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Slocum (search for this): article 1
n in the original, we give it: It was, in the main, uneventful, so far as fighting was concerned, hardly anything in that way having occurred between Atlanta and Savannah. It was not known to the army or to General Kilpatrick himself that he had been whipped, or that he had lost his hat.--In the skirmishes on the march, no general officer was injured, and all the losses from straggling and otherwise will not reach one thousand. The army moved in four columns. Howard on the right and Slocum on the left, with the cavalry in front and rear. In this manner it covered a strip of country nearly sixty miles in width, for three hundred miles. Sherman has cut through Georgia a swath of sixty miles, and has completely destroyed the great railroad quadrilateral of which Atlanta, Macon, Augusta and Savannah are the four corners. The railroad leading east from Atlanta to Augusta is destroyed for over seventy miles, including the bridges over the Yellow and the contiguous river. The
Thomas (search for this): article 1
The latest intelligence from the "pursuit" of General Hood is from Nashville on the 23d. The telegram says: The latest accounts from the front locate General Thomas's headquarters at Rutherford Hill, yesterday morning, eight miles this side of Columbia. Since that time our forces have crossed Duck river, and have moved the Tennessee river, where our gunboats cannot reach them. The correspondent of the Nashville Union also gives this account of what Hood intended to do if General Thomas had not interfered with his plans: A few days since, General Hood and some of his staff, together with Cheatham, were at the house of a gentleman with wh called upon to do so as a last resort. He proposed, instead, to-blockade the Cumberland above and below, and cut the Louisville and Nashville railroad, and then Thomas would be compelled to evacuate the city; "for," said Hood, "he has but the Fourth corps and a few conscripts; I know that all the stories about his strength are f
George Washington (search for this): article 1
's property in blockade runners, about two-thirds of which covers captured property. A dispatch to a Boston paper says that Colonel Baker, detective, at Washington, was convicted, in the District Supreme Court, on Wednesday, of false imprisonment in the Old Capitol prison, and was sentenced to three years in the penitentiary. The Navy Department yesterday received intelligence of the death of Acting-Master Charles Thatcher, of Maine, commanding the Gazette, attached to the Mississippi squadron. He was wounded by guerrillas. The blockade-runner Petrel was driven ashore by the gunboats at New inlet on the 15th; was fired upon, sunk, then broken up by the gale. Cargo of arms and ammunition gone. A dispatch from Washington, under the heading of "Mosby killed once more," says: The pleasant intelligence that the pest Mosby was shot yesterday morning near Piedmont and killed was brought here to-night by a soldier. Gold was quoted in New York on Friday at 221 1-2.
Charles Lyle (search for this): article 1
have a grand convention at Cincinnati on the 17th of January. They want to get together a fund of $1,000,000, and the Fenians everywhere are busy making collections therefore. The Missouri Democrat publishes a copy of the application of U. S. Grant for the office of county engineer of St. Louis county, which is dated August 15, 1859, and is marked "rejected. " In the Supreme Court at Cincinnati, a few days ago, in an action brought by a negro man, named John J. Taylor, against Charles Lyle and Joseph A. Sawyer, for illegally rejecting his vote at the last election, the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff. A competent authority calculates that between $120,000 and $150,000 yearly is expended in New York upon the religious music of its churches. General Butler has changed the sentence of the soldier who was to work two years on the Dutch Gap canal to imprisonment for life. The grade of vice-admiral has been created in the Yankee navy, and Farragut appoint
Bate (search for this): article 1
he Yankees are supplying the omission by wonderful stories of what damage they have done him. They put his loss at eighteen general officers, fifty-one cannon and seventeen thousand men. The Yankee loss is fixed at seven thousand men and two general officers. A telegram gives some more of the same sort of stuff: Frank Cheatham told his aunt, Miss. Rage, that Hood was ordered to Nashville against his own wishes; but he lames Hood for not attacking Schofield at Spring Hill. Hood ordered Bate to attack at Spring Hill, and he did not do it. The rebel army is now beyond Columbia. During the rebel tarry in front of Nashville they captured but two locomotives and ten cars. The railroad is but little impaired, and trains are running up to Spring Hill; but two small bridges destroyed. Trains were to run to Murfreesboro' on Sunday. Telegraph communication is all right with all points; but two small trestles are destroyed on the Johnsonville road. Johnsonville itself was not
John J. Taylor (search for this): article 1
call themselves) are to have a grand convention at Cincinnati on the 17th of January. They want to get together a fund of $1,000,000, and the Fenians everywhere are busy making collections therefore. The Missouri Democrat publishes a copy of the application of U. S. Grant for the office of county engineer of St. Louis county, which is dated August 15, 1859, and is marked "rejected. " In the Supreme Court at Cincinnati, a few days ago, in an action brought by a negro man, named John J. Taylor, against Charles Lyle and Joseph A. Sawyer, for illegally rejecting his vote at the last election, the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff. A competent authority calculates that between $120,000 and $150,000 yearly is expended in New York upon the religious music of its churches. General Butler has changed the sentence of the soldier who was to work two years on the Dutch Gap canal to imprisonment for life. The grade of vice-admiral has been created in the Yankee nav
Frank Cheatham (search for this): article 1
d seventeen thousand men. The Yankee loss is fixed at seven thousand men and two general officers. A telegram gives some more of the same sort of stuff: Frank Cheatham told his aunt, Miss. Rage, that Hood was ordered to Nashville against his own wishes; but he lames Hood for not attacking Schofield at Spring Hill. Hood ordaccount of what Hood intended to do if General Thomas had not interfered with his plans: A few days since, General Hood and some of his staff, together with Cheatham, were at the house of a gentleman with whom I conversed to-day, and who was within their lines, and while there Hood stated that he had intended at first to assaknow that all the stories about his strength are false; his men are few and demoralized"; and all present concurred with him. No longer ago than Wednesday night, Cheatham stated, as I am positively informed, that he had no doubts about capturing this city. "We have taken stronger places," were his words, "and we will take Nashvill
Ould (search for this): article 1
city for property destroyed by the mob; but nothing especially new or interesting was developed, when the court adjourned till to-morrow. The exchange of prisoners. The exchange of prisoners, which has ceased at Charleston, is to commence in James river in a day or two. A letter from Annapolis, Maryland, says: Colonel Mulford leaves in the New York, on Tuesday next, for Richmond, via James river, to settle up his business with the Confederate authorities and confer with Commissioner Ould as to the basis of a further exchange. The New York brings no late news from General Sherman. Colonel Mulford reports Savannah closely invested, and its occupation by Sherman simply a question of a little time. Sherman dined at Port Royal with General Foster on Friday last, and made arrangements with him (Foster) for the transfer of a number of siege guns, ammunition, etc. The truce has existed in Charleston harbor for fourteen days, during which time between eleven thousand and
Hutchins (search for this): article 1
as to work two years on the Dutch Gap canal to imprisonment for life. The grade of vice-admiral has been created in the Yankee navy, and Farragut appointed to fill it. His rank, compared with the land service, equals that of a lieutenant general. Thermometer at Burlington, Vermont, fifteen degrees below zero. Only five Revolutionary pensioners are now living. United States Senator Carlile (from West Virginia) does not reside in the State he pretends to represent. Mrs. Hutchins, recently sentenced to five years imprisonment in the Fitchburg (Massachusetts) House of Correction for attempting to send a sword to Major Harry Gilmore, has been released by order of Lincoln and arrived in Baltimore. William J. Fish, of the First Connecticut cavalry, late provost-marshal of Baltimore, who was sentenced to the Albany penitentiary for one year, and to pay a fine of $5,000, has also been released. The Potomac is covered with ice and the channel is completely clo
David Baker (search for this): article 1
do not attempt either to approach or leave Washington. The ice is, at most places, between two and a half and three inches thick. Several boats, with troops, which left yesterday, are ice-bound below Giesborough. Admiral Porter reports that, within the last fifteen days, the blockade fleet off Wilmington captured or destroyed $5,500,000 worth of the enemy's property in blockade runners, about two-thirds of which covers captured property. A dispatch to a Boston paper says that Colonel Baker, detective, at Washington, was convicted, in the District Supreme Court, on Wednesday, of false imprisonment in the Old Capitol prison, and was sentenced to three years in the penitentiary. The Navy Department yesterday received intelligence of the death of Acting-Master Charles Thatcher, of Maine, commanding the Gazette, attached to the Mississippi squadron. He was wounded by guerrillas. The blockade-runner Petrel was driven ashore by the gunboats at New inlet on the 15th; wa
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