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The Daily Dispatch: July 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], Ohio hogs. (search)
Ohio hogs. --The Lewisburg Chronicle, noticing Gen. McClellan's scheme for subjugating Richmond by marching columns of troops to Abingdon and Covington, and then taking the railways to the capital, says: We have lived in Lewisburg for nearly thirty years, and during that time many large droves of Ohio hogs have passed by the great Kanawha route to Richmond, but we have no recollection of any of them having returned. It would be us well, perhaps, for Gen. McClellan to remember the reason given by the fox for not entering the apartment of the sick lion, and abstain from leading his porcine followers by a route along which none of their predecessors have ever made returning tracks.
The Daily Dispatch: July 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], One of Lincoln's Majors. (search)
heir duty in this great conflict. All they require is an opportunity to show Lincoln's hirelings how skillfully they can use their favorite and trusty rifles. Two very substantially equipped companies, the "Invincible" from Pittsylvania, and the "Guards" from Appomattox, numbering in all about two hundred men, under command of Capts. Watson and Talbot, arrived here on the morning of the 4th and pitched their tents for the night. They took up a line of march the following morning for Lewisburg, on their way to join Wise's Legion. The University Volunteers, Captain Crane, with fifty-five men, passed here yesterday for the same destination. They are all fine-looking, intelligent gentlemen, and they are well prepared to undergo the duties incident to camp life, and their friends at home will no doubt hear a good account of them should a favorable opportunity ever present itself. I arrived at this delightful and picturesque summer resort a few days ago, where I found every pr
The Daily Dispatch: July 22, 1861.., [Electronic resource], The Fiendishness of Lincoln's hirelings. (search)
ut 1,500 at the latter place, on Saturday last. The detachment which landed at Guyandotte was opposed at a point called Sun Up by Captain Jenkins' company and about 500 militia. All the militia fled on the appearance of the enemy except about 150, who, with Capt. Jenkins' command, gave battle. The result was forty killed and sixty wounded of the enemy, and one killed on our side. This was an old patriarch eighty years old, who used his spectacles and fired with his rifle from an ambus cade until he was discovered and put to death, not however until he had killed six. Captain Jenkins' company behaved most gallantly, and fired from a cross road on the enemy with the most deadly effect. Nearly an entire platoon fell from the first company fire. The enemy immediately retreated, but have rallied, and it is thought joined their comrades who landed at Buffalo. Col. J. Lucius Davis has just arrived from Lewisburg with several noble companies raised for the Wise Legion.
The Daily Dispatch: July 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
Recruits Wanted. --Several of the military companies now forming want recruits. We would suggest to young men, that it is more to their credit to volunteer than to be drafted. The Jackson Guard, which left for Lewisburg last Tuesday, and who are, no doubt, now with the forces under Gov. Wise, have a recruiting office at their late headquarters, St. Charles Hotel. The Captain wishes to increase the number of his men to the full complement allowed by law, 104. Applicants for admission will, therefore, be received for a short time. This company, it will be remembered, is named after the martyred Jackson, of Alexandria.--The officers are admirably adapted for their respective posts. Volunteers will meet with good treatment under them. They are Hiram B. Dickinson, (an old Blue,) Captain; E. A. Miller, 1st Lieutenant; George Hart, 2d Lieutenant; William Fisher, 3d Lieutenant. The State needs men. Remember that.
The Daily Dispatch: July 30, 1861., [Electronic resource], A Riddled flag. (search)
Going away. --A detachment of the Jackson Guard, (the remainder of the company,) leave this city on Thursday for Lewisburg, under Capt. Dickinson, to join Governor Wise Parties wishing to join, had better hasten to make application.
The Daily Dispatch: August 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], Ambuscades (search)
The Kanawha Valley. --A correspondent of the Lynchburg Republican confirms our statement that Gen. Wise had fallen back to Gauley Bridge. The Lincolnites have taken possession of Charleston, a considerable portion of the inhabitants having previously left for Lewisburg. The Valley of the Kanawha is thus exposed to the vandalism of the hessians, but we think they will soon be driven out.
The Daily Dispatch: August 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], Major Thompson's sword. (search)
Movements of Gen. Wise. Clarksburg, July 31. --Gen. Wise, after burning Gauley Bridge, fell back to Lewisburg.
The Daily Dispatch: August 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
wounded, and Gen. Wise was retreating. Whereon the Baltimore South remarks: These fellows have slain Wise and dispersed his forces so often, that we wonder at their assurance in speaking of him as "still in the flesh," and capable of fighting a battle and making a retreat. We have not been able to find Bellston either on the map or in the latest Gazetteer. If there is such a place and there has been such a fight, the former must be somewhere on the road between Charleston and Lewisburg, along which Wise was at last accounts retreating to effect a junction with General Floyd, and the details of the battle must be enormously exaggerated and misrepresented to suit the Northern market.--As this is Wednesday, probably the New York papers got the tale up for to-day's European steamer. The mania for lying affects all the Northern war journals. Hence we are not surprised to find the subjoined paragraph in the Washington Star: The War Department is in the receipt of
The Daily Dispatch: August 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], Billy Wilson's Zouaver. (search)
The militia of the West. --The Greenbrier (Lewisburg) Era of the 3d inst., says: The militia composing the 19th Brigade have been ordered to report themselves in this place on Tuesday next for active duty. If the State and Confederacy cannot supply us with the means to repel the Ohio cut-throats, we intend to do it ourselves, if they have the courage and the presumption to venture up into the mountains which lay West of us.-- The militia, with one good company of artillery, stationed along the Sewel mountains, can destroy thousands of the enemy without doubt. Let us achieve our own independence and it can be more fully appreciated by as--for this seems to be the issue.
The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Dead infant found. (search)
From Western Virginia.[Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.] Lewisburg, Va., Aug. 8, 1861. Gen. Floyd's Brigade passed through this place yesterday morning. The present encampment is four miles beyond Lewisburg, where he will remain for the present. A portion of the mercenary forces are now encamped near Ganley Bridge, and the people are anxious to see them driven from our soil.--In order to assure you of the fact that the people here do not intend to tamely submit to invasion, without, at least, an effort to resist it, I will state that when it was ascertained that Gen. Wise had been ordered to fall back east of this place, the militia of the counties of Greenbrier and Monroe were at once called out, for the purpose of defending our mountain passes, and you may depend upon it every inch of ground would have been disputed with the Hessians by our brave mountain boys had an attempt been made to advance into this country. The turn-out on the part of the militia was quit
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