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The Daily Dispatch: February 8, 1864., [Electronic resource], The late affair in Hardy county--Fuller particulars of the capture of the Yankee wagon train. (search)
. The following official dispatch with reference to the affair was received at the War Department on Saturday. Orange C. H., Feb. 6, 1864. To Gen. S. Cooper. On the 30th ult, Gen. Rosser captured a train of ninety three wagons, loaded with commissary, stores and forage, on the way from New Creek to Petersburg; also, three hundred mules and twenty prisoners. The guard of 800 infantry escaped to the mountains. Our loss was twenty-five killed and wounded. Information of the advance upon Petersburg having been received, the garrison evacuated it during the night. On the 2d instant Gen. Rosser destroyed the bridges over Patterson's Creek and north branch of the Potomac and canal, and captured forty prisoners. Two hundred and seventy prisoners, fifty wagons and teams, twelve hundred cattle, and five hundred sheep, have been brought off. Gen. Rosser has shown great energy and skill, and his command deserves great credit. (Signed) R. E. Lee.
The Daily Dispatch: February 8, 1864., [Electronic resource], The Legislature. (search)
From General Lee's army. [from our own Correspondent.] Army Northern Virginia. February 5th, 1864. For three month past no sound of artillery or discharge of small arms has broken the quiet which has reigned supreme along the waters of the swift flowing river, as its name Rapidan, implies. This quiet, however, will ere long be disturbed, and men will again seek each other in deadly conflict, to determine the great questions presented in the issue of Union and subjugation, or the South and independence secured. Meantime I would ask are we ready, or are we making ready for the "tug of war," when the season propitious for campaigning shall set in? What says the country and the Congress? Speaking for the army, I am exceedingly rejoiced in being able to state that the noble move begun in their midst by Battle's gallant brigade of Alabamians is likely to go on, until every brigade in the army shall declare its voluntary purpose never to lay down arms until our honorable an
The Daily Dispatch: February 8, 1864., [Electronic resource], Another movement of the enemy from the Peninsula. (search)
that in the meanwhile some assistance might come to hand, Capt Lee sent a reply to the rebel Colonel, asking for a personal for a surrender within five minutes. The second reply of Capt. Lee was, that he would not surrender, and that if the rebel c with great spirit until about half past 12 o'clock, when Capt. Lee was so hard pressed on all sides that it became evident ts they were really drowning. Upon reaching the boat Captain Lee found its commander, Capt. Rowe, severely wounded in the men who were not disabled. At the request of Capt Rowe, Capt. Lee took command of the boat. He found her to be greatlyot recaptured scaled their fate with a watery grave. Capt. Lee, a Pamunkey Indian pilot and George Smith, a volunteer pi boat to report the perilous situation of the force under Capt. Lee. These men were picked up near the mouth of the James rich him as soon as the exigency of the case required. Capt. Lee, and those who escaped with him, five in all, walked abou