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The Daily Dispatch: December 17, 1862., [Electronic resource], Important from Fredericksburg — the enemy Recrosses the Rappahannock. (search)
Operations on the Mississippi river. Port Hudson, Dec. 14. --On the afternoon of the 12th inst, the Yankee gunboat Essex and a wooden boat, name unknown, anchored out of range of the lower battery. Capt. McLane's company of cavalry crossed the river in the night, and hired a negro to hail the Essex. The hall was promptly answered, and a small boat was sent ashore, when the cavalry fired, killing and wounding two of the Abolitionists. Last night, Capt. Boone, with his company of light artillery, crossed the river, took a position opposite the wooden boat, and at dawn opened a brisk fire on her, which was answered by her and the Essex. The engagement lasted two hours, when the wooden boat retired behind the Essex for protection, and both proceed I down the river.--The enemy fired in all one hundred and ten shots. Capt. Boone fired twenty-five, twenty of which took effect; some passing through the enemy's boat. The enemy's loss is not known. We had one private slightl
The Daily Dispatch: December 17, 1862., [Electronic resource], The fighting in North Carolina. (search)
the celerity of his movements. Others declare him to be an offshoot of the Jacobin family, the founder of which was Jackaloo the Chinese Pirate. They are all wrong, Mr. Editor; Stonewall Jackson is descended in a curved line from the Wandering Jew. In early time the Jew family was rich, but one evil day the head of it went down into Egypt, "bucked" against Pharaoh, and came back with nary shekel, having lost them all in that interesting game. From that time till the discovery of the Mississippi river, the family was too poor to have a name. Stonewall's grandfather ran a flatboat on the aforesaid river, and was extravagantly fond of the classic game of "old sledge." He married, and in the course of time had four sons, whom he named — to commemorate his favorite game — High, Low, Jack, and the Game. Jack followed the example of his father, married, and had one son, the subject of this sketch, who was naturally called Jack's son, and in course of time Jackson. A family trait lurks