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The Daily Dispatch: October 3, 1864., [Electronic resource], Death of Colonel George Patton. (search)
Runaway. --Ran away from the subscriber on the 24th instant, at Manchester, boy Henry; about sixteen years of age; five feet high; nearly black; slender; long face and thick lips; on right or left side a wen about the size of a walnut; has eruption on his skin, resembling bites. When the said boy left he had on a soldier's jacket and a common cotton shirt, rather light-colored pants, old hat and shoes; all of which clothes were very dirty. I will give one hundred Dollars in the present Confederate currency for the apprehension and delivery of said Boy to Messrs. Lee & Bowman, Richmond, or in any jail so I can get him. Said boy was sold by Messrs. Hill, Dickinson & Co. for James Gray's sons. He is supposed to be lurking about Richmond, or at Mr. Mallory's, on the Mountain road, ten miles above the city, where his mother lives, or in Manchester, where he has a sister living with Mr. Rowlett Winfree. Jack Hall. se 27--12t*
The Daily Dispatch: October 3, 1864., [Electronic resource], The Courts. (search)
Three hundred Dollars Reward. --Ran away, on the evening of the 1st instant, our Boy, Armistead, aged about twenty years; black, five feet nine or ten inches high, and has a smooth scar immediately on the left eyebrow. We will pay the above reward for his apprehension and delivery to our agents, Lee & Bowman, Richmond, or secured so we get him. T. B. Rice, Farmville. W. E. Lee, Farmville. oc 3--2w
The Daily Dispatch: December 13, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
news. Since General Longstreet's reconnaissance of Saturday, and the driving back of the Yankees across Hatcher's run on the same morning, perfect quiet has prevailed on the lines below Richmond and in front of Petersburg. The Yankees south of the Appomattox are said to be pulling down their recently-constructed winter quarters and moving them further to the rear, their present position being in uncomfortably easy range of our artillery. Warren's column. Since the receipt of General Lee's official dispatch of last Saturday, detailing the repulse of Warren's column at the Meherrin river on Friday, and their subsequent retreat, nothing authentic has been heard from this force of the enemy. Report says that, on Saturday, they were making their way back to their main army at Petersburg, and were being much worried by Hampton. We shall probably, to-day, get later accounts. The Yankee papers say the Second and Fifth corps are engaged in this expedition.--Like all the statem
The Daily Dispatch: December 13, 1864., [Electronic resource], Virginia Legislature. (search)
's message as relates to the subject of placing negroes as soldiers into the army of the Confederate States. A recess of ten minutes was agreed upon to allow the members to be introduced to General Joseph E. Johnston, who appeared in the hall; after which, on motion of Mr. Keen, the Senate adjourned. House of Delegates. The House convened at noon. Prayer by the Rev. Dr. Jeter, of the Baptist Church. Mr. Haymond, from the Committee on Finance, reported a bill to pay General Robert E. Lee for his services as major general of the Virginia bill was read the first Mr. McCue, of duced a resolution referring so much of the Governor's message as relates to the placing of negroes in the military service to the Committee on Confederate Relations, with instructions to report adversely to the proposition. The resolution gave rise to much discussion, the House dividing on the two propositions presented: whether negroes were to be employed as soldiers or as pioneers,
The Daily Dispatch: December 13, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
All stories about disaster on the Cumberland river are wholly untrue. The river is entirely clear and unobstructed to Clarksville, to which point our transports run without any convoy. From Clarksville to Nashville no transports are convoyed by gunboats. Around Nashville, skirmishing goes on daily. A brigade of Confederates was seen to move off in the direction of Murfreesboro'; but whether to attack the place or forage was not known. Hood's right is commanded by Cheatham; centre by Lee; and the left by Stewart. On the side of the Yankees. Wood commands the Fourth corps, and Crouch the Twenty-third corps. The water on the shoals of the Cumberland river on Friday was only forty-four inches deep, and still falling. A later telegram, from Nashville on the 9th, says: The weather is very cold. A heavy storm of snow and hail has prevailed all day. The rebel line in our front appears intact. There are no indications of an attack or of their running away. The excitement
The Daily Dispatch: December 23, 1864., [Electronic resource], House servants for Hire. (search)
ppears even more disastrous than the issue of that warrior's usual undertakings. We cannot doubt that General Sherman, when he parted from General Thomas, directed him to lure Hood's army so far north, and keep it across the Tennessee river so long as possible.--Still, the audacity of laying siege to a fortified city or depot like Nashville, with an army inferior, at least numerically, to that of its defenders, and those defenders commanded by a veteran like Thomas, has had no parallel since Lee, with less than 50,000 men, held McClellan's 200,000 spell-bound in front of Washington, overlapping our mighty host on both wings. With Buell at the head of our forces in Tennessee, Hood might safely have passed Nashville and invaded Kentucky; but with Thomas in command, he could, prudently, do nothing but get out of the neighborhood at the earliest moment. This he was doubtless on the point of doing, if the movement had not already begun, when Thomas decided to force a battle, and thereup
The Daily Dispatch: December 23, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 6 (search)
Present for General Lee. --We noticed, yesterday afternoon, in the establishment of Messrs. Moore & Hayward, a most excellent drab-colored felt hat, intended as a Christmas present for General Robert E. Lee. In every particular it is of Southern production, and the entire workmanship was done by one of the members of the firm. 1t* Present for General Lee. --We noticed, yesterday afternoon, in the establishment of Messrs. Moore & Hayward, a most excellent drab-colored felt hat, intended as a Christmas present for General Robert E. Lee. In every particular it is of Southern production, and the entire workmanship was done by one of the members of the firm. 1t*
The Daily Dispatch: December 23, 1864., [Electronic resource], House servants for Hire. (search)
even then. Allowing Savannah, and Charleston, and Mobile, and even Richmond, to be captured, still the war is not over.--The necessity of defending these towns, indeed, has been a great drag upon the operations of our army throughout the war. Had Lee not been constrained to manœuvre so as to protect Richmond last summer, he would have annihilated Grant's army, as he came very near doing even with that impediment to his operations. We have not the most distant belief that Grant can, or will, take Richmond; he to do so, Richmond is not Confederacy, nor is it even Virginia. It is simple Richmond, and nothing more. Its fall would place Lee's army at liberty to manœuvre where he chose it. He would simply sit down before it and watch Grant. It would be but a repetition of the relative situations of Howe and Washington when the former took Philadelphia, or, rather, when. Philadelphia took the former.--And so it would be with regard to Savannah and Wilmington. Let our people, th
The Daily Dispatch: January 18, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
"making a heavy demonstration against their rear," may retake the fort. The following official telegram was received at the War Department last night: "Headquarters, January 15, 1865. "Hon. J. A. Seddon: "General Early reports that General Rosser, at the head of three hundred men, surprised and captured the garrison at Beverly, Randolph county, on the 11th instant, killing and wounding a considerable number and taking five hundred and eighty prisoners. His loss slight. R. E. Lee." It was reported yesterday that General John C. Breckinridge had been made Secretary of War of the Confederate States. We could obtain on confirmation of the report in official circles; but there are reasons for believing it. General Breckinridge was expected to arrive in the city last night. It was also reported that Colonel Northrop, Commissary-General, had been displaced. Judge Halyburton, of the Confederate Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, or yesterday
The Daily Dispatch: January 18, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Moreover, having always been in the service of the cavaliers, and having held out against Cromwell, it could not be expected to take the oath of allegiance to Lincoln and Butler. Dutch gap was rather too outlandish for its aristocratic stomach. Instead of blowing up the James river, the final explosion seems to have blown up General Butler, who disappeared about the time of that concussion. Butler and Dutch gap have come to an end together. Lovely in their lives, in their deaths they were not divided. In the meantime, Richmond is quiet, and the James as quiet as if he had not put a quietus upon Dutch gap Calm and composed as Robert E. Lee after a great victory, the James is awaiting, with unruffled serenity, what will come next. Long may it flow, untrammeled and majestic, to the sea. The heels of hostile armaments may plough for awhile its disdainful tides, but, like their armies, they can only hold the space they occupy; and the surrounding waters will yet sing their requiem.
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