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The Daily Dispatch: March 23, 1865., [Electronic resource], The Newspaper Press in the Confederacy. (search)
The Newspaper Press in the Confederacy. --The Danville Register remarks that the recent movements of Sherman and Sheridan have greatly decreased the number of newspapers published in the country. In Virginia, we have daily papers issued from four points — Richmond, Lynchburg. Danville and Petersburg — and one weekly at Clarksville. The number has been largely curtailed in North Carolina. Wilmington, Fayetteville, Newbern, etc., are in the hands of the enemy. The Yankees now publish a paper at Wilmington. Some think that Raleigh, too, may go by, then Goldsboro' and Charlotte, and some smaller places will be alone left. In South Carolina, it is even worse. The Mercury was removed from Charleston some time before the occupation of the city by the enemy; and the Courier, which remained, was taken in charge by the Yankees, notwithstanding it opposed nullification in and is now issued as a Yankee newspaper. All the papers in Columbia have been discontinued. In Georgia,
The Daily Dispatch: March 23, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Sheridan's raiders at Scottsville. A private letter from Scottsville gives a sad account of the action of Sheridan and his raiders: The enemy were in two Sheridan and his raiders: The enemy were in two columns:--one from North Garden, commanded by Sheridan in person, passed on towards Howardsville and New Market; the remainder, from Charlottesville, supposed to haveSheridan in person, passed on towards Howardsville and New Market; the remainder, from Charlottesville, supposed to have been about four thousand, went to Scottsville. They entered the town on Monday, about 1 o'clock in the afternoon. The citizens were in the streets at the time of tre destroyed, and the people are in a state of destitution. On Thursday, Sheridan's force came down the canal, and on Friday pillaged everything they could findurning, saw his house in flames; he fell dead, and was so found next day. When Sheridan himself was in town, those with whom the officers were quartered, and also thowhether they were willing to go or not, and forthwith mounted and armed. Wherever Sheridan's raiders went, they took whatever they wanted, and did as they pleased.