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The Daily Dispatch: June 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway in Jail. (search)
Fight in Lancaster county.Repulse of a forty of Federal Pirates — several killed-they Bombard the Mouse of a citizen.
We are indebted to Addison Hall, Esq., of Lancaster county, Va., for the following statement:
To the Editors of the Dispatch:
I will give you a heavy, but very nearly correct account of an encounter with the enemy at the residence of James W. Gresham, Esq., on yesterday, June 24th. I am now at the house of Mr. Gresham, and from him and others gather the following facts: At about the hour of 4 o'clock P. M., the steamer called the Star passed up the Rappahannock river as far as Towles' Point, just below Urbanna, and, returning immediately, stopped opposite Mr. Gresham's, and within about six hundred yards of the house, A large barge, armed with two swivels, and a small rowboat, containing together about fifty men, put off for the shore, and the men landed.--Some ten or twelve men, armed with muskets and side arms, came up the bank to the house, professin
The Daily Dispatch: June 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], Catholic patriotism. (search)
Presentation of a horse to Col. Thos. G. Bacon.
--Mr. Doswell and others, of this city, have presented to Col. Thos. G. Bacon, of the 7th South Carolina Regiment, a valuable horse, called "Mars." Col. Bacon acknowledges the compliment in a handsome manner, in a letter, (dated June 24th,) to Mr. Doswell.
The Seventh Regiment has been pushed for ward to the outposts, and we truly hope that the gallant men who now occupy a position in the very front of the enemy, will be supplied by the Confederates Government with suitable comforts to enable them to endure the toils of the campaign.
Col. Bacon has numerous personal friends in this community, who will doubtless interest them solves in behalf of his command, without delay.
These South Carolinians will certainly fight whenever called upon.
We make some interesting extracts from Col. Bacon's letter:
"We are within about five miles of 5000 of the enemy.
A balloon was seen last night and several times to-day, from my camp,