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The Daily Dispatch: may 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], Can the South support a Government? (search)
The Daily Dispatch: May 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], Clarksville, Mecklenburg Co, Va., May 20th, 1861. (search)
Justifiable shooting.
--A portion of the Confederate States.
Army is now posted at Grafton, in Taylor county, Va., for the purpose of preserving order and preventing the incursion of armed bands of lawless ruffians, either of home or foreign extraction.
Last Friday, a fellow named Brown, a blatant, wide-mouth abolitionist and bully.
for a long time the terror of the peaceful citizens of that region, swore he would pass the chain of sentinels established round the post at Grafton, for wGrafton, for which purpose he made towards the soldier in charge, swearing he would go by, despite military rule or any other preventive.
The soldier remonstrated with him, and ordered him to halt, instead of doing which he drew a pistol and discharged it at the guard, the bail striking obliquely on the forehead near the eye, cutting to the bone and going out at the back of the head.
The soldier was knocked down, but soon ascertaining that he was not dead, he rose and discharged his piece at Brown, whom he
The Daily Dispatch: June 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], Damages awarded. (search)
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.from Phillippi. Headq'rsN. W. Va.,Army, Phillippi, May 30th.
I am forced to preface this by saying that I wrote you from Grafton, and mailed the letter last Monday, but doubt that it was ever sent.
Capt. G. W. Hull, of Highland, left yesterday on express for your city.
I did not learn the fact until he called in great haste for aid, and therefore I had no time to drop a line.
You will perceive that from politic motives our first move was a retreat from Grafton, under the impression that a superior force was advancing rapidly on that point, and we could not afford to hazard the loss of valuables that would be difficult to replace.
Reinforcements are advancing to this place rapidly, but I am not at liberty to hint their future direction; but one thing is certain, that there will be a fight very soon, if the party opposed can be found.
Everything is now in readiness for a forced march, with a universal determination to f
The Daily Dispatch: June 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], An elephant Race in Cochin , China . (search)
Quiet.
--The city is unusually quiet at this time, and items of city news, deemed admissible in this column, scarcer than hen's teeth.
Ask anybody you meet if a murder has been committed, dead body of an abandoned child found, robbery effected, or for a surprising instance of generosity, a stabbing affair — in fact any question including an inquiry as to the current price of putty, and you are informed that the enemy has posted himself at Grafton, and that all signs indicate that an engagement will soon take place at some other place equally remote, which, while no doubt very interesting, is not very local.
The Daily Dispatch: June 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], Inundation of Chicot county, Ark. (search)