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The Daily Dispatch: March 8, 1864., [Electronic resource], The repulse of the raiders Near Charlottesville. (search)
ernment and the Custar Southern Confederacy generally Custar commanded the column sent towards Charlottesville, and which did not reach that city, but retreated precipitately upon the first of resistance. It may be inferred that after he had destroyed Charlottesville and the University, and the mills, &c., in his route, he was to have joined in the butchery and demolition of the capital. But the diabolical plot failed in its parts and in its whole. Custar's force came off with loss punishment than the Richmond invaders; but their achievements were alike contemptible. Custar boasts immensely through his dispatches to Washington on his return to the Federal camps. He affects to have made only a "successful reconnaissance," without loss, and boasts of burning a few mills and destroying the substance and support of the country, in pursuance no doubt of that general order from Washington which leaked out in the Dahlgren papers. Custar did his best to help on in the work of Famine.
The Daily Dispatch: March 8, 1864., [Electronic resource], Additional from the North. (search)
ated the tremendous strength of the rebel position at Dalton. The Exploits of Sherman in Mississippi. No portion of our good fortune in the opening of this campaign has illustrated more clearly the impossibility of subjugating the Confederate States than the disastrous failure of Sherman's movement, with the "brilliant" McPherson to aid him. No movement made in this war will carry so forcibly to the Yankee mind the impossibility of conquering so large a territory. A dispatch from Washington, to the New York Tribune, shows how much was expected of the expedition and what a failure it has been: General Sherman is reported at the War Department as having arrived at Selma, in Alabama. --This is in accordance with his instructions. He left Vicksburg with twenty days rations, in light marching order, and intended to march twenty miles a day, and make a lodgment on the upper Alabama river. It was left to the option of Gen. Sherman whether the depot should be established at Se