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The Daily Dispatch: December 8, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the South-side. (search)
an attempt will be made to cross Backwater, at or near Franklin, at an early day, and that the material for pontoon bridges reached Norfolk on Friday week. Corcoran's Irish Legion arrived at Suffolk on Saturday week, and were received with some enthusiasm Corcoran was not with the Legion, being left at Fortress Monroe, whereCorcoran was not with the Legion, being left at Fortress Monroe, where he lies quite ill with aphoid pneumonia. Corcoran is said to have expressed a desire to be assigned to duty at Suffolk, with the hope that opportunity might be afforded of avenging some "indignities" offered him in Petersburg in February last. The skirmish on Tuesday last, already noticed secured at Carrsville, Isle of WighCorcoran is said to have expressed a desire to be assigned to duty at Suffolk, with the hope that opportunity might be afforded of avenging some "indignities" offered him in Petersburg in February last. The skirmish on Tuesday last, already noticed secured at Carrsville, Isle of Wight. Our forces were out foraging, and consisted of Major Griffin's battalion, and one of Capt. Wright's Rockett battery. The Yankees were informed of their movements, and succeeded in ambushing them. After a severe fight of about an hour our forces retired, with the loss of between 30 and 35, wounded and prisoners, and the rocke
The Daily Dispatch: December 8, 1862., [Electronic resource], Report of the Yankee Secretary of the Navy. (search)
It is stated that Charles A. Dana, former editor of the New York Tribune, was on Monday tendered the position of Assistant Secretary of War, in place of Judge Wolcott. Samuel Chilton, the attorney for John Brown, resides at Warrenton, Va. He thinks old John Brown precipitated the great rebellion. Gen. Corcoran is in command of Newport News, where his legion is in camp of instruction for the present. One of the largest paper mills in Maine has stopped on account of the want of stock.