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The Daily Dispatch: July 16, 1861., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: December 15, 1865., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
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North Carolina Sick and wounded. List of North Carolina Sick and Wounded Soldiers, in the Hospitals at Richmond, on the 20th June, 1864: [continued.] Names.Rank.Regiment.Company.Hospital.Division. Debecy J NPriv31BWinderNo. 2 Denton EPriv6AWinder2 Dilly FPriv46HWinder2 Dean JPriv30GWinder2 Dixon SCapt27GWinderNo. 3 Davis FPriv15GWinder3 Delphi L HPrivPayne'sbatWinder3 Douglass E JPriv15FWinder3 Dalby A JPriv6KWinder3 Davis W GPriv23CWinder3 Davis RPrivManly'sbatWinder3 Deal M MPriv46KWinder3 Daniel M GSeigt8GWinder3 Dorson RPriv66FWinder3 Durdon JPriv55IWinder3 Dowdy EPriv8BWinder3 Denny J RCorpt3CWinder3 Day WPriv37BWinder3 Davidson T FPriv4AWinderNo. 4 Dillinger L MPriv52GWinder4 Dickey JasPriv35EWinder4 Dickins HPriv57CWinder4 Drake W RPriv35DWinder4 Davis E LPriv3GWinder4 Dees J TCorp'l27AWinder4 Darden J CPriv16DWinderNo. 5 Dees J BPriv43KWinder5 Dushee JPriv5DWinder5 Daniels K JPriv4IWinder5 Dale W DPriv2AWinder5 Dillinger S DPriv52GW
y little attention to the subject — but we do know that the most valuable oil wells in Virginia, or rather West Virginia, are located on Burning Spring run, in Wirt county, and that, in boring the hundreds of wells which line the sides of that little stream, no coal was ever discovered. The large deposits of coal in the neighboring regions may be the source of the supply for aught that we know; but if so, some of the most distinguished geologists in that region are very much at fault. Professor Denton, the State geologist of Ohio, has given it as his opinion that it is coral oil. Other persons think that it is a natural oil, and that there is no more reason to suppose it to have been expressed from coal or coral than there is for believing that the salt water which is often pumped up with it comes from solid salt. The wells on Burning Spring run are within a few yards of each other, and yet they vary in depth from one hundred and fifty to three hundred feet, or more, proving that th
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