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The Daily Dispatch: March 26, 1864., [Electronic resource], Two extracts from revolutionary History. (search)
y, in the presence of all the officers. N B.--The women to attend all punishments. The following extracts from Tarleton's Campaigns (p. 290) relates to the last official duty performed by Lord Cornwallis within our borders, and is in keeping with all we know of his previous course. Tarleton was always spoken of as "the cruel" and frequently "the bloody Tarleton;" most unjustly, however, if the mildest modern Northern Generals in the departments of Virginia and North Carolina be selectirections, and marching upwards of 600 miles: On the arrival of some country people, Earl Cornwallis directed Lt. Col. Tarleton to dismount his dragoons and mounted infantry, and to form them into a rank entire, for the convenient inspection ory the discipline and justice of the British General. This example was rendered more imposing by the fact, that Col. Tarleton's legion had advanced four miles beyond Halifax, when the miscreants were detected, and the legion required to return
The Daily Dispatch: March 29, 1864., [Electronic resource], More Confederate Captures--two Yankee schooners Seized. (search)
The British and Yankees. We published a few days ago some orders of Lord Cornvallis in the Revolution, denouncing in the most emphatic and indignant terms the burning of houses and destruction of private property by some of his straggling soldiers, and consigning them to the severest punishments. So energetic was his determination to repress these outrages that he halted his army on a march a whole day in order to inflict upon the offenders the death they deserved. Tarleton, whose name became notorious in the Revolution for savage ferocity, was not less active in visiting with extreme retribution such crimes against humanity. The soldiers were halted in long lines, and the inhabitants who complained of outrages were invited to pass along the lines and identify the villains against whom they complained. When this was done the offenders were taken out, and instead of being screened from justice, or their escape connived at, were instantly hung to the nearest tree. Contrast
The Daily Dispatch: January 3, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
e of his cause, and of the goodness. Providence, he never doubted for an insnt that all would turn-out well, and the his country would emerge from the trigreater and more glorious than it woul have done had it never been ed to them. The country caught the ontagion of his example as men cate the plague. Its fears were allayed who it saw the commander-in-chief caland confident. It proved to be the lar hour just before day. The light began to break. On the 17th of January Morgan defeated Tarleton at owpens--a blow from which Cornelis never recovered — and on the 19th October, Cornwallis surrendered. We recall these things to recollection, this time, because it strikes us that is a similarity in our present contion to that of our fathers in the begining of 1781. Hood, like Gates, has been feated and Savannah has been taken Charleston has not been captured, Hood's defeat was far from being so nal. as that of Gates. Richmond is in our hands; whereas, at the opening of the ye
The Daily Dispatch: December 13, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
ttesville, too, is a place of Revolutionary renown. In May, 1781, when Cornwallis invaded Virginia, the Legislature adjourned from Richmond to Charlottesville, as a place of greater safety. In the succeeding month, the famous partisan officer, Tarleton, was detached to Charlottesville, with one hundred and eighty cavalry of his legion and seventy mounted infantry, with directions to surprise the General Assembly and seize the person of Jefferson, then the Governor of the Commonwealth. Charlotrnor and all the members, except seven escaped. On the other hand, they might have been running to this day but for Staunton, whither they repaired with commendable alacrity, and ended their session in peace and safety. Staunton did not permit Tarleton to cross the Blue Ridge. He might take Charlottesville, but not Staunton. What does Charlottesville say to that? Staunton has several newspapers, Charlottesville only one, but that, though little, is loud. It reminds us of one of those small
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