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The Daily Dispatch: April 19, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
rt City was burned by a detachment from fort Macon on Tuesday, the 18th--four days after the battle at Newbern--and almost entirely destroyed. The bridge was 180 feet long, and very substantial and well built. Rebuilding of a bridge. Major Wright, of the Fifth Rhode Island, who is an excellent civil engineer and a practical bridge builder, as well as almost valuable officer, was detailed by Gen. Burnside to inspect the ruins of the bridge and report in regard to its reconstruction. He the lumber transported to, and used in the reconstruction of the bridge. The Rhode Island Fifth, in addition to this duty and the charge of the railroad, have pickets thrown out at Newport over a circuit of two miles--nearly every man of Major Wright's battalion being constantly engaged in these various duties. Further destruction by detachments from Fort Macon. The detachment from Fort Macon, in addition to the destruction of this bridge, burned a large rebel encampment at Caroli
The Daily Dispatch: April 19, 1862., [Electronic resource], Federal Congress. (search)
ccordingly put, and decided in the negative — year 45, nays 93. Yeas.--Messrs. Allen, Biddle, Blair (Va.), Brown (Va.), Calvert, Corning, Cox, Cravens, Crittenden, Delaplaine, Dunlop, English, Grider, Hall, Harding, Kerrigan, Knapp, Law Lazear, Leary, Mallory, May, Menzles, Noble, Noell, Norton, Nugen, Pendleton, Perry, Price, Rollins (Mo.), Shiel, Smith, Steele (N. J.), Steele (N. Y.), Thomas (Md.), Vallandigham, Voorhees, Wadsworth, Wade, Webster, White (Ohio), Wickiffe, Woodruff, and Wright. Nays--Messrs. Aldrich, Alley, Arnold, Ashley, Babbitt, Baker, Baxter, Beaman, Bingham, Blair (Mo.), Blair (Pa.), Blake, Browne (R. I.), Buffington, Campbell, Chamberlain, Clark, Colfax, Frederick A. Conkling, Roscoe Conkling, Covode, Davis, Dawes, Delano, Diven, Duell, Dunn, Edgerton, Edwards, Eliot, Fenton, Fessenden, Fisher, Franchor, Frank, Gooch, Goodwin, Granger, Gurley, Haight, Hall, Hanchett, Harrison, Hooper, Horton, Hutchins, Julian, Kelley, Kellogg, (Mich.,) Killinger, Lansin
The Daily Dispatch: April 19, 1862., [Electronic resource], Federal Congress. (search)
The Gunboat Fund. We acknowledge the receipt of twenty dollars from Mr. William A. Wright, of this city, as a contribution to the Ladies' Gunboat Fund. Mr. Wright says in his letter:-- "Being prevented by physical inability from taking an active part in the defence of Southern independence, I feel anxious to contribute my mite to so noble and patriotic a purpose." We have also received the following letter with the enclosure: Editors of the Richmond Dispatch: Gentlemen: EncMr. Wright says in his letter:-- "Being prevented by physical inability from taking an active part in the defence of Southern independence, I feel anxious to contribute my mite to so noble and patriotic a purpose." We have also received the following letter with the enclosure: Editors of the Richmond Dispatch: Gentlemen: Enclosed you will find one hundred dollars, in your favor, remitted by request of Mrs. B. W. Belsches, Sussex, Virginia, for the Ladies' Gunboat Fund. Respectfully yours, McIlwaike, Son & Co. Petersburg, April 16, 1862.