NP, RD 4/16/1861

From the Richmond Daily Dispatch
 
April 16, 1861
 
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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