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The Daily Dispatch: November 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
y at their encampment near Gen. Beauregard's headquarters, and spent a few hours as pleasantly as one could wish. When I came up the suede was sounding the assembly, and the companies were preparing to march out to the parade ground. Three companies only were present, the second being on ticket udar Fair-fax. A few words about this corps may not be uninteresting. The Washington Artillery, of New Orleans, was founded in 1838, a company being organized under that name. Between 1838 and 1842, it assumed the name of North American Artillery. In the latter year it was re-organized as "Washington Artillery," under which name it has since continued. In the Mexican war it was company A of the regiment; raised and commanded by Col. Persiter Smith, with J. B. Walton, the present commander of the battalion, as Lieutenant-Colonel. Soon after arriving in Mexico, Col. Smith was made a Brigadier General, and Col. Walton was promoted to the command of the regiment. After their term of enl
The Daily Dispatch: December 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], Legislature of Virginia (search)
tor from the district composed of the county of Pittsylvania. That county gave him his cradle and his- slave. Commencing the struggle of life without fortune, and with a contracted education, he entered into the profession of law with such energy, urbanity, and singleness of aim, that he soon acquired a commanding practice, which continued, with but little abatement, to about twelve years before his death, when he retired from his profession. He headed a volunteer company in the war of 1842, and after our disasters at Washington, proceeded to Maryland, where he remained till the declaration of peace. He served his county in the lower House of the Assembly in the laborious session of 1819, when our Code was revised; was elected to the Senate in 1829, and, in the same year, to the Convention which revised the Constitution. In this election, he received a larger number of votes than any of its members, filled, though it was, with the most illustrious men in the Commonwealth. Con
The Daily Dispatch: January 16, 1862., [Electronic resource], List of the General officers in the armies of the Confederate States. (search)
all, Richard C Gatlin. Class of 1833--Daniel Ruggles. Class of 1835--Jones M. Withers. Class of 1836--Joseph R. Anderson, Lloyd Tilghman. Class of 1837--Braxton Bragg, Wm. H. T. Walker, John C. Pemberton, Arnold Elzey, Henry H. Sibley, Jubel A. Early. Class of 1838--Wm. J. Hardee, James H, Trapier. Class of 1839--Alex. R. Lawton, John P. McCown. Class of 1840--Richard S. Ewell, Paul O. Habert, Richard B, Garnett. Class of 1841--Robert S. Garnett, Samuel Jones. Class of 1842--Earl Van Dorn, Gustavus W, Smith, Mansfield Lovell, James Long street, Daniel H, Hill, Richard H. Anderson, Lafayette McLaws, Alex. P. Stewart, Class of 1843--Roswell S. Ripley, Samuel G. French. Class of 1844--Simon B, Buckner. Class of 1845--E Kirby Smith, Bernard E. Bee, Wm. B. C. Whiting. Class of 1846--Thomas J. Jackson, Cadmus M. Wilcox, David R. Jones, Wm. M. Gardner. Class of 1848--Nathan G. Evans. Class of 1854--J. E. B. Stuart. Generals who were not graduates at
The Daily Dispatch: January 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 16 (search)
waiting for insulators. The late Gen. Felix K. Zollicoffer. From the Philadelphia Press, of the 21st inst., we extract the following: Gen. Zollicoffer was well known to the public as a politician and editor. He was born in Mewry county, Tenn., on the 19th of May, 1812. He was a printer by trade, and when quite a young man he published a paper at Paris, in Tennessee, and subsequently was proprietor of the Columbian Observer. Being elected State Printer, he held that office till 1842, when he removed to Nashville, where for some time he was editor of an old-line whig newspaper of that city, called the Banner, using his position as a stepping stone to a membership in the Federal Congress. That position he finally attained in 1853, and continued for three sucsuccessive terms to hold it. Affairs in Missouri--reported battle near Ironton — success of the Confederates. The St. Louis Democrat, of January 17, says: Information of a reliable character reached thi
The Daily Dispatch: February 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], The New York Herald of the 15th. (search)
General Ambrose B. Burnside. The Commander-in-Chief of the expedition, Brigadier General Ambrose Everett Burnside, was born at Liberty, in Union county, Indiana, on the 23d of May, 1824, and is consequently now in his thirty-eighth year. In 1842 he entered the West Point Military Academy, and graduated in 1847, with the rank of Second Lieutenant in the Second United States artillery. In September of the same year he was transferred to the Third artillery, and was attached to the rebel Gears date June 18, 1812. He has consequently been nearly fifty years in the United States service, over eighteen of which he has passed at sea in the various grades of the naval service. Among others, he commanded the Marion, thirty-eight guns, in 1842, at the time she was attached to the squadron of Commodores Ridgely and Morris, as Brazil. In 1847 he commanded the Ohio, seventy-four guns, and afterwards commanded the Cumberland, forty-four guns, and the Levant, eighteen guns, at the time thos
The Daily Dispatch: March 11, 1862., [Electronic resource], Notes of the War. (search)
ited States and the wonder of the world. --Hampton Roads, where hostile fleets and transports have so long rode in safety and defiance is now a more unsafe place for the strongest Federal ship than the mid ocean in a tornado. The "perfect failure," as the Yankees pronounced the Virginia, has proved the much brilliant success of naval architecture and her heroic commander, his officers and man, as well as their comrades of the other vessels, have covered themselves with glory. Ever since 1842, the United States have been constructing a floating iron battery, called the Stevens battery, at Hoboken, opposite New York, every few years making large appropriations for it, until the aggregate amounted to a million of dollars. Its operations were subducted with the most profound secrecy, not even naval officers being permitted to examine it. And yet, within the last two months a committee appointed by the Federal Congress have decided against it. The Merrimas (now the Virginia) was prep
The Daily Dispatch: March 13, 1862., [Electronic resource], Twenty Dollars reward. (search)
l their batteries along the Potomac. Our flotilla has landed forces and taken possession of the batteries, and the Stars and Stripes are now floating over them. The vessels lost. It will be observed that the Herald speaks of the vessels lost as "two old wooden sailing frigates;" but the same paper, in another column gives the following description of them: The Cumberland. The Cumberland was a sloop-of-war of 1,725 tons burthen, and carried twenty-four guns. She was built in 1842 at the Charlestown Navy-Yard, and was consequently twenty years old. She was lately attached to the Home squadron, and has done most effective service in helping to preserve the blockade. She was sunk, according to our advices, by being run down by the Merrimac. What portion of her officers, if any, have been lost, we have as yet received no positive information. The following is the last list of the officers that we have received: Commander....J. W. Livingston. Lieutenants....H. K
The Daily Dispatch: May 31, 1862., [Electronic resource], General Greene--retreat through the Carolinas. (search)
s become a part of the history of the country. He was born in Clarksburg, in the county of Lewis, in the year 1862, of highly respectable parents, both of whom died during his infancy, leaving him without a cent in the world. During his early childhood he resided with an uncle, whose name we did not hear and at the age of sixteen he had conducted himself so well, and produced such a favorable impression of his energy and integrity that he was chosen constable of the county. In the year 1842 a cadet had been appointed from his district to West Point, who declined to go. Jackson immediately conceived the idea of filling the place he had left vacant. Our informant says, that one day. while it was raining exceedingly hard. he burst suddenly into his office, the rain streaming from his clothes, and told him that he must give him a letter to Mr. Hayes, at that time representative in Congress from the Lewis district. Upon being asked what he wanted with such a letter, he replied he
The Daily Dispatch: June 27, 1862., [Electronic resource], The execution of Mumford. (search)
ere three children of deceased had been previously buried. The following brief sketch of the life of Mumford is mostly from his own lips. He was born of a very respectable family in Onslow county, N. C., on the 6th December, 1819. and was consequently at the time of his death in the 43d year of his age. When but three years of age, his father died, leaving him about $50,000. While yet a boy he went, to Florida, and remained there during the Florida war, returning to his home in 1832. In 1842 he left his home and went up the Red river, where he married an estimable lady, acquiring considerable property with her. In 1844 he came to this city, where he remained until 1846, when he went to Mexico as an Orderly Sergeant in the Third Louisiana regiment of Gen. Persifer F. Smith's brigade. Shortly after he arrived in Mexico he broke his leg, got sick, and was discharged from service. --Since then he has followed gambling as a profession, and was so noted for his proficiency at card
The Daily Dispatch: July 4, 1862., [Electronic resource], Further from the North. (search)
ing the river, and to amuse them with their river stockade while McClellan was getting his army into trim. This difficult duty he performed admirably. Maj. Gen. John Pope. Major-Gen. John Pope is a man about forty years of age, and a native of Kentucky. He is a son of Governor Nathaniel Pope, of Virginia, who went to Kentucky before the birth of John, and, after living in Kentucky a few years removed to Illinois John, the son, entered the West Point Academy in 1838. He graduated in 1842, and was appointed to the army from the State of Illinois, entering the service as a Brevet 3d Lieutenant for gallant and meritorious conduct in several conflicts at Monterey, the brevet bearing date from September . On the 23d of February, 1847, he was brevetted Captain for gallant and meritorious conduct at the battle of Vista. On the 1st of July, 1862 he took the actual rank of Captain in the corps of Topographical Engineers, and on the 17th of May, 1861, was made a Brigadier-Genera
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