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The Daily Dispatch: December 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], Sad case of sympathy — death of the son of a Richmond merchant. (search)
Gen. Rosencranz. --This General, who has proved himself thus far the ablest of the Federal officers, is a native of Randolph county, Virginia. His father removed to Ohio when his son was quite young, and hence the common, but erroneous, impression that Rosencranz is a native of the Swine Commonwealth. Take out the officers of Southern birth and of original Southern proclivities from the Federal service, and their army wouldn't be worth shucks. Gen. Rosencranz. --This General, who has proved himself thus far the ablest of the Federal officers, is a native of Randolph county, Virginia. His father removed to Ohio when his son was quite young, and hence the common, but erroneous, impression that Rosencranz is a native of the Swine Commonwealth. Take out the officers of Southern birth and of original Southern proclivities from the Federal service, and their army wouldn't be worth shucks.
Latest Northern News.the Mason-Slidell affair.important News from Missouri.address from General Rosencranz. &c., &c., &c., We have received Baltimore papers to the 24th, and New York dates of the 24th and 25th December. From their columns we extract the following items of interesting news: The Mason-Slidell affair — England bent on a war. From the Paris correspondence of the New York Herald, dated 6th of December, we make the following extracts: Now that the Northern States eneral Halleck has issued an order, fixing the penalty of death on all parties engaged in destroying railroads and telegraphs, and requiring the towns and counties in which the destruction occurs, to repair the damages and pay expenses. Gen. Rosencranz's address to his officers and soldiers. The following address has been issued to the troops of the Western department of Virginia by the Commander of the Federal forces. Officers and Soldiers of the Department of Western Virginia:
The Daily Dispatch: January 1, 1862., [Electronic resource], How the Yankees stand the climate of South Carolina. (search)
. In Kentucky they had massed together two immense forces, of thirty to fifty thousand each, which menaced Columbus and Bowling Green; and all the indications pointed with certainly to an immediate advance upon our lines; at a time when we were weak, and were poorly able to withstand assault from heavy columns. Zollicoffer was pressed before Cumberland Gap by a force more than double his own; Pound Gap was at the mercy of Nelson, having only a thousand men to oppose against ten thousand; Rosencranz was on the Gauley with an army which he now confesses to have been fifteen thousand strong, against Floyd, having only twenty-three hundred, Reynolds was on Cheat Mountain with five thousand, opposed by Johnson with only twelve or fourteen hundred; and Sherman had succeeded in landing fifteen or twenty thousand men at Beaufort, while we had in that region at the time but a few thousand forces, little better than militia, poorly provided with arms and ammunition. And to crown all, the sple
et has arrived at Havana. Commissioners Mason and Slidell left Provincetown on the 1st inst. A correspondent of the New York Herald says the Burnside expedition is intended for Eastern Virginia. It consists of 25,000 men. (Doubtful.). The British papers of the 19th ult. are highly indignant in relation to the "stone fleet." Lincoln's message is severely and unfavorably criticised by the French press. The health of Gen. McClellan and Mr. Marcy is improving. Gen. Rosencranz left for Whelling on Tuesday last. [Second Dispatch.] Norfolk, Jan. 6, --The Herald says that great trouble exists among the operatives in the navy-yards at the North. They disregard the roll call and protest against the Government regulations. The Mexicans had one hundred large rifled cannon in San Juaned' Ulloa, which were all left behind in their flight. Hon. Alfred Ely has made a speech, in which he says that the North are fighting a people terribly in earnes
oads, in Montgomery county, Md., dated the 28th, gives the following account of a Confederate dash: This morning at daylight a body of rebel cavalry, supposed to be sixty strong, entered Poolesville Messrs. Cherry and Sargeant, the Government telegraph operators stationed there, in bed them and permitted them to telegraph to Washington. This boldness of the has caused much excitement in this neighborhood. 1st coming battle at Nashville--the position of the Opposing forces--Gen. Rosencranz--his Intention to fight, &C. Probably the key point of the theatre of war in degreat West is the city of Nashville, the capital of Tennessee. Seated in the midst of the great central basin of the State, surrounded by a highly and very fertile agricultural district, enjoying considerable facilities for military manufacture the focus of several important paved roads and railways, and within two days of the Ohio river by water when the Cumberland is at a good stage, the political and
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