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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Civil War in the United States. (search)
as resulted in the capture of fourteen cities, the destruction of hundreds of miles of railroad and thousands of bales of cotton, the taking of eighty-five guns, 4,000 prisoners, and 25,000 animals, and the freeing of 15,000 white and black refugees; also the destruction of an immense quantity of machinery and other property. —18. The Confederate Congress adjourned sine die. It was their final session. One of their latest acts was to authorize the raising of a negro military force.—25. R. C. Kennedy hanged at Fort Lafayette for Having been concerned in the attempt to burn the city of New York.—27. General Steele encounters and defeats 800 Confederates at Mitchell's Fork.—28. Monitor Milwaukee blown up and sunk by a torpedo in Mobile Bay; only one man injured. The monitor Osage blown up and sunk the next day by a torpedo in Mobile Bay. Of her crew, four were killed and six wounded. the Milwaukee, having sunk in shallow water, kept up her firing. —30. The amount of cotton tak
The Daily Dispatch: March 30, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
ole of South Carolina, it was a scourge, inflicting the wild and passionate vengeance of the people who sent it." In the same number of the Herald which contains the above, we have the finding of a military commission in the case of Captain R. C. Kennedy, an alleged Confederate spy, charged with setting fire to "Barnum's Museum" and one of the "down- town" hotels, and sentenced to be hung therefore. The Court say: "The attempt to set fire to the city of New York is one of the greatto defer them from the commission of similar enormities." Compare the finding of the Court with the above extract from the Herald. --Comment is unnecessary. "The burning of Southern cities" is a matter of congratulation; of Northern cities, "the greatest atrocities of the age," and deserving the gallows. Would the Court have accepted in Kennedy's defence the Herald's plea for Sherman's soldiers; an "unconquerable national hate for the pestilent people who have caused all this trouble."
The Daily Dispatch: March 30, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
bow of the vessel out of water, but she sustained no material damage, and none of her officers or crew are injured. A number of torpedoes have been raised, and the search is progressing.--The work of sounding the channel and fixing lights is progressing rapidly. Secretary Welles, Assistant Secretary Fox and Major-General Anderson are to visit Charleston and raise Fort Sumter's old flag. General Saxton has established his headquarters in Charleston. The execution of Captain Kennedy. Captain Robert Kennedy, convicted of being a Confederate spy, was executed on Saturday at Fort Lafayette. An account says: At 12:55 o'clock, Colonel Burke, the commandant of the fort, Marshal Murray and his deputy, the executioner, and two reporters, entered the cell of the condemned man. General Beale (the rebel officer now on parole to provide supplies for rebel prisoners), Captain Wilson, and Chaplain Burke, of Fort Hamilton, were found in the cell with Kennedy.