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The Daily Dispatch: November 12, 1864., [Electronic resource], The Yankee Presidential election. (search)
Suspicious character. --The train from Danville yesterday brought to this city Miss Mary Jane Bayne, charged with being a suspicious character. The accused says she is a native of North Carolina, but acknowledges living upon intimate terms with a Yankee lieutenant in Knoxville, Tennessee, for some time past and up to the time when she was arrested at Bristol, Tennessee, a few days since. In appearance, she seemed to be about twenty-two years of age, quite good looking, and was attired in a black silk dress, banner and mantle, all of which were much worn. Captain Thomas W. Doswell, assistant provost-marshal, before whom she was taken, committed her to Castle Thunder to await examination before a court-martial.
The Daily Dispatch: November 18, 1864., [Electronic resource], Confederate Congress. (search)
Disloyal Characters. --W. P. Gilmer, J. C. Gilmer (brothers), and D. W. Wirth, citizens, were committed to Castle Thunder yesterday on the charge of attempting to escape to the Yankees.--They were sent here from Lynchburg, and were arrested in Bristol, Tennessee. W. W. Cave, a native of Orange county, Virginia, charged with being a deserter and a suspicious character, was also committed to that institution at the same time. The accused is represented to be a man of very bad character in the neighborhood in which he lived.
The Daily Dispatch: December 16, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ouses on their route were burnt, and the owners beaten and otherwise maltreated. As the raiders were much more savage on their retreat than on their outward trip, it is to be presumed they sought to punish the defenseless country people for the injury inflicted on themselves by General Hampton's bold troopers. From Southwestern Virginia. Unofficial, but reliable, telegrams have been received in this city, stating that a force of Yankees (numbers not stated) broke suddenly into Bristol, Tennessee, before daybreak on Wednesday morning; and there being no Confederate troops there, took quiet possession of the place. So completely was their coming a surprise, that the engineer and train hands at the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad depot were all caught asleep. Three trains, which were standing at the depot, were destroyed. The enemy then advanced up the railroad towards Abingdon, which, we presume, fell into their hands, though we have no information of the fact. The next we h
The Daily Dispatch: December 18, 1865., [Electronic resource], Alleged robbery in a bar-room. (search)
General Grant on the Rebels. --Lieutenant-General U. S. Grant, with several members of his staff, passed through this place on last Sunday morning, en route for Washington city. He was returning from a tour through several of the Southern States. At Jonesborough, Doctor Sevier introduced him to a large crowd. Among the crowd was one who had fought pretty hard on t'other side, who, while hobbling up to the General, remarked: "I fought that man pretty hard, but I would like to see him." The General answered: "That does not keep you from being a good citizen; I had as soon see you as anybody." If those in authority in this State would recognize this fact, and act accordingly, we would soon have quite a different state of affairs.--Bristol (Tennessee) News.
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