| From the Richmond Daily Dispatch |
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| April 16, 1861 |
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| Lynchburg, Va., April 15, 1861 |
| *** On yesterday evening the flag of the Confederate
States was hoisted in front of the locomotive
attached to the mail train on the Virginia & Tennessee Railroad,
which carried the news of the surrender of Fort Sumter. Col. R. L.
Owen, the President of that road, and E. H. Gill, the General
Superintendent, are strong friends and staunch advocates of Southern
rights, and so far as I am informed their road has been the first to
raise the Southern flag. *** |
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