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The Daily Dispatch: February 28, 1865., [Electronic resource], Proclamation by the President , appointing a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer, with thanksgiving. (search)
The news.
The Richmond and Petersburg lines.
All quiet and buried in the mud on this side of James river.
On Saturday night, during the progress of a considerable fire which took place in Petersburg, the enemy threw several shells into the city, which drew the fire of our batteries, when a spirited artillery duel, of two hours duration, ensued.
Grant is believed to have the whole of the Army of the Potomac, except the Ninth corps, massed in the neighborhood of Hatcher's run, ready for another dash at the Southside railroad.
The miry condition of the roads is thought to have delayed an attack which he contemplated making on Saturday.
On Friday night he moved a considerable force of artillery to his left.
The Ninth corps alone are now said to be holding the lines between the Weldon road and the Appomattox.
General Joseph E. Johnston Resumes command of the Army of Tennessee.
General Johnston, on assuming the command of our forces in the South, issued the fol
The Daily Dispatch: March 2, 1865., [Electronic resource], Proclamation by the President , appointing a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer, with thanksgiving. (search)
The news.
The Richmond and Petersburg lines.
The mud keeps everything at a standstill in the armies before Richmond and Petersburg.
Grant still holds a heavy force at Hatcher's run, ready to launch in the direction of the Southside road on the return of the first dry weather.
The enemy reported at Staunton.
We stated on yesterday that the enemy, in heavy force, believed to be mostly cavalry, were advancing up the Valley towards Staunton.
As yet we have received no official information on the subject of their advance.
From the South.
We hear nothing from Sherman, Schofield or Schimmelfenning.
It is believed that bottomless and impassable mud surrounds them all.
General Singleton and Judge Hughes.
General Singleton and Judge Hughes, the Yankee commercial agents, and not peace commissioners, have arrived in the city, and are stopping at the Spotswood Hotel.
The News.
Everything remains quiet on the Richmond and Petersburg lines.
Some artillery firing, without result, took place in the neighborhood of Hatcher's run on Thursday evening. On this side of the river not a gun has been fired.
The rain and mud keep the hostile armies closely within their respective camps.
We have no official intelligence from the seat of war in the South, and, for two days, not even a rumor.
The Hon. Roger A. Pryor, who has just returned from a Northern prison, was in the city yesterday, and is looking well.
The News.
There is still a lack of official news.
We might publish reports concerning Sherman's movements, but it is not considered expedient to afford the enemy information which they cannot obtain through any other source.
The Richmond and Petersburg lines.
After three days of continuous fine weather, Grant still keeps quiet on Hatcher's run. There is a general impression that he will renew his attempt to capture the Southside railroad so soon as the roads are firm enough to bear his artillery.
The Petersburg Express says the Yankees in front of our lines near the Appomattox got drunk on Saturday evening in honor of the inauguration of President Lincoln, and asked for a truce of an hour, which was refused them.
The negro soldier question.
The question of arming the slaves has been revived in the Confederate Senate, and will, almost certainly, be decided one way or the other to-day.
House bill to increase the armies of the Confederate States by authorizing
The Daily Dispatch: March 10, 1865., [Electronic resource], The Dispatch. (search)
The news.
The Richmond and Petersburg lines.
There was some movement of the enemy on the north side yesterday, and our pickets in the neighborhood of White Oak swamp were driven in; but being reinforced, they soon drove the enemy back.
The rest of the day passed off quietly.
Everything remains quiet in the neighborhood of Petersburg.
We are looking daily to hear of Sheridan moving from Hatcher's run towards the Southside railroad.
Advices from City Point represent a vast deal of shipping in the river, with gunboats, iron clads and ships-of-war.
The village has been enlarged to a respectable town, abundantly supplied with machine shops, saw-mills, business houses, etc. The wharves are very extensive and the place, in all respects, is so charged as to render it scarcely recognizable by those most familiar with the locality.
From North Carolina.
Intelligence is said to have been received here that, on the 16th, four divisions of Sherman's army attacked Harde