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The Daily Dispatch: June 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], French interests in South America . (search)
From Harper's Ferry.prospects for a fight — Accidents — seizure of U. S. Flag--Mrs. Johnsen, of Maryland.[special correspondence of the Dispatch.] Harpers' Ferry, Va., June 5, 1861.
Judging from the display of soldiery in the Western part of this State, made up of Northern trash, we are not very far off from a fight, if Lincoln really means to repossess the property of the United States.
The taking of Grafton by the United States troops, will become about as notorious probably as the celebrated capture of Greytown, by the U. S. forces, in which engagement one life was lost; but it turned out to be a monkey.
So with Grafton.
Northern journals make great boasts of taking the village, when there was none to dispute their entrance.
The announced flight of Virginia forces is all gas, for there were none there to fly. Several hundred had been there, but had left several days before Northern troops came — as per the order of the General who sent them on a special mission.
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The Daily Dispatch: June 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], War matters. (search)
The Heroine.
--The two loyal women who, at the peril of their lives from hired enemies and home tractors, escaped from the Black Republicans at Grafton, and like the man in Roleby,
"Cared not for brake, stopped not for stone, Swam the broad Eske where ford there was none,"
to cry to our troops at Phillippi, "To your arms, C Israel the enemy are upon you!" are now at the Virginia Hotel, in Staunton, refugees from their homes.
Had the commanders at Phillippi been made off such stuff as these fair once are, the surprise and stampede which took place, and which nothing but fighting to the death on the part of the retreating troops can alone for, never would have happened.--Staunton Vindicator.
The Daily Dispatch: June 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Northwest. (search)