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The Daily Dispatch: December 24, 1864., [Electronic resource], The art and science of War. (search)
ck, capturing forty prisoners. "This morning, Torbert attacked Lomax near Gordonsville, and was repulsed and severely punished. He is retreating, and Lomax preparing to follow. "R. E. Lee." From Southwestern Virginia. The following private dispatch contains the latest authentic intelligence we have from Southwestern Virginia. It is reported that Breckinridge had overtaken the enemy a short distance beyond Marion, and that a fight was going on Wednesday: "Dublin, December 20, 1864. "A dispatch, from General Breckinridge to-day, dated at Mount Airy, sixteen miles west of Wytheville, says he had fought the enemy for two days, successfully, near Marion. The enemy had retired from his front; but whether they were retreating to East Tennessee or not, he had not ascertained." From North Carolina. From our telegram from Wilmington it will be seen that the Yankee fleet, which was driven out to sea by the gale of Thursday, has partially returned to the offi
The Daily Dispatch: December 30, 1864., [Electronic resource], Our Wilmington Correspondence. (search)
was yet at a distance, and snuffed the battle while it was yet afar off. Let every man physically able, then, hurry with his blanket to Wilmington, where arms and rations will be furnished, and let those left behind mount themselves and patrol their counties, looking after the women and children and preserving order. Your Governor will meet you at the front and will share with you the worst. Given under my hand and the great seal of the State. Done at our city of Raleigh, on the 20th day of December, 1864. By the Governor: Zebulon B. Vance. M. S. Robbins, Private Secretary. Raleigh, December 21, 1864. The Wilmington Journal of the 24th says: "A heavy report, resembling an earthquake, was heard and felt in this town about half-past 1 o'clock last night. We learn that the report was caused by one of the Yankee steamers off Fort Fisher getting aground, and being unable to get off, the enemy blew her up. The explosion shook the houses in town severely."
The Daily Dispatch: March 20, 1865., [Electronic resource], Report of the Senate committee on President Davis's late message. (search)
s passed a bill declaring that the terms "just compensation," as used in the Constitution, entitle the owner whose property is impressed to the market value thereof at the time and place of impressment. This legislation was considered necessary, in consequence of judicial decisions in some of the States, and because of the difficulty of procuring supplies on any other terms. Indeed, it was supposed that the Executive had reached the same conclusion, as the Commissary-General, on the 20th December, 1864, had advertised that he would pay for supplies the price fixed by local appraisement; which is, in fact, the market price. The President, in his Annual Message of November last, did not call the attention of Congress to any difficulties attendant on the execution of the impressment laws. The present message, for the first time during this session, suggests modifications of those laws; and the recommendations of the President will doubtless receive the respectful consideration of Cong
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