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The Daily Dispatch: June 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], Military Maxises of Napoleon. (search)
Personal. --Among the arrivals in the city yesterday were H. E. Browne, Baltimore; E. M. Field, Norfolk; F. S. Stewart, Abingdon; W. B. Johnston, Macon, Ga.; C. C. Miller, A. B. Cammack, N. O.; Samuel Fairbanks, Fla.; W. L. Wickham, St. Louis; Capt. W. G. Dunbar, C. S. A.; Alex. Galt, Sculptor, Norfolk.
The Daily Dispatch: June 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], The circulation of the Dispatch. (search)
; the 7th, Col. Gordon; the 5th, Col. unknown, and another regiment the name unknown. Four pieces are with Jackson, commanded by Captain Pendleto, and the Wise artillery is in the neighborhood of Martinsburg with three pieces of cannon. Gen. Johnston is fortifying Winchester. A battery is being raised on a wooded hill overlooking the fair grounds. When he evacuated Harper's Ferry the whole column went to Charleston, thence to Bunker's Hill, where, when on sunday Gen. Patterson's column crossed the river, his whole force drew up in line of battle to receive the expected attack. Thence the larger portion returned to Winchester, and Jackson's 8,000 marched towards the Potomac. Johnston's force at Winchester cannot except 10,000, unless reinforcements have arrive there since Sunday. Capt. Doyleday's battery threw some round shot and shell this evening towards a house where the Secession pickets were stationed, opposite to Williamsport. The guard were at supply and left the
The Daily Dispatch: June 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], Notice to our Subscribers. (search)
nd six six-pounder cannon, while 8,000 or 10,000 are still stationed at Martinsburg; also, that Johnston is determined to march on and attack Williamsport. Later from the upper Potomac. Williamgence reached here to-night by the same person, who went again across the river to-day, that Gen. Johnston, in person, with his rear guard, numbering 10,000 men round numbers, with twenty pieces of Gen. Patterson either expects to strike a heavy blow or receive one. It is centain that Gen. Johnston will not attempt to oss at Williamsport in the face of the heavy battery erected there. It seconded by Patterson's column, and the 14,000 now lying about here. It is evident that Gen. Johnston designed to draw Gen. Paterson into the neck, but he has failed thus are to accomplish it. Should General Patteron cross at all it will be lower down. His movement southward is to draw Johnston away from Gen. McClellan's advancing column until the forces of the latter shall have arrived in
The Daily Dispatch: October 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], Pluralists. (search)
qual to any of the war thus far. The enemy was four to one--his artillery at least five to one--his confidence high — his officers the best in the Yankee service. But one week before the battle, the Washington Star said, "we are in expectation of hearing that the disunion troops will all drop out of Leesburg and that vicinity, so soon as McClellan may advance any portion of his force a mile further than his present position. Any such advance on McClellan's part will make it necessary for Johnston to evacuate Leesburg in double-quick time." Well the advance was made--more than a mile in front was passed over from one portion of McClellan's position — and our troops did drop out of Leesburg. But it was such a drop as a panther makes when a deer comes under the tree in whose boughs he is crouching. It was a spring upon the enemy, altogether a different kind of dropping from any they had anticipated. We should be glad to know how the Star likes this kind of dropping. The
The Daily Dispatch: October 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], Discharged. (search)
vil and military, that will be difficult to settle or get along with. If a thirst for office was an entering wedge to the dissolution of the old Government, how much more dangerous is a thirst for double office in the new Government. We are truly sorrow to see such things in the infancy of a Government promising so much good to the people who compose it. Prompt action of the Augusta banks. The Augusta (Ga.) Constitutionalist, of the 19th, contains the following item: W. B. Johnston, Esq., the Agent of the Confederate Government, was in our city yesterday, and called upon the banks to ask them to take a part of a $10,000,000 loan, for immediate use to pay off the volunteers — the Government being unable to get their Treasury notes ready in time. The banks in Charleston have taken $5,000,000 of the loan, and the banks here will take from $2,000,000 to $3,000,000--one bank having taken $500,000, and another $300,000 or $400,000. The others say they will take thei
The Daily Dispatch: January 7, 1864., [Electronic resource], Run away (search)
The road of South Carolina. --W. B. Johnston., Esq., of South Carolina, who was appointed agent to record the names of soldiers from that State who have fallen during the war, reports satisfactory progress. His report, made up to the 1st of November, shows as aggregate loss of 4,000 men, of which number 2,250 fell in battle as died from wound, and 1,500 from disease, including a few from accidental causes.