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The Daily Dispatch: December 25, 1863., [Electronic resource], From General Lee's army. (search)
roads and the present condition of transportation make it a matter quite certain that we shall be able to keep the animals in much better order than they were kept last winter. Large quantities of baled hay arrive every day, and I should suppose that if proper attention has been paid to the taking care of the tax in kind that an abundance of long food could be readily obtained for the animals this winter. There is considerable preparation in a small way among officers and men for Christmas. The good folks at home, in many instances, are not forgetting the gallant boys in the field, as the number of boxes arriving too plainly tell. I saw one box come to hand on yesterday containing, according to present valuation in Confederate currency, not less than six hundred dollars' worth of good things. And who, think you, kind reader, sent it to this gallant boy in the held? Why, if I must tell, it was his betrothed, and then the note that accompanied it was much more highly prize
The Daily Dispatch: December 25, 1863., [Electronic resource], A Startling Rumor from the Peninsula. (search)
The Life of Oliver Cromwell. Among the other Christmas books for sale in this city is the life of that holy martyr and beatified saint, Oliver Cromwell. A most devout and edifying book for the reading of Christian children! We are surprised that this choice volume is not accompanied by the Life of Abraham Lincoln and the Life of the late lamented John Brown, whose soul is now marching on in the track of Cromwell. Three kindred spirits, Old Noll pre-eminent of the three in those qualities which distinguish them from the rest of the human race, they ought to be united in the memory of their admirers, as they are likely to be in that shining immutability which awaits such characters in another state. In all soberness, have the Yankees taken Richmond, that the life of that hideous Puritan, Oliver Cromwell, is to be thrust into our faces at this season of the year? In the name of all that is pure and merry in these holidays, keep the sour visage of the Puritan fled out of ou