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The Daily Dispatch: November 25, 1862., [Electronic resource], Affairs at Fredericksburg. (search)
Affairs at Fredericksburg. the threat to shell the town — reply of the Council — Compromise of the Federal--firing into the Trains — Explanations, &c. Fredericksburg, Va., Nov. 24, 1862. John Grant, Jr., Agent Associated Press: In company with many refugees and others from Fredericksburg, we got aboard the midnight train for the doomed city on Friday night last, and proceeded to Fredericksburg, where we arrived last at dawn. Here a sight met our case such as we never before witnessed, and hope and believe that its like shall never again be seen during this war. Women and children were leaving in every direction, old and infirm men were bearing on their backs such of their household goods as they possessed. Every avenue leading from the town was lined with those who were thus giving the highest proofs of their devotion to the cause and fidelity to principle in turning their backs upon their homes without any reasonable expectation that they would eve<
The Daily Dispatch: November 25, 1862., [Electronic resource], The very latest. (search)
head, the Philadelphia Inquirer, of the 20th, has the following: This seems to be the order of the day in rebeldom. They are steadily falling back in Virginia, before our columns; and by the very act they fix upon themselves the stigma of falsehood for having claimed, and for still continuing to claim, successes in Maryland. It is rumored, also, that Jackson is falling back to join Lee, and that both are making haste to cover Richmond. In Mississippi they are falling back before Grant; and Holly Springs, where they were to make a stand, has been given up, that they may find a ditch still further back, even South of the Tallahatchie river. Recent events in that section have proved to them that "discretion is the better part of valor." In Tennessee they are retiring before the dreaded Rosecrans; Nashville is like sour grapes beyond their reach. Southwest of New Orleans in the Bayon country, they are beaten and scattered by Weitzel. In Charleston and Savannah des