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The Daily Dispatch: July 22, 1861.., [Electronic resource], The recent flag of truce from President Davis to Abraham Lincoln. (search)
1861. To His Excellency Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States: Sir: In obedience to your instructions, I left the city of Richmond on the morning of the 7th July, at 6 o'clock A. M., as bearer of dispatches to His Excellency Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States. At Manassas I received from General Beauregard a letter to General McDowell, commanding the U. S. forces at Arlington. From Manassas I proceeded to Fairfax Court-House, where I was furnished, by General Bonham, an escort of fourteen cavalry, under the command of Lieut. Breckinridge, of the Virginia cavalry. Proceeding on the direct road to Alexandria to its junction with the road to Arlington, I met a detachment of cavalry under the command of Colonel Porter, U. S. A., about three miles from the junction, from which place I sent back my escort. Captain Whipple, U. S. A., accompanied me to Arlington, where I arrived about 4 o'clock P. M., Monday, the 8th. Gen. McDowell not being at Arlington,