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re and Ohio railroad. We give the dispatch: "Headquarters Army Northern Virginia, "October 16, 1864. Hon. James A. Seddon, Secretary of War: "On the 14th instant Colonel Mosby struck the Baltimore and Ohio railroad at Duffield, and destroyed a United States mail train, consisting of a locomotive and ten cars, and securing twenty prisoners and fifteen horses. "Among the prisoners are two paymasters, with one hundred and sixty-eight thousand dollars in Government funds. R. E. Lee." Duffield is a station on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, eight miles west of Harper's Ferry. Northern papers of the 15th instant state the funds captured to be over two hundred thousand dollars. From Georgia. The news from Georgia is cheering.--Hood's success so far has been complete. Sherman's communications are altogether destroyed. They are said to have no stock to haul commissaries or artillery, and no railroad. Sherman is beyond the Chattahoochee, cut o
Benjamin F. Butler (search for this): article 1
f the James, but were driven off by shells from our gunboats. Cox wharf is immediately this side of Dutch gap, and it is likely the enemy would desire very much to put a column across the river at this point, as by so doing they would menage the left and rear of the Howlett Picuse battery. We have no fear they will succeed in such an undertaking were they to attempt it. We have gunboats and other things which are all- sufficient to keep the waters clear between Dutch gap and Richmond. Butler's canal is believed to be progressing slowly. He has put to work in it some prisoners recently taken from us; in retaliation, he says, for our putting negro captives upon our fortifications. We think he will find our men neither willing nor efficient allies. From the Valley. Passengers by last night's train from Staunton report that information had reached there of a fight which had occurred at Sickley's shop, beyond Fisher's hill. A detachment of our men, having gone down the Val
Hood (search for this): article 1
, consisting of a locomotive and ten cars, and securing twenty prisoners and fifteen horses. "Among the prisoners are two paymasters, with one hundred and sixty-eight thousand dollars in Government funds. R. E. Lee." Duffield is a station on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, eight miles west of Harper's Ferry. Northern papers of the 15th instant state the funds captured to be over two hundred thousand dollars. From Georgia. The news from Georgia is cheering.--Hood's success so far has been complete. Sherman's communications are altogether destroyed. They are said to have no stock to haul commissaries or artillery, and no railroad. Sherman is beyond the Chattahoochee, cut off from his main army. Thomas is in command at Atlanta, and, it is said, has only one corps. There are no cavalry at Atlanta whatever. Our pickets are within a mile of Atlanta, and capture or shoot every Yankee who shows his head. The evacuation of Atlanta by Sherman is confide
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o he struck the enemy at Salem, on the Manassas Gap railroad, whipping the Yankee troops, capturing their baggage and trains, and breaking up their railroad-building operations.--The next we hear of him is through the following official dispatch, from which it appears he has suddenly manifested himself at Duffield, on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. We give the dispatch: "Headquarters Army Northern Virginia, "October 16, 1864. Hon. James A. Seddon, Secretary of War: "On the 14th instant Colonel Mosby struck the Baltimore and Ohio railroad at Duffield, and destroyed a United States mail train, consisting of a locomotive and ten cars, and securing twenty prisoners and fifteen horses. "Among the prisoners are two paymasters, with one hundred and sixty-eight thousand dollars in Government funds. R. E. Lee." Duffield is a station on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, eight miles west of Harper's Ferry. Northern papers of the 15th instant state the funds
James A. Seddon (search for this): article 1
Mosby is again on the grand round. Ten days ago he struck the enemy at Salem, on the Manassas Gap railroad, whipping the Yankee troops, capturing their baggage and trains, and breaking up their railroad-building operations.--The next we hear of him is through the following official dispatch, from which it appears he has suddenly manifested himself at Duffield, on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. We give the dispatch: "Headquarters Army Northern Virginia, "October 16, 1864. Hon. James A. Seddon, Secretary of War: "On the 14th instant Colonel Mosby struck the Baltimore and Ohio railroad at Duffield, and destroyed a United States mail train, consisting of a locomotive and ten cars, and securing twenty prisoners and fifteen horses. "Among the prisoners are two paymasters, with one hundred and sixty-eight thousand dollars in Government funds. R. E. Lee." Duffield is a station on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, eight miles west of Harper's Ferry. No
Thomas (search for this): article 1
is a station on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, eight miles west of Harper's Ferry. Northern papers of the 15th instant state the funds captured to be over two hundred thousand dollars. From Georgia. The news from Georgia is cheering.--Hood's success so far has been complete. Sherman's communications are altogether destroyed. They are said to have no stock to haul commissaries or artillery, and no railroad. Sherman is beyond the Chattahoochee, cut off from his main army. Thomas is in command at Atlanta, and, it is said, has only one corps. There are no cavalry at Atlanta whatever. Our pickets are within a mile of Atlanta, and capture or shoot every Yankee who shows his head. The evacuation of Atlanta by Sherman is confidently expected. From Missouri. Late news from Tennessee says that, on Thursday last, a steamer going from Memphis to Cincinnati was fired into by our troops when near Island No.37 from the Missouri side. The engineer, a dock hand, and s
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ith this column. To judge by past experience, this move pretends some offensive operation against our right, on the south of the town of Petersburg; or it is a feint, designed to induce us to weaken our line fronting. Fort Harrison. It has been Grant's practice only to move when about to attack. He moves and strikes without delay. But, twenty-four hours having already elapsed since this last movement, and nothing having come of it, it may be he has tired of his old strategy and is about to from Yankee pickets, who do not hesitate to declare their apprehensions. The complete and formidable character of our fortifications, running from a point opposite. Fort Harrison north to the Charles City road, may have something to do with Grant's withdrawing forces from their front. He assailed them repeatedly and desperately last Thursday, and must feel convinced they are impregnable. This being the case, any advance for Richmond on the north side of the James must be by some route a
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r: "On the 14th instant Colonel Mosby struck the Baltimore and Ohio railroad at Duffield, and destroyed a United States mail train, consisting of a locomotive and ten cars, and securing twenty prisoners and fifteen horses. "Among the prisoners are two paymasters, with one hundred and sixty-eight thousand dollars in Government funds. R. E. Lee." Duffield is a station on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, eight miles west of Harper's Ferry. Northern papers of the 15th instant state the funds captured to be over two hundred thousand dollars. From Georgia. The news from Georgia is cheering.--Hood's success so far has been complete. Sherman's communications are altogether destroyed. They are said to have no stock to haul commissaries or artillery, and no railroad. Sherman is beyond the Chattahoochee, cut off from his main army. Thomas is in command at Atlanta, and, it is said, has only one corps. There are no cavalry at Atlanta whatever. Our picke
Price (search for this): article 1
Tennessee says that, on Thursday last, a steamer going from Memphis to Cincinnati was fired into by our troops when near Island No.37 from the Missouri side. The engineer, a dock hand, and several horses, were killed. The Yankees estimate the force posted along the river and interfering with their commerce at two thousand, and say that they are stragglers from Price's army.--Price would hardly have stragglers now; but if the Yankee account be true, they are straggling to some purpose. Tennessee says that, on Thursday last, a steamer going from Memphis to Cincinnati was fired into by our troops when near Island No.37 from the Missouri side. The engineer, a dock hand, and several horses, were killed. The Yankees estimate the force posted along the river and interfering with their commerce at two thousand, and say that they are stragglers from Price's army.--Price would hardly have stragglers now; but if the Yankee account be true, they are straggling to some purpose.
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the funds captured to be over two hundred thousand dollars. From Georgia. The news from Georgia is cheering.--Hood's success so far has been complete. Sherman's communications are altogether destroyed. They are said to have no stock to haul commissaries or artillery, and no railroad. Sherman is beyond the ChattahoocheSherman is beyond the Chattahoochee, cut off from his main army. Thomas is in command at Atlanta, and, it is said, has only one corps. There are no cavalry at Atlanta whatever. Our pickets are within a mile of Atlanta, and capture or shoot every Yankee who shows his head. The evacuation of Atlanta by Sherman is confidently expected. From Missouri. LateSherman is confidently expected. From Missouri. Late news from Tennessee says that, on Thursday last, a steamer going from Memphis to Cincinnati was fired into by our troops when near Island No.37 from the Missouri side. The engineer, a dock hand, and several horses, were killed. The Yankees estimate the force posted along the river and interfering with their commerce at two t
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