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The Daily Dispatch: January 26, 1865., [Electronic resource], Paris letter — writers. (search)
ough about that subject from better men than this Mississippi- Tennesseean. If Foote should get across our lines, we trust that he will discover that his efforts to gain notoriety in this part of the country are bootless. The desolation in Grant's Encampments. A letter-writer from Grant's army, speaking of the desolation wrought by it in the country in its vicinity, says: Only those who have lain with an army in winter quarters can have an idea of the desolation it works. All Grant's army, speaking of the desolation wrought by it in the country in its vicinity, says: Only those who have lain with an army in winter quarters can have an idea of the desolation it works. All of us who started with the army from Culpeper and Brandy station last spring can remember the wilderness we left behind us there — a vast expanse of country, denuded of trees, fences and habitations, with roads twining and twisting in every direction. In precisely such a condition is the country around Petersburg fast becoming. Those who saw these lands when they first became the theatre of active operations would now have difficulty in recognizing a single field. The houses are nearly all
The Daily Dispatch: January 26, 1865., [Electronic resource], Paris letter — writers. (search)
. We received no Northern papers yesterday, most probably in consequence of our naval operations. The only intelligence received from the South yesterday was the announcement from General Hardee that the enemy were making no demonstrations on the Salkehatchie. To go to Branchville, Sherman must cross the Big and Little Salkehatchie rivers, which flow together and form the Combahee a few miles north of Pocotaligo. Mr. Blair, peace missionary, left the city yesterday morning for Grant's lines by flag-of-truce boat. Nothing is known of what passed between him and the President during their frequent interviews. From what dropped from Mr. Blair in conversation with his friends here, some have inferred that he proposed some such visionary scheme as reconstruction, the South to retain its peculiar institution untouched, and the Yankees to pay for all the negroes they had stolen. Any speculations upon his propositions, if he made any, are very idle. He will unbosom himself