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The Daily Dispatch: July 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], A brilliant action. (search)
th which the patriotic masses of our people are rallying to the support of our country's flag, we need only mention a single fact that has recently come to our knowledge. Gen. Sneed, the present commander at Fort Wright, above this city, desiring a number of hands to prosecute the work upon the fortifications of that place, detailed some of the soldiers to go into the surrounding country and obtain the services of one hundred negroes for six days.--After a short absence they returned to camp with two hundred hands, and reported that more could be had if needed. And this liberal sacrifice was made by planters, notwithstanding in most instances they were compelled to take the laborers from the field, where they were busily engaged in the culture of the crops. This exhibition of prompt and practical patriotism is significant of the spirit by which the people of the South are actuated. Their own interests are made subordinate to the weal of a common county.-- Memphis Appeal, July 16.