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The Daily Dispatch: may 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], The New postal arrangements. (search)
or "blown up." Being at the time employed as a watchman to defend the property, the expression attributed to him was thought sufficient cause for him to be cited before the Mayor, by whom he was discharged after an admonition. The meaning of Mr. Vannerson's remark has been misunderstood. As a Virginian, he regards the works as of the utmost consequence to the whole South. The remark he made was simply the expression of his indignation that Messrs. Anderson & Co., who were contractors for furcome acquainted with how the affair orientated, we are convinced that no one has a higher sense of the importance of the Treader Works to the State, at this time, and their value to the whole South at all times, as a Southern enterprise, than Mr. Vannerson, who is not only a native of this city, but also a mechanic. It is to be regretted that his expression of indignation (honest, but mistaken.) at what he thought an undue preference for Northerners, should work to his injury as a citizen. No
The Daily Dispatch: June 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
bout an hour, and, being camped in "pine huts," constructed by the ingenuity of our boys, which were not water proof, we obtained a considerable "ducking." We are sorry to say that, in the whole of Col. August's regiment, there are only four tents. Can not something better than this be done? To-day the whole camp is engaged in burnishing arms and drying blankets, which will prove to be a good day's work. On Saturday morning last a detachment of the "Young Guard," under command of Lieut. Vannerson and Sergeant Wade, mounted without saddle or bridle, save a short piece of rope, proceeded down the road leading to Hampton, about twenty miles, and took possession of a large lighter capable of carrying three hundred men; and after encountering much danger and trouble, at seven o'clock on Sunday morning landed the prize safely at the wharf at Yorktown. This party were in much danger during the whole of Saturday night, being within range of the guns of the blockading steamer, which lie