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The Daily Dispatch: October 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
as if no men at-arms, mingling deadly hate, were lying behind strong redoubts and watching for each other's lives. What is the reason of this lull will doubtless be apparent in a few days, when the grand opening takes place on the north side and Lee and Grant shall once more try a passage at arms. Persons living in the upper part of Richmond state that they heard firing in the direction of Petersburg last night. This might have been the reports of the great "peace maker" planted not long sito be a very superior weapon. Many of these guns have been captured from the enemy and placed in the hands of our skirmishers and sharpshooters, and the Yankees have been made to feel the weight of their metal. Our army. The ranks in General Lee's army are rapidly filling up, and the corps, divisions, brigades and regiments, depleted by many battles, are assuming their former proportions. At dress-parade, on Sunday last, a Virginia regiment, which had inscribed on its battle-flag the
The Daily Dispatch: October 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], From Georgia. (search)
nd by ten o'clock Sunday morning had arrested and confined in the county jail the following parties, upon each of whose premises he found some portions of the stolen building, amounting in the aggregate to upwards of ten thousand dollars'worth; Philip Lee and son;--Willis, wife and son; a man named Whipple, and John Ford. The reputation of these parties is very bad, particularly that of Ford, who is said to be a desperate fellow. In Whipple's house were found two negro men, who had been runaways for upwards of two years. In Lee's house was found a well-known deserter from the Confederate service, named James Williams, and he himself is also considered to be a deserter. There were also found upon Lee's premises six barrels of corn and other goods, supposed to be stolen; all of which, together with the timber found, was hauled away by Constable Robinson to a place of safety. It is said that these marauders were engaged several nights in taking down Smith's house, and that they were