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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: October 28, 1863., [Electronic resource], Experience of a Confederate Chaplain at the North. (search)
e I discussed our national affairs with gentlemen from nearly every State, and while most of them thought we ought to have fought for our rights in the Union, they all united in the belief that independence would yet crown our efforts. It seemed to be the settled conviction with them that armed intervention by any foreign power would prolong the war. They argue that thousands who would not otherwise participate in the struggle will fly to arms in the event of foreign intervention. President Davis is evidently looked upon as the first man on the continent, and they say they would have flocked to him had he raised the Stars and Stripes and struck for our rights in the Union. Many endeavored to persuade me that we ought yet to reunite with all save the New England States; but I gave it as my opinion that we never would consent to an affiliation with any except the slave States. When arrangements were made to send us South they gave us transportation to Baltimore, with instruc
The Daily Dispatch: October 28, 1863., [Electronic resource], The speech of the President at Missionary Ridge. (search)
The speech of the President at Missionary Ridge. --The editor of the Marietta (Ga.) Confederate, who was the only reporter that heard the speech of President Davis to the soldiers at Missionary Ridge, gives the following report of it: He began by paying a warm tribute to their gallantry, displayed on the bloody field of Chickamauga, defeating the largely superior force of the enemy, who had boasted of their ability to penetrate to the heart of Georgia, and driving them back, like sheep, into a pen, and protected by strong entrenchments, from which naught but an indisposition to sacrifice, necessarily, the precious lives of our brave and patriotic soldiers, prevented us from driving them. But, he said, they had given still higher evidence of courage, patriotism, and resolute determination to live freemen, or disfreemen, by their patient endurance and buoyant, cheerful spirits, timid privations and suffering from half-rations, thin blankets, ragged clothes, and shoeless fee
The Daily Dispatch: October 28, 1863., [Electronic resource], The speech of the President at Missionary Ridge. (search)
The Watering Committee of the City Council met yesterday, at the request of Mr. Jas., L. Davis, the Superintendent of the Water Works, to examine into charges made against him, of improperly using city lumber. After hearing all the facts, the committee decided that there was no foundation for the charge, and so entered upon their record. --Mr. D. is a faithful officer, and enjoys the confidence of the entire community.
The Daily Dispatch: October 28, 1863., [Electronic resource], Narrative of Wheeler's Circuit around Rosecrans. (search)
arleston. Charleston, Oct. 27. --Four monitors opened fire at 11 o'clock this morning on Fort Sumter, at a distance of one mile. The firing ceased between 3 and 4 o'clock this afternoon. The firing from Gregg, Wagner, and the Centre Battery, on Sumter, Johnson, and Simpkins, has been very heavy during the day. At 11½ o'clock this morning the enemy fired three or four solid shot from the Centre Battery into the city. Only one building (the Union Bank) was struck. No person injured. A report from Fort Johnson says that the enemy's gun firing on the city burst at the fifth discharge. A dispatch from Sumter also states that one of the enemy's guns in the battery east of Gregg was bursted. From 12 o'clock to 6 this afternoon 630 shots were fired at Sumter. The following are the casualties of to-day: At Sumter, Lt. Brown, of the 12th Ga., mortally wounded; at Fort Johnson, privates Reeves killed and Davis wounded. Our batteries steadily replied to the enemy's fire.
The Daily Dispatch: October 28, 1863., [Electronic resource], Wanted--1,000 negroes. (search)
Lost --Negro Boy — Lost, on the 8th day of October, 1863, my negro boy Osburn, at the Central Depot. Said boy is about 15 years of age, five feet high, and blind in one eye. I will give $25 reward for the delivery of said boy at the Mississippi Depot, in care of J J Hood. S W Davis, Company H, 12th Miss reg't. oc 27--3t