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The Daily Dispatch: April 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], From the Valley of Virginia. (search)
From the Valley of Virginia. [special Correspondence of the Dispatch.] Harrisonburg, Va., April 19, 1861. The notes of martial music greet our ears all day long. Soldiers marching and counter marching continually. Truly, where do all these men come from? It must be that the doom of Abraham is fixed. Company after company, battalion after battalion, march on. To-day have passed six companies of Cavalry and three or four companies of Infantry, making a full regiment of about 900 or 1000 men.--To-night the Rockbridge Rifles, Capt. Saml. Letcher, (John's brother,)--a large company — are quartered in the Court-House. Other companies are arriving — all bound for the seat of war. If the East and West are doing like the Valley, at least sixty thousand troops are now under arms in Virginia. Our people fall into the ranks of passing companies. Volunteer companies are forming. There was two, I understand, formed to-day. Arms must be supplied at once, as there is no lack of men
The Daily Dispatch: April 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Revolutions of 1776 and 1861. (search)
The Revolutions of 1776 and 1861. --It is a remarkable coincidence (says the Charleston Courier) that the first blood shed in the revolutionary war, between the colonies and Great Britain, was at the village of Lexington, on the 19th of April, 1775, and the first blood shed in the revolution between the North and the South, occurred in the city of Baltimore, on the 19th of April, 1861--just eighty-six years after.