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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Notes. (search)
as Junction, and thence led them to battle. Page 249. Elzey takes the place of Kirby Smith in the command of the latter's brigade. Page 254. The official documents we have before us, and particularly one despatch from Patterson to General Scott, dated July 20, informing the latter of the departure of Johnston's troops for Manassas Junction, do not justify us in persisting to blame General Patterson as we have done: by mistake we exaggerated his forces; besides, he had with him only n to their homes. But even if he had had a more numerous and better organized army at his disposal, he could not long have prevented Johnston from escaping him, as the latter had in his rear a line of railway connecting him with Beauregard. General Scott, in advising him to watch and detain the Confederates, told him that the battle between Beauregard and McDowell would take place on the 18th. Now, on that day Johnston was still at Winchester; he only started during the day; and Patterson di
The Daily Dispatch: may 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], War movements. (search)
ver. The magazine was ordered open, and each man was supplied with five rounds of cartridge. The men slept on their arms all night, expecting a demonstration from Baltimore. The camp is unusually quiet to-day. The steamer Coatzacoalcos sailed last night for Washington. The Chaplain of the Naval School narrowly escaped being shot during the alarm last night. There are now about 4,000 troops here. No disturbances have occurred between the soldiers and the citizens. Thomas A. Scott has taken charge of the route to Washington, and order is beginning to take the place of confusion. Great preparations are being made for the transportation of stores to Washington. There seems to be an impression at the North that we are in danger of starving. The Chicago Evening Journal learns from a gentleman just returned from Mississippi, that in many parts of that State famine prevails, and the people are suffering from the want of enough to eat. Corn, which is the chief a
The Daily Dispatch: may 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], Army Appointments. (search)
Army Appointments. --The following Virginia gentlemen have been confirmed as officers in the Army of the Confederate States by the Congress. Nearly all are old and experienced army officers: Samuel Cooper, Brig. General; Wm. G. Gill, Captain; Fitzhugh, Lee, Robt.. F. Beckham, 1st Lieutenants; Geo. W. Edwin J. Harvie and Jno; Scott, Captains of Infantry; Surgeons in Navy, W. A. W. Spottswood and Wm. F. Carrington.
The Daily Dispatch: may 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 7 (search)
tory to shame, and enthroned his name supreme in the realms of fame.-- There is no man in the South, capable of attaining to elevated command, who has not the heart of Washington in his bosom, and who, at the conclusion of peace, will not gladly, of his own free will and choice, in the same lofty spirit of disinterestedness, and with the same burning emotions of patriotism, render back his sword to the authorities who gave it. True, there may be Arnolds in the South, as there has been born a Scott; but the sentiment of honor and independence, our very atmosphere, is such, that men of this nature, by moral necessity, inevitably sink to low positions, or go off altogether, in times of great exigency. From the very organization of Southern society; from the training of the Southern mind; from the social and political sentiments ever dominant in the Southern character, usurpation by any of her own sons is the most impossible of all sources of danger to her liberties. There is even l
The Daily Dispatch: may 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
unrelenting of your enemies, but I am an open and I hope an honorable foe 1 expect to fight you to the death, but not with lucifer matches and camphene. Do not do the people of the South the injustice to believe that one out of ten among them would for a moment sanction this hell begotten scheme. It is foreign to their nature. Among the most valiant and forward among the Northern heroes is Gen. John E. Wool, of New York, who has been freely bestowing his advice and suggestions upon Gen. Scott. It appears, however, that the General-in-Chief is disposed to "snub" his subordinate. Thus, we have it: Headquarters of the Army.Washington, April 28 Major General John E Wool, U. S. A., Commanding Department of the East, New York City: General: --The General-in-Chief desires me to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 25th instant, and to say, in reply, that the very great necessity which exists for carrying on the business of the several Staff Departments with s
The Daily Dispatch: July 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], Military Works. (search)
, 1 P. M. --The celebrated steam gun arrived here last night, and Professor Lowe was expected here to-day with his monster balloon, to reconnoitre the position of the rebels. The Union gun is not yet mounted. The assistant of Thomas A. Scott arrived here this morning from Washington, to superintend the erection of the proposed railroad and telegraph It was originally intended to connect Fortress Monroe with Newport News by means of a submarine cable, but the line will extene food and the quantity of it. The troops are murmuring greatly, and threaten a mutiny if a change is not made immediately. The health of the troops is very bad. Measles, dysentery and fever and ague are prevailing to an alarming extent. Gen. Scott's Military regulations. The following military regulation concerning passports has just been issued at Washington: Headquarters of the Army, Washington, June 1, 1861. The General-in-Chief, by permission of the Executive, anno
The Daily Dispatch: August 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
ith great interest. Miscellaneous. A correspondent of a Yankee paper, writing home from the defeat of Manassas, had actually spirit enough left to indulge in a grim and dismal joke at the expense of William Howard Russell, L. L. D., whom he saw scampering from the battle field as fast as his horse would carry him. He said he could account for the name of the place--"'Bull's Run, ' John Bull's! Russell showed good horsemanship." Captain Doubleday was, it seems, in charge of General Scott's favorite pocket pistol, his famous Parrot gun. The gun is taken!--Where (asks the Wilmington Journal) is the invincible Doubleday? Won't he write some more braggadocio letters to his Yankee friends? Ye glorious Capita-ing Doubuelday, Who writes all night and fights all day. In one of the Massachusetts regiments there are or were 336 shoemakers, of whom 87 belonged to one company. This company at the Manassas fight was awfully troubled in its soles, and waxed too feeble towa
The Daily Dispatch: August 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], Plain talk for the Lincolnites. (search)
it will be a useful lesson for the future. We should hope it might be. The sorrow, the suffering, the misery entailed upon our people by this sad battle has filled our land with grief. Our citizens are shuddering to hear the details. There are few who have not friends among the killed and wounded, but it is remarkable how general is the unanimity among all classes, except the most rabid Republicans, that this slaughter has been occasioned by the reckless Abolition newspapers who drove General Scott, contrary to his earnest protestations, to make a forward movement. But of the past it is no use to speculate.--What of the future? Where are we now? Let us see. The terms of about 80,000 of our troops expire within a very short time. They are the very flower of our army. Their places cannot be filled by any better men, if so good. This defeat must prolong the time of another advance movement until fall. A large force and an immense sum of money are to be raised in the face of
The Daily Dispatch: August 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], A military Dictator. (search)
A military Dictator. --Maj. Gen. McClellan, who supersedes Gen. Scott, was the President of a railroad in the West when he was appointed a Maj. General by Lincoln.--He graduated with high distinction at West Point, and was in the army for several years, in which he gained considerable reputation as an officer. After the Mexican war, he resigned his commission in the army and accepted the Presidency of a railroad at a salary of $12,000. It is said that, when he accepted the commission fromthe Presidency of a railroad at a salary of $12,000. It is said that, when he accepted the commission from Lincoln, he stipulated that he was to retain his salary as President, thus evincing characteristic Yankee zeal to look after his wages. If he should not, in turn, like Scott, be superseded and disgraced, we should not be surprised to see him at the head of a military despotism, and to see him superseding the Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States.--Nashville Union.
The Daily Dispatch: August 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], The crops. (search)
The crops. --In a recent trip through Russell, Scott, Lee and Wise, we took pains to inquire as to the prospect of the crops. Rye, Oats and Wheat are all harvested. The Wheat crop is represented to be one of the finest ever raised. The Rye is equally good, but the dry weather in June cut short the Oats: though generally well filled and heavy, the straw is short. The prospect for Corn is unusually fine. Having heard many conflicting reports from farmers in this county, we are unprepared to venture an opinion as to the general result.--Abingdon Dem.
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