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The Daily Dispatch: February 17, 1862., [Electronic resource], Late Northern news. (search)
ad a large amount of gold on his person. Reinforcements have gone forward from Danville and Somerset to support General Thomas in his movement on Knoxville. The statement of an escaped Confederate soldier. I have been conversing this morning with Mr. Wm. Barr, who came from Port Royal a few days ago. Mr. Barr is a citizen of Philadelphia, and has been residing in the South for some years. He went to Savannah nearly three years since, where he was employed in the house of Messrs. Williams & Roach.--Before the war broke out he was a member of the Irish Volunteers, a local military company, to which he belonged when Fort Sumter fell. It was thought in Savannah that the war was a more temporary difficulty, but after the battle of Bull Run the volunteer companies were mustered into the service of the Confederate States. The feeling in favor of the rebellion was so strong that it was impossible for a Union man to come to the North, or avoid impressment into the rebel servic