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The Daily Dispatch: October 18, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
f the James, but were driven off by shells from our gunboats. Cox wharf is immediately this side of Dutch gap, and it is likely the enemy would desire very much to put a column across the river at this point, as by so doing they would menage the left and rear of the Howlett Picuse battery. We have no fear they will succeed in such an undertaking were they to attempt it. We have gunboats and other things which are all- sufficient to keep the waters clear between Dutch gap and Richmond. Butler's canal is believed to be progressing slowly. He has put to work in it some prisoners recently taken from us; in retaliation, he says, for our putting negro captives upon our fortifications. We think he will find our men neither willing nor efficient allies. From the Valley. Passengers by last night's train from Staunton report that information had reached there of a fight which had occurred at Sickley's shop, beyond Fisher's hill. A detachment of our men, having gone down the Val
The Daily Dispatch: October 18, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ed the New York Herald of Saturday, the 15th instant. We give below extracts from it: Around Richmond — silence about the repulse of Thursday--retaliation by Butler. It is quite significant that the Herald has not one word in it about the bloody repulse which the Yankees sustained before Richmond on Thursday; nor do its rt wing, at Stony creek, seven thousand cavalry and infantry, strongly entrenched. Some deserters from our lines below Richmond having made oath before Beast Butler that eighty Yankee negro soldiers were taken out of Castle Thunder and carried down to work in the trenches, has sent the following letter to Commissioner Ould: hard labor, and shall continue to add to their number until this practice is stopped. I have the honor to be, Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, Benjamin F. Butler, Major-General Commanding. To Hon. Robert Ould, Agent of Exchange, Richmond, Va. The elections--Pennsylvania still in doubt. The Pennsylvania el
The Daily Dispatch: October 18, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
pretty sure of what we have to expect. Not only is Abraham Lincoln President of the United States for the next four years after the 4th of March, 1865, but he goes in with a majority large enough to sustain him in any atrocity he may meditate. The majority of the North have pretty clearly declared themselves well pleased with the war and with the manner of conducting it. They endorse all the atrocities of Sherman, all the cruelties of Hunter, all the crimes of Sheridan, all the murders of Butler, all the butchery and barbarism of Grant. The conflagrations of our towns and villages, the deportation of our women and children, the starvation of whole populations, the instigations of our slaves to murder and robbery, an aggravation of all the horrors of war, in its most horrible aspects, where the passions are left entirely without control, and every appliance is used to stimulate them, until, by their indulgence, men become devils — all these things, the virtuous, intelligent, civiliz