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The Daily Dispatch: July 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], Subscriptions to the Dispatch. (search)
The ball has opened. We understand from a gentleman who left Winchester on Tuesday night that Patterson had advanced from Martinsburg and was within four miles of Winchester. Gen. Johnston was anticipating an early attack and our troops were eager to meet them, and, in facts sent up shout after shout in token of their joy at the prospect of striking a blow for their loved South. There is also no doubt that the ball has opened at Fairfax Court-House, fourteen miles from Alexandria and thirteen from Manassas. It is said that Gen. Scott commands in person at Alexandria. The attack commenced yesterday morning, and a general engagement will, doubtless, take place to-day.
The Daily Dispatch: July 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], A brave woman. (search)
lose, as they are so given to lying and misrepresentation, until the history of this war shall be written. Finding ourselves in a disadvantageous locality, and nearly surrounded by superior numbers, we retreated several miles this side of Martinsburg, and, having been reinforced by General Johnston, offered the enemy a fair fight on an open field; but General Patterson had no idea of meeting General Johnston on anything near an even footing. They must have two to one of us and the advantage of position, or they will never venture close enough to be seen. They are now strongly fortified in the town of Martinsburg, where, doubtless, they find many friends; and not wishing to destroy the place, with the women and children, which they refuse to allow to leave, General Johnston has fallen back upon Winchester, where he is quietly awaiting the coming of the enemy with his fifty thousand men, now reported as being the number of his forces. But I am afraid they will never get any nea
The Daily Dispatch: July 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], Notice to our Subscribers. (search)
by the Confederate forces, three thousand strong, under O. Jennings Wise, and were detained as prisoners of war. Two regiments had been dispatched to their relief and rescue, and report gives it that a fight was inevitable. Affairs at Martinsburg, Va. We take the following from a letter dated Martinsburg, Va., July 10: The arrest of two reporters caused some sensation in town yesterday. Mr. Rea, of the Associated Press, and particularly of the New York Herald, and some young geMartinsburg, Va., July 10: The arrest of two reporters caused some sensation in town yesterday. Mr. Rea, of the Associated Press, and particularly of the New York Herald, and some young gentleman, representing himself as Mr. Underhill, reporter for the Associated Press and the New York Times. Lieut. Kirkpatrick, 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 re
The Daily Dispatch: July 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
Killed and wounded. --The following is a list of the killed and wounded of our forces in the engagement which took place on Tuesday, the 2d inst., six miles from Martinsburg: Killed.--George Rupe and John Farrish. Wounded.--Lawrence McNamara, Arthur D. McClure, Levi Snapp, Uriah Blond, Geo. Echol, James T. Avis, John Doyle, David Kennedy, James Peters, and Philip Maphis.