hide Matching Documents

Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: February 25, 1865., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Sherman or search for Sherman in all documents.

Your search returned 4 results in 3 document sections:

The Daily Dispatch: February 25, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
s has made every fragment of them a sacred and precious thing.--That spirit still survives, and will create a new Thermopylaeæ at every spot where Freedom unfurls its flag and bids defiance to the oppressor. Sumter will live in history and in song, and so, indeed, will a thousand other battle-grounds where the lofty courage and inextinguishable endurance of this great people have wrestled with a gigantic foe. Not Greece, it its noblest exhibitions of heroism and fortitude, surpassed this glorious Southern people. General Sherman might well say that there is no disgrace in being overcome by such odds as have been brought to bear against the feeble means of resistance in his front. Nor could that resistance have been overcome, if the little army which faced his overwhelming numbers had been always guided by a skill equal to its valor. The world will proclaim that the rank and file of the South have, with rare exceptions, done their duty, and found themselves the Romans of the age.
The Daily Dispatch: February 25, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
By Mr. Nash: Inquiring into the expediency of amending the law so as to remove trustees in certain cases. By Mr. Lewis: Inquiring into the expediency of assuming the payment of the Confederate taxes for the State of Virginia for the year 1865. Mr. Collier offered the following joint resolution, which lies over under the rules: "Resolved, by the General Assembly, That, whilst we sympathize with our brothers in arms and our kindred in the localities through which the army under Sherman has, with much bravery, passed, yet in our opinion the limited local successes of that army will signally serve to demonstrate to the people of the North that the Federal forces must ultimately fail to make a conquest of our country if the people of the South and our public councils will not forget to avoid all 'refuges of lies' and resorts to foreign aids, and will act on the venerable knowledge that 'they who would be free, must themselves strike the blow.' Some other subjects were d
The Daily Dispatch: February 25, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
he occupation of Charleston by our forces. New York,February 21.--The Mayor of this city has issued a proclamation urging all citizens to celebrate Washington's birthday to- morrow. The Seventh regiment will make a full parade, in honor of Sherman's recent victories, the restoration of our flag to Fort Sumter, and the fall of Charleston. A meeting of prominent citizens will be held to-morrow, to arrange for a general celebration of the recent victories. Flags have been flying in all dir fired here to-day in honor of the capture of Charleston. Boston,February 21.--Washington's birthday will be celebrated to-morrow. A salute of one hundred guns will be fired on the Common, and one hundred on Dorchester Heights, in honor of Sherman's victorious march. Discussion in the Yankee Congress upon the Government of the "Rebellious States." The bill for the government of the "rebellious States" was again under consideration in the Yankee House on the 21st instant: Mr.