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Stevenson (Alabama, United States) (search for this): article 6
during the six hours bombardment. The effect of the first day's fire from Gen. Gillmore's batteries on Sumter was very damaging. A false wall, which the rebels had erected to protect the gorge wall, which is exposed to the fire from the land batteries, was completely demolished, while the old wall was bored full of holes, the parapet crushed and torn, and the Northwest corner of the fort gashed and cracked down almost to the water's edge. From Chattanooga. Dispatches from Stevenson, Ala., report that Gen. Rosecrans opened fire on the rebel works on Friday last. The enemy replied ineffectually, whilst our fire disabled every battery they opened.--Their works all along the river are very strong. One of their steamboats was destroyed and another disabled. An attempt to destroy their pontoon boats moored on their side of the river was prevented by their sharpshooters. We, however, captured forty prisoners, a train of wagons, and a number of mules. An expedition
Fort Delaware (Delaware, United States) (search for this): article 6
nds, if any have been given, to the Provost Marshal General of the army, at the headquarters of the Department for record. By command of Maj.-Gen. Rosecrans. J. Bates Dickinson, A. A. G. A regiment of Traitors — the third Maryland cavalry. Col. Charles Carroll Tevis, a graduate of West Point in 1849, is now engaged in raising the 3d Maryland Cavalry. His recruiting officers are: Captain Gregory, Capt. Pemberton, Lieutenant Eakin, and Lieutenant Davis. Their station is at Fort Delaware. The Baltimore American says of this regiment: Of the many prisoners who have taken the oath of allegiance, six hundred have already enrolled themselves in the new regiment. Among them are men from almost every State in the country. They are a fine, hearty-looking set of men, having been well fed by the Government since their capture. Colonel Tevis has seen considerable service in the United States Mounted Rifles. He also served in Turkey five years as Lieutenant-Colonel of ca
Turquie (Turkey) (search for this): article 6
utenant Davis. Their station is at Fort Delaware. The Baltimore American says of this regiment: Of the many prisoners who have taken the oath of allegiance, six hundred have already enrolled themselves in the new regiment. Among them are men from almost every State in the country. They are a fine, hearty-looking set of men, having been well fed by the Government since their capture. Colonel Tevis has seen considerable service in the United States Mounted Rifles. He also served in Turkey five years as Lieutenant-Colonel of cavalry, and was decorated for gallant conduct on the field of battle three times by the Ottoman Government. During the last year he was Lieutenant-Colonel of the 4th Delaware Volunteers, and led several expeditions from Yorktown, Virginia, in one of which he pushed as far as Aylett's Station with two hundred infantry. He was selected by Gen. Schenck to organize the 3d Maryland regiment, and has been detached from his old regiment by the Secretary of War
Harper's Ferry (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): article 6
y early day. If the Republican is accepted as authority our relations with England are certainly threatening. The inquiry into the surrender of Winchester. The Court of Investigation into the facts and circumstances connected with the evacuation of Winchester and Martinsburg is in session in Washington. They had before them Col. McReynolds, of the First New York cavalry, commanding a brigade under Gen. Milroy at the time of the evacuation of Winchester and during the retreat to Harper's Ferry. He testified that Gen. Milroy called a council of his brigade officers--Gen. Elliott, Col. Ely and himself — in which it was decided to retreat. Col. McReynolds could not say upon whom the responsibility rested for the disaster at Winchester, though evidently some one was to blame. He corroborated the evidence of Capt. Alexander, of the Baltimore battery, given on Wednesday, as to the destruction of all the artillery ammunition of his brigade, by throwing it into the cistern of the f
Bedford Springs (Virginia, United States) (search for this): article 6
the horses attached to the hearse. He afterwards visited Falls Church, and amused himself by taking observations of our new contraband farms. Miscellaneous. A dispatch from Memphis announced that Gen. Hurlbut had sent an expedition to Grenada, Miss., which drove the rebels out of the town and destroyed fifty-seven locomotives and over four hundred cars, belonging to the different Southern railroads concentrating at Jackson. Ex-President Buchanan and suite, en route from Bedford Springs to Wheatland, passed through Harrisburg on Saturday last. After Mr. Buchanan had changed cars, and a few minutes before the train started, a crowd was collected in front of the car be occupied. Just then a soldier, who had lost an arm, began to shake the stump in the face of the O. P. F., exclaiming, "I am indebted to you for this!" (pointing to the maimed arm,) "and the devil will liquidate the debt when he gets you!" At this point the whistle of the locomotive screamed the signal of
Martinsburg (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): article 6
e Republican not only expresses no doubt, but enforces it by stating that the "preliminary notice" has been followed by a peremptory notice, and further asserts that the latter fact will be officially promulgated at a very early day. If the Republican is accepted as authority our relations with England are certainly threatening. The inquiry into the surrender of Winchester. The Court of Investigation into the facts and circumstances connected with the evacuation of Winchester and Martinsburg is in session in Washington. They had before them Col. McReynolds, of the First New York cavalry, commanding a brigade under Gen. Milroy at the time of the evacuation of Winchester and during the retreat to Harper's Ferry. He testified that Gen. Milroy called a council of his brigade officers--Gen. Elliott, Col. Ely and himself — in which it was decided to retreat. Col. McReynolds could not say upon whom the responsibility rested for the disaster at Winchester, though evidently some on
Tennessee River (United States) (search for this): article 6
ed fire on the rebel works on Friday last. The enemy replied ineffectually, whilst our fire disabled every battery they opened.--Their works all along the river are very strong. One of their steamboats was destroyed and another disabled. An attempt to destroy their pontoon boats moored on their side of the river was prevented by their sharpshooters. We, however, captured forty prisoners, a train of wagons, and a number of mules. An expedition, under Col. Wilder, crossed the Tennessee river and burned a railroad bridge, thus cutting the communication between the rebel right and left. Deserters who have come into our lines report that Gen. Johnston had arrived with troops and superseded Bragg in command. Retaliation. The following order, says the Baltimore Clipper, issued when the execution of Captains Sawyer and Flyan was first threatened, is promulgated for publication: Headq'rs, of the Department of Washington, D. C., July 16, 1863.--Commanding office
England (United Kingdom) (search for this): article 6
The prospect of a Yankee war with England. The Philadelphia Inquirer has the following paragraph about the rumor in the Washington Republican of a war with England: The extraordinary article from the Washington Republican, anticipating a war with England, to which we made brief reference yesterday, appears to have been based upon a private letter from London, dated the 21st of July. The letter in question states that "a preliminary notice had been served upon the Government of Great Britain, by the proper officers of the American Government," to the effect that if England permits the two iron-clad rams now building there for the rebels to be turned over to our enemies to depredate on American commerce, the Government of the United States will, accept the act as a declaration of war. This is certainly very important and startling, if true, and of the truth of the allegation the editor of the Republican not only expresses no doubt, but enforces it by stating that the "prelimi
Washington (United States) (search for this): article 6
nder Col. Wilder, crossed the Tennessee river and burned a railroad bridge, thus cutting the communication between the rebel right and left. Deserters who have come into our lines report that Gen. Johnston had arrived with troops and superseded Bragg in command. Retaliation. The following order, says the Baltimore Clipper, issued when the execution of Captains Sawyer and Flyan was first threatened, is promulgated for publication: Headq'rs, of the Department of Washington, D. C., July 16, 1863.--Commanding officer Fort Monroe, Col. Ludlow, agent for the Exchange of Prisoners of War — The President directs that you immediately place W. H. Lee and another officer selected by you, not below the rank of captain, prisoners of war, in close confinement and under strong guards, and that you notify Mr. R. Ould, Confederate agent for exchange of prisoners of war, that if Captain H. W. Sawyer, 1st New Jersey volunteer cavalry, and Capt. John Flynn, 51st Indiana volunteers, or
West Point (Virginia, United States) (search for this): article 6
orps of divisions, detached or acting at inconvenient distances from their corps headquarters, reporting promptly a list of the names and description of all persons so paroled by them, with their bonds, if any have been given, to the Provost Marshal General of the army, at the headquarters of the Department for record. By command of Maj.-Gen. Rosecrans. J. Bates Dickinson, A. A. G. A regiment of Traitors — the third Maryland cavalry. Col. Charles Carroll Tevis, a graduate of West Point in 1849, is now engaged in raising the 3d Maryland Cavalry. His recruiting officers are: Captain Gregory, Capt. Pemberton, Lieutenant Eakin, and Lieutenant Davis. Their station is at Fort Delaware. The Baltimore American says of this regiment: Of the many prisoners who have taken the oath of allegiance, six hundred have already enrolled themselves in the new regiment. Among them are men from almost every State in the country. They are a fine, hearty-looking set of men, having be
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