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The Daily Dispatch: March 7, 1865., [Electronic resource], A Yankee Picture of Charleston. (search)
ton by its special correspondent. In point of letters, the Confederates see what it is to be subjugated. This man's letter is worth a whole sheet of Confederate editorials. In it the facts stand out in boastful nakedness, and no one can read them without realizing that our own press has not yet told half the story. Among the first incidents attending the writer's advent at Charleston was the characteristic one of advising a negro in one of the deserted offices to break a plaster cast of Calhoun, a feat which, being accomplished, is considered a great victory. We copy some extracts from the letter, which may be read with profit as well as interest: The negro troops enter Charleston. The first national soldiers that landed in Charleston in the capacity of masters of the rebel city were the South Carolina negroes (thank God!) of the Twenty-first United States colored troops.--There was also a detachment of the gallant Massachusetts Fifty-fourth, who were the first negro troop
The Daily Dispatch: March 7, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
on. Wherever we went we found the negroes gathered in groups, especially the women, their dusky faces beaming with joy. Any salutation to them was invariably received with the liveliest satisfaction — often answered by "God bless you," and other words of gratitude to the Lord and the Yankees, whom they look on as His agents. A New Ticket in the Mercury office. I write this last paragraph in the editorial rooms (down town) of the Charleston Mercury. The window glass and sashes are shattered by shot. Over the mantle piece, in pencil marks, are written these lines, which show that the irrepressible spirit of radicalism (but on the right side now) seems to inhabit the office still: For President in 1868: Wendell Phillips, of Massachusetts. For Vice-President: Frederick Douglass, of New York, Shades of Calhoun — how are the mighty fallen! Surely, the great nullifier's bones must rattle in impotent rage at the overthrow of his heathen philosophy
The Daily Dispatch: March 24, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
ls of the fight, but the results reported to us by an officer who participated in the engagement show that the Federals, lost, as is estimated, about three thousand five hundred killed and wounded; our own loss being about five hundred. "Colonel Alfred Rhett, in command of the brigade, is reported missing. "Killed in First infantry regulars: Lieutenant-Colonel DeTreville, Lieutenant Glover and Captain Quattlebaum. Wounded: Captain Press. Smith, badly; Captain Burnett, thigh; Captain Calhoun; Captain P. Bacott, knee; Lieutenant Horlback, left eye; Lieutenant North. Wounded and captured: Lieutenant Ravenel McBeth. "First artillery--Killed: Captain Lesene, son of Henry Lesesne; Lieutenants LaBorde and Stewart. Wounded; Major Blanding, Captain Rhett, Lieutenant Fickling, Lieutenant J. Middleton, Lieutenant de Lorns, Lieutenant Robertson. Missing: Lieutenant Edward Middleton, Lieutenant Frost." A letter from Major W. S. Downer, Superintendent of the Lockville Mini
The Daily Dispatch: December 14, 1865., [Electronic resource], Southern Representation — the latest news from Washington. (search)
n Congress, Mr. Botts, undoubtedly, could. We do not see, indeed, how his claims could be overlooked, especially when we see that Tennessee is to be admitted because a son-in-law of the President is a Senator from that State. With regard to talents and statesmanship, we think our contemporary wrong when he says Mr. Botts will be the peer of any man in the Senate. There is no man in the Senate whose abilities are at all comparable to those of Mr. Botts Mr. Botts held his own when there were giants in Congress; when Clay Webster and Calhoun were in the Senate; when Prentiss, Marshall and John Quincy Adams were in the Lower House. In the present Senate he would be like Saul among the prophets. He would be a head and shoulders taller than the tallest of them. Nor do we conceive that we pay Mr. Botts an exaggerated compliment when we say this much of him. A man of abilities much inferior to his would be amply qualified to take the lead in that body, as at present constituted.
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