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Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3 309 19 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2 309 19 Browse Search
General Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant 170 20 Browse Search
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary 117 33 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 65 11 Browse Search
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 62 2 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 36 2 Browse Search
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 34 12 Browse Search
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee 29 3 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 29 3 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: December 31, 1864., [Electronic resource], Our Wilmington Correspondence. (search)
ington had been the destination of the enemy, the fleet should have arrived off the mouth of the Cape Fear on Saturday; any how, on Sunday; but up to the hour at which I write--5 P. M. Monday--nothing has been seen or heard of it, either here or at Newbern.--The weather, which is rough outside, may have made it necessary for the monitors to put into port at some point further north, or the fleet may have kept on to Charleston or Port Royal — provided, always, that it has sailed at all. Beast Butler is reported to be in command of the expeditionary forces, and this leads to the belief that their destination is the South Carolina coast. At this inclement and stormy period of the year, it would be a dangerous operation for an enemy to attempt to land an army by such boats upon the open beach, and it would be quite as difficult to subsist it there after it had landed. It is out of the question to land artillery and cavalry. It would appear necessary, therefore, for the enemy first to re
The Daily Dispatch: December 31, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
ession leaders will give us, on average terms, all the blacks they capture in military action. The Secretary has also said (and this is the basis of his course and policy) that it is not for the benefit of the Government of the United States that the power of the secessionists should be depleted by some 50,000 men in good condition now in our hands, besides getting relieved of the support of nearly the same number of human wrecks and ruins, of no advantage to us, now in theirs. Major-General Butler, in my opinion, has also incorporated in the question of exchange a needless amount of personal pique and an unbecoming obstinacy. He, too, has taken his stand on the exchange of all black soldiers, has persisted in it without regard to consequences, and has made the whole of the large and complicated question of general exchange turn upon that one item alone, while it is but a drop in the bucket. Then he makes it too much a personal contest and matter of vanity who shall conquer, a
The Daily Dispatch: December 31, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
no authentic intelligence from Wilmington later than the official dispatch, mentioned yesterday, announcing the retreat of the Porter Butler Armada. There was a report on yesterday, which we failed to trace to its source, that the Yankee expedition had been scattered by a fearful storm on the Carolina coast and many of the vessels lost. The thing is probable enough, though, as we have said, we have no authority for it beyond a flying rumor. The inglorious termination of the attempt of Butler and Porter to capture Wilmington has had a most cheering effect upon the spirits of our people — an effect which will be infinitely heightened when all the facts come to be fully known, as they soon will be through the letters of intelligent correspondents who were near the scene of operations Not yet has the crushing defeat administered to the enemy by General Bragg and the small force under his command been fully appreciated. Still enough own to produce a decidedly and to affect gold,
The Daily Dispatch: December 31, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
congratulatory order on the defeat the enemy's grand armada before Wilmington, paying a merited compliment to Generals Whiting and Kirkland, Colonel Lamb and officers and men engaged. The enemy's attack the first day lasted five hours; on the second day, seven hours; firing altogether over twenty thousand shots from fifty-nine vessels. The Confederates responded with six hundred and sixty-two shots the first day, and six hundred the second. Our loss is three killed and fifty-five wounded. The ground in front and rear of the fort is covered with shells, and is torn in deep pits. Two guns in the fort burst, two were dismounted by ourselves and two by the enemy's fire; yet the fort is unhurt. Scouts report that Butler made speech at Newbern, saying he would eat his Christmas dinner in Wilmington. It is reported that a part of a negro regiment, and the Fifth regiment of regulars, were lost in the gale. The expedition up Roanoke river has returned.