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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 51 (search)
t to that point. Shortly after the arrival of General White at Lenoirs, General Burnside arrived on a train from Knoxville to command in person the movement of the troops. A countermarch to Loudon was immediately ordered. A reliable spy had brought information that the rebels were constructing a pontoon at Loudon, and doing nothing at Huff's Ferry. This he knew--had seen it with his own eyes. Reliable spies are infallible. The Holy City never had within its sacred precincts an Otho or Pius, whose high conceptions of morality taught them the invaluable worth of truth more surely than the ordeal through which they had to pass taught the loyal East-Tennesseeans, and they whose names lead all the rest are the reliable spies and scouts. One thousand five hundred soldiers, who had carried water from the river opposite Loudon for three weeks, and up to the time reliable spy had seen the bridge, and a part of them from the very spot where the bridge touched the north side of the river
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 177 (search)
Doc. 174.-Jefferson Davis and Pope Pius IX. Richmond, September 23, 1863. Very venerable sovereign Pontiff: The letters which you have written to the clergy of New-Orleans and New-York have been communicated to me, and I have read with emotion the deep grief therein expressed for the ruin and devastation caused by the war which is now being waged by the United States against the States and people which have selected me as their President, and your orders to your clergy to exhort the people to peace and charity. I am deeply sensible of the Christian charity which has impelled you to this reiterated appeal to the clergy. It is for this reason that I fell it my duty to express personally, and in the name of the Confederate States, our gratitude for such sentiments of Christian good feeling and love, and to assure your Holiness that the People, threatened even on their own hearths with the most cruel oppression and terrible carnage, are desirous now, as they have always been,