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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: December 19, 1861., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Trent or search for Trent in all documents.
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"Virginia's Renegades."
--The Fairfax Family.--The N. O. Delta, in its comments upon the Federal Fairfax, who boarded the Trent, does unintentional injustice to the descendants of Lord Fairfax, when it says that "they have always nourished the most bitter feelings of hostility against this State" (Virginia) on account of the confiscation of their ancestor's possessions.
Whilst cordially agreeing with the Delta in its emphatic condemnation of the recreant conduct of the Federal lieutenant, we feel quite certain that he is as much a renegade from the Fairfax family as he is from the State of Virginia. --Whilst there is one Lieutenant Fairfax in the Federal Navy, we know of two certainly-- a Captain and Lieutenant — who are in the Confederate Navy, one of them said to have been the best ordnance officer in the late U. S. service.
Another connexion of this family, Captain Thomas T. Hunter, is also in our navy, and a more thorough seaman and accomplished officer never trod a quarte
The Daily Dispatch: December 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], Photographs. (search)