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The Daily Dispatch: March 5, 1864., [Electronic resource], For Hire. (search)
questions at issue before the country. The troubles at Fort Jackson, below New Orleans, have terminated in a couple of courts martial, one of which finds Lt. Col. Augustus W. Bennett, 4th infantry corps d'afrique, guilty of "inflicting cruel and unusual punishment, to the prejudice of good order and military discipline," and sentences him to be dismissed the service. Twelve of the privates (negroes) were court-martialed on a charge of mutiny. Two were sentenced to be shot and seven condemned to hard labor. The steam frigate Majars has been ordered to prepare for sea immediately. Six of Admiral Farragut's fleet are ready to leave New York, and three more gunboats have been ordered to the blockading fleet off Wilmington. Fifty two escaped officers in all have arrived at Fortress Monroe, including Col. Streight, who was twelve days in making his way to our lines. The closing quotations of gold, in New York, on the 27th, was 157¾. The stock market was "feverish."
The Daily Dispatch: March 5, 1864., [Electronic resource], Sherman's Mississippi expedition. (search)
mated, in the fall of Atlanta and the occupancy by the legions of the enemy of the Northern half of the great State of Georgia. Every man we might have sent to Mobile would only have enhanced the victory of our foes as it did at Vicksburg. Had Gen. Polk retired upon Mobile, Sherman would have thrown himself in his rear and cut off his supplies, as Grant did at Vicksburg when he threw himself between Pemberton and all hope of succor. There could have been no escape by water; for there was Farragut's fleet already hurling its thunders at Fort Powell; nor through the Mississippi, for there was Banks and his column marching up from New Orleans. If Johnston should send reinforcements to the scene of action, as it was doubtless expected he would do, then Grant would fall upon him at Dalton and force him back upon Atlanta, against which it was finally hoped Sherman would be able to advance from the west, while Grant pressed down from the north — indeed, the telegraphic wires inform us tha