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The Daily Dispatch: July 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], Red Sulphur Springs and the Giles county Volunteers. (search)
serting more than a brief contradiction, we give place to a considerable portion of the letter: The proprietors had not a week's, (as is stated,) or even a day's notice of their intention to remain all night at this place. I was near when Capt. McC. requested permission of his company to remain over night. He remarked that they only wanted some place for his men to sleep; that they had plenty of everything to eat. The managers of the Springs gave them a large house containing thirty-four rooms, with mattresses for the men to sleep on; gave them lights, &c., and only requested that the men would be careful not to grease or deface the house, as they were then preparing it for the visitors. Captain McC. said he would caution his men, and that they would eat at their wagons.--The manager proposed to give them the dining room; he refused to do so, saying the men preferred to have meals at their wagons. The manager gave him two large tables; which they used, and at breakfast. Th
The Daily Dispatch: July 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Northwestern Virginia. (search)
From Northwestern Virginia. The Enquirer publishes letters from Beverly, Randolph county, Va., the first of which bears date July 2d, giving some interesting information of military movements in that section. We regret to learn that Lieut. Robt. McChesney, of the Rockbridge Cavalry, was killed in a recent skirmish with a large party of the enemy, the latter being in ambush.--Two of his men were wounded--one, named Paxton, severely, and the other, named Long, not dangerously. Lieut. McC. had but ten men in his party. The writer proceeds: I think we are upon the eve of a fight in this quarter. Orders were brought here late last night for all the troops here, (five companies of infantry,) to march immediately to join the command of Col. Heck. They were off by times this morning. It has just been ascertained here that the above-mentioned order resulted from the fact that the enemy, twenty- three hundred strong, have, within the last two days, taken a position at Buckhanno