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The Daily Dispatch: September 1, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
e election of candidates for the Presidency. The Convention adjourned until 10 o'clock to morrow. Chicago, August 29.--The New York delegation held a final meeting this morning, and, after a brief consultation, a vote was taken as to who should be the choice of the delegation for the Presidency, with the following result: McClellan, 53; scattering, 13. The vote of the Ohio delegation, yesterday, stood; For McClellan, 16; against, 26. Missouri; For McClellan, 13; scattering, 3. Indians; McClellan, 18; against him, 6. Illinois; For McClellan, 22; against him, 10. Vallandigham is understood to have pledged his support to the candidate of the Convention, whoever he may be; and this is reported to be the position of Fernando Wood. The following special dispatches are published in the Chronicle: Chicago, August 29.--The excitement continues intense. Vallandigham and Chauncey Burr made speeches, demanding peace on any terms. A large peace delegation from New Yor
The Daily Dispatch: September 9, 1864., [Electronic resource], The Indian war. (search)
the rear to get dinner, and not apprehending danger, I left my revolver and bowie-knife behind. At a point half way between the wagons and the ranch, three armed Indians, mounted on fleet horses, dashed down from the bluffs at full speed into the road, and shot a man through the head and scalped him instantly. He was just a littloo well armed, we did not stop to bury the dead, as we saw a number of parties on the opposite side of the river, and some of our men declared that they saw fifty Indians. I looked with both my eyes, which I think, just at time, were unusually dilated, and I did not see an Indian. We traveled through there at such speed that the he house by some returning empty train of wagons. The Indians discovered him, chased him into the house, where he returned to the hole in the roof and, shot four Indians, before they made a rush upon the house and set fire to it, intending to burn the boy alive; but he shot down the back way and escaped through the brush. "At
The Daily Dispatch: October 7, 1864., [Electronic resource], Mutual Press Association. (search)
een seen near Tiptonville. Forrest sent a flag of truce into the camp of the Fourth Mississippi cavalry, at Hernandez, on the 28th, stating that he had a number of sick and wounded prisoners on the way from Duval's Bluff for exchange. Train attacked by the Savages. New York, October 2. --A special dispatch to Chicago from St. Paul, Minnesota, dated September 30, says: A letter from Fort Rice, dated September 10, states that Captain Fisk's Idaho train had been attacked by Indians, and that seven of his rear guard and four emigrants were killed. The Indians then attacked his main body in such numbers that he was compelled to entrench himself and send back to General Sully for help. In this morning's fight, twenty Indians were killed. A Valuable Prize. Washington, October 3. --Information has been received at the Navy Department of the capture by the steamer Magnolia of the blockade running steamer Matagorda, about seventy-five miles off Cape Antonio
The Daily Dispatch: October 8, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
illas captured two upward- bound freight trains on the Nashville railroad at 10 o'clock last night, between Richland station and Fountainhead. They burned nineteen cars, but they contained no stores. To-day the trains will be slightly disarranged by the disaster." Accounts from Missouri state that General Price is moving on Rolla in three columns, the right under Shelby and Marmaduke, the centre under himself, and the left under Cooper — the latter being composed mainly of half-breed Indians. About five hundred rebels entered Union, the county seat of Franklin county, on Saturday, and captured about one hundred of the county militia.--Washington had a garrison of six hundred men, under Colonel Gale, who evacuated the place on the approach of the rebels, and took his men and stores across the Missouri river. The depot at Jacksonville, on the North Missouri railroad, was burned by guerrillas on Monday morning. General Schofield has received information that General Burbrid
The Daily Dispatch: October 12, 1864., [Electronic resource], The recent battle at Saltville. (search)
n be distinctly seen from the works. Our reserves, who behaved like veterans, were stationed in a deep valley, and were charged by the Yankee cavalry from the eastern slope of the valley, over a clear field. In this charge we lost twenty-one, who were taken prisoners. The reserves then fell back and occupied the western slope of the valley, which is thickly covered with briars and under growth. "Here the enemy attempted another charge, coming with sabres drawn, and yelling like wild Indians. Our reserves stood like a wall of adamant, with cheeks unblanched and hearts unmoved, awaiting the onset. When the Yankees arrived within full range, the sturdy sons of Southwestern Virginia, recollecting the gallantry of their forefathers, and the sacredness of their homes and firesides, poured volley after volley into the massive columns of the foe, causing him at first to recoil and ultimately to fall back in great disorder. The dead bodies of the invaders thickly strewed the ground
The Daily Dispatch: January 12, 1865., [Electronic resource], A battle with Indians. (search)
A battle with Indians. A correspondent of the Colorado News, writing on the 21st ultimo, gives an account of a fight with the Indians in that territory or State (we do not know what the Yankees call it). The writer kills the Indians awfully; but, when we recollect how those people write, we may put down the dead redskins' at only a few: "On the afternoon of the 28th, the entire command reached Fort Lyon, a distance of two hundred and sixty miles, in less than six days, and so quietly and expeditiously had the march been made that the command at the fort were taken entirely by surprise. When the vanguard appeared in sight, it was reported that a body of Indians was approaching, and precautions were taken for their reception. No one upon the route was permitted to go in advance of the column, and persons who it was suspected would spread the news of the advance were kept under surveillance until all danger from that source was past. "At Fort Lyon the force was strengt
The Daily Dispatch: January 13, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 9 (search)
Hemma Micco, or John Jumper. --We have recently been put in possession of some facts with regard to this Indian--the principal chief of the Seminole nation — which cannot be otherwise than interesting to our readers. He is, at present, a colonel in the Provisional Army of the Confederate States, and commands a regiment of Indians, composed principally of Seminoles. Considerably over six feet in height, as straight as an arrow, and as graceful and light-footed as the deer which feed upon the prairies of his western home, he looks every inch the soldier and the chief. He is, withal, as gentle as a woman, as brave as the bravest, able in council, influential with his people, a pure patriot, and thoroughly devoted to the cause of the South. His name should become a household word with the citizens of the Confederate States. Having seen a copy of his "talk" to Colonel S. S. Scott, commissioner of Indian affairs, at Fort Washita, 9th October last, we give an extract. It will
The Daily Dispatch: February 14, 1865., [Electronic resource], Regular and volunteer officers. (search)
Regular and volunteer officers. The New York Herald remarks that "the Mexican war was comparatively a ridiculous little farce, while this is a tremendous tragedy. In war, the poor Mexicans are but little better than Indians; for in every encounter with our troops, regardless of numbers or position, they were invariably beaten. "In this war it is Greek against Greek, and great armies led by scientific officers, with all the modern improvements in arms and equipments, arrayed against each other. Hence, as we have seen, a civilian general, competent, with five or six hundred Americans, to win a glorious victory over two or three thousand feeble Mexicans, signally fails when required to lead twenty or thirty thousand Americans against an equal number of their rebellious brethren in charge of our educated soldiers. Thus our distinguished volunteer generals of the Mexican, war are reduced to their proper dimensions, and the subordinate regular officers of that war, such as Bre
The Daily Dispatch: March 8, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
rom their slumbers and devoting women and children to the most cruel and horrible death. With all this, the Revolutionary rebels had a currency of eight hundred for one, and were overrun with extortioners and speculators, as well as negroes and Indians. Moreover, there was at the head of the British kingdom a man from whom they could expect no possibility of compassion. Their lives and property might have been saved by submission, but submission George the Third was determined to have. Rather than quit his hold over the provinces, or do what he called "submitting to be trampled on by his enemies," he threatened to abdicate. --This was the kind of antagonist our ancestors had to struggle with. Not much hope of deliverance from Indians, tories, negroes and redcoats while that old gentleman lived. And yet our forefathers had the faith to believe that the right would, in the end, prevail, and plucked the flowers of hope from the very jaws of despair. What is there in our condi
The Daily Dispatch: March 14, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ded by law for soldiers obtaining furloughs. An act authorizing hospital accommodations for treatment, including subsistence, to certain officers and soldiers retired or discharged. An act to change the mode of filling vacancies among commissioned officers of companies, battalions and regiments. An act to authorize and regulate the allowance of naval storekeepers. An act to provide for paying, in cotton, annuities due the Seminole, Creek, Choctaw and Chickasaw nations of Indians. An act further to amend the act to provide an invalid corps, approved June 17, 1864. An act to construe and declare more explicitly the meaning of an act to increase the compensation of the heads of the several Executive Departments, and the Assistant Secretary of War and the Treasury, and of the Assistant Attorney-General and the Comptroller of the Treasury, and other officers therein named. An act to regulate the compensation of Government officers, clerks and employees
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