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The Daily Dispatch: July 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], From the Kanawha Valley. (search)
f woman for Louisiana to swear by.--N O Delta. A hard set. --A Winchester correspondent of the Petersburg Express mentions the following incident: When at Martinsburg, Mrs. Charles James Faulkner took occasion to call in person on Patterson to acquaint him of the enormities of his vandal crew. Patterson candidly confessed that they were a hard set, and specified the occupations and antecedents of several of his men to prove the assertion. He said that they were an obdurate and chis vandal crew. Patterson candidly confessed that they were a hard set, and specified the occupations and antecedents of several of his men to prove the assertion. He said that they were an obdurate and contumacious set, and that he was unable to prevent their thieving propensities. He had given and issued orders, but hey were of no avail, and he had to allow them the full length of their "tother" in despair, and was without hope of ever working a reformation among them for the better.--
The Daily Dispatch: July 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], Edward Everett. (search)
the sagacity which planned all the movements. To have risked a battle by attacking superior numbers, entailing defeat upon us, would doubtless have crushed our proud Republic in its inception. When Gen. Johnston, (who has always been in correspondence with Gen. Beauregard in regard to the junction of their armies, and who for weeks Gas — also pointed out to the President the absolute necessity of such a movement,) received orders to form the junction, it came at a fortunate moment, when Patterson had moved to Charleston, 24 miles distant, and had placed it out of his power to attack as in the rear. Only 10,000 of our column arrived in time for the battle, but they ware enough. To return, however, to the battle, our line was extended over a distance of eight miles, in a position nearly assimilating to a semicircle. On Saturday night Gen. Johnston assumed command, and nearly the entire night was consumed by the staff of both Generals in writing orders to the different brigades