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The Daily Dispatch: February 24, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ncentrating for another attack on our extreme right. As, however, no attack has been made, it is probable the commotion observed was incidental to the removal of a part of the Yankee army to City Point, en route to co-operate with Schofield and Sherman in the Carolinas. If any offensive movement against the Petersburg lines was contemplated by Grant, it has been indefinitely postponed by the drenching rain of yesterday, which has converted Eastern Virginia into one vast quagmire. From th affairs in that quarter are already beginning to wear a more pleasing aspect. General Joseph E. Johnston was, on Wednesday, ordered to report to General Lee; and it is the general opinion that he has been assigned to the command of all the forces operating against Sherman. It has been a rumor for some days that General Beauregard had asked to be relieved on account of ill health. General Johnston had been with General Beauregard since our troops fell back from the line of the Edisto.
The Daily Dispatch: February 24, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
of Charleston. The Chronicle has just such an insolent editorial as might have been expected about the fall of Charleston.--The article is headed "The Nation Avenged. " We give a paragraph: Charleston has fallen! That proud, insolent and wicked little city, the cradle of the rebellion, protected by its position, and by fortresses built by the Government of the United States, has resisted the most terrible cannonading on record for nearly two years; but it could not withstand one of Sherman's "flank movements!" He turned away off to the west, as if to avoid the pestilent place, and the country began to fear that it had received a new lease of life, when suddenly the news flashes over the wires from Fortress Monroe that the place had been abandoned! The article continues in a similar strain about the "gay and dashing insolence of the South Carolina chivalry," &c. The Yankee Congress — Government of the Rebel States. In the Yankee Senate, on Monday, in debate, Mr. S