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The Daily Dispatch: October 20, 1863., [Electronic resource], One Hundred Dollars reward. (search)
From Northern Virginia. --The news brought down by the Central train last night leaves no longer a doubt that Meade has escaped the pursuit of our forces and safely reached his fortifications near Centreville. A large number of prisoners, and no little amount of plunder, are some of the results of this pursuit. The last attempt to force the retreating foe into an engagement was made on Friday last, when Stuart's cavalry chased the enemy's cavalry across Bull Run. An officer, who came down last night, says that we have yet two thousand prisoners to come in who have been captured within the past two weeks. A number of our wounded came down, among them Brig. Gen. Kirkland, who was wounded in the engagement of Wednesday last.
The Daily Dispatch: June 3, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
y doubt of the final result. From Gen Lee's army. The following dispatch from Gen. Lee was received at the War Department yesterday. Headq'rs Army Northern Va.,June 1st, 1864, P. M. Honorable Secretary of War: There has been skirmishing along the lines to-day. Gen. Hoke and Gen. Anderson attacked the enemy in their front this forenoon, and drove them to their entrenchments. This afternoon the enemy attacked Gen, Heth, and were handsomely reprised by Cook's and Kirkland's brigades, Generals Breckinridge and Mahone drove the enemy from their front, taking, about one hundred and fifty prisoners. A force of infantry is reported to have arrived at Tunstall's Station from the White House, and to be extending up the York River Railroad. They state that they belong to Butter's forces. Respectfully, B. E. Lee, Gen. The skirmishing along the lines is represented to have been very heavy, particularly at a late hour in the evening. The severest fi
The Daily Dispatch: December 31, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
From Wilmington. Wilmington, North Carolina, December 30. --General Bragg has issued a congratulatory order on the defeat the enemy's grand armada before Wilmington, paying a merited compliment to Generals Whiting and Kirkland, Colonel Lamb and officers and men engaged. The enemy's attack the first day lasted five hours; on the second day, seven hours; firing altogether over twenty thousand shots from fifty-nine vessels. The Confederates responded with six hundred and sixty-two shots the first day, and six hundred the second. Our loss is three killed and fifty-five wounded. The ground in front and rear of the fort is covered with shells, and is torn in deep pits. Two guns in the fort burst, two were dismounted by ourselves and two by the enemy's fire; yet the fort is unhurt. Scouts report that Butler made speech at Newbern, saying he would eat his Christmas dinner in Wilmington. It is reported that a part of a negro regiment, and the Fifth
The Daily Dispatch: January 2, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ed, bearing on the beach and covering a strip of land, the only practical route, not wide enough for a thousand men in line of battle. Having captured Flag-Pond battery, the garrison of which, sixty-five men and two commissioned officers, were taken off by the navy; we also captured Half-Moon battery, and seven officers and two hundred and eight men of the Third North Carolina junior reserves, including its commander, from whom I learned that a portion of Hoke's division, consisting of Kirkland's and Haygood's brigades, had been sent from the lines before Richmond on Tuesday last, arriving at Wilmington on Friday night. General Weitzel advanced his skirmish line within fifty yards of the fort, while the garrison was kept in their bomb-proofs by the fire of the navy, and so closely that three or four men of the picket line ventured upon the parapet, and through the sally-port of the works, capturing a horse, which they brought off, killing the orderly, who was the bearer of a d
The Daily Dispatch: January 2, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
. As soon as the enemy's infantry had gained a foothold on the mainland, on Sunday afternoon, the 25th instant, they threw themselves across the narrow spit of on the southeastern extremity of which Fort Fisher stands, and thus got between Kirkland's brigade and the fort, while Kirkland was between them and Wilmington. They moved forward immediately against Fisher, and attempted to carry it by a coup de main; but the brave garrison, quitting their guns and taking up their muskets, easily Kirkland was between them and Wilmington. They moved forward immediately against Fisher, and attempted to carry it by a coup de main; but the brave garrison, quitting their guns and taking up their muskets, easily repulsed them. A second assault was made, and with the like result; after which the enemy withdrew up the beach beyond the reach of the Confederate fire and went to work entrenching themselves under cover of their protecting fleet.--They made some prisoners among the junior reserves when they advanced down against the fort; but beyond this our less was small, being less than fifty killed and wounded. Nearly all of our casualties consist of light wounds, but few having been killed. Among the wo
The Daily Dispatch: January 4, 1865., [Electronic resource], Our Wilmington correspondence. (search)
before the wires were broken, stated that all was well, and that the garrison had replied to the enemy's fire less frequently than on yesterday. But the most serious part of the fight, to-day remains to be told. A portion of the fleet, moving up the beach two and a half miles above Fort Fisher, swept the shore with grape and canister for an hour, at the end of which the boats were lowered, and a force, estimated to be three brigades, was landed. This force was immediately engaged by Kirkland's brigade; but, at half-past 5 o'clock, the enemy still maintained his footing on the beach, after two hours fighting. It is not improbable that other troops will be landed to-night, and possibly some artillery. The enemy is now between Wilmington and Fort Fisher, and has cut off communication by land with the latter. If he is not dislodged soon, Fisher must fall as Fort Morgan did, and with its fall the port of Wilmington will be sealed. Once firmly established on the narrow spit o
The Daily Dispatch: January 6, 1865., [Electronic resource], From Wilmington. (search)
a barren coast, followed in forty-eight hours by a hasty re-embarkation. This auspicious, result is due, under a merciful Providence, to the skill of Major-General Whiting, who planned the defences at the mouth of the Cape Fear, to the gallantry and endurance of Colonel Lamb and the brave garrison of Fort Fisher, under his immediate command, worthily seconded by Lieutenant Chapman, of the navy, and his devoted seamen serving Battery Buchanan, and the steady coolness with which Brigadier-General Kirkland, with a part of his brigade, checked the advance of vastly superior numbers of the enemy. Thus another gigantic effort of a powerful enemy has come to naught, but not without affording us profitable lessons! The successful defence of Fort Fisher against one of the most formidable naval armaments of modern times proves that the superiority of land batteries over ships of war, at one time threatened by the improvements in artillery and ship armor, has been re-established by the
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