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The Daily Dispatch: July 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway Negro. (search)
Washington county, Va. "Beta" sends an interesting account of what Washington county has done and is doing in the cause of Southern independence, as follows: I have been reading your daily paper with deep interest since the affairs of our once prosperous and happy country have assumed such a gloomy aspect, but have seen only one or two letters from this county, and therefore take the liberty of speaking a few words in her behalf, in order that you may see we of the Southwestern portioWashington county has done and is doing in the cause of Southern independence, as follows: I have been reading your daily paper with deep interest since the affairs of our once prosperous and happy country have assumed such a gloomy aspect, but have seen only one or two letters from this county, and therefore take the liberty of speaking a few words in her behalf, in order that you may see we of the Southwestern portion of the State are doing everything we can to assist in the mighty struggle now going on upon Virginia's soil. We have raised some nine or ten companies, one of which is a very fine cavalry company. So that I can safely say, among the many thousands of brave and true men now enlisted in the noble cause of the South, none will be found who will do more honor to the name of the great and good George Washington — none who will strike a more deadly blow to the vile scoundrels and hirelings which