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The Daily Dispatch: December 1, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
The War news. It was reported on yesterday, upon what seemed the best authority, that Grant was massing his troops on the north side of James river. There is nothing more likely than that the present rare spell of fine weather may afford him the opportunity it is supposed he has been seeking, to make another burst for the Capital of the Southern Confederacy; in which case, the north side of the river will, most probably, be the theatre of his heaviest operations. But as yet, there has been nothing observable on this side of the river to indicate such a movement except the report above mentioned. Yankee monitors Attack battery Hewlett on Tuesday and are Repulsed. On Tuesday morning, the batteries of the enemy on General Parke's line, in front of Bermuda Hundred, opened on our battery at the Howlett House, which is General Pickett's left. At the same time, three Yankee monitors moved up Trent's Reach to the point at which it was obstructed last summer, and also engaged
The Daily Dispatch: December 1, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
le-ender gunboat Tacony went ashore off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, a few days ago, and had not been released from her perilous position when last heard from. The Louisville Democrat says that the Lieutenant-Governor of Kentucky, R. T. Jacobs, who was recently ordered through the Confederate lines by the military authorities of that State, is now at Gallipolis, Ohio. The rebel authorities refused to receive the exile, saying that "they do not intend to let President Lincoln make a Botany Bay of the South." A girl of sixteen, convicted in St. Louis of repeated violations of the oath of allegiance, of carrying contraband articles across our lines, and of being a rebel spy, has had her sentence, which was death, commuted by General Rosecrans to imprisonment during the war. Butler's dispatch boat Greyhound, while going down James river on Sunday, caught fire and was destroyed.--General Butler and staff, with Rear Admiral Porter, were on board, but all escaped safely.