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The Daily Dispatch: November 8, 1862., [Electronic resource], Later from the North. (search)
t of poor Captain--'s death. How terrible for his sisters, and for poor Miss--, who, when I last saw her, showed me his carte de visite, and half confessed they were engaged, although neither the Commodore nor her aunt knew or suspected anything of the matter.--Every person here is in mourning except myself, and I only not so because I cannot find materials, and hope soon to be allowed to go North, as General — has half promised me passage under the next flag of truce, to some vessel of Admiral Dupont's squadron. Our little darling is sadly in need of shoes, her only present foot covering being little carpet slippers, with carpet soles, made by myself. They do very well while it is quite dry, but the least shower keeps her within doors, and she wears out nearly two pair each week, so that I am constantly busy. Of tea and other comforts we preserve only vague remembrances; but food, thank God, is becoming plentiful again, such as it is — wheat, chickens, corn, and pigs; and, althoug
The Daily Dispatch: November 12, 1862., [Electronic resource], Latest from the North. (search)
d to win the love and confidence of his whole command. His benevolent projects for benefitting the negro, and his eminently practical course in regard to them here, will cause his memory to be cherished by every Christian. In his death our country has lost an able General, astronomy and science one of their most gifted sons. His remains were deposited in the graveyard of the old Episcopal Church at Beaufort yesterday at 12 o'clock. The funeral was attended by Gens. Brennan and Saxton, Admiral Dupont, and Capt. Rogers, together with numerous other prominent officers of the army and navy. The New York press on the Regent elections. The World construes the recent result in New York as follows: She thunders out her demand for a more vigorous prosecution of the war, and warns the President of the Union, in which she is the chiefest State, that the Constitution and the laws, and our liberties, must be sacredly upheld and guarded by their chosen custodians, or else come anar
The Daily Dispatch: March 7, 1863., [Electronic resource], Progress of the War. (search)
hat point is reached the fleet will probably receive the concentrated fire of Moultrie, Sumter, and Cummings's Point, where the famous railroad battery is stationed. They will doubtless, however, be able to place themselves in such position between Sumter and Moultrie as that their miss shots will strike where they are not Intended. The battery at Cummings's Point will be a mile distant, too far altogether even to dent the armor of an iron-clad. The mode of attack concluded upon by Admiral Dupont is of course altogether unknown. He may have determined to reduce the batteries on the islands at the entrance of the harbor, and then dash past Fort Sumter and demand the surrender of the city, receiving their combined shot and shell without response; or he may determine to first make the effort; to reduce and retake Sumter as a base of future operations on the city. The obstructions in the harbor are understood to be between Sumter and the city. Indeed, it would be impossible to pla
The Daily Dispatch: March 18, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
ent. The impregnability of our iron clads under the heaviest fire is pretty well established. The attack on Charleston has not yet commenced. Charleston papers say neither the Indianola nor Queen of the West have been destroyed. A captured rebel officer states that negotiations for peace have been under consideration for the past three weeks at Richmond, but the fact had not been permitted to go before the public. The British steamer Queen of the Wave ran ashore near Charleston, and Dupont was using every exertion to save her. The British steamship Douro, captured off Cape Fear on the 9th by a U. S. gunboat was brought to New York on the 12th as a prize. Her cargo was 420 bales of cotton, and some turpentine and tobacco. She ran the blockade at Wilmington and was making for Nassau. Gen. Hunter's quarrel with Foster is still unsettled. Hunter has ordered Gen. Neglee to New York, and in his farewell to his division he predicts that "truth is mighty, and will prevail."
The Daily Dispatch: March 19, 1863., [Electronic resource], Crops — impressments — Military Affairs in the Valley — the severe winter — Court days. (search)
ted at one time in laying alongside any first class frigate in the British Navy. Such a loss would awake sober to frictions in a people who were not given over to hopeless madness. They filled, when this contest began, that they were going to overthrow the old supremacy of forts over ships, and for a time it seemed they would be successful. With the advantages of steam iron armor, and heavy armaments, it appeared that the old state of things would be revolutionized. But the success of Com. Dupont at Hilton Head, and the failure of a far more formidable fleet at Fort McAllister as well as other forts, show that we have learnt something from experience, and that land fortifications, if properly constructed and deficiently manned, retain their old superiority over ships. The Yankee Navy has, in fact, lost reputation more rapidly in this war than the other branch of the service. We had never had much confidence in their capacity as soldiers; but, often as they have been beaten, they
The Daily Dispatch: April 10, 1863., [Electronic resource], Congressional summary. (search)
The following is extracted from New York papers of the 6th, not so late as the above by a day but containing a particularly rich item about the Yankees celebrating the fall of Sumter in the city of Charleston. A dispatch dated Washington, April 5th, says: "A report has reached here via Fredericksburg' derived from reliable sources, that Charleston was bombarded by the Federal fleet and attacked by land forces on Thursday last, and is now in possession of the Federal under Hunter and Dupont. The report is fully credited by officers of the Government, who are in possession of the facts in reference to the contemplated attack upon Charleston, which it is not yet proper to divulge. It is certain however, that those who possess this information are confident that our soldiers and sailors will celebrate the second anniversary of the fall of Fort Sumter in the captured city. "The restrictions upon the publication, in the Southern papers, of adverse news, are so stringent that
The Daily Dispatch: April 15, 1863., [Electronic resource], Reported fighting on the Rappahannock. (search)
e effect that the Monitors were at North Edisto Island, and that the rest of the fleet were lying abreast of the bar off Charleston harbor. Capt. Howes also reported that the officers of the fleet were, when he passed them, assembled on board Admiral Dupont's flagship, where they were apparently in consultation. This was on Saturday, April 4th. Capt. Howes noticed that Fort Sumter presented an unusual appearance, and, as near as he could discern by using his glass turret had been rested o at Fort Sumter in order to test the range of our guns; but beyond this no demonstration had been made. The utmost enthusiasm was manifested by the officers and men of the fleet and no doubt at all was felt as to the result of the engagement admiral Dupont was said to have late information as to the, actual condition of the rebel forts and other defences, and was also precisely informed as to the peculiarities of the harbor, explorations of which have been industriously made under cover of nigh
The Daily Dispatch: April 16, 1863., [Electronic resource], Congressional summary. (search)
e found on Charleston bar. The buoys were replaced without difficulty, the rebels offering no opposition. The Keokuk returned to the fleet, and on the morning of the 7th the order was given to the iron class to enter the harbor. The order was to proceed in single fire, or in line ahead. The Weehawken was the leading vessel, having in front of her a scow, and then between the scow and herself the Ralesson torpedo exploder, or "Devil," as it has been called. The Ironsides, with Admiral Dupont on board, was the fifth in the line, and the Keokuk was the last. In this order the bar was passed with safety and without detention. The orders given to the commanders of the various vess's was to keep on straight up the harbor until they came within a thousand yards of the forts, and then to attack, directing their efforts principally against Fort Sumter. In this order the fleet moved on steadily and gallantly up towards Forts Sumter and Moultrie the rebels withholding their fir
The Daily Dispatch: April 20, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 9 (search)
ston is for the present definitely abandoned. The army of General Hunter has returned to Hilton Head, and the iron-clads to Port Royal. The Herald says "the attempt to take Charleston is, for the time, abandoned. The iron-clad fleet of Admiral Dupont and the army of General Hunter have been withdrawn to Port Royal. The experiment proved too hazardous. The batteries of the enemy at Sumter, Moultrie, and Cummings's Point, and the obstructions in the channels, presented obstacles too formition of the fairness and uprightness which characterize the concoct of John Bull towards us in this war. The Herald has the following comment upon the disaster at Charleston, and its effect upon the coming campaign: The repulse of Admiral Dupont's iron clad fleet at Charleston indefinitely postpones, we suspect, the resumption of active operations against that rebel stronghold. The door will doubtless be kept more closely garden than heretofore against English blockade runners, with
The Daily Dispatch: May 4, 1863., [Electronic resource], Later from Europe. (search)
rgoes on board the Peterhoff, they not being criminals nor subject to criminal laws. A policy of insurance was attempted to be effected at Lloyds on the 16th, the vessel being furnished with certificates from Minister Adams, addressed to Admiral Dupont, dated from the United States Legation, London, and stating that Messrs. Howell & Tidman had furnished Mr. Adams with evidence that the vessel was really bound to Matamoras with a cargo for the Mexicans, and he therefore cheerfully gave them tates toward England is exciting uneasiness in London. The last dispatches from the Washington Government have a character of increasing irritation." The London Times is very bitter on the letter of the American Minister, Mr. Adams, to Admiral Dupont, exempting a certain ship for Mexico from England, and calls it an arrogant assumption. It says there has been nothing equal to it since Papish bulls were issued from Rome overriding the laws of England. It adds: "The exercise of the slight
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