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The Daily Dispatch: June 7, 1862., [Electronic resource], From New Orleans. (search)
death No brighter, nobler, or more gallant spirit has sealed in martyrdom on the field devotion to our cause than General J. Johnston Petil grew. James Johnston Pettigrew was a son of Hon. Ebenezer Pettigrew, of Tyrrell county, North Carolina, a of our fellow-citizen, James L Pettigrew, and was born in 1861. He entered the old and cherished nursery of his native State after full academical preparation, and graduated with distinguished honors from the University of North Carolina in 1843. President Polk, a native of North Carolina, and an alumnus of this University, attended this Commencement with members of his Cabinet and other distinguished citizens. The orator of the Literary Societies was John Y. Mason, Secretary of the Navy, and afterwards Minister to France Among the scientific visitors and guests was Professor Maury, who was so favorably and deeply impressed with the gifts and acquirements of the young graduate that he engaged him for the Mathematical Chair of the Ob
The Daily Dispatch: December 6, 1862., [Electronic resource], Burnside — his Antecedents, &c. (search)
Burnside — his Antecedents, &c. The Richmond correspondent of the Grenada Appeal gives the following account of McClellan's successor: Gen Ambrose Everett Burnside who supplants the "Young Napoleon," is one of the most courteous and well-behaving officers of the Yankee army. He was born in Indiana, and entered the Military Academy of West Point from that State in the year 1843, in the same class with Ambrose P. Hill and Henry Heth, who are now Generals in the Confederate service. Having served some years in the artillery after graduation, he resigned his commission and went to live in Rhode Island, where he had married a woman of wealth and accomplishment. All his own private resources and the greater part of his wife's fortune were spent by him in preparations for the manufacture on a large scale of a new rifle of his own invention upon which there had been a favorable report from an army commission appointed to examine it, and for which he expected a great contract fro
The Daily Dispatch: December 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], Alleged Cure for small-pox. (search)
erm is thickened and in a state of congestion, and in five days becomes dry without suppuration. Applying the same treatment on the fourth or fifth day of the eruption, the small pox become as if they were the true vaccine; fill and dry in the space of ten days, with suppuration. Considering then than the vesicles and pustules ought to be opened, for two or three times, always that they contain any liquid, and beginning the third day to prevent the secondary fever. I have had since 1843 more than thirty cases, and in fourteen paid particular attention; there were three severe continent cases, eleven less severe, although distinct. Since I had recourse to this treatment I have not lost a single patient by the small pox. At my request, some of my colleagues are using this system, and they are well as I, have reaped the most Battering results. These effects are supporter to my expectation, and even to my comprehension; in fact, the vaccine neutralizes the variola vir
The Daily Dispatch: January 12, 1863., [Electronic resource], Eastern North Carolina. (search)
renewal of the battle, we passed that gloomy and ever to be- remembered Enchant. The spectacle which that bloody field covered with hundreds of life loss bodies, lying in every conceivable shape, and disfigured in every form of mutilation presented to the sickened gaze was extremely horrifying end nothing could so well Illustrate the evils and inhumanity of warfare. Letter from an Trish Patriots The "Nation," of Duble, contains a letter from John March our of the Irish exiles of 1843, which is well worth reading: Kilbronty Bostrevor, Nov. 5th, 1863. To the Editor of the baton: Dear Sir: My name has been mentioned in your paper of 1st Saturday as that of a sympathizer with the Southern States in the war which is at present raging in America. I am a sympathizer with the South; and since the fact is now publicly stated. I course, with your kind permission to say a few words by way of explaining and defining my sympathy: Both Pruden are our kindred our fr
The Daily Dispatch: April 15, 1864., [Electronic resource], Stop the Runaways--$1000 reward. (search)
Lieut. Gen. U. S. Grant and our Generals. --The following facts relative to the Commander in Chief of the United States armies are collated from the U S. Military Academy Register and Gardner's (second edition) Dictionary of the U. S. Army, by a correspondent of the Atlanta Confederacy: Ulysses S. Grant was appointed Cadet from Ohio in 1839, being then seventeen years of age, and graduated in 1843, and was commissioned 1st July, 1843, Brevet 2d Lieutenant 4th Infantry United States Army. Transferred to 7th Infantry; in 4th Infantry again, November, 1845; Brevet 1st Lieutenant "for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Molino del Rey," 8th September, declined; Regimental Quartermaster, April, 1847; 1st Lieutenant, September, 1847; Brevet Captain "for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Chepultepec, 13th September, 1847;" Full Captain, August, 1858; resigned 31st July, 1854. Since his resignation from the army nothing is known by me of his occupation
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