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The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Col. Branton Duncan, of Kentucky. (search)
From the Eastern Shore. piratical expedition of the Yankees — property stolen and vessels burnt — a Sharp skirmish, &c. [Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.] Northampton Co., Va., Aug, 6, 1861. The Yankee hirelings, in pursuance of their programme, on Wednesday last entered the Pocomoke River with three steamers and two barges, and landing about two hundred and fifty of their men, marched a mile or two into Accomac. They were met by a few members of a volunteer company in the neighborhood, and after exchanging their rounds retreated to their boats — not, however, before they had robbed a store in the neighborhood of about $300. The same day they appeared at Chesinessick, lower down the county, and after killing a few sheep and towing away a vessel or two, disappeared from the neighborhood. On Friday they appeared in Cherrystone Creek, in this county, and continued their wanton and unprovoked destruction of private property by boarding and burning two <
The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Gen. McClellan and the Press. (search)
th the deepest feelings of mortification we see the glorious flag of our country, which for more than eighty years has waved over the happiest people on earth, now desecrated by being used to hide the cloven foot of black abolitionism. The Pocomoke expedition. The Old Point correspondent of the Pennsylvania Inquirer, who accompanied the Federal expedition to Pocomoke river, admits that they were driven off three times by the Confederates and finally compelled to retreat to Fortress MonrPocomoke river, admits that they were driven off three times by the Confederates and finally compelled to retreat to Fortress Monroe. The Fanny Cadwallader, one of the gun-boats, got aground and narrowly escaped capture. The narrative, however, abounds with lies. A letter, published in another column of the Dispatch, gives all the facts. "Played out." Under this caption, the Baltimore South exposes the falsity of the representations coming from Washington in regard to the filling up of the depleted ranks of the "grand army." After giving the causes which reduced that army to its present condition, and showing t