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The Daily Dispatch: July 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], Notice to our Subscribers. (search)
trick, of the 23d Regiment, shot his servant (a white soldier, named Biddle,) dead, yesterday, by accident. The weather here is exceedingly hot at noonday, and some of our men are suffering greatly for want of shade, as only about four tents for each company were brought across the Potomac. Col. Patterson's Regiment is accepted for three years, and the officers received their commissions yesterday. An incident occurred the other day while I was standing by. A man came up to Major Spear, Provost Marshal, and asked if he could write a letter to his father-in-law, in Baltimore, as he had received no news from him for two months. The Major answered the gentleman, "Certainly; we came to open, not to close your mails." Col. Sigel. Col. Sigel, who commanded the Federal troops in the late engagement with the State forces at Carthage, Mo., is 37 years of age, and a German by birth. He is a graduate of the military school at Carlsruhe. He entered the regular army of Ba