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The Daily Dispatch: August 26, 1864., [Electronic resource], Additional Northern News. (search)
Additional Northern News.
The New York Herald of the 22d instant contains some intelligence, of which we give the following brief summary:
A land movement will be speedily made against Mobile by the roads leading up the left side of the bay. In reply to a summons to surrender Fort Morgan, the following note, from General Page, is published:
Headquarters, Fort Morgan, August 9, 1864. Rear Admiral D. G. Farragut, United States Navy; Major-General Gordon Granger, United States Army: Sirs:
I am prepared to sacrifice life, and will only surrender when I have no means of defence.
I do not understand that, while being communicated with under flag of truce, the Tennessee should be towed within range of my guns. Respectfully, &c., R. L. Page, Brigadier-General Commanding, Confederate States Army.
It appears that Anderson, who surrendered Fort Gaines, first made his offer to capitulate to Major-General Granger, commanding the forces which had landed o