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The Daily Dispatch: August 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 9 (search)
s that be" at Richmond informed of the transpiring on the border, may be considered as much a duty as useful to our security and protection. For some time past there has been stationed on the opposite bank of the Potomac an encampment of Massachusetts soldiers — for what purpose "deponent saith not," unless it be for our annoyance, which they have been guilty of to almost an unbearable degree. About a week ago a company of them visited this town, under the cover of darkness — about that tto our brave soldiers, Jefferson county is at last rid of the "varmints." Not the sole of an invader's foot now presses her sacred soil, and if a small force is kept along the river, we will never be again troubled with them. Since these Massachusetts menials have been stationed opposite our town, quite a number of our citizens have been in constant dread and alarm. Many of them are afraid to stay at home with their families at night. Our venerable and efficient Captain Splash, who acted