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The Daily Dispatch: August 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], Sword found at Rich Mountain. (search)
Sword found at Rich Mountain. --Among the things the Federals picked up at Rich Mountain was a sword bearing the following inscription. It is in the possession of an Indiana Colonel of the name of Sullivan: The blade is inscribed as follows: "In testimony of the intrepidity and valor of Midshipman William Taylor, in two successive actions of the United States frigate Constitution, in which were captured the British frigate Guerriere, on the 14th of August, 1812, and the British frigRich Mountain was a sword bearing the following inscription. It is in the possession of an Indiana Colonel of the name of Sullivan: The blade is inscribed as follows: "In testimony of the intrepidity and valor of Midshipman William Taylor, in two successive actions of the United States frigate Constitution, in which were captured the British frigate Guerriere, on the 14th of August, 1812, and the British frigate Java, on the 29th of December, 1812, the State of Virginia bestows this sword."
The Daily Dispatch: August 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], Sword found at Rich Mountain. (search)
ip the Yankees, if they were disposed to enter the field as "belligerents." A few cases illustrating the heroism of the gentler sex in the South have recently been brought to our notice, one of which we will mention, as the lady whose nerve was found adequate to the occasion of its trial is the daughter of our old and valued friend and fellow-citizen, Jacob Rohr, Sr., Esq., Mrs. Nancy Grove, wife of Mr. Geo. Grove, living near Middle Fork, in Upshur county, a few days before the fight at Rich Mountain, had the misfortune, in her husband's absence from home, to be visited by some of the thieving vagabonds of which Lincoln's army in Northwestern Virginia is composed. They came for the purpose of thieving. They entered Mr. Grove's house and gathered up some of his property for the purpose of carrying it off. Mrs. Grove, having no gun, resolutely seized the fire-shovel and the broomstick, and applying them vigorously to the heads and shoulders of the cowardly, thieving scamps, obliged t