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Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War, Index. (search)
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 3 : (search)
The Daily Dispatch: April 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], Pruntytown, Taylor Co., Va., April 23d, 1861. (search)
Pruntytown, Taylor Co., Va., April 23d, 1861.
Yesterday was the regular term of the County Court for Taylor county.
At an early hour the people of Grafton, Fetterman, Webster, Claysville, Flemington, and Rogue's Harbor, (all railroad towns in this county,) and a number of farmers, began to arrive.--The usual business of granting licenses to sell "the ardent" was attended to before dinner.--After dinner the people re-assembled at the Court-House to consult about our National troubles, when a number of interesting speeches were delivered.
The occasion was the most agreeable and harmonious one I have ever seen in any political gathering in Western Virginia, (and I have been a close observer of political movements in this section of the State since 1830.) I feel proud of my native section of the Old Dominion, while I record the fact that she will roll up a majority for the ratification of the Secession Ordinance at the general election.--Gentlemen, "I am not mad, but speak for
The Daily Dispatch: March 31, 1864., [Electronic resource], What the "Militia" can do. (search)
What the "Militia" can do.
--The Selma (Ala.) Citizen states that about ten days since a party of State militia, numbering about seventy men under the command of Capt. Smith and Col. Samuel G. Henry, of the 9th Alabama Volunteers, crossed the Tennessee at Claysville, Marshall county, and attacked a party of one hundred Yankee cavalry, defeating them, and killing five, capturing fifty-nine, with their horses, arms, and accoutrements.
The party returned, with the loss of two men, bringing their prisoners, and are now armed with the Spencer rifle, the trophies of their victory.