in the direction of Clearspring, also in search of the supposed enemy, but returned without finding him. Ward H. Lamon, Esq., Marshal of the District of Columbia, has succeeded in raising tree infantry companies for his Virginia regiment. A battery has been erected here according to a plan of Lieut. Babcock, of the United States engineers. It has transpired in official circles here that Gen. Cadwallader desired, a week ago, to occupy Harper's Ferry with an advance brigade, and that Gen. Patterson flatly refused permission. Great surprise is manifested at this refusal. A messenger was sent by your correspondent yesterday to Falling Waters, who report that Col. Jackson's force has been increased by the concentration of troops within the seek to between 4,000 and 5,000. Startling intelligence reached here to-night by the same person, who went again across the river to-day, that Gen. Johnston, in person, with his rear guard,
The Daily Dispatch: June 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], A "Brush." (search)
nemy, and precisely the same measure that they mete out to our men shall we mete out to theirs. Hitherto, under circumstances of the gravest provocation and wrong, the course of our authorities has been distinguished by leniency and humanity. Wright and Rodgers, the two Federal officers who were arrested after attempting to produce an explosion at the Navy-Yard, which might have destroyed the lives of everybody in Gosport, were discharged without even their parole. Harney, captured at Harper's Ferry, was also humanely set at liberty, and showed his appreciation of the act by seeking to crush the liberties of Missouri beneath a bloody military despotism. Other prisoners have been released upon parole, and no departure from the rules of civilized warfare has occurred in a single instance in the treatment of prisoners or in any other part of the conduct of this war. On the contrary, the enemy themselves admit that their prisoners have been kindly treated, and that, amidst the deep fee