THE SECESSION REBELLION: PERFECTION OF THE BLOCKADE SYSTEM; Rumors of Skirmishing at Alexandria; WESTERN VIRGINIA ON THE MOVE (5/13/1861)
THE SECESSION REBELLION: PERFECTION OF THE BLOCKADE SYSTEM; Rumors of Skirmishing at Alexandria; WESTERN VIRGINIA ON THE MOVE (5/13/1861) WASHINGTON, Sunday, May 12. A gentleman just returned from the south says that at Richmond are about six thousand troops, and about nineteen thousand are surrounding the city within fifty miles -- making in all about twenty-five thousand men fully armed and equipped within that radius of Richmond. He has been through several Southern States, and has been, from certain influences taken with him, kindly treated, and accorded full opportunity to observe all ...