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The Daily Dispatch: August 16, 1861., [Electronic resource] 22 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 18 2 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: August 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Fifth Virginia Regiment in the battle of Manassas. (search)
atteries swept them like chaff before the wind, their long and splendidly- formed lines fairly melting away. Yet the tremendous force before us seemed not to diminish, and every inch of ground was contested with sullen and determined force, our brave troops fighting with renewed energy and vigor. Being parched with thirst and almost exhausted, I ran down to what appeared to be a branch or mud hole, and drank copiously of the muddy water, and was just returning to my regiment when I met Gen. Johnston, who inquired of me to what regiment I belonged. I told him. He then inquired how Gen. Jackson's Brigade was getting along. I told him we were fighting bravely and well, but against large odds, and needed help. He at once said, go join your regiment and tell them to hold their position, and in a few moments I will send reinforcements to their aid. I hurried back to my regiment with a lighter heart than I left it. On reaching the top of a hill, I could see in the direction of Mana
Herald. The Herald knows it to It knows that the pitiful loan of five millions offered the other day could not be negotiated even in New York on any terms. What should John Bull trust the Yankee Government for? Where are its means of raising revenue, now that it can be longer plunder the Southern States? "All that is wanted," says Sawney, in contin- uation, "to rain the rebel chiefs, is to make the blockade sure." If we may be allowed to say so, this is begging the whole question. How is the blockade to be made sure? There's the rub. But even could it be, by any possibility, made sure, it would not have the effect desired. The blockade of all our ports will not prevent Johnston and Beauregard from driving every Yankee that ventures to poke his nose out of Alexandria into the Potomac. It will not prevent them from marching upon Philadelphia, or from consigning to the flames the modern Sodom, equalling it in fate with its prototype, which it greatly surpasses in infamy.
lthy citizen of Baltimore, but now doing business in Richmond, in compliment to whom the company is named the "Lanier Guard." The young men composing this company left Baltimore at great personal risk, as the city was occupied by the Federal troops at the time of their departure. The Lanier Guard was mustered into the 18th Regiment of Virginia Volunteers for active service at Harper's Ferry, on the 28th of May, since which time they have been actively engaged in all the movements of Gen. Johnston's army. The Guard was in that portion of the regiment which arrived upon the battle-field at Bull Run at the same moment with His Excellency President Davis. The parting of Col. Taliaferro from this company was certainly an affecting scene, He was an officer whom his men delighted to honor; the large tears rolled down their determined and bronzed features, as they shook the gallant Colonel by the hand for the last time. If ever a commander enjoyed universal respect and esteem, sur
The Daily Dispatch: August 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Fifth Virginia Regiment in the battle of Manassas. (search)
Forgery case. --The case of Opie Staite, charged with the forgery of James D. Johnston's name, was again before the Mayor yesterday, but was continued. It will be remembered that the accused got a sum of money from the 1st Auditor by manufacturing a false order of court for an allowance granted Johnston as Commonwealth's Attorney in one of the Western counties, and drew the money after signing J.'s name to the order, giving his own receipt for it. Defendant, who formerly held some kind oain before the Mayor yesterday, but was continued. It will be remembered that the accused got a sum of money from the 1st Auditor by manufacturing a false order of court for an allowance granted Johnston as Commonwealth's Attorney in one of the Western counties, and drew the money after signing J.'s name to the order, giving his own receipt for it. Defendant, who formerly held some kind of a military commission issued by the Governor, has, we learn, been deprived of the same by the Executive.
the invasion of that town by the Hessians, and it seems that they have more recently forded the river and renewed their depredations upon the property of unoffending citizens. The rumor is that the heavy rains in the early part of the present week caused a great rise in the waters, and the Hessians, to the number of 1,700, found it impossible to get back to the Maryland side.--some of the citizens, thinking the opportunity for a coup de main too good to be lost, dispatched messengers to Gen. Johnston, informing bird of the situation of affairs. That officer, it is alleged, sent a body of troops, consisting of the 17th and 18th Mississippi, and the 8th Virginia Regimen, and the Richmond Howitzer Battery, under command of General Evans, to Lovittsville where the Federals were attacked. The result is said to have been that 300 of the enemy were killed and the remainder captured, while on our side the loss was six killed and nine wounded. We do not vouch for the accuracy of the stateme
dleton, and the section of my guns under Lieut. Squires, we discovered from the position on the hill, the enemy in full retreat across the fields, in range of my rifled guns, when Opened fire upon their retreating columns which was continued with admirable effect, scattering and causing them to spread over the fields in the greatest confusion, until I was ordered to desist by General Jackson, and save my ammunition for whatever occasion might now arise. Subsequently, I was permitted by General Johnston to open fire again, which was now, after having obtained the range like target-practice, so exactly did each shot do its work. The enemy, by thousands, in the greatest disorder, at a double-quick, received our fire and the fire of the Parrot gun of the battery alongside, dealing terrible destruction at every discharge. Thus ended the battle of the 21st, the last gun having been fired from one of the rifles of my battery. The guns of this battery, under command of Captain Miller,
Generals Beauregard and Johnston. --The fame a quired by these illustrious Southern chieftains, by their victory on the desperate but brilliant field of Manassas, thereby preventing the enemy from reaching, and in all probability sacking, the Cage at the result of the great battle, cannot withhold heir meed of praise of the superior generalship of Beauregard and Johnston; indeed, the leading excuse of these writers for the defeat that befall the Northern army on the 21st is the superiority of the Southern over the Northern Generals. In reference to Beauregard and Johnston, whose abilities as military commanders the North as acknowledged, and whose valor and prowess caused them a defeat which they will never forget we present the us valor, Beauregard exhibits the true Freedom in the military genius of the martial race from which he springs General Johnston also displays the highest qualifications of a great commander. He is eminently gifted with that comprehensiveness a