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The Daily Dispatch: July 13, 1864., [Electronic resource], Deaths of Confederate Soldiers. (search)
300 dollars reward. --I will give the above reward for the delivery to me of my man Alick to S N Davis & Co, of Richmond. Said negro, I believe, is lurking in Charlotte county, Va.--He has a wife at Mr. Motley's, in Keysville, of said county. Alick was originally from Georgia, but has lately lived in Charlotte; he is about 5 feet 6 or 8 inches high, very black, nore very wide and flat; has a prominent scar on the upper part of the breast bone; is quite intelligent, and can road and write. I purchased him in Richmond in May of J R Sedgwick. Alick carried off a large bay horse belonging to Dr. Geo Brown. Said horse was lame in one of his hind feet by gravel; he is slightly white in his face and on both hind feet. Lewis J. Walton, M. D., Walton's Mills P. O., Cumberland co, Va. je 30--eod6t
The Daily Dispatch: July 15, 1864., [Electronic resource], New use of Bayonets. (search)
300 dollars reward. --I was give the above reward for the delivery to me of my man Alick to S N Davis & Co, of Richmond. Said negro, I believe, is lurking in Charlotte county, Va — He has a wife at Mr Motley's, in Keysville, of said county. Alick was originally from Georgia, but has lately lived in Charlotte; he is about 5 feet 5 or 8 inches high, very black, nose very wide and flat, has a prominent scar on the upper part of the breast bone; is quite intelligent, and can read and write. I purchased him in Richmond in May of S R Sedgwick. Alick carried off a large bay horse belonging to Dr. Geo Brown. Said horse was lame in one of its hind feet by gravel; he is slightly white in his feet and on both hind feet. Lewis J Walton, M D, Walton's Mills P G, Cumberland co, Va. je 30--cod8t
The Daily Dispatch: July 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
l be repeated will doubtless keep the Yankees in a constant state of anxiety, and cause them to keep two or three corps of their "veterans" at Washington for the protection of the capital. We understand that our forces crossed the Potomac at White's Ford, a point a few miles below Leesburg, in Loudoun county. There was no pursuit, and the crossing was elected without difficulty. The Federal force believed to have been in Washington was Hancock's Second and Wright's Sixth (formerly Sedgwick's) army corps, and Rickett's Fourth army corps from Louisiana. The two first named were detached from Grant's army. This probably constituted a force of from thirty to forty thousand men. From Petersburg. There was some picket firing along the lines on Sunday night, which at times became quite rapid, but nothing approaching a battle occurred. The enemy continues his pastime of throwing shell into the city but if we except the disfigurement of a few houses and annoyance of non com
The Daily Dispatch: March 14, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
and a memorial to the same effect of Quakers, of New York city, presented by Mr. Lawrence, of New York. Mr. Hartly, of Pennsylvania, seconded by Mr. White, of Virginia, moved the reference of the first petition, which was opposed by Messrs. Stone, of Maryland; Smith, Tucker and Burke, of South Carolina; Baldwin and Jackson, of Georgia, who were in favor of its going to the table. Messrs. Fitzsimmons and Hartly, of Pennsylvania; Parker, Madison and Page, of Virginia; Lawrence, of New York; Sedgwick, of Massachusetts; Boudinot, of New Jersey; Sherman and Huntington, of Connecticut, favored a reference. Those who opposed it expressed the fear that action indicating an interference with this kind of property would sink it in value and be injurious to a great number of citizens, particularly of the Southern States.--They deprecated the disposition of the class represented by the petitioners to meddle with concerns with which they had something to do. On the next day, a memorial of t
The Daily Dispatch: December 9, 1865., [Electronic resource], Congress Halls — old and New. (search)
ither the Senate Chamber or the Hall of the House, which had been fitted up in the north wing of the Capital, the corner-stone of which had been laid by George Washington seven years previously. In a few days the members arrived, and on the 22d, President the two Houses were organized the session, in accordance with the parliamentary usage of Great Britain. The President took his seat in the chair of the presiding officer of the Senate, and then the House came in, headed by Mr. Speaker Sedgwick. The President then delivered his address, after which the House withdrew. Replies to the address were then discussed and adopted in the Senate and in the House, and were presented by committees of those bodies. In 1802 the House of Representatives removed to a temporary hall, made by roofing over the half-built south wing of the Capitol, and consequently so low that it was called "the oven." In 1804, the House moved back into the north wing, until its hall was finished, in 1808. Th
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