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toon, next day, (31st,) says: "Everything seems to have resumed its usual quiet. The rebels are believed to have dispersed. The 47th Indiana had left, etc." The Red river expedition had gone up as far as Natchitoches, sixty miles above Alexandria, and had captured four hundred prisoners, four cannon, etc. Deserters arriving at Knoxville report that all of Gen. Longstreet's baggage had been sent back to Richmond, and that his whole force was under marching orders. It is reported that a large force of rebels is concentrating at Pound Gap, under Buckner, for a raid into Kentucky. Gen. Grant and Gen Meade had been to Fortress Monroe to confer with Gen. Butler. Ten Brigadier Generals have been ordered to report to Gen. Sherman for duty. It is believed that Gen. Buell will supersede Gen. Schofield in command of the army of Ohio in East Tennessee. At 2 o'clock, on the 1st, sold in New York was 166ΒΌ. The closing quotation in Baltimore same day was 168.
as been at times during the last three years. Would not any other nation on earth, in consideration of the pitiful results of their vast preparations, hang their heads in shame? The Yankee talent for amplification, however, does not confine its operations to boasting of its own numbers. These beaten, they invariably discover that they have been outnumbered by five or six to one. Liare should have good memories. How is it possible for a people so inferior in numbers, upon the whole, to bring five to their one upon any one field of battle? The pompous proclamations of Yankee newspapers at the beginning of a campaign never did frighten the Confederates. They have long since ceased even to amuse them. If Grant is the great General they represent, they know perfectly well that they said quite as much of McClellan, and are prepared to say as much again of the next idol whom it may please them to place in the niche which he will certainly leave vacant before the 4th of July.
of the North is fixed upon Atlanta and Richmond. That the latter city will be soonest threatened, would seem apparent from late developments from the Federal capital, and a certain activity noticeable about their Army of the Potomac. Henceforth Grant is known as commander in chief of the armies of the United States. His headquarters, as he states officially will be in the field, and with the Army of the Potomac. Sherman is left in command of the Tennessee army, having been appointed aver Th unfortunate hero of the great Meridian raid and Mobile failure, who is now the head of the important Department of Tennessee. At present there seems no immediate prospect of an advance of the enemy from the Tennessee river. The transfer of Grant to the North Virginia Department is in some respects an indication of a recently concocted programme for one more vigorous grasp after the Capital of the Confederacy. --It such be the case, the doom of the great Ulysses is near at hand, and his p
The Daily Dispatch: April 6, 1864., [Electronic resource], Brigadier General of colored troops (search)
Brigadier General of colored troops --Upon the recommendation of Lieut-General Grant, Col. L. A. Chellato, of the 12th Illinois Volunteers, has been appointed Brigadier General to command colored troops.
Gen. Grant's brother in-law passed through Atlanta on Monday last on his way to Americus. He holds the rank of captain, and was among a lot of prisoners. The residence of Gen. T. C. McMakin, at Jackson, Miss, was entirely consumed by fire, last Sunday night. Col. Henry E. Curtis, of the 41st Georgia volunteers, died a few days since.