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The Daily Dispatch: June 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], [Communicated.] (search)
[Communicated.] Norfolk, Va., June 20, 1861.
Messrs. Editors: Please inform us through your valuable paper why a certain Captain in the late United States Navy is permitted to remain quietly in Norfolk.
Is he any the loss a human being than other sympathizers with the Vandals of the North?
Would it be uncharitable to suppose that the information of war movements, which daily reach the enemy, might be conveyed by this officer?
Could he be faithful in the honest discharge of his sacred duty to that faithless and tyrannical Ape, and continue an eye-witness to our proceedings, and not seek any channel of communication with his master, Lincoln?
With all candor, I think the sooner we are one in heart and soul, the better.
Those now who are in our midst, and not for us, are against us.
I am told by the Cavalry officer of Pig's Point Battery, on Nansemond river, that part of the wheel-house of the steamer Harriet Lane, knocked off by that battery in her last attack on that
The Daily Dispatch: June 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], A Funny idea. (search)
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.from camp Allen. Jamestown Island, Camp Allen, June 20th, 1861.
Wednesday evening witnessed an unusual stir in the camp, in consequence of intelligence received from Williamsburg that the enemy had encamped in strong force at the Junction of the Warwick and Bethel roads, and intended moving upon Williamsburg or Yorktown next day.
The probability of a portion of this Regiment being ordered to reinforce our friends, caused impatience in the camp.
I say impatience, because in moving among the different companies I observed a general desire evinced that they might be the favored ones ordered to meet the invader; all urged their officers to press their claims upon the Colonel.
The men, all, without a single exception, made ready with unusual alacrity and cheerfulness to move at the tap of the drum, and they seemed anxious for the signal to be given.
There was no noise, no boasting, no excitement, and when the order was given to b