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The Daily Dispatch: may 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], An important question. (search)
An important question. --A letter from Fortress Monroe to the N. Y. Tribune says: It is an important question who shall occupy the peninsula between York and James Rivers, at a line as high up as Yorktown, on York River. With that line occupied by ten thousand or fifteen thousand rebel troops a very important step will have been taken in a comprehensive plan for the investment of Fortress Monroe. With that line occupied by Federal troops, a rope would be round Virginia's neck. It would command her completely on the seaboard side, stop communication between Norfolk and Richmond by James River, and render useless the communication Richmond has with York River by rail to West Point on York River; both rivers would be completely blockaded, and Fortress Monroe rendered secure with a small force inside of
The Daily Dispatch: May 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], Frightful wife murder. (search)
Persons desiring to write to members of the "Peyton Artillery " will direct to Yorktown, via Williamsburg, care of Captain J. Peyton, 4th Artillery.
The Daily Dispatch: may 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
Casualty. --Julius Sadler, a private in Col. D. H. Hill's 1st Regiment of North Carolina Volunteers, a native of Charlotte, N. C., fell from the cars of the Richmond and York River Railroad on Friday night last, while his regiment was being conveyed to Yorktown, when nine miles from this city, and had his head mashed off, falling directly under the wheels. The absence of the unfortunate man was not noticed at the time, nor was anybody aware of the casualty till the return of the train on Saturday, when the body was discovered and brought to this city and prepared for interment or transmission home, by Mr. Belvin. Accidents of the kind, serious as they are, may reasonably be looked for, but that fact should incite not only soldiers, but railroad employees, to be more guarded in making the hurried journeys the exigencies of the times demands at their hands.
The Daily Dispatch: may 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], Harriet Martineau and the Tariff. (search)
this morning, and it being found impossible to awake one of them, your correspondent resorted to a scientific method, sometimes employed in London, with such immediate effect, that but for the interposition of the sentinel and sergeant, the suddenly aroused and infuriated man would have given your correspondent a black eye with which to enter Williamsburg to-day. Our company is well and cheerful — some two or three complaining a little, but will soon be well again. We expect to reach Yorktown to-night, (passing through Williamsburg,) a distance of fifteen miles. Having to feed the Regiment, doctor the company, and play the Lieutenant, your correspondent has quite enough to do at present. I have been informed, upon what seems good authority, that 400 or 500 Yankees from Old Point entered Hampton a day or two ago, but returned very soon to the Fort. But I receive almost every report with some doubt. If I shall hereafter write you, I wish to say now that I shall not tell you
The Daily Dispatch: June 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 9 (search)
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.from Yorktown. Yorktown, Va., May 27, 1861. Yorktown — the scene of great events in the olden time, has again become the theatre of soul-stirring action, and amid the rolling of the drum, the martial file and warlike bugle, a scene has been enacted in our midst which calls forth every better and holier feeling in the heart. The event I would refer to was the presentation of a most beautiful flag to the "Peyton Artillery," that gallant and paYorktown — the scene of great events in the olden time, has again become the theatre of soul-stirring action, and amid the rolling of the drum, the martial file and warlike bugle, a scene has been enacted in our midst which calls forth every better and holier feeling in the heart. The event I would refer to was the presentation of a most beautiful flag to the "Peyton Artillery," that gallant and patriotic band now here to yield their lives for the maintenance of their rights and the inviolate sanctity of their hearths. But not only in the action of presenting a flag lies the intense interest that this scene has excited. When we recollect that on the very ground on which our camp is placed, nay, on the very elevation, a stone was enacted upwards of three-quarters of a century since, which led to our glorious independence that is now threatened by the sordid spirits of the North, which ha
The Daily Dispatch: June 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], Changes on Morris' Island. (search)
From Yorktown.[special Correspondence of the Dispatch.] Yorktown, May 30, 3 o' clock P. M. A brief sojourn here of twenty-four hours enables me to give you a brief account of the movements hereabouts, and the condition of things at this place and Gloucester Point. On our arrival here yesterday, every thing seemea general movement of Orderly bearing orders, and soon all the troops were in commotion. Information flad reached headquarters that the enemy was advancing upon Yorktown. Of course immediate steps were taken to prepare for their arrival and give them a warm reception. At about 7 ½ o'clock P. M. the troops were all posted in batour men were under arms all night. About sunrise, the 3d Regiment, embracing Capt. Walker's Virginia Lite Guard and other companies from Richmond, marched into Yorktown. They were covered with dust and somewhat fatigued by the march over that sandy road from Williamsburg. They had received orders to march after the information
The Daily Dispatch: June 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], Venerable drum (search)
Venerable drum --The drum now in use by Capt. Hannah's company, of Polk county, says the Cleveland (Tenn.) Banner, is a relic of the Revolutionary war — it was beat at the charge on Yorktown. By good luck it has been preserved through a period of eighty years, and the Polk boys say it shall beat again at the charge on Washington.
The Daily Dispatch: June 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], Additional Foreign News by the America. (search)
The gentleman mentioned in our correspondence from Yorktown --L. H. Chandler, Esq., of Norfolk — was yesterday brought before the Governor, who, after examination, promptly discharged him from arrest. Mr. Chandler was accompanied by two most respectable gentlemen from Hampton, one of whom is a distinguished member of the Democratic party, who volunteered their exertions for his honorable release.
The Daily Dispatch: June 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
From Yorktown.[Special Correspondence of the Dispatch.] Yorktown, Va., June 3, 1861. Dear Dispatch: Our Richmond boys here are all in fine spirits and anxiously awaiting an attack from the U. S. hirelings, who are quartered in large numbers at Newport News, and busily engaged in entrenching themselves, as if they really dreaded the arrival of Gen. Beauregard and his Southern Legion to put them to flight. Not satisfied with stealing negroes, insulting unprotected females, and abusing the aged and crippled, they are cutting down the growing wheat and other crops, as if they hoped to starve our people into subjection. Yesterday three Yankees were arrested and brought into camp--one of them said to be L. H. Chandler, of Norfolk; and from their suspicious conduct, are not likely to be liberated very soon. If proved to be spies, they deserve to die by "grape-vine suffocation," at short notice. More anon, P.
The Daily Dispatch: June 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], Important military appointment. (search)
From Yorktown.[special Correspondence of the Dispatch.] Yorktown, Va., May 31st, 1861. News has been received here of a very startling character from Newport News and Hampton. At the former the enemy have thrown up fortifications almost a half mile in length, and are constantly receiving large acquisitions to their forces now stationed there. Of the former place they have entire possession, and I learned to-day, from a gentleman in whom I have implicit confidence, that they have not only robbed the farmers in the vicinity of that place of their grain and negroes, but have actually gone so far as to violate some of the females who are so unfortunate as to be left within their grasp. Richard G. Banks, Jr., of the Quartermaster's Department, C. S. A., arrived here today, on route for Fort Monroe. He will visit the Fort and Hampton, (his native place,) under a flag of truce, but I very much fear that it will not be respected. Fear seems to be a stranger to young Banks' b
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