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The Daily Dispatch: may 30, 1861., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: January 7, 1865., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: July 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], $10 Reward (search)
Carried to Philadelphia. --A Philadelphia letter, (July 19,) says: Three of the prisoners taken in Western Virginia, at Falling Waters, were brought to this city last evening, on their way to Fort Delaware. One of the prisoners gave his name as John Farles, of a Virginia Continental Company, commanded by Capt. Avis; another as George Seely, of Capt. Carter's cavalry company. The third prisoner, whose name was not ascertained, belonged to a cavalry company, and, like Farles, is of Loudoun county, Va. The prisoners are young men, two of them not being apparently more than twenty years old. The one attached to the infantry corps said that his company had Minnie rifles.
The Daily Dispatch: August 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], For hire. (search)
ranscends them all. Spegram. To take Manassas Junction The Yankees thought was fun, But greatly were mistaken, For they only took the Run. Before the battle the cry of the Grand Army was, Forward! to Richmond! Now they are very sorry that they did not give Richmond the cold shoulder. At Manassas the New Orleans Washington Artillery gave a number of masked balls, which were largely attended — with very destructive results. The Northern papers report that Captain Avis, "John Brown's humane jailor," was killed at Bull Run. Spare your tears, Yankees, he was not killed, but he fought gallantly, and "lives to fight another day." The Federal rascals in Baltimore searched the baggage of Mrs L. J. Hart and Miss A Taylor, who were about leaving the city, and found a few buttons, which they captured as contraband. The ladies, who represented themselves to be from New York city, told the officers that, "with or without buttons, the Confederates could and
The Daily Dispatch: January 7, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
Attempting to Cross the lines. --The following parties were sent to this city yesterday, by order of Captain Avis, provost-marshal of Staunton, charged with attempting to cross our lines: J. B. Bragg, Second Virginia regiment; Jackson Stevens, Thirty-first Virginia regiment; J. F. Daggy, Fifty-second, Virginia regiment; A. Hutchens, Fifty-fourth North Carolina regiment; J. W. Shewning, Thirty- first Virginia regiment; H. Shewning, Thirty-first Virginia regiment; and John Nixon, conscript, of Augusta county, Virginia. By order of Assistant Provost-Marshal Doswell they were committed to Castle Thunder, to await trial by court-martial.
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