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The Daily Dispatch: March 8, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
In the war of the American Revolution, three-fourths of the battles were gained by the British. They not only took the city of Charleston, but every other seaport, and almost every town in America. They marched through South Carolina, precisely as Sherman is doing now; they drove Marion and Sumter into the swamps; they marched into North Carolina, compelling our forefathers to fly to the Virginia woods, and then returned to Wilmington. They had every colony down; "gobbled up" Richmond and Petersburg; galloped through Charlottesville, and chased Jefferson to Carter's mountain. They held New York and other Northern cities; scattered the American armies like chaff, and considered the rebellion as crushed a hundred times. They had the most powerful empire of the world at their back; they had the aid of armed tories in every county; they excited the blacks to insurrection, and let loose the scalping-knife of the Indian upon the rebels.--With all our troubles, we have so far esc
The Daily Dispatch: March 8, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
summoned to the field before the present call? with the headquarters and heart of the rebellion at Richmond, only a hundred and twenty miles from Washington, the Federal metropolis and base and half the way affording water facilities for transportation, seven different commanders have led immense armies armed and equipped with every appliance of war that the wealth of the United States could purchase, and yet this outpost of the rebellion still stands unconquered and defiant. The march of Sherman through a portion of our vast territory is nothing more than the track of a ship on the ocean. The waves close around as it recedes, and bear no permanent trace of its progress. The capture of our seaports is no more than occurred in the first Revolution; and instead of being a matter of glorification to the United States, it is the Confederacy which has reason to exult that, for four years, without a Navy, it has been able to hold those sea-side villages against a naval Power which boast
The Daily Dispatch: March 8, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ed burst from his left upon the Southside railroad. He has erected a number of observatories along his Hatcher's Run lines, and from their tops his signal corps take daily observation of all that passes in our camps; which all is not much. Sherman. We have every day a fresh installment of rumors in relation to Sherman and his movements, but are still without any official or other authentic information on the subject. The Valley. By recent arrivals from the Shenandoah Valley, Sherman and his movements, but are still without any official or other authentic information on the subject. The Valley. By recent arrivals from the Shenandoah Valley, we learn that all is quiet in that quarter. Supplies for the army. A meeting, held at Powhatan Courthouse for the purpose of raising, by voluntary donations, supplies for the army, was addressed by the Rev. Dr. M. D. Hoge, of this city. The subscriptions were of the most liberal character. One gentleman gave fifty barrels of flour and five hundred pounds of bacon; another gave forty barrels of flour and sold the Government forty barrels, and a third obligated himself to feed twenty s