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The Daily Dispatch: March 7, 1864., [Electronic resource], The question of Exchange — arrival of Confederate prisoners from Point Look out. (search)
ed, and accept the enemy's hospitality and become a prisoner of war. In speaking of the manner in which the Confederate forces were handled in the fight, the same correspondent says: The rebel forces were skillfully hundred, and they came into the fight in admirable order, and fought with great energy and valor. They were probably veteran troops from Savannah and Charleston, and other camps in Georgia. It is impossible to say who commanded them, but presumed to be Gens. Grimer or Mercer. Lieut. Gen. Hardee was known to be at Lake City a week ago, and it is possible that he might have been in command or present at the battle. For this disaster poor Seymour has fallen under the ban, and one report says that Gillmore has placed him under arrest. The New York Post, in commenting upon the Florida disaster, says: We hope General Gillmore will now see the mistake he made in taking General Seymour with him to the Department, of the South, from which he had just before
The Daily Dispatch: April 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], Capture of Plymouth, N. C.--Twenty-five hundred prisoners and thirty pieces of artillery taken. (search)
was received at the War Department yesterday: Plymouth, N. C, April 20. To Gen Bragg: I have stormed and captured this place, capturing one Brigadier, one thousand six hundred men, stores, and twenty-five pieces of artillery. R. F. Hoke, Brig. Gen'l. In addition to the above the President received a telegram from Col. John Taylor Wood, Rocky Mount, April 21st, which furnishes some further particulars of this important affair. He states that the capture of the town was effected by the forces under Gen. Hoke, with naval cooperation; and that in the fight two Federal gunboats were sunk, another disabled, and a small steamer captured. Our loss he estimates at 300 in all. Among the killed was Col. Mercer.--The captures are thus estimated by Colonel Wood's dispatch: Twenty-five hundred prisoners, among them three or four hundred negroes; thirty pieces of artillery; one hundred thousand pounds of meat; one thousand barrels of flour; and a full garrison outfit.
The Daily Dispatch: April 23, 1864., [Electronic resource], The capture of Plymouth. (search)
The capture of Plymouth. We have some additional particulars of the capture of Plymouth by Gen. Hoke. The force engaged on our side was Hoke's brigade, commanded by Col. Mercer, of the 21st Ga., Ransom's brigade, commanded by Gen. Ransom, and Kemper's (Virginia) brigade, commanded by Col. Terry. On Sunday afternoon, about 4 o'clock, our forces, under the command of Gen. Hoke, arrived in front of Plymouth, the fortifications being plainly visible through the trees behind which theht; Lieut Payne, face, slight. On Tuesday, it seems, heavy fighting occurred, with varied success, and on Wednesday morning the place was carried by assault, Hoke's brigade entering and charging with the bayonet up the principal streets.--Col. Mercer, who led them, was killed. During Tuesday our artillery, including the Fayette Artillery, of Richmond, was planted within 150 yards of the fortifications and opened fire. The Fayette Artillery, it is stated, suffered heavily from the enemy's
The Daily Dispatch: April 25, 1864., [Electronic resource], Additional particulars from the Plymouth fight. (search)
of prisoners captured was as follows: 2,500 whites and 300 negroes, a portion of the latter being women and children. A large number of negroes and "buffaloes" (fit associates) escaped by means of boats and canoes, while quite a number plunged into the river, a portion of whom never reached the opposite shore. The behavior of our troops throughout the whole affair was everything that could be desired, and where all did so well it would be next to injustice to discriminate. The gallant Col. Mercer was killed while leading a charge, and thus scaled with his lifeblood his devotion to his country. He was a native of Georgia, and the only field officer lost by us during the siege of Plymouth. The following named officers and privates wounded in the recent engagement before Plymouth, N. C., have arrived in Petersburg, and were assigned to the S. C. Hospital, Washington street. They were wounded on Monday, while storming the outer line of entrenchments. Some few of the wounds were
The Daily Dispatch: July 5, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
soners, including Lieut Col John B Kerr, of the 74th Illinois; Capt H B Wakefield, of the 58th Indians, and Lieut J. H York, of the 63d Indians; two stand of colors--one presented to the 27th Illinois regiment by Brig Gen N B Buford. The woods where the enemy's dead and wounded are now lying are on fire, making it impossible to bring them off. Our loss, owing to our men being protected by breastworks, is very small on our right and centre. The 631 Georgia regiment, Col Gordon, Mercer's brigade, deployed as skirmishers, acted with great gallantry, held a hand-to-hand fight with the enemy until relieved. The troops engaged in the first-mentioned action were Maney's and Vaughan's brigades, Chestham's division, Polk and Loring's brigades, of Cleburne's division. Brig Gen Kimbal, commanding the 1st brigade, of the 2d division, and Howard, of the 4th army corps, are killed, or it is so reported by his own men taken prisoners. Wagoners in Kimbal's brigade suffere
The Daily Dispatch: July 6, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
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The Daily Dispatch: July 25, 1864., [Electronic resource], The War News. (search)
the enemy's extreme left today. About one o'clock he drove him from his works, capturing sixteen pieces of artillery and five stands of colors. Gen. Cheatham attacked the enemy, capturing six pieces of artillery. During the engagement we captured about two thousand prisoners. Gen. Wheeler's cavalry routed the enemy in the neighborhood of Decatur to-day, capturing his camp. Our loss is not yet fully ascertained. Major Gen. Walker was killed. Brig Gens. Smith, Gist, and Mercer were wounded. Prisoners report that Gen. McPherson was killed. Our troops fought with great gallantry. J. B. Hood, General. The "Associated Press" dispatch is very muddy, though we presume that the Gens. Smith and Giles mentioned in it are Gens. Smith and Gist mentioned by Gen. Hood. Had the enemy captured East Point that would have completely invested the city, and Sherman could have commenced his siege. The brilliant movement of Wheeler, who is now, it appears
The Daily Dispatch: July 26, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
found on the person of the captured officer, which were handed over to the military authorities. From Georgia. The following official dispatch, received yesterday at the War Department, satisfied, to some extent, the public clamor for news from the seat of war in Georgia; Atlanta, July 23, 1864. Hon. Jas. A. Seddon, Sec'y of War: In the engagement yesterday we captured 18 stands of colors instead of 5, and 13 guns instead of 22, as previously reported. Brig Gen. Mercer was not wounded. All quiet to-day, except a little picked firing and occasional shells thrown into the city. J. B. Hood, General. The subjoined dispatch, also received yesterday, while only a repetition of a part of the foregoing, shows that up to Sunday evening no hostilities of magnitude had been resumed. As the enemy is near enough to Atlanta to throw shells into the city, it is to be presumed that he will indulge in that practice to a considerable extent, as Grant has
The Daily Dispatch: January 16, 1865., [Electronic resource], Confederate Congress. (search)
telegraph message was sent, a few days since, from City Point to Chattanooga, with but a single repetition, and that at Pittsburgh. The distance is about two thousand miles. The Kentucky Legislature has adopted resolutions in favor of emancipation, the consent of the owners being obtained, and compensation made. On Tuesday, the Union State Convention of Tennessee met in the capitol at Nashville, and organized by electing the Hon. Samuel R. Rodgers, of Knox county, president. Messrs. Mercer, Myers and Cone were chosen vice-presidents. The Missouri State Convention, on the 11th, passed the following ordinance by a vote of sixty to four: "Be it ordained by the people of the State of Missouri, in convention assembled, that hereafter in this State there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except in punishment of crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, and all persons held to service or labor as slaves are hereby declared free. James Gu
The Daily Dispatch: February 22, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
even for defence, and to enable us to take the offensive if the enemy did not. On the 1st of May, I reported the enemy about to advance. On the 2d, Brigadier-General Mercer's command arrived, about fourteen hundred effective infantry. On the 4th, I expressed myself satisfied that the enemy was about to attack with his unitemmand from the neighborhood of Resaca to report to Major-General Wheeler. The effective artillery and infantry of the Army of Tennessee, after the arrival of Mercer's brigade, amounted to forty thousand nine hundred; the effective cavalry to about four thousand. Major-General Sherman's army was composed of that of Missionary pieces mentioned in the accompanying report of General Hood. I commenced the campaign with General Bragg's army, of Missionary ridge, with one brigade added (Mercer's) and two taken away (Baldwin's and Quarles's). That opposed to us was Grant's army of Missionary ridge, then estimated at eighty thousand by our principal offic
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