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The Daily Dispatch: September 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], Military Enumerations North and South. (search)
otals under these heads would show, perhaps. It would be rather ridiculous to call it either a hard fought, bloody, or a glorious field; but it is an important one; it was a most trying one to the Federalists, who were badly fed and hard worked in a waterless country, on a July day, for twelve hours; they were exposed to the demoralizing effects of long continued artillery fire. In spite of their want of discipline and the very unaccountable rout, the Federalists at first showed alacrity, but after a time they became torpid and difficult to handle. No one questions the general bravery of Americans, native or adopted, on either side; but a defeat is rendered worse than ridiculous by attempts to turn it into a triumph. Det the unfortunate brave rest content with the sympathy they deserve, and shun the ovations which are the one of the conqueror. Praise and flattery cannot retake a gun, nor save a standard, nor win a battle — even if it be from vox populi in Broadway or Bowery.
The Daily Dispatch: September 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], Ran away (search)
Brother Dodge: Your welcome letter reached me two weeks after date. I have been away a week, and so I have seemed to be neglectful of your epistle. I was very glad to hear from you. I have thought frequently of you since we parted in Broadway, after the purchase of that knife and revolver. If a bullet from the latter had been honored in a lodgment in the assassin Jackson's vile carcase, it would have been a pleasant piece of information. I am very much afraid your boys are not to have a serious brush with the rebels within the unfortunate three months of enlistment. It will be a dry rain with them if they make a return march up Broadway without having had a real grand tug with the ice. It will be like running the machine to a fire and finding the fire out. I hope, for their own sakes, they will have a chance to do a big thing with those infernal traitors before they get home. I wish I could run down and see you. It would be delightful to see the boys in fierce arra
The Daily Dispatch: September 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], Our correspondence. (search)
company, who are known to possess superior musical talent, and another rich treat may be expected. The proceeds will be handed over to the ladies, for the benefit of sick and needy soldiers. Rev. Mr. O' Keefe, of St. Mary's Church, of this city, (Catholic,) has returned to a retail dealer the sum of $175, which he received from some person who had obtained it fraudulently and repented of his dishonesty. I regret to announce the death of Maj. Wm. M. Pendleton, of this city, which occurred yesterday. He was highly esteemed for his intelligence and high moral character. I am pained to announce, also, the death of Earnest Beillert, of the Young Guards, of this city. He was greatly loved and respected by a large circle of friends. His disease was of a lingering character. There is no important army news to communicate to-day. The good work of preparation to meet the vandals goes bravely on. A bright day and brilliant array of fashion and beauty on Broadway.
The Daily Dispatch: October 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], Concert. (search)
would not do for them to refuse him anything; he said that shortly after leaving Fortress Monroe, and General Butler and his staff there, the lights were put out on board the boat, and that he accomplished the thing so well that the ship was all in a blaze in a moment; he said that he knew how to fix those things, and that the owners had perfect confidence in him, and they understood the whole matter; some of the latter portion of the conversation look place in Chatham street; we walked up Broadway a short distance, and he said that he had two or three other steamboats which he was about purchasing or negotiating for; that he was going to take them up the Potomac, and that he did not think they would come back; that he would serve them as the Cataline was served; that he had burned the Cataline, and was going to make a good thing out of her; Mr. Lalor, I believe, asked him the question whether he would burn these boats; Larkin used the language that he would "burn them to hell," and s
The Daily Dispatch: November 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Constitutionality of secession. (search)
of the illustrious French visitors have not blinded their eyes to a truth which everybody sees but the demented North. That remarkable people seems to suppose that all they have to do to win the favorable opinion of foreign visitors is to give them good dinners and treat them with distinguished consideration. They were very much astounded that, after putting themselves on their best behavior to the Prince of Wales, England should not help them put down this Southern rebellion. Disappointed in that quarter, they honeyed the Prince Napoleon, but with equal ill fortune. The South, which has maintained its self-respect, has the friendship of those whom they have vainly sought to propitiate, for the reason that European Governments are influenced in their foreign policy by the welfare and interest of their subjects, and not by unprofitable sympathies. Cotton, tobacco, and free trade are more important to England and France than processions in Broadway and dinners at the White House.
The Daily Dispatch: November 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], General news items. (search)
o'clock precisely, all being in readiness for the procession to form, the coffin was taken hold of by several privates of deceased's regiment who fought in the battle of Ball's Bluff, and borne to the hearse, which awaited it opposite the City Hall. The spectator's involuntarily uncovered their heads as the coffin was borne past them, and the band of the Seventy first pealed out the solemn strains of the dead march. The coffin being placed upon the hearse the funeral procession moved down Broadway to Battery place, down Battery place to West street, down West street to pier No. 3, where the coffin was transferred to the steamship Northern Light. Broadway was crowded during the progress of the procession, and the utmost silence was preserved among the spectators Every flag was at half mast, and a general mourning seemed to pervade every where. The coffin was placed in a case specially prepared for it, on the forward part of the ship, on the lid of which was a suitable inscriptio
The Daily Dispatch: April 12, 1862., [Electronic resource], Wanted. (search)
here owing to the slackness of trade fifty per cent has been voluntarily relinquished by the landlords. Among the lucky owners of moderate sized dwelling-houses there is, however, little dissatisfaction with the times. The prudence of business men, the necessary retrenchment of expenses, has created such a demand for that class of tenements as to make them almost at a premium. A curious story is told of the owner of one of the finest marble buildings recently erected on the lower part of Broadway. Before the building was completed, and before the crisis, he had engaged, at an enormous rent, two tenants in the Southern trade. By the time the building was finished they had collapsed, and were glad to any off from their written contract to occupy the premises. They paid the millionaire three hundred per cent. in the notes of their Southern creditors! The recipient guaranteed not to trouble the endorsers until he had exhausted all legal means on the drawers of the notes. If al
The Daily Dispatch: August 5, 1862., [Electronic resource], Later from the North. (search)
vernment blanket under his saddle. Both the men were fine looking fellows, although not dressed very fine or soldiery. They were taken to Gen. Averill, as it was a portion of his command they gave themselves up to. The two rebel deserters are named Frank Osgood and Michael Conner, and were taken from Richmond and forced to serve. Osgood was born in Massachusetts, although he claim to be a New Yorker, from his long residence there. When he left New York he resided on Bleaker street, near Broadway. The Guerrilla war at the west. Dispatches from Louisville, July 29th, say Russellville, Ky., was taken by Confederate guerrillas on that day, under Col. Guano, two Federal lieutenants being killed in the action. It was occupied two hours after by a large Federal force. Governor Magoffin has called the Legislature together to consider Lincoln's emancipation proclamation.--The Mt. Sterling (Ky.) Express has been suppressed for favoring rebellion. A party of guerrillas in Boone co
The Daily Dispatch: September 30, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the North. (search)
uns, vast military stores, a pontoon bridge a road home, and virtually struck dead 11,538 or the power of our troops for the remainder of the Compared with the disasters of an ordinary battle the moral summing up is equal to the in killed and wounded inflicted by the conflicts of a hundred thousand men, in the terrific battle on the three following days. Those of our citizens well know how to appreciate the ring shame of that surrender who saw our brave fellows of the Twelfth march up Broadway friday, last, without a gun among them, and nothing but a naked flag-staff in their hands. Lee having accomplished this the achievement, and probably being encouraged by it to have a trial of strength with the Union army before retiring, now that his power to retreat was sure, ordered Jackson and all the disposable forces of Hill to come to him; and thus having got the whole of the rebel forces of Virginia together, stretched them along the line of Antict creek on Tuesday afternoon,
The Daily Dispatch: November 8, 1862., [Electronic resource], Strange and yet true. (search)
ed in prayer as he was desired, he felt as though at once environed by all the powers of evil. Nevertheless, with reeling brain and bursting heart, and all but overcome, he steeled himself to the very utmost, and struggling on through unutterable mental torture, at length regained his calm. But never more, for him, such fearful championship! A broad distinction, of course, lies between cases of mere cerebral excitement and such as we have before adduced. Hallucinations are as fully recognized, if not quite so common, as colds in the head. Few of those who must have noticed the twitch or toss of the head peculiar to the late eminent counsel, Mr. B--, were aware that it was engendered by a perpetual vision of a raven perched on his left shoulder. A gentleman now residing in Broadway, New York, transacts business daily under the immediate supervision of his great-uncle, who, in a laced coat and ruffles, occupies a large arm-chair placed expressly to receive the honored vision.
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