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The Daily Dispatch: October 23, 1862., [Electronic resource], The latest from the North. (search)
ischief of which they were capable, cleared out. The untimely death of Lieut. Swacey has cast a gloom over the naval officers on this station, by whom he was much regarded. His remains were buried in the city yesterday afternoon. General Prentiss on emancipation. Gen. Prentiss, who recently left Richmond as an exchanged prisoner, has been ventilating his opinions at the North. In a speech in New York, in answer to a voice in the crowd, "How about the President's proclamation in Gen. Prentiss, who recently left Richmond as an exchanged prisoner, has been ventilating his opinions at the North. In a speech in New York, in answer to a voice in the crowd, "How about the President's proclamation in Dixie?" he said: My friends, I will tell you what I think of that proclamation, and what the rebels think of it that I conversed with. Some of them said to me, "General, that proclamation of your President's is a most foolish thing. It will destroy you. You never can enforce it." Well, said I, then if it is a foolish thing, and is going to work so much harm to us, why are you so excited about it? Why do you denounce it so vehemently? Why, in the name of Heaven, do you find fault with
The Daily Dispatch: July 16, 1862., [Electronic resource], The enemy's lines before Washington. (search)
ses in happier and better days; and as our party made its way along into the town, the contrast became more and more obvious. Places which erst had shone glorious with peace and happy faces — homes made bright and lovely with all the adornments of art and the cultivation of nature, where families had gathered and clustered around worthy and noble mothers and sires; where wealth, and kindness, and hospitality, had been dispensed with a profuse and lavish hand; the chosen and adopted home of Prentiss and his host of gallant compeers, rendered desolate, deserted, and abandoned, by a relentless and ruthless foe. Indeed, if you wish to see the greatest and best example of the self-devotion and longsuffering endurance of our people to our cause, go to Vicksburg! Traverse its deserted streets; enter the sacred precincts of its churches; roam, saddened and sick at heart, through its lovely and neglected gardens; seek admittance for trade or curiosity to its closed hotels, stores, and court-r
The Daily Dispatch: August 18, 1863., [Electronic resource], Events of the War. (search)
is Journal has a letter from "Headquarters of Freedmen," at Helena, Ark., containing the result of an application by a Southern lady to have her slaves returned to her. It appears that Mrs. Louisa T. Campbell, who had two sons in the Confederate army, was on her way from Springfield, Mo., to Mississippi, and while crossing the river was captured, with her slaves, twenty in number, by a gunboat. Mrs. Campbell afterwards made application to Brig-Gen. Ross, commanding in the absence of Maj-Gen. Prentiss, for her property. The letter says: This morning an order was sent to this office, of which the following is a copy: Office of the Provost-Marshal,District of Eastern Arkansas.Helena, July 24. Captain: You will please show to the young girl who accompanies the order to your headquarters the contrabands that were turned over to you by the officer of the gunboat last evening. You will allow her to fetch nine (9) back to this office of the number that were turned over to
The Daily Dispatch: August 21, 1863., [Electronic resource], Additional from the North. (search)
rounding neighborhood. There are very few Confederate troops in Arkansas, and if Price is allowed to return home the entire Confederate army in that State will disband. I think Steele will have very little opposition anywhere in Arkansas. A scouting party of twenty coming from Gen. Davidson's command to Helena, were attacked about twenty miles of the town on Sunday last. We lost seven killed. There were upwards of a hundred rebels. General Solomon is in command at Helena. General Prentiss has gone up the river. Arkansas will soon be opened up to trade. Already our lines have been extended. At Helena and a Board of Trade opened, the people for thirty miles around coming in and getting supplies. The Latest from Charleston. A despatch from New York, dated the 17th, announces the arrival of a steamer there from Charleston, and says: On Thursday evening the monitors were all stripped and prepared for action, and at daylight Friday morning the batteries o
The Daily Dispatch: May 31, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
retired, and Sumner, Mansfield, and Totten have died, Twiggs dismissed. Of Major Generals in the volunteer corps Blair resigned, and resignation revoked. Wm F Smith's and Schofield's appointment expired by constitutional limitation, and they were reappointed.--Horallo S Wright rejected by the Senate and since appointed, and is now in command of Sedgwick's corps. The resignations are, Cassins M Clay, Jas A Garfield, Schuyler Hamilton, Charles S Hamilton, E D Keyes, E D Morgan, Benjamin M Prentiss, and Robert M Schenck. Sixteen are dead. The "strikes" in New York continue to attract more or less attention. There is an ugly feeling manifested by the recently discharged employees of the Sixth and Eighth Avenue Railroad Companies, owing to the fact that other men have been found to take their places on the old terms. The latter have been threatened with violence, and it has been found necessary to keep on every car more or less policemen to prevent these menaces from being carri
The Daily Dispatch: August 15, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ave been received. They say that the Yankee monitor, Tecumseh, struck a torpedo opposite Fort Morgan and want down immediately. All on board perished (including the captain) except nine persons. After passing the fort, the Tennessee came up through the wooden vessels of the fleet, delivering broadsides, and looking for the Hartford, the flagship of Admiral Farragut. The Monongahela bore down and struck the Tennessee amidships. The Tennessee and Hartford then got side by side, the former pouring a full broadside into the Hartford's port-holes, causing, as the True Delta says, a fearful less of life on the latter. The Lackswans and others came up and took part in the action until the Tennessee surrendered. The papers report that Admiral Buchanan's leg will be saved. He told them he would have been willing to die ten minutes afterwards could he have sunk the Hartford. Lieutenant Comstock, Confederate, and Lieutenant Prentiss, Yankee, are both reported dead.
The Daily Dispatch: January 31, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 7 (search)
Robbery. --A burglarious depredation was made upon the premises of Joseph Chesterman, a resident of Leigh street, near the intersection of Brook avenue and Prentiss's corner, on Sunday night. His hen-house was broken into and fourteen or fifteen fine chickens, together with a lot of eggs in nests, were carried off. The heads of some of the fowls were wrung off by the thieves and thrown down in the yard.
The Daily Dispatch: December 14, 1865., [Electronic resource], Southern Representation — the latest news from Washington. (search)
in 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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