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The Daily Dispatch: August 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
endent citizens' meeting, in Union Square, for the express object of appointing a committee of five hundred representative citizens to wait upon Lincoln in behalf of an embassy to Richmond, with liberal overtures for an armistice and convention of all the States, in order to see if this dreadful war cannot be ended in a mutually satisfactory treaty of-peace. It heads another editorial, "Is War to be Eternal?" The Herald says, in its situation article, Butler is cutting a canal across Dutch Gap, a distance of about half a mile; but when constructed it will save a distance of about seven miles, and will enable the Federals to avoid the obstructions in James river.--The enemy is bringing a heavy fire to bear upon the working parties, but the work goes nobly on. Advices from Sherman's headquarters confirm the account of the flank movement to the west of Atlanta, and say his right now rests at East Point, thus cutting the rebel communication with Montgomery and West Point.
The Daily Dispatch: August 20, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Northern papers of the 18th have been received. They contain advices from Grant's army to the 16th, inclusive: The movements on the North side. The following press dispatches give some details of the enemy's recent movements on the north side of the James: Washington, August 16.--On Saturday last, General hancock's corps was put in motion on the James river, and by a circuitous route, reached the north side of the river at Deep Bottem, near Dutch Gap, on Saturday night. Turner's and Tany's divisions, of the Tenth corps, also crossed over to Deep Bottom on the same night. Foster's division, which has been for some time posted at Deep Bottom, was advanced by General Birney a little after sunrise on Sunday, pushing the rebel line of skirmishers before them for some considerable distance, when the Twenty-fourth Massachusetts regiment, Colonel Osbovne, charged and broke the rebel line and captured seventy prisoners. In the meantime, Gregg's cavalry had cl
The Daily Dispatch: August 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
s one more to the catalogue of Grant's "brilliant movements" (over the left) in this campaign.* One day last week, the Yankee pickets in the neighborhood of Dutch Gap opened fire upon our picket line, when two of our gunboats, being in the vicinity, concluded to take a hand. Consequently, they commenced throwing shells promiscuously in the direction of the Yankees. One of the missiles struck the enemy's pontoon bridge near Dutch Gap and set it on fire, burning several of the boats of which it is composed. This Confederate salute seemed to cause considerable consternation among the Yankees. The enemy is still engaged in digging the canal across the neck of land known as Dutch Gap. To those who are acquainted with its topography, this will appear to be a work of no small magnitude, but unless some plan can be devised to put a stop to their operations, it will be accomplished. From the Valley. At length we have some definite information from General Early's command
The Daily Dispatch: August 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
eral Butler has been counting over a brilliant scheme wherewith to annoy the enemy and advance the Union interest in this region materially. His plan contemplated nothing less than the construction of a canal at what has hitherto been known as Dutch Gap — hereafter to be known as Butler's Gap — in the direct face of the enemy, which, when done, should, among other results, by reason of its situation, compel the rebels to extend their line of defence a distance of four miles--that is to say, th holds it, and will continue to hold it until his appointed work is accomplished. At five o'clock yesterday morning two rebel rams, believed to be the Virginia and the Richmond, though some think one of them was the Lady Davis, appeared at Dutch Gap, in the James river. The James at this point forms a promontory, which is very narrow at its apex. The shape of this promontory is in the form of a long tongue, and, verging to the northward and westward, makes another turn, which forms anoth
The Daily Dispatch: August 23, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
in turn and driven back upon the infantry supports. In this engagement Colonel Gregg was severely wounded. * * * * The Washington Chronicle says that though it has been reported that fifteen hundred prisoners have been captured from the Confederates on the north side of James river, it would be safer to put the number down at five hundred. We are also told that one of the objects of the expedition was to prevent the enemy from drowning out the men engaged in digging the canal across Dutch Gap A few had been drowned and a considerable amount of stores swept off before Grant interrupted the operation. From the Valley — Sheridan's retreat. General Sheridan, who started on the 9th from Hall Town, Virginia, to drive Early up the Shenandoah Valley, bring him to battle, and, if possible, defeat him, advanced with this intent as far as Strasburg; but in consequence of the capture of his supply train, he soon afterwards fell back to Winchester, reaching that place on. Tuesday l
The Daily Dispatch: August 26, 1864., [Electronic resource], Additional Northern News. (search)
ding Fort Gaines. Witness: P. Drayton, Fleet Captain; Albert J. Myer, Colonel and Signal Officer, United States Army. The successful occupation of the Weldon railroad causes great rejoicing at the North. The movement is represented to have been attended with the most brilliant success, and the rebels are said to have been defeated with great loss in their attempts on Thursday and Friday to dislodge the Fifth corps. The Herald predicts great results from this important movement. The loss in holding the position has not been ascertained, but partial returns indicate that it is severe. Matters continue quiet on General Butler's lines. The canal at Dutch Gap is progressing favorably. The Herald says there is no doubt that the privateer Tallahassee is the Atlanta, which was recently built on the Thames. She is a double screw iron steamer, said to be the finest and best of that class of steamers launched. Custom-house measurement gives her six hundred tons.
The Daily Dispatch: September 8, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
se carried down the river are men whose term of service has expired. The Yankees, always up to some new project, have constructed a moveable battery by mounting a fifteen-inch mortar on a railroad car, which is occasionally run up on the City Point road and discharged at the city of Petersburg. It makes a good deal of noise and serves to amuse the enemy, but has thus far done no harm. The Express learns that the Yankees are still "pegging away" on the canal across the peninsula at Dutch Gap. The width of the land at this point is one hundred and eighteen yards. The gauge of the canal is fifty feet in width, and in depth some fifteen or twenty feet below high water mark. The Yankees are protected in their work by strong breastworks. There is a fall of four inches in the seven miles of water winding around the peninsula, and with the distance diminished to one hundred and eighteen yards, it is estimated that when the canal is finished, (if it is ever allowed,) the rate of th
The Daily Dispatch: September 13, 1864., [Electronic resource], Five hundred dollars reward. (search)
sts occasionally play upon it at a distance, but have not, thus far, succeeded in damaging it. A shot in that direction from one of our guns invariably calls forth a heavy reply from the Yankee batteries. It is reported that there was a spirited artillery duel between the enemy's monitors and our batteries at Howlett's on Saturday. Persons who visited that neighborhood on Sunday, however, heard nothing of it. The Yankees are still engaged in their enterprise of digging a canal at Dutch Gap, and have thrown up breastworks to protect their laborers in the event that the Confederates attempt an interference with their operations. The Northern papers still insist that Grant is receiving heavy reinforcements, and boast that he will soon have that "one hundred thousand" with which he has promised to crush the life out of the Confederacy. As the latest accounts, however, represent that the draft is to be enforced, in spite of Seward's assurance to the contrary, these statement
The Daily Dispatch: September 15, 1864., [Electronic resource], Quartermaster's Office, (search)
The War News. Heavy firing was heard yesterday afternoon in a southeasterly direction from the city, and from the unusual distinctness of the reports, many conjectures were indulged in concerning it. Some expressed the belief that it was at Drewry's Bluff, and others at Chaffin's; but it turned out that all were wrong. We have ascertained that the cannonade proceeded from our gunboats and land batteries shelling Dutch Gap, where the Yankees are cutting a canal for the purpose of changing the course of the river. We have no intelligence of the result, though it may be safely asserted that the work was suspended for a period. The firing ceased about 6 o'clock. A deserter states that the work on the canal progresses very slowly, and gives as a reason that the Confederate shells annoy the laborers to such an extent that it is with difficulty they can be kept at work. If this deserter's story is true, this canal has already proved the "last ditch" to many of them; for he say
The Daily Dispatch: September 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], The cruise of the "Tallahassee." (search)
nharmed, as one of his slaves was allowed to strike him with his musket. A party of negroes came to Smithfield, and were fired into by the citizens; in a day or two, a gunboat came up to the wharf, and, on the testimony of a negro, four of the principal citizens were arrested and taken off.--The negro, they said, "was a free man, and protected by their flag. " Yesterday, nearly all day, heavy firing was heard from down the river. It was caused by a brisk shelling, in the vicinity of Dutch Gap, by the enemy's gunboats, done to protect the working parties on butler's canal improvement. The position in Georgia. There is nothing new from Georgia. The "front" is quiet under the flag-of-truce opiate administered to it. The flag-of-truce detail, on our side, is under the direction of an officer of General Hood's staff, and consists of about one hundred men, with a sufficient number of wagons to bring off the refugees who may "elect" the South as their residence.--General Sher
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