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The Daily Dispatch: October 4, 1864., [Electronic resource], Gold. (search)
Arrival of prisoners. --Since our last issue, fifteen hundred and fifty-two Yankee prisoners, including fifty- eight officers and one chaplain, captured near Petersburg and this city, have been brought here and committed to the Libby prison and its branches. Among the officers we give the following: Colonels W. C. Raulston, Twenty-fourth New York; S. Warner, One Hundred and Twenty-first Pennsylvania. Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Gregg, Forty-fifth Pennsylvania. Majors John G. Wright, Fifty-first New York; William H. Mapes, Second New York; James T. Peale, Fourth Pennsylvania cavalry, and E. S. Horton, Fifty-eighth Massachusetts. In order to make room for a further influx of prisoners expected every hour, Major Thomas P. Turner, the commandant, of the prisons in this department, sent off to Salisbury, North Carolina, yesterday morning, eleven hundred and fourteen. Three hundred were also added to the number on Belle Isle.
The Daily Dispatch: October 4, 1864., [Electronic resource], The position in Georgia. (search)
cal. If it had not been checked in mid-carcer by the South, it would have accomplished all this and more. It would have lighted again the flames of the stake and re-enacted the atrocities of the days of Cromwell. No one can doubt this who has witnessed the savage ferocity of Puritanism towards the South in this war. If it can commit such crimes against its own race, and Protestants; if it can hang, like dogs, grey haired and exemplary members of Episcopal and Presbyterian churches, like Dr. Wright, of Norfolk, and David Creigh, of Greenbrier, what would it not have done if let loose upon the trail of "pagan Papists?" And now behold the contrast! Not a decade has past, and the foreigners whom it was frantic to worry and the devour have become the objects of its special idolatry. Whereas it once looked upon the salvation of the country as involved in keeping them from coming here, it is now ransacking the continent of Europe and the isles of the sea to bring them to America. I