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The Daily Dispatch: August 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], For hire. (search)
d--my headquarters — but General Beauregard prevailed on me to prolong my visit until the following day, as he was desirous that I should see the "gory field of fight" once more, in company with himself. Accordingly, after breakfast, on the morning of Friday, the General and his staff, accompanied by a large escort of cavalry, prepared to set out for the purpose of inspecting the field and the various troops encamped around. The sight was an imposing one. By-and-by we were joined by Generals Johnston, Evans, Jones, &c.,&c., and as we all rode along, the country people we encountered turned up their eyes in amazement, under the impression, I very believe, that we were all going to enter Washington! At each encampment the troops turned out, cheered, and presented arms, when General Beauregard dashed along the lines in true military style, and, cap in hand, duly bowed his acknowledgments. When we arrived on the field of battle, I met a large party of Federal prisoners under guar
The Daily Dispatch: August 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 16 (search)
s, that he possessed many of the elements of which great military leaders are made. He raised a company in Huntsville, Alabama, his present place of residence, as soon as it became apparent that war was inevitable between the Abolition Government at Washington and that of the Confederate States. This company formed a portion of the Fourth Alabama Regiment, to the colonelcy of which he was elected in the early part of May last, and was at once ordered to Virginia. He has been with General Johnston from the time of his occupancy of Harper's Ferry to the present. There is no officer in the Confederate army who has all his faculties more nearly under his complete control than the subject of this brief and imperfect sketch. In the hour of danger he is one of the coolest of the cool--one of the bravest of the brave. It is said by those who saw him in the battle of Manassas, when the shots were flying thickest and the men were falling fastest, that he was the impersonation of se
The Daily Dispatch: August 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], For hire. (search)
according to Northern accounts. On Friday, 350 of the men passed through Baltimore for home, and the remainder will probably be disbanded. It will interest the reader to learn, on unquestionable authority, that only about 8,000 troops passed through Baltimore last week for Washington and the upper Potomac, while not less than 10,000 returned home, their term of service having expired. The Northern papers inform us that a flag of truce has reached the Federal headquarters from General Johnston. It is surmised that is related chiefly to an exchange of prisoners. Among the "probable" rumors of the day is one that Gen. McCall, of Pennsylvania, will supersede Gen. Banks in command of the "Army of he Shenandoah." The schooner Tropic Wind has arrived at New York, from Fortress Monroe, in charge of a prize crew. The Tropic Wind was seized on the 29th of June by the order of Major General Builer, for violation of the blockade and communicating with the enemy after having
The Daily Dispatch: August 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway Negro. (search)
o the country, or resume the direct line for Manassas' but whatever his purposes, the letter-writers know nothing of them, and only speak at random. Whatever they may be, he has to encounter the vigilant eyes of such Generals as Beauregard and Johnston, the unfaltering courage of such men as met and overcame the greatest odds at Bethel, Bull's Run, and Manassas, and, above all, that Divine Providence whose interposition from the first in behalf of the Southern cause has been manifest and undenrn cause has been manifest and undeniable, and without whose aid no human skill and energies can prosper. We have no disposition to underrate Gen.McClellan's abilities, but he will find more than his equal in Johnston and Beauregard; and the hundred and fifty thousand men, even if not all men in buckram, will probably find the Southern army increased in sufficient proportion to repeat the scenes and results of the 21st, even if the invaders are lucky enough to find us acting on the defensive.