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The Daily Dispatch: August 25, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
eld the Weldon railroad at the last advices find was engaged in destroying it. His whole loss on Friday is put at three thousand. The movement north of the James river has been suspended, if not abandoned altogether, only one corps--the Tenth--remaining on that side of the stream, at Deep Bottom, where it is strongly entrenched, and further protected by the gunboats. From the Valley. Thus far we have nothing additional from the Upper Potomac. Sheridan, since his retreat from Strasburg to Winchester, has been acting entirely on the defensive, and seems more solicitous to protect the frontier from invasion that to march out and offer battle to his active adversary. Of the position occupied by Sheridan, it does not become us to speak; but it has already been made public that Averill is guarding the fords of the Potomac, and that the Confederates again occupy Martinsburg and hold complete possession of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad from that point to within a few miles o
The Daily Dispatch: September 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], Runaway in Jail. (search)
"Our loss reported to be severe. "Major-General Rodes and Brigadier-General Godwin were killed, nobly doing their duty. "Three pieces of artilleries of King's battalion, were lost. "The trains and supplies were brought off safely. "[Signed] R. R. Lee." Newtown, the point to which our forces fell back on Monday night, is about eight miles this side of Winchester, at the interaction of the Valley turn-pike and White Post reads, Fisher's hill is adjutant to Strasburg, some eight miles south of Newtown. We have no further particulars of the battle than furnished by the official dispatch, except that Major-General Fite Lee received a painful, though not dangerous, flesh wound in the thigh. Sheridan, having been reinforced from Grant's army, was cabled to bring overwhelming numbers against the Confederates, who resisted nearly an entire day before falling back; and the fact that our trains and supplies were brought off safely, shows that it was no
The Daily Dispatch: October 14, 1864., [Electronic resource], From the Valley. (search)
half-naked soldiers that it is time they were making some preparation for the coming cold weather. For two days a few flakes of snow and hail have been falling at intervals as premonitory warnings, yet not enough to cause any inconvenience. Sheridan may justly be called the "Chief of Barn burners," for no one, perhaps, in the world over caused such destruction of grain and provender as he in his late retreat down the Valley. Scarcely a barn is left standing in the whole country from Strasburg to Staunton; in many instances, too, the dwelling-houses were burned. I passed one plantation on which not a house was left, the cattle lay dead in the field, and even the shocks of corn as they stood in the field were burned. Not a corn-field is left anywhere in the vicinity of the road, and the fences are all burned. The country begins to look quite desolate. Most of the mills are burned, and the citizens begin to look very eagerly for some place to have their next supply of
The Daily Dispatch: October 14, 1864., [Electronic resource], The War news. (search)
he was the most daring and dangerous of all the bushwhackers in this section of the country. P. H. Sheridan, Major-General. His second dispatch: Strasburg, Virginia, October 9--Midnight. Lieutenant-General Grant, City Point: In coming back to this point, I was not followed up until late yesterday, when a large fdegar Works." P. H. Sheridan, Major-General. A telegram from Harper's Ferry, dated the 10th, says: General Sheridan's army has fallen back to Strasburg, and it is now occupying entrenched positions at that point.--A portion of the cavalry corps, however, is at Front Royal, holding the Luray Valley. Communication between Alexandria and Strasburg is not yet effected by railroad; but trains are expected to run through in a few days. The late cold weather has caused considerable suffering in the army, as it came so unexpectedly but few were prepared for it. The snow fell to the depth of three inches at Cumberland, Maryland, on Saturday,
The Daily Dispatch: October 17, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
liable channel, that Sheridan had crossed the Blue Ridge on Thursday with two corps d' armee, with the intention, it is supposed, of making a demonstration on Charlottesville and the Central railroad. One corps remained in the Valley, near Strasburg, as a bait to induce Early to pass on down towards Winchester and annihilate it. But General Jubal Early was not to be caught with chaff. So, crossing the mountain higher up the Valley at Thornton's gap, and making a "Stonewall" march, he struhigh, and drove him pell-mell back through the gap into the Valley, followed him up in his retreat through Chester gap, pursued him so closely as to capture some of his rear guard at the Shenandoah river, and sent him flying through the town of Strasburg. Nor did the vain-glorious barn burner halt until he had crossed Cedar creek, several miles from the village, where he halted for the first time. Had General Early done as Sheridan hoped he would do — pass on down the Valley and attack th
The Daily Dispatch: October 17, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
rolls and documents back, announcing that, owing to the advent of Forrest between them and Atlanta, they were unable to get through his lines to Sherman in time to poll that army vote. This will have a most important bearing upon the army returns, as there are many thousands of Pennsylvanians in Sherman's army. A painful report prevails that the commissioners also failed to reach the army of Sheridan in the Valley; that the rebel guerrillas had effectually obstructed their passage to Strasburg. This if true, would indeed be unfortunate, as there are at least twenty-five thousand Pennsylvanians in Sheridan's army. How true this "painful report" was, the following telegram will show; Harrisburg, October 12.--The election commissioners to the Shenandoah Valley have returned. They report that they were unable to reach Sheridan's army. The New York Would, in an article headed "Pennsylvania Redeemed, " claims that the State has gone for the Democracy. Philadelphia, which
The Daily Dispatch: October 21, 1864., [Electronic resource], One hundred and Fifty dollars reward. (search)
fifteen and wounded seventeen of them. Lexington was occupied by the rebels on Saturday, the Unionists having evacuated it the day before.--Warrensburg was also occupied by the rebels. A Yankee lie from the Valley. Stanton's dispatch give the following patent invented account of the whipping the Yankees got in the Valley on Saturday: General Sheridan reports that the rebel army, lately under Early, but now apparently under Longstreet, having appeared in the vicinity of Strasburg, his forces moved to attack them on Saturday.--Crook, who had the advance, found the rebels drawn up in four lines of battle; but upon his charging them with his accustomed impetuosity, they broke and withdrew in considerable disorder without giving the opportunity for any serious conflict. Sheridan reports them as continuing their retreat in haste far up the Valley. Of the affair on the Wednesday before, near Middletown, the Herald correspondent says it was a "reconnaissance in for
The Daily Dispatch: October 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], The War news. (search)
Our loss in prisoners is thought to be small. The enemy' infantry is reported to be very much demoralized. He did not pursue. His loss was very severe. General Rame was severely wounded while acting with gallantry, and was captured by the enemy. Passengers by last evening's Central train report that the prisoners (thirteen hundred, were to arrive in Staunton last night. It is said that the loss of artillery occurred from the guns getting crowded together in the streets of Strasburg, and before they could be extricated the enemy's cavalry came up and captured them. It is reported, however, that Early subsequently recovered some of the lost artillery, returning and bringing it o in the night. Be that as it may, with the exception of the loss of the artillery, we are the victors. The flower of the Federal cavalry being in Sheridan's command, he is able to overcome our cavalry and use his horsemen for flanking purposes. This is said to be the cause of our disast
The Daily Dispatch: October 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], The War news. (search)
rts were entirely without foundation. General Sheridan never leaves his command for two days where it is in danger of an attack. He is always present where it fights, and, what is more, as the great Napoleon always thought, he is always successful. A gentleman who left Sheridan's army yesterday reports that the rebels re-occupy Fisher's Hill, on the left of the position heretofore carried by General Crook, and are erecting fortifications there. Our troops are in the neighborhood of Strasburg. Meeting of a "peace" Convention. The "Peace Convention" met in Chicago on the 18th instant. Alexander Long, of Ohio, was one of the prominent men present. Candidates for President and Vice-President of the United States are to be nominated. A telegram says: It is understood that the nominations will be made conditional. If either of the Presidential candidates, Lincoln or McClellan, subscribes to the platform, these nominations will be withdrawn and peace men will suppo
The Daily Dispatch: October 24, 1864., [Electronic resource], Five hundred dollars reward. (search)
ly in the Southern cause. Six counties have furnished seven thousand men; and they are troops worth having. Price is scouring the county of Lafayette, and occupies Lexington. The Yankees are pursuing, but to little purpose, as the militia which they can call out are not only very scarce, but go over to Price the first opportunity. From the Valley. One thousand four hundred and twenty-nine prisoners, captured by Early on Wednesday, arrived in this city on Saturday night. Persons direct from General Early's army say that the Confederate cavalry, in their retreat and panic, came pouring down upon our artillery in the streets of Strasburg, frightened the horses, threw everything into confusion, and rendered it impossible for the infantry to afford the guns any protection. General Rosser, however, after nightfall, by his personal exertions, collected his cavalry and brought off some of the guns. The enemy's loss was very large. They confess to a loss of five thousand.
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