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The Daily Dispatch: September 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], A Postscript to prayer. (search)
Death of ex-gov. Briggs, of mass. Stockbridge Sept. 13. --Ex-Gov. Briggs, who was accidentally shot some time since, died on yesterday. Death of ex-gov. Briggs, of mass. Stockbridge Sept. 13. --Ex-Gov. Briggs, who was accidentally shot some time since, died on yesterday.
The Daily Dispatch: October 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway. (search)
Major-General Lovell. The President has appointed Capt. Mansfield Lovell a Major-General in the Provisional Army of the Confederate States, to succeed Major-General Briggs in the command of the department comprised in the States of Louisiana and Mississippi, Gen. Lovell will have his headquarters at New Orleans, for which post he leaves Richmond this day.--General Lovell graduated at West Point in the class of 1842, with Generals G. W. Smith, Van-Dorn, Longstreet, Hill, (of Big Bethel fame,) Anderson, (who led the assault lately on Santa Rosa Island,) and with such other distinguished men of our army as Lay and McLaws. In the same class graduated Rosencranz, Pope, Doubleday, Sykes, and S. Williams, of the Northern army. General Lovell served through the whole of the Mexican war, part of the time with General Taylor and part of it with General Scott. He was there distinguished as a most gallant and skillful artillery officer, on the staff of General Quitman, who won fame as
The Daily Dispatch: October 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], Suspected. (search)
Comfort Hotel, as they were too much debilitated to proceed further, at least for the present. Of the funds contributed by the Tenth New York regiment, at Newport News, were distributed to the soldiers who reached here — the sum of two dollars each — as follows: Shaler, McKensie, J. Malone, C. Dunn, Sergeant Donett, Wm. Hanlon, J. Butler, R. M. Pratt, W. A. Woodbury, McHenry, A. Whitehouse, Fagen, N. Brown, Feinald, Woolenwoom, Mout, Kliner, Swift, Rowe, Mclutosh, Shurtliff, Shepard, Briggs, Maine, Mould, Bolly, Silby, Lieut. Harvey Rockafellar, Lieutenant commanding. When the boat left Newport News, the Tenth gave many cheers for the sick and wounded, and for the success of the Stars and Stripes. Treatment of prisoners. All the wounded who reached here, agree in the statement that they were treated more like caged beasts than human beings, and the first salutation in the morning, as well as the sentinel's cry at night, was "Death to the — Yankees." The only ki<
The Daily Dispatch: October 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], An interesting Incident — a soldier who was stolen from home when a child Discovers his parents. (search)
nlisted in Medina county, where the company was formed, under the name of John Gruff. His history is a little peculiar. He remembers that he was stolen from his home and parents when about ten years of age, but where that home was, or who were his parents, he was totally ignorant up to yesterday. He remembers being taken away several miles by a man, from whom he escaped. While wandering about, not knowing where, he was taken up as a vagrant and sent to a poor house. A man by the name of Briggs, of Westfield, Medina county, took him from the poor-house and gave him employment. He worked for several persons subsequently, remaining for five years in the employment of one Dean, in Lafayette, Medina county. How he came by the name of Jno. Gruff he cannot tell. He thinks it was given him at the poor-house. He enlisted in the above regiment and came to Camp Wade. Yesterday morning, while wandering about on the heights, in the neighborhood of the Oak Grove house, he remarked that
The Daily Dispatch: November 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 23 (search)
lts. From Mrs. Harmony, Baptist Church, McMinn county, Tenn.--29 blankets, 11 bed-quilts, 9 sheets. 4 pillows, 61 slips. From Walnut Grove, Green county, Tenn.--6 blankets, 14 bed- quilts, 4 pillows. From New Canton, Hawkins county, Tenn.--30 blankets, 16 towels, 21 sheets, 17 comforts. From Mrs. Sarah E. Colloutry, Knox county, Tenn.--2 blankets, 3 quilts, 2 pillows. From Mrs. Donaldson and Mrs. Harton, Benton, Tenn.--8 bed-quilts, 4 blankets, 1 sheet. From Mrs. Briggs, Mrs. Hannah, and Mrs. Wallick, Benton, Tenn.--19 bed-quilts, 6 blankets, 3 sheets, 10 pillows. From Mrs. Nancy Gooch and Mrs. M. J. Bagby, East Tennessee--6 pillows, 2 sheets. From the ladies of Murfreesboro, Tenn.--18 quilts, 11 blankets. From Mrs. Julia Lany, Greensville, Tenn.--17 blankets, 6 pillows. From Mrs. L. Bradford, Mrs. W. J. Moore, Mrs. N. Hood and other ladies of Dandridge, Tenn.--16 bed quilts, 37 blankets. From ladies of New Providence, Tenn.--13
The Daily Dispatch: February 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], Affairs at the South. (search)
errified should be shipped to New England, where the doctrine of non-resistance is fulminated by crazed enthusiasts from a thousand pulpits. Gen. Beauregard The Richmond correspondent of the Memphis Appeal writes: I learn from Centreville that Gen. Beauregard expects to return to the army of the Potomac in two months from this time, and that be only consented to assume the command in Kentucky upon condition that he should be allowed to come back to his old companions-in-arms in time for the opening of the spring campaign. He has not forgotten his promise to "the prettiest girl of Baltimore," that he would plant the battle flag, wrought by her fair fingers, upon the top of the Washington monument in that city. A Suspected spy. A man named Briggs, who has been a constant attendant on the telegraph office at Charleston, S. C., during the past week, and who is an expert operator himself, was, a few days since, arrested in that city on suspicion of being a spy.
The Daily Dispatch: March 8, 1862., [Electronic resource], Convulsions in America. (search)
s, the grand object of which is to render trivialities important and nobodies illustrious. All timorous candidates for celebrity may learn from these chronicles that no American need think himself too insignificant to figure in the annals of his country. The materials for history now in course of preparation. In speeches and newspapers, are equally authentic, and much more entertaining. The bulletin and telegrams are frequently as comic as anything in Punch. The sporting enterprises of Mr. Briggs are not more amusing than the military exhibitions of Jonathan. And the clever creation of Dickens--Mr. Jefferson Brick--who has been accepted as a caricature, proves to be a faithful and even flattering portrait of that most indefatigable of modern American fictionist, the War Correspondent. We admit that there is a serious and even tragic side to the aspect of American affairs, but it is not what commonly passes for such. It is not in the dissolution of a system that had become r
The Daily Dispatch: June 10, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 17 (search)
ly over the field to find Gen Couch, that he might get an order for the Tenth to move, and so save it. But the gallant fellow's exertions were vain. Gen. Couch was in the thick of the struggle on the right too far away to be reached in time. Col. Briggs was informed of the approach of this body; but as he know the position that Peck's regiments had held, he deemed the report incredible, and want into the woods to see. He had not far to go. There they were, not only in the woods, but through idier-General Devens received a bullet in the right leg, but kept the field for two hours after it. Brig. Gen. We was struck by a ball in the shoulder, but not disabled. A musket ball passed across Gen. Couch's breast and only cut his coat. Colonel Briggs, of the Massachusetts Tenth, was struck in three places, and disabled finally by a rifle ball that passed through both things Colonels Kiker, of the Sixty-second New York; Dodge, of the Eighty seventh New York; Valley, of the First New York A
The Daily Dispatch: December 19, 1865., [Electronic resource], Court of conciliation — Sine die Adjournment. (search)
Court of conciliation — Sine die Adjournment. --The following business was disposed of by this Court yesterday: The suits of Cross vs. Grubbs & Williams, Baldwin vs. Adams Express Company, James & Briggs vs. C. Hennington, and Cohen vs. Myers, were dismissed. In the case of Daniel Hunt vs. G. B. Sloat, judgment was rendered for the plaintiff for $130.62 and interest and costs. Clutter vs. Ferguson & Thompson. Case removed from the docket, to be hereafter discharged by Judge Green. The Court being ready finally to adjourn sine die, took occasion to spread upon its records its acknowledgments to Major-General Alfred H. Terry for the courtesy shown by him in his intercourse with them, and their thanks to the clerk, deputy clerk and sergeant for their uniform kindness and attention; and to express to the practitioners at their bar their gratification in the retrospect of their professional and social relations which have existed between them.
The Daily Dispatch: December 22, 1865., [Electronic resource], Christmas and Christmas presents. (search)
ween Main and Franklin streets, offer to the boys and girls a most beautiful assortment of plain and colored toy books, illustrated juvenile productions, and elegantly-bound works of the standard poets and authors for grown-up people. Sizer &Briggs, on Broad street, near the Central depot, propose to furnish their customers with the essential elements of a Christmas dinner. With this object in view, they have laid in a stock of dressed fowls, butter, eggs, apples, &c., to which we invite the attention of our readers. Mr. Briggs lost a leg in the Confederate service, and Mr. Sizer has been for a long time connected with the Central railroad. E. P. Townsend, at No. 102 Main street, has a large and well-selected assortment of chessboards and men handsome bibles and prayer books, photographic albums, writing desks and work boxes, suitable for both ladies and gentlemen. J. W. Davies & Sons are the proprietors of the Musical Exchange, on Main, near Tenth street. They have, b
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