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The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
States navy. Admiral Franklin Buchanan, who was wounded and captured in the engagement, was the only officer of that rank in the navy. He was born in Maryland, and appointed from that State. He originally entered the naval service of the United States on the 28th of January, 1815, and served at sea twenty-one years and five months, and on shore nine years. After the secession of the Southern States he resigned his commission, entered the service of the Confederate States on the 5th of September, 1861, and received his present commission on the 21st of August, 1862. From Petersburg. Advices from Petersburg state that Grant has sent two corps of his army away, and is sending more; and, by way of confirmation, we have intelligence from the Northern Neck which represents that, as late as Monday last, a large fleet of transports was seen on Chesapeake Bay moving in the direction of Washington. These facts go far to show that the campaign on the James and Appomattox is virt