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The Daily Dispatch: may 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], War Movements. (search)
and no blood be shed. The Rev. S. S. Rozeil, Richard H. Dulany, and others, of London county, learning that the Kentucky volunteers, recently arrived at Harper's Ferry, needed supplies, loaded a team with provisions and forwarded it at to their relief — an example worthy of all ation. A Harper's Ferry letter to the BaHarper's Ferry letter to the Baltimore American says: A double force of workmen were employed at the several workshops, busily and constantly in the manufacture of arms, cartridges, &c. My informant, a resident of Washington county, says that about fifty rifles are daily turned out. The troops are encamped in all directions about the Ferry. A large at a regiment of six hundred men from Louisiana would arrive in a day or two. Squads of Baltimoreans pass the junction at Monocacy daily, on their way to Harper's Ferry or Richmond. A battalion of Baltimoreans, six hundred strong, will rendezvous Richmond in a few days. Capt. J. Lyle Clark, of the Independent Greys, was me
The Daily Dispatch: may 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], War Movements. (search)
of affairs at the South.--Some matters of interest are telegraphed from Washington, from which we copy: An agent of the Government who was dispatched to Harper's Ferry and other points g the Virginia and Maryland line to as and the true condition of affairs there, has just returned. He reports a pretty large force not so large, however, he has been reported out that it is daily being augmented. He says it is impossible to tell how many troops there are in the neighborhood of Harper's Ferry, but from information from reliable parties there are not more than four thousand at next point. How many more there be in the vicinity, he had o means of waras been committed to jail at Annapolis by that ambitions officer. The drivers were released.--Bradford is said to have acknowledged that he was on his way to Harper's Ferry, to sell the gun on speculation. The paper which these circumstances also says that Bradford has been a citizen of Louisa county, Va. Gen. Butler seem
The Daily Dispatch: may 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], Crinoline Catastrophes. (search)
been committed to the rebel Government of Jeff. Davis; that the forced contributions levied by the Secession foragers from the farmers of their horses, provisions, &c., are exciting a general feeling of indignation among the honest yeomanry, which will not be satisfied with Virginia scrip, worth to-day only thirty or forty cents on the dollar, and which, six months hence, may not be worth a sixpence on the hundred dollars. It further states that the late descent of Secession troops upon Harper's Ferry, and the attempt of the rebels to seize the Navy-Yard at Norfolk, were proceedings undertaken in disregard of the injunctions of Governor Letcher,and that their object was to precipitate the Commonwealth into civil war, and thus stifle the voice of the people in their approaching State election. The Heraldfurther informs us that in Northwestern Virginia the people are rising en masse against secession, and are putting their opposition into a very general movement. The Herald then p