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The Daily Dispatch: August 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], Partition of territory in the Old Union. (search)
tion. The correspondent of the New York World says the Confederates are moving northeast and southwest from Manassas, contemplating three simultaneous approaches on Washington. The Confederate pickets are stationed every five miles from Harper's Ferry to Fort roas Monroe, on the Potomac and Chesapeake Bay. [Second Dispatch.] Washington, July 30.--The Elisworth First Zouaves, of New York, have been in a state of insubordination ever since their retreat from the Manassas or Bull Runerals, although they are the most vigorous in favor of invasion. The President declines to answer why the Baltimore Police Commissioners were arrested. [Third Dispatch.] Washington,July 30.--General Banks it strongly posted at Harper's Ferry, and nothing is known of any Southern movements in that vicinity. The officers of the Fire Zouaves, and the 7th and 8th New York Regiments, are resigning. The President has called on New Jersey for three regiments. Gen. Scott h
The Daily Dispatch: August 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 12 (search)
Boteler, than whom a more chivalric son of the South does not live, served as a private in the company of his friend and neighbor, Dr. V. M. Butler, and was wounded in the action. Mr. Boteler was one of the first to shoulder his musket when Harper's Ferry was threatened, both in the Brown invasion and at the commencement of the present struggle. The Captain Avis who is killed was the jailor at Charlestown during John Brown's imprisonment there; and Captain G. W. Chambers, of Harper's Ferr V. M. Butler, and was wounded in the action. Mr. Boteler was one of the first to shoulder his musket when Harper's Ferry was threatened, both in the Brown invasion and at the commencement of the present struggle. The Captain Avis who is killed was the jailor at Charlestown during John Brown's imprisonment there; and Captain G. W. Chambers, of Harper's Ferry, was the man who shot Aaron D. Stephens. Braver men than both these never drew a sword, and they each rendered service in Mexico.
The Daily Dispatch: August 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], Arrival of Tooops. (search)
saw no videttes on the roads leading to Newport News or Hampton, and on reaching Hampton they found only a handful of men there. If these places have not been abandoned by the enemy, why this withdrawing of their guards and videttes? Or is this a mere Yankee trick to catch some of our unwary men? Would it be surprising if the panic produced by their disastrous and overwhelming defeat at Manassas should lead the cowardly miscreants to serve Fort Monroe as they did Gosport Navy-Yard and Harper's Ferry? Is there not full as much reason for such an act in this case as in either of the others? Would not the spiking of the guns and blowing up of the casemates, and destruction of other property, be in entire keeping with other acts of the Administration? I cannot close this without relating a little incident connected with the capture of those Yankee prisoners on the 12th of this month. During the skirmish six of the enemy ran into a field and stood huddled together like so many sh