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Hanover Court House (Virginia, United States) (search for this): article 1
ses five per cent. of the slaves is called for, and in other cases less than one per cent. Thus, Amelia, with upwards of 7,000 slaves assessed with taxes in 1862, is required to furnish 50, while Alleghany, with less than 700, is required to furnish 30. The county of Albemarle, with 12,681, is called upon for 200, while Brunswick, with 9,212, is called upon for 250. The county of Augusta, with 4,460 is called upon for 80, while the county of Rockingham, with 2,164 is called upon for 100. Hanover, with 8,621, is called upon for 80, while Prince Edward, with 6,998, is called upon for 150. These examples will suffice to show how unequally this burden is distributed; and I trust that some amendment will be made to the law, which will afford protection against such inequality. The law requires that "the value of such slaves as may escape from the Confederate authorities and not return to their owners, or be seized, or killed by the public enemy, or may, by want of due diligence on
West Point (Virginia, United States) (search for this): article 1
too earnestly press its claims upon your support and favor. I trust it will be your pleasure to adopt the recommendations made in the reports, and thus place it upon a firm and enduring basis, and enable it gradually to extend the sphere of its usefulness. Since the commencement of this war Virginia has been called upon to month over the loss of many of her gallant sons; but of all her jewels, the most brilliant was the if insidious Lieutenant General Thomas J. Jackson--a graduate of West Point — highly distinguished in the Mexican war, and at the opening of the present war a quiet and unpretending professor in our State Military institute. He was called from the professor's chair to the field, and his sagacity, his energy, and the unparalleled success which crowned his efforts, won for him a reputation that made him the pride of his own State, endeared him to the people of the Confederacy, attracted to him the attention of the nations of the earth, and compelled the respect an
City Point (Virginia, United States) (search for this): article 1
Change of Base. --It is stated that the point for the future exchange of prisoners in Virginia is shortly to be transferred from City Point to Port Walthall, on the Appomattox, or some other place equally as convenient. From Port Walthall, if that should be the future scene of operation, there is a continuous line of rail to Richmond, the point where the prisoners are all congregated, and independent of other reasons, the delay and expose attendant upon two roads would be obviated.
Rosecrans (search for this): article 1
pt the Chattanooga region has been evacuated by the rebels and is now free. Kingston is on the Church river, and also on the line of the Tennessee Railroad. General Rosecrans's army is also successfully operating, and will shortly surmount the difficulties opposing the advance on Chattanooga. General doubt occupied Knoxville by eral brigades of infantry and batteries had just preceded the train. The bridge will be replaced by to morrow. There are several more at different points. General Rosecrans and staff crossed this afternoon. A Washington Dispatch to the New York Times says: A distinguished officer in the Army of the Potomac has sent inword that General Lee has not given the slightest evidence of a purpose to move his forces. On the other hand; he is waiting for the result of the operations of Rosecrans, Gillmore, and Burnside. The opinion prevails among the most intelligent of our officers at headquarters that if those operations are successful Lee will propos
Schofield (search for this): article 1
ected that all hay left in those counties should be furnished. At the same time it is announced that Gen. Laue will enter Missouri force on the 9th of September, There is a general conviction that independence the most important town in Jackson county, is to be plundered and reduced to ashes. The moneys of the bank at that place have been removed to St. Louis for safety The records of the three counties — Jackson, Bates, and Cass — have also been removed to prevent their destruction. Gen. Schofield, with his staff, left St. Louis on Monday for the bounder, to give his personal attention to affairs there and to inaugurate energetic for ridding that region of the brigands under Quantrell. The funeral of J. W. Collamove, late Mayor or .. took .. Thursday afternoon, Dr. Garnett in Boston. The schooner Ella, recently arrived at New York from Nassau with a cargo of trait, has been discovered to be the same vessel which, under the name of the Retribution, the rebels used for
Kilpatrick (search for this): article 1
mac has sent in word that General Lee has not given the slightest evidence of a purpose to move his forces. On the other hand; he is waiting for the result of the operations of Rosecrans, Gillmore, and Burnside. The opinion prevails among the most intelligent of our officers at headquarters that if those operations are successful Lee will propose terms of surrender, and endeavor to bring the war to a close. Information has been received at Washington from the 3d army corps that Colonel Kilpatrick on Wednesday succeeded in sinking, on the Rappahannock, twelve miles below Fredericksburg, the gunboats Satellite and Reliance, captured by the rebels a few days since. This he accomplished with one of his field batteries, supported by cavalry. An expedition previously sent up the river to capture them failed to do so on account of water. [The readers of the Dis know the falsity of the above] T announcement Union victory at the polls in California Union candidate for Governor
Burnside (search for this): article 1
Everything is represented as progressing favorably. The same paper contains the following summary of general news: From Lexington, Ky, we learn that Gen. Burnside had passed through the gaps in the Cumberland mountains, and was pushing on to Kingston, in Roase county, adjoining Know, and some forty miles from Knoxville Af Roanoke island will be in Knoxville in a very short period of time, the rebels not being prepared to make any serious resistance Later dispatches from General Burnside's army confirm the successes of his movements. He has occupied Kingston, Tenn; the rebels offering little serious opposition. All of East Tennessee except not given the slightest evidence of a purpose to move his forces. On the other hand; he is waiting for the result of the operations of Rosecrans, Gillmore, and Burnside. The opinion prevails among the most intelligent of our officers at headquarters that if those operations are successful Lee will propose terms of surrender, an
Dahlgren (search for this): article 1
ill floats over the ruins, a sufficient force being kept there to replace it whenever it is shot away. Battery Gregg had received a sharp bombardment from one of the monitors, the shot passing through the fort. A very important movement of Admiral Dahlgren's fleet on Tuesday night last was prevented by the setting in of a heavy storm of wind and rain; which continued at intervals up to the time the Spaulding left, thus hindering the prosecution of this important enterprise up to that time. Alels of the fleet during the storm, all being safely at anchor inside the bar. The steamer Home, fitted out by the Navy Department as a resort for the officers and crews of the monitors in which to recuperate and rest, had also arrived. Both Admiral Dahlgren and Gen. Gillmore are in good health and fine spirits, perfectly confident in the final success of their effort to humble the cradle of treason, and to "repossess and reoccupy the forts and other public property of the United State" in Charl
Averill (search for this): article 1
hicola. She had on board, when captured, an assorted cargo, valued at about one hundred and fifty thousand and dollars. Private dispatches received in Wheeling announce the return to Huntersville, Randolph county, of the expedition under Gen. Averill? recently sent out by Gen. Kelley.--Gen. Averill route extended through the counties of Sturdy, Pendleton, Highland, Pocahontas, and Greenbrier. He destroyed the saltpetre works in Pendleton, and drove Jackson out of Pocahontas pursuing him Gen. Averill route extended through the counties of Sturdy, Pendleton, Highland, Pocahontas, and Greenbrier. He destroyed the saltpetre works in Pendleton, and drove Jackson out of Pocahontas pursuing him to Greenbrier, near the White Sulphur Springs. At Rocky Gap he encountered the forces of Gen. Jones and Col. Patton, and had a severe action, in which he lost about one hundred men in killed and wounded, including several officers. Writs of election, dated August 26, for a Judge of the First Judicial District of Virginia, composed of the counties of Princess Anne, Norfolk, Nansemond, Isle of Wight, &c., have been forwarded to the Sheriffs of the different counties in said district, for an
Patton (search for this): article 1
dollars. Private dispatches received in Wheeling announce the return to Huntersville, Randolph county, of the expedition under Gen. Averill? recently sent out by Gen. Kelley.--Gen. Averill route extended through the counties of Sturdy, Pendleton, Highland, Pocahontas, and Greenbrier. He destroyed the saltpetre works in Pendleton, and drove Jackson out of Pocahontas pursuing him to Greenbrier, near the White Sulphur Springs. At Rocky Gap he encountered the forces of Gen. Jones and Col. Patton, and had a severe action, in which he lost about one hundred men in killed and wounded, including several officers. Writs of election, dated August 26, for a Judge of the First Judicial District of Virginia, composed of the counties of Princess Anne, Norfolk, Nansemond, Isle of Wight, &c., have been forwarded to the Sheriffs of the different counties in said district, for an election to be held on Monday, September 28, to supply the place of Richard H. Baker, who has failed to take
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