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The Daily Dispatch: October 29, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
mand, and eventually returned to it. From the Rappahannock. The gunboats reported to be ascending the Rappahannock river have returned. They did not come up as high as Port Royal. Manassas Gap railroad. Parties of the enemy, supposed to be detachments from Sheridan's army, are committing depredations in the counties of Fauquier and Rappahannock on the line of the Manassas Gap railroad. From the Valley. Sheridan is reported to be retreating towards Winchester. General Early is following. From Mosby. A portion of General Lee's official dispatch of yesterday says, "on the 25th, Colonel Mosby, near Bunker Hill, captured Brigadier-General Duffie and several other prisoners, a number of horses, and killed a number of the enemy. He sustained no loss." Lieutenant Johnson, of his command, with a small party of men, fell in, a day or two since, with a squad of fifteen Yankees. He killed six, wounded five and captured four. What became of the remainde
The Daily Dispatch: October 29, 1864., [Electronic resource], Another Statement of the battle of Strasburg. (search)
hree days; but as they refused to attack us, we the made an attack upon them, as I shall state directly, which proved a perfect success. I understand that General Early gives General Gordon all the credit for the movement, and his action on the field pronounces him one of our first generals, both in planning and in executing. but were driven from every position they then held into the woods beyond Middletown. As our troops had become much scattered and mixed up in the pursuit, General Early here ordered a halt, to re-organize and to collect the straggling men. Their tents were left standing, and in many places their bed-clothing just as they oint last night. Many deeds of gallantry were, no doubt, performed on different parts of the field. I will only mention two which have come to my knowledge.--Early in the morning, General Pegram, seeing a single Yankee about to carry off a piece of artillery, dashed upon him and cut him down with his sword. General Terry, co
The Daily Dispatch: October 29, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ght to bear upon this single point. It has been seven months since the campaign opened, and not one foot of progress has yet been made by Grant in the capture of either Petersburg or Richmond. The grand scheme for starving out the people of the Confederacy has likewise, according to the same writer, absolutely and utterly failed, and must continue to fail whenever it may again be attempted. The losses sustained by Siegel, Hunter and Sheridan, added to the losses sustained in the inroad of Early into Pennsylvania, Maryland and the District of Columbia, amount in the aggregate, according to the same authority, to 65,000 men. As the loss of Sheridan in the last battle, which has been fought since the date of the letter, is not less than 5,000, following the estimate, the entire Yankee loss has been 230,000 men — a prodigious exhibit of blood and slaughter. Here are men enough killed outright to constitute the population of a huge city five times as large as Richmond. They were all,