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The Daily Dispatch: September 25, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the North. (search)
y a man in the whole Yankee army, from Halleck at Washington down to the lowest corporal in the most remote part of the Confederacy, who has not, in his time, had the pleasure of breaking this extraordinary backbone. But the man who, according to the Herald, has performed that feat the oftenest and with the most entire success, is its "skedaddling" hero, McClellan. This mighty man of war cannot put down his illustrious foot without shattering the backbone in question. When he landed at Old Point Comfort, with 158,000 men at his back, "the backbone of the rebellion is broken," shouted the enraptured Bennett. When he appeared before McGruder's lines, defended by 11,000 men, at the head of his prodigious host, and instead of carrying them by assault, commenced throwing up dirt to screen him from attack, "the backbone of the rebellion is broken" again for the hundredth time, cried the enthusiastic chronicler of McClellan's achievements. When General Johnston evacuated York, without
The Daily Dispatch: October 15, 1862., [Electronic resource], Affairs in Norfolk. (search)
Affairs in Norfolk. A gentleman who left Norfolk on Saturday last says the citizens there are suffering great privations. He furnishes the Petersburg Express with the following statement of the condition of things there: All merchandize is stopped at Old Point, where the vessels discharge cargo, and what little is allowed to proceed to Norfolk has to be re-shipped and sent up to the city in small tugs, always under guard. Country people are restricted to three pounds of coffee per week, a small quantity of sugar, salt, flour, bacon, etc. Every market cart which leaves the city is subjected to a strict search by the Federal pickets at the corporate limits, and if an excess of any article named by the military authorities be found the whole is confiscated, the driver reprimanded, and, in some instances, ordered to the guard-house Confederate money is not allowed to be circulated; notes of Virginia, North Carolina, and other States of the Confederacy, are very scarce, and at
The Daily Dispatch: December 4, 1862., [Electronic resource], A skirmish in Hampshire-County — Federal Brigadier General killed. (search)
Appeal in Behalf of the 320 Va. Reg't. This regiment, which has been hard service and much suffering, it will be remembered, comes from the Peninsula between, Williamsburg and Old Point. Their friends and relatives are now refugees themselves, and unable, therefore, to render the aid sought in their behalf. The noble soldiers composing this gallant regiment would be much cheered and comforted by donations of clothing — sheets, gloves, blankets, and overcoats, and other articles, (say under clothing,) so necessary and desirable at this season. It wrought nobly in the hard fought battles in defence of the Capital, and its gallantry at Sharpsburg, where it and the 15th Virginia accomplished, according to the declaration said to have been made by Gen'l Stuart has much as would have been expected of a division, has been the theme of all plaice. The homes they left at their country's call are in ruins. "The blackness of ashes" alone marks the spots where once mood t
The Daily Dispatch: December 9, 1862., [Electronic resource], Attack on our pickets — affairs on the Peninsula. (search)
ore of Maryland, with troops to be landed there, to keep the Virginians down and guard the two counties on that side the Chesapeake; but, lo and behold! the Marylanders refused to go on shore, stating "that they would not fight against Virginia, and that they had only been enrolled as a home guard." The commander of the steamer could neither persuade nor force them ashore, so he had to telegraph to Fortress Monroe to know what to do. After waiting two days, a steam tug was dispatched from Old Point with orders to scald them ashore, which order was executed by running the tug along-side the steamboat, and, through pipes, throwing boiling water on the poor soldiers. So, I suppose, when they are ordered into action, one of Lincoln's machines will be brought on the field to force them to fight. Yesterday some of a gang of Irish laborers, sent here by our Government to put a raft of lumber on the cars, broke into one of the cabins of Gen. Lee's old servants and stole several pairs o
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