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The Daily Dispatch: July 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Rich mountain fight. (search)
The Rich mountain fight. Statement of Col. Fulkerson. Camp at Monterry, July 24, 1861. To the Editors of the Dispatch: As there will probably be no official report of the unfortunate retreat of the lamented Gen. Garnett and his command from Laurel Hill, and of the events which immediately led to the retreat, and as untrue statements may be circulated in relation thereto, I feel it to be duel to myself, as well as to the gallant officers and men under my command, to make a brief statement of facts. If that gallant soldier and good man, Gen. Garnett, had lived to make his official report, full justice would have been done to all concerned. On the morning of the 7th July, our scouts came in and reported that the enemy was advancing upon our position from the direction of Phillippi. The report proved to be true, and the enemy halted and took position about two miles from our camp; but he drove back a Georgia company, which was on picket duty, and with an advance part
The Daily Dispatch: July 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Yorktown. (search)
From Yorktown. [Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.] Yorktown, July 24th, 1861. The news from Manassas has sent a thrill of joy and gratitude through all hearts here. As it was announced in our camp and another, peal after peal of loud huzzas went up, until the welkin rang with the universal shout — In the Georgia camp the scene was lively and animating. The soldiers repaired in a body to the quarters of Col. Colquitt, and in response to their calls he and Maj. Tracy, Lieut. Colonel Newton, and others, responded in eloquent and patriotic sentiments — There was one thought to mar the general joy of the occasion — that was, the thought of the dead. Yet there is not a soldier here who would not have shared the perils and risked the fate of that great battle. All here are impatient for action and deplore the chances which brought them here, while their friends and companions in arms are in the midst of such stirring scenes elsewhere. I have not seen in the service fine<