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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 3 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: July 5, 1862., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1861, August (search)
letin, August 2. New Orleans papers state that a naval engagement took place this day at the mouth of the Mississippi River between the U. S. frigate Niagara and the little Confederate privateer J. O. Nixon; and that, after an action of twenty minutes, the Niagara crowded on every inch of canvas she could use, and made regular Manassas-time seaward. --(Doc. 150.) The Onondaga County Cavalry, Capt. Moschell, departed from Syracuse, N. Y., for Washington at 10.20 to-night, to join Col. Van Alen's Cavalry Regiment. The company is 80 strong, and is composed of the very best material. A young bride, Mrs. Cook, accompanies them as a daughter of the regiment.--Baltimore American, August 3. The Secretary of War at Washington directed the commandant of the forces at Alexandria, Va., that from this day all slaves now in prison at that post be liberated, and that they may be employed on the fortifications and military works, and be paid for as day-laborers in the service of the G
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1862, June (search)
June 14. Capt. Craven, of the United States steam sloop Brooklyn, sent a marine guard and party of seamen, numbering in all about one hundred men, under command of Lieut. Lowry, to Bayou Sara, Louisiana, for the purpose of destroying the telegraph apparatus and cutting the wires. After an absence of two hours, Lieut. Lowry returned to the ship, having accomplished his work. (Doc. 133.) General James H. Van Alen, Military Governor of Yorktown, Va., issued an order directing that all negroes in his department, contraband or otherwise, should be under the immediate charge and control of the Provost-Marshal--that they be allowed full liberty, etc. Captain Atkison, of company C, of the Fiftieth Indiana volunteers, with twenty men, captured six thousand two hundred pounds of powder at Sycamore Mills, thirty miles below Nashville, Tenn., and five miles north of the Cumberland River. The company also stopped at Fort Zollicoffer, and brought off a gun.
The Daily Dispatch: July 5, 1862., [Electronic resource], The battle of the 23th of June. (search)
to be daprived of, nor be detained unnecessarity from, their regular meals at any time, and will adopt such other measures and regulations as may be demanded by equity and justice, to secure the welfare and comfort of the negro population generally. It is further specially ordered, that when not so on duty, all the negroes be allowed full liberty to enjoy their innocent amusements without any illegal or improper interruption or molestation from any source whatever. By order of, James H. Van Alen, Brigadier-General and Military Governor. Cyrus S. Haldeman, Ass't Adjt.-Gen. Pierre Soule in Fort Lafayette. A Northern paper gives the following account of the committal of Hon. Pierre Soule, of New Orleans, to Fort Lafavette: Yesterday, at 12 ½ o'clock, U. S. Marshal Murray received a telegraphic dispatch from Washington, directing him to commit Pierre Soule and Adolph Mazureau, who arrived as prisoners on the Ocean Queen from New Orleans, on Wednesday, to the custo