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The Daily Dispatch: May 23, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
f a siege going on, as indifferently, because as securely, as though I were in my own room. Such is the universal, child like reliance upon the wisdom of the commanding chief. I sent you a telegram yesterday afternoon of the capture of Col LaGrange and his command. I had a long talk with the Colonel. He is a handsome young fellow, six or eight and twenty years of age, with curly head and light moustache. He is courteous and self-possessed, and conversational, though not communicative. fore he was taken and had two horses killed under him. He admits all the recent Federal reverses, and says they are obliged to win a battle or quit. He expresses the opinion that Sherman is an able officer, and that he will possess Dalton. Col LaGrange is from Wisconsin, and is in politics, I suppose, an Abolitionist, though he retains a prudent silence upon matters of the kind. He commands a brigade of cavalry. In reply to a query as to his opinion of our strength, he said he thought we num
The Daily Dispatch: October 15, 1864., [Electronic resource], Still Later from Europe. (search)
destroy his railroad. There is, indeed, little to tempt to advance, as it will require long marches and heavy fighting before he can reach a point where he can do us the least mischief beyond robbing citizens. "General Hood's base is still behind him. He can fall back, in case the exigencies of events require it, in any direction except that covered by about fifty-five degrees, of which Atlanta is very nearly the centre. "Major Horback, of the Army of Tennessee, has been sent to LaGrange as post quartermaster in the place of Major W. F. Ayer, who has been appointed chief quartermaster of the Army of Tennessee. "It is stated that General Hood is tearing up the tracks of the Georgia, Macon and West Point roads. Seventy miles, it is stated, of the Georgia road will be torn up, and the Macon road to Griffin, and the West Point road to Newman. "All the cotton at Palmetto has been brought away safely. A large quantity had been stored away at that point. "The Macon
The Daily Dispatch: November 29, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
the enemy keep up a constant musketry fire from their picket lines, with the design of preventing a surprise. Since Mahone's descent upon their pickets, they have been very nervous and apprehensive. From Georgia. Our Georgia exchanges furnish us with very little intelligence to copy Governor Brown has issued a proclamation for a levy en masse of the whole free white male population in the State between sixteen and fifty-five years old for forty days service. All persons refusing to report will be "carried immediately to the front." The fright in Milledgeville, when the enemy approached, was very great — some of the members of the Legislature paid as high as one thousand dollars to be carried eight miles. A letter was received in Columbus on Saturday, from Palmetto, a point on the West Point and LaGrange railroad, stating that Kilpatrick, with five thousand Yankees, was advancing down the country on the Alabama side of the Chattahoochee, burning and destroying everything.
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