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The Daily Dispatch: October 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], Further from the North. (search)
ill obey the order. They want to fight their way into Tennessee, where their families are starving, plundered, and oppressed, because the heads of their families are in the United States service. Let it be remembered that while our Generals find it impracticable to cross into East Tennessee with an army and its necessary transportation, Bragg and Kirby Smith can cross the same mountains into Kentucky and invade that State.--Let our Government, then, turn over to Brigadier-General Carter or Spears this Cumberland Gap army and its accompaniments, and I will under-write that they will go into East Tennessee, take the country, and bold it. I now propose to the Government, in good faith to give me the command of fifteen thousand men, including those East Tennessee regiments, and all the outfit necessary, and I promise to take East Tennessee before Christmas, and to hold it and its railroads. I am in earnest in making this request. I am sick and tired of this criminal and uncalled f
The Daily Dispatch: July 4, 1863., [Electronic resource], Gen. Dix's Strategy. (search)
nd it is presumed that they are striking for the trestle work upon the railroad between the capital and Annapolis Junction. Refugees who arrived yesterday report that quite a panic exists in Richmond. Only a very small guard was left there, and many of the citizens were leaving and going to Staunton. The clergymen in Philadelphia have offered their services to the Mayor to work on the fortifications. From the White House, on the Pamunkey river, we learn the full details of Col. Spears's operation to the South Anna, the capture of the rebel General Fitzhugh Lee, a rebel Colonel, a blockade-running Captain, and over two hundred other prisoners. Lee was captured at the house of a friend while he was trying to recover from his wound received at Kelly's Ford. A skirmish occurred at Hanover C. H., where our troops came out conquerors. A rebel baggage train on the way to Richmond, and of great value, was captured and destroyed, and with over a thousand saddles. Farewe
The Daily Dispatch: July 6, 1863., [Electronic resource], Later from the North. (search)
nd it is presumed that they are striking for the trestle work upon the railroad between the capital and Annapolis Junction. Refugees who arrived yesterday report that quite a panic exists in Richmond. Only a very small guard was left there, and many of the citizens were leaving and going to Staunton. The clergymen in Philadelphia have offered their crevices to the Mayor to work on the fortifications. From the White House, on the Pamunkey river, we learn the full details of Col. Spears's operation to the South Anna, the capture of the rebel General Fitzhugh Lee, a rebel Colonel, a blockade-running Captain, and over two hundred other prisoners. Lee was captured at the house of a friend while he was trying to recover from his wound received at Kelly's Ford. A skirmish occurred at Hanover C. H., where our troops came out conquerors. A rebel baggage train on the way to Richmond, and of great value, was captured and destroyed, and with over a thousand saddles. The He
The Daily Dispatch: July 7, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
arriving at Richmond they were closely imprisoned and treated as most of our prisoners have been before them. There was a decided scare on Friday last, when Col. Spears, of Dix's forces, made his raid so near Richmond. The entire city was alarmed, so much so that nearly a thousand rebel soldiers confined in some prison with thuld be furnished with arms and immediately ordered out in front of Richmond. The commanding officer reported that the Yankees were then within a few miles. On Col. Spears's retreat the excitement subsided, but there is still constant fear of an attack, which was expected almost daily. There are believed to be about six thousa taken. The movement on Richmond. The New York Herald contains a number of letters from the Peninsula, giving an account of Dix's movement on Richmond. Col. Spears's "brilliant movement" was made by 1,200 cavalrymen, and left West Point on the 25th. They went to Tunstall's, and thence to Hanover bridge. At the South Anna
The Daily Dispatch: August 3, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Yankees in North Carolina. (search)
The Yankees in North Carolina. The fight in which Gen. Ransom repulsed the enemy on Tuesday last, took place at Boone's Mill, eight miles from Garysburg. At three P. M., the enemy attacked Gen. R.'s command in position at Boone's Mill, eight miles from Garysburg. The fight continued until after dark, and the enemy had Spears's entire brigade and nine pieces of artillery engaged. At seven P M., he commenced his retreat, and our forces pursuing, the enemy finally fled precipitately, destroying the bridges behind him, and never halting until he had crossed the Meherrin river at Murfreesboro'. Having but little, if any cavalry, it was impossible for our forces to continue the pursuit only a short distance. But for night closing in at so early an hour, affiant movement would have been made, that would probably have resulted in the capture of the entire party. The point at which the Yankees called in their retreat was Mount Tebor, half way between Winston and Murfreesboro' and here
The Daily Dispatch: August 5, 1863., [Electronic resource], End of the last Raid into North Carolina. (search)
End of the last Raid into North Carolina. The Yankee columns which marched into North Carolina have retired. The two which went over North Carolina soil went back to Newbern, and the party that marched into the State from Suffolk, composed of Speare's and Dodge's cavalry, reached Suffolk Sunday forenoon about 10 o'clock, and at 8 P. M. took up their line of march for Norfolk. A battery of eight pieces, known as Howard's Regular U. S. Artillery, which also accompanied the expedition, proceeded to Murfreesboro', whence it will be shipped to Newbern, N. C. The expedition was under the command of Colonel Spears, and the man freely acknowledged in Suffolk that the expedition was a complete failure.
The Daily Dispatch: August 29, 1863., [Electronic resource], From the Peninsula — the great raid. (search)
ition in print of the thousand exaggerated rumors which were in circulation yesterday, we give below all the facts of the affair, which are furnished us by an officer of the signal corps, who arrived in the city last night from New Kent C. H. We had pickets at New Kent C. H., Morris's Church, and near Balls's Store, all of these points being about thirty miles from Richmond. These pickets were driven in at an early hour Thursday morning by the 11th Pennsylvania cavalry, commanded by Col. Spears, and numbering about 400 men — that regiment being the entire force which has been so greatly exaggerated. The Yankees after driving in our pickets chased them to Bottom's Bridge, (over the Chickahominy river,) about fifteen miles from the city, which they reached in the afternoon. At this point Col. Shingler dismounted about forty of our cavalry and put them forward as skirmishers. These dismounted men opened fire on the approaching Yankees, and the fire was returned for a short t
The Daily Dispatch: October 16, 1863., [Electronic resource], For hire (search)
--Mr. Sands Smith, an old citizen of Matthews county, Va., was murdered in a most horrible manner by the Yankees on Wednesday of last week. It appears that Col. Spears's 11th Pennsylvania regiment, with some artillery, and a negro regiment from Portsmouth, had been sent to Matthews county to catch Beall's men, who recently destthews Court-House, on their return to Gloucester Point. While on the march Mr. Smith was so brutally treated by the private soldiers that he asked to see Col. Spears. When that officer came up, instead of reproving the soldiers he seized a stick and beat the prisoner over the head. He begged for a glass of water, which wasimmon tree. The horse was then driven from under him. The fall was not sufficient, and he fell to the ground. He begged for mercy, but none was shown him, and Col. Spears ordered his men to fire into him, which they did, and he died, pierced with five balls. They then buried him near the tree, leaving his feet sticking out of th
The Daily Dispatch: October 19, 1863., [Electronic resource], Later from Norfolk. (search)
Later from Norfolk. --Intelligence from Norfolk to Thursday last is received. An order had been received from Washington forbidding the departure of the flag of truce boat to Suffolk, as ordered by Gen. Barnes. With this order came another for the execution of Dr. Wright, who shot the Yankee Lieutenant, Sanborn. The community was overwhelmed with grief at this unexpected and barbarous order. The gallows was being prepared at the Fair Grounds on Thursday. Four companies of Spears's cavalry are at Bermuda Mill, four miles below Suffolk.
The Daily Dispatch: December 7, 1863., [Electronic resource], A monument to the "Union." (search)
the people here; but all seem astonishingly hopeful, and I can but look upon them with all their oppressions and sufferings, and feel ashamed for many respondents in other sections. Four companies of Yankee cavalry are stationed at Bernard's Mill, four miles below Suffolk, on the Portsmouth road, and their pickets are at Jericho Run, two miles from town. Little thieving squads frequently enter the town and steal whatever they can find, and arrest soldiers and returned citizens that may come in their way. Every one has some tale to tell of wrongs perpetrated by the Spears's 11th Pennsylvania cavalry. The Confederate commander that will capture this regiment of cavalry, and bring up the head of Col. Spears in a charger, will immortalize himself in this community. Several refugees were in town last week, among them the pastor of one of the churches, who, to avoid arrest, stayed only a short time, and was not permitted to meet the few remaining members of his charge in worship.
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