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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1862, December (search)
a body of Union troops, numbering two hundred men, under Captain Thornbeery, who was sent by Colonel Dills, of the Thirty-ninth Kentucky, to guard some arms, munitions, etc., intended for his regiment, and a force of rebels, estimated at eight hundred men, which resulted in the defeat of the Unionists, and the capture by the rebels of seven hundred muskets, forty thousand rounds of cartridges, several hundred uniforms, and a large supply of provisions. The True Presbyterian and the Baptist Recorder, published in Louisville, Ky., were suppressed, and the editor of the Recorder sent to the military prison.-Coffeeville, Miss., was this day occupied by the Union forces under Colonel Mizner and Colonel Lee. A battle was fought near Kinston, N. C., by the expeditionary forces under General Foster, and a strong body of rebel troops under the command of General Evans, resulting in a retreat of the rebels, and the capture and occupation of the town by the Unionists. In this affair a
James Redpath, The Roving Editor: or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States., My first trip. (search)
ldren? Yes, massa, she said, I's had five by dis ole man, and seven by de last un. You are both Christians? I asked. Yes, massa, she said, we goes to de church; we's not members ob de church, kase we's colored people, and dey won't let us be. This statement does not hold everywhere. It may be true, however, of South Carolina. That's not a great misfortune, I remarked, as I recalled to my recollection a long editorial article that I had lately read in the North Carolina Baptist Recorder, entitled, The fanaticism of the New England clergy; which was written by a professed minister of the gospel of love, for the purpose of proving that Jesus Christ, the friend of oppressed humanity, was a Southern Rights man; and that God, the Father of our race, whose name is love, had revealed it to be his will that the negro should be, and should be kept as a bondman; and consequently, of course — this was the inference — that sugar houses, treadmills, whips, paddles, brine-barrels, b
The Daily Dispatch: July 25, 1862., [Electronic resource], Later from the North. (search)
or three hundred millions of specie to purchase the underrated portion of the cotton crop. A Louisville merchant, on the 8th, shipped $35,000 gold for cotton and sugar in Memphis; 400 bales received on the 10th, 890 bales shipped to Cincinnati yesterday; 27,500 sacks grain and 11,000 boxes pilot bread received here since the 7th. The banks at Lebanon, Danville, Frankfort and elsewhere are sending their funds here for safekeeping. Two religious weeklies — the True Presbyterian and Baptist Recorder--are suppressed.--Several preachers are under arrest. Eighteen more Secessionists in the last ten days gave bonds for $134,000. Many are being disarmed. The New Levy. [From the Boston Courier, July 18.] The conviction is not to be avoided that the quota of our men, required to make up the complement of 300,000, must be raised by a draft. So far as we have learned, the same condition of things exist in all the New England States, whatever the case may be elsewhere. The very fa