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The Daily Dispatch: December 21, 1864., [Electronic resource], The War news. (search)
arely permit a day to pass without treating us to a cannonade. On Monday evening they shelled our left, near the Appomattox, vigorously for two hours. On this occasion, we are glad to learn, no casualty occurred amongst our men. From Southwestern Virginia. We have nothing from the Stoneman raid on the Virginia and Tennessee railroad except the report, stated in a telegram received yesterday by a member of the Legislature from Southwestern Virginia, that on last Sunday evening General BSouthwestern Virginia, that on last Sunday evening General Breckinridge, having marched out from Saltville, attacked the enemy at Glade Spring, and gained a decided success, and that he renewed the attack early on Monday morning, compelling the enemy to retreat precipitately towards East Tennessee. This report is not confirmed by any official intelligence received at the War Department, but we see no reason to discredit it. If General Breckinridge had collected such a force as would at all justify him in leaving his entrenchments, there is no doubt tha
The Daily Dispatch: December 21, 1864., [Electronic resource], Confederate Congress. (search)
The raid in Southwestern Virginia. The Lynchburg Republican contains some additional particulars of the movements of the enemy in Southwestern Virginia. The telegraph operator at Marion, who was for a short time a prisoner in the hands of the raiders, reports their strength at about four hundred, and says Stoneman, according to their account, was in command. They burned all the bridges near Marion. The Republican says: "Several gentlemen of Bristol escaped from there on Thursday mSouthwestern Virginia. The telegraph operator at Marion, who was for a short time a prisoner in the hands of the raiders, reports their strength at about four hundred, and says Stoneman, according to their account, was in command. They burned all the bridges near Marion. The Republican says: "Several gentlemen of Bristol escaped from there on Thursday morning. They report that, up to the time of their leaving, the town was held by a small force of the enemy, who had not burned any private property nor the Virginia and Tennessee depot.--They captured the train of the Virginia and Tennessee railroad and burnt it. Conductor Scrags, Mr. Bigble, express agent, and Mr. George A. Kinnier, acting mail agent, were all captured. Two trains, with their engines, belonging to the East Tennessee road, were destroyed. These gentlemen say that the Yankees