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The Daily Dispatch: May 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 14 (search)
The Kentucky troops. --The Lynchburg Republican says of the Kentucky troops which arrived in that city Thursday morning, that the average height of the members is five feet nine and a half inches, while no man in the regiment weighs less than one hundred and fifty pounds. They are under the command of Col. Blanton Duncan, and the following officers: Adjutant D. J. Symmes; Surgeon, Dr. Alex. Forsythe; and Captains Jo. Desha, of Harrison county; Ed. Crossland, of Hickman county; John D. Pope, of Louisville; M. Laparelle, of Louisville, and — Harney, of Louisville. They are all dressed in the blue Kentucky hunting shirt, and a finer body of men the world has never produced. On Thursday night they left Lynchburg for Harper's Ferry.
The Daily Dispatch: May 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], Great Britain and the Southern Confederacy. (search)
It appeared that they arrived from Norfolk, via railroad, on Thursday evening, and on getting here by the Southern train, inquired of officer Crone the way to Harper's Ferry. --The officer thereupon showed them to the First Station-House, where they spent the night. They told the Mayor that they had embarked at some Northern portconvey to Cuba. They had come as far as Norfolk, where their egress being blocked by Lincoln's pirates, they had been advised to come to Richmond, proceed to Harper's Ferry, and thence North to their homes. Most of them came from Boston. They had plenty of doubloons and other coin in their possession. The Mayor said he should not allow them to go to Harper's Ferry for the present. The public safety demanded them to be retained till they could be sent away, which he would take an early occasion of doing. They were ordered to jail, and their money, which had been counted and wrapped up in a handkerchief, was deposited in the City Chamberlain's strong b
The Daily Dispatch: May 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Washington. (search)
The Warlike intentions of the Administration. We suppose no sane man in Virginia doubts Lincoln's intention to invade this State. If there is one, he labors under an awful delusion. The Navy-Yard at Norfolk, Harper's Ferry, and the city of Richmond, will undoubtedly be the objects of attack. This last, as a great depot of arms and flour, is determined on beyond question. Nothing but the most criminal apathy, which is not likely to be found in this latitude, can render its success possible.