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The Daily Dispatch: June 13, 1863., [Electronic resource], Later from the North. (search)
been nearly unmolested. The enemy appear to be in large force on the south side of the river, and it cannot be ascertained whether any considerable portion of Lee's army have been withdrawn. A late raid of our troops, with the assistance of three gunboats, up the Mattaponi river into King William county, Va., which was directed by Gen. Keyes from Yorktown, has resulted in a decided success. After meeting with some brief resistance from the enemy our troops destroyed a rebel foundry at Aylett's, together with several mills, machine shops, a lumber yard, and four Government warehouses laden with grain. The expedition was commanded by Lieut. Col. Tevis, and returned to Yorktown on the 6th inst., after accomplishing a very successful result with a trifling loss. A dispatch from near Vicksburg, dated on the 2d of June, reports the return of General Blair's expedition through fifty-six miles of country, from the Big Black to the Yazoo, and eleven miles below Yazoo City. Several
The Daily Dispatch: June 17, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
Yankee Cruelty--forty-three negroes Drowned. One of the most atrocious incidents of the whole war was yesterday related to us by a gentleman of this city, who obtained the facts from Capt. Jas. G. White, of King William county, who vouches for the accuracy of the statement. Some days age, when the Yankees made their raid to Aylett's, they visited the place of Dr. Gregg, living in the neighborhood, and took from their comfortable homes forty three negroes, who were hurried off to York river and placed on board a vessel bound northward. Along with these negroes, as a prisoner, was a gentleman named Lee, a resident and highly respectable citizen of King William, who has since been released and allowed to return to his home. He states that when the vessel arrived in Chesapeake Bay the small-pox made its appearance among the negroes, that disease having existed to some extent among the same family before they were dragged from their homes in King William. The Captain of the Yankee
The Daily Dispatch: July 14, 1863., [Electronic resource], From Gen. Lee's army. (search)
long on the way that they knew nothing of the present operations of the army, and very little of its whereabouts a week ago. The passengers by the train were without even a rumor. Losses among Virginia troops. We have received the following list of losses among Virginia regiments and batteries. Col Jas. Gregory Hodges and Maj. Robert Poors, of the 14th Virginia, killed and Lieut. Col. White wounded, Capt. Coghill wounded and missing; Col. Magruder, of the 57th Virginia, wounded; Col. Aylett, of the 53d Virginia, killed, Col. Edmands, of the 38th Virginia, killed, Col. Colquit, --Virginia, killed; Col. James Marshall, of Fauquier county, Va. (commanding a North Carolina regiment) killed, Cols Terry and Mays wounded Capt. Samuel H. Early, of Gen Early's staff, wounded. In the 19th Virginia the following losses occurred: Col. Gant, wounded in neck and arm; Lieutenant Colonel Ellis, killed; Major Charles Peyton, slightly wounded; Adjutant Jas. McIntyre, seriously wounded. Co
The Daily Dispatch: July 15, 1863., [Electronic resource], From Gen. Lee's army. (search)
ffin, of the 18th Mississippi regiment, who is wounded in the left leg, and Captain George Norton, of the 1st Virginia regiment. We have obtained some further lists of losses among our troops: Losses in Taylor's Battery, (Alexander's Battalion;): Killed — Corporals W P Ray and Joseph Lantz. Wounded — Corpl Wirt, slightly; privates C T Atkinson, E J. Sheppard, Carter Eubank, L P Gentry, Byrd McCormick' all seriously; Vincent F Buford, Jos O Woody' and Oscar Lucas, slightly. Col. Aylett, of the 53d Virginia, was not killed, but slightly wounded by a fragment of shell. Letters have been received from him since his death was reported. Losses in the second company Washington Artillery, Gettysburg, 3d inst. Wounded--Corporal Chalaron, severely in leg; privates Freret, leg amputated; Layman, mortally — Williamsport, Md, 6th. Killed--private Isaac Randolph. Wounded--Corporals Jewett and Hall; privates Humphrey, Watterson, Bannister, Twichell, Cross, J F Griffin, Davis,<
The Daily Dispatch: July 15, 1863., [Electronic resource], Brave and able Defender of States' rights in New York. (search)
Confederate States district Court. --This Court was occupied yesterday in hearing applications and arguments for the discharge of Franklin Parcell, T. H. S. Boyd, and Wm. Bond, from Castle Thunder. Mr. Aylett for the Government, and Mr. Hall for the petitioners. The Court refused to discharge Purcell, continued the case of Boyd until Saturday, and discharged Bond.
The Daily Dispatch: July 23, 1863., [Electronic resource], From Northern Virginia. (search)
ore it were two novel cases on habeas corpus--John W. Adams and Solomon N. Adams. These men were arrested by a portion of the C. S. army, in North. Carolina, sent on here, and imprisoned. They sued out a writ, alleging that they were illegally detained in custody, and asked to be discharged. From the evidence elicited, it seems that the prisoners were Northern men by birth — that they migrated to North Carolina, and there became citizens — that afterwards, being within the Yankee lines, they took the Federal oath of allegiance, alleging as a reason for so doing that they were compelled. Mr. Aylett, for the Confederacy, contended that they were conscripts, liable to duty, and asked to have them turned over to the enrolling officer. The Judge took until to day to make up his mind, and the parties were remanded to Castle Thunder. A decree was entered sequestrating property to a large amount of H. W. Gardner and others, and ordering the claims of sundry parties to be pai
The Daily Dispatch: July 25, 1863., [Electronic resource], A fourth of July Celebration in Paris. (search)
An explanation. --We learn that the delays in the examination of Mrs. Patterson Allan, upon the charge of treason, have arisen from no desire of the Government to shield her from justice. She is now confined to her bed, threatened with brain fever, and in charge of a military surgeon, by whose reports of her case the authorities are necessarily governed. The District Attorney, Mr. Aylett, has long since been instructed to proceed with her examination before Commissioner Watson, as soon as the surgeon reports that her physical condition renders such a step possible. Mr. Lyons has been retained by the accused.
The Daily Dispatch: August 26, 1863., [Electronic resource], Additional from the North. (search)
t him from running away from Richmond. There were very few troops in or about Richmond, and only one brigade between there and Petersburg. Two gentlemen (brothers) have just arrived here from Richmond, residents of Beaufort, North Carolina, and left North Carolina, on the last day of last May. They were arrested for being Unionists and taken to Richmond and incarcerated in Castle Thunder, where they remained till 25th July,when they were conscripted by order of Confederate States Attorney Aylett, (after having been released from their imprisonment from Castle Thunder.) When conscripted, they were taken to Camp Lee, where they remained nine days, when they succeeded in making their escape and came down the Peninsula, via Pamunkey river, to Yorktown. They proclaimed themselves sworn enemies to the rebel cause from beginning to end. They report that most of the fortifications about Richmond have no guns mounted, and they saw none to mount, and the rebel forces are very limite
The Daily Dispatch: November 9, 1863., [Electronic resource], Advance of the enemy in force-fight near Brandy. (search)
at the new building, southwest corner of 14th and Franklin sts., on Saturday. After the reading and signing of the orders, it being the last day of the Court, Mr. Aylett, the District Attorney, invited the attention of the Judge, and said that it was his official duty to mention to the Court what had been reported to him by one ithout the order of Gen. Winder, and that, too, after the prisoners had been very properly delivered to the Court by Gen. Winder, and regularly discharged. Mr. Aylett attached no blame to either Gen. Winder or Major Griswold in this matter, as those gentlemen always, with courtesy and promptness, obeyed the mandates of the ci head jailor at Castle Thunder, Mr. Alexander, who had taken the responsibility to re-arrest and hold the parties in defiance of the mandate of this Court. Mr. Aylett asked a rule against Alexander, requiring him to show cause why he should not be attached for a contempt of Court. Judge Halyburton ordered a rule to be ma
The Daily Dispatch: November 11, 1863., [Electronic resource], Confederate States Court. (search)
of his client, stating that Capt. Alexander was a soldier, unfamiliar with legal proceedings, and that his whole demeanor and language rendered it evident that if, in obeying the orders of his superior officer, he had disregarded the mandate of the Court, it was an unintentional act of disobedience, which was not intended as a contempt. There was also a sufficient technical defence, which he deemed it unnecessary to be offered to the Court, to dismiss proceedings against the Captain. Mr. Aylett, the District Attorney, said that the issue involved was one which alone affected the Court, and he should leave the question of contempt to be determined by the tribunal most interested. Although Capt. Alexander had in good faith taken the necessary steps to acquit himself of the charge preferred against him by the Deputy Marshal, yet nothing could be clearer than that the eight prisoners were illegally detained in a military prison. They were, he admitted, bad men, who merited punishme
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