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The Daily Dispatch: August 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], Mr. Phillips day's third letters. (search)
are sanguine enough to imagine that it indicates a short continuance of the blockade. At all events, tobacco ranged higher on Wednesday and Thursday last than at any time this year, and as high as at any period of the year preceding. Ex-Secretary Floyd's artillery marches against Gen. M'Clellan. Amongst the troops thus sent forward is the brigade of Gen. Floyd, late Secretary of War. This force is considered one of the crack corps of the service, and is principally made up of the athGen. Floyd, late Secretary of War. This force is considered one of the crack corps of the service, and is principally made up of the athletic mountaineers belonging to Southwestern Virginia, many of whom are admirably mounted. Nearly all the leading officers of this brigade are descendants of the old English cavaliers, who settled in this State in the old colonial times. Col. Reynolds, second in command, is the grandson of a brave officer who fell during the revolutionary war, at the battle of Camden, and whose undaunted courage gained for him the sobriquet, more expressive than elegant, of "Dare-Devil Tom." The Colonel appare