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The Daily Dispatch: November 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Herald's Newport News Correspondence. (search)
rk, and receive food and clothing, and where they will also be out of harm's way. Yesterday afternoon General Phelps sent out a detachment of Company D, First New York Volunteers, under command of Lieut, Ingersoll, to a house belonging to Baker P. Lee, about three miles from camp. For the last month the only occupants of the house have been a poor white woman and three regresses. Some days ago Lee sent a messenger to this white woman, warning her to leave the house, as he purposed to burnLee sent a messenger to this white woman, warning her to leave the house, as he purposed to burn it down over her head. The woman was, of course, frightened, and fled in the direction of Back River, and when one of our scouting parties, on Friday lest, came to the house, they found one of the negresses in a dying condition, and the other two, being old and diseased, unable to take care of themselves. Out of feelings of humanity, Gen. Phelps, yesterday ordered the above mentioned detachment to proceed to the house, and after they had buried the dead woman, they brought the other two, wit
The Daily Dispatch: November 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], Wanted. (search)
nt to the Southern cause. She has sent a very large quota of her young men into the Confederate Army. Her population are true; and we have an earnest of what it is disposed to do in the announcement from Tazewell, which we published yesterday, that General Bowen, of that county, was bringing his Brigade of Militia into the field to meet the enemy in the passes of the Cumberland Mountain. That is the temper of the people in all the counties of that region, Smyth, Wythe, Washington, Russell, Lee, Scott, Wise, Buchanan, and Tazewell. They lack arms and ammunition, but they do not lack the disposition to fight the enemies of Virginia, or to meet and drive back the minions of Lincoln. They may lack skill with artillery, but they are masters of the rifle, and know how to make that instrument speak a language before which the stoutest invader must recoil. No Government can afford to let such a population as this be overrun, or to lose a district from which so many of its best soldiers
The Daily Dispatch: November 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Herald's Newport News Correspondence. (search)
The black flag. We have information that the authorities of South Carolina have communicated with Government upon the subject of "hoisting the black flag," to which allusion has been made since the attack upon the coast of that State. It is believed that General Lee has received orders from the War Department, urging that those captured must be regarded as prisoners of war, which will be disregarded by the authorities of South Carolina; and that the same course will be pursued which Governor Wise adopted at the time of the john Brown raid upon Harper's Ferry — when we are done with the Invaders, the Confederate Government may have them.
The Daily Dispatch: November 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], From the border. (search)
ured by the enemy at sea, there being only ten field officers, it was necessary to draw by lot three Captains. The first names drawn were Captains J. B. Ricketts, H. McQuade, and J. W. Rockwood. The list of thirteen will therefore stand--Colonels Lee, Cogswell, Wilcox, Woodruff, and Wood; Lieutenant-Colonels Bowman and Neff; Majors Potter, Revere, and Vogdes; Captains Ricketts, McQuade, and Rockwood. Respectfully, your obedient servant, (Signed,) John H. Winder,Brigadier General. as hostages to await the result of the trial of prisoners captured by the enemy at sea. I have therefore made selections by lot of Captains H. Bowman and T. Keffer to replace Captains Ricketts and McQuande, wounded. The list of thirteen will now stand--Colonels Lee, Cogswell, Wilcox Woodroff, and Wood; Lieutenant Colonels Bewman and Neff; Majors Potter, Revere and Vogdes; Captains Rockwood, Bowman and Keffer. Respectfully,Your obedient servant, (Signed) John H. Winder, Brig. General.
The Daily Dispatch: November 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], Malevolent imputation Answered. (search)
any D. First New York, Volunteers, under command of Lieut. ingersoll, to a house belonging to Baker P. Lee, about three miles from camp. For the last month the only occupants of the house have been a poor white woman and three negresses. Some days ago Lee sent a messenger to this white woman, warning her to leave the house, as he purposed to burn it down over her head. The woman was, of courser homes, they left their slaves amply provided with food, clothing and comfortable quarters. Baker P. Lee, Esq., whose residence is within three miles of Newport's News, returned to his farm a few dally, but with joyous demonstrations of unshaken fidelity.--Having secured his family portraits, Mr. Lee again, in sadness, turned away from his home and returned to the residence of a relative in a p her Yankee friends — the despoilers of that "old homestead" she was so loathe to leave. Baker P. Lee, Jr. P. S.--Other editors in whose columns the Newport News letter appeared, would oblige me b
The Daily Dispatch: November 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], Proceedings of the Methodist Annual Conference. (search)
s the admission of persons into the traveling connection on trial. The several districts were called in order. Dr. Lee desired to make a remark, that we ought now and ever to be very careful in the admission of young men. For lack of this,fe is far more important." That, upon the concurrent testimony of sundry preachers, was all right. On the motion of Dr. Lee, a committee of three was appointed to prepare resolutions expressive of the sympathy of the Conference with the Methodists in the Valley of Virginia connected with the Baltimore Annual Conference. Committee--Messrs. Lee, Granberry, and Davis. Rev. Nelson Head was subsequently added by special motion. Dr. Lee called attention to certain debts of the Richmond DeDr. Lee called attention to certain debts of the Richmond Depository, and requested that those indebted to the concern would on Monday pay him all or part of their indebtedness, to enable him to pay at least the interest upon the outstanding indebtedness of the concern. The hour of adjournment having ar
The Daily Dispatch: March 25, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
ut taking Richmond; that Richmond, in fact, was a thing of very little consequence indeed; but that their object was to destroy the country, and thereby destroy General Lee's army. --When remonstrated with by families for taking their little household supplies, the answer was, that they meant to take them, so that they could not supply General Lee's army. For this, the people were plundered; for this, the mills were burned, as well as canals and railroads cut. They also expressed their astonishment at the amount of provisions they found in some parts of the interior. They had been told, they said, that we were in a state of starvation, but they found an ab on to their supplies and run the risk of being cleaned out by the Yankees, they have the right to make the election. If they wish to succeed they will send to General Lee's army every article not indispensable to their family use, and pour into the treasury every article of jewelry, of plate, of gold and silver in any form, which
The Daily Dispatch: March 25, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
st forty eight hours, to the effect that Jeff. Davis, as well as General Lee, gives up the ship. Jeff. Davis has also proposed to withdraw fcontest himself and leave the arbitrament of the whole affair to General Lee and General Grant. Let those two generals settle the terms of ae will then get rid of the leaders. But if we leave it to Grant and Lee to arrange terms, the latter will try to retain his place in the Unimed to be good authority, that Jeff. Davis has abdicated in favor of Lee, who will assume the dictatorship as a last desperate hope of postpoabinet, scrip and archives, will be moved to Danville or Lynchburg. Lee, in any event, will be left to confront and settle with the envelopihimself powerless against the overwhelming forces of his adversary, Lee will be compelled to treat for a capitulation. In this emergency, GGrant has but to demand that all the armies under the command of General Lee, from Virginia to Texas, shall lay down their areas in order to
The Daily Dispatch: March 25, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Times, in an editorial recounting and eulogizing the operations of Sherman down to the fall of Charleston, says: The next operations of this most eventful war will be expected with singular interest. Sherman has traversed Georgia as a conqueror, but the Georgians have not returned to the Union, nor have the Unionists occupied the State. For that even Sherman is not strong enough. Had he left even small garrisons in the several towns which he entered, he would now be without an army. Lee and Beauregard are at the head of unbroken armies, and the spirit of the South has rather been raised than depressed by its recent reverses. The Federals have recovered their military reputation, but, if the South is still resolved to stand out to the end, they have made but little progress toward the end of the war. In another editorial, the Times writes from a different point of view, and says: The signs of Confederate exhaustion have brought us to that turning point of the Amer
The Daily Dispatch: March 25, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
Marion County.--J. S. Haymond, 8;--Arnett, 1. Alexandria--Morton Marye, 29; B. H. Berry, 33; D. L. Smoot, 2. The following is a statement of the polls at Chaffin's Bluff: Senate. Sixteenth District.--Cyrus A. Branch, 15; Baker P. Lee, 27. City of Richmond.--T. P. August, 5. House of Delegates. Charles City, New Kent and James City.--R. C. Apperson, 18; B. L. Farinholt, 3; Ira L. Bowles, 13; E. M. Ware, 3. City of Richmond.--D. J. Saunders, 1; R. F. Walker,eve, is entirely correct. W. S. Slater, Lieutenant James City artillery. The following is the vote polled in the Thirty-second Virginia infantry: Senate. Elizabeth City county, York, Warwick and City of Williamsburg. --Major B. P. Lee, Jr., 109; C. A. Branch, 6. House of Delegates. Elizabeth City county, York, Warwick and City of Williamsburg. --Lieutenant-Colonel W. R. Willis, 80; James W. Curtis, 26. J. P. Johnson, Captain and Superintendent of Elections.
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