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Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War 1 1 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 7: Prisons and Hospitals. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 1 1 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 1: The Opening Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 1 1 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 1 1 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: July 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], Notice to our Subscribers. (search)
pret it to mean that they expect speedily to have to fall back upon Manassas Junction. The Freeborn again shells Mathias' Point. On Board the Freeborn, (Potomac River,) July 11.--This afternoon, Lieut. Lowry commanding, this vessel stood in to within a hundred and fifty yards of Mathias' Point, and treated the Secession troops, who were visible, peeping through the neighboring bushes and woods, to about twenty shells, some of which fell evidently among them, scattering them in differentee of the shells struck Grimes' house, tearing big holes through it. It is clear that there is no battery whatever at Mathias' Point. On our way up the river we found the enemy as busy as bees about Aquia Creek, passing in and out of their entrenchme numbers. [Our readers are referred to the first page of this paper for a more correct account of the affair at Mathias' Point, furnished by our own correspondent, a gentleman in every way reliable. His letter was received on Tuesday, but inad
The Daily Dispatch: July 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], Subscriptions to the Dispatch. (search)
Dunlop, for a breach of the blockade, and subsequently released on the application of the British Minister, on the way down to Hampton Roads, was in constant communication with the enemy, visiting various points in their possession upon the river, and transporting their men, (including a colonel) for them between those points. General Butler learning the fact has again seized her for a second breach of the blockade — for rendering assistance to the enemy. There are no batteries at Mathias' Point, or at any other point on the river, that we could perceive from the Guy's deck, though running in as close to the shore as convenient at every place where it was thought a battery might be. At a mile's distance from Aquia Creek certainly guns in no batteries were visible there. Arrival of A Prize. The steamer Mount Vernon arrived here at 8 o'clock this morning from Fortress Monroe. She brought up the Secession schooner Sallie Mears, captured by the gunboat Cambridge coming ou
The Daily Dispatch: July 22, 1861.., [Electronic resource], A base and wilful Liar. (search)
een called upon to engage, yet there are many who find themselves surrounded by such circumstances as render it next to impossible for them to leave their homes. Great indeed will be the sacrifice in many individual cases, but all personal interests and considerations must now be made to yield to the higher service we owe to our country. The various militia companies of the county will rendezvous at our Court-House on Monday next, where they will remain to await further orders. At Mathias' Point all has been quiet for the past ten or twelve days. There have been some cases of sickness among the soldiers there, but none have as yet proved fatal. A most melancholy accident occurred in our midst on Monday last Mr. Wm. J. W. Greer and C. H. Spilman, the former a resident of this county and Postmaster at Shiloah, the latter a son of Mr. Wm. L. Spilman of Westmoreland, while bathing with a party of other gentlemen in Rosier's Creek. were swept off by the current and drowned. Th
The Daily Dispatch: August 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], $100 reward (search)
e Tarith have been in session twenty-four hours, and are getting up a general bill, which will cover the whole ground. The correspondent of the Herald ventures the opinion that the Army of the Potomac will not be kept long idle. The reorganization of the army proceeds with great rapidity, and it is probable Gen. McClellan will-strike as soon as he is ready, regardless of weather. Julius Bing, a naturalized Englishman, who was captured at Bull Run, has returned via Richmond and Mathias' Point. He wanted to return via Centreville, but he thought the route was unsafe. Mr. Bing was a mere spectator of the fight. The Ellsworth Fire Zouaves were paid off to-day. Washington, August 1.--Gen. McClellan is examining to see if any incompetency yet remains in the army. Eighteen Regiments of the three months volunteers have left for home. Washington, August 1.--Congress will not adjourn this week. The House will kill the Senate's tariff bill and the Senate will kil
The Daily Dispatch: August 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ive the press, either by mail or telegraph, of any intelligence in relation to any matters, except actual results. Washington, Aug. 3.--Prince Napoleon was presented by Secretary Seward to-day with a grand dinner. Gen. Butler has arrived on a short business visit. Gen. Wool will assume the command of Fortress Monroe next week. A white flag has arrived, but its purpose is unknown. The correspondent of the Tribune says it is rumored that the Potomac is blockaded at Mathias' Point and Aquia Creek. Austin E. Smith, late Navy Agent at San Francisco, has been arrested for treason, and is confined at Fort Lafayette. Washington, Aug. 3.--In the House a bill to increase the efficiency of the topographical engineer corps was passed. The bill authorizing the President to dismiss all officers for incapacity, inefficiency, misconduct or neglect, elicited considerable debate, in the course of which Mr. Oliver said that Mr. Burnett was known to sympathize with
The Daily Dispatch: August 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], For hire. (search)
rested Monday, on the arrival of the Fredericksburg cars, as a suspicious charter, by detectives Maccubbin and Goolrick. From Day's own statement, it appeared that he came from North Carolina, with an improved model of a cannon, which he designed to show to the War Department. Without any special encouragement from that arm of the service, he had, on his own hook, undertaken an exploration of the several camps in the neighborhood of Fredericksburg, examined the defensive works, &c., at Mathias' Point, and other places, and was on his return here, when his purse underwent a collapse. Nothing daunted, he got on at Fredericksburg, and by insisting (falsely, as he acknowledged,) that he had paid for a ticket at that station, he was enabled to reach Richmond, not, however without exciting a doubt as to his honesty, and causing him to be looked upon as a suspicious character, and be arrested on his arrival. On his arraignment on Monday, he requested the Mayor to telegraph to a party in G
The Daily Dispatch: August 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], Hospital supplies for the Army of the Northwest. (search)
ebels by Benedict, Leonard and other places. Their rowboat (immediately after the passage of the Government steamer up the Potomac) passes across the river to Mathias Point and other places of rendezvous. If Mathias Point is allowed to be fortified much longer it will be impregnable, and the Potomac will be closed. Then a riMathias Point is allowed to be fortified much longer it will be impregnable, and the Potomac will be closed. Then a rising in Maryland and burning of bridges cut us off from Washington; and all this Davis promises his Baltimore friends shall take place in a fortnight. Now this Mathias Point can be taken by two or three regiments with the loss of one hundred men, and held by the aid of two or three steamers. Two weeks hence it cannot be tMathias Point can be taken by two or three regiments with the loss of one hundred men, and held by the aid of two or three steamers. Two weeks hence it cannot be taken with a loss of one thousand men, and no steamers can approach to aid the attack, as they are erecting formidable batteries of rifled cannon. The Blight of Abolitionism. The New York correspondent of the New Orleans Picayune, in a letter dated August 3d, adverts to the infamous falsehoods published by the Abolition pre
The Daily Dispatch: August 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway (search)
War Matters. It was stated yesterday that the rumor of a capture of Federal troops near Leesburg, by Gen. Evans, of the Confederate army, had been confirmed by dispatches received at the War Department, A report was brought down by the Central cars that a long train of baggage wagons had started for the scene of action to bring in the captured stores. We have endeavored to ascertain the truth of the matter, and the result has not confirmed any previous report or rumor. Mathias Point, on the Potomac, is now watched with the almost vigilance by the Federalists. The propeller Resolute has been hovering about there, and, as we learn from the Yankee papers, has succeeded in carrying off a number of negroes, from plantations along the river. The Fredericksburg train, yesterday morning, brought us the following intelligence: A boat belonging to the Federal steaming Resolute, containing six men, attempted to race near Mathias to-day, (Aug. 15,) when she was fired into by a
The Daily Dispatch: August 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], Subscriptions to the Dispatch. (search)
The News. Our columns are filled this morning with interesting intelligence from all quarters.--We are compelled to defer the publication of many extracts and communications. The leading topic of street conversation since Saturday morning has been the prospect for the fact of a recognition of the Confederate Government by England and France. We do not know that any official assurance to this effect has been received by the authorities, but a report of this nature is in general circulation. We refer our readers to the copious extracts from European journals, which, it will be seen, plainly foreshadow a probable demonstration. The skirmish at Mathias' Point, of which we gave an account on Saturday, is confirmed by advices from Washington. There is no truth in the rumor that Hon. A R. Boteler was wounded in the Manassas battle. It was his son.
The Daily Dispatch: August 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], Affairs in Missouri. (search)
A report confirmed Washington, Aug. 17. --Six Federals from the Resolute, in attempting to land at Mathias Point, were fired on, and four of them killed.
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