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Robert Lewis Dabney, Life and Commands of Lieutenand- General Thomas J. Jackson 2 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 2 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. 2 0 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: March 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], Wet. (search)
, known as "Fort Sumter," was demolished by the citizens of that place last week. The woolen factory of Bailey & Bowman, in Frederick county, Va., was burnt on the 7th inst. Loss $3,000. D. M. Warren, the author of several well-known educational works, died in Baltimore on the 9th inst. Peachy R. Gilmer, a prominent citizen of Montgomery, Ala., died on the 13th inst. He was a native of Virginia. The small-pox is prevalent in Jersey City.--Fifteen cases have resulted fatally. Temperance Hall, in South Nashville, Tenn., was destroyed by fire a few days since. A recruiting office for the Confederate States army, is about to be opened in Washington. Sir Charles Fellowes has bequeathed the watch of Milton to the British Museum. Jno. W. Leonard, editor of the Masonic Signal, died at Atlanta, Ga., on the 14th inst. The California Senate has endorsed the Crittenden resolutions. Geo. W. Helm was drowned in Harrison county, Va., on the 3d inst.
The Daily Dispatch: March 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 6 (search)
taunton Savings Bank; to refund to Samuel E. Lee, a part of the license tax paid by him for such part of the year as the same was not used. Bills Passed.--House bill to amend the charter of the Bank of Richmond; House bill to incorporate the town of Asbury, in Wythe county; Senate bill for the relief of Enoch Atkins, of Giles county; Senate bill for the relief of John M. Jones, late Sheriff of Pendleton county; Senate bill releasing the Commonwealth's title to 556¼ acres of land in Harrison county, to John H. Taliaferro; Senate bill to repeal an act passed 19th March, 1860, concerning the mode of catching fish in certain waters. Tax Bill.--On motion, the special order of the day was passed by, and the bill imposing faxes for the support of Government was taken up for consideration. The pending question was upon the amendment proposed by Mr. Finnet, providing that auctioneers should not pay more than $1,005, which was rejected. Mr. Carson proposed then to tax auctioneer
The Daily Dispatch: March 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], Ill-rewarded labor. (search)
The Prince of Wales' revenue from the Duchy of Cornwall will, for the last year, be about $225,000, an increase from the previous one of over $20,000. Waldo P. Johnson, the new U. S. Senator from Missouri, is a native of Harrison county, Va., and a nephew, not a son, of Ex-Governor Jos. Johnson. Professor Beverly R. Waugh, son of the late Bishop Waugh, died at Harrisburg, Pa., on Sunday night. Mr. Keene Richards, of Kentucky, sold, a few days ago, his splendid filly "Bettie Ward," to Mr. Folay, of Louisiana, for $6,000. Anderson, the fugitive slave, is in Montreal. He is to go to England on the opening of navigation. Howard, one of the clowns at the English Circus in Constantinople, was murdered in a street disturbance a short time since. The volunteer rifle corps of England now numbers 140,000 men.
The Daily Dispatch: April 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
aunton Savings Bank; to refund to Samuel E. Lee, a part of the license tax paid by him for such part of the year as the same was not used. Bills Passed.--House bill to amend the charter of the Bank of Richmond; House bill to incorporate the town of Asbury, in Wythe county; Senate bill for the relief of Enoch Atkins, of Giles county; Senate bill for the relief of John M. Jones, late Sheriff of Pendleton county; Senate bill releasing the Commonwealth's title to 556 ½ acres of land in Harrison county, to John H. Taliaferro; Senate bill to repeal an act passed 19th March, 1860, concerning the mode of catching fish in certain waters. Tax Bill.--On motion, the special order of the day was passed by, and the bill imposing taxes for the support of Government was taken up for consideration. The pending question was upon the amendment proposed by Mr. Finney, providing that auctioneers should not pay more than $1,005, which was rejected. Mr. Carson proposed then to tax auctioneer
The Daily Dispatch: April 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
those who are by sentiment in favor of the nefarious policy of the present Administration are permitted to penetrate its armed, undermined and fortified defences. The Navy Department have advices of the return of the Niagara to the United States from her late voyage to Japan. In an hour after this information was received, she was ordered to repair to the Chesapeake as soon as possible for service in these waters for the protection of the Federal Metropolis. The accounts from Harrison county, and the Northwestern part of the State generally, go to show that the Northern people need not calculate upon any serious division in the ranks of Virginia in that quarter. The people there will unite in resistance to "coercion. " The Seventh report the kindest treatment towards them by the people of Annapolis, and witnessed no instance of animosity or unkindness. It is understood that the Government at Washington have given orders to such vessels as are at their disposal fo
The Daily Dispatch: May 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 14 (search)
The Kentucky troops. --The Lynchburg Republican says of the Kentucky troops which arrived in that city Thursday morning, that the average height of the members is five feet nine and a half inches, while no man in the regiment weighs less than one hundred and fifty pounds. They are under the command of Col. Blanton Duncan, and the following officers: Adjutant D. J. Symmes; Surgeon, Dr. Alex. Forsythe; and Captains Jo. Desha, of Harrison county; Ed. Crossland, of Hickman county; John D. Pope, of Louisville; M. Laparelle, of Louisville, and — Harney, of Louisville. They are all dressed in the blue Kentucky hunting shirt, and a finer body of men the world has never produced. On Thursday night they left Lynchburg for Harper's Ferry.
The Daily Dispatch: may 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
and Norfolk. At Smithfield, the counties of Isle of Wight, Surry and Sussex. At Petersburg, the counties of Pr. George, Chesterfield and Dinwiddie. At Buffalo, Putnam County, the counties of Mason, Jackson and Putnam. At Barboursville, Cabell County, the counties of Cabell, Wayne and Logan. At Charleston, the counties of Kanawha, Boone, Wyoming, Raleigh, Fayette, Nicholas and Clay. At Parkersburg, the counties of Wood, Wirt, Roane, Calhoun, Gilmer, Ritchie, Pleasants, Doddridge. At Moundsville, the counties of Tyler, Wetzel, Marshall, Ohio, Brooke, Hancock. At Grafton, the counties of Braxton, Lewis, Harrison, Monongalia, Taylor, Barbour, Upshur, Tucker, Marion, Randolph, Preston. At Richmond, the counties of Pittsylvania, Halifax, Charlotte, Mecklenburg, Brunswick, Grayson, Nottoway, Prince Edward, Appomattox, Buckingham, Louisa, Hanover, Goochland, Powhatan, Cumberland, Henrico, Amelia, Fluvanna and the city of Richmond. my 4-- d3tcwdt
The Daily Dispatch: may 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], Virginia. (search)
say the 48th has done its duty? The ladies of Fluvanna lately presented a Confederate flag to the military of the county, at Chapel Hill. A correspondent informs us that. "When the signal is given to march to Fortress Monroe, or anywhere else, Old Flu. will have as many gallant soldiers in the field as any county in the State, comparatively speaking. The cry is 'To arms!' and the language of all is 'Give me liberty or give me death!'" An immense meeting of the true men of Harrison county was held at their last Court, at which resolutions were adopted pledging the county to the cause of Virginia in the present crisis of her fortunes. Ex-Gov. Johnson presided. Brigadier General Cocke, in his address to the people of the Potomac Department, uses the following language: "At this moment hosts of armed men profane by their insolent presence the city, the grave, and the memory of Washington, whilst an unbroken stream of thousands in arms violate the soil of Maryland,
The Daily Dispatch: may 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], Can the South support a Government? (search)
tant circulation here. But it is hard to tell what to believe. Many here are exceedingly anxious to march, but I suppose that no attack will be made upon any point in Maryland without some invitation from the authorities of that State. It is said here, and believed by many that 5,000 Federal troops will take possession of Frederick city to-day. It is certain that arrangements are being made there for the accommodation of a large number of troops. It is said that Carlile, from Harrison county, Va., is in Pennsylvania endeavoring to raise men and troops to resist Virginia.--There is no doubt of the fact that there is much disaffection in two or three counties in the northwest portion of Virginia, but even in these, there will be a large majority for obeying the mandates of their mother. From all accounts the whole Valley is tip in arms. Dr. Dan Courad, son of Robt. Y. Conrad, has been imprisoned in Massachusetts for refusing to take an oath of allegiance to the Federal Governm
The Daily Dispatch: may 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], Retribution. (search)
ltation must Carlile have sit in the cars and witnessed the flames lit up by his treason! How he must have looked like some exaggerated demon, raised from the purging fires of the nether world by infernal incantations! It is reported, with what truth we know not, that Carlile has been forced to fly the country to prevent arrest for treason. Philippi, May 1, 1861. Mr. Editor: --We, the undersigned, do hereby certify that on the 2d day of May inst., we heard Lewis A. Myers, who has been writing in the Clerk's office of the Circuit Court of Harrison county for the last eight months, and is now at this place, say in the presence of several persons, that he had seen the correspondence from Gen. Cameron, Secretary of War of the Black Republican Administration at Washington, in which communication the Black Republican Administration promised to furnish troops to sustain the "Union men" of North western Virginia in dividing the State. Henry D. Auvil, James T. Hartman.
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