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An English Combatant, Lieutenant of Artillery of the Field Staff., Battlefields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps., Chapter 23: (search)
heads of departments, which would have startled the gentlemen mentioned could they have heard it. But when were soldiers in want of topics for conversation? Captain Smithers and Major Jones, at one end of the table, were professionally discussing the results of the war, and were very declamatory in style; Lieutenant Jenkins was nn of Hardee; while Lieutenant Moore entertained half a dozen round the fire with his reminiscences of the Emerald Isle. Said Major Jones, emptying his glass: Smithers, I entirely disagree with you. The campaign wasn't worth a cent till Lee took the helm, and I believe that Davis himself endeavored to map out operations before allowed to shilly-shally until the enemy came, and passed by the forts unscratched-our ships were burned, Lovell evacuated the city; and it fell. Don't tell me, Smithers; every one knows there has been gross mismanagement in several cases; until Lee came in there was no visible head at work, and those that were at work, the fathe
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, chapter 46 (search)
t night; and it will be ten o'clock to-day before our reinforcements can reach there. I hope our stores (commissary) will not be lost — as usual. Mr. S. Norris, Signal Bureau, has just (1 P. M.) sent the following: I am just informed that Mr. Smithers, telegraph operator at Gordonsville, is again in his office. He says fighting is going oh in sight — that troops from Richmond have arrived, and arriving --and it is expected that Gen. Lomax will be able to drive the enemy back. Just before 3 P. M. to-day a dispatch came from Mr. Smithers, telegraph operator at Gordonsville, dated 1 o'clock, saying the enemy have been repulsed and severely punished, and are retreating the way they came, toward Sperryville. He adds that many of the enemy's dead now lie in sight of the town. So much for this gleam of good fortune, for I believe the military authorities here Were meditating an evacuation of the city. Gen. Custis Lee was at the department to-day, after the clerks detailed from
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II., Xxx. Political Mutations and results.—the Presidential canvass of 1864.< (search)
Connecticut--Brandagee, Deming, English, J. H. Hubbard. Vermont--Baxter, Morrill, Woodbridge. New York — A. W. Clark, Freeman Clark, Davis, Frank, Ganson, Griswold, Herrick, Hotchkiss, Hulburd, Kellogg, Little-john, Marvin, Miller, Morris, Nelson, Odell, Pomeroy, Radford, Steele, Van Valkenburg. New Jersey--Starr. Pennsylvania--Baily, Broomall, Coffroth, Hale, Kelley, McAllister, Moorhead, A. Myers, L. Myers, C. O'Neill, Schofield, Stevens, Thayer, Tracy, Williams. Delaware--Smithers. Maryland--Cresswell, Henry Winter Davis, F. Thomas, Webster. West Virginia--Blair, Brown, Whaley. Kentucky--Anderson, Randall, Smith, Yeaman. Ohio — Ashley, Eckley, Garfield, Hutchins, Schenck, Spaulding. Indiana--Colfax, Dumont, Julian, Orth. Illinois--Arnold, Farnsworth, Ingersoll, Norton, E. B. Washburne. Missouri--Blow, Boyd, King, Knox, Loan, McClurg, J. S. Rollins. Michigan--A. C. Baldwin, Beaman, Driggs, F. W. Kellogg, Longyear, Upson. Iowa — Allison, Grin<
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 1 (search)
nate, asked a committee of conference, and the Speaker appointed Mr. Garfield, Mr. Odell, and Mr. Smithers managers on the part of the House. The Senate, on the thirty-first, insisted on its amendm Stevens's substitute, and it was lost — yeas, twenty-three; nays, one hundred and twenty. Mr. Smithers, of Delaware, offered a substitute for the original bill. It provided: That the President mi-seven. On the twenty-eighth, Mr. Blair, of West-Virginia, moved to reconsider the vote on Mr. Smithers's substitute. Mr. Holman moved to lay the potion on the table — yeas, seventy-three; nays, er's motion to reconsider the vote was then agreed to — yeas, eighty-three; nays, seventy-one. Mr. Smithers's amendment, in the nature of a substitute, was then agreed to — yeas, eighty-one; nays, seve. Schenck, the House asked a committee of conference, and the Speaker appointed Mr. Garfield, Mr. Smithers, and Mr. Kernan managers on the part of the House. The Senate, on motion of Mr. Wilson, i
The Daily Dispatch: March 24, 1863., [Electronic resource], The late Yankee advance on the Rappahannock. (search)
Y cav; W G Cummings, co D, 1st cav; 2d Lieuts Paul D cks, co G 1st ; cav; J E Bowers, co C, Md Va cav; A Dawson, co K, 1st Va cav; Capt D Magermeister co L. 5th Pa; 1st Lieuts E co L, 5th Pa cav; Thos Little co M 5th Pa cav; Captain B F Blood, 4th Pa cav; 2d Lieut E W Warren co C, 3d Pa cav. 1st Lieuts F C Davis, Co D, 3d Pa Cav; F D Wither Ill, co D, 3d Pa Cav; Co B Shutioff co A, 1st R I Cav; Capts P Ka co F, 13th Pa Cav; N S Sneyd, co D. 13th Pa Cav; John Kline, co H 13th Pa Cav; J S Smithers, co K, 13th Pa Cav; T A Byrnes, co I. 13th Pa Cav; W R Hayes, co , 11th Ill; F T co H, 1st Va Cav; A Barken co L, 5th N Y cav; 1st Lieuts Jos Roberts, co H. 3rd Pa Cav; M H Peck, co K 3d Tenn; C A Ceburn co B, 4th Ky J J Bowers, co B 13th Pa; 2d Lieuts John O Riley, co A, 13th Pa Cav; T E Pear n co D 13th Pa Cav; Jas Clack, co K, 13th Pa Cav; Mc, co L 13th Pa Cav; Peter Karpp, co K, 1st Michigan Cav; F Weiss, co E 1st N Y cav; E Wardener, Baron, of Austria, aid to Gen Stoughton. Including
The Daily Dispatch: February 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], Debate in the Yankee Congress. (search)
y should be exempted, while the property of citizens of other States are used for national purposes. Mr. Creswell (Md.) favored the amendment, stating that the slaveholders in the State of Maryland have furnished but few if any men for the war. Mr. Farnsworth (Ill.) said he would not put money into the pockets of slaveholders. It was their duty to put their slaves into the army without compensation. We put our sons into the army, and why should they not give their slaves. Mr. Smithers (Del.) would say to the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Clay) that the people of his State had no such scruples as the people of Kentucky are represented to have. There would be nothing more welcome to Delaware than to take her slaves from her. Mr. Mallory briefly maintained that according to the Constitution private property, including slaves, cannot be taken for public uses without compensation. Mr. Havis (Md) maintained that slaves do military duty, and therefore we do not owe
The Daily Dispatch: July 5, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
. Some two hundred of the Confederates are reported to have been taken prisoners, but the loss of the Confederates, otherwise, Gen. Sherman does not suppose to have been heavy, as they kept close behind their parapets. The Enrollment act — repeal of the commutation clause. Relative to the repeal of the commutation clause the Gazette has the following: The consideration of the bill amendatory of the Enrollment act was resumed, and, after some debate, the substitute offered by Mr. Smithers, of Delaware, was adopted by a vote of 83 years to 71 nays. By the adoption of the substitute the commutation clause is virtually repealed, if, at the end of sixty days after the proclamation for a new draft, the quotas required of the States are not filled by volunteering. The bill has now to receive the sanction of the Senate. The gold market. The New York Tribune, of the 29th, says: The gold market has been much excited, opening at 208, and advancing with hardly a pause