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The Daily Dispatch: September 26, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
The War News. The heavy firing that was heard between 7 and 8 o'clock on Saturday morning proceeded from Grant's lines, which extend from Deep Bottom to the Weldon railroad. The Yankees had heard of Sheridan's success in driving Early from Fisher's Hill, and fired a salute with shotted guns in honor thereof. With this exception, everything has remained quiet in front of Petersburg since our last report. A Yankee correspondent says that "a move which is destined to astonish somebody is on the qui vive," (he probably meant to say tapis,) and it would not surprise us if active operations were inaugurated before many days. A soldier named Ratcliffe, from Floyd county, Virginia, was executed on Saturday afternoon for desertion. Four balls pierced his breast, and his death was almost instantaneous. The crime for which he suffered was his second offence. From the Valley. Official dispatches received on the 23d state that the enemy attacked General Early late yesterday
The Daily Dispatch: September 26, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
to will take place. As we have already said, we confide in General Lee and his gallant army to bring us safely out, and we feel no apprehensions of the issue. If Grant failed last May, with an army much larger than that which he has now, and every way its superior, we cannot see any reason why he should succeed now, when the bulkmodern history there is no record of any enterprise against a single position having cost so much.--Three hundred thousand tried their hands last summer. To these Grant now wishes to add one hundred thousand more. With four hundred thousand men in a central position, an enterprising monarch, who was likewise a good soldier, couldis brow were placed there by their hands; and they will shed the last drop of blood rather than suffer the impure hands of a mercenary leader of banditti — such as Grant, the tool of a tyrant as remorseless and as careless of human life as himself — to tear them from him. Now, this is the feeling which renders soldiers invincible —<