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The Daily Dispatch: December 30, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Tennessee army and its (search)
The Tennessee army and its [from our own Correspondent.] Thomaston, Ga., Dec. 23, 1863. I proceed, in accordance with a previous to furnish you with a series of sketches of the officers attached to this army. But let us first take a glance at the Army of Tennessee. The army itself is composed of quite as good material as the Army of Northern Virginia, though it has not been near so successful. The original Army of the Potomac--the army that fought the first battle of Manassas--was made up chiefly from the volunteer companies in the towns and cities, and was composed of young men of ardent temperaments and great military pride and spirit. A majority of these men have fallen victims to battle and disease, but they lived long enough to make their impress upon the army, and to set an example to their of courage, of heroic endeavor, and asprit d'corps, which has reproduced itself in every battle in which they have been engaged. A large proportion of the soldiers of
The Daily Dispatch: December 30, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Government Clerks. (search)
The Government Clerks. Treasury Department, C. S.,Second Auditor's Office, Dec. 23, 1863. To the Editor of the Dispatch. On looking over your paper of this date, I find the following as a part of the proceedings of the Senate of the Confederate Congress, to wit: "Mr. Clark, of Mo., presented a petition of the Government officials in Richmond for an increase of compensation," &c.; and you go on to say that the bill accompanying the petition provides among other things, that each civil officer therein mentioned shall be allowed "to draw clothing and valions for themselves and each member of their respective families." This is a great injustice to these starving petitioners, and a mischievous misapprehension of the truth. The bill provides that the civil officers therein referred to shall money (if their present miserable salaries in the currency in which they are paid, less than ten cents in the dollar, will enable them to do so) a soldiers' ration a day each for