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The Daily Dispatch: January 16, 1865., [Electronic resource], Confederate Congress. (search)
The war News. The quiet of the military lines in front of Petersburg and Richmond remains unbroken. The Army of the James last week witnessed a very touching scene — old Benjamin Butler's farewell to his troops. He was torn suddenly and ruthlessly from his beloved niggers by Lincoln, and sent into the shades of private life at Lowell, Massachusetts. His affecting farewell address, and a full account of his leave-taking, will be found in the extracts from Northern papers published in anof which we have been unable to trace — that the Yankee fleet was bombarding Fort Fisher fiercely, and that two of its vessels had been sunk by the guns of the fort. There is also a rumor that the Yankees had effected a landing at the point where Butler's troops disembarked. A gentleman who left Staunton on Saturday morning, reports that it was rumored, and believed by the military authorities there, that General Rosser had taken Beverly, Randolph county, capturing between five and six hund