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The Daily Dispatch: July 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway Negro. (search)
who is also a prisoner, who told him that Charles W. Russell laid behind the first barricade with a musket in his hands, but the day before the action took place he left and went towards Richmond. Captain William Thompson was at Laurel, in Colonel Jackson's Regiment. Heck says he felt three weeks ago that he was on the wrong side. --Many persons from the rebel army are giving themselves up, and the hills were full of them. They are scattered all over the country. Ex-Lieutenant GovernorEx-Lieutenant Governor William L. Jackson, of Parkersburg, in the Rebel army, was killed at Cheat Mountain Pass. A gentleman who arrived yesterday from Beverly states that a young lawyer from Morgantown, named Lowry Wilson, was among the killed of the Rebel forces at Rich Mountain. He had a Colonel's commission from John Letcher, but at the time of his death he was acting as a Captain or Lieutenant. The Secession officers who recently retreated from Laurel Hill and vicinity were exceedingly honest and lib
The Daily Dispatch: July 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], Coming to Richmond. (search)
Coming to Richmond. The first detachment of Scott's army, which was to have arrived in Richmond on the 29th of July, was, after all, only three days behind time. Among them are a part of the Zouaves, whose regiment was annihilated in the late battle, and whose old Colonel, Ellsworth, was killed by the patriot Jackson. We recollect to have seen an envelope, covering a letter from a New York Christian Association to the Christian Association of this city, in which Jeff. Davis was represented as hanging from a gallows, guarded by these Zouaves under Ellsworth. Where are Ellsworth and his Zouaves now! Where are the wretcher who came to Virginia, and were heard to declare on the cars from New York to Washington that they would dishonor every woman in the South and divide the farms among themselves? Where are the wretches whose favorite motto was "Beauty and Booty?" If the detachment which guarded the prisoners to their quarters Tuesday night had marched them at once to the river,