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The Daily Dispatch: October 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], The last letters from the correspondent of the London times. (search)
ng 850 men and 950 horses, left their camp at Ridgeway, N. C., on the 13th inst., and proceeded to this city by the ordinary roads. Its commander, Col. Ransom, graduated at West Point in 1850. The same year he entered the 1st United States dragoons, and was sent to New Mexico. Although a young officer, he soon obtained command of a company and post, which post he established. During the four years he was in New Mexico he was in active service, and gained a high reputation in the army. In 1854 he was sent to West Point as Instructor of Cavalry. In 1855, when the 1st regiment of United States cavalry was formed, his appointment as its Adjutant was especially made. He was among the first to offer his services to his native State. Early last fall, from his far western post, he wrote to Gov. Ellis, "Should my State at any time need me, command me." He has now, after three months labor, succeeded in forming one of the finest cavalry regiments in the South. Col. Ransom is just thirty
The Daily Dispatch: October 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], Another Southerner sent to Fort Lafayette. (search)
e God to be wrong, according to the dictates of his own conscience, and according to the laws of the land. When he said laws of the land, he meant laws of the land in contradistinction to this act of the Congress of the Confederate States, and when any one is forced to assume a position of that kind, amidst the roar of cannon and the clash of arms, when our citizens are now upon the banks of the Potomac, ready to seal with their blood the revolution which we have inaugurated, and which, from 1854 to the present moment, he has diligently tried to accomplish.--With all these circumstances around him, and in the position which he had always occupied, both politically and as a member of the bar, he trusted the words that would flow from his lips would be received as coming from a sincere and honest desire to act according to the best of his judgment and convictions of right and duty. With these preliminary remarks, Mr. Whaley proceeded with his argument, and laid down the course he w
The Daily Dispatch: October 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], Spicy letter from a Yankee girl. (search)
negroes to work it, for that is just what we want; for neither of us have got much, and therefore you are not to disappoint me, and if you want Mary Clark — which I understand you asked her to have you — I hope you will be taken prisoner and kept there forever. I am thinking of you all the time and dreaming at night; but dreams do go by contraries. Sometimes I dream of being at fishing frolics, but, alas! awake disappointed — though in hope it will not always be so. "Disappointment sinks the heart of mankind." "But a renewal of hope given consolation." The above transposition is taken from one of your letters that you wrote to have White in 1854, when John smith out you out and married her at old Rilly Pottsis which made you as mad as a her that wanted to go setting on her own eggs and was ducked in a tub of water for it. But stick to me sad I wont deceive you. Nothing further, dear George, but your real admirer, Emma Wilson. To George Lucas, at Fairfax, V
The Daily Dispatch: December 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], Photographs. (search)
arms, the accredited Commissioners to Europe from the Southern Confederacy, Messrs. Mason and Slidell, were taken prisoners and forcibly taken from the Trent to the San Jacinto.--This act was committed in defiance of the joint remonstrance of the Commissioners, Cpt. Moir, and Commander Williams, the naval officer in charge of the mail on board the Trent. The San Jacinto is a first-class steamer-of-war, of 1,446 tons, and carrying thirteen guns. She was refitted at this port in the year 1854. It appears from the statements which we have received that the San Jacinto, Captain Wilkes, arrived at Havana on or about the 3d of November, from the coast of Africa, bound to New York. She coaled and sailed again on the 4th inst. At this time it was well known at Havana that Messrs. Mason and Slidell, with their suites, were at that place, having arrived there in the steamer Theodore, which vessel ran the blockade at Charleston. These gentlemen had not kept their presence a secret,
The Daily Dispatch: January 16, 1862., [Electronic resource], List of the General officers in the armies of the Confederate States. (search)
lass 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 West Point. The following Generals were appointed to the old United States Army, without passing through the West Point Academy; David E, Twiggs, appointed in 1812; Wm. W. Loring, in 1836; Thos, T. Fauntleroy, in 1836. The following Generals first saw, service in the Mexican war; M. L. Bonham, Henry R. Jackson, Gideon J, Pillow, Samuel R. Anderson, Chas. Clark, Thos. C. Hindman, John C. Breckinridge, Benj. F. Cheatham, Richar
The Daily Dispatch: January 25, 1862., [Electronic resource], War matters. (search)
and a large number of horses and arms taken. A heavy fog alone saved them from complete destruction. The number of prisoners are reported at thirty. (Singed.) John Palmer, Brig. Gen. Brig. Gen. Curtis, at Rolla, also reports that two captains and fourteen privates have just been taken prisoners. Arrest of a native of Lynchburg. A Washington dispatch, of the 16th inst., says: Banker Smith's son, just arrested here, is a native of Lynchburg, Virginia, has arrived here since 1854, and always voted for Southern proclivities. The proof against him is that, in a rebel mailbag recently seized on its way across the Potomac, a letter to the rebel General was found containing an account of the numbers of the Union army of the Potomac, plans of fortifications, and a scheme for capturing Washington. There was a fictitious signature to it, but it is now known to be Smith's son. Fort Henry. This fort is 90 miles from Paducah, and 20 miles below the long bridge, acros
The Daily Dispatch: March 28, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the North (search)
ssengers, but no news that was disclosed.--Among the passengers were the Hon. Joseph Segar, just elected a member of Congress from the Hampton district in Virginia, and Gen. Van-Vleit. Four deserters from the Confederate army, (Gen. Magruder's command,) also came up. Their names are Van Lork Townsend, Josiah Morris, William Wilson, and Mark Trafton Barker, all of whom are natives of the North, but for several years have followed the seasoning business for a livelihood. In the spring of 1854 they shipped on board the topsail schooner Stag, of which James D, Townsend was Captain and Danish Townsend mate, one a father and the other a brother of the above. They started for Cedar Keys, Florida coast, for the purpose of loading with timber, but upon reaching there, on the 25th of May, were seized by the Confederates, removed to Jacksonville, and then set at liberty. In the meantime the Stag was confiscated, and after the lapse of several months loaded with cotton, as was the schoone
The Daily Dispatch: April 17, 1862., [Electronic resource], The War in America. (search)
ment with the Yankees on any condition whatever, and there are Abolitionists enough in the New England States and pure Republicans enough in the Northwest to forbid any convention in the interests of Slavery. While the object of the war is thus unattainable, its cost is absolutely marvellous. Nothing in the familiar examples of Transatlantic exaggeration approaches to the dimensions of this reality. The Federal army costs about as much in one month as our army cost in the whole year of 1854, though that was the first year of the Crimean War. The charge of a battalion of infantry, 1,000 strong, in General McClellan's force, all military costs included, would be 200,000l, or at the rate of 200l a head. By this reckoning an American volunteer costs within a pound or two as much as the pay of an English captain, and there are 650,000 of them. These brief statements will enable us to understand how the Federal army is more likely to be the rain of the North than of the South. It c
The Daily Dispatch: April 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], The policy of France with regard to the War. (search)
importation has heretofore reached her through New York. At present, however, the South has abolished custom-house duties while the North has a highly protective tariff, and it is, therefore, certain that the consumption of French products will greatly increase at the South and decline at the North." "With respect to Western cereals, it is only accidentally, in bad crop years, that range uses them, as she uses those of Lower Russia, which did not binder her from making war on Russia in 1854. It will be quite as necessary for the United States to sell their grain as it will be for Europe to buy it, and they will hardly carry their hatred to the extent of forbidding its importation. If the grain in question cannot be exported through New York, it can be exported through New Orleans.--Granting the very improbable hypothesis of a war with France, that war would be very short, and, consequently, the interruption of commercial relations only temporary." "The special products of
The Daily Dispatch: May 16, 1862., [Electronic resource], $25 reward (search)
d it, but because of the combined action against it of England and the then United States. The actors in that expedition have been termed "filibusters." It the charge be just, it may be stated in honorable extenuation, that it is shared by many of the first military characters of our age, among whom may be mentioned Gen. Jos. E. Johnston, Gen. G. W. Smith, and Gen. Mansfield Lovel, who were all eminently associated with the expedition be organised against Cuba, under the immortal Quitman, in 1854. The defence and destruction of Granada form the most brilliant episode of the war in Nicaragua, and furnish the most splendid proof on record of the invincible prowess and terrible audacity of the American volunteer in battle, when properly led. For nineteen days did Henningsen, in Granada, with less than 300 men, resist the allied forces of Guatemala, Honduras, and Costa Rica, with the insurgents of Nicaragua, a total force against him of 4,000 well armed men and equipped soldiers. Day af
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