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The Daily Dispatch: March 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], A woman's Appeal. (search)
Evacuation of New Madrid, Mo. Augusta, Ga., March 17.
--A special dispatch to the Savannah Republican from Memphis, Tennessee, March 14 says that New Madrid was evacuated by the Confederate forces on Thursday night last.
All our small arms and ammunition were saved, but the artillery was abandoned.
The Daily Dispatch: April 2, 1862., [Electronic resource], A year of trials. (search)
The Daily Dispatch: April 3, 1862., [Electronic resource], A good thing. (search)
The Daily Dispatch: April 9, 1862., [Electronic resource], By Goddin & Apperson , Auctioneers. (search)
C. S. District Court.
--The Grand Jury of this Court yesterday indicted Charles Melton, mail carrier between Pittsylvania C. H. and Lynchburg, for stealing a draft from the mail on the 22d of March, and Wm. H. Crawford, alias Flem Razor, for passing a ten dollar counterfeit Confederate Treasury note on the bar-keeper of Jarratt's Hotel, in Petersburg, Va. The Grand Jury adjourned until twelve o'clock to-day, when they will proceed with the case of Geo. W. Elam, charged with an offence similar to that committed by Razor.
The witness in the case, Charlotte Gilman, arrived from Memphis, Tenn, yesterday evening in custody of Detective Goodrich.
The battle on White Rived.Federal accounts.terrible Destruction of a Federal steamer.
The much talked of "White River Expeliti in" left Memphis, Tenn., on the 19th ult., and consisted of eight gunboats.
The feast proceeded very successfully for a while and captured a Confederate steamer on White river and battered down several fortifications on the way. A correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer says:
The Union fleet had proceeded something over eighty miles up White river, when they were tired upon from a battery on the south side, but so batden among the trees that the officers could hereby determine the spot whence the pieces were discharged.
The guns of the enemy were not very heavy.
They sounded like 12 and 24 pounders, and subsequent examination proved they were such.
The Mound City fired her how guns twice, and then her port guns, as she steamed up the river little further, making the distance between her and the upper battery, less than half a mile.
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The Daily Dispatch: July 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], The flag of truce. (search)
From the South.
The order of Gen. Grant expelling "disloyal" citizens from Memphis has been published.
Gen. Jeff Thompson has issued a proclamation, assuring all Tennessean in the Confederate States army that their families, if expelled, shall be provided for. The General has written the following letter to the tyrant Grant:
Senatoria, Miss, July 14th, 1862. Maj-Gen U. S. Grant, U. S. A., Memphis, Tenn. General
--Upon my return from Grenada, I find a copy of your Special Order No. 14, of July 10th, 1862, requiring certain parties therein designated to leave your lines within five days. If, General, you intend to carry this order into effect, which we of course presume you will, the cause of humanity will require that you make some arrangement with us, by which the helpless women and children who will thus be turned out of doors, can be provided for; for you must well know by this time that nine-tenths of the people of Memphis come under your ban, for there is scarce