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The Daily Dispatch: May 27, 1864., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 1 1 Browse Search
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The terms of surrender. (search)
e personal interview referred to. Feeling assured that it was useless to hope longer for assistance from General Johnston, either to raise the siege of Vicksburg or to rescue the garrison, Among General Pemberton's papers was found a copy of the following letter, accompanied by a note stating that the original had miscarried and was never received, but General Johnston was kind enough to furnish me a copy : June 27, 1863. General Pemberton: Your dispatch of the 22d received. General E. H. Smith's troops have been mismanaged, and have fallen back to Delhi. I have sent a special messenger, urging him to assume direct command. The determined spirit you manifest and his expected co-operation encourage me to hope that something may yet be done to save Vicksburg and to postpone both of the modes suggested of merely extricating the garrison. Negotiations with Grant for the relief of the garrison, should they become necessary, must be made by you. It would be a confession of weak
The Daily Dispatch: June 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], Washington items (search)
g, M. Fontaine, Wm. T. Gibson, W. G. Gray, S. Gray, J. W. Green, T. R. Green,--Gentry,--Gilliam, Irving Hull,--Haynes, Pat Henry, M. Hudgins, P. B. Jones, Dave Jones, R. J. Jordan, T. Kellogg,--Lind say, E. B. Meade, S. D. Mitchell, Chas. Mittledorfer, J. R. Mountcastle, A. H. Mebane, J. French Meredith, Charles A. McEvoy, W. H. P. Morriss, J. E. Mayo, R. McMurde, R. G. Maddux, W. Norwood, L. Nunnally,--Pardijons, J. G. Powell, W. A. Piet, H. Picot, J. H. B. Paine, W. A. Pegram, George Peterkin, G. R. Pace, T. A. Pace, W. G. Pollard, H. Peaster, Mann Page,--Redd, T. Randolph, D. J. Burr Reeve, J. J. Reeve, C. A. Robinson, R. T. Robinson, W. S. Robertson, G. Rennie, A. Jackson Singleton, R. A. Sublett, C. Skinker, E. H. Smith, M. Sizer, A. R. Tatum, V. H. Tatum, C. E. Taylor. E. B. Taylor, R. T. Taylor, R. M. Tabb, R. E. Tyler, Ed. Tompkins, Benj. Van Buren, Jos Willis, H. H. Watkins, A. S. Watkins, R. White, J. H. Worsham, T. R. Worsham, J. Porter Wren, R. Waldrop, Philip B. Wright.
The Daily Dispatch: May 27, 1864., [Electronic resource], The War news. (search)
oldier, slumbering on his moist and earthy pillow. The assault of the enemy on our right was made with cavalry, artillery, and infantry. At this point it becomes necessary to convey some idea of how our troops were posted on the extreme right. Next the Cames river were two squadrons of colored cavalry, then came the Ninth New Jersey infantry, then the Twenty-third Massachsells, then the Twenty-fifth and Twenty seventh Massachusetts, all of Heckman's brigade, of Weltred's division, of Smith's corps. Gilmore's corps held the left and the left centre. Our line of battle was the fortifications, except on the extreme right, for they did not extend down to the river. A narrow belt of limber screened our reserves from the view of the rebels on the right. The rebels stole between our skirmishers around our right flank, and actually into the of the Ninth New Jeremy.--When they were first discovered by that regiment in its rear they haltered them to be some of our own troops. One o
The Daily Dispatch: May 27, 1864., [Electronic resource], Fire in Petersburg. (search)
the post-office for letters, and receiving the said letters. It appeared that accused and an older boy on last Sunday morning obtained some twenty-five or thirty letters from box 332 on an order purporting to be signed by Mr. Baptist, but which was a forgery. The forgery having been discovered, and the accused presenting a similar order on Wednesday he was arrested, when he confessed having committed the forgery, and obtained the letters, in which he protested that there was only $10. Officer Seal, who has possession of the first forged order being absent the case was continued, and the boy admitted to ball in the sum of $500. Peter, slave of E. H. Smith, who had been caught by the watchmen on the night before breaking into John O'Neal's cake stand near the First market, and who when arrested violently resisted the officers, was ordered to be whipped. The case of Joseph Needham, charged with stealing a horse worth $2,000 from Edward Griffin, was continued till tomorrow.