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The Daily Dispatch: April 15, 1864., [Electronic resource], Three hundred Dollars reward. (search)
Commanding General whether wisely or unwisely, history and posterity will decide. On the morning of the third, Gen. Lee gave orders that the enemy should be attacked on our front, in their entrenched position on Cemetery heights. The column of attack consisted of Kemper's, Garnett's and Armistead's brigades, (all Virginians,) of Pickett's division, (Horse's brigade was not in the Pennsylvania campaign,) the division of Major Gen. Heth, which consisted of Davis's Miss., Archer's Tenn., Brockenbrough's Va., and Pettigrew's N. C. brigades, and Lone and Scales's brigades, of Pender's old division, now Wilcox's. The attacking column was arranged in the following order. Pickett was put in position so as to move directly on the enemy's frowning line of works. Heth's division, commanded by Pettigrew, was to move on the same line as Pickett, and attack the enemy's salient at the same moment. --Pickett's division was arranged: two brigades in the front line, supported by the third bri
The Daily Dispatch: December 15, 1865., [Electronic resource], Election of railroad officers. (search)
ain streets, a Temple of Chess. Up a steep and most impracticable stairway into a neat and cosy little room the lovers of the game nightly flocked. And these citizens, warriors, statesmen and clergymen met in the mimic war over the board. The fortune of war made Richmond a focus, and many strong players were drawn thither by current of events. All were welcome, for there seems to be a sort of Freemasonry in the game. Murphy was here twice during the course of the war. There was a Major Brockenbrough, an artillery officer, who handled the Club so roughly that the veteran player, Colonel Johnson, had to be called up, and even he had a hard fight. The gallant General John Pegram played a dashing and brilliant game. General Jenkins was also a strong player. Private soldiers — here the peers of their generals — met them on chequered field; and the conscript and the legislator fought on equal terms. No trace of this little arena remains. It passed away with the Confederacy, an
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