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The Daily Dispatch: September 12, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
Governor Brown, of Georgia, has set apart the 15th day of September as a day of fasting and prayer. The not earnings of the Virginia and Tennessee railroad for the year ending June 30th were $1,777,551.32. Colonel Robert W. Withers, of the Forty-fifth Virginia regiment, was badly wounded at or near Shepherdstown recently — shot through the lungs.
The Daily Dispatch: September 15, 1864., [Electronic resource], Quartermaster's Office, (search)
ime — date not mentioned. As the same Grant wrote last summer that the Confederates were "defending their last ditch" in Spotsylvania, and as that ditch turned out not to be their last, perhaps his statement ought to be received with some grains of allowance, especially when we recollect that he threatened, as long ago as the fifth of May last, "to fight it out on this line," (that is, the line from the Rapidan to Richmond,) if it took him all the summer, and that he is now, this fifteenth day of September, still twenty-five miles from Richmond, with no prospect of ever getting nearer, unless he should come as a prisoner. The threats and boasts of a general who has been so unsuccessful as Grant would amount to very little at best. In the present case, they amount to nothing at all, it being perfectly notorious that they are all designed to affect the election. The people at home perfectly understand Grant. They know that his campaign this summer was a most complete and a most dis
The Daily Dispatch: September 20, 1864., [Electronic resource], Receiver's sale of negroes. (search)
from the following telegrams, which we take from the Baltimore Gazette, that Grant has gone to Washington and Butler to Fortress Monroe: Fortress Monroe, September 15, --Major-General Butler arrived here this morning from the front on the steamer Greyhound. The General comes hither for a brief sojourn, with the hope of imprmust be left to the future to decide. Anticipated Invasion of Missouri. The following telegrams disclose a speck of war in the far West: Cairo, September 15.--General A. J. Smith's advance arrived at Sulphur Springs about twenty miles below here to-day, where they will go into camp, and probably await the developments of the enemy. Shelby's advance is in Southeast Missouri, but nothing definite is known in regard to his designs. St. Louis, September 16.--Reliable information received here reports that General Price crossed the Arkansas river at Dardanelle, about half way between Little Rock and Fort Smith, on the 8th, with five thousa
The Daily Dispatch: October 14, 1864., [Electronic resource], Hustings Court, yesterday. (search)
Hustings Court, yesterday. --A nolle prosequi was entered in the case of George Childress, charged with grand larceny, and he was discharged. The case against Jacob N. Heeflich, charged with the murder of a negro girl in his employ, on the 15th of September, was continued till the next term. Thomas H. S. Boyd, charged with obtaining $1,300 upon a forged order for house rent on Philip Whitlock, on the 16th day of September, was sent on for trial before Judge Lyons. The court will meet again this morning at 11 o'clock.
The Daily Dispatch: October 15, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
flight effectual, was the rebel General Lomax. General Merritt was in hot pursuit of another gun, the only one which the enemy seemed to have remaining. A thousand dollars was offered for the gun, but it was not captured. Sherman's report of the Atlanta campaign. The Times contains the following telegraphic dispatch from Washington: General Sherman's official report of the Atlanta campaign is published in the official Army and Navy Gazette of this week. It is dated September 15, and fills twenty columns of that paper. He estimates the enemy's strength to have been between forty-five thousand and fifty thousand infantry and artillery, and ten thousand cavalry. General Sherman says that he maintained about the same strength during the campaign, the number of men joining from furlough and hospitals about compensating for loss in battle and from sickness. The report is composed in General Sherman's terse and trenchant style, and forms a most interesting hist
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