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The Daily Dispatch: May 14, 1863., [Electronic resource], Later from the North. (search)
e reorganization of the War Office. New York items. A letter from New York, dated May 9th, gives the following items: James P. Hambleton, late editor of the Atlanta (Ga) Confederacy, caught in New York, has been imprisoned by Maj.-Gen.Wool. He had $26,000 in Confederate money on his person. He has applied for a discharge on a writ of habeas corpus. It won't do for Secesh to express their sympathies too openly. Two of them, Alexander Hutchings and Henry J. Kerner by name, were foolish enough to "hurrah for Jeff. Davis" in the street, and were arrested therefore. They were discharged by one of the police justices at the Tombs, but within an hour afterwards they were re-arrested by order of Gen. Wool. Twenty-four soldiers of the rebel army, recently captured, arrived here this morning, consigned to the care of Col Frank E. Howe, of the New England Soldiers' Relief Association. They have, without exception, taken the oath of allegiance to the United States
The Daily Dispatch: June 2, 1863., [Electronic resource], Assessed prices of Produce when Impressed for the use of the Government. (search)
$5.00a6.00 Corn, bushel4.003.00a4.00$1.50a2.25 Corn meal, bushel4.203.15a4.151.60a2.40 Flour, bbl22.50$25a30.00$35a40.00 Bacon, pound1.0075a9075a85 Rye, bushel3.20 Oats, bushel2.002.00a2.50 Oats, sheaf, baled, pr 100.4.004.50a5.50 Hay and Fodder, baled4.002.50a4.502.00a2.50 Straw, baled1.301.00a1.30 Peas, bushel4.003.501.50a2.25 Leather, po'nd2.40a2.802.00a2.50 Lard, pound1.0060a8575 In addition to the above, we note the following assessments of other articles by the Virginia Commissioners: Horses, first class, $350. Wool, washed, $3 per lb. Potatoes Irish, $4 per bushel; sweet, $5, Onions, $5. Dried Peaches, peeled, $8; dried apples, $3. Pasturage, interior, $3 per month; do., near cities, $8 per month. Vinegar, $1 per gallon. Pig iron, per ton, $100a$180; Plate, round and bar, 380. In Georgia, hogs are assessed at $30 per hundred, and fresh beef at $18a25. The Virginia State Commissioners are Messrs. E. W. Hubbard, Robert Gibbony, and Wm. Harrison.
The Daily Dispatch: July 6, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 13 (search)
eynolds. The Federal General, John Fulton Reynolds, who was killed in the battle at Gettysburg, on Wednesday last, was born in Lancaster, Pa., and at the age of 17 entered the Military Academy at West Point, where he graduated in 1841, just, 21 years of age, and received a commission as brevet 2d Lieutenants in the Third Artillery. In the Mexican war he was brevetted Captain and Major for gallant conduct in the battles of Monterey and Linda Vista. Subsequently he was an Aid de-Camp to Gen. Wool In 1855 he was promoted to a full Captaincy in his regiment, and served with some distinction in the severe battles with the Oregon Indians in 1856. In August, 1861, he was appointed to the rank of Brigadier General of Volunteers, and took command of one of the three brigades of the Pennsylvania Reserves, under Gen. McCall, the other two being under command of Gen. Meade, now in command of the Yankee Army of the Potomac, and Gen. Ord, who recently succeeded Gen. McClernand at Vicksbur
The Daily Dispatch: July 10, 1863., [Electronic resource], The situation. (search)
u can't go till you pay me my money;" Curry stepped up and collared Peasley; Jones then caught hold of Curry; just at that time Montelle broke loose from Peasley and ran off, Peasley following a short distance and returning; Curry then said to Jones, "let me go, or I will cut your guts out;" Jones replied, "You'll cut me, will you?" I then heard a sound like a blow or a fall, Peasley caught hold of Jones and told him not to beat Curry; Peasley, Curry, and Jones, then went across the street to Wool's saloon, where they remained a short time and returned together; after remaining in company some twenty minutes Curry got on his horse and rode off, remarking to Peasley that he would see him the next morning and make all right; Curry said that all he minded was the black eye; the parties appeared to be entirely friendly when they parted. Ro. C. Wyatt testified that on the morning of the 21st of June, Montelle and Curry came to Anderson's saloon, on 17th street, and went from there to M
The Daily Dispatch: July 12, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the North. (search)
ess has been interested in contracts since the first of April last. The House went into Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union. Mr. Hutchins (Ohio) replied to the speech of his colleague, (Mr. Cox,) heretofore delivered relative to Ohio matters, involving the free negro question. The House then adjourned. Arrests in Baltimore. The Baltimore American says: Mr. George N. Porter, Secretary of the Exchange Reading Room, was yesterday arrested by order of Gen. Wool, and sent to Fort McHenry. The charge against Mr. Porter was the promulgation of a statement that Gen. McClellan had been utterly routed, and had taken refuge with his staff on board the gunboat Galena--that he had asked terms of capitulation, and that Gen'l Lee had refused any terms but an unconditional surrender. It was also stated that the whole of McCall's division had been captured. A written statement to this effect was handed around among the rebel sympathizers, and laid on the t
The Daily Dispatch: July 16, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 15 (search)
Record of Confederate officers who were in the Army of the late United States. --The Confederate Army and Navy Messenger gives the following interesting record of distinguished Generals in the Confederate army: Gen. Robert Edmund Lee.--Cadet, 1825, 2d Lieutenant of Engineers, 1st July, 1829. Assistant Astronomer for fixing the boundary of Ohio and Michigan, 1835. 1st Lieutenant, 1836. Captain, July 1838. Chief Engineer of Wool's Army in Mexican war, 1816. Brevet Major, for gallant and meritorious conduct in battles of Cerro Gerdo, 18th April, 1847. Brevet Lieut. Colonel, for gallant and meritorious conduct in battles of Contreras and Chernbusco, 20th of August, 1847. Brevet Colonel, for gallant and meritorious conduct in battle of Chapultepec, 1st September, 1847, in which he was wounded. Superintendent of Military Academy from 1st September, 1852, to March, 1855. Lieutenant, Colonel 2d Cavalry, 3d March, 1855. Thomas J. Jackson, Va.--Cadet, 1842.--Brevet 2d Lieutena
The Daily Dispatch: July 22, 1863., [Electronic resource], Gen Lee's losses. (search)
reat extent, although at the cost of much blood. Gen. Kilpatrick, whose splendid services as a cavalry officer with the Army of the Potomac are fresh in the memory of the public, arrived here last night, and immediately offered himself to Gen. Wool. The latter has accordingly made a call upon the old cavalry soldiers now in the city, and upon all young men accustomed to the saddle, to join a volunteer cavalry corps, under command of Gen. Kilpatrick, to assist in the suppression of violenthe position of affairs: Partial quiet has been restored in New York, and an order from Washington directs that the drafting shall proceed. Large bodies of soldiers constantly patrol the streets to keep down the smouldering disquiet. Gen. Wool has been removed from the command of the U. S. forces in the city department, and Gen. Dix takes command. Gen. Foster takes Gen. Dix's place at Fortress Monroe. Brig. Gen Harvey Brown has been retired from service, and is succeeded by
The Daily Dispatch: July 27, 1863., [Electronic resource], From Northern Virginia. (search)
The Vicksburg correspondent of the New York Times says that "for six weeks very little will be done by Gen. Grant's army," in view of the sickly season and intense heat. Thurlow Weed, the Abolition editor of the Albany Evening Journal, has contributed $500 for the benefit of the colored people of New York who sustained injury in the late riot. Gen. Wadsworth, of the Federal army, has tendered his resignation, but the Government, it is said, is unwilling to accept it. Maj. Gen. Wool and Brig.-Gen. Harney, of the U. S. Army, have been retired from active service by Lincoln. The Chamber of Commerce, Cincinnati, has expelled thirty-three members for refusing to take the oath of allegiance. The Lincoln Government refused to allow Vallandigham's address to his constituency to be telegraphed from Canada. Wm. Charles Macready, the great English tragedian, is dead. He was seventy years of age. Another negro regiment has embarked from Boston for Newbern,
The Daily Dispatch: September 9, 1863., [Electronic resource], Additional from the North. (search)
50,000,000 recently applied for by Secretary Chase. Gen. Grant has received orders from Washington to send in the names of soldiers in his army who are of the proper age and qualified for the position of cadets at West Point. The New York Herald publishes a cheerful obituary of Mosby, the guerilla, who, it says; was killed near Alexandria last week. It does not evince very deep regret for his demise. The receipts of U. S. internal revenue during the month of August, were $5,604,201,35, being the largest of any month since the law went into operation. The widow of Admiral Foote died in New Haven, on Wednesday evening. Two months intervened between the death of the Admiral and his wife. Edw'd Everett, in a letter to the Springfield (Iii) Convention, predicts that the South will be subjugated by next New Years day. Hon. Greene C. Bronson, of New York, died at Saratoga Springs, on the 3d inst. Maj. Gen. (retired) Wool is rusticating in Burlington, Vt.
The Daily Dispatch: November 12, 1863., [Electronic resource], From Northern Virginia. (search)
appear now to have organized parties at their backs. The Chase forces are marshalled from the Northwest, and those of Banks come from the New England States. The contest is being rapidly developed. The fears of Mr. Lincoln's advocates are that he may be slaughtered in the house of his friends. Miscellaneous. It is understood that Gen. Burnside's resignation has been accepted, and it is probable that Gen. Foster will succeed him in command of the Army of East Tennessee. Maj.-Gen. Wool, U. S. A., is at present enjoying renewed health at his private mansion in Troy. In conversation with a gentleman a few days since, who remarked to the old hero, "General, you should be in the field at this particular juncture of the war," the General replied sternly, giving ample evidence of his ancient vigor, "They don't want me. They think me too old." Dr. Wm. P. Rucker, who escaped from jail at Danville, had arrived safely in the Yankee lines near Wheeling. Va. James Calend
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