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The Daily Dispatch: February 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], "Fancy." (search)
"Fancy." --From the New York Day Book of Monday, we have the following: "Tom Sayers, the 'Champion of England,' intends visiting this country in Spring. He will come over in the steamer leaving Liverpool on the 13th of April. "Tom Hyer, the retired pugilist, is said to have the inside track for the U. S. Marshal ship. He is endorsed for the place by two of the most influential Republicans in this city. "Morrissey, the prize-fighter, it is said, will have a fat office in the New York Custom-House, for service rendered to the Republican party."
The Daily Dispatch: July 5, 1862., [Electronic resource], List of casualties in the recent battles before Richmond. (search)
Talley, W H Felts, L J Wells, W R Hains, John H Grose, C F Armstrong. Company C, Capt Wilson, commanding.--Killed: Privates L Gurley, O M Warwick, J S Britt. --Wounded: Serg'ts J W Walker, G L. Doughtry, Corpl's W T Sutton. W A Andrews, Privates R. R Jackson, R Cobb, W MeLamb, J. B. Cotton, R B. Stith, W. Brewer, S. W Sutton, J S Sanderson, M. Vaughn, W B Harlington, W. H. Pope, J. H Warwick. Company D. Capt Ashfort, commanding.--Killed: Lieut Jos W Darden. Wounded: Serg't O B Morrissey, Privates Jos Persithe, Robt Shipp, M. Lockkanny, W E Brewer, W H Stevens. Company E, Capt McRae, commanding.--Killed: Lieut M T. Covington, Privates Jas. T Bostick, M. V. B Covington. Wounded: Serg't A G Dawkins, privates H. H McCaskill, E Kelly, J Benoist, N. T Baldwin, K. M. Covington, C Crouch, M Chappell, W C Mitchell. Company F, Capt Yount, commanding — Wounded: Lts D. F. Roseman, J. Yount, A Deal, Corp'l N E Ligman, privates A Arwood, Jno D Hoke, John Hetrick, David Hoff
The Daily Dispatch: December 19, 1863., [Electronic resource], The English and Yankee "International" prize fight. (search)
e, as well as twice fought the accomplished Jem Mace, losing the first fight through an accidental throw, and winning the second by knocking the champion out of time by one of the most terrific right-handed hits over witnessed in any fight in the prize-ring. His gameness is unquestionable and well proved in all his battles, white his tremendous powers of hitting, activity, and science, are equally incontestable. Heenan, as is well known, has but two battles on his record — the first with Morrissey, and the second with Tom Sayers. The constant, regular, and daily practice with the gloves which he has had in the fulfillment of his professional engagement with Howe & Cushing's circus for the last eighteen mouths has had, it is stated, the effect of rendering him perfect in the theoretical knowledge of the art of boxing. In this respect, however, his opponent has had an equal advantage, as he has also been engaged in a similar capacity for nearly a twelvemonth. Altogether the merits
The Daily Dispatch: February 10, 1864., [Electronic resource], From Charleston. (search)
ent of the city has been kept up since our last report. One hundred shells were fired from half-past 5 Sunday afternoon to half-past 5 Monday evening. The enemy shortly after that time opened a very heavy and rapid fire upon the city, which continued steady up to the hour of closing our report, at 12 o'clock Monday night. Two persons were slightly wounded--one, a white woman, by a brick, and the other, a white man, by the fragment of a shell striking him in the ankle. The family of Mr. Morrissey had a very narrow escape Sunday night. About half-past 9 a shell entered the house from the south side, upper story, and passing through the first floor cut the pavilion, and glancing off demolished a table at the foot of a bed where two grown persons were sleeping. It then passed through and exploded in the cellar, tearing off the weatherboarding of the house, making a large hole in the brick foundation, and scattering the fragments in all directions, without other injury to any of the