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The Daily Dispatch: may 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], War Movements. (search)
r streets are depleted of much that combined to render them lively, and our stores and dwellings of much that rendered them interesting and attractive. I learn that the work at Fort Powhatan approaches rapidly to completion, and that already eight 32-pounders are mounted and ready for use. The troops stationed there, consisting of the "Archer Volunteers" and the "Cockade Rifles," are in excellent spirits, and work like beavers. They are already prepared to resist the passage of any of Lincoln's vessels, and extremely anxious to make a fair trial of their guns. The clergy of this city visit them regularly, and report a deep religious feeling as existing among them. Thus, with their powder dry and their trust in God, they will prove almost invincible. At Jamestown, also, I hear that eight or ten 32 pounders have been raised to their places, and that that renowned old place will shortly be put in a thorough state of defence. An effort will be made to get more guns for both
The Daily Dispatch: may 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], Not gone into. (search)
"Lieut. General Douglas." --The Indiana Sentinel hears it stated by those whose information is entitled to respect, that the Hon Stephen A. Douglas will be appointed Lieutenant General by President Lincoln. In view of this announcement we may as well and that it is reported that Senator Wigfall is to command a regiment of a thousand picked men, selected from the whole Southern Army, no man in the regiment to weigh under 170 pounds, or be under feet high, or over 36 years of age, Each man will be armed with an Enfield rifle, two Navy revolvers, and a six-pound bowie-knife.
The Daily Dispatch: may 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Blue Hen's Chickens. (search)
The Blue Hen's Chickens. In the Jersey City Standard, of the 9th instant, we find a number of letters from the volunteers in Lincoln's army, stationed at Washington. We make a few choice extracts, which present a mournful contrast to the brag and bluster of the politicians who have deluded these poor soldiers into the belief that they were setting out upon a campaign of glory and conquest. One honest lad thus describes the first sensations of misery: "Sunday night I first began to realize what a life it is I have commenced. Everything was miserable." There were nearly one thousand of us crowded on one boat, with scarce hall room enough to lie down even, let alone to walk about. At nine o'clock the drum beat for us to go to our 'bunks.' In the hold berths had been put up of rough boards, but even they would only accommodate half our number. The rest had to wrap themselves in their blankets and sleep on deck. I did the latter, as the hold was so close I feared I co
The Daily Dispatch: may 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Uprising of the South. (search)
Symptoms of Civil war. --The Louisville Courier says: By private advices we are informed of a grand row and insurrection among Lincoln's volunteers at Camp Harrison, Cincinnati. It occurred on Wednesday last, yet the papers up there have not yet heard the news. The list of killed and wounded we did not get, but fear that none were killed outright, though a good many were badly wounded. The mass of the men in the camp had been in partial revolt for several days, but the immediate cause of the row we did not ascertain, beyond the fact that there was a bloody fight, in which fully five hundred men participated. The enclosure was torn down, tents rent, and material scattered to the winds by the mob, who assailed each other with fence-rails, palings, fist and skull, turning the military camp into a pandemonium. Unfortunately the great mass of the combatants had no offensive arms, and could only batter each other's noses. The officer in command finally succeeded in quellin
The Daily Dispatch: may 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], Movements on the Potomac. (search)
Some common sense left. --The Newark (N. J.) Evening Journal says, "every Democrat within our knowledge is in favor of the speediest possible termination of the war, by negotiation, consistent with dignity and honor." And the same paper remarks: The peaceful tone of President Davis' message to the Southern Congress will put the whole North in a reflective mood. A similar spirit on the part of President Lincoln is only needed to allow the opening of negotiations and a settlement of all pending difficulties upon some amicable basis. It is now time for the people of the North to demand a stay of hostilities. Congress should be immediately summoned to the capital to deliberate and act. Let us have peace.