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The Daily Dispatch: September 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], Jomini and his career. (search)
ards in the office of the Secretary of War. In 1805 he received an appointment on the staff of Marshal Ney, with whom he passed through the campaigns of Cim, Jena, Eylau, and Spain, and was promoted to the rank of chief of staff for services in the field. In these campaigns he acquired a brilliant reputation as a staff officer and a strategist, but his success made him enemies, among whom was Berthier, the major-general and chief of staff of the Immoral army. After the capitulation of Dupont Baylen, in 1808, Napoleon determined to direct person the military operations in Spain, and Jomin was assigned to duty on the staff of Berthier; but rather than serve under one who had always been his enemy, be tendered his resignation, intending then to enter the service of the Emperor of Russia. But Napoleon refused to allow him to leave the service, and placed him on special duty in Paris, to enable him to write the history of the campaigns in Italy. When the war of 1812, between France
The Daily Dispatch: October 6, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
sparencies scattered through the procession, bearing divers mottoes, but not a vulgar or insulting one among them all. A large transparency, borne next to the musicians, had the following: "Lincoln and Johnson Club of Washington City""--(likenesses of candidates.) Representation of the Presidential Mansion; "Leased to Abraham Lincoln, by the people, until March 4, 1869." Pictures of a soldier and sailor: "Lincoln's Peace Commissioners — Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, Farragut, Dupont, Porter." "We are coming, Father Abraham, Two Million Voters more." Some of the mottoes of the lesser ones read as follows: "Spades to the Rear." "No Armistice." "Free Suffrage for Our Soldiers." "One Destiny--One Nation." "Honor to the Navy." "Honor to the Army." "Atlanta and Mobile" "Sheridan and Fisher's Hill." "Greenbacks and Bluebacks vs. Greybacks." "Maine and Vermont." "Farragut and Dahlgren." The following were draped in mourning: "Remember the Fallen
The Daily Dispatch: January 7, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ded all the members are present. It is stated that, a few days before the surrender of Savannah, General Sherman intimated to his division commanders that the first one to enter the city should be made military governor after its capture. General John W. Geary, of Philadelphia, was the lucky man. General Rosecrans is urged for the command of the Army of the Potomac. Navigation on the Potomac is suspended by an ice blockade. Strong delegations to Washington are urging Admiral Dupont as the successor of Secretary Welles. Here is a "personal" advertisement from the New York Herald of last week: "A splendid female infant (blonde), of aristocratic parentage, to be adopted out. Apply to Mrs. Worcester, No. 539 Hudson street." Judge Wayne, of the United States Supreme Court, was, on Thursday, refused a pass to go to Georgia to look after his property there, recently passed over by Sherman. It is said that A. T. Stewart, of New York, lately paid an income ta
The Daily Dispatch: March 8, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
rly demolished. The great guns which two years ago kept the monitors at bay, which flamed and thundered awhile upon Wagner, are dismounted, broken, overturned, and lie buried beneath the mountain of brick, dust, concrete, sand and mortar. After Dupont's attack in April, 1863, a reinforcement of palmer to logs was made on the harbor side and against half of the wall facing Moultrie. The lower tier of casemates was filled up with sand bags, but when General Gillmore obtained possession his fireosts and wire network. There is also a submerged network of wire and chains, kept in place by floating buoys. "I had the curiosity to make an inspection of the wall facing Moultrie to see what was the effect of the fire of the iron-clads in Dupont's attack. With my glass at that time I could see that the wall was badly honeycombed; a close inspection shows that it was a very damaging fire. There are seams in the masonry and great gashes where the solid bolts crumbled the bricks to fine d
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