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The Daily Dispatch: November 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], The great naval expedition — from Fortress Monroe and Hatteras Inlet. (search)
e shortest to get at it, while the guns are similarly stored on another vessel; that the medical stores will not be placed along side of the ammunition, and that no delay of ten days here for a resupply of both will take place, thus imposing on Gen. Wool and the heads of different departments of his command, quite as much labor and anxiety as though they were originally entrusted with the fitting out of the expedition; and all this, too, with not so much as a single line of instruction from Was the existence of the expedition. Let us have no more foundlings. In the space of one week nearly, or quite, one hundred "contrabands" have reported themselves to this Department, and received employment on the terms lately promulgated by Gen. Wool. These terms are $10 a month to each laborer; $2 in cash, his rations, his clothes at the lowest rates, the residue to be a fund against which the maintenance of women, children, and those who cannot labor, is to be charged. At the rate the r
The Daily Dispatch: November 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], Gen. Scott in New York. (search)
esterday, that Messrs. Sildell and Mason. with their Secretaries, had been brought into Hampton Roads by a Federal war vessel, and delivered to the custody of General Wool, at Fortress Monroe. The fact was communicated by Gen. Wool, under a flag of truce, to Gen. Huger, and by the latter dispatched to Secretary Benjamin. It is Gen. Wool, under a flag of truce, to Gen. Huger, and by the latter dispatched to Secretary Benjamin. It is said that the arrested commissioners will, by permission of Gen. Wool, send a dispatch to our Government on the subject of their capture. It seems that they had taken passage on the royal mail steam packet from Havana to Liverpool, and that the steamer was boarded by the U. S. man-of-war San Jacinto, under command of Capt. WilGen. Wool, send a dispatch to our Government on the subject of their capture. It seems that they had taken passage on the royal mail steam packet from Havana to Liverpool, and that the steamer was boarded by the U. S. man-of-war San Jacinto, under command of Capt. Wilkes, for the purpose of arresting these gentlemen, who, with their Secretaries, were brought forcibly off. The ladies of the commissioners were left on board. It is thought that the boarding was effected shortly after the steamer had left the port of Havana. The U. S. Consul at Havana gave information of their embarkation on the
The Daily Dispatch: November 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 12 (search)
will be allowed to pass the lines of the United States Army in any direction without a passport signed or countersigned by the Secretary of State; and if any person shall attempt so to pass, he will be liable to arrest and detention by military authority. Wm. H. Seward, Secretary of State. It has been further ascertained on application at the State Department to-day, that such passes will only be granted to persons upon business for the Government of the United States. General Wool has been instructed to communicate with the "proper Confederate authorities, " under a flag of truce, in reference to facilities for supplying the prisoners in their custody with clothing and other necessaries. The release of Lieutenant Albert Kantz on his parole for a limited period, has been reciprocated on our part by the release of a rebel prisoner. There is still a prospect of a general exchange of prisoners, although there is as yet no definite arrangement on the subject.