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The Daily Dispatch: December 29, 1864., [Electronic resource], Confederate Congress. (search)
h the entire army destined to defend the South. The consequences might have been foreseen. The enemy, having the entire command of the sea, shut up the harbor of Charleston, and landing forces at Beaufort, invested it by land. The city not only fell, but it carried the army along with it. Every man was captured, and the Southern States left entirely without an army. It was then that the spirit of the people rose to supply the place of a regular army. It was then that Marion, Sumpter and Clarke first began to teach the British that though they had conquered Savannah and Charleston, they had not conquered South Carolina and Georgia. The dispatch from Sir Henry Clinton to Lord George Germania, the British Secretary of War, announcing that South Carolina was completely subdued, had hardly been published in the Gazette, when news arrived that these bold partizans had already rekindled the war. Cornwallis, like Sherman, commenced his march northward. He overthrew the army of Gates at
The Daily Dispatch: December 29, 1864., [Electronic resource], Christmas in Queen Elizabeth's time. (search)
Runaway. --My boy, Beverly Gray, left last Thursday. Beverly is five feet four inches high; about thirty years old; black; with a scar over his left eye. I will pay a reward of two hundred dollars for his delivery to me, in Manchester, or any information so that I can get him. Esther H. Clarke. de 23--6t*