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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: August 20, 1861., [Electronic resource].
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Pearisburg (Virginia, United States) (search for this): article 9
We heard yesterday, on good authority that there were now 13,000 men on the line railroad between Richmond and Wilmington N. C. The men alluded to were "uniformed armed and equipped" according to someone under which they had assembled, and were making their way towards the North.
Doubtless we shall see them as they part.
We also learn that 700 cavalry well mounted and armed arrived from the South in Pearisburg yesterday.
For aught we know they may be tending in the same direction as the other parties alluded to.
Abe Lincoln (search for this): article 9
Jacob Rohr (search for this): article 9
A Heroine.
--We believe our Southern women themselves could whip the Yankees, if they were disposed to enter the field as "belligerents." A few cases illustrating the heroism of the gentler sex in the South have recently been brought to our notice, one of which we will mention, as the lady whose nerve was found adequate to the occasion of its trial is the daughter of our old and valued friend and fellow-citizen, Jacob Rohr, Sr., Esq., Mrs. Nancy Grove, wife of Mr. Geo. Grove, living near Middle Fork, in Upshur county, a few days before the fight at Rich Mountain, had the misfortune, in her husband's absence from home, to be visited by some of the thieving vagabonds of which Lincoln's army in Northwestern Virginia is composed.
They came for the purpose of thieving.
They entered Mr. Grove's house and gathered up some of his property for the purpose of carrying it off. Mrs. Grove, having no gun, resolutely seized the fire-shovel and the broomstick, and applying them vigorously to
Nancy Grove (search for this): article 9
A Heroine.
--We believe our Southern women themselves could whip the Yankees, if they were disposed to enter the field as "belligerents." A few cases illustrating the heroism of the gentler sex in the South have recently been brought to our notice, one of which we will mention, as the lady whose nerve was found adequate to the occasion of its trial is the daughter of our old and valued friend and fellow-citizen, Jacob Rohr, Sr., Esq., Mrs. Nancy Grove, wife of Mr. Geo. Grove, living near Middle Fork, in Upshur county, a few days before the fight at Rich Mountain, had the misfortune, in her husband's absence from home, to be visited by some of the thieving vagabonds of which Lincoln's army in Northwestern Virginia is composed.
They came for the purpose of thieving.
They entered Mr. Grove's house and gathered up some of his property for the purpose of carrying it off. Mrs. Grove, having no gun, resolutely seized the fire-shovel and the broomstick, and applying them vigorously to
George Grove (search for this): article 9
Virginia (Virginia, United States) (search for this): article 9
Rich Mountain (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): article 9
Upshur (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): article 9