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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book VII:—politics. (search)
e government to win back the smiles of fortune. The capture of Fort Donelson and the bloody battle of Shiloh, together with the ravages of disease, had singularly reduced the ranks of its armies. The four hundred battalions of infantry of which they were then composed could not muster more than one hundred and sixty or one hundred and eighty thousand men for active service in the field. It was at this critical juncture that the time of service of the volunteers engaged in April and in May, 1861, for one year expired. The discharge of these soldiers, already comparatively trained, a small number of whom only appeared disposed to re-enlist, would have completely broken up the Confederate armies. The Provisional Congress, which, according to Southern historians, manifested but little energy and less practical good sense, had devised a measure which, instead of obviating this danger, was calculated to produce the most disastrous consequences. It decided that all soldiers enlisted
The Daily Dispatch: may 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ry forces of this State, to call out, and to cause to be mustered into the service of Virginia, from time to time, as the public exigencies may require, such additional number of volunteers as he may deem necessary. To facilitate this call, the annexed Schedule will indicate the places of rendezvous at which the companies called for will assemble upon receiving orders for service. Given under my hand as Governor, and under the Seal of the Commonwealth, at Richmond, this 3d day of May, 1861, and in the 85th year of the Commonwealth. John Letcher. By the Governor: George W. Munford, Sec'y of the Commonw'h. [Schedule.] The following places of rendezvous are designated as the points at which companies called from the annexed counties will assemble: To rendezvous at Harper's Ferry, the counties of Berkeley, Clarke, Frederick, Jefferson, Morgan, Hampshire, Hardy, Shenandoah, Page, Warren, Rockingham. At Staunton, the counties of Pendleton, Augusta,
The Daily Dispatch: December 13, 1860., [Electronic resource], Secession movement at the South. (search)
nnual report. The President states the cross income of the road for the year ending 30th September, 1860, to be $560,904.43, being an increase of 26,701.37 over the previous year. The earnings for the present year are $282,328.47. Of the debt of $150,000 due 1st Nov. 1860, $149,700 has been paid, leaving $300 due. Of the $1,000 due and uncalled for last year, $500 have been since paid. The Directors have issued new bonds to the amount of $64,400, payable at various periods from May, 1861, to November, 1863, which will be met by the accruing revenues. The funded debts of the Company consist of $400,000 due to private bondholders, $600,000 due to the State, and $200,000 guaranteed by the State, making a total of $1,200,000. Of the $400,000 due to private bondholders, the whole amount has been paid, except $800 above referred to, and the new issue of $65,400. Of the debts due to the State,? per cent, thereon has been annually paid, which will, in thirty-four years from da
The Daily Dispatch: July 17, 1862., [Electronic resource], James City county. (search)
Hustings Court, July 16th. --Present Recorder Caskie and a full bench. James Coyne, alias Patrick Finnoven, was arraigned for examination on the charge of murdering Henry Cronan, in May, 1861, at the house of Mrs. Driscoll, on Cary street, by stabbing him with a bowie knife. The evidence adduced proved the fact, and the accused, a hard looking subject, was committed for trial before Judge Lyons in September next. He was next arraigned on the charge of committing burglary and larceny on the premises of Messrs. Barham & Goddin, and sent on. The latter felony was committed while the party was a fugitive, he having broken out of jail after being imprisoned for the murder of Cronan.--Ann Edwards, and her daughter, Virginia Edwards, were examined on the charge of making a felonious assault with an axe and knife on George Brown, an intoxicated soldier. The latter testified that he had, while on his way to the Valley, been seduced into drinking something that upset his reason; that
The Daily Dispatch: August 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], Our Indian Allies. (search)
Our Indian Allies. In May, 1861, Gen. Albert Pike, of Arkansas, was appointed by President Davis Commissioner to the Indian tribes, whose territories are contiguous to Texas and Arkansas, and conferred upon him the most powers to conclude treaties with them. In the summer and fall of 1861. Gen. P. concluded treaties, on the most liberal basis to our Government, with the following named tribes, to wit; Charekess, Greeks, Chestswa, Chickasaws Seminoles, Ganges Cades, Anotlakes, and Wachitas. By the terms of the treaties the tribes bound themselves to "furnish all of their men capable of bearing arms," to aid the Confederate States in their war with the Federal Government, and this alliance to last "while water runs and grass grows"--on condition that the Indian forces shall not be removed beyond the boundaries of their own territories without their consent. In compliance with the forms of these treaties, they have now 9,000 warriors in the field, 6,000 of whom are mounted.
The Daily Dispatch: September 25, 1862., [Electronic resource], Twenty dollars reward. (search)
ained to show his condition, before he can get a furlough. I call the attention of the Senate to a letter I have received this morning, which seems to me to present an argument in favor of the resolution. The writer says he joined the army in May, 1861, and continued to discharge his duties without the loss of a day or a cross mark against him up to April, 1862, a period of eleven months. He was sent to a hospital in Lynchburg, where he has been ever since. He obtained a certificate of disabion in charge, which was turned over to the surgeon of division, and he has not heard from it from that day to this. This man says he is 54 years of age — he has a large family dependent on him for support and he has been in the army ever since May, 1861, and to this day has not received one cent of pay. Now, think of it, Mr. President. An old man, 54 years of age, with a family dependent upon him for life, in the army seventeen months, and not one cent of pay received. How he is to get out I d
The Daily Dispatch: November 15, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Stern Logic of Events — a Prophecy. (search)
The Stern Logic of Events — a Prophecy. We republish from the Bangor (Me.) Democrat of May, 1861, the following remarkably prophetic article — remarkable as much for the latitude from which it came as well as for what it says: The rapid fulfillment of all the predictions of Democratic speakers and writers, as to what would take place in our beloved country in the event of a sectional triumph in the election of a President, need not be attributed to any gift of prophecy; it is the result of the Stern Logic of Events.--Poorly read in the history of Government, and a poor student of human nature, must he be who, in the face of the warfare which the Black Republican party has been for years waging upon the institution of the South, could not have foretold the disruption of the Union, and the disasters that might attend that disruption. Now that we have entered upon civil war, let those who would read the story of the future appeal to that same "stern logic of events." What
The Daily Dispatch: December 6, 1862., [Electronic resource], Lincoln's Message. (search)
hose States are not at once prepared to redress. I have proposed to some of the foreign States, thus interested, mutual conventions to examine and adjust such complaints — This proposition has been made especially to Great Britain, to France, to Spain and to Prussia. In each case it has been kindly received, but has not yet been formally adopted. I deem it my duty to recommend an appropriation in behalf of the owners of the Norwegian bark Admiral P Tordenskield, which vessel was, in May, 1861, prevented by the commander of the blockading force off Charleston from leaving that port with cargo, notwithstanding a similar privilege had shortly before been granted to an English vessel. I have directed the Secretary of State to cause the papers in the case to be communicated to the proper committees. Applications have been made to me by many free Americans of African descent to favor their emigration, with a view to such colonization as was contemplated in recent acts of Congres
The Daily Dispatch: December 12, 1862., [Electronic resource], "the Reign of the CÆsars" in Augusta. (search)
avel expected on the completion of the Piedmont Railroad. They can also be used for the construction and repairs of machinery and rolling stock of that road. When the connection with the North Carolina Central Railroad shall have been finished, it is thought that the most sanguine expectations of the friends of the Danville Railroad will be realized, in increased profits, in addition to the vast collateral benefits.--The debt of $65,400, mentioned in the last annual report, running from May, 1861, to November, 1861, had been reduced by payments to $14,000. The company hold $96,400 of Confederate States 6 and 8 per cent. bonds as a sinking fund, and for the purpose of meeting any unforeseen contingencies.--There is a debt of $200,000 guaranteed by the State, due in 1875 on which interest has been regularly paid. The annuity due the State for thirty-four years of $42,000 per annum (interest and sinking fund on $600,000 due by the company,) has been regularly paid for ten years past.
The Daily Dispatch: December 13, 1862., [Electronic resource], A fearful Chapter in criminal history. (search)
level of the savage or the brute. Karl Maasch was, it appears, the leader of a band of wretches, consisting of himself, his brother Martin, his mother, an old but active woman, and two laborers named Liebeg and Kohlschmidt; and all these persons were placed at the bar. Their burglaries and murders had for five years kept in almost continual alarm the population around Sodlin, Pyritz, Lansburg and Stargardt. One of the most horrifying atrocities which they committed was on a night in May, 1861, when Karl Maasch and some of his band broke forcibly into the house of a miller named Baumgart, at Carsdorf, murdered the miller and his wife, his daughter, two sons, and a maid, and robbed the house of everything that was portable and valuable, including, it is believed, a considerable sum of money. The murders, too, were committed in a manner so atrocious as to arouse the population into a frenzy, and the most persevering exertions were made to obtain a clue to the guilty parties.
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