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The Daily Dispatch: August 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], $100 reward. (search)
, of Van Buren, is among the killed; also, Jos. J. Walton. Poor Joe, as he fell, waved his hat to his men, and cried, "onward, boys, onward" Maj. Harper, of Churchill's regiment, was taken prisoner, but afterwards made his escape. His brother, (Jim,) Adjutant of the regiment, is, I learn, mortally wounded. Lincoln and all his host can't whip our men, when they fight as they did yesterday. They never turned their backs, but their cry was "onward." A third letter says: We killed Gen. Lyon and have about five hundred prisoners. Gen. Siegel is in the woods, we have taken all his cannon and cut off his command; we took about 150 of his men prisoners; the cavalry, Carroll's and the Texan regiment, are now after him. Ben Johnson had his horse killed under him, within about two feet of me. My horse was slightly wounded, but not enough to hurt — he stood the battle finely. I was by the side of Gen. McCulloch when a battery opened on us with grape, killed Johnson's horse and made
The Daily Dispatch: August 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], $100 reward. (search)
mmanding the fort, to see that it contains nothing designed to give aid and comfort to the enemy. Letters of a domestic nature are merely glanced over. In short, the officer in command adheres strictly to the letter and spirit of Gen. Scott's injunction, "Treat them kindly, make them comfortable, but keep them securely." The prisoners now confined in the fort are as follows: Charles Howard, (president,) Wm. Gatchell and John W. Davis, Baltimore police Commissioners; R. H. Alvey,--Lyon, Robert Muir,--Smith, Thomas S. Serrill, Chas. Kopperan, Pierce Butler, Louis De Bebian, Samuel Alken, Col. Chas. H. Tyler, and G. Berrett, Mayor of Washington. The New York correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger writes: No more State prisoners, it is understood, will be sent to Fort Lafayette, for the reason that the number of "transient boarders" at present occupying that place is fully equal to its capacity. Even if this were not so, however, the exposed condition of the for