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The Daily Dispatch: December 23, 1862., [Electronic resource], Highly Important from the North. (search)
Important from the North. Petersburg, Dec. 22. --Norfolk dates to the 26th are received by the Express, furnishing Northern dates to the 18th and 19th. The New York World concedes the most terrible defeat of the war at Fredericksburg, and says the loss will rather exceed than come under 15,500, previously stated. Meagher's brigade went in 1,200 strong, and but 200 could be found the next morning. Other brigades suffered as much. The World says, editorially: "Heaven help us. There seems to be no help in man. Our cause is perishing — hope after hope has vanished — and now the only prospect is the very blackness of despair. Here we are reeling back from the third campaign upon Richmond--15,000 of the Grand Army sacrificed at one sweep, and the real escaping only by a hair's breadth." The World says the army will now go into winter quarters, because it can't go anywhere else. A telegram from Cairo says that the iron-clad ram Cairo was blown up, 30 miles
The Daily Dispatch: December 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], Latest from the North. (search)
Second Army Corps will appal the public, says the writer, and yet in the summary I sent you to night I put it a thousand less than its commander does. Hancock lost over half his command, and he feels deeply the fate of his noble men. Caldwell, Meagher, and Zook, who led brigades, did their work well. Before going into action Meagher addressed his brigade, exhorting them to stand firm, and promising them that he would share with them the privilege of being the last to leave the field. That tMeagher addressed his brigade, exhorting them to stand firm, and promising them that he would share with them the privilege of being the last to leave the field. That they did stand firm we knew yesterday, when two hundred and fifty nations were all that were required for the brigade, which went into action twelve hundred strong. The World says, editorially, that no further effort to reach Richmond will be made by Burnside's army at present, and that it will go into winter quarters because it can do nothing else. Dispatch from Burnside. Washington. Dec. 17. --The following dispatch from Gen Burnside was received here last evening: Hdq'
The Daily Dispatch: December 30, 1862., [Electronic resource], Still Later from the North. (search)
through the courtesy of Maj. Norris, of the Signal Corps, Northern papers of the 27th. They contain very dull accounts of Christmas. In New York everything was quiet — in Philadelphia the same case, and in Washington it would have been so, too, but for a visit from "President" Lincoln to the wounded soldiers, who were much cheered thereby and the "President" much gratified. Christmas day in New York was on livened by the funeral of several officers of the Irish Brigade, attended by Brig. Gen. Meagher and others. It was doubtless a cheering scene. The correspondence from the army shows the army to be still (or a part of it,) at Falmouth, the letter-writers declaring that Burnside is a commander of "dash," but his "dash" falled through an accident. Mr. Upsher, of Indians, it is said, It to be the successor of Mr. Smith, as Secretary of the Department of the Interior. The New York Herald is now very anxious to know the results of the North Carolina expedition. It don't th
The Daily Dispatch: January 12, 1863., [Electronic resource], Eastern North Carolina. (search)
our friends, our benefactors. Ireland has no quarrel with either, but is bound to both with the atronqeataties of affection and of interest. The Irish has contributed largely to the people of the Southern as well as of the Northern States; and the Irish in America, like all other American citizens have to take part in this war with the States of which they happened to be residents. The most honored and trusted of our political exiles are upon opposite sides — Mitchell is with the South, Meagher with the North. --Williams and Honey have died since the war broke out — the one a soldier of the South, the other leaving his sense in arms for the North.--Those noble hear is new cold in American graves, surely both of from turned with the most intense love for Ireland! In she it, it is a war between States and populations who are all allied to us by blood, who are all to our eternal gratitude by the munificent chastity with which they strove to feed our people when starving under t
The Daily Dispatch: January 22, 1863., [Electronic resource], Late Northern, News. (search)
l except some New England States. Some of them predict peace as early as next June. Requiem mass for the Fallen of the Irish brigade. A requiem mass was said at the cathedral in New York on the 16th inst, for the souls of the Irish of Meagher's brigade, who sacked the city of Fredericksburg and paid for it with their lives the next day. An immense congregation was present. The scene is thus described by the New York Herald: The cathedral was itself a monument of sorrow clad inines. Two officers office stated as sentinels An immense crowd of people had early gathered, and speedily filled up the pews and crowded the states. A little after ten o'clock several officers the Irish brigade passed up the side. Brig. Gen'l Meagher heading the cortege, followed immediately by the gallant Nugent, presenting in worn looks and a halting step the proofs of his valor and devotion to country on the ensanguined field of Fredericksburg. Who more honorably or characteristica
The Daily Dispatch: April 7, 1863., [Electronic resource], Latest from the North. (search)
d Wilcox now the opposite United States and Banks Fords. Fitzhugh Loe, with 2,600 picked cavalry, is near Chiperer Court House, ready to march at a moment's notice. The Yankee pickets report that they were attacked at Banks Ford on the 24th. On Friday, the 27th, large crowds, with a "sprinkling of ladies," under Hooker's permit attended the sports of "racing and trotting, burder rangs lumping ditches and other feats." Those "manly" sports are very popular, and wore inaugurated by General Meagher. [We are not surprised that the Yankees are practicing running. Since Bull Run they have always excited in this "manly" sport.] The Herald has an editorial on the slave trade — It says the rebel Secretary of State's dispatch to Mr. La relates to the perspective opening of the African slave trade, and discloses the fact that the Confederacy is likely to encounter a great deal of embarrassment from the susceptibility of foreign nations on this subject. " "It seems now that forei
The Daily Dispatch: May 19, 1863., [Electronic resource], Newbern Items. (search)
In a letter to Major-Gen. Hancock, General Meagher has resigned his commission, upon the ground that his command is reduced to a mere handful and that he cannot recruit his brigade. The California overland telegraph has paid its original cost back to the stockholders, within the first year, and now makes money so fast that the proprietors are troubled what to do with it. Two Federal paroled deserters, a few nights since, knocked down a negro in Jackson, Miss., and robbed him of $100. There are barely 3,500 Yankee troops in and about New Orleans. The passes on Lake Pontchartrain are guarded by only 150 men. The new Confederate flag was raised on Fort Sumter on the 16th inst. A severe hall storm passed over a portion of Abbeville District, S. C., a few days since. The mercury at Macon, May 9th, stood at 53. Cool for the season.
The Daily Dispatch: June 1, 1863., [Electronic resource], Foreigners at the North. (search)
Foreigners at the North. Foreigners do not seem entirely satisfied with their treatment at the North, and enlistments among them do not thrive so well as in the beginning of the war. Meagher, being unable to recruit his regiment, which had been nearly all slaughtered, resigned his office with evident dissatisfaction at the manner he and his men had been treated. But the best indication of the growing reluctance of foreigners to enter the Federal army is afforded by the proclamation which Lincoln has recently published, giving sixty-five days notice to all foreigners who have recorded their intention to become citizens of the United States that after that period they will be liable to military duty, and no plea of alienage will exempt them. We have before us the Irish American, of New York, which is very sarcastic upon this document. It is satisfied the paper is Lincoln's own — the whereases shew the country lawyer, etc.--concluding its remarks thus: "It is a two months n
The Daily Dispatch: July 11, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
fort was made to divide the army and penetrate to the hill over a rising sweep of ground, extending down in a less sloping manner and affording a better progress to troops advancing up the hill. But they sadly mistook this point of attack. General Meagher, wounded though he was, was there with his brigade. As the battle grew warm, General Griffin, until recently in command of Griffin's Battery, who had, during the idleness of the infantry, again taken his accustomed place, directing one esh troops, and the courage of the whole army was at its best. The line of the enemy's attack was concentrating, and Gen. Porter rode in front of the army, ordering the two wings of Morrell and Sykes and Couch to concentrate, and withdrawing Meagher placed him in a position on the left to flank the approaching columns, with orders to charge at advantageous opportunities, and giving the same orders to Butterfield's brigade, of Morrell's division, and Col. Warren, of Gen. Sykes's, and to Gene
The Daily Dispatch: August 7, 1863., [Electronic resource], Good advice to the Irish. (search)
In Bishop Haghes's address to the Irish of his disease, who were supposed to have borne a conspicuous part in the late in New York, he said, among other things, --"Keep out of the crowd within which immortal souls are launched into eternity without a moment's notice." Now, that is just what the men who resisted the draft were trying to do. Bishop Hughes would have them keep out of a mob in which not a dozen Irishmen of that city were killed, and precipitate them into an assemblage like Meagher's brigade at Fredericksburg, and another Irish brigade at Gettysburg, in which scarcely a soul survived to tell the tale. Nothing could be wiser than the advice of Bishop Hughes, if applied to lawless assemblages of any kind — those on the Potomac and Mississippi, for example, as well as New York. In letters of gold it should be inscribed on every recruiting office in the North, and echoed from every pulpit in Ireland, "Keep out of the crowd within which immortal souls are landed into
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