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The Daily Dispatch: March 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], House of delegates. (search)
ond to construct a railroad in its streets; amending certain laws respecting the militia of the Commonwealth; for the relief of David A. Hopkins and Saml. Y. Campbell, of Rockbridge county. Bills Reported.--For the relief of Thomas Nichols; refunding a sum of money to the heirs of Wm. A. Bradford and Peter Grant; refunding a sum of money to P. B. Crowder. Mr. Bass presented a report from a special committee authorizing the Trustees of the Parsonage of the M. E. Church in Salem, Roanoke county, to execute a deed of trust on their property in said town. The Tax Bill.--The hour having arrived for the consideration of the bill "imposing taxes for the support of Government" as the order of the day, it was taken upon motion of Mr. Haymond, and numerous amendments thereto proposed. An amendment offered by Mr. Collier, of Petersburg, exempting the salaries of laboring men from taxation was adopted. An amendment proposed by Mr. Anderson, of Botetourt, to exempt the salaries of
The Daily Dispatch: March 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], Barns burnt. (search)
Barns burnt. --Two barns in Roanoke county, Va., owned by Gideon Turner, were burnt on the 5th inst., with several wagons, a quantity of farming implements, wheat, corn and cats, Loss $5,000.
The Daily Dispatch: April 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], Important will case. (search)
Important will case. --At the recent term of the Circuit Court of Roanoke county, Va., a will case of considerable importance was decided. The Salem Register says: This was an important and highly interesting suit, in which the will of Chileon O. White, deceased, was contested by the Rev. Andrew McDowell and others. Mr. McDowell is from the county of Hanover and married a sister of C. O. White. The amount of property involved is between forty and fifty thousand dollars. The counsel in favor of the will were Messrs. Edmundson and Blair, Watts and Allen, J. B. I. Logan and Colonel Winfield, of Bedford. Those for the contestants, C. G. Griswold, of Richmond, Col. Jno. T. Anderson, of Botetourt, and F. J. Ribble, of Roanoke. After able arguments on both sides, the jury borough in a verdict establishing the will.
The Daily Dispatch: April 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], Death of a Minstrel. (search)
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.reception of the news in Roanoke — the people aroused. Salem, Roanoke Co., April 13, 1861. We have just received, by telegraph, the intelligence that Sumter is taken, and now, at 10 o'clock at night, the cannon is firing seven rounds in honor of the seven seceding States; our community is in great excitement at the glorious result. I hope now that the Convention will send no more Commissioners to Abe Lincoln, but go out at once, and thereby redeem the honor of the Old Dominion. We are rapidly organizing the Roanoke Flying Artillery, and in a few days will be ready to offer our services to our State if needed. Dixie.
The Daily Dispatch: April 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Affairs in Virginia. Our correspondence is so heavy that we condence some portions of it. A letter from Caroline county, Va., informs us that a Confederate flag was raised at Guiney Depot on the 28th. The halyards were drawn by ladies, some 200 of whom were present; and another at Pleasant Grove, Lunenburg co., on the 18th dec'd A large meeting was held in Roanoke county last week, at which the following incident occurred: Mr. Bass arose and read a call from the volunteer company of Salem for $400 or $500 to presure uniforms, and at the same time proposed that he would give $500 to be divided among the families of those who should fall in battle. This liberal offer was received with three cheers for Bass. Mr. Edmundson proposed to give $50, and, if need be, $100, to aid in raising the amount asked for. Elijah McClanahan, Esq., proposed to be one of ten to raise the money. Dr. J. B. Harding said he would be one of ten to make up $1000 to arm the county. Mr. Madison Pitze
The Daily Dispatch: may 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Shenandoah, Page, Warren, Rockingham. At Staunton, the counties of Pendleton, Augusta, Pocahontas, Monroe, Highland, Bath, Rockbridge, Greenbrier, Allegheny At Alexandria, the counties of Fairfax, Loudoun, Prince William, and Alexandria City. At Warrenton, the county of Fauquier. At Culpeper C. H., the counties of Rappahannock, Madison, Greene, Orange. At Gordonsville, the counties of Albemarle, Nelson, Amherst. At Lynchburg, the counties of Campbell, Bedford, Roanoke, Botetourt, Craig, Giles, Mercer, Tazewell, Wise, Buchanan, McDowell, Smyth, Wythe, Pulaski, Montgomery, Carroll, Floyd, Patrick, Henry, Franklin. At Abingdon, the counties of Washington, Russell, Scott and Lee. At Fredericksburg, the counties of Stafford, Spotsylvania, Caroline, and the town of Fredericksburg. At King George C. H., the counties of King George, Westmoreland. At Gloucester Point, the counties of Gloucester, King & Queen. At West Point, the counties o
The Daily Dispatch: may 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], Edwin Deleon. (search)
arrivals are so frequent that I find it impossible to keep posted as to who they are and where they come from.--From conversation with intelligent gentlemen, members of the different regiments from various parts of the South, I learn that they leave thousands encamped, just waiting to be transported to the soil of the Old Dominion. Southwestern Virginia is coming up to the rescue gloriously. During the week, three companies, two of infantry and one of cavalry, from the patriotic county of Roanoke, have arrived; from Botetourt three, from Craig two, besides a number of companies from other counties, the names of which I cannot recollect. At Knoxville East Tennessee, fourteen hundred are encamped, awaiting orders to march. Col. Turney's First Regiment of Tennessee volunteers left here yesterday morning. Two Mississippi regiments left during the latter part of the week, all well armed and equipped, and are now at their post. A large number of troops passed through here Saturday. F
The Daily Dispatch: June 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
sage. The powder is thoroughly wet, and looks like a black paste. I send you enclosed a specimen of it, which I procured from one of the open barrels. It has since become dry. It will make fine squibs for the boys, being ready prepared to their hands. More barrels will yet be found — for the twenty placed there have not yet been extricated. I suppose there are five or more still in the culvert. No military movement worthy of note has transpired in this locality. A company from Roanoke county reached Norfolk yesterday. It is the Flying Artillery, from Salem — a sturdy company of Blue Ridge boys, among whom comes a veteran of 1812, who intends to take part in the hand-to-hand contest when it comes. The Germans of Norfolk, of the Jewish faith, have given substantial evidence of their true Southern sentiments. They are with us, heart and soul, and have been liberal and generous in aiding the holy, just and good cause. Disavowals of disloyalty to Virginia continue to
The Daily Dispatch: December 22, 1860., [Electronic resource], Secession movement at the South. (search)
slave States and all the border non-slaveholding States, and from all the large cities, and from every State or community of the country favorable to the object, to be assembled on the earliest day practicable, at some central point within the border slave States, for the purpose of considering the grievances demanding redress, and the best course for their adjustment, and then reporting their recommendation to the several State sovereignties of the nation for final adjudication. In Roanoke county, a meeting on the 17th inst., Resolved, That this is the time for settling the difficulties between the North and South, and further, that our General Assembly should forthwith cause to be convened a Convention of the people of Virginia, clothed with power to consider and determine what position Virginia shall assume in the present cricis, and to suggest such amendments to our State Constitution as may be necessary in the event we are compelled to withdraw from the National Governme
The Daily Dispatch: July 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], Tomes of respect. (search)
"We wait to welcome thee Home." --Such is the motto inscribed by the ladies of Roanoke county on a beautiful blue silk flag, now being fabricated here for them, by Mc. Geo. Ruskell, and which they intend to present to the Salem Flying Artillery. Surely the men could not get along without the sustaining presence, aid and co-operation of such invaluable adjuncts as women, and just as certainly "none but the brave deserve the fair."While nobly sending forth brothers, sons and husbands, with words of cheer, they bid them do their duty, saying "return with your shield or on it." "We wait to welcome thee home."In passing through the establishment of Mr. Ruskell, yesterday morning, we saw another evidence of the devotion of the fair sex. in a splendid flag which the ladies of Hanover were having made for Captain Newton's gallant boys. It will be remembered that they lost two of their men in the battle last Sunday. This flag has the Virginia coat of arms on one side, and on the obvers
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