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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1863, April (search)
vements of the army of the Potomac by publication of injudicious correspondence of an anonymous character, made it necessary for General Hooker to issue general orders requiring all newspaper correspondents to publish their communications over their own signatures.--General Orders No. 48. A rebel battery on the Nansemond River, Va., was silenced, after a spirited contest, by the guns from the Union battery Morris and the gunboat Commodore Barney.--General Peck's Order No. 29. William F. Corbin and T. G. Graw, found guilty of recruiting for the rebel service, inside the National lines, were this day sentenced to be shot, by a court-martial in session at Cincinnati, Ohio. A detachment of the Sixth New York cavalry, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel McVicar, while reconnoitring in the vicinity of Spottsylvania Court-House, Va., to-day were surrounded by four regiments of General Fitz-Hugh Lee's rebel cavalry and fifty-two of their number were killed, wounded, or capt
The Daily Dispatch: May 16, 1863., [Electronic resource], Later from the North. (search)
he said New York and New Jersey were the only free States left. The news from Europe is five days later. It is stated that France has taken offence at Minister Adams's conduct in England, and demands an explanation. The French have suffered no repulse in the siege of Puebla. Polish affairs are unchanged. Gold in New York ranges at 148 to 149, in consequence of the "favorable news" from the army! James Madison Cutts (Senator Douglas's father-in-law) is dead. Wm. F. Corbin and T. F. McGran have been tried as spies and sentenced to be shot, on the charge of "recruiting within the lines of the United States forces for the so-called Confederate army." They were so engaged at Rouse's mills, Pendleton county, Ky., the former under a commission from Gen. Humphrey Marshall. Jas. Brooks, in his "Vallandigham" speech, said: "In my judgment and belief it is not so much the intention of the Administration to subjugate the South as it is to subjugate the North."
The Daily Dispatch: July 7, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
Retaliation — drawing lots for death. --At the Libby prison yesterday, by order of Gen. Winder, the Captains among the Yankee prisoners, numbering 74, drew lots for two to be shot in retaliation for the shooting of Captains Wm. F. Corbin and T. J. McGraw, by Gen. Burnside, at Sandusky, Ohio, on the 15th of May inst. The prisoners were a room at 12 o'clock by Capt. Turner, the commandant of the prison, and after being formed in a hollow square around a table, were informed of the order of Gen. Winder. A slip of paper, with the name of each man written on it and carefully folded up, was then deposited in a box on the table, and Captain. Turner informed the men that they might select who they pleased to draw the names out — the first two names drawn to indicate the men to be shot. Capt. Sawyer, of the 1st N. J. cavalry, suggested that one of the chaplains be appointed. Three of the chaplains were called down from an upper room, and, Rev. Mr. Brown accepting the task, amid a si