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The Daily Dispatch: January 9, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
e Northern papers tell us that Thomas will soon be heard from in "another direction. " He is going to turn the head of his columns towards Southwestern Virginia. General Price not dead. A gentleman who arrived in this city on Saturday night directly from the Trans-Mississippi Department, says that he left General Price's headquarters on the 8th of December, that he shook hands with him, and that he was in excellent health and spirits. On the arrival of our informant at Shreveport, Louisiana, he was told that General Price had died of apoplexy on the 1st of December and was buried the 2d. This is the account received here, which is, of course untrue. Men from Missouri were coming in every day. Since the march of General Price through Missouri, the Federals have been burning and devastating all the country in North Missouri, leaving families in the destitution, without money, food or clothing. Even accredited Union men are not exempted from the general sweep
The Daily Dispatch: January 25, 1865., [Electronic resource], Cromwell, Lincoln and Virginia. (search)
as established his headquarters at Woodville, and has begun a most vigorous rule. The corporeal-punishment order of Colonel Scott has been revoked, and instead General Hodge levies a tax of sixty dollars per bale on all cotton taken to the bank of the Mississippi river. The Natchez Courier of the 13th mentions the arrival of eight or ten rebel deserters from Alexandria, Louisiana, who report a small rebel force at that place, fortifying in expectation of another Federal expedition. Shreveport has been made very strong, and has a garrison of four hundred or five hundred men. Hainson has a regiment of troops at Trinity. These deserters were of the opinion that Northern Louisiana could easily be brought under Federal rule. Vicksburg papers say that from sixty to one hundred lives were lost, mostly of New York regiments (numbers not given), by the collision of the steamers Mars, Dickey and La Reine. The former boats were seriously damaged. There is no change in the
The Daily Dispatch: February 20, 1865., [Electronic resource], Five hundred dollars reward. (search)
amers brought with them any of the cotton-laden craft, the latter being parted with by the Flag in a gale on the day of sailing off Charleston, and by the Kewanee and Wayanda on the 10th instant. The Kewanee and Wayanda experienced a severe gale on Sunday morning last off Barnegat, and suffered some damage.--When they left Port Royal another large fleet, laden with cotton, was lying there, and would sail in a few days. Miscellaneous. It is reported that General Hindman left Shreveport, Louisiana, for Mexico recently. The Yankees alleged that he has gone to join Maximilian's army. Thomas H. Siddons, a printer, from Richmond, Virginia, who had been in the Confederate army and captured, but taken the oath, was arrested in Baltimore for hurrahing for Jeff. Davis. The Yankee Senate has confirmed the nomination of old Abe's son, Bob, as captain on Grant's staff, and he goes "to the front" in a few days. A staff officer of the Ninth corps writes that, as the Confede
The Daily Dispatch: February 22, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
A letter from the Trans-Mississippi says: Price's headquarters are at Bonham, Texas, four miles south of Red river, in a fine foraging region. Magruder is at Camden, Arkansas, with a part of his command, but the main body (chiefly cavalry) is on a stealing expedition in Texas. The horses of both commands are in an exhausted condition. Magruder has twenty thousand men on his muster-rolls, two-thirds of whom are effective. Kirby Smith's headquarters are still at Shreveport, Louisiana. His entire strength is estimated at thirty-eight thousand, only about twenty thousand of which are available. Immense droves of beef cattle, numbering some hundred thousand head, are roaming on the prairies of Western Texas. From Nassau. The Nassau Guardian of the 8th informs us that several blockade-running steamers had returned to port, having been unable to get into Charleston. Between the 6th and 11th instant the steamers Secret, Dream, Florence, Caroline, Chamel
The Daily Dispatch: March 1, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
t. General Price left Missouri with five thousand more men than he entered the State with. He claims to have accomplished all the objects of his mission and to have harassed the enemy sorely. A dispute has arisen in the newspapers at Shreveport between General Price and Governor Reynolds, of Missouri, with regard to the results of the campaign. In a military point of view, everything is quiet in the Trans-Mississippi. The rivers are higher now than they have been for many years;is carried on very successfully; perhaps rivalling, in this respect, the ports of Wilmington and Charleston. Quite a number of steamers ran in and out of Galveston harbor in the course of a fortnight. The Government stores in Texas and at Shreveport are full of clothing and other necessaries. The expedition fitting out at New Orleans is believed, by high authority in the Trans- Mississippi, to be intended for Galveston and not for Mobile. The Army of the Trans-Mississippi is in e
The Daily Dispatch: March 3, 1865., [Electronic resource], Proclamation by the President, appointing a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer, with thanksgiving. (search)
n three weeks, mostly for the rebel Government. General Kirby Smith issues permits to all who want to export cotton from Texas for six cents a pound in specie.--The permits can be had at various points in the interior of Texas, or at Shreveport, Louisiana. This has given a new impetus, to the trade, and it is wagoned in some instances, about seven hundred miles. It was selling at Matamoras, January 6, at thirty-five cents per pound, in specie. General Walker was unable to induce his nded before reaching Arkansas, supposing them to have gone into the Indian territory on their way home. The rebel army had left Arkansas. On the 22d of December they were at Bog Bayon and Alexandria, on Red river, and at Minturn and Shreveport, Louisiana.--The number bearing arms was about thirty thousand. Shelby was on a raid in Arkansas. They are now well clothed, receiving everything they want from Mexico. Miscellaneous. The New Orleans Times says there is a rumor from Matam
The Daily Dispatch: December 9, 1865., [Electronic resource], Report of the Secretary of war. (search)
The Louisiana Legislature. New Orleans, December 6. --The Louisiana House of Representatives passed the Senate resolution against the recognition of Hayne and Cutter as United States Senators. Special committee reported a bill against the Constitution of 1864, and presented a bill for the calling of a convention on the fourth of January. Governor Wells sent a message that he would be inaugurated at three o'clock this afternoon. He failed to attend on account of indisposition. Randall Hunt was elected United States Senator. The other Senator will be elected on Friday. Mr. Haler, a permanent lawyer, and personally acquainted with the state of affairs on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, has arrived in this city. He is of opinion that the liberal coalition is a failure. The receipts of cotton at Shreveport are falling off in consequence of the scarcity of the staple.
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