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Gillmore (search for this): article 1
rd Wagner.--We now have the fifth parallel and a sap extending therefrom, the head of which is but one hundred yards from the rebel fort. Numerous rifle pits of the enemy, which were filled with sharpshooters, have been leveled, and he has been forced to contract his boundary limits. In a word, we have materially added to our chances of a speedy capture of Wagner. The Boston Journal has the following about the shelling of Charleston: Our readers will be pleased to learn that General Gillmore has no less than thirty Parrott guns mounted that will throw shells plump into Charleston. Also that the use of Greek fire shells to bombard that rebel stronghold was personally ordered by President Lincoln. The Greek fire burns for 20 minutes. It will burn on the water as well as on land, and each shell covers a surface of one hundred square feet with flame. The shell bursts into about one hundred and twenty pieces, or ten times as many as the ordinary shell. Of course the effect o
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ith slight resistance before occupying Knoxville. Miscellaneous. Newbern (N. C.) advices to September 6th state that Hon. David Heaton, a representative of the Treasury Department, left there on the 2d inst. for Washington on important business of a commercial and civil character. Gens. Grant and Thomas have gone to New Orleans. Grant is to command all the Mississippi region. Gen. Banks, it is said, is to go to Texas. The steamer Sunbeam was lost in Lake Superior on the 28th ult., and thirty-five persons drowned. Imboden attacked Maj. Stevens at Moorefield, Hardy county, Va., on the 6th, and routed his command. On Friday 800 conscripts sailed from Boston to join the army. Seven deserters from Kentucky Union regiments were shot at Munfordsville on Friday last. The new projectiles thrown into Charleston are an invention of a son of James G. Birney, the Abolitionist. Gold was quoted in New York on the afternoon of the 9th inst. at 131a133.
Cox (search for this): article 1
he Democratic National Convention, and that they be requested to invite persons of all parties to participate in nominating some conservative man for President, after which they adjourned. Conflict of authority in Ohio. A dispatch to the St. Louis Democrat, dated Dayton, Sept. 2d, says: S. Huber and Tom Speelman, who shot 2d Lieut. George L. Waterman, are now in military custody. The civil authorities de- manded them for trial upon a writ of habeas corpus this evening. Brig. Gen. Cox was telegraphed at Cincinnati to-day regarding it, but has refused to surrender them, whereupon the militia have been called into requisition this evening to take them by force. The city is now in a blaze, bands of music are playing in front of the Court-House. Along the streets the mob element runs high. The militia are now gathering at their headquarters. The result of to-night can only be conjectured so far. As the butternut Vallandigham meeting were on their way home last e
September 6th (search for this): article 1
ton the enemy fell back and retreated. At this point a cavalry force, sent out from Gen. Rosecrans's army at Chattanooga, eighty miles to the south, joined Gen. Burnside's forces. The latter pushed on his column to Loudoun, where a sharp fight took place, but the enemy was completely routed, with considerable loss. Our casualties in all the skirmished were trifling. Gen. Burnside met with slight resistance before occupying Knoxville. Miscellaneous. Newbern (N. C.) advices to September 6th state that Hon. David Heaton, a representative of the Treasury Department, left there on the 2d inst. for Washington on important business of a commercial and civil character. Gens. Grant and Thomas have gone to New Orleans. Grant is to command all the Mississippi region. Gen. Banks, it is said, is to go to Texas. The steamer Sunbeam was lost in Lake Superior on the 28th ult., and thirty-five persons drowned. Imboden attacked Maj. Stevens at Moorefield, Hardy county, Va.
Thomas (search for this): article 1
column to Loudoun, where a sharp fight took place, but the enemy was completely routed, with considerable loss. Our casualties in all the skirmished were trifling. Gen. Burnside met with slight resistance before occupying Knoxville. Miscellaneous. Newbern (N. C.) advices to September 6th state that Hon. David Heaton, a representative of the Treasury Department, left there on the 2d inst. for Washington on important business of a commercial and civil character. Gens. Grant and Thomas have gone to New Orleans. Grant is to command all the Mississippi region. Gen. Banks, it is said, is to go to Texas. The steamer Sunbeam was lost in Lake Superior on the 28th ult., and thirty-five persons drowned. Imboden attacked Maj. Stevens at Moorefield, Hardy county, Va., on the 6th, and routed his command. On Friday 800 conscripts sailed from Boston to join the army. Seven deserters from Kentucky Union regiments were shot at Munfordsville on Friday last. The
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y flight. They abandoned all their property. Blunt pursued them a hundred miles south of the Arkansas, to Perryville, which is only fifty miles from the Red river. At this point he captured and destroyed their commissary depot. They continued their flight to Boggy depot, on Red river. The Indian Territory is now clear of rebels. Blunt is marching on Fort Smith, which will doubtless fall without a struggle. Burnside's operations in Tennessee. A Washington telegram, dated the 7th inst., says: Official information is received here from Gen. Burnside up to the 4th or 5th inst., stating that part of his cavalry forces had arrived at Knoxville, while others were at Morristown and Loudoun, on the line of the East Tennessee and Virginia railroad, which towns are northeast and southwest respectively from Knoxville. It is represented that when Gen. Burnside arrived before Kingston the enemy fell back and retreated. At this point a cavalry force, sent out from Gen. R
Breckinridge (search for this): article 1
therefore have to request that you will regard it as confidential. Your obedient servant, A Lincoln. Northern Politics. The National Committee of the Douglas and Breckinridge wings of the Democratic organization met at the St. Nicholas Hotel, New York, on Monday, and organized by electing Aaron Ward President. Among the Douglas delegates were Thomas M. Lanahan, of Baltimore; August Belmont of New York; Thomas Cottman, of Louisiana, and Senator McDougall, of California. The Breckinridge faction included among others C. S. Stansbury, of Maryland; T. B. Florence, of Pennsylvania, and Augustus Schell, of New York. Prominent among the invited guests were Fernando and Ben Wood, Captain Rynders, Dean Richmond, James Brooks, and John McKcon. Washington and Philadelphia were suggested as places of holding a National Democratic Convention, but the resolution was finally withdrawn, when the Convention, by general consent, agreed that the two committees should meet at some time a
Grant (search for this): article 1
Miscellaneous. Newbern (N. C.) advices to September 6th state that Hon. David Heaton, a representative of the Treasury Department, left there on the 2d inst. for Washington on important business of a commercial and civil character. Gens. Grant and Thomas have gone to New Orleans. Grant is to command all the Mississippi region. Gen. Banks, it is said, is to go to Texas. The steamer Sunbeam was lost in Lake Superior on the 28th ult., and thirty-five persons drowned. ImbodeGrant is to command all the Mississippi region. Gen. Banks, it is said, is to go to Texas. The steamer Sunbeam was lost in Lake Superior on the 28th ult., and thirty-five persons drowned. Imboden attacked Maj. Stevens at Moorefield, Hardy county, Va., on the 6th, and routed his command. On Friday 800 conscripts sailed from Boston to join the army. Seven deserters from Kentucky Union regiments were shot at Munfordsville on Friday last. The new projectiles thrown into Charleston are an invention of a son of James G. Birney, the Abolitionist. Gold was quoted in New York on the afternoon of the 9th inst. at 131a133.
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ck by two British war vessels, and after a bombardment, a detachment of British troops were landed, who destroyed the fortifications and an adjacent village. The Japanese showed very little fight. The War in Arkansas--Alleged Defeat of the Confederates. A dispatch from Fort Gibson, Indian Territory, dated the 29th ult., via Leavenworth, 5th inst., says: Gen. Blunt, with his army, forty-five hundred strong, including twenty pieces of artillery, crossed the Arkansas river on the 22d, and offered battle to the rebel Generals Steele and Cooper, who had massed on his front 11,000 men. After a faint show of resistance the enemy commenced a retreat, which soon turned into a disorderly flight. They abandoned all their property. Blunt pursued them a hundred miles south of the Arkansas, to Perryville, which is only fifty miles from the Red river. At this point he captured and destroyed their commissary depot. They continued their flight to Boggy depot, on Red river. The Ind
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destroyed the fortifications and an adjacent village. The Japanese showed very little fight. The War in Arkansas--Alleged Defeat of the Confederates. A dispatch from Fort Gibson, Indian Territory, dated the 29th ult., via Leavenworth, 5th inst., says: Gen. Blunt, with his army, forty-five hundred strong, including twenty pieces of artillery, crossed the Arkansas river on the 22d, and offered battle to the rebel Generals Steele and Cooper, who had massed on his front 11,000 men. arching on Fort Smith, which will doubtless fall without a struggle. Burnside's operations in Tennessee. A Washington telegram, dated the 7th inst., says: Official information is received here from Gen. Burnside up to the 4th or 5th inst., stating that part of his cavalry forces had arrived at Knoxville, while others were at Morristown and Loudoun, on the line of the East Tennessee and Virginia railroad, which towns are northeast and southwest respectively from Knoxville.
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