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Philip Henry Sheridan, Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army ., Chapter IX (search)
Chapter IX Ordered to Greensboroa, N. C. March to the Dan River assigned to the command West of the Mississippi leaving Washington flight of General Early Maximilian making demonstrations on the upper Rio Grande Confederates join Maximilian the French invasion of Mexico and its relations to the rebellion assisturrender of General Johnston having not yet been effected), so I made the necessary preparations and moved on the 24th of April, arriving at South Boston, on the Dan River, the 28th, the Sixth Corps having reached Danville meanwhile. At South Boston I received a despatch from General Halleck, who immediately after Lee's surrender orming me that General Johnston had been brought to terms. The necessity for going farther south being thus obviated we retraced our Eighth expedition to the Dan River and return. steps to Petersburg, from which place I proceeded by steamer to Washington, leading the cavalry to be marched thither by easy stages. The day af
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 53: (search)
manner to cheer and aid us in the work in which we were engaged. The town was surrounded by an entrenchment as faulty in location as in construction. I promptly proceeded to correct the one and improve the other, while energetic efforts were being made to collect supplies of various kinds for General Lee's army. The design, as previously arranged with General Lee, was that, if he should be compelled to evacuate Petersburg, he would proceed to Danville, make a new defensive line of the Dan and Roanoke rivers, unite his army with the troops in North Carolina, and make a combined attack upon Sherman; if successful, it was expected that reviving hope would bring reenforcements to the army, and Grant, being then far removed from his base of supplies and in the midst of a hostile population, it was thought we might return, drive him from the soil of Virginia, and restore to the people a government deriving its authority from their consent. With these hopes and wishes, seeking neit
William W. Bennett, A narrative of the great revival which prevailed in the Southern armies during the late Civil War, Chapter 25: spring of 1865. (search)
departure of the government Richmond was in flames, and all the hopes of the Southern Confederacy were consumed in one day, as a scroll in the fire. In the midst of the awful conflagration the Federal troops marched in and gazed upon the funeral pile of Southern hopes. In the meanwhile General Lee, with the remnant of his army, was struggling through deep and miry roads towards Farmville. He hoped to be able to reach Danville and establish a new defensive line along the Roanoke and Dan rivers, but the Federals, fresh and well-equipped, moving rapidly with heavy cavalry forces by parallel roads on his left, cut off that line of retreat, and the only alternative was to push directly to Lynchburg. The dispirited, weary and famished Confederates dropped out of ranks constantly as their lines straggled along the wretched roads, until less than ten thousand remained when they reached Appomattox Courthouse. But they stood ready in their pitiable condition to give battle at the sign
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The First Marine torpedoes were made in Richmond, Va., and used in James river. (search)
is temporary home and capitol very little. He was very busily engaged in examining into the fortifications surrounding the place, which he reported as very faulty both in construction and design. He was also actively engaged in formulating plans relating to the design which he had formed of having Lee retreat to the Virginia State line, where he could be able to form a junction with Johnston, the army as thus combined making a final stand on the banks of and in the country contiguous to the Dan and Roanoke rivers. The execution of this design which he had in mind, had its accomplishment proved possible, would have enabled the leaders to have obtained much better terms than an unconditional surrender. However, as it happened, Grant was able to, and did by a flank movement, which his position aided him in making, prevent the contemplated move on Lee's part, forced the crippled army to retreat towards Lynchburg, where it was surrounded on all sides and compelled to capitulate. This
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America, together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published: description of towns and cities. (ed. George P. Rowell and company), Virginia, Danville, Pittsylvania County, Virginia (search)
Danville, Pittsylvania County, Virginia a town of 4,000 pop., on Dan River and on the Richmond & Danville Railroad, 141 miles from Richmond. In a fertile, agricultural district. Largely engaged in tobacco raising.
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 23: (search)
having done their duty to their country. They all were ready to cross the Dan once more and attack. After giving his troops a day's rest, Cornwallis moved by easy marches to Hillsborough, where on Chap. XXIII.} 1781. Feb. 20. the twentieth he invited by proclamation all loyal subjects in North Carolina to repair to the royal standard which he erected, being himself ready to concur with them in re-establishing the government of the king. No sooner had the British left the banks of the Dan, than Lee's legion recrossed the river. They were followed on the twenty-first by the light troops, 21. and on the twenty-second by Greene with the rest of 22. his army, including a re-enforcement of six hundred militia-men of Virginia. The loyalists of North Carolina, inferring from the proclamation of Cornwallis that he was in peaceable possession of the country, rose in such numbers that seven independent companies were formed in one day; and Tarleton with the British legion was deta
The Daily Dispatch: July 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], [for the Dispatch] (search)
pany has been organized. The minimum capital of twenty thousand dollars, (the maximum being five hundred thousand,) was subscribed in a very short time, and to-day the stockholders me and elected their president and directors. The Board in the evening of the same day confirmed a purchase by the company of one-half of the water power at Danville, from Messrs. Crews, Rodenhizer & Co., with more than half of the ground for sites for manufacturing buildings. The water of nearly the whole of Dan River, (several hundred yards wide at this place,) can be thrown, at small expense, into the present canal, with a fall of some twenty feet, constituting the best water power in the State, except at Richmond. There is site and power enough to drive the machinery of a hundred factories.--The company are pushing the enterprise of a woolen factory, (with good prospects of success,) and hope to have it nearly completed by the end of the year. This may be the only operation that the company will un
The Daily Dispatch: January 2, 1862., [Electronic resource], Coal, iron, salt, &c. (search)
t point. I have ever believed it would be of inestimable value to the Southern Confederacy. It should not be a road only of transportation across the States, but located with an eye to the immense mineral wealth deposited in the valley of Dan river and Town Fork. Here, we have inexhaustible beds of coal, iron are, marble, white, blue, and gray limestone, serpentine and porcelain clay, &c. Besides, the Buffalo Wallow, three miles south of Germantown, in Stokes county, derived its naalt water. With all these things before us, it does seem that thirty minutes time would be but a bubble in the Southern Confederacy in comparison to the great wealth it will develops to the States. Do not these things at least entitle the Dan River Coalfield Railroad to a reasonable inspection before the final connexion is ordered? The road is willing to submit its minerals and prospects to the best geologists South, and abide their decision for the general good of all. We hope
The Daily Dispatch: March 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], House of Delegates. Saturday, March 22, 1862. (search)
corporators to be organized under said ordinance accept the provisions of this act, it shall be upon the condition that the said Piedmont Railroad Company shall not have power to discriminate on either freight or travel, against the Richmond and Danville Railroad, or any other railroad in Virginia connected therewith, and upon the further condition that the connection of said Piedmont Railroad with the Richmond and Danville Railroad, hereby authorized, shall be made at some point south of Dan river, at or near the town of Danville, unless, in the opinion of the President of the Confederate States, the military interests of the country require such connection to be made elsewhere, in which event such conection may be made at such point as the President of the Confederate States shall approve. on the table and made the order of the day for Monday at 12 o'clock. The bill appropriating $100,000 to the manufacture of field artillery and the purchase at small arms, was called up
The Daily Dispatch: May 31, 1862., [Electronic resource], General Greene--retreat through the Carolinas. (search)
ood, were now stretching forward through the midnight, miles in advance.--Cornwallis, when he arrived at the smouldering camp-fires, believed himself almost up with Greene, and allowing his troops but a few moments' repose, marched all night long. In the morning his van was close upon the rear of that firm guard. Now came the last prodigious effort of the British commander — that rear-guard must fall, and with it, Greene, or all has labor and sacrifice would be in vain. On the banks of the Dan he had resolved to bury the American army, and if human effort and human energy could effect it, it should be done. His steady columns closed more threateningly and rapidly on the guard; pushing it fiercely before them, and scorning all meaner success, pressed forward for the greater prize. Still Lee's intrepid legion, and Washington's fearless horsemen, hung black and wrathful around their path, striving desperately, but in vain, to check their rapid advance. On, on, like racers approachi
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