Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: may 18, 1861., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for John G. Smith or search for John G. Smith in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

The Daily Dispatch: may 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], Charleston treason. (search)
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.the Charlotte Troop en route. Farmville, Va., May 16, 1861 The Charlotte Troop set out from Charlotte N. C. this morning, on their line of march for Ashland, where they have been ordered to report. The corps is commanded by Capt. John G. Smith, and numbers eighty-one, rank and file. We arrived here at 3 o'clock, all well, and in good spirits. Permit me to avail myself of this opportunity, in behalf of our company, to express our grateful feelings to the people of Farmville for the hospitable manner in which we have been received. We soon found that we were among people animated with the same spirit and united by the same ties. The ladies soon found that our canteens needed covering, and in the shortest time twenty, at least, were plying their dear little fidgets in fixing them. This was an act of kindness which we shall never forget — The merchants, too, were very kind to sell us such articles as we found we could get to advantag