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The Daily Dispatch: April 3, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
The gunboat fund. We insert the partriotie response of Col. Edmund Fontains, President of the Virginia Central Railroad, to the proposition for building a gunboat or gunboats for the defence of Richmond. His name will be placed in honorable contrast with those of Messrs. Charles M. Wallace and Edmund Ruffin, of Virginia, Col. Blanton Duncan, of Kentucky, Milton P. Garnigan, of Tennessee, and others who have stepped forward in aid of the project with a patriotic generosity that needs no commendation. Let others emulate the example. Col. Fontaine's letter reads as follows: Heaverdam, Hanover, April 2, 1862. To the Editors of the Dispatch: Dear Sir --As you seem to be the organ for residing subscriptions for the proposed gunboat. "Richmond," you will put my name down, $250. If the enterprise goes forward promptly, and it be necessary, I will double by subscription. Although you are justified in saying there is a "seeming indifference"among the citizens of Richmond