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The Daily Dispatch: November 23, 1863., [Electronic resource], State of affairs in Knoxville . (search)
The Daily Dispatch: November 30, 1863., [Electronic resource], Speech of the New Senator from Georgia . (search)
Speech of the New Senator from Georgia.
--Hon. Herschel V. Johnson, the news-elected Confederate Senator from Georgia, made a speech in Milledgeville on the 24th inst. A letter gives the following summary of his address:
He come square up to the support of the Administration, and defended the impressment law as a necessary measure for the subsistence or the army.
He would have prices fixed by arbitrators of the vicinage.
He counselled the cordial support of the Government as the sheet-anchor of our hopes.
He thought it unstatesmanlike and unmanly to say that the law was unconstitutional, or that the Government was oppressive.
There were some, he said, that the angel Gabriel could not satisfy.
He would not have the arrogance, he said, to say that he could offer a remedy for our financial difficulties.
He thought taxation must be vigorously resorted to, and had been delayed too long.
He denounced those who have tried the spirit of the people by abuses of the imp
The Daily Dispatch: November 30, 1863., [Electronic resource], More Burning in Charlestown . (search)
From Charleston. Charleston, Nov. 28.
--Shelling by the enemy was kept up steadily on Sumter, Moultrie, Johnson, and Simpkins, to-day.--Two 10 inches Columbians at Gregg, bearing upon Sumter, fired seventy-two shells on the fort, of which twenty-nine missed.
The enemy have also commenced firing 13 inches mortars from Cummings's Point, and two monitors were engaged, and fired twenty-eight shells, eight of which missed.
During the night the enemy continued his usual practice on Sumter with light Parrot guns.
Two hundred and fifty-seven shots were fired on Friday night, of which one hundred and thirty-six missed.
No casualties at Sumter, Capt. Jacob Valentine and two or three privates in Moultrie were severely wounded by the explosion of a Parrot shell.
No casualties on James's Island.
Major Elliott has been promoted by the President to be Lieutenant-Colonel.
The Daily Dispatch: May 4, 1864., [Electronic resource], Proceedings of Congress. (search)
Confederate States Congress.
Senate.--The Senate met at 12 o'clock yesterday, Mr. Hunter, of Va, in the Chair.
The credentials of the Hon Herschel V. Johnson, of Ga., was presented, and he attended and took the oath of office.
Mr. Sparrow presented resolutions of the General Assembly of Louisiana in relation to the further prosecution of the war, which were read and ordered to be printed.
Mr. Semmes, of La. offered a resolution that the Military Committee inquire into the expediency of causing officers of the Quartermaster and Commissary Departments to be detailed or assigned to the duty of auditing and paying claims of the citizens of Louisiana for all property impressed by order of officers of the Confederate service, and for hire of negroes and teams.
Mr. Barnwell, of S. C., from the Finance Committee, reported a bill to authorize certificates of indebtedness to be given for property purchased or impressed and for transportation, and to provide for the pay
The letter of the Hon. Herschel V. Johnson on the peace propositions, which we have not yet been enabled to publish, but which has been some days before the public, is in striking contrast with the letters of Messrs. Stevens and Brown, of Georgia, and Mr. Boyee, of South Carolina. Mr. Johnson is as anxious for peace as either of these gentlemen; but, under the circumstances, he can see no