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The Daily Dispatch: August 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], War matters. (search)
palpable lies. From Alexandria. Alexandria, Aug. 22. --Yesterday, through the exertions of Major Lemon, commanding the Guard here, Miss Windle, formerly of Delaware, but more recently of Philadelphia, and a correspondent of the Southern press was arrested in the act of leaving for Washington by the steamboat. She is a highly educated lady, and the authoress of several works published while she resided in Philadelphia, among which was a legend of the Wildness, also "A Visit to Melrose," Miss Windle has resided here for the past month, where her movements have been closely watched. She boldly avowed her secession proclivities, and made no secret of her correspondence with the leaders of the Confederate army. After a hearing, she was sent to Washington. Augustus Schaffer, of Gloucester, N. J., belonging to Capt. Towns' Philadelphia Company of Cavalry, was severely wounded in the head yesterday, by a pistol ball, while out with a scouting party towards Fairfax Court-