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The Daily Dispatch: December 28, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
curred, it requires cheering and stimulant. Nor do we believe that any other act of his, apart from the moral effect, could so powerfully aid in the prosecution of the war. General Lee is, beyond all question, the greatest of living captains. There is no other, indeed, whose deeds admit of the slightest comparison. But apart from this, he possesses a weight of character, and an estimation with the multitude, such as no other man but one ever possessed in this country, and that other was Washington. The whole people look up to him with a respect amounting to reverence, and a belief in his capacity almost superstitious. They are unwilling to believe, and cannot be taught to believe, that anything he undertakes will fail — that any course he recommends can be wrong — that any cause he may adopt can fail. Whatever might be the movements of our armies, were General Lee the head of them all, they would be received with confidence alike by soldiers and people. Besides, General Lee
The Daily Dispatch: December 31, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
breaking into Robert W. Oliver's house, on Clay street, near Brook avenue, on Wednesday night, and stealing therefrom one barrel of flour, six hundred pounds of beef and a dressed turkey. The next day after the robbery, officer Jenkins, armed with a warrant, searched Wash's wife's house, and there found the greater portion of what had been stolen from Mr. Oliver, which she said had been left there by her husband. At the same time, the case of Catherine, slave of Ann Anderson, and wife of Washington, was arraigned on the charge of receiving the articles stolen from Mr. Oliver, knowing that they were stolen. The Mayor sent the parties on for examination before the Hustings Court. William Meekings, free boy, charged with stealing twenty-one dollars and fifty cents in specie from his father, Emanuel Meekings, and Martha Page, also free, charged with being the instigator of the robbery and receiving the money, knowing it to have been stolen, were remanded for examination before the
The Daily Dispatch: January 4, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 7 (search)
We were greatly gratified to hear from Washington, some days ago, that Colonels Jacob and Woolford would be relieved from arrest.--Louisville Journal, 28th.
The Daily Dispatch: January 7, 1865., [Electronic resource], The pedigree of the Lee family. (search)
the "Strictures on the Writings of Jefferson"; also, a Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Sidney Smith Lee was a commodore in the old United States navy, and is now chief of the Bureau of Orders and Detail, Navy Department, in Richmond. He commanded at Drewry's Bluff for a long time. Robert Edmund Lee is at Petersburg — the General Lee of this day. He married Miss Custis, of Arlington, in Alexandria county, the daughter and heiress of George Washington Parke Custis, the adopted son of General Washington, who married Mrs. Custis, his mother. General Lee has three sons--Brigadier-General G. W. Custis Lee, aid-decamp to the President (he passed No. 1 at West Point); Major-General W. H. F. Lee, commanding a division of cavalry in the Army of Northern Virginia, and Robert Edmund Lee, who entered the army, at the instance of his father, as a private in the Rockbridge artillery. He is now on the staff of General Fitzhugh Lee. Besides these children, General Lee had four daughters — Ma
The Daily Dispatch: January 10, 1865., [Electronic resource], From Wilmington. (search)
From Wilmington. [Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.] Wilmington, North Carolina,January 3, 1865. Scouts report that the land and naval forces recently operating against this place, under the command of Butler and Porter, were at Morehead City and Beaufort on Saturday and Sunday last, waiting for orders from Washington. The land force was estimated at twenty thousand men and the flotilla at one hundred and twenty-three sall, including ten iron-clads. The enemy freely admitted that they were badly beaten at Fort Fisher, and say they have not seen or heard anything of Butler since the fight. It was supposed, however, that he had returned to the Army of the Potomac.--it was not known at Beaufort, even by the highest officers, whether the expedition would return to Fortress Monroe, or renew the attack upon Fort Fisher, or make a descent upon some other point on the coast. It is hardly probable that another attempt will be made against the defences of this harbor, at lea
The Daily Dispatch: January 10, 1865., [Electronic resource], A contrast--1778 and 1864. (search)
ise a yielding up of the right because the enemy is strong, and proud, and defiant, and presses us sorely on every side? Has hope left all except those in the army? In God's name, is it the safety of property against the liberty and separate independence of your country which so greatly agitates the minds of men? 'Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased with chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!' "We have been led to these words by reading letters written to General Washington during the gloomy days of 1778, and a letter from that great man himself. We give below a few extracts, and ask the citizen reader and despondent soldier (if there be such) to read them and contrast the times; but to remember always that, by a firm determination and a heroic submission to dangers and sufferings, our grand old fathers, conquered a glorious liberty, and that even so will our armies come from under the cloud and march to victory and to honor. "Governor Livingston, o
The Daily Dispatch: January 10, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
it till a larger force is sent to dislodge them, which, by the way, can very soon be done when the proper time comes for Sherman to move. As for the city, everything is quiet and well regulated. We are pleased to announce, as a matter of record, that the schooner Maryland, Captain Cathcart, yesterday, was moored at one of our wharves, she being the first sail vessel that has arrived since the re-occupation of the city by the Union forces. Looking for Mosby. A dispatch from Washington, dated the 5th instant, announces the failure of a scout for Mosby. It says: A scout set out, last week, to look for Mosby, under command of Major Frazer. They proceeded to Mr. Lake's house, where Mosby was wounded, near Rector's cross-roads, and learned that be was moved, within half an hour after he was wounded, to Mr. Glasscock's, about one and a half miles distant, where he remained three days. The ball was there extracted, having passed round, or, perhaps, through his bowels,
The Daily Dispatch: January 10, 1865., [Electronic resource], From Wilmington. (search)
pped for stealing money and wearing apparel from Sally Brockmore. Reuben Manheim, alias Reuben Morris, charged with obtaining, under false pretences, a piece of cloth, valued at one thousand eight hundred dollars, the property of Samuel M. Price, was remanded for trial before Judge Lyons. Washington, slave of Lyttleton Bowles, charged with breaking into the house of Robert W. Oliver and stealing a lot of corned beef and a turkey, was ordered to receive thirty-nine lashes. Catherine, wife of Washington, charged with receiving the same, knowing them to have been stolen, was discharged upon the payment of costs of prosecution. Amanda, slave of William Forbes, and John, slave of Frank Allen, charged with breaking into the dwelling-house of Samuel W. Allen with intent to commit a larceny were each ordered to receive thirty-nine lashes on their bare backs. One or two other cases of a trivial character were disposed of; after which the court adjourned till this morning.
The Daily Dispatch: January 12, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
It was the fortune of General Washington, whilst conducting the Seven Years. War of the Revolution, to be the object of especial hate and vengeance to the British Crown, and, at the same time, to be exposed to misrepresentation, detraction and obloquy at the hands of his own countrymen. Few of us, not family with the details of the trying ordeal through which he passed, can form an adequate idea of the fiery furnace in which that great soul was tested, and from which it came forth, knowna felon and be only remembered as the unskillful and unsuccessful leader of an insane revolt, than become the admiration of all nations and of all ages, and be described by the pen of one of England's most ed nobles in words like these: "Surely Washington was the greatest man that ever lived in this world uninspired by vine wisdoms unsustained by supernatural virtue." It is difficult to realize that the man of whom this is now said, even in England, was once ill-stressed, harassed and prese
The Daily Dispatch: January 13, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
e it collapse and vanish.--So let us speedily fill up the new requisition, and we may confidently trust that, in one way or another, our long distracted, devastated country shall soon rejoice in the return of welcome peace. A telegram from Washington, dated the 9th, about the same thing, says: Francis P. Blair, Sr., went on his second mission of peace to Richmond on Saturday. His son, Montgomery Blair, did not accompany him. Passes from the Confederate authorities — civil and militarany surplus of prisoners remaining on hand after the exchanges had exhausted either party." The fight on the slavery abolition bill in the Yankee House. The bill for the abolition of slavery in the "United States," it is now thought by Washington correspondents, will pass. In the Senate, Monday, a bill passed (twenty-seven to ten) liberating the wives and children of negroes in the Yankee army. In the House, a debate took place on the abolition bill, of which we copy a portion: M
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