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The Daily Dispatch: July 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Southern soldier. (search)
om the accounts of the enemy who stopped to give water to the wounded and rifle the dead, it seems that the 8th cut to pieces the 6th Massachusetts, half demolished the Rhode Islanders, and made deadly havoc among the Regulars. But a horrible mistake occurred at this point. Their own friends taking them for the enemy, poured a fatal fire upon their mutilated ranks. At length they withdrew from the fight.--Their final rally was with some sixty men of the six hundred they took in. Balaklava tells no more heroic tale than this: "Into the valley of death marched the six hundred." As they retired, they passed Gen. Beauregard. He drew aside, fronted, raised his hat, and said, "I salute the 8th Georgia with my hat off." Of all the companies of the regiment, the Oglethorpe Light Infantry suffered most.--They were on the extreme right nearest the enemy, and thus were more exposed. Composed of the first young gentlemen of Savannah, their terrible loss will throw a gloom o
The Daily Dispatch: August 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
s certain, not withstanding the errors of the Northern papers on the subject, that there is "something rotten in Denmark," In other words, that there are spies not only in the capital, but there are traitors in the secrets of some of the Departments. I say, find them out and convict them if possible, and hang them as high as Haman, even on the Capitol Square, in sight of all men. Have you read Miss Susan Archer Talley's "Battle of Manassas," in the Enquirer of the 234 inst. It is worthy of a lasting place beside Macanlay's "Lays of Ancient Rome," the "Henry of Navarre," or Tennyson's or Hope's "Charge of Balaklava." I trust that Southern literature will soon receive its proper meed, now that we have stultified the "Mutual Admiration Society" of Boston, and the smaller fry cliques of New York and Philadelphia. Willis' next poem will be perhaps addressed to Mrs. Lincoln's poodle, or to Abraham's bosom, over which the flunky and the snob saw that immaculate shirt descend. Oats.
The Daily Dispatch: October 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 15 (search)
a pleasant face; I countenance that can be called handsome, strongly marked by good nature and a genial expression, and deep blue eyes, from which beams the youthful ardor and high spirits of the man. Decisive and prompt in action, his step has the firm tread and at the same time the elasticity of an athlete. An excellent horseman, he shows off to great advantage in the saddle, and rides with a grace that I have never seen excelled except by Captain Nolan, who was killed at the battle of Balaklava during Lord Cordigan's famous charge. Having that clan necessary to cope with a powerful enemy, and cunning enough to frustrate any strategas, he makes an admirable outpost commander, to which position he has lately been assigned. For some months Gen. Stuart has been in active service, and has never yet been caught napping, or failed in any plan he has attempted. At Munson's hill he slept within 800 yards of the enemy, accompanied by Capt. Rosser, of the Washington Artillery, an officer
The Daily Dispatch: October 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], The charge of the Light Brigade (search)
e prestige of ten centuries rested upon British arms when the famous Light Brigade charged upon the famous batteries of Balaklava. In the battle of Manassa we had the prestige to win, and no world to give credit to our laurels. A miserable parcenuon: "the Light Brigade." Poetry and history have conspired to make the charge of the British Light Brigade at Balaklava immortal. And yet it is no derogation from the brilliancy of soldierly devotion displayed in that desperate achievemen, London, says the Chicago Tribune, we were astonished at the comparatively small loss suffered by the Light Brigade at Balaklava, as measured by the statements current in the English and American press at the time. The following is the more sober,ence of terrible slaughter in the mass of testimony presented by the volume before us. The loss of the Light Brigade at Balaklava, is killed and wounded, was about equal to that of either of the Kansas regiments at Wilson's Creek, which went into th
The Daily Dispatch: December 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], Railroad accident. (search)
The real Zouaves, who fought at Inkerman, Balaklava and other noted places in the East, have arrived in this city, and propose to give two of their novel entertainments at Franklin Hall, commencing on Tuesday evening. These performers have made a successful tour of the South, and, according to the complimentary notices in the newspapers, they are worth seeing.
The Daily Dispatch: June 26, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Lines, & C. (search)
being killed. This loss arose purely from an esprit du corps, which prompted them to remain and stand fast, though opposed by vastly superior numbers. It is said, however, that when the Louisianians closed their broken ranks, and charged upon the enemy's masses, that it was so terrible that they gave way in disorder. This conduct is perhaps akin to that which extracted the expression of Gen. Gosquet when witnessing the in silent and famous cavalry charge of the English Light Brigade at Balaklava. viz: "This is magnificent, but it is not war." The conduct of the Louisianians and Georgians is highly spoken of --nothing can detract from their superior qualities as soldiers and patriots, but an excess of bravery characterizes their movements. The loss of the Louisianians is reported at 14 officers and 200 men killed and wounded, but this we believe is much of an exaggeration. Subsequent to this brilliant but unfortunate transaction, an artillery force was moved to the front, an
The Daily Dispatch: September 14, 1864., [Electronic resource], Three hundred dollars reward. (search)
this paper as having swam the Appomattox and carried a large amount of information to the enemy, had been in the Confederate service with the rank of Sergeant-Major in the Marine Corps at Drewry's Bluff, but was lately reduced to the ranks for stealing at Wilmington, where he stopped on his way to Mobile. He was at Drewry's Bluff for two months, and recently married a lady in Petersburg. He was famed for recounting his personal exploits, and professed to have been at the grand charge at Balaklava, where "cannon to the right of them, cannon to the left of them, rattled and thundered." --His representations to the Yankees were, doubtless, the coinage of his own brain, as the statement that his wife and child were killed by a shell in Petersburg is known to have been a deliberate falsehood. The Confederacy loses nothing by the departure of such a man, notwithstanding the hue and cry raised by the Yankees on his arrival amongst them. From Trans-Mississippi. We get occasional
The Daily Dispatch: March 2, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
in length, was followed by other and more important enterprises. Between 1851 and 1853, lines were laid between England and Ireland, and England and Belgium. In 1853, the Electric and International Telegraph Company laid a submarine telegraph, one hundred and fifty-five miles in length, from Oxfordness to Schevening, in Holland. These lines were all comparatively short and in shallow water, but, in 1855, the requirements of the war in the Crimea led to the construction of a line between Balaklava and Varna, from which may be dated a new era in Ocean Telegraphy. This line was three hundred and ten miles long, and served, to some extent, as a basis for ascertaining the law which governs the retardation of the electric current in long lines of submarine telegraph. Three hundred miles of the cable consisted of a copper wire, covered with gutta percha, entirely unprotected, and ten miles from shore ends had a protecting covering of iron wire. The paying out was effected with great e
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