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The Daily Dispatch: December 3, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
The War News. The heavy boom of big guns was heard in this city throughout yesterday, giving rise to the belief either that a battle was going on below the city or that an uncommonly lively time was being had in the vicinity of Butler's canal. It, however, turned out that all the noise was made by our guns, at different points on James river, practising to obtain certain ranges; trying to see how they could have knocked the Yankee monitors into cocked hats if they had been there. The result of the practice is said to have been entirely satisfactory to the parties engaged. With this exception all was as quiet as usual on the north side yesterday. From Petersburg and beyond. If all we hear be true, Grant has made a most important movement on our extreme right, south of Petersburg. A gentleman from Petersburg informs us that, on Thursday morning the enemy, with a large force of cavalry and two divisions of infantry, struck the Weldon railroad at Stoncy creek, twenty mile
The Daily Dispatch: December 3, 1864., [Electronic resource], A silent General. (search)
A silent General. --The Charlottesville Chronicle compares General Lee with some of the noisy characters of this war. It says: "Here comes a man bred in the army. He had been reared a gentleman. He despised humbug. He loved order, and everything and everybody in his place. He told the ladies at Culpeper Courthouse, in 1861, who came out to greet him to go home. In Richmond, they said he had no manners — he attended to his business and spoke little. They sent him to Western Virginia--a small theatre — when Beauregard was at Manassas and Johnston at Winchester; he went, and made no comment. The campaign failed; they called him Turveydrop; he did not attempt to excuse himself. Soon we find him in a blaze of glory, the hero of the battles around Richmond. He is still silent. He marches to Manassas, and achieves another great victory; not a word escapes him. He takes Winchester; is foiled at Sharpsburg for the want of men; defeats Burnside at Fredericksburg; Hooker at