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The Daily Dispatch: may 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
tside of Alexandria. Innumerable batteries and redoubts guard the Washington and Alexandria Turnpike. Copies of the following proclamation, by Major General Sandford, of the New York State Militia have been extensively circulated in Fairfax county to-day: Headquarters Dep't of Fairfax, Va., Arlington House, May 25, 1861. Fairfax county being occupied by troops under my command, I deem it proper to repeat publicly the assurances I have personally given many of the good ciFairfax county being occupied by troops under my command, I deem it proper to repeat publicly the assurances I have personally given many of the good citizens about me, that all its inhabitants may return, to remain at their homes and usual pacific occupations, in peace and confidence, and with the assured protection to persons and property, as the United States forces in Virginia will be employed for no other purposes than that of suppressing unlawful combinations against the constituted authorities of the Union, and of causing the laws thereof to be duly respected and executed. By order of Major-General, Chas. H. Sanford. One of the Sout