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The Daily Dispatch: June 5, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 22 (search)
umber were several prominent citizens and formerly respectable gentlemen of this State--but not one whose loyalty to the South has not heretofore been suspected. The President of this treasonable assemblage was William B. Campbell, of Wilson, well known throughout Tennessee some years ago as a man of influence and integrity, but so fallen and disgraced that there are "none so poor as to do him reverence." It was only about eight months ago that, upon being tendered by the President a Brigadier Generalship in the Confederate army, he assigned "the feeble state of his health " as an apology for his refusal of the position. Now, the vile hypocrite asserts that "in the midst of this night of rebellion, patriots have looked for the restoration of the old flag as earnestly and anxiously as the Jews of old looked for the Holy Land from the captivity of Babylon," and consummates his treason by calling upon all to resist the armies of the Confederate Government and "help in restoring the sup
The Daily Dispatch: June 11, 1862., [Electronic resource], General Pettigrew's Brigade. (search)
extinct, with the wars and corruptions that had produced them. We had good reason to hope so, for in all the wars of the last century, and of the present, not one of them, so far as we know, figured upon the stage. But the character is revived in the person of Lincoln's Commander-in-Chief. He was President of a railroad in Illinois, and received a salary of $15,000. He wrote and offered his services to the Confederate States when the war broke out. He was bribed by Lincoln with a Major Generalship with its pay and emoluments. He accepted on condition that he was to receive still his salary as President of the railroad. He afterwards said he had rather lead an army against Massachusetts than Virginia. He is now leading a mercenary force of marauding scoundrels against the capital of Virginia, spreading terror and devastation around him, encouraging the negroes to revolt, and doing all be can to arm them against the lives of their masters. Is it possible to conceive of a char
The Daily Dispatch: August 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], A daring Feat. (search)
he left his home in Maryland and tendered his services in its behalf. Being ordered to report to General Beauregard, at Charleston, he served as Captain of artillery with great acceptability in the reduction of Fort Sumter. He was afterwards commander of the arsenal at Charleston, which post he left to assume command of a South Carolina regiment in Virginia, which arrived at Manassas as the enemy were fleeing.--On the retreat of General Johnston from that place he was promoted to a Brigadier Generalship, and ordered to report to General Thomas J. Jackson. By him he was put in command of the famous "Stonewall brigade," The men soon learned to love, respect, and obey him as they did their old commander. General Winder fell Saturday week while leading his brigade into action against the enemy at Cedar Creek. In his death the South loses a true friend, his friends an accomplished gentleman, and the army a commander distinguished for his thorough knowledge of the art of war.--Genera
The Daily Dispatch: August 31, 1863., [Electronic resource], The United States army. (search)
Maj Gen U S Grant, of the volunteer army, was rewarded for his success at Vicksburg by being appointed Major Gen in the regular army, to fill the original vacancy in that grade remaining out of the four created during the present war. One Major Generalship (vice Wool retired) and two Brigadier Generalships (one vice Harney retired, and one original vacancy) remain unfilled. Should Brig Gen Philip St. Geo Cooke be retired (he has been summoned before the Retiring Board,) a third vacancy will occur. Gen Heintzleman's chances for a regular Brigadier Generalship are considered good. The following regular army officers were dismissed from the service last year: Maj Gen Fitz John Porter, Colonel 15th; Maj Haller, 7th; Maj Davidson, 4th; and Capts Beall, 2d; Stivers, 7th; Mayer and Wilkinson, 12th; Woodson, 16th; Cady, 17th; Breslin and Kellogg, 18th; Goodwin, 10th. The act of July 17th, 1862, gave Lincoln discretionary power to retire all officers whose names have been born
The Daily Dispatch: January 14, 1864., [Electronic resource], From General Lee's army. (search)
r during the past week has been intensely cold, and it has been with great difficulty that the men could keep comfortable. Blankets, overcoats, and shoes are still needed, and I am surprised that more and liberal donations are not received. I have alluded to this matter in my correspondence for the tenth and last time. If the people still refuse it is their fault, not mine. Col. Forney, of the 10th Alabama, now languishing in a Northern prison, has, I learn, been promoted to a Brigadier Generalship, and will receive command of Wilcox's old brigade as soon as he shall be returned to our lines. Gen. Wirt Adams has been assigned to the command of Posey's old brigade, thus knocking into "pi" all the expectations of the numerous candidates for promotion in that quarter. There is some typhoid pneumonia prevailing among the soldiers, and it is often fatal. The disease is not prevailing to an extent to make it a matter of much general apprehension. I have repeatedly seen a
The Daily Dispatch: July 1, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
honor to the Floridains, Georgians, and Fitz Lee's cavalry, who participated in it. Surely, if ever a man deceived well of his country, it is Brig Gen. Wm Mahone, whose name is associated with the best fighting of Chancellorsville, the Wilderness, and Spotsylvania, C H, to say nothing of the three brilliant little affairs which have happened under his management around Petersburg during the last week. Lieut Gen. A P Hill and Marse Robert have again and again nominated him for a full Major Generalship; but the President still hesitates to give him more than a temporary appointment as such, which, as the oldest brigadier in the Army of Northern Virginia, he very properly declines; but his neglect in official circles has never cooled his patriotism or lessened his military ardor, as his victories will show. I will close by giving you a Yankee letter as a sample of what the people "down to hum" think of Grant, Gen Lee, and matters generally. Boston, June 17, 1864. Dear Da
The Daily Dispatch: July 7, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 15 (search)
It is thought that Major Gen Dich Taylor, who has been relieved in the Trass Mississippi department at his own request, will be made a Lieutenant General and assigned to the command of Polk's corps — A Memphis Appeal. On the contrary, the army correspondent of the Atlanta Register asserts that Major Gen A F Stewart, of Tennessee, has been promoted to the vacant Lieutenant Generalship in General Johnston's army.
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