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The Daily Dispatch: June 16, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
From Northern papers of Sunday, the 12th, we give some additional news: Grant's army — the flag of truce Burials — the Fourth of July to be Celebrated in Richmond A telegram from Dispatch Station, on the York River road, dated the 8th inst, announces the arrival there of two divisions of Grant's corps. They commenced the march about dawn that day. It says: It was three o'clock in the morning when the men began the march. When day dawned the rebels on the south side of the Chickahominy observed the moving column, and opened on it with two guns of very heavy calibre. Several men were injured while marching in the ranks. Col Hoffman's brigade, of the 4th division, immediately took possession of this side of the railroad bridge A barricade was thrown across the railroad about half a mile below this station. Between us and the rebels flows the Chickahominy, a singgish stream, bounded on either side by jungles and morasses, from which are continually missing da
The Daily Dispatch: June 20, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
New York papers, explaining the flank movements of Grant. An extract from a letter to the N. Y Times written on the Tuesday before the terrible repulse of Friday, June 1st, has the following strategical explanation: The present position of this army is the result of that fine turning movement, which, commencing on Thursday last, in two days planted our corps across the Pamunkey river, rendered useless the elaborate rebel defences of the South Anna, and secured, us communication with York river, the Chesapeake, and the ample resources which these waters float. Of this movement I have sent you such reports as it has been possible to send with such infrequent opportunities of communication as are afforded. I fear, however, that no reports which you can have received are at all adequate to set forth the true presentation of this great operation in strategy. Your readers would require better maps than can possibly be accessible to them, and would need to bring them to an amount of
The Daily Dispatch: June 27, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
nds. It is stated that our men mounted the breastworks and charged with impetuosity in the very face of the foe, killing and wounding a great number, and putting them to flight. In this affair 118 prisoners were captured, including Col Ilbey, of the 8th Pennsylvania regiment, one Lieutenant Colonel, and several other commissioned officers. One Lieutenant Colonel was killed, and another died of his wounds on Saturday. The prisoners arrived in Richmond yesterday, about 11 o'clock, by the York River train. They were a dirty, ragged looking set, their whole external appearance showing the effects of a disastrous campaign. None of our men were taken prisoners, and our loss in killed and wounded is comparatively small. Among the killed are Privates Lueius Davis, Jr., Grey, John B. Wagner, Cohoon, and Lieut. Baker, of the 10th Virginia; Capts. Dettor and Newham, of the same regiment, wounded; and Private Whitlock, of the 3d Virginia, mortally wounded. The location of this figh
The Daily Dispatch: August 27, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
d, near Bermuda Hundred, on Thursday. There were also two deserters, who came in to claim the privileges guaranteed in General Orders No. 65. The affair in which these men were captured was the one which we yesterday located near Chester station. Its object was only to feel the enemy's strength, which was satisfactorily accomplished, the Yankees being found in considerable force behind their works. Our loss was about thirty. The lines of battle were not engaged. It is stated that the Yankee Commanding General has established his headquarters at the Yellow Tavern, six miles from Petersburg, and about the centre of the fortified position on the Weldon railroad. From York river. We have a report that the enemy, who lately evacuated Gloucester Point has again appeared there in considerable force. The object of this movement is probably to rob the defenceless people of Gloucester, who have heretofore been subjected to all manner of outrage at the hands of the Yankees.
The Daily Dispatch: February 9, 1865., [Electronic resource], Disclosures by General Butler. (search)
ly defended as Fortress Monroe; a base not to be interfered with or lost while the war lasts, and where an army lies with its hand fastened upon the throat of the rebel capital. [Great cheering.] This proposition was submitted to General Grant and approved by him. This was done. On the 4th day of May the Army of the James, thirty-five thousand strong, with its artillery, its cavalry, and its supplies for thirty days, was put on board ship, and seemed at first to threaten the enemy up the York river, within thirty miles of their capital; but within twenty- four hours that army was within twelve miles of Richmond, where it has held its position ever since — a position to which it advanced without the shedding of a drop of blood. On the same day, the Army of the Potomac, under the command of General Meade, more than an hundred thousand strong, started from the Rapid Ann, also toward Richmond. I need not repeat what you all know of the history of the march of that army; but I h
The Daily Dispatch: March 17, 1865., [Electronic resource], Late Northern news. (search)
Pasopatanzy Creek, a few miles below Aquia Creek. The Don also accompanied the expedition to Fredericksburg as high up as Jones' Point, on Monday last, and fired a broadside into a party of rebels, who skedaddled. As was afterwards learned from a letter found on a prisoner, they had stationed Jones' Light Battery there, but the effect of the broadside caused the men to run and leave their pieces, which they did not attempt to get until the next day. The Don also paid a visit to York river and gained much information of value. A party was set ashore at West Point, which was found to be deserted of men, a few women remaining. Here they were just too late to capture Colonel Richardson, of Lee's Staff, and four soldiers, who had just left there — they having vamoosed just as the Don hove in sight. Sherman's movements. A dispatch from Washington to the Baltimore American, dated the 11th inst., says: A letter dated Wilmington, March 6th, was received here to day,
The Daily Dispatch: March 22, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
the enemy, supposed to be Kantz's cavalry, drove in our pickets posted near Old Church, in the lower end of Hanover county, fifteen miles northeast of Richmond. Yesterday morning, our cavalry advanced and re-established our picket posts. Kantz was sent round to this section of country to cover the retreat of Sheridan's raiders, who, we learn upon good authority, were too fagged and jaded by their long and wearisome excursion to take care of themselves. Their track, from Fluvanna to the York river, is thickly strewn with the carcasses of their worn-out horses. We had apprehended that Sheridan would soon be at work on our lines of communication south of Richmond; but from what we learn of the condition of his command, men and beasts, some considerable time must elapse before it will again be fit for field operations. On Monday evening, between 2 and 3 o'clock, our batteries on the Jerusalem plankroad, near Petersburg, opened upon the Yankee observatory recently erected on the A
The Daily Dispatch: December 14, 1865., [Electronic resource], Cholera Abating. (search)
of this Company embraces the reports of the President, Auditor and Superintendent, together with the proceedings of the meeting held on the 12th of September last. The report of the President, Mr. A. S. Buford, gives a brief history of the past year and a statement of the financial condition of the road, its earnings and its liabilities. The condition of the road way and rolling stock is also ably set forth. He also states that it is under consideration to alter the gauge of the York River road to the same gauge as that of the Richmond and Danville, and to connect these two roads through the lower part of the city. A corresponding change of gauge in the Piedmont road is deemed of vital importance. The Auditor's report is a tabular statement of the financial condition of the road. The report of the Superintendent, Mr. Thomas Dodamead, shows that great energy and skill have been devoted to the repair of the road since it was turned over to the Company by the United
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