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The Daily Dispatch: April 4, 1864., [Electronic resource], The importance of raising sorghum. (search)
re was going on between the rebels and our own troops, and they were so close together it was difficult to distinguish the combatants. The Eastport, which had opened her battery, fearing to injure our own men, ceased firing, when our troops proceeded to the assault and carried the place. In a few minutes, and with small loss, 250 prisoners, eight heavy guns, and two field pieces, fell into our hands, and all the munitions of war. The main body of the enemy, 5,000 strong under the rebel General Walker, made their escape. Highly important from Grant's Army. That very soft people, the Yankees, are reading news dispatches such as this we find in the New York Herald, dated Washington, March 30th. The effort seems to be to "push up the man on horseback" into the niche of a hero before they know whether he will fit or not: Accounts from the field represent the greatest enthusiasm prevailing in the Army of the Potomac in favor of Gen. Grant. His quiet, unassuming, and unprete
The Daily Dispatch: April 4, 1864., [Electronic resource], Schofield's last move in East Tennessee. (search)
Lynch law in Fluvanna county, Va. --A negro boy, belonging to Joseph Bullock, of Union Mills, Fluvanna county, committed a rape upon the wife of James Walker, a soldier in the army, a short time since, and was committed to the county jail, tried and convicted of the offence. On Monday last says the Charlottesville Chronicle, about three hundred citizens, led by Walker, rescued the negro from the hands of the authorities and hung him to a tree near the village. Lynch law in Fluvanna county, Va. --A negro boy, belonging to Joseph Bullock, of Union Mills, Fluvanna county, committed a rape upon the wife of James Walker, a soldier in the army, a short time since, and was committed to the county jail, tried and convicted of the offence. On Monday last says the Charlottesville Chronicle, about three hundred citizens, led by Walker, rescued the negro from the hands of the authorities and hung him to a tree near the village.