Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: November 9, 1863., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Bragg or search for Bragg in all documents.

Your search returned 5 results in 5 document sections:

The Daily Dispatch: November 9, 1863., [Electronic resource], The cause of Morgan's raid into Ohio. (search)
eason for Gen. Morgan's raid into Ohio which we have yet seen. He says: Burnside becoming alarmed for fear of a formidable invasion of Kentucky under Buckner — for we had reported ourselves as his advance guard — put his whole force on our track, and moved all of his supplies back to Camp Dick Robinson. It therefore was just as safe for as to go forward as return, and now our principal object was to keep as many troops employed and for so long a time as possible, in order to give General Bragg time to make good his retreat to Chattanooga. The strategy succeeded, and, instead of Burnside reaching Knoxville by the 9th of July, he did not get there until about the 9th of September.--The object of our expedition, therefore, was partially accomplished, and it was worth the sacrifice of all we lost, which was about fifteen hundred men and horses and two pieces of artillery. The same letter gives the reasons for Lieutenant-Colonel Alston's being paroled, it appears that he gai
The Daily Dispatch: November 9, 1863., [Electronic resource], Tall Swapping. (search)
Tall Swapping. --A letter from a private soldier, on picket duty in Gen. Bragg's army, states that a short time since he exchanged with a Yankee picket a solitary biscuirior a silver dollar, and that a Yankee Captain had made the magnificent offer of a fine overcoat for two biscuits.
The Daily Dispatch: November 9, 1863., [Electronic resource], Lieut. Gen. Polk acquitted of blame. (search)
Lieut. Gen. Polk acquitted of blame. Lieut-Gen. Polk has been acquitted of all blame in the Chickamauga mismanagement. The following is a copy of the letter written to him by President Davis: Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 29, 1863. Lieut.-Gen. Polk, Atlanta, Ga.: General — After an examination into the causes and circumstances attending your being relieved from command with the army commanded by Gen. Bragg, I have arrived at the conclusion that there is nothing to justify a Court-Martial or Court of Inquiry, and I therefore dismiss the application. Your appointment to a new field of duty, alike important and difficult, is the best evidence of my appreciation of your past services and expectation of your future career. I am very truly and respectfully yours, Jefferson Davis.
The Daily Dispatch: November 9, 1863., [Electronic resource], From Chattanooga. (search)
ey, Nov. 2d. The situation remains the same as at the date of my last letter. The enemy still holds Lookout Valley, Brown's Ferry, Raccoon Mountain, and the railroad and river from Bridgeport to a point within one mile of Lookout point. No further effort has been made to dislodge him since the unsuccessful attempt of Gen. Jenkins. Had the attack been made in sufficient force the day after the Federals got possession of the ferry and threw a bridge over the river, as it is reported Gen. Bragg ordered to be made, or even on the succeeding day, which was Wednesday, it is possible we might still have remained masters of the situation. But the assault was postponed until Wednesday night, and was then made by a single brigade. In the meantime, considerable reinforcements had arrived (Wednesday evening) from Bridgeport, and it was against these reinforcements, and not the forces at the ferry, that Jenkins's attack was directed. As was stated in a recent letter, the enemy now h
The Daily Dispatch: November 9, 1863., [Electronic resource], The President's tour through the South. (search)
er? Did we expect to make money by it? If so then he and others who, like him, had lost all — had seen the product of years swept away, had been woefully mistaken. But we had not gone into this war from any such ignoble motives, and no such narrow considerations ought to control appointments. Merit, and merit alone, should be the criterion. And merit had been found, and North Carolinians had received and now held a full proportion of the high positions in the army.--He here alluded to Gen. Bragg, a native son of North Carolina. If there were those who yielded to despondency, who despaired of the Republic, who were willing to submit to degradation, they were not to be found in the ranks of the army, where all was confidence and determination. Those who complained most were those who had made the fewest sacrifices, not the soldiers who had made the most. In the changing fortunes of war, we may for a time be driven back; but with a resolute purpose and united effort we wou