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The Daily Dispatch: August 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], Holmes' Brigade. (search)
Holmes' Brigade. Richmond, Va., Aug. 9, 1861. To the Editors of the Dispatch: --In all of the accounts of the battle at Bull Run, I see in no place where Holmes' Brigade is mentioned, and it is to do that gallant band justice that I now trouble you. Holmes' Brigade was stationed at Aquia Creek before the battle, as iHolmes' Brigade is mentioned, and it is to do that gallant band justice that I now trouble you. Holmes' Brigade was stationed at Aquia Creek before the battle, as it is now, though there has been some addition to it since then. On the 18th, before the memorable 21st, they were ordered to Manassas, arriving there Saturday, perfectly broken down after a very fatiguing march, having had very little to eat, and very little sleep. On the next day they were awakened by the booming of cannon, andHolmes' Brigade was stationed at Aquia Creek before the battle, as it is now, though there has been some addition to it since then. On the 18th, before the memorable 21st, they were ordered to Manassas, arriving there Saturday, perfectly broken down after a very fatiguing march, having had very little to eat, and very little sleep. On the next day they were awakened by the booming of cannon, and were soon ordered to fall in. They then stood there on their arms, expecting every moment to be ordered into the field, until 1 o'clock, when they marched in double quick from the extreme right wing of the army to the left wing, a distance of eight miles. Though the enemy fired into their ranks a great part of the way, they pushe
The Daily Dispatch: August 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], $100 reward (search)
Hustings Court, Aug. 15. --Aldermen Sanxay, Bray, Timberlake, Lipscombe and Anderson, presiding. Mary Holmes, a negro woman, committed to jail as a runaway, four months since, was ordered to be sold, and the proceeds placed into the State Treasury, according to the provisions of the 19th section of the 105th chapter of the Code, nobody having laid claim to her. Geo. W. Stickney was qualified to celebrate marriage licenses in Virginia, according to the rites and ceremonies of the Protestant Episcopal Church. The Rev. gentleman, who is Chaplain of a Louisiana Regiment, exercised the functions of his office on a loving couple last night.