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The Daily Dispatch: March 17, 1865., [Electronic resource], The news. (search)
iring during each night. --Grant's troops have been in motion during the early part of the week. The impression was that he was shifting much of his army to the north side of the James. If he did so he has made no demonstration with them. Sheridan is reported to have left the country north of Richmond, and retreated in the direction of the Old Church, in Hanover, and the White House. We learn that the damage done by him to the James River Canal is much exaggerated in his report to Grant. This was to have been expected. There are matters of interest connected with Sheridan's movements which we might state, but for the fear of giving to the enemy some desired information which they cannot otherwise obtain. We feel that we cannot be too cautious in this respect. From Sherman. From Sherman we have nothing. We have no official intelligence of any kind from North Carolina. There are rumors in plenty, but they are not worth repeating. Congressional. The House of R
The Daily Dispatch: March 17, 1865., [Electronic resource], Late Northern news. (search)
arch 7.--Twenty-two steamers and six Mississippi river transports are in the Lower Bay, and a large number of troops are reported on Dauphin, Island and Pensacola, indicating an early attack on this city. Deserters report another success by Sheridan. Washington, March 12. --Intelligence from the Army of the Potomac represent that all is quiet. Two deserters were executed on Friday, one of whom made a speech acknowledging the justice of his punishment. A report was currentnion cavalry had made their appearance on the north side of the river, and were having an engagement. Deserters who came in yesterday say, that two brigades of Pickett's division had been sent from Petersburg to reinforce Early, and that General Sheridan had captured one thousand of them in addition to those before reported. Latest from New Orleans. New Orleans dispatches to the New York Herald, dated February 28th, contain the following: The news of the destruction by fire of
The Daily Dispatch: March 20, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
North Carolina, on last Sunday. General Sherman described his army as in fine health and spirits, and says he has met with no serious opposition. He says the rebel General Hardee's army still keeps in his front, at a respectful distance. Sheridan. Further intelligence from General Sheridan reports that, on last Monday, a portion of his cavalry was engaged in tearing up the railroad between Richmond and Hanover Junction, while the main body was pushing on towards the White House, on tGeneral Sheridan reports that, on last Monday, a portion of his cavalry was engaged in tearing up the railroad between Richmond and Hanover Junction, while the main body was pushing on towards the White House, on the Pamunkey river, where it was expected that supplies would reach him, to enable him to continue his work. Grant. General Grant has issued an important order, prohibiting all trade under Treasury or other permits with points within the rebel lines in the States of Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia, and declaring void all contracts made under such permits. It is understood that this has been, in a great measure, called forth by the discoveries made in connection with the
The Daily Dispatch: March 20, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
The news. The Richmond and Petersburg lines. There was some movement of the enemy on the north side yesterday, and our pickets in the neighborhood of White Oak swamp were driven in; but being reinforced, they soon drove the enemy back. The rest of the day passed off quietly. Everything remains quiet in the neighborhood of Petersburg. We are looking daily to hear of Sheridan moving from Hatcher's run towards the Southside railroad. Advices from City Point represent a vast deal of shipping in the river, with gunboats, iron clads and ships-of-war. The village has been enlarged to a respectable town, abundantly supplied with machine shops, saw-mills, business houses, etc. The wharves are very extensive and the place, in all respects, is so charged as to render it scarcely recognizable by those most familiar with the locality. From North Carolina. Intelligence is said to have been received here that, on the 16th, four divisions of Sherman's army attacked Hardee
The Daily Dispatch: March 21, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
The news. The Richmond and Petersburg lines. Everything was unusually quiet on this side of the James yesterday. Sheridan has made his hasty raid from Staunton to the White House, passing through the counties of Augusta, Albemarle, Nelson, Fluvanna, Goochland, Louisa, Hanover and New Kent, and leaving some desolation in his track. It is reported that he destroyed a large quantity of subsistence in his route. We have heard of many individuals who were robbed by his brigands. From the White House it is conjectured his forces have proceeded to Grant, either across the country or up James river in transports. There was a very considerable bombardment near the Jerusalem plankroad, on the Petersburg lines, about daylight on Saturday morning. The firing was begun by our troops. The results, if any, are unknown. A Victory in North Carolina--General Johnston makes the Attack and Routs the enemy. The following official dispatch, from General Lee, was received yesterday
The Daily Dispatch: March 22, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Elections. We admire the tenacious ardor and vitality of the passion to vote and be voted for. Scarcely has a huge cavalry raid swept over the country, and apparently stripped it of every living thing, before there spring up in its track, green and imperishable, political candidates and their supporters, who pitch into each other with a patriotism and vim that, if combined in a physical demonstration against the enemy, would sweep him from the face of the earth. Whatever else the raids of Sheridan & Co. destroy, they cannot extinguish the inevitable sparring for legislative honors. Lee and Grant, Johnston and Sherman, must be content to stand aside from public attention for the present, till the great battle of the Legislative Ins and Outs is decided. We suggest to the enemy that the coolness and system with which our people are now going about this work do not look much like the deportment of men who are in daily expectation of being subjugated. We have none of us the most re
The Daily Dispatch: March 22, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
An act of vandalism. --We doubt whether any other nation than the United States has, or would have, perpetrated such a vandalism as the robbery of a lunatic asylum of the provisions stored there for its helpless inmates. Some of the Directors of the Central Lunatic Asylum, at Staunton, have communicated to the Governor an official report of the outrage perpetrated at that institution. They state that,-- "On Saturday morning, the 4th instant, a detachment from General Sheridan's army arrived at Staunton, having under guard Confederate soldiers, said to have been captured near Waynesboro'. That, unable to learn who was in command, he addressed a note as soon as they arrived to the provost-marshal, or other officer in command, informing him that the institution was a State charity, appropriated exclusively to the care of the insane, containing over three hundred of that class of patients, and respectfully asking that it might be protected from unnecessary intrusion; but befo
The Daily Dispatch: March 22, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ted near Old Church, in the lower end of Hanover county, fifteen miles northeast of Richmond. Yesterday morning, our cavalry advanced and re-established our picket posts. Kantz was sent round to this section of country to cover the retreat of Sheridan's raiders, who, we learn upon good authority, were too fagged and jaded by their long and wearisome excursion to take care of themselves. Their track, from Fluvanna to the York river, is thickly strewn with the carcasses of their worn-out horses. We had apprehended that Sheridan would soon be at work on our lines of communication south of Richmond; but from what we learn of the condition of his command, men and beasts, some considerable time must elapse before it will again be fit for field operations. On Monday evening, between 2 and 3 o'clock, our batteries on the Jerusalem plankroad, near Petersburg, opened upon the Yankee observatory recently erected on the Avery House, about a mile distant. The Yankees replied to our fire,
The Daily Dispatch: March 23, 1865., [Electronic resource], The Newspaper Press in the Confederacy. (search)
The Newspaper Press in the Confederacy. --The Danville Register remarks that the recent movements of Sherman and Sheridan have greatly decreased the number of newspapers published in the country. In Virginia, we have daily papers issued from four points — Richmond, Lynchburg. Danville and Petersburg — and one weekly at Clarksville. The number has been largely curtailed in North Carolina. Wilmington, Fayetteville, Newbern, etc., are in the hands of the enemy. The Yankees now publish a paper at Wilmington. Some think that Raleigh, too, may go by, then Goldsboro' and Charlotte, and some smaller places will be alone left. In South Carolina, it is even worse. The Mercury was removed from Charleston some time before the occupation of the city by the enemy; and the Courier, which remained, was taken in charge by the Yankees, notwithstanding it opposed nullification in and is now issued as a Yankee newspaper. All the papers in Columbia have been discontinued. In Georgia,
The Daily Dispatch: March 23, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Sheridan's raiders at Scottsville. A private letter from Scottsville gives a sad account of the action of Sheridan and his raiders: The enemy were in two Sheridan and his raiders: The enemy were in two columns:--one from North Garden, commanded by Sheridan in person, passed on towards Howardsville and New Market; the remainder, from Charlottesville, supposed to haveSheridan in person, passed on towards Howardsville and New Market; the remainder, from Charlottesville, supposed to have been about four thousand, went to Scottsville. They entered the town on Monday, about 1 o'clock in the afternoon. The citizens were in the streets at the time of tre destroyed, and the people are in a state of destitution. On Thursday, Sheridan's force came down the canal, and on Friday pillaged everything they could findurning, saw his house in flames; he fell dead, and was so found next day. When Sheridan himself was in town, those with whom the officers were quartered, and also thowhether they were willing to go or not, and forthwith mounted and armed. Wherever Sheridan's raiders went, they took whatever they wanted, and did as they pleased.
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