This text is part of:
Table of Contents:
Judge Thompson, Dr. Alfred Hughes, and Wm. F. Gosherm, recently arrested in Wheeling for political offences, have been sent to Camp Chase to be confined there. The ladies of the Atlanta Hospital Association have presented Col. John A. Morgan with a beautiful cane. The gentlemen ought to present him with a sword. Colonel Daniel W. Adams, lately commanding the First Louisiana Regulars, has been prompted to the grade of Brigadier-General Confederate States Army. Owing to various disasters, among them the recent heavy and continued rains, the harvest in Georgia, it is said, reveals a remarkably short trop of wheat. Edward Everett is camping it through the West, haranguing the people on ‘"the origin and character of the war."’ Peter German, a well-known Government contractor, died suddenly in Washington on the 7th inst. The tax bill, which has passed the Federal Senate, will give it is computed, about a hundred and twenty million dollars. Gen. McDowell was flourishing about Washington, with his staff, on the 6th inst. So he has not been sent to Fort Lafayette. One of the Federal commanding is named General Hooker, Nearly all the Yankee army is composed of ‘"general hooker."’
The Daily Dispatch: June 17, 1862. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. June 17, 1862. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.
Institute of Museum and Library Services national Leadership Grant provided support for entering this text.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.