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J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, chapter 22 (search)
United States can promise such results? Letters were received to-day from Nassau, dated 12th December. Mr. L. Heyliger, our agent, reports a number of steamers sailing, and about to sail, with large amounts of stores and goods of all kinds, besides plates for our navy. A Mr. Wiggs has several steamers engaged in this business. Our government own some, and private individuals (foreign speculators) are largely engaged in the trade. Most of these steamers run sixteen miles an hour. A Mr. Hart, agent for S. Isaac Campbell & Co., London, proposes to clothe and equip 100,000 men for us, and to receive certificates for specific amounts of cotton. This same house has, on this, it is said, advanced as much as $2,000,000 on our account. This looks cheering. We have credit abroad. But they are Jews. Mr. Heyliger says he has seen letters from the United States, conveying information that Charleston is to be attacked about the holidays — the ensuing week — by four iron-clad gun-
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, XXX. September, 1863 (search)
lle. Between that and Chattanooga he may be intercepted by the right wing of Bragg. The President had his cabinet with him nearly all day. It is not yet ascertained, precisely, whether Mr. Seward was really on the flag of truce steamer yesterday, but it is pretty certain that Mr. Benjamin went down the river. Of course the public is not likely to know what transpired there — if anything. The trans-Mississippi army is getting large amounts of stores, etc., on the Rio Grande River. Major Hart, Quartermaster, writes from San Antonio, Texas, on the 13th of July, that three large English steamers, Sea Queen, Sir Wm. Peel, and the Gladiator, had arrived, were discharging, etc. Also that two large schooners were hourly expected with 20,000 Enfield rifles on board. He says Gen. Magruder is impressing cotton to freight these vessels. So far, 260 Quakers, non-combatants, have been reported, mostly in North Carolina. A few cannot pay the $500consci-entiously. The papers begin
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, chapter 32 (search)
rrect of hostile troops being there, it may be the enemy's intention to make another raid on the railroad. The general says we have troops enough in Southwestern Virginia; but they are not skillfully commanded. After all, I fear we shall not get the iron from the Aquia Creek Railroad. In the summer the government was too slow, and now it is probably too slow again, as the enemy are said to be landing there. It might have been removed long ago, if we had had a faster Secretary. Major S. Hart, San Antonio, Texas, writes that the 10,000 (the number altered again) superior rifles captured by the French off the Rio Grande last summer, were about to fall into the hands of United States cruisers; and he has sent for them, hoping the French will turn them over to us. Gen. Winder writes the Secretary that the CommissaryGen-eral will let him have no meat for the 13,000 prisoners; and he will not be answerable for their safe keeping without it. The Quartermaster-General writes th
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, chapter 47 (search)
nuary 6 Cloudy and thawing. No war news,--but it is known Sherman's army is not quiet, and must soon be heard from in spite of the interdict of the government. It is said Mr. Trenholm, Secretary of the Treasury, is in the market buying gold, and that the fall has already been from $50 to $30 for one. Corn-meal has risen from $50 up to $75 per bushel. Flour to $500 per barrel. Vice-President Stephens has not left the city, but presides in the Senate. Messrs. B. Woolley, Hart & Co., Nassau, N. P., write most pressing letters for the liquidation of their claims against the Confederate States Government. Perhaps they are becoming alarmed after making prodigious profits, etc. Conner's brigade and other troops are en route for South Carolina from Lee's army. Judge Campbell, Assistant Secretary of War, was smoked out of his room to-day, and came into mine. The judge, however, does but little more just now than grant passports into the enemy's lines; permis
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, XLIX. April, 1865 (search)
owing the example of Gen. Lee. But no salutes have been fired in honor of the event. The President (Davis) is supposed to be flying toward the Mississippi River, but this is merely conjectural. Undoubtedly the war is at an end, and the Confederate States Government will be immediately extinct---its members fugitives. From the tone of leading Northern papers, we have reason to believe President Lincoln will call Congress together, and proclaim an amnesty, etc. Judge Campbell said to Mr. Hart (clerk in the Confederate States War Department) yesterday that there would be no arrests, and no oath would be required. Yet ex-Captain Warner was arrested yesterday, charged with ill treating Federal prisoners, with registering a false name, and as a dangerous character. I know the contrary of all this; for he has been persecuted by the Confederate States authorities for a year, and forced to resign his commission. My application to Gen. Shepley for permission to remove my family to
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 50: Second attack on Fort Fisher. (search)
istant, J. P. Sweet; Acting-Second-Assistant, Alfred Catchpole; Acting-Third-Assistants, S. A. Slater, A. J. Doty and T. J. Reaney. Hunchback--Fourth-rate. Lieutenant, Joseph P. Fyffe; Acting-Master, E. K. Valentine; Acting-Ensigns, J. W. Thompson and C. W. Jones; Acting-Master's Mates, J. F. Sias, J. L. Robins, T. W. Rack and F. W. Colton; Acting-Assistant Paymaster, H. Cushing; Engineers: Acting-First-Assistant, A. Barnum; Acting-Second-Assistant, B. Wilson; Acting-Third-Assistants, S. Hart, G. V. Payton, J. E. Edwards and J. W. Smith. *Monticello--Fourth-rate. Lieutenant, W. B. Cushing; Acting-Volunteer-Lieutenant, D. A. Campbell: Acting-Masters, C. A. Pettit and E. A. Elliott; Acting-Ensigns, W. H. Gibson, D. W. Lakin, T. B. Huntington, J. H. Puckett and J. B. Edwards; Acting-Assistant Surgeon, J. F. Billard; Acting-Assistant Paymaster, John Furey; Acting-Master's Mates, Charles Croton and J. S. Clark; Engineers: Second-Assistant, H. Missiner; Acting-Second-Assistants,
The Daily Dispatch: April 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], From the South. (search)
of $200,000--which we mentioned some days ago — as having been made to the Secretary of the Treasury. This is an error, as we learn. The money was offered, for defence, without interest, to be repaid at the convenience of the Government, by Mr. S. Hart, a most patriotic and popular citizen of Ei Paso, Texas; and his proposition to advance the $200,000, and, if necessary, have it doubled and more than doubled by his friends, was made directly to the War Department. Mr. Hart, we believe, is noMr. Hart, we believe, is now one of the Commissioners of Texas to New Mexico, &c. President Davis has issued a requisition for 6,000 troops, viz: 2,000 from Louisiana; 1,500 from Mississippi: 1,500 from Alabama; and 1,000 from Georgia. The destination of these troops is Pensacola, and the object to take Fort Pickens, if it is not surrendered under the demand of the Government of the Confederate States. A number of the troops from Mississippi and Louisiana have by this time probably arrived at Pensacola, and the oth