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The Daily Dispatch: March 28, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
The last sensation card at the North is that both Jeff. Davis and General Lee propose to give up the ship. What must be the gullibility of a people which can swallow such a dose as that without winking! The next story will be that Jeff, is on his way to Mexico, with Lee making tracks in the same direction, for the purpose of offering his military services to Maximilian. It is a long time since we have seen Jeff. Davis, and possibly he has really given General Grant the slip, and is, by this time, on his way to the Halls of the Montezuma. All that either he or Lee have to do is to step on one of the Southern trains, and evaporate. One Yankee writer, however, is of opinion that Jeff. may prefer to run against William H. Seward as the Copperhead candidate for the next Presidency. Another thinks that Lee would like to get back his old position in the United States army. What disposition is proposed to be made of itself by the Confederate army is not stated. Prob
The Daily Dispatch: March 28, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ille, where he may possibly be expecting to receive aid from Lee at Richmond, one hundred and forty miles distant. Fromoad. By taking the line of the Dan on which to give battle, Lee would have Sherman on the south bank, while Grant's army wouave a long distance to march overland in order to come up in Lee's rear, or a long detour, should he seek to join Sherman's ras just traveled, and which could be kept open. Johnston or Lee, on the contrary, would find it difficult to keep their lineuntry in this vicinity, and the object to be accomplished by Lee — the possible defeat of Sherman before he can be succored bto take up a strong position, from which, when reinforced by Lee, it will be difficult to dislodge him. It is, doubtless, the intention of Lee to secure possession of the Richmond and Danville road as long as possible, both from Danville to Burkobably, the intention. The entire route is now valueless to Lee. He cannot obtain from any State south of Virginia one pound
The Daily Dispatch: March 28, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
A Distinguished regiment. A Northern paper gives a list of the officers of the old United States Fifth Regular Cavalry, and their positions and fate since the present war. We copy it: Colonel Albert Sydney Johnston; since Commander-in-Chief of the Confederate Armies, and killed at Shiloh. Lieutenant Colonel Robert E. Lee; now Generalissimo of the Confederate Forces. First Major W. J. Hardee; now Lieutenant-General in the Confederate Army. Second Major G. H. Thomas; now Major-General United States Army. Company A.--Captain Earl Van Dorn; since Lieutenant-General Confederate States Army; killed in a duel. First Lieutenant John Cross. Second Lieutenant E. Parker Porter; Assistant Commissary-General and Colonel United States Army. Company B.--Captain E. Kirby Smith; now Lieutenant-General Confederate States Army. First Lieutenant W. H. Jennifer (Confederate), inventor of the "Jennifer saddle" Second Lieutenant Fitz Hugh Lee; now Lieuten