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The Daily Dispatch: may 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], Affairs in Virginia. (search)
litary skill, has the privilege of commanding it. We muster 70 strong, and will probably have 100 enrolled in the course of a few weeks. Lieut. Wm. H. F. Lee, a graduate of West Point, and who served for several years in the United States Army, has been authorized by the Executive to enroll 200 mounted men, who will go immediately into service, after being commissioned. His rendezvous is West Point, and we hear of a great many young men who have joined him. Lieut. Lee is a son of Gen. Robert E. Lee, and is a very superior officer. The wheat, as far as we have observed, promises more than an average yield. But little of it was killed by the cold weather last winter, consequently there is a fine growth, and that exceedingly luxuriant. The farmers have finished planting corn, and the most of it is up and growing prettily. We have six candidates here for the suffrages of the "dear people," two for the Senate and four for the House of Delegates; but with all their canvassi
The Daily Dispatch: may 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], Affairs in Virginia. (search)
roubles.--There is naturally some anxiety on this score. The Washington stone cutters are disappointed to-day, by the ordering a suspension of all further work for the present upon the National Capitol. It is certain that the Confederate troops are making steady approaches to the Capital.--We hear of their fortifications on the Rappahannock, near Fredericksburg, on the line of the railroad, and of the daily augmentation of troops by companies and regiments from the South. So far, Gen. Lee gives out that he acts only to protect Virginia from defence, and nothing more. How happens it, then, that he has allowed the Harper's Ferry Secession troops to cross over into Maryland? Jefferson Davis, besides, is the superior officer in command. The Maryland Secessionists are understood to have a hand in these forward movements. G. A. Scott will not allow any fortifications to go up on the Virginia shore, in the vicinity of the city or on the Potomac. The Secession forces at