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The Daily Dispatch: December 22, 1863., [Electronic resource], Confederate States Congress. (search)
:--That companies, battalions, and regiments, shall have the right to reorganize by the election of their company and field officers, at such time and under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War. Mr. Read, of Ky., offered an amendment--"that the troops of the State of Ky., shall be permitted to mount themselves, and become a part of the cavalry service." After some discussion, the bill and amendments were referred to the Committee of Military Affairs. Mr. Foote, of Tenn., offered a resolution, that whenever any portion of the forces now in the field shall be re-conscripted, the companies, battalions, and regiments, shall be allowed to select their own officers. The resolution was referred to the Military Committee. Mr. Gray, of Texas, introduced a bill amendatory of the several confiscation and sequestrations acts, which was referred to the Judiciary Committee. Mr. Sexton, of Texas, offered a resolution, which was adopted, to instruct
The Daily Dispatch: December 22, 1863., [Electronic resource], Additional from the North. (search)
near by. "down with Jeff Davis" The Northern papers have jubilant editorials over a recent speech delivered by Mr. Foote, in Congress, in opposition to the Administration. A summary of the speech was telegraphed North from the Richmond pap Inquirer under the title "A bas Jeff. Davis," has the following comments: Advices from the South inform us that H. S. Foote, who was elected Senator in 1847; an active advocate of "Compromise measures" in 1850; chosen Governor of Mississippi,ge to the opposition and secured the fall of Robes pierre? The New York Herald, while it hasn't much affection for Mr. Foote, hopes something may result from his speeches. It says: He never was a man of much weight either in Washington oairs. It is but the beginning of the end. The Norfold Old Dominion, a Yankee journal, in noticing the assault of Mr. Foote, in the House of Representatives, upon President Davis, says: No man is so fitted for his place as Jeff. Davis No
The Daily Dispatch: December 22, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Averill Raid. (search)
The Yankee prisoners and Commissary Northrop. We observe that the Yankees are already making great use of the remarks made by Mr. Foote, in the House of Representatives, with regard to the alleged starvation of their prisoners. The subject has been brought up in their Congress, and their press enlarges upon it with all the exaggeration to be expected from the most lying nation on the face of the earth. We deeply regret that the subject — although it certainly ought to have been investigated — was introduced by a speech of so much bitterness as that attributed to Mr. Foote. From the little we know of the subject we are inclined to think he has gone too far. We have been assured that if there has ever been an occasion on which the prisoners were not properly supplied it has been very brief, and the result of unavoidable circumstances. At all times they have fared as well as our own soldiers, and surely that is enough. Our soldiers have fared badly at times, owing to circ