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The Daily Dispatch: may 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Charleston. (search)
ere. We have a great General out here operating against Lincoln and Scott--General Climate. Besides, we have General Watchfulness and General Bravery. The Virginians here are mostly old men.--Capt. Shirley Carter Turner, for many years the noble Commander of the "James Adger" steamer, from this port to New York, had several brothers in the Navy and Army of the United States. All have resigned but one, and he is out of the country. Capt. Turner belongs to the old Virginia Carters, of Shirley, and a nobler specimen of Virginia's best blood does not live on the green earth. His health is bad and his means limited, and his family, which is large and young, is dependent on his daily toil. The Captain said to me yesterday, with great emotion, "if any good man will take care of my wife and little one's for six months, I will be on the soil of my old mother in forty-eight hours, to serve her in this extremity." Capt. Fauntleroy, of the Navy; just resigned, is an own cousin of C