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The Daily Dispatch: September 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], Another interesting narrative of a cruise in the ocean. (search)
General Floyd. Gen. Floyd, upon the first opportunity afforded him, has vindicated his claim to that military talent which is the inheritance of his family on both sides of the house--Preston and Floyd. All the older Prestons were warriors. Gen. Francis and Gen. John Preston both fought bravely in the revolutionary war, and Col. James (afterwards Governor of the State and Postmaster of this city) distinguished himself highly in the war of 1812.--In the Mexican war, the present Col. James Preston marched through Christiansburg with a company of mountain boys bound for the scene of strife, when an aged citizen remarked that he had seen his father and grandfather do the same thing before him, in the Revolution and in the war of 1812. Gen. Floyd's grandfather, on the father's side, was one of the most successful officers that fought the Indians in the early days of Kentucky history. His father, though be had no opportunity of putting his military talent to the test, was a man of