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The Daily Dispatch: March 17, 1865., [Electronic resource], Late Northern news. (search)
daddled. As was afterwards learned from a letter found on a prisoner, they had stationed Jones' Light Battery there, but the effect of the broadside caused the men to run and leave their pieces, which they did not attempt to get until the next day. The Don also paid a visit to York river and gained much information of value. A party was set ashore at West Point, which was found to be deserted of men, a few women remaining. Here they were just too late to capture Colonel Richardson, of Lee's Staff, and four soldiers, who had just left there — they having vamoosed just as the Don hove in sight. Sherman's movements. A dispatch from Washington to the Baltimore American, dated the 11th inst., says: A letter dated Wilmington, March 6th, was received here to day, in which it is stated in positive terms, that a scout from Sherman's army had reached General Terry's headquarters, who left our forces in occupation of Cheraw, South Carolina, the terminus of the Cheraw and D
The Daily Dispatch: March 17, 1865., [Electronic resource], Daring Outrage. (search)
The Yankee newspapers are in the habit daily of singing pæans to Grant as the greatest General in all creation, past, present, or to come. Upon what merit of his own this praise is founded, it would be difficult to determine. With an army three or four times as numerous as that of Lee, he started from the Rapidan last May, and after having lost, at the lowest estimate, 250,000 to 300,000 men, he is still exactly where he was when he crossed the James. He has not even been able to take Petersburg. Should he capture Richmond, when we take into consideration the enormous superiority he has in men and materials, his immense shipping, and the facility he enjoys of obtaining whatever he wants, it would not be an extraordinary feat in the estimation of anybody but the Yankee press and their correspondents. It seems to us there are two classes of great military achievements. One is where the means are inadequate and the results great. This is the highest class. Another is,
The Daily Dispatch: March 17, 1865., [Electronic resource], Confederate Congress. (search)
One thousand dollars reward. --For the apprehension of my man, Norman, and his wife, Ellen, and Infant, who left my house, on Mayo street, on Wednesday night last, I will pay the above reward. Norman is about twenty-four years old; light brown color; about five feet nine inches high; wore whiskers, and was dressed in a grey suit. Ellen is of dark color, tall and likely, and took with her infant child, and was dressed in a red and brown mouselin. N. M. Lee. mh 10--1t