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The Daily Dispatch: August 24, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
from the raiding party said to have started out from Grant's army on Monday. The report that they had struck the Danville railroad, so freely circulated yesterday morning, was without foundation. Grant Refuses a Pass to the French Vice-Consul. We are reliably informed that Grant has refused a passage down the James to the representative of the Consul of France at Richmond, with dispatches for the French Minister at Washington. It appears that on Sunday the Vice-Consul proceeded to Varina, and in accordance with a privilege heretofore freely accorded, secured his passage by the flag-of-truce boat, was assigned a state- room, and made every arrangement for the journey. At night the boat was visited by Grant in person, who, without the knowledge of the Vice-Consul, had an interview with Major Mulford, and instructed him to refuse a passage in the boat to that official or any one else. The consequence was that the Vice-Consul had to return to Richmond with his dispatches. We
The Daily Dispatch: August 24, 1864., [Electronic resource], The late campaign on the North side of the James. (search)
Arrivals by flag of Truce. --The flag-of-truce boat which arrived at Varina from Fortress Monroe on Sunday last brought the following officers belonging to the Confederate service. who have been confined as prisoners of war at the North Lieutenants E. M. Ware, Fifth Virginia cavalry, J. A. McArthur, Fifty-first North Carolina, R. W. Belo, Fifty-sixth North Carolina. H. McEachem, Fifty-first North Carolina, and L. R. Gandson. Twenty-fifth Tennessee. The steamers A. H. Sechuits and William Allison took down to Cox's whart, on Monday morning. four hundred Yankee hospital prisoners, who were to be transported from thence in ambulances about two miles to Varina, where they embarked on board the Federal steamer in waiting there for Fortress Monroe. As soon as our city is emptied of the sick and wounded Yankee prisoners who are still remaining in the hospitals here, an equal number of our own prisoners who are confined in Northern bastiles will be sent on to this city, in accorda