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The Daily Dispatch: January 7, 1862., [Electronic resource], News from Fort (search)
Exciting reports. We have verbal accounts of severe fighting in Bath county, which, however, are not confirmed by official advices. The report is that the enemy was repulsed, with a loss of 500 prisoners and 50 killed; but in the absence of a definite and connected statement of the affair, we do not vouch for its accuracy. There are also rumors of a fight near Romney, in Hampshire county, but no details have reached us, either official or otherwise. Our advices from Lynchburg represent that Col. Johnson has fallen back from his position on Alleghany mountain to Monterey, to avoid and prevent a flank movement of the enemy.
The Daily Dispatch: January 14, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
o Miss Sallie Kendrick, of Front Royal, Va., reached home a few days ago. He was taken by the Yankees while driving wagons. He says he went up in a balloon while with them. They kept him two months, when he, having become satisfied with what he had seen of the Yankees, made his escape and reached home, willing to spend the rest of his days in old Virginia. Paid for their disloyalty. The Rockingham Register, of the 30th inst., says: A number of Union men from Hardy and Hampshire counties, passed through Brock's Cap, A few days ago, on their way from after weeks, they were released by taking the oath of allegiance to the Common wealth of Virginia. Running the blockade. The Houston Telegraph, of the 1st, contains this welcome announcement: We learned last night that a steamer has arrived in a Texas port, within the past week, under British colors, bringing 45 tons of cannon powder, a large amount of rifle powder, 700,000 army caps, 5,000 cannon pr
The Daily Dispatch: January 15, 1862., [Electronic resource], For Hire. (search)
Evacuation of Romney. Intelligence has been received from a source entitled to credit, that the Federals evacuated Romney, Hampshire county, on Friday night last, and that our troops took possession early Saturday morning. It is further stated that a considerable quantity of stores fell into the hands of our forces.
The Daily Dispatch: January 16, 1862., [Electronic resource], The town of Romney (search)
The town of Romney --As Romney is becoming a place of some notoriety as a strategic point, a short description of the town and its vicinity may prove interesting to many of our readers. The town itself is beautifully located, resting upon the South Branch of the Potomac, about eighteen miles from its junction with the North Branch — It is surrounded on all sides with declivitous hills and mountains, and if well fortified would be almost impregnable to an advancing army. It has been in a measure fortified by nature, and only needs the hand of science to make it a powerful post for purposes of defence. It is forty two miles from Winchester on the Northwestern Turnpike, sixteen miles from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and twenty-five miles south of Cumberland, Md. It is the shire town of Hampshire county, and contains about five hundred inhabitants. The town was founded by Lord Fairfax, and is one of the oldest in that section of Virginia.
The Daily Dispatch: January 21, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the South. (search)
From the South. From the latest Southern journals received we make up the following summary of news: The affair at Hanging Rock. Exaggerated and false rumors having gone abroad with respect to the retreat of our forces from Hanging Rock, in Hampshire county, Va., we copy from the Rockingham Register, of the 17th inst., the following statement of facts, obtained from a reliable gentleman who was present at the time: Our forces fit for service, all told, did not, amount to over 300. They consisted of a skeleton of one troop of cavalry--Captain Sheets's — a part of Col. Monroe's brigade of Hampshire militia, Capt. Sibert's 8th Star Artillery, from New Market, (two guns,) and a part of Col. Mann Spittler's regiment of Page, Shenandoah, and Rockingham militia, under Lt.-Col. Buswell--these whole forces forming Col. Monroe's brigade, and amounting in all, as before stated, to not over 300 effective men. The enemy, amounting to at least 7,000 men, on Tuesday, the 7th i
The Daily Dispatch: February 1, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 11 (search)
d in the work of carrying, or forwarding, the mail on the underground railroad. From Western Virginia. Private advices from Virginia, received in Philadelphia, state that a considerable force of Federal troops are now occupying various points on the road beyond Cumberland. At New Creek and Piedmont more than seven thousand men are stationed, and business of all kinds is entirely discontinued. The Piedmont Savings Bank has suspended operations. Piedmont is the largest town in Hampshire county, though Romney, at which place several encounters have taken place recently, is the capital. Fight at the mouth of the Rappanhannock river — Confederate Schooner burned. A letter, published in the Philadelphia inquirer, written by an officer on board of the United States vessel blockading the Rappahannock river, says: On the 15th inst. the steamers blockading the Rappahannock river observed a schooner standing out of Thompson's creek. The Mystic was ordered to give chase
The Daily Dispatch: February 7, 1862., [Electronic resource], House of Delegates. (search)
port of the Government," which was ordered to a second reading. The House passed a bill to amend section 14 of chapter 15 of the Code, so as to authorize the enrollment of the acts and joint resolutions of the General Assemble on parchment or paper. The House then went into secret session on the military bill. The following bill was passed yesterday, during the secret session: An act exempting from taxation the seal of Courts attached to papers or records for the recovery of the wages or other dues of deceased soldiers, and to refund the tax heretofore paid. The following resolution was also passed yesterday: By Mr. Blue.--That the appropriate committee inquire into the expediency of compensating Norman C. Smoot and Jas. Candy, Commissioners of Hampshire county, for assessing and listing the property of said county, they having failed to have their books examined and certified by the Clerk in consequence of the county being in the hands of the enemy.
The Daily Dispatch: February 10, 1862., [Electronic resource], House of Delegates. (search)
House of Delegates. Saturday, Feb. 8, 1862. The House met at 11 o'clock. Prayer by Rev. Dr. Burrows. Mr. Collier, from the Committee on Finance, reported a bill compensating Norman C. Smoot and James Candy, Commissioners of Revenue for Hampshire county, for services performed. Mr. Rives, presented a report from the Committee on Lunatic Asylums, recommending the passage of a resolution that a joint committee or five on the part of the House, and three on the part of the Senate, be appointed to visit the Eastern Lunatic Asylum, and report to the General Assembly the condition of said Asylum. Objection being made to the resolutions, they were ordered to lie over one day, under the rule. On motion of Mr. Ward, the House took up the bill to construct a railroad connection, for military purposes, from the Manassas Gap Railroad, at or near Strasburg, to the Winchester Railroad, at or near Winchester. Mr. Ward addressed the House in earnest advocacy of the p
The Daily Dispatch: February 12, 1862., [Electronic resource], Spanish defeat in Mexico (search)
The Union Restorers in Hampshire county. Hampshire county presents a spectacle of what the South is to expect from a restoration the Union by Federal arms: A portion of if was occupied for some weeks, until Gen. Jackson drove them out by a troop of knives from Ohio. They advanced fifteen miles on the sparsely settled road leading from Romney to Winchester. The Captain of a Jefferson company stated to our informant, that on that road he counted the smouldering ruins of thirty- nine housesHampshire county presents a spectacle of what the South is to expect from a restoration the Union by Federal arms: A portion of if was occupied for some weeks, until Gen. Jackson drove them out by a troop of knives from Ohio. They advanced fifteen miles on the sparsely settled road leading from Romney to Winchester. The Captain of a Jefferson company stated to our informant, that on that road he counted the smouldering ruins of thirty- nine houses — burnt not in the retreat, but in the advance of the invaders some weeks before, when there were but a few militia to dispute their progress. Not only were the houses and be as burned, but all the stock was killed. A writer in a Northern paper says that the officers encouraged the men (so called) in this work. A negro woman begged for the privilege of taking her bed from a burning house, but it was refused. There were left but three houses on that road. One of these was occupied by a
The Daily Dispatch: February 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], Latest Northern News. (search)
Capture of Virginia militia-men in Hampshire. We understand that a letter was received last evening by a delegate from one of the Valley counties, conveying the intelligence that Col. Baldwin and a portion of his command, the 31st regiment Va. militia, were captured near Bloomey in Hampshire county, during the latter part of the past week.--The number captured is stated to be between thirty and forty. The 31st regiment is from Frederick county.
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