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The Daily Dispatch: October 1, 1864., [Electronic resource], A Yankee railroad, (search)
A Yankee railroad, --The Way They Build Then.--Grant's railroad from city Point to the Weldon road, is nine miles long, and was built in eleven days. A letter describing it, says: "Two days were lost to the force by the sinking of a vessel having a portion of the material on board, which reduces it practically to a nine days job. No previous surveys had been made to establish the route, or ascertain grades, and the most remarkable feature of the whole is, that none were made at all. The line was located by the eye, without the aid of a compass, and no instruments were need to guage the evenness or degree of curvature to be established at different points. No measurement was made or taken in laying the track from one end to the other — not even a tape line or "ten feet." poles !-- All was gauged by the eye — estimated by paces. The practical skill of the construction corps enabled them to seise the best location for the road at a glance, and to direct its details without
The Daily Dispatch: October 1, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
The situation. The grand manæuvre which the Yankee papers according to their custom, have been hinting at for the last three weeks as about to be executed, and to result in something if it would astonish all the world and the rest of mankind, has at length been tried. It has not captured Richmond, but it has procured "hospitable graves" for many of Grant's cut-threats, black and white. What will be try next to. Why, we suppose he will manufacture a bulletin, in which he will announce the most splendid success, and which will set the whole semi-barbarous generation represented by him and his army to screaming, dancing, throwing up their hats, and shouting for old Abe. That is all he has done since he has been in command of the grand army, and it is pretty much all that he can expect to do hereafter. But that will not take Richmond, although it may, and no doubt will, assist greatly in electing Lincoln. The sudden abandonment of Fort Harrison by our troops was a sad affair
The Daily Dispatch: October 1, 1864., [Electronic resource], The Navy. (search)
at of this Norman conquest, such patriotic valor would have extorted from those whom policy, and interest had made their enemies." The above is an extract from a review of Thierry's history of the Norman conquest of England, published many years ago in a British periodical, the Foreign Monthly Magazine. It is predicated of the conquest of England by William of Normandy. The gallant "resistance" there spoken of, consisted in fighting one battle against a force not so large as that which Grant now has before Petersburg. They "fought so long;"that is to say, they fought about twelve hours. A single battle effectually crushed all resistance worthy of the name, for though sporadic cases of insurrection occurred from time to time, for three or four years afterwards, no serious or organized opposition was made to the invader save in that single instance. The people here eulogized in language too florid even for the deeds of Bruce and Wallace succumbed beneath the weight of the first