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The Daily Dispatch: June 11, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
--On Thursday afternoon officer Crone arrested a soldier named Jas. Smith, charged with stealing a silver watch, a gold chain, one pistol, belonging to a Louisiana regiment, when the preposition was made by Smith that they should all take a drink. This the witness refused to do,s pocket-book, and after examining some papers he had, gave them to Smith to fold up again, as he was unable to do so himself. The prisoner h proceedings, he demanded its return, when, after some hesitation, Smith took the pocket book from his own and reaching around Townsend put that no one else could have committed the deed, be grabbed hold of Smith and his friend; but the latter drawing a knife, forced him to let go, and he escaped, carrying with him the watch. Subsequently, Smith made his escaped also, but was afterwards arrested by officer Crone. Onk was not identified, but the contents Townsend claimed as his own. Smith was remanded for indictment by the Grand Jury of the Hustings Court
The Daily Dispatch: June 11, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
can invent a falsehood. The following paragraph in one of his dispatches is a remarkable specimen of the two styles — the suppressic veri and the suggestio falsi. We do not know that we ever saw the two so happily blended in a single paragraph: Washington, June 5th--1 P. M. Major General Diz: A dispatch from Gen Grant's headquarters, dated half-past 8 o'clock last night, has been received. It states that about seven P M yesterday (Friday, 3d June,) the enemy suddenly attacked Smith's brigade, of Gibbon's division. The battle lasted with great fury for half an hour. The attack was unwaveringly repulsed. Not one word of the events of that bloody Friday morning. If the Yankee nation ever learns that at five o'clock on Friday, the 3d of June, 1864, Grant made a furious assault upon our lines, and after a murderous conflict of five hours duration was finally repulsed, with a loss of at least 15,000 men; that he left his dead and wounded in our front for days, not dar