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The Daily Dispatch: August 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 17 (search)
[for the Richmond Dispatch.] John Taliaferro, Esq., the Volunteer here citizen of Orange. The subject of this well deserved eulogy is between 55 and 60 years of age; always noted for social qualities, an active, vigorous mind, a high sense of honor, an unswerving patriotism, great physical power and activity, and a courage unsurpassed, if equalled. A day or two before the great battle of the 21st ultimo, Mr. Taliaferro was admitted within the lines of General Beauregard. On that ever memorable Sunday, Mr. T. took his position, gun in hand, with, I believe, an Alabama regiment. If ever a man's whole soul was bent on a purpose, his undoubtedly was at that time. "Do or die, victory or death," was his motto. --Throughout the day, in the thickest of the fight, he was foremost in the fray; fighting like a lion and encouraging all around to stand firm and never surrender an inch to the foe. I understand from good authority that this brave man was all the time some paces in advance
The Daily Dispatch: August 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], For hire. (search)
The Thomas Artillery. Manassas Junction, August 3, 1861. To the Editors of Dispatch: It may be interesting to your readers, friends of the Thomas Artiliary, to find in your widely read paper a line or so about this company. Since the great fight of the 21st ult., in which the company largely participated, it has been encamped in sight of this place, repairing as rapidly as possible damages sustained by the battery during that engagement, to be ready whenever ordered to take a hand in any fighting which shall come off. There is no news of particular interest here just now. All our troops are in fine spirits, ready and anxious to meet the presumptuous invaders of our soil. Yesterday our company held an election to fill a vacancy caused in the lieutenancy by the death of our lamented Macon. Lieutenant E. J. Anderson was promoted to junior first lieutenant, and James Massenberg, formerly orderly sergeant, was elected with almost unanimity to the office of second lieutena
The Daily Dispatch: August 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], For hire. (search)
kade and communicating with the enemy after having been warned by the Pawnee. It is stated in the Baltimore papers that the "whole army" at Newport News is in a state of insubordination, and it is apprehended that there will be a general revolt against the authority of the officers. A private made an attack on an officer, and the latter fired upon him, inflicting a dangerous wound. Wm. Murray, a ruffian belonging to the second New Hampshire Regiment, was hung at Alexandria on the 21 inst., for the murder of Mary Murray. He called upon his "friends," in his last moments, to sustain his family in their hour of trail. Lincoln's war must carry sappiness to many domestic circles at the North, if all the domestic circles are as blood thirsty as the Administration. A responsible officer of the Mount Vernon Association emphatically denies Scott's assertion that "Mount Vernon, so recently course crated a new to the immortal Washington by the ladies of America, has already been
The Daily Dispatch: August 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], List of wounded men in General Hospital, Charlottesville, Va. (search)
Dispatches from Europe. --The Charleston Mercury contains the following announcement: "We learn that Senor Moncada, Spanish Consul for the States of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, has dispatched special messengers to his Government in Madrid, as well as to the Governor General of Cuba, giving the full accounts of the great clout of the 21st inst. He has also made arrangements to have the latest news of the war, from Southern sources, regularly telegraphed to Madrid immediately upon the arrival of the steamers at Liverpool. This would imply that her Catholic Majesty's Government is not far behind England and France in anxiety concerning the issue of the war,"