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The Daily Dispatch: March 4, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 14 (search)
Gov. Morton, of Indiana, has appointed ex-Governor Joseph A. Wright U. S. Senator, to fill the place of the Hon. Jesse D. Bright. Lucius M. Lamar has been appointed Col. of the 8th Georgia regiment, J. R. Towers, Lieutenant Colonel, and E. J. Magruder, Major. A report is current that Brigadier-General Dan Sickles has been shot by one of his soldiers. A dispatch from St. Louis says that Capt. Porter, of the Federal Navy, is rapidly recovering from his injuries. It is stated that Colonel Shaw, who commanded our forces at Roanoke Island, has been ordered to Richmond for an investigation. Dr. W. F. Lee, of Columbus, Ga., died on the 24th ultimo. The Northern papers report heavy disasters to shipping during the gale of the 24th. Two of the Yankees who escaped from the jail at Columbia, S. C., have been recaptured. The Confederate States Army Office is now in operation at the Mist in Daningtons, Gt.
The Daily Dispatch: March 4, 1862., [Electronic resource], "The battle of Life." (search)
Killed and wounded. It is notorious that the Federalists are always underrating their losses in the engagements with the Southern forces. Rosecrans never got his killed at Gauley over 25--while the fact was, it exceeded 1,500, as has been ascertained by the best evidence. We have in Burnside's report, that he lost at Roanoke Island 50 killed and 222 wounded. The New York papers published a list of fifty killed in three regiments, while there were nine regiments engaged in the fight. It could hardly be possible that the three regiments alone lost any men. In this way the enemy's lose has been underrated in every battle, from Bethel to Donelson.
The Daily Dispatch: March 4, 1862., [Electronic resource], Note of the War (search)
ment would agree to release three hundred of their men that might hereafter fall into our hands. This noble commission of Secretary Stanton, therefore, has its ample reward. A general "jail delivery" of our soldiers will occur throughout the South, and they will soon be rejoicing in liberty regained. Since the close of this negotiation with their offer to give liberty to those surplus three hundred Union soldiers, the Confederates have had a reverse, and lost thousands of prisoners at Roanoke Island and Fort Donelson. The question is, shall we be like magnanimous, and give up, on parole, the large surplus we now have. North Carolina. Hon. Weldon N. Edwards, President of the North Carolina Convention, in response to a vote of thanks previous to the adjournment of that body, made a stirring address, of which the following is a sample: Gentlemen, this is no time for talking; the time for action is upon us. There are three great essentials to success. We want action, act
The Daily Dispatch: March 4, 1862., [Electronic resource], The "Silver Grays" in the field. (search)
The "Silver Grays" in the field. --An old citizen of Rutherford county, N. C., writes enthusiastically of the uprising of the people of that State since they heard of the disaster at Roanoke Island. He says: "I was at Burnt Chimneys, which had previously furnished over 200 volunteers, and it was a sight to see the Silver Grays coming up to answer to their names. I have a son in the army, not yet fifteen years of age. I am fifty-seven, and carry lead in my person, shot there by a savage; but I will be with Jeff. Davis in six troubles, and in the seventh will die before I forsake him."
The Daily Dispatch: March 5, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Burnside Expedition. (search)
clamation from Com. Goldsborough and Gen. Burnside "to the people of North Carolina," savors of the usual amount of Puritan cant and inflated patriotism: Roanoke Island, N. C., Feb. 18.--The mission of our joint expedition is not to invade any of your rights, but to assert the authority of the United States, and to close withievish hands upon, even to private letters and other matters of no possible interest to the public. The following is Com. Lynch's report of the engagement at Roanoke island: Flag-Ship Sha-Bish, off Roanoke island, Feb. 7, 1862.--Mr. I have the honor to report that the enemy, at 10 A. M. to with twenty-two heavy steamers and Roanoke island, Feb. 7, 1862.--Mr. I have the honor to report that the enemy, at 10 A. M. to with twenty-two heavy steamers and one tug, made an attack upon this squadron and the battery at Pork Point. As his numerical force was over whelming, we the action at long range, but as our shell fell short, while his burns over and around as, (owing, I think, to the superior quality of his powder,) we were eventually compelled to shorten the distance.
The Daily Dispatch: March 5, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Burnside Expedition. (search)
The Prospect ahead. The public mind of the entire South is fast recovering from the causeless panic occasioned by the unfortunate affairs at Roanoke Island and Fort Donelson. Considerate men see that much ultimate good may come of them, by inuring us to defeats that must often occur in a war with a power possessed of inferior numbers and superior resources of all kinds, by curing us of that rashness which our continued successes had begotten,--and, most of all, by stimulating enlistments, and thus increasing the numbers and efficiency of our armies. It is now almost certain, that by the 1st of April we shall have a larger disposable force in the field than that of our enemies; for they must retain two hundred thousand men in Maryland to guard and retain that State and the City of Washington, a hundred thousand in Kentucky and Missouri to hold those States, some twenty thousand in their various forts, and probably eighty thousand in their fleets. Thus, their stationary forc
The Daily Dispatch: March 5, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 18 (search)
ce," in a recent number of your paper. As far as I am concerned, he might with more propriety have subscribed in Justice to his lubrication. He says: "The forces under Gen. Henningeen, with fifteen pieces of artillery, were ordered to Roanoke island, but that he unfortunately misunderstood his orders and remained at Elizabeth City. There can be no reasonable doubt that his force and his fifteen pieces of artillery were to defend this identical, causeway. There can be no doubt that if tll not permit them with impunity to report or lie me into any kind of undeserved disrepute. I will simply state, as matters of fact, that I did not disobey or misunderstand any order; that obeying my orders, I could not possibly have been on Roanoke Island with my command; that I had not the amount of artillery mentioned, and as a matter of opinion, (or rather conviction,) I will add, that if I had, I could not have changed the issue of the gallant fight made by a portion of our forces on the i
The Daily Dispatch: March 6, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Northern Jubilations. (search)
section. When the South gained the great victory of Manassas and a dozen others, against odds of five to one, it never illuminated a single town nor fired a solitary salute, though those victories were achieved in defence of its soil and of its liberties. Its moderation in the hour of triumph was as signal as its valor in the field. We envy not the character which can lose its balance and rush into a delirium of delight because fifteen thousand men have defeated twenty-five hundred at Roanoke Island, and eighty thousand have proved too strong for fifteen thousand at Fort Donelson. Especially is such exultation over the fall of a weaker foe unseemly and preposterous when it is exhibited by those who have just humiliated themselves to the dust of the earth before the British Lion. They tore two Southern Commissioners from the deck of a merchant vessel in the belief that England would not resent it, threatening that if she did they would overrun and annex Canada in six weeks; and the
The Daily Dispatch: March 6, 1862., [Electronic resource], The production of saltpetre — something for every man to do. (search)
decoy him by his fascinations. The moment the little animal meats the glance of the boa's eyes, and pauses to look at them, his fate is sealed.--He gambols a little, recedes, and advances, ever diminishing the previous space between himself and his fate upon each return, until he is seized and wrapped in the folds of the monster whose spells he was powerless to resist. The Northern serpent who has penetrated the Southern Even, attempts his natural arts.--At Hatteres, and Nashville, and Roanoke Island he shows his brightest hues and assumes his quietest and most innocent sirs. He proposes to harm no one--to disturb nobody's private rights — and only to restore quiet and security to the land — Were we simple and irrational like the little red deer, we must naturally fall a prey to his natural arts. But can be decoy Southern people by such duplicity, such cherming. Are they to forget the burning houses, the confiscated property, the stolen and liberated servants of Southern people ?
The Daily Dispatch: March 7, 1862., [Electronic resource], Wanted. (search)
sumption. Neither nations or individuals ever became truly great until they have passed through the ordeal of misfortune and adversity. Moral courage, without which physical courage is worthless, is enervated by continued prosperity, and can only be restored by the chastening influence of adversity. We have this indispensable teaching whilst we are yet strong enough to profit by it. Stanced, and in too many cases almost paralyzed, at first by the sudden and appalling blows received at Roanoke Island and Fort Donelson, we have already recovered our composure, and proceeding with a less fiery and enthusiastic zeal, but with a far more determined and grave resolution, are putting out our whole strength for the contest. We see that our enemy is a desperate gambles, a ruined bankrupt, who can only restore his fortunes by conquering, robbing and enslaving us. We know his great strength, his vast military preparation and resources, that he has gathered courage from despair, and that he is
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