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The Daily Dispatch: November 11, 1864., [Electronic resource], Three hundred Dollars Reward. (search)
se together as the Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac, trifles light as air, the rumble of an empty wagon, the beating of a drum, may provoke a cannonade. Just after the cannonade on our centre had subsided, there was an outburst of musketry, followed by heavy cannonading, on our left beyond Blanford cemetery. The cause of this fire also remains unexplained, but an affair between the hostile pickets is believed to have been the origin of the uproar. The Valley. Sheridan has come to the conclusion to keep as near Harper's Ferry as possible, and thus prevent Mosby from operating in his rear. Early's late stringent order in relation to stragglers is said to be working wonders, and the army is in most excellent trim and in the best possible mood to retrieve the late disgraceful disaster in the loss of the fruits of a thoroughly-won victory.--There are no new movements of troops. The Yankees have withdrawn from the vicinity of the Manassas Gap railroad.
The Daily Dispatch: November 11, 1864., [Electronic resource], Three hundred Dollars Reward. (search)
eneral aspect of failure. Of the three successive commanders — Sigel, Hunter, Sheridan,--the two first are admitted failures; the admission consisting in the fact that they were discarded after defeat. Sheridan has won an enviable reputation; but it must be borne in mind that, with reference to the ensemble of the campaign, his lle and Lynchburg; but there is no expectation of capturing those places. General Sheridan's success is only success in defensive operations.--Even his last battle wnsas. St. Charles is re-occupied and garrisoned with colored troops. Sheridan nearly Killed by poison. The brutal commander of the Federal forces in thestarted off on an excursion. A dispatch says: During the excursion, General Sheridan, Colonel Comstock and Captain Moore all began to exhibit violent symptoms or the purpose of removing the Captain back to Colonel Edward's quarters. General Sheridan continued on horseback for two or three miles further, though in much dist
The Daily Dispatch: November 11, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
Later from Europe. European dates of the 26th ultimo give some interesting speculations from the English papers about the Yankee Presidential election and other matters on this continent. We give some extracts: Sheridan's Vandalism in the Valley. [From the London Post.] A tract of fertile country, sixty miles in length with an average breadth of forty, between the Blue Ridge and the North mountains, is burnt into a wilderness. We hope the general has exaggerated the extent of the destruction of which he has been the instrument, but he reports that two thousand barns and seventy mills, stored with corn and forage, meal and implements of agriculture, have been given to the flames. One of his man was shot in carrying his order into effect, and in retaliation "every dwelling within a radius of five miles from the spot where be fell" was burned. Comment on such an atrocity is needless. Some physiologists have asserted that the Americans have gradually acquired something o