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The Daily Dispatch: January 31, 1865., [Electronic resource], General Sherman and Savannah. (search)
n the navy, and to prescribe the mode of their appointment," was referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Senate amendments to House bill to increase the efficiency of the cavalry were referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Mr. Smith, of North Carolina, offered a resolution requesting the President to communicate to the House: firstly, the number of soldiers from each State added to the army since the passage of the conscript act; secondly, the number of soldiers within theState, and the grounds of such detail or exemption, discriminating between each class; and thirdly, the number between eighteen and forty-five not unfit for active service employed in executing the conscript laws and detailed on post duty. Mr. Smith said that a tabular statement from the Bureau of Conscription had been referred to on the floor of the House, sometime since, to show that North Carolina had more than 13,000 State officers exempted from military duty as such, and that there we
The Daily Dispatch: January 31, 1865., [Electronic resource], General Sherman and Savannah. (search)
ringfield on the night of the 26th instant, and moved northward in two columns on the morning of the 27th. He also reports that all attempts to cross the Combahee have so far failed. General Taylor reports that the enemy, in some force, came towards Clinton from Baton Rouge and Bayou Sara, and returned. Activity is reported on the Mississippi river, troops going up and down. Most of Thomas's army are reported to have marched west from Columbia to Clinton, on the Tennessee river. A portion of these forces, including A. J. Smith's, are said to be in the vicinity of Huntsville and Eastport. No change in the fleet off Mobile.--The enemy are still leaving Pascagoula. Destructive fire at Summit, Mississippi. On Friday morning, an accidental fire occurred at Summit, Mississippi, on the New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern railroad, which destroyed twenty-three houses and six hundred bales of cotton, together with a quantity of commissary and other stores.