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The Daily Dispatch: January 9, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Burnside expedition — the Designs of the Federal fleet--Norfolk its destination, &c. (search)
undation, and piling it up over the main land, blowing up old Fort Norfolk and the magazine, demolishing the splendid stone structure and model hospital on the opposite shore, taking quiet possession of Norfolk and Portsmouth, helping themselves to the Navy-Yard and so forth and so on. But to be a little more serious — a gentleman recently from the North, says the expedition is intended for Norfolk; and the correspondent of a Western paper says it is certainly designed for the waters of Eastern Virginia, including the Elizabeth, of course, and its branches. Let them come is the almost unanimous voice of the people hereabouts. We are tired of waiting for them, and shall doubtless have to wait much longer before any serious attempt is made by the Yankees fleet to come up hither--Quid times? Caesarem vehis. I have reliable information direct from the Roads. There are about a dozen Federal vessels lying near Old Point and Newport News, including transports; besides which there are
The Daily Dispatch: January 9, 1862., [Electronic resource], An appeal in Behalf of the soldiers from Western Virginia. (search)
ause by their brave and patriotic conduct in the battles of Searey, Cross Lanes, Big Creek, and Carnifax Ferry. These men, with two or three other regiments, have undergone more hard service than any other in the Confederate army. Although most of the time without tents, and in constant active service, they have undergone all these hardships without the least situation These Western Virginia regiments are in a worse condition than any other soldiers in the service. while the men from Eastern Virginia, and the other Southern States, are in almostly daily correspondence with their families and friends, these Western soldiers are entirely out off from all communication with theirs. The families and friends of the soldiers from the Southern States have been sending their hundreds of thousands, and even millions of dollars worth of clothing and articles of comfort, while these Western Virginians have not received one cent's worth. The Twenty-Second Regiment has recently been sent t
nt in the Confederacy, and is of incalculable value to the South at this time. Extensive preparation has been made for the manufacture of saltpetre in Southwestern Virginia, a region abounding every where in limestone caves, containing most rich and extensive deposits of earth strongly imprenated with this mineral. There is probably a greater capacity for the production of saltpetre in Southwestern Virginia than in any other region of the Confederacy. Right through the heart of Southwestern Virginia runs the great line of railway connecting Virginia, North Carolina, the Atlantic seaboard, and the Confederate Government with Tennessee, Kentucky, Mch a road, such a country, such a treasury of indispensable minerals, being abandoned to the enemy by the Confederacy, what is to be done? Plainly this: the State of Virginia must herself interpose and provide the means requisite to its protection and to her own salvation. The delegates of all that region of country, naturally of