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The Daily Dispatch: July 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], Later from the North. (search)
estimony is very voluminous, and it is estimated will cover eighteen hundred pages. Ed. Hughes, Aid to Gen. Boyle, U. S. A., who distinguished himself at Shiloh, committed suicide at Louisville, Ky, on the 17th inst. The Republican State Convention of Pennsylvania, after endorsing Lincoln's Administration, nominated Thomas E. Cochrane for Auditor General and Wm. S. Ross for Surveyor-General. Rigl Reverend Andrew Byrne, Catholic Bishop of Arkansas, died at Little Rock on the 10th of June last. He was well known in New York, having been pastor of St. James's Church, James street. A National Exhibition of Angle-African Industry and Art is to be held in New York city in the early part of the ensuing fall. The directors of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company are preparing new iron bridges in place of the wooden ones destroyed (about twenty in number) by the rebels, in June, 1861. The large bridge at Harper's Ferry is nearly completed. An effort is being ma
The Daily Dispatch: March 30, 1863., [Electronic resource], Lost on a Railway. (search)
.--But my trunk was packed, and I thought maybe l'd have to stop quite a while in York, and this pongee I'm in isn't very much to look at, so I put up my best black silk gown, and two trilled caps, and some handkerchiefs, so 't I needn't appear otherwise than conformable to city folks's ways, and then I knew James Greene (that's John's brother, lestways his step-brother) was extreme fond of Rox bury russets, so I concluded to take along a few; they have kept over so well — why, it's June the tenth to-day --and I couldn't go without my umberell no way, if it should come on to rain; and then I had the fennel so 'st if I should be sick to my stomach a riding in the cars, it's very warning--" "Manchester!" interposed the conductor, and Mrs. Packard bundled out of the cars with a rapid farewell to her traveling companion, and left the old lady alone. Before long the train rolled into the Hartford station, and Mrs. Dodd, somewhat confused by the rush of people out of the cars, and th
The Daily Dispatch: July 10, 1863., [Electronic resource], Journal of the siege of Vicksburg. (search)
will get shot to-day. Shetled as pretty heavy last night, but no body hurt. Monday, June 8.--We have had but little news from the outside. Heard cannonading up the river yesterday morning, this is the first certain proof that we have friends in striking distance. A man had his hold, one arm, and one leg blown off with a piece of a shell in our camp yesterday. The Yankees are killing quite a number of our mules and horses; they are hauled and thrown into the river every night. June 10.--Had a fine rain to-day. Gen. Pemberton has pressed all the tobacco in store and in the hands of wholesale dealers, and is issuing tobacco rations. Nothing unusual around the fires. The gunboats have not come in reach of our guns in several days. June 14.--We had preaching to-day in the grave yard near our camp. There was a very large attendance from our (Green's) brigade. It was indeed a solemn to witness the solemnity of this large concourse of people, assembled among the grave
The Daily Dispatch: August 8, 1863., [Electronic resource], Latest from the North. (search)
consuming sixteen warehouses, containing 672 bales of cotton, 63,012 boxes of sugar, and large quantities of other goods, a considerable amount of which was intended to run the blockade, and slanged to Secesh English men. Their loss is estimated at over one million and a half. The Confederate steamer Nita, with a cargo of cotton, arrived at Havana on the 234. Mexico. The following is the text of the dispatch from Gen. Forey, received by the French Minister of War: Mexico, June 10.--I have just entered the City of Mexico at the head of the army. With a heart still agitated by the event, I address this dispatch in haste to your Excellency, to inform you that the whole population of the city received the army with an enthusiasm that bordered on delirium. The soldiers of France were literally crushed under the showers of garlands and bouquets. Only the entrance of the army into Paris on the 14th of July, 1859, when returning from Italy, can give an idea of the scene.
The Daily Dispatch: December 18, 1863., [Electronic resource], Averill's raid. (search)
mes Lyons and Gen. George W. Randolph acted as her counsel. The names of the witnesses were then called over, all of whom answered to their names. Dr. Erasmus Powell was first examined, and testified that he had been acquainted with Mrs. Allan for five or six years; knew her intimately, and, having corresponded frequently with her, could identify her handwriting. [Several of the intercepted letters were here produced, some of which he identified.] He had received, sometime about the 10th of June, a note from Mrs. Allan covering two letters directed to some persons at the North, with the request that he would have them forwarded. He took them to a gentleman who he knew had been in the habit of sending off letters by blockade runners and thought no more of the matter. --He did not read the letters himself, and therefore could not have known what were their contents. The person in whose hands he placed the letters had been in the habit of running them through to the North.
The Daily Dispatch: February 5, 1864., [Electronic resource], Pennsylvania campaign of Gen. Lee. (search)
and infantry, to have crossed the Rappahannock river, and that they were advancing to give battle. Rodes's division, being nearest to the cavalry, was ordered up to support it, if necessary, but did not become engaged. The result of that fight was a signal repulse to the enemy, though not without severe loss on our side. Inasmuch as I propose to devote a chapter to the operations of the cavalry during the past year I will not now allude further to this fight. On the afternoon of the 10th of June the whole of Ewell's corps left Culpeper C. H., moving in the direction of Winchester, via Front Royal, in the county of Warren, and crossing the Blue Ridge at Chester Gap on the night of the 12th, the whole corps arrived at and near Front Royal, and was disposed as follows. Johnson's division bivouacked near Cedarville; Early's between the north and south forks of the Shenandoah river, at Front Royal, and Rodes's five miles beyond the river, on the road leading to Berryville. On
The Daily Dispatch: February 13, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
et inability to promise more troops, as we have drained resources even to the danger of several points. You know best concerning Gen. Bragg's army; but I fear to withdraw more. We are too far outnumbered in Virginia to spare any." &c., &c. On the 8th June the Secretary was more explicit, if possible. He said: "Do you advise more reinforcements from Gen. Bragg? You, as commandant of the department, have power so to order, if you in view of the whole case, so determine." On the 10th June, you answered that it was for the Government to determine what department could furnish the reinforcements; that you could not know how Gen. Bragg's wants compared with yours; and that the Government could make the comparison. Your statements, that the Government in Richmond was better able to judge of the relative necessities of the armies under your command than you were, and the further statement, that you could not know how General Bragg's wants compared with yours, were considered ext
The Daily Dispatch: June 10, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
The 10th of June. This day is the third anniversary of the battle of Bethel, fought in 1861. We were at that time, new to the trade of war, and judged of it only from the battles fought in Mexico, which Scott, with his accustomed pomposity, magnified into mighty affairs, though in point of fact they were little more than the skirmishes among kites and crows, to which Milton compares the rencontres of the Angle-Saxons. For this reason our victory on that day caused more exultation throughout the Confederacy than has ever been felt since, even upon the most extraordinary occasions. It was our first victory, and the first victory to a people for the first time at war, is like the first love, the first horse, the first dog, the first pair of boots, to the individual. In the progress of the latter through life he meets with many women more beautiful, and more attractive than she who first "caught his youthful fancy" --he becomes the owner of horses to which his first nag was but
The Daily Dispatch: June 21, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
d wounded and about 700 prisoners. Gen. Burbridge is supposed to be pursuing the remnant of Morgan's command. The loss to the Kentucky Central railroad is estimated at about $200,000. There were five locomotives and seventy-five cars at Lexington, which are reported uninjured. The late attempt to surprise Petersburg — its failure and the Cause Gen. Gillmore behind time — rebel, Battery at work. A correspondent of the Tribune, writing from Gen. Butler's headquarters, June 10th, gives the following account of Kantz attempt to surprise and capture Petersburg. It was written under Batlers supervision, and, of course, excuses him from all blame in the failure of the expedition. The development of the details of the recent movement on Petersburg proves that its failure was solely due to the course pursued by the General who commanded on that occasion. As usual, every preparation had been made by Gen. Butter to insure success, and to make the movement as near a s
The Daily Dispatch: July 1, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
the forerunner of a great disaster.--He says that it was, on the part of Grant, a compulsory movement, and that, in executing it, he was compelled to take the route he actually did take to avoid the necessity of fighting three desperate battles, the last of which, had he been victorious in the two first, which he (the writer) considered extremely problematical, would have left him in no condition to prosecute the war after reaching the south side. He says Gen. Lee knew as early as the 10th of June that Grant was preparing to cross the river, from his having torn up the York River Railroad, and thus manifestly cut himself off from the White House. He expected, however, that he would have made the attempt by way of Bottom's Bridge, since by that route it is a march of only ten miles to the river, pursuing the roads which McClellan took in his retreat two years ago. From the mouth of Bailey's Run (Four-Mile Creek,) only thirteen miles above Harrison's landing, he could have approach
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