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The Daily Dispatch: December 24, 1864., [Electronic resource], Confederate account of the battle of Franklin. (search)
Confederate Congress. Senate. Thursday,December 23, 1864. The Senate was not in session to-day, it having adjourned over to Monday. House of Representatives. The House met at 12 o'clock. Prayer by Rev. Dr. Doggett. The House resolved itself into secret session; and the doors being re-opened, went into Committee of the Whole on the currency bill. After the adoption of several amendments, the committee rose and the chairman reported the bill to the House with a recommendation that it do pass. On motion, the House adjourned.
Two Hundred Dollars reward. --Ran away from Mrs. Lucy C. Binford, on the 21st instant, Lucinda; a dark brown negro woman, aged about twenty years; of medium size. She wore away a dark red calico dress, with black sack. She took away considerable clothing. She was raised in Hanover county, at the head of the Mechanicville turnpike road, and may be lurking in that neighborhood or about Richmond. I will pay the above reward of two Hundred Dollars for her delivery to me, or to Hill, Dickinson & Co., Auctioneers, Richmond. J. B. Keesee, Administrator of William A. Binford. Henrico county, December 23, 1864. de 24--3t
ck before them till within a mile of Gordonsville, made a stand about eleven o'clock yesterday morning, and after a fight of an hour and a half, repulsed and drove back the enemy, the latter suffering severely. The following official dispatch, received last night, gives an account of the affair, and also details the enemy's preliminary movements. It will be seen that one coil of the anaconda that encircles the Confederacy is broken: "Headquarters Army of Northern Virginia, "December 23, 1864. "Hon. James A. Seddon, Secretary of War: "On the 20th, General Early reported one division of the enemy's cavalry, under General Custar, coming up the Valley, and two divisions, under General Torbert, moving through Chester gap, with four pieces of artillery and thirty wagons. "On the 22d, Rosser attacked Custar's division nine miles from Harrisonburg, and drove it back, capturing forty prisoners. "This morning, Torbert attacked Lomax near Gordonsville, and was repulse