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The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), General Meade at Gettysburg. (search)
cted, and covering more severely-contested battles than any of which we have any account in history. I have been with General Meade through the whole campaign, and I not only made the recommendation upon a conviction that this recognition of his services was fully won, but that he was eminently qualified for the command such rank would entitle him to. General Grant subsequently, when he became President of the United States, overslaughed General Meade by appointing to the vacant Lieutenant Generalship General Sheridan, Meade's junior in rank. This was unjust, not only to General Meade, but to the Army of the Potomac, which had displayed such wonderful fortitude and courage during the protracted and bloody campaign of which General Grant speaks, and which deserved that, by the promotion of its commander to this high rank, the government should recognize the paramount importance of its services in bringing the war to a successful end. It is far from our intention to say anything in
The Daily Dispatch: may 31, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
itiveness in business circles about the recent seizures of telegraphic dispatches in all the principal Northern towns and cities, and a general apprehension that private business transactions may be exposed, it may not be improper to assure the public that there is no danger of any such exposure. Allen A. Burton, of Ky., has been appointed Minister resident to New Granada in the place of Gen. Jones, of Iowa. The belief that the President has determined to tender Col. Fremont a Major Generalship, elicits much gratification. Ex-Governor Banks is here by invitation of the Secretary of War. Brig. Gen'l McDowell, United States army, is to have command of the forces operating towards Richmond. It is understood to be General Scott's policy to put the younger class of officers into field service, and therefore it is said that Col. Meigs is employed on other duties than what relates to the construction of public buildings. Whilst the hands employed in the laboratory o
The Daily Dispatch: June 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
o remark that the Department, as expressed it, the advertisement, reserves the right to accept the proposition most to the interest of the Government, and reject them all at its option. Quartermaster General Meigs has issued an order to all the assistant quartermasters to make no purchases whatever without first advertising for proposals, even for a short time. Col. Robert Anderson has been promote Brigadier General. Ex-Governor A. H. Reeder has declines the tender of a Brigadier Generalship. Wm. T. Rosecrans has been appointed Brigadier General. Hon. John A. Gurley is authorized by the President to raise six regiments in Cincinnati. Lieut Col. Martin has been elected Colonel of the 71st New York Regiment, and Brigadier Major Smith Lieutenant Colonel. The owner of the three slaves restored by General Sanford resides at Lisbon, Md., and is a Union man. The rendition was under a former proclamation, which met the Executive approval. Young's Kentuc
The Daily Dispatch: June 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 13 (search)
rees to." He agreed to be in Richmond at farthest, by the 20th of June; that time has come and gone, and the old braggart is not as near the possibility of such an achievement as he was six weeks ago. He will drive Jeff Davis out of the country, or hang him — will he?--the demented, demoralized old gasconader! More likely Jeff Davis will drive him out of Washington, and Virginia, instead of hanging the hoary traitor, who is trying to sell his native land for the annual income of his Lieutenant Generalship, will leave him to splutter out his life, like a tallow candle, in his own grease and noisomeness. What bloated assurance except that of Scott, what blind credulity except that of the Northern press, could believe that such a country can ever be conquered; more than all, conquered in eleven months, and that "about the 4th of March next Scott will hand over the Union, safe and sound, to its constituted and constitutional authorities." The announcement of such a preposterous programme
The Daily Dispatch: July 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], Opinions of a Connecticut paper (search)
Opinions of a Connecticut paper --Though Lincoln and his followers and advisers have determined upon the subjugation of the South, there are some in the far corners of Yankeedom who do not approve of the tools employed to effect the purpose. For instance, the New Haven Register says: One of the most disgraceful of the acts which have characterized the present Administration in its brief but fine exampled career, is the appointment of Jim Lane to a Brigadier Generalship, and "Capt." Montgomery to a Colonelcy in the Army--two as deep-dyed scoundrels as ever went unhung. The murders and robberies committed by these fellows during the troubles in Kansas are known to the whole country, and have linked their names in appropriate connection with the board villain, but less fortunate, John Brown. These men did all in their power to keep alive the bloody strife in Kansas, and are personally responsible for a large share of its atrocities. Lane murdered a Free State man named Je
The Daily Dispatch: July 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], Ran away (search)
Rev. G. W. Stickney, of Mobile, has been apppointed Chaplain to Gen. Tochman's brigade. Lieut. William Patten, of the Rockbridge Greys, died in Winchester on the 16th inst. Col. Roger A. Pryor has been advanced to a Brigadier Generalship.
The Daily Dispatch: August 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], Mr. Phillips day's third letters. (search)
d without charge This is a seduction which youth, nor even age, can withstand. The municipal authorities, one would think, might easily do something, if not entirely to suppress, at least to mitigate the evil. But as Southern gentlemen are probably fond of ease and pleasure, the task might prove a difficult one. At all events, it is plain that the laws against gambling-houses are inoperative. Bishop Polk as a Major General. The recent singular appointment of Bishop Polk to a Major Generalship in the Provisional Army of the Confederate States has been the subject of much comment, and even of some merriment for several days past Possibly there are grave considerations which have justified President Davis in urging the acceptance of such a post upon the distinguished divine, and in inducing his concurrence. The circumstance, however, must sound somewhat strange in both hemispheres, as savoring too much of the chivalric spirit of the middle ages, when the cowl of the priest w
The Daily Dispatch: September 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
rit of the man is in entire keeping with the savageness of the proclamation. He hates the South with a personal bitterness more profound and rancorous even than that of Gen. Scott The illegitimate son of Mrs. Pryor, of Richmond, by a French fiddler, cannot be expected to bear much love to a section familiar with the antecedents of his illustrious house and himself. Fremont's brutal Provost Marshal in St. Louis, Col. Justus McKinstry who, we observe, has been lately promoted to a Brigadier Generalship, is, if possible, a greater poltroon than Fremont. When the late Gen. Weightman who fell gallantly fighting at the recent battle in Missouri, was a young Cadet at West Point, a rencontre occurred between him and a big bully of a senior class, this same McKinstry in which the latter received a most humiliating lesson, one of the scars of which on his face, he is likely to carry to his grave. A few years ago, a Kentucky gentleman, who met McKinstry in the West, was informed by this
The Daily Dispatch: January 29, 1862., [Electronic resource], Amusements. (search)
lumber, was also captured and brought out by the Henry Lewis. She is a very useful prize, the lumber being much needed by the Army Quartermaster for the construction of storehouses, and the schooner making a serviceable lighter. Both have been transferred to the Quartermaster, at a valuation fixed by a board of survey. Gen. Sickles, of the Excelsior brigade. The Military Committee of the Senate reported unanimously to-day in favor of the nomination of Daniel E. Sickles to a Brigadier Generalship. This removes all doubt of his confirmation by the Senate. Affairs on the Lower Potomac. The steamer King Philip, which came up from the flotilla last evening, reports affairs unchanged down the river. The King Philip is now in charge of Acting Master Cook, Capt. Wm. Mitchell having resigned. The brig Perry, which has been anchored below Alexandria for some time, left her anchorage yesterday afternoon, and proceeded down the river in tow of the Possy. News f
The Daily Dispatch: April 5, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Chops. (search)
ld Abe' would pension me, and give me a country seat on the Niagara, there to write athletes of war. That would also be more in conformity to your own nervous system. Yet I, hope that the war will not last much longer, and then we can carry out our wish — to live in peace, without hindrance. "Of the poisoning affair at Mudtown you will have heard, and also that some of our wagons were burnt at Keetsville, and that the Texas cavalry made an attack and carried away whereas. Curtle must surely feel this blow. "Col. Albert has gone to St. Louis., and will, I hear, go to Fremont. I told him to call on you. I have received a very friendly letter from C. Britz, also an official letter from the Legislature of Wisconsin, which was also sent to Lincoln, and in which I was proposed for a Major Generalship. "Write to me as soon as you hear something of interest and importance, for I received hardly any letters or papers. Adieu. "With hearty-salutation, your "Francis."
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