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The Daily Dispatch: April 22, 1863., [Electronic resource], From Suffolk. (search)
From Suffolk. From this point the reports which reach us are of an important character. These state that the battery of Capt. Sibley, connected with General French's division, was surprised and captured on Sunday night at Keeling's farm, on the Nansemond river. It is also said that 40 of our men were captured at the same line. Passengers by the train from Petersburg last night confirm this report.--During the forenoon of Monday heavy firing was heard in the direction of Suffolk, supposed to result from an engagement between the gunboats of the enemy and our artillery. Gen. Longstreet moved from his headquarters at an early hour on Monday morning.
The Daily Dispatch: May 1, 1863., [Electronic resource], Yankee account of the late fight on the Techer. (search)
, bordered with rich giver tinsel, and bore upon it the inscription--"The Ladies of Franklin to the St. Mary's Cannoneers." Soon after the charge of the 13th the enemy fell back defeated. The force opposed to us was not large, but had the advantage of position and of making a complete surprise. The total force of the rebels both here and at the batteries below, did not exceed ten thousand men. Our loss was considerable, and that of the enemy must have corresponded with ours. Sibley's brigade was included in this number--two regiments of Texas cavalry, Capt. Sime's battery and the Va and Pelican batteries. The whole force was under the command of Gen Dick Taylor, son of the late Zachary Taylor. At this moment the whole force is retreating from our troops, demoralized and hopeless of their cause. By the time our troops had a rived at New Iberia, nearly five hundred horses, mules and beef cattle, had been collected, and were placed in kraals along the wayside.
The Daily Dispatch: December 11, 1863., [Electronic resource], Shoddy in the Yankee capital. (search)
Shoddy in the Yankee capital. --A Washington correspondent of the New York Express writes: Since the breaking out of the war quite a number of our citizens have enriched themselves, chiefly by legitimate business operations. G. C. McGuire & Co., the auctioneers, have cleared $300,000 by a contract for mattresses and iron bedsteads; Savage & Co., hardware dealers, at least $150,000; Sibley & Gray, stove dealers, as much more; C. L. Woodward, in the same business, $100,000. These firms occupy contiguous places of business between 10th and 11th streets. John E. Evans & Co., hardware, $200,000; J. & E. Owen, merchant tailors, $76,000; Mr. Lutze, saddler, $60,000; Mr. Rapler, blacksmith, $100,000, for shoeing Government horses. A poor wheelwright, for putting together wheelbarrows, bought at the North, $30,000--they were transported hither in pieces to save freight. Hudson, Taylor, and Philip & Solomon, stationers, $50,000 apiece. Mr. Taylor, has invested part of his propert
The Daily Dispatch: December 17, 1863., [Electronic resource], Prison life at Point Lookout. (search)
arge of Capt. Patterson, Provost Marshal, is surrounded by a fence most fourteen feet high, with a platform near the top, on the outside, on which the sentinels walk. The guard consists of three regiments of infantry, the 2d, 5th, and 12th New Hampshire, and a squadron of cavalry of the 2d regulars. The enclosure embraces about fifteen acres of ground, and the prisoners are in tents. Three thousand are in the small "A" tents, five to each tent; the rest (say about 6,000) are in Wall & Sibley tents, from 14 to 20 in a tent. The tents are laid off in camp form, 100 men to a company, and ten companies to a division. There are nine divisions. On one side of the enclosure are the mess houses, where 500 eat at one time, and each house feeds 1,500 men. The provisions consist of one-quarter of a pound of damaged pork or beef, and ten small crackers, (say, three-quarters of a pound,) and a pint of wash, called by the Yankees coffee. Occasionally rice or Irish potatoes are substit
The Daily Dispatch: April 30, 1864., [Electronic resource], 500 Dollars reward. (search)
passed through the clerk's office. One soldier was killed and four wounded on the Mattle Stephens. The rebels are still in the vicinity of Pleasant Ridge. Our army was at Grand Ecore, fortifying both sides of the river. General Banks and Admiral Porter were both there. There was only five feet of water at Grand Ecore. The gunboat Eastport was aground there. All the large boats were below, but the light draught boats were above. The prisoners taken say that Kirby Smith and Sibley were killed in the recent battles. The steamer La Crosse, from the Red river for New Orleans, having stopped at a plantation to take on cotton, the crew and soldiers got drunk at a distillery on the place, when a company of the 1st Louisiana (rebel) cavalry made a descent on the boat. The passengers and crew, after being robbed, were paroled, and the boat and cotton were burned. The fall of Plymouth — a Specimen of Yankee Lying — a Sympathetic order for Gen. Wessels--negro soldiers
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