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The Daily Dispatch: June 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], $10 reward (search)
ictory at whatever sacrifice. As with the Government at Washington, great secresy is observed with reference to the movements of troops, military designs, etc. Masked batteries in Virginia. The New York Tribune has the following from Washington: The Government has received information that the Confederates have set a trap in a piece of woods, about 11 miles from Alexandria, and in the direction of Fairfax Court-House, into which they expect to draw the unsuspecting Federal forceate active operations in Virginia, and stirring tidings are looked for with deep anxiety. The house occupied by General Cadwallader at Williamsport was formerly the residence of Gen. Otho H. Williams, of revolutionary fame, and was used by Washington as his headquarters during a portion of the whiskey insurrection campaign in Western Maryland. It may not be generally known that Williamsport was thus named in honor of the gallant hero of the "Old Maryland Line," who arranged the origina
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a young lady friend in this city, in which she says, "be sure that there are many thousands of Molly Pitchers in the South, who, if circumstances shall require, will be found on the tented field defending our altars and our homes." This allusion to Molly Pitcher brings to mind one of the most heroic incidents connected with the history of our Revolutionary war with Great Britain. The celebrated Molly Pitcher distinguished herself at the battle of Monmouth, of which Headly, in his "Life of Washington," gives the following account: "It was during this part of the battle (when Gen. Lee was struggling nobly against the overwhelming numbers that pressed on him) that an Irishman, while serving his gun, was shot down. His wife, named Molly, only twenty-two years of age, employed herself, while he loaded and fired his plece, in bringing water from a spring near by. While returning with a supply she saw him fall, and heard the officer in command order the gun to be taken to the rear. S