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The Daily Dispatch: February 7, 1865., [Electronic resource], General Hood. (search)
General Hood. --General Hood arrived in Augusta, Georgia, on Wednesday, and on Thursday night, in- response to the calls of a large assemblage of citizens, he made a short speech. He was hopeful and confident.
The Daily Dispatch: March 6, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
nce of the burning of Columbia, South Carolina, on the 24th instant. After the town had been taken possession of by Slocum's corps, some of our troops were fired on from the houses and some seventeen men killed, on account of which General Sherman ordered the town to be burned, which order was carried out to the letter. Deserters are constantly arriving in Charleston. About two hundred and seventy arrived within the last day or two, who confirm the report of the evacuation of Augusta, Georgia, and its occupation by our troops. A letter from Charleston says: Governor Aiken, Hon. Mr. Williams and Dr. Mackey, assisted by Captain Fowler, commissary, are busily engaged in distributing supplies to the needy and destitute of the city, and are enabled by the stores left by the rebels to alleviate, in a small degree, their immediate wants. The main supply they have is rice, which is nutritious, but hardly the thing to feed a person on for any length of time. Such other a
The Daily Dispatch: March 28, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
From Savannah. --In the Augusta (Georgia) Constitutionalist we find the annexed Savannah news: "Eggs are selling at $1.50 per dozen; flour, $16 to $18 per barrel; Irish potatoes, $4 per barrel. "Stringent orders have been issued against all letters, newspapers, and other documents, being sent without the city. "Negro soldiers are being enlisted and actively drilled. "The cashiers of the Bank of the State of Georgia and the Central Railroad Bank are wanted at the Provost-Marshal's office. "Last week was a continuous succession of rain and thunder storms. "Professor Wiegand, formerly of this city, is 'tooting' his horn for the Yankees. "The small pox is prevailing. "The price of gas is fixed by the military order at $6 per one thousand feet."
The Daily Dispatch: March 30, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Special notice. --If parties having claims against Government for value of Slaves impressed by, or hired to, the Confederate authorities, which have died or escaped to the enemy while engaged in labor upon the defences, or other public works, or which have contracted diseases or received injuries while so engaged (resulting fatally after discharge), will send such claims to this office by the 1st of May, they may be sent by safe private hand to Augusta, Georgia, where the Slave-Claim Board will resume its sessions. John B. Stanard, Captain of Engineers, &c. mh 30--cod4w
The Daily Dispatch: December 15, 1865., [Electronic resource], General Breckinridge. (search)
General Breckinridge. --Mr. M. C. Bruce, formerly a member of the rebel Congress from Kentucky, now a commission merchant at Augusta, Georgia, denies that he has given the sum of one hundred thousand dollars to General John C. Breckinridge. He says that General Breckinridge is now living comfortably in Canada, and is not in need of such a gift.
The Daily Dispatch: December 21, 1865., [Electronic resource], President's message.--General Grant's report. (search)
s could be reduced, and expenses curtailed, etc., and to learn as far as possible the feelings and intentions of the citizens of those States towards the General Government. The State of Virginia being so accessible to Washington city, and information from this quarter, therefore, being readily obtained, I hastened through the State without conversing or meeting with any of its citizens. In Raleigh, North Carolina, I spent one day; in Charleston, South Carolina, two days: Savannah and Augusta, Georgia, each one day. Both in travelling and whilst stopping, I saw much and conversed freely with the citizens of those States, as well as with officers of the army who have been stationed among them. The following are the conclusions come to by me: I am satisfied that the mass of thinking men of the South accept the present situation of affairs in good faith. The questions which have heretofore divided the sentiments of the people of the two sections — slavery and State rights, or the
The Daily Dispatch: December 25, 1865., [Electronic resource], A horse Thief sent to the penitentiary. (search)
The Augusta (Georgia) Chronicle says that a son of John C. Breckinridge is a clerk in the banking-house of E. M. Bruce & Co., of that city. The Chronicle adds: "Upon inquiring, we found that he was not only supporting himself, but by his industry and frugality was able to contribute to the support of his illustrious father and his young family, while the former was compelled to remain an exile from his native Kentucky.
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