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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: October 10, 1861., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for October 7th, 1861 AD or search for October 7th, 1861 AD in all documents.
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From the Potomac.
Hampton's Legion--an Experiment on the enemy — a short engagement--"Nobody Hurt"--camp incidents, &c. [Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.] Camp Conner, Hampton's Legion,Army of the Potomac, Oct. 7, 1861.
Since I last wrote you we have advanced considerably towards the enemy — to what precise point I will not inform you, though I think the Lincolnites could, as they give it a much wider berth in passing.
Suffice it to say, that we built, working day and night, a battery in double- quick time, and that one bright and beautiful morning last week the "Stars and Bars" waved free and fearlessly from a jutting point of the Potomac, where little dreamed the foe the night before a Southerner was nigh.
Several war steamers and innumerable small sails were heaving around, and immediately opened upon our (then) little battery of three guns--two 12-pounders, rifled, of the Legion, and one thirty-two.
The compliment was not returned by Capt. Lee until
The Daily Dispatch: October 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], Hospital supplies for the Northwest . (search)