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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 17 : events in and near the National Capital . (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), A Narrative of the service of Colonel Geo. A. Porterfield in Northwestern Virginia in 1861 -1861 , (search)
Secretaryship of War.
--The Hon. L. Pope Walker, Secretary of War, has resigned that post.
Who his successor will be is variously conjectured.
There is a considerable outside pressure from Richmond circles in behalf of General Robert. E. Lee. Mention is also made of Major General Poln Still other names are prominently brought forward.
Both in Great Britain and in this country the post of War Minister has always been regarded as one of those great political offices, requiring to be filled with some reference to public sentiment.
We have no idea that President Davis will fill the appointment upon any other theory.--If this be the fact, then it would seem to follow as a matter of course, that if a proper man be found, the selection will be made from some State or great district of country not now represented in the Cabinet.
In that event, the public will naturally expect that Tennessee, Arkansas, or at least the region of which Memphis is the centre and emporium, would be the o
News from General Lee's command.
--A gentleman who left the camp of that part of Gen. Lee's forces stationed on the east side of Mountain, under the command of H. R. Jackson, of Georgia, as lGen. Lee's forces stationed on the east side of Mountain, under the command of H. R. Jackson, of Georgia, as late as Saturday night, brings us intelligence of the rements on this side the mountain to the of his departure, and also some later news from Gen. Lee's division.
This gentleman explains the telGen. Lee's division.
This gentleman explains the telegraph of Saturday about the movements of our forces.
A part of General Jackson's command, under Cols. Rust and Taliaferro, and a force from Gen. Lee's camp, under Col. Anderson, marched simultaneouGen. Lee's camp, under Col. Anderson, marched simultaneously, in early part of last week, towards the fortification of the Federalists on the Parkersburg road, on the top of Cheat Mountain, a fatiguing march, the force under Cols. Rust and Taliaferro appro ountain, on the west side, as stated by the telegraph, and probably did not the mountain.
Gen. Lee's main force had not moved from the camp at Valley Mountain, and, therefore, all speculation ab
The West and Northwest.
--We have little from our forces in the Northwest, and ting from those in the West.
That in the er is in the midst of a struggle disputing the possession of the soil with the minions of the Washington Tyranny.
There have in probability occurred before this one or more bloody battles.
The public is full of anxiety to hear whatever there is to hear; the hundreds in this region, who have relatives in the armies of Lee, and Floyd, and are pained at the delay in the transession of intelligence from them.
We trust that the Department will establish at once a communication between the metropolis in their camps.
It would be grateful to the people, and very much benefit our cause.
A short telegraph announces that it was at the North that Floyd and Wise could effect a junction, and fall upon Cox. We hardly know what to anticipate.
The of the enemy we do not know; but we know the character of our brave soldiers and their leaders, and we are satisfie
The Daily Dispatch: August 3, 1863., [Electronic resource], From Gen. Lee 's army — fight in Culpeper county . (search)
From Gen. Lee's army — fight in Culpeper county.
Information received from Culpeper county by the train last evening furnishes us an account of a pretty severe cavalry fight in Culpeper county, in the immediate neighborhood of the old battle-field of Brandy Station, on Saturday last.
We could only obtain confused reports of this fight, but from these we gather that the enemy, in a force consisting of some three brigades of cavalry, advanced on our line of pickets in the early part of the day. The picket force was composed of the 12th Virginia regiment, Gen. Mahone's brigade.
This force resisted the enemy until Hampton's cavalry came up, when the battle was joined between our cavalry and that of the enemy.
During some portions of the engagement the fighting is represented to have been very severe.
In the early part of the fight Capt. E. W. Branch, commanding the Grays, from this city, was killed, and his body brought to the city by the Central train last evening.
Hamp
The Daily Dispatch: August 3, 1863., [Electronic resource], From Gen. Lee 's army — fight in Culpeper county . (search)