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The Daily Dispatch: July 3, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 10 (search)
new deeds of heroism, and advising them to aim low and make sure of the mark. The official lists of the rebel losses at the battle of Fair Oaks have been published. Eighty five regiments and battalions in all were engaged, sustaining a loss of killed, wounded, and missing, of five thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven. The rate of postage on letters in the "Southern Confederacy" has been raised from five to ten cents. About ten o'clock this morning a conveyance arrived at City Point with Capt. Robertson and Lieut. Sykes, of the rebel army, who return under their parole of honor to Fort Warren, the rebel Government having decided not to make any individual exchanges until the United States Government shall agree upon terms for a general exchange of prisoners. General Prentise and fifty other Federal taken at Shiloh, have been removed to A dispatch from Chattanooga says the Federal have stampeded from that place leasing their camp and everything behind.
The Daily Dispatch: July 3, 1862., [Electronic resource], The war. (search)
he flag flying at half-mast. This signal of distress Col. Manning did not respect, as he know it was a miserable piece of deception to save the cowardly vandals who had deserted the deck and huddled below. From a gentleman who has visited City Point within the last day or two, we learn that the malice of the commanders of the Federal fleet James river was so far indulged in their recent beastly raid up our river as to impel them to the commission of many dastardly acts. Independent of their wanton destruction of private property and the great jeopardy in which they placed the lives of many peaceful citizens on the banks of the Appomattox, they applied the match to all the buildings under the hill at City Point, after shelling all on the hill, and afterwards fired the lumber houses and the wharf, all of which were entirely consumed. The wharf and the lumber houses could not be replaced under an expense of $30,000. What their object could have been in destroying these buildings,