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The Daily Dispatch: August 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], Heroic deed. (search)
Ladies Relide Society. --We are requested to publish the following: The ladies of Pulaski county, Va., having formed an association for contributing to the relief of the sick and wounded of our hospitals, met for that purpose on Friday, the 18th of July, at New Dublin Church. The Rev. Isaac N. Knaff opened the meeting with prayer, and after some preliminary remarks the following ladies were elected: President--Mrs. John C. Dant. Vice President--Mrs. And G. Matthews, Treasurer--Mrs. Elizabeth Kent. Secretary--Mrs. David McGavock. A move was then made to appoint a committee whose duty will be to receive and forward such articles as may be contributed, and the following ladies chosen: Mrs. Jos. Cloyd, Miss. Eliza Matthews, Mrs John Trollinger, Mrs. Jas. Cloyd, Mrs. Geo. Katron. This Society being a permanent one, (to continue during the war,) their operations will be much facilitated if the Surgeons of the different hospitals will correspond
The Daily Dispatch: August 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], For hire. (search)
attempted an æreal passage in the neighborhood of Sewell's Point. This was done by means of a little steamer coming out in the stream, from which the balloonist was to ascend. His effort, however, was a failure and he was compelled to relinquish the idea of peeping into our batteries, which was his full design. Another fight, I regret to say, took place yesterday afternoon. One man was knocked down and received injury about the head. We are glad the result was not more serious. Liquor, as a matter of course, was the cause of the trouble. We see by your paper that a society of ladies has been formed in Pulaski county, Va, for the purpose of relieving the sick and wounded soldiers of the South. As no such society exists in our city, let me ask that our ladies — whose benevolent feelings, I know will respond — to set about forming one. One cannot be mistaken in the vast amount of good that will accrue from their labors. Then we ask that it be immediately formed. Lu
The Daily Dispatch: October 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Lynchburg. (search)
th, 1861. We were visited by another heavy fail of rain during the early part of this week, which caused a considerable flood in the James river at this point, though I have heard of no serious damage along this river or canal. The same cannot be said, however, as regards the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, as the bed of that road has been much damaged in many places, (some of which have been repaired;) besides which several bridges have again been washed away over Peak creek, in Pulaski county. The railroad crosses this serpentine mountain stream, if I am correctly informed, about twenty-eight times, and at one of these crossings the earth washed from the tressel work on Monday night last; and while the eastern-bound freight train was passing over on Tuesday the tressel work gave way and precipitated the locomotive and eight or ten cars, loaded with sugar, coffee, and other valuable stores, into the creek, some ten or twelve feet deep, which was at that time swollen by the ra
The Daily Dispatch: November 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], Affairs on the Kanawha. (search)
Affairs on the Kanawha. We are able to correct this morning many errors that have got into the newspapers in regard to the operations of our army on the Kanawha. We have received the following letter, dated at Dublin Depot, Pulaski county, from a gentleman of great intelligence who left our camp at Cotton Hill, directly opposite the mouth of Gauley river, last Friday, to-day week. The news is entirely authentic and reliable: Dublin Depot, Oct. 29th, 1861. The rumors in many of the newspapers, as to Gen. Floyd's movements, are so full of errors, that I feel authorized to write you from this place to possess you of such facts as will enable you to give such reliable information as will be admissible to the public. General Floyd left Big Sewell some two weeks ago with the 22d, 36th, 45th, 50th, and 51st Virginia Regiments; the 20th Mississippi; 13th Georgia; 4th Louisiana Battalion, and other forces which I need not enumerate, Colonel Phillips's Georgia Legion en route
The Daily Dispatch: December 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], From southwest Virginia. (search)
bers will join the ranks of Marshall as he advances to West Liberty, Mount Sterling, and Paris. The admission of Kentucky into the Confederacy will have a most salutary effect. It will strengthen our cause almost incalculably. It will put a powerful friend at the back of the true-hearted Southron, and give them encouragement and courage to battle for the right. The march of Zollicoffer is likewise attended with the happiest results. Large accessions to his forces have taken place in Pulaski county, especially in the neighborhood of Somerset, near which the General is now encamping. The advance troops of the army of the enemy, intended to operate against Bowling Green, are on the North-side of Green River, confronting our advance, and no new movements are reported from that quarter. Upon a careful analysis of the campaign "on the dark and bloody ground," we have no occasion to despond Buckner, Breckinridge, Crittenden, and Marshall are names whose very pronunciation thrills t
The Daily Dispatch: January 27, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Yankee cotton Harvest. (search)
Household Industry. --An officer in our army in the Southwest sends us a specimen of grey woolen cloth, manufactured by Mrs. Cinthia Bentley, of Pulaski county, in this State. It is intended for soldiers' uniforms, and is remarkably uniform, substantial, and warm. Every particle of the material used in the manufacture was produced on Mrs. Bentley's plantation. Our correspondent thinks that "so long as the refined women of Virginia can manufacture such material as this, we ought to be fully able to supply our own wants."
The Daily Dispatch: February 22, 1862., [Electronic resource], Southern War News. (search)
The salt question. The House of Delegates were engaged Wednesday in the consideration of the "Salt Question," a matter which is now attracting great attention throughout the State, and which is likely to become a question of vital import to the citizens of Virginia. In the afternoon, an able speech was delivered by Col. McCahart, the delegate from the county of Pulaski, in which he submitted some facts which will be found deeply interesting at this juncture of affairs, and will, we doubt not, have their effect upon the public, as they have evidently adopted the members of the House. There perhaps no question in which the people is more heartily concerned than that of an adequate supply of salt, an article which we have, by the force of circumstances, come to regard as one of the prime necessaries of life, and an article without which it is impossible to get along. Any measure looking to the production of a sufficient supply for general assumption will be regardrd with the de
The Daily Dispatch: October 27, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 12 (search)
ung men in the army is greatly felt. In the company in which are most of the members of the Church no one yet has been killed in battle, though actively engaged with Stonewall Jackson — but perhaps half have been stricken from the rolls. The heaviest loss was in the death of Col. Gibbons, of the 10th regiment, and he fell at his post a conscientious soldier and Christian. Rev. Mr. Leavenworth, of Petersburg, said he had been for the past few weeks in the Western part of the State, in Pulaski, and Wythe counties, with Rev. J. N. Noff. In Wytheville, several years age, a Church was organized, composed exclusively of ladies — not a male member in it. Then they erected one of the handsomest churches in Wythevide. Wytheville is a very important point for ministerial labors. Very few of the male citizens of the town are members of any Church; at the same time there exists a decided partiality and sympathy for the United Presbyterian Church. In New Dublin Church we had a very plea
The Daily Dispatch: July 21, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Washington Cabinet Proposing an amnesty. (search)
ek to this place. If they retreat by the way they came they will probably be intercepted and cut up. They paroled on their retreat 75 or 80 of our men, whom, I suppose, they found it inconvenient to carry off. Of course the parole, under such circumstances, is worthless, under their own order. The damage to the railroad can be repaired in an hour or so. The jail, commissary and quartermaster storehouses, and several private houses, were burned. (Signed,) Samuel Jones, Major Gen'l. [Dublin is in Pulaski county, on the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, 28 miles cast of Wytheville.] [Second Dispatch.] Lynchburg, July 20. --The following private dispatch was received last night: "Later information leads to the conclusion that other demonstrations are threatened, and the force at Wytheville was only a detachment from the main body, advancing from other places. The enemy carried off one piece of our artillery. The paroled prisoners have arrived at Wytheville."
The Daily Dispatch: August 28, 1863., [Electronic resource], Major General John B. Floyd. (search)
Major General John B. Floyd. --The painful news of the death of this distinguished officer and statesman was announced in this paper yesterday. He died at 6 A. M., on Wednesday, the 26th inst., the anniversary of the battle of Cross Lanes, in Nicholas county, the first of his Western Virginia campaign, in which the enemy was completely routed. He was born in Montgomery county, (in that part which is now Pulaski county,) in 1803, and was therefore in his 58th year. He graduated at Columbia College, South Carolina, in 1826, and was admitted to the bar in 1828. After a short residence at Helena, Ark., he returned to Virginia and settled in Abingdon, Washington county, where he died. He was elected to the House of Delegates in 1847, and again in 1849, in which year he was elected by the Legislature Governor of Virginia for the term expiring January 1st, 1853. In 55 he was again elected to the Legislature. In '56 he was a Presidential elector, and voted for James Buchanan, by wh
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