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The Daily Dispatch: November 6, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 11 (search)
l the reliable morning journals, that the Confederacy was now in a fair way to be captured alive, he at once took measures to cut off the retreat of the latter. Capt. William Brown, with company 3, regiment 5, was at once ordered to construct a pontoon bridge across the river some miles below, and watch it vigilantly day and night; Captain Rob Shorty and Colonel Wobert Wobinson, with the Anatomical cavalry, were dispatched to take possession of a railroad reading to Manassas; whilst Captain Samuele Smith, with the balance of the Conic Section, was commanded to make a detour of three hundred miles, and endeavor to reach the invaded house before midnight set in. All these movements were in accordance with profound strategy, my boy, and cut off the Confederacy from retreat by every route in the world, except the insignificant one he came by. Satisfied that the war was going to end in about sixty days, after which we should have time to defeat combined Europe, the Mackerel guar
The Daily Dispatch: November 6, 1862., [Electronic resource], Dead. (search)
Dead. --Dr. James M. Bell, of Luray, Va., who was one of the citizens seized by Steinwehr, as hostages against the Virginia guerrillas, died a few days ago at his home. He was discharged by Steinwehr on account of ill health, which has now resulted as above stated. He was a brother- in-law to Ex-Gov. Smith.
The Daily Dispatch: November 15, 1862., [Electronic resource], Latest from the North. (search)
Latest from the North. Northern advices, of the 12th, have been received. Gen. McClellan's resignation has created a decided division between the parties at the North. He has issued a farewell address. Gen. Sickles has gone to Rappahannock Station to take command of the position held by Gen. Bayard's cavalry. Schuyler Colfax has been tendered the place of Secretary of the interior, in anticipation of Mr. Smith's retiring to take the place of Circuit Judge of Indiana. We give the following summary of the news: The removal of Gen. M'Clellan--laconic address of his Successor — M Clellan's "last Words"--the feeling at the North about the removal — Lincoln again Yielding to the Radical pressure. Gen. McClellan has been removed from the command of the army of the Potomac, and Gen. A. B. Burnside takes his place. Gen. Burnside, on assuming command, issued an order, in which he says, "I accept control with the steadfast assurance that the just cause must prevail.
The Daily Dispatch: November 15, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 9 (search)
n-arrival of his spectacles, that he used language of an incendiary description against the beloved General of the Mackerel Brigade, thereby proving himself to be one of those crazy fanatics who are trying to ruin our distracted country. He said, my boy, that the adored General of the Mackerel Brigade was a deadbeat, and furthermore observed that he would be very sorry to take his word. Such language could not pass unnoticed, and a Court of Inquiry, composed of Captains Bob Shorty, Samuele Smith, and Colonel Robert Wobinson, was instantly called. The Court had a decanter and tumbler, only, to aid its deliberations, it being determined by the War Department that no fact which could be detected even by the aid of a glass should go uninspected. William having been summoned to the presence, Samuele declared the Court in session, and says he: "The sad duty has become ours to investigate creating charges against a brother in arms which has heretofore been the mirror of chi