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The Daily Dispatch: August 13, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
nks' army escaped back to Alexandria, and during the retreat devastated the country. Again, we are informed that General Smith's plans were laid not only to utterly destroy the army, but to capture the Yankee gunboats and transports above the fwith the result of General Taylor's campaign in Louisiana, though, to be sure, we should have been better pleased had General Smith's grand coup succeeded. But we have heard still another reason assigned for General Taylor's withdrawal from his command: It is that he was anxious to pursue Banks and crush him, but General Smith detached two of his-divisions, thus placing it beyond his power. It was then that General Taylor was relieved, at his own request. The Yankee papers are in a complete muddle as to General Smith's movements, some of them asserting that a portion of his army has already crossed the Mississippi, and others urging that the gunboats closely guard every mile of the river to prevent it. They are evidently afraid tha
The Daily Dispatch: August 13, 1864., [Electronic resource], Additional from the North. (search)
ranspired there nothing is known, and we can only guess at it as events slowly develop themselves in the future. In the course of conversation this morning Grant said of the late repulse at Petersburg that there was no earthly reason why it should not have been an entire success if his orders had been obeyed. The springing of the mine, he said, was a complete surprise to the rebels, and it only needed obedience to his orders to have routed the entire rebel army. Miscellaneous. Green B. Smith, Secretary; Charles L. Hunt, Grand Commander, and Charles E. Dunn, Deputy Grand Commander of the "order of American Knights," have made a full confession of its secrets to the Provost Marshal at St. Louis. There is now going on a grand fraternization and re-union at the Clifton House, Niagara Falls, between the following parties: Clay, Holcombe, Sanders, and other Confederates, and Dean Richmond, Ben. Wood. Butts, of the Rochester Union; ex-Governor Hunt, ex-Governor Weller, of Cal
The Daily Dispatch: August 13, 1864., [Electronic resource], Additional from the North. (search)
hereupon reconsidered their verdict and lessoned the number of days for her confinement to five. Adolph New, a small white boy about twelve years of age, was guilty of stealing $130, the property of George A. Freeman, from a lady in the First Market, but in consideration of his youth he was discharged upon the promise of his mother to take him home and give him a good whipping. Henry Hungerford, charged with being interested in the exhibition of the game of faro, was found guilty and sentenced to sixty days imprisonment in the city jail and to pay a fine of one thousand dollars. Hon. Humphrey Marshall, counsel for the accused, took an appeal to a higher court in this case, but the Justices did not stay their verdict in consequence thereof. Joseph Gussen and Henry L. Wigand, the first charged with feloniously taking away furniture belonging to Smith & Harwood, and the latter with baying the same, with a knowledge of the manner in which it was obtained, were discharged.