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The Daily Dispatch: March 7, 1862., [Electronic resource], The battle-field around Fort Donelson. (search)
s part of the field on Sunday, where the dead lay thickly, and where the track of the artillery could be traced, some words of the old poet came to mind: "So the fierce coursers as the chariot rolls Tread down whole ranks and crush out heroes's souls, Dashed form their hoofs, while o'er the dead they fly, Black, bloody drops the smoking chariot dye; The spikey wheels through heaps of carnage fore, And thick the groaning axles dropped with gore." The town of Dover, containing, perhaps, one hundred houses, must be considered a part of he battle-field, as it was within the rebel lines. Every room contained sick, wounded or dead men. The inhabitants had fled. Some of our soldiers were sacking it, contrary to express orders. I saw plates, knives and forks, and articles of flue female wearing apparel, on the floor; bloody rags were everywhere, and often pieces of human flesh cut away by the surgeons, and you could not open a door without hearing groans.
The Daily Dispatch: March 27, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
unding Fort Henry, and on the point of overflowing the fort. On the morning of the 6th, Fort Henry was no longer tenable, and the time had come, (previously foretold by the engineers,) when the fort must fall. Seeing, from the dispositions of the enemy, that they would attack him that day, Gen. T. caused his whole force (2,000 in all) to retreat towards Fort Donelson by a circuitous route, which evaded the army of Gen. Grant, (10 000 strong.) already drawn up on the heights towards Dover. To cover this retreat, he remained in the fort with less than 60 men, (officers and all not 70) to receive the attack of the gunboats. The Northern accounts of this fight do not do full justice to the gallant General and the officers and men who were under his command in this engagement, although they speak of it an a gallant and manly defence. It was more than that. It was a desperate one, made to save our retreating army. The fort was, of necessity, already lost. We give
The Daily Dispatch: April 12, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 20 (search)
perfectly well. He called at my drug store early on Tuesday morning, complaining of a severe cough and inability to sleep at night, and requested me to prepare him some medicine adapted to his peculiar condition. I accordingly prepared for him a favorite and well-known cough mixture, in which there was a slight quantity of morphia, about one eighth of a grain to the teaspoonful, and directed him to take one teaspoonful every four or six hours I also gave him at the same time three doses of Dover's powders, containing about eight grains each, one of which I recommended him to take at night. It appears that prior to his death he had taken about one teaspoonful of the liquid mixture, the balance remaining still in the vial, and one dose of the powders. Now, without a constitutional peculiarity before unheard of, the doses in which it seems evident he took the medicine prescribed could not have been possibly followed by any hurtful, much less serious or fatal results — When the young
The Daily Dispatch: April 17, 1862., [Electronic resource], Wisdom and Folly. (search)
r rules the waves. Her journals are already impressing upon her rulers, the necessity of laying aside her wooden men-of-war forever. The Emperor of the French will in future, should he feel so inclined, have it in his power to invade her whenever he may think proper. He has nothing to do but to build these iron ships, and to man them with his conscripts.--The skill and valor of English sailors is no longer of any value in maintaining the dominion of the sea. It is as though the straits of Dover were dried up. France can always man twice the number of iron ships that England can. From Toulon she can realize the dream of Louis XIV. and the first Napoleon. She can make the Mediterranean a French Lake. From the fact that the Monitor is a good sea-boat, it may be inferred that any number of invulnerable vessels may be made so. What becomes, then, of India? What of the Cape? What of Australia?--Upon all of these. England depends for establishing a monopoly of the cotton production.
The Daily Dispatch: June 4, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 23 (search)
in the side; Pink Martin, seriously, in the head; J C Webb, slightly, in the shoulder; K C Blanton, slightly, in shoulder; W H Cooper, slightly, hip; Riley Baley, extent of wounds not known. Missing and supposed to be killed: Priv Burton Downey, Elber Davis, and P L Mintz. Company E.--Killed: Serg't W W Gibbs. Wounded: Privates Geo Wistnant, seriously and left on the field; W G Jarrat, slightly in the hand; W H Butler, seriously in the shoulder. Company F.--Wounded: Privates F F Dover, Thos Dover, W H Kay and Lewis Parris, slightly. Missing: Private B R Lewis. Company G.--Killed: Private H F Dorn- bush. Wounded: Lt John T McEutire, slightly on the head; orderly Serg't J G Sloan, very slight on the head, corp'l J C Alexander, in the vide; privates J H Bradley, severely in hip and foot; Jerry Atkinson, on head; W G Blanton, severely in the side; Z C Hardin, dangerously in loins and thigh; Thos Howser, severely in thigh, leg and mouth.; Jas Hoyle, slight in leg; Elli
The Daily Dispatch: September 15, 1862., [Electronic resource], From our army in Maryland. (search)
Sixty Dollars reward. --Left my pits, at Dover, 17 miles from Richmond, on the James River and Kanawha Canal, six negro men — William, John, Manuel., Sam, Harry, and Jacob.--William is supposed to be with our army, probably as a cook, having acted in that capacity in some of the camps near Richmond; has his right eye badly burnt, and is 17 or 18 years old. John and Manuel were hired from Mr. Blackwell, a refugee from Fauquier county, who has the balance of his negroes near Columbia or Palmyra, Fluvanna county, where I think these two negroes are lurking. Sam, Harry, and Jacob, I suppose, are in the neighborhood of Mr. Henry Satterwhite's, Hanover county, of whom two of them were hired. I will pay $10 for the delivery of any of these negroes to me at my pits, or to J. F. Cottrell, on the Basin, Richmond, and I think it probable that the owners of those negroes would give a much larger reward than I have offered if placed where they could get them. [se 15--3t*] John W. Cottrell
The Daily Dispatch: September 16, 1862., [Electronic resource], By the Governor of Virginia — a proclamation. (search)
Sixty dollars reward. --Left my pits, at Dover, 17 miles from Richmond, on the James River and Kanawha Canal, six negro men--William, John, Manuel, Sam, Harry, and Jacob.--William is supposed to be with our army, probably as a cook, having acted in that capacity in some of the camps near Richmond; has his right eye badly burnt, and is 17 or 18 years old. John and Manuel were hired from Mr. Blackwell, a refugee from Fauquier county, who has the balance of his negroes near Columbia or Palmyra, Fluvanna county, where I think these two negroes are lurking. Sam, harry, and Jacob, I suppose, are in the neighborhood of Mr. Henry Satterwhite's, Hanover county, of whom two of them were hired. I will pay $10 for the delivery of any of these negroes to me at my pits, or to S. F. Cuttrell, on the Basin, Richmond, and I think it probable that the owners of these negroes would give a much larger reward than I have offered if placed where they could get them. [se 15--3t*] John W. Cottrell.
The Daily Dispatch: November 24, 1863., [Electronic resource], The last blockade sale at Wilmington. (search)
according to quality; newspaper $3.50 per lb.; envelopes $52.50 to $100 per M, as to size and quality; French watch glasses $120 per gross; black Orleans lustre $10.25 per yard; Shoes.--Bluchers, rivets, $34.50 to $37; kid, E. sides, $55 to $56; extra russet cavalry boots $61; kid 60; men's gaiters $136; goat skin $42; French waxed calf skins $980 to $1,000 per dozen; ladies' bootees $26 to $60 per pair, as in quality; ¾ to 1½ inch screws $9.75 to $10 per gross; pocket knives $140 per dozen; Dover's powders $34.50 per lb.; Pelletar's quinine $55.50 per ounce; potash, chloride, $7 per lb.; 1 case, 25 lbs., pulverized lytta and 52 lbs. gum acacia, $2,400; ether sulphur, oplate, $7.50 per lb.; starch $1.45 to $2.25 per lb; mackerel $64 per kit and $305 to $325 per bbl; salmon $118 per kit and 400 per bbl; codfish $1 per lb; carb soda $2.25 to $2.40 per lb; alcohol $70 per lb; carb soda $12.50 per lb; percussion caps $20.50 to $21 per M; Perry's pain killer, $22 per dozen; mace $6 per lb;
The Daily Dispatch: January 11, 1864., [Electronic resource], The army of Tennessee and its Generals. (search)
ightened were enabled to escape the daring Confederates. At Ashland, on the north bank of the river, the enemy had collected immense supplies of subsistence. Although the Cumberland was much swollen by recent rains, Wheeler swam his dauntless horsemen over, drove off the guard, consisting of a regiment of infantry, and destroyed stores covering several acres of ground. About this time he was joined by Forrest and his command, the two uniting with him in chasing the enemy into the forts at Dover, and in capturing a battery of splendid rifled guns, more ammunition and small arms, a hundred prisoners, a wagon train, and a number of mules and horses. On his return to army headquarters, he took other prisoners and a train of cars. The loss inflicted upon the enemy during this brilliant expedition, in which a formidable gunboat was forced to strike her colors to "Wheeler's horse-marines," delayed the advance of the enemy for several months, thus proving it to have been one of the most
The Daily Dispatch: March 28, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
und convenient for reference by the students of the situation: Wilmington and Weldon. From Wilmington toMiles.From Wilmington toMiles. Northeast10Magnolia49 Marlboro'12Warsaw56 Rocky Point15Bowden60 Burgaw23Faison64 South Washington30Mount Olive71 Leesburg34Dudley76 Teachy39Everettsville79 Rose Hill42Goldsboro'85 Atlantic and North Carolina. From Newbern toMiles.From Newbern toMiles. Bachelor's Creek8Kinston33 Tuscarora11Falling Creek40 Core Creek17Moseby Hall45 Dover23Bests50 Southwest29Goldsboro'59 North Carolina road. From Goldsboro' toMiles.From Goldsboro' toMiles. Boon Hill12Mebane's98 Smithfield22Haw River104 Stallings34Graham106 Raleigh48Company's Shops108 Morrisville61Gibsonville115 Durham's74McLean's122 Hillsboro'88Greensboro'130 Raleigh and Gaston. From Raleigh toFrom Raleigh toMiles. Huntsville10Warrenton58 Forrestville16Macon62 Franklinton25Littleton73 Kitrell's35Summit79 Henderson42Gaston82 Ridgeway Junction55W
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