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Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 95 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 54 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 49 3 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 44 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 40 0 Browse Search
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary 38 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 36 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 35 5 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 1. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 34 6 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 22 2 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: May 16, 1862., [Electronic resource], $5 reward. (search)
by the Executive that Enos Price, who was charged with conspiring with slaves to rebel and make insurrection in May last, has escaped from the jail of the county of Montgomery, in this Commonwealth, and is now going at large; therefore, I do hereby offer a reward of one hundred dollars to any person, or persons, who shall arrest the said Enos Price, and deliver him into the jail of said county; and I do, moreover, require all officers of this Commonwealth, civil and military, and request the people generally, to use their best exertions to procure the arrest of the said Price, that he may be brought to justice. Given under my hand as Governor, and under the lesser seal of the Commonwealth, at Richmond, the 15th day of April, in the year 1862. John Letcher. By the Governor: George W. Munford. Secretary of the Commonwealth. Enos Price is about 45 years old, about five feet ten inches high, grey hair and beard, good countenance, square shoulders. ap 16--w8w
The Daily Dispatch: May 16, 1862., [Electronic resource], $25 reward (search)
Virginia not to be surrendered. Two gratifying papers were communicated to the Virginia Legislature yesterday — a Message from Governor Letcher, and a communication from the President of the Confederacy, giving the assurance that the army will not leave Virginia until every means has been exhausted in her defence.-- The language of the President is clear and phatia. We are proud of the spirit of our Governments, Confederate and State, relative to this question of holding and defending this State to the last. The army will not abandon the red soll of Virginia. That has been made the battle-ground, and on that must the enemy establish his superiority in fair fight before it will be abandoned to him. The evacuation of the see-coast positions and cities became a necessity. There was no avoiding it, in consequence of the immense advantage enjoyed by the enemy in his possession of the entire Navy of the United States, and the material and mechanical skill for the rapid const
The Daily Dispatch: May 16, 1862., [Electronic resource], $25 reward (search)
ving been received by the Executive that Robert Goodson, who was confined in the jail of the county of Franklin, under a charge of grand larceny, is now going at large: Therefore, I do hereby offer a reward of one hundred dollars to any person or persons who shall arrest the said Robert Goodson and deliver him into the jail of said county; and I do moreover require all officers of this Commonwealth, civil and military, and request the people generally, to use their best exertions to procure the arrest of the said Goodson, that he may be brought to justice. Given under my hand as Governor, and under the Less Seal of the Commonwealth, at Richmond, this 9th day of April, in the year 1862. John Letcher. By the Governor: George W. Munford, Secretary of the Commonwealth. Robert Goodson is about 45 years old, about 6 feet 2 inches high, of rawboned, muscular frame, dark, swarthy complexion, black eyes, hair, and beard, and slight stoop in the shoulders. ap 10 --sw3c
The Daily Dispatch: May 16, 1862., [Electronic resource], $20 reward (search)
counties, this State, and through counties in the occasion of the enemy, giving them information detrimental to the Southern Confederacy and to the State of Virginia: Therefore, to prevent the agrees of such persons from our borders, I, John Letcher, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, do hereby call upon, and exhort the Justices of the Peace in all such counties to organize active and efficient Committees of Safety, composed of persons who are exempt from military service, whose durried before a Justice of the Peace, to be committed to jail until a proper examination can be had. Such cases to be reported to the Executive, who is invested by law with authority to cause suspicious persons to be imprisoned. Given under my hand, and under he seal of the Commonwealth, at Richmond, this 24th day of April, 1862, and in the eighty sixth year of this Commonwealth. John Letcher. By the Governor: George W. Munford. Secretary of the Commonwealth. ap 28--sw3t
The Daily Dispatch: May 16, 1862., [Electronic resource], Stop T & E Runaways--$200 reward. (search)
ions to be hereafter prescribed. Prompt and efficient action is absolutely necessary. We have a gallant army in the field, upon whom we fully and confidently rely; but no effort should be spared which can contribute to the noble object. The Capital of Virginia must not be a surrendered. Virginians must rally to the rescuer. Given under my hand and under the Seal of the Commonwealth, at Richmond, this 15th day of May, 1862. and in the eighty-sixth year of the Commonwealth. John Letcher. By the Governor: Geo. W. Munford, Secretary of the Commonwealth. The meeting was organized by the appointment of Captain J. B. Danforth as Chairman, and Wm. P. Munford as Secretary. At the request of the master, the Rev. Dr. Woodbridge offered a fervent prayer. Col. Thos as H. Ellis then read the proclamation of the Governor, and submitted a series of resolutions, which were slightly modified and adopted: [The resolutions adopted by the meeting, some ten or t