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The Daily Dispatch: January 21, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the South. (search)
r at Hanging Rock. Exaggerated and false rumors having gone abroad with respect to the retreat of our forces from Hanging Rock, in Hampshire county, Va., we copy from the Rockingham Register, of the 17th inst., the following statement of facts, obtained from a reliable gentleman who was present at the time: Our forces fit for service, all told, did not, amount to over 300. They consisted of a skeleton of one troop of cavalry--Captain Sheets's — a part of Col. Monroe's brigade of Hampshire militia, Capt. Sibert's 8th Star Artillery, from New Market, (two guns,) and a part of Col. Mann Spittler's regiment of Page, Shenandoah, and Rockingham militia, under Lt.-Col. Buswell--these whole forces forming Col. Monroe's brigade, and amounting in all, as before stated, to not over 300 effective men. The enemy, amounting to at least 7,000 men, on Tuesday, the 7th inst., came upon this small band of soldiers, guarding this mountain pass, between daylight and sunrise, driving in our
The Daily Dispatch: January 21, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the South. (search)
amount of a license tax erroneously paid into the Treasury. （House bill.) A bill authorizing the Commissioner of the Revenue for the Southern District of Hall fax county, to issue a licence to David Apt as a hawker and pedlar in said county.-- (Senate bill.) Leave to introduce bills. Mr. Collier, of Petersburg, asked leave to introduce a till as a substitute for the bill for raising Virginia's quota for the Confederate army; and that it may be printed. Mr. Armstrong, of Hampshire, asked a similar permission; which was granted. Mr. Brennan, from the Committee on Finance and Claims, reported that said committee had under consideration the resolution on the subject of refunding to John S. Lacy, sheriff of New Kent county, the damages paid into the Treasury upon three executions upon judgments recovered against him by the Common wealth, and the committee report that it is inexpedient to grant the relief therein sought. Mr. Newman, of Mason, suggesting to the
The Daily Dispatch: January 21, 1862., [Electronic resource], Empty Menaces. (search)
. Jackson, at the head of his small but dauntless army, marched from Winchester on the first day of the present year, it might have been regarded a brilliant achievement, and one worthy of the thanks of the country, if by the first day of February he could expel from the limits of his military district the Northern invaders, who had taken possession of a large portion of it, and who had made their arrangements for wintering there. At that time two-thirds of the large and wealthy county of Hampshire, with the rich values of the South Branch and Patterson's Creek, were in their possession. They had a force of 8,000 infantry at Romney, with a good proportion of cavalry, and twenty cannon — all protected by strong and formidable artificial defences, 2,000 troops at Springfield, nine miles distant, and 1,000 at Green Spring Valley, sixteen miles from Romney. So, in like manner, the entire county of Morgan was in the possession or under the control of the enemy, where they had from 1,500