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The Daily Dispatch: August 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Second Virginia Regiment. (search)
y misunderstood by the centre companies for a general direction to fall back, and all the line turned. I at once gave the order to charge, but the thicket was so close and impenetrable, only a part of the right wing, under Lt. Col. Lackland, could be rallied about thirty yards in rear of their original position; the enemy having advanced to the position originally occupied by the left of the regiment, judging from their fire, for it was utterly impossible to see them. At this moment Col. Preston, who was on my right, and in rear of the battery, advanced, and Lieut. Col. Lackland, with about one hundred of my right, charged on the enemy's battery, drove them from their pieces, and took position immediately in front of the guns, sheltering themselves as much as possible by them. Wishing to secure one of the rifled cannon, he ordered five or six men to take it to the rear, but did not proceed more than fifty yards when the enemy opened fire on his right, which being unsupported he
The Daily Dispatch: August 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], Five dollars reward (search)
cruel as ever disgraced the worst era of the French Revolution? The speech of Wendell Phillips on the battle of Bull Run. and the daily ravings of the New York Tribune, Times and other Black Republican journals, are brim-full of Jacobin ferocity, and show us behind the meek, sympathizing mask of New England philanthropy, the undisguised devilism of Rebespierre. In this speech, which has the support of such men as Senators Wade, Wilson, Sumner, Pomeroy, Lane, Carlile, Hale, Doolittle, Preston King and others, he says that the guilotine established at Washington should cut off the heads of everybody suspected of not being a fanatical Abolitionist, and then he says: "Every man, black or white, that enters your camp. hang him or arm him!" "To-day," he continues, "belongs to the negro. To-day is consecrated to the slave. Empty Washington of every man, woman or child who will not take the oath of allegiance"--that is, of allegiance to Abolitionism. He calls for the abrogation of