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The Daily Dispatch: June 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
back our enemies, will yet prove a traitor to Virginia and the South. I have experimented recently with the improved rifle, and compared it with such as we use in the mountains, and I find that after you go beyond 200 yards there is no certainty in striking the object at which you fire; under that, the size of a man can be hit by our common rifles every shot, while with the improved rifle there is great uncertainly. If the authorities of Virginia will accept the services of fifty Botetourt boys, offered in this way, I'll scour our blue mountains and get up some of the best men that ever pulled a trigger. There was a large vote polled at the late election, and but two votes were given against the Ordinance of Secession, and these two, I learn, were given because some person had said that a man dare not vote against it. Both the Senate and Legislature will be furnished with No. 1 man from our county, who are sound through and through, and who have been right all the