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The Daily Dispatch: June 30, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 10 (search)
ender of services, but really we have no occasion to trouble our New York friends at this time. A waiting your further orders, we remain. Miscellaneous. Capt. H. L. Sturgis has been appointed Collector of the Port of New Orleans, and Messrs, J. L. Merritt and Thomas Hanners his deputies. Four hundred barrels double extra flour were offered for sale in New Orleans on the 13th, at the rate of $21 per barrel. On the 12th instant families were supplied by the following distribution: 2,000 lbs of bacon, 248 bushels corn meal, 13 barrels rice, 2,043 loaves of bread, 11 barrels molasses, 850 cabbages, 14 bushels peas, 2½ barrels mess beef. Dr. Samuel Harby, the editor of the New Orleans Bee, died on the 11th instant. He was a native of Charleston, but for twenty years connected with the Bee. Robert R. Sherman, for eighteen or twenty years attached to the Picayune office, in various capacities, died on the 12th instant. He was a native of Providence, R. I.
The Daily Dispatch: June 30, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 14 (search)
all his host had confronted them, instead of mortal Yankees, the result would have been the same. There were no repulses — all arrangements worked like a charm; and we ought not only to do our soldiers justice, but heartily thank Providence for his guiding hand and assistance, in the immortal events of Thursday and Friday. "who took the batteries?" It is always a difficult matter to ascertain with any degree of certainty who took this or that battery, for ever since the capture of Sherman's at Manassas the question of conquered batteries has always been a vexed one. The position of regiments changes so often in an engagement that one, perhaps, who did but little, by some lucky chance, finds itself before a feebly defended or deserted battery, and simply for the trouble of planting a flag thereon has honor conferred on it for doing nothing! There were not less than six batteries captured in the battles of "Gaines's Mill," yet not one of any of our regiments can lay positive