hide Matching Documents

Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: February 7, 1865., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Hatcher or search for Hatcher in all documents.

Your search returned 2 results in 2 document sections:

The Daily Dispatch: February 7, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Mr. Moore, of Kentucky, offered a resolution instructing the Committee on Military Affairs to inquire into the expediency of investing the President, by law, with power to call into the military service all able-bodied negroes in the Confederate States, to be used as the Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy may think best, to aid in the military defence of the country. Mr. Moore believed that we could make the negroes efficient soldiers against the Yankee negroes and Dutch. Mr. Hatcher, of Missouri, moved to lay the resolution on the table; upon which the yeas and nays were ordered and the motion was lost. Yeas, 32; nays, 39. The resolution then went to the Committee on Military Affairs. Mr. Dupre, of Louisiana, offered a resolution, which was agreed to, requesting the President to inform the House why the cotton in Savannah was not destroyed previous to the evacuation of that place. Mr. Chambers, of Mississippi, offered a resolution instructing the Committe
The Daily Dispatch: February 7, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
The News. Grant threatens another heavy movement on our right, southwest of Petersburg. During Saturday and Saturday night his railroad was kept running, moving troops from City Point to his left, and on Sunday morning a large column drove in our pickets on the Vaughan road and crossed Hatcher's run. During the day there was some brisk skirmishing, but no engagement of consequence. A fight was deemed imminent yesterday. At 6 o'clock last evening, however, no official intelligence of any fighting had been received at the War Office. The Petersburg Express thinks this movement of Grant is against the Weldon railroad, or, perhaps, Weldon itself, and that no attack on the Petersburg lines is intended. We think it quite as likely that Grant is after the Southside as well as the Weldon road; or, it may be, he is after neighbor, but is demonstrating on our right to cover some real movement on the north side. The peace mission — message from President Davis to Congress — offici