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The Daily Dispatch: October 9, 1862., [Electronic resource], Death of an officer. (search)
Death of an officer. Brigadier-General W. D. Smith died at Charleston, S. C., on Saturday afternoon. He was in command of the First Military District, and had his headquarters at Charleston. He was 35 year a of age, and graduated at West Point in his 19th year, and went through the Mexican campaign with Scott and Taylor. He resigned his position as 1st Lieutenant in the United States Army when Georgia, his native State, seceded. His remains were taken to Augusta, Ga., for interment.
The Daily Dispatch: October 9, 1862., [Electronic resource], Affairs in the Kanawha valley — Sale of Salt. (search)
State of this Confederacy to another. Mr. Hill said he desired to call the attention of the Government to the outrages now perpetrated along the lines of the railroads from Virginia to Georgia. He would just allude to a few of them. Gen. Smith requires all farmers in the State of Georgia, and other States South of Virginia, to send to Richmond and get a permit to transport any quantity of seed-wheat to those States, however small. In many instances men were compelled to travel hundrted with the power of suspending the writ of habeas corpus He argued that it was the duty of Congress to authorize the President to suspend the writ and to declare martial law in certain cases, and that the public interests demand it. Mr. Smith, of N. C., contended that Congress could not, constitutionally, transfer power which was vested in it alone to another department of the law-making power. Mr. Russell, of Va., followed in support of the bill, and argued at length upon its