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The Daily Dispatch: July 21, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Washington Cabinet Proposing an amnesty. (search)
fit from it, in the saving of limb and feature. He and Attorney General Bates, who thought the Yankees could conquer us by cutting off our tea and coffee, and stopping the operations of the Post-Office, are for holding out the olive branch to us, bidding us be good boys and quit our naughty tricks, promising not to flog us for past offences, and only to plunder us of nine tenths of our property, by liberating our slaves, instead of taking it all. They promise no such thing, however, to President Davis, and other prominent actors in this revolution. Them they must punish, as poor old James II., when he had scarcely a friend in the world, could not be induced to include Churchill in a general amnesty which he was persuaded to proclaim. There are some men to whom no experience can teach anything, and Messrs., Seward and Bates seem to be of that number. They might have learned, before this, that the South will have peace on one condition, and on one only. That condition is eterna
The Daily Dispatch: July 21, 1863., [Electronic resource], Retaliation. (search)
Retaliation. --"Lightning," writing from McMinnville to the Atlanta Confederacy, says: Capt. Davis, of Morgan's brigade, with 150 men, crossed the Cumberland a few days ago, and went within a few miles of Columbia, Ky., where he found a company of the enemy strongly posted in a house, which Davis surrounded, and after a short but hotly contested fight, succeeded in capturing some 25 or 30 of the enemy and about 50 horses. The enemy's loss in casualties was several severely wounded. Capt. Davis succeeded in recapturing nine of our men who were prisoners in the enemy's hands, having been captured near the river the night before. The Yankees had stripped our men of their boots and shoes and forced them to walk barefooted. CaCapt. Davis, learning this, ordered every Yankee in his hands served likewise, and compelled them to walk to this point, nearly 150 miles. The Yankees complained bitterly, but it was only "tit for tat," and their complaints were not listened to. This