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The Daily Dispatch: July 30, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
that of the Federal forces. The fighting of the Southern men, he say, was magnificent. --They fired with the precision of veterans.--They would fall to permit their artillery to fire, and then rising, discharge their muskets and charge bayonets in splendid order. Some of the evolutions were superb, and performed with perfect rapidity, coolness, and discipline. more Supplies for the Confederates. The National Intelligencer, of Monday week, says: The steamer Columbia, Capt. James Harper, left Baltimore on Saturday afternoon for Washington, with a cargo consisting of stores for the army, composed in part of flour, bacon, sugar, coffee, tea, and whiskey. The steamer was pretty well loaded, and left under the protection of an armed guard, able to resist any attack which the Confederates might make upon her. It is expected that this steamer will continue in the service of the Government for the transportation of supplies. Our own river steamers were yesterday princi