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The Daily Dispatch: January 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], Confederate States Congress. (search)
Escape of Conscripts from the Yankee army. --The following persons, claiming to be deserters from the Yankee army, arrived in this city yesterday, and were quartered in Castle Thunder for future disposition: John Hausley, Thomas Bradshaw, John Donnelly, John B. Missner, John Sauvalt, John Myers, William Ford, William Davis, James Turnay, James Barry, Wm. Sihpley, Charles Brown, Peter Walsh, and John Barnes.--The four last are from Baltimore. Through the politeness of Adjutant Kerrigan, we were permitted to converse with some of them, and, judging from their appearance and demeanor, are of the impression that they are honest in their professions of attachment to the South. They were drafted in October last in Philadelphia, and placed in the 7th Pennsylvania regiment. After a brief experience in drilling, the regiment was ordered to Fernandina, Fla., where they only remained seven days before conceiving the plan of escape.--Having perfected their arrangements, an inclement nigh
The Daily Dispatch: January 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], Confederate States Congress. (search)
e risk at last of failing to find that of which we were in search. We may as well give up at once all hope of success in such a pursuit. Butlers grow nowhere but on the congenial soil of Yankeedoodledom. The outlawry of this wretch by President Davis, and his calm and contemptuous refusal to open negotiation in which he is to be treated as an agent, hailed as it will be by the applause of the whole civilized world, has stung the Yankee Government to the quick. To that circumstance is owmost remorseless. The ex-actor murdered thousands of women, children, and old men, in Lyons, and commenced destroying the city itself, house by house, having determined to raze it all to the ground. Such a character, precisely, is Butler. President Davis, with the applause of the whole world, has inflicted upon his vanity a wound which could not be healed by the murder of every human being in the Confederacy. --He feels that he must go down to posterity as the Monster, above all other Monste