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The Daily Dispatch: October 17, 1863., [Electronic resource], Latest from the north. (search)
edo from Charleston. An officer on deck was killed and two seamen wounded. She is to go to New York for repairs. Two or three hundred of the leading merchants and business men of New York city gave the Russian officers a splendid banquet at the Astor House on Monday evening. Gen. Wistar, in his report of the recent expedition to Matthews county, claims to have captured "four rebel naval officers and 25 seamen." Gen. Kirby Smith is reported to have joined Gen. Sterling Price, and both are moving on Arkadelphia. A combined land and naval attack was to have been made on Charleston on the 11th inst. Means had arrived "to remove the rebel obstructions." Over 500 applications had been made to Gen. Barnes to leave Norfolk by the flag of truce on the 15th inst. According to the Cincinnati Gazette, Quantrell made clean work of Gen. Blunt's escort, killing all the prisoners he took, including "all of Blunt's orderlies, the clerks, and the members of the band."
The Daily Dispatch: December 3, 1863., [Electronic resource], Affairs on the Rapidan — the enemy Retiring towards Fredericksburg. (search)
Quantrell. The humane and benevolent Abolitionists are grievously distressed and exasperated at the methoof war adopted by the Missouri guerilla chieftain, Quantrell. That execrated warrior seems to have fashioned hior, but, to some extent, believe it possible that Quantrell may have departed from the general Confederate cusnd other incendiaries and murderers of that stamp, Quantrell fights them with their own weapons, exacts an eye farthing. Whenever the Yankees hang a Confederate Quantrell hangs a Yankee, whenever a Confederate house is buand whenever a Yankee officer is sues an order for Quantrell's execution, as soon as caught, it is a lucky thiner of buckshot. Of course this uncivil conduct of Quantrell must meet the reprobation of all civilized mankindsion of his life. They would give a round sum for Quantrell's scalp, but the brains under that scalp are too me are apt to fall into his hands. We observe that Quantrell makes no speeches and utters no threats, but retal
The Daily Dispatch: December 21, 1863., [Electronic resource], The raid into Southwestern Virginia--depredations of the enemy. (search)
left Denton, Texas, on the 1st inst: The rebel army in Texas was generally at posts on the outskirts of the State. Kirby Smith commanded the troops in Texas. Gen. Steele is at Dakinville, seven miles north of the Red river, near the State line, with a small force. Rebel pickets are at the crossing of the river and line the road. Price is 18 miles south of Washington, with 3,600 or 4,000 men. The entire force of the enemy under Marmaduke, Shelby, and Cabelle, are near him. Quantrell has been in Texas four weeks. His command of 400 men are distributed in detachments in various counties in Northwestern Texas. Their business seemed to be to act as spies on the people, hold the county in subjection, arrest deserters, kill suspected Union men, and plunder indiscriminately. Provisions and forage are plenty in the valley of the Red river and in Eastern Texas. Disposition of Federal vessels-of-war off Charleston. A correspondent of the Boston Traveller writing
The Daily Dispatch: December 21, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Legislature. (search)
Legislature of Texas have refused to pass a resolution recommending Congress to declare Confederate Treasury notes a legal tender. The Legislature is believed to be under conservative influence, though devoted to the Confederate cause. Gen. Slaughter, Mobile, is in this city, with his staff. Indian depredations on the frontier are frequent and alarming. I learn that the Indians are armed by the Yankees and sent upon the defenseless frontier to lay it waste. The smallpox has made its appearance in this city. General Walker's division is now on the Mississippi river, pegging away. They have already sunk one transport and burned another. They have also sunk four barges and burned the large transport Black Hawk.--Nothing can pass their batteries unless conveyed by iron-clads, and even then we hear of much lamentations board before they get out of reach ns Quantrell is in report. Official information has been received that Corpus Cristi is in the hands of the enemy.
The Daily Dispatch: January 28, 1864., [Electronic resource], 1,000 dollars reward. (search)
Late Northern News.an election ordered by Banks in Louisiana. Mobile, Jan. 26. --The Advertiser and Register has a special dispatch from Como, Miss., which contains Northern dates of the 24th. Another plot to release the Johnson Island prisoners by rebels in Canada has been discovered, and it is reported that two companies of British troops have been sent to Windsor, opposite Detroit. Quantrell, with 1,500 men, is at New Carthage, La., below Vicksburg. The Confederate steamer Florida has been repaired and sailed from Erest. Advices from Vera Cruz, of the 2d inst., state that a battle occurred at Moralla on the 17th of December. The French captured 11 cannon and 1,000 prisoners. Juares escaped to Monterey. Banks has ordered an election for members of a Convention in Louisiana. The election is to take place on the first Monday in April, and the Convention to meet on the first Monday in May.
The Daily Dispatch: February 15, 1864., [Electronic resource], Quantrell's Exodus from Missouri--the Blount fight. (search)
Quantrell's Exodus from Missouri--the Blount fight. A correspondent of the Texas Telegraph, who is contributing to that paper "Sketches of Quantrell's Men," giQuantrell's Men," gives the following account of the Blount affair, the fullest we have yet seen from a Confederate source: Towards the middle of September the guerillas reunited liking the "lay out," and scenting the danger, fled towards the fort, which Col. Quantrell had not yet discovered. About sixty of Todd's men, under the leadership officently ferocious and superbly desperate. But for the inauspicious yell for Quantrell, every man might have entered the fort and carried it by storm. But a perfecTaylor found the whole command in line of battle, motionless as statues, with Quantrell at their head on his war-horse looking as grim as the Sphinx of Egypt at a brJust then the cavalcade moved, and the band commenced playing Yankee Doodle. Quantrell moved also; but the quick eye of Blount discovered something wrong and called
The Daily Dispatch: February 23, 1864., [Electronic resource], The Legislature. (search)
about as much." The Nashville Press, of the 9th, says that Jacob B. Jackson, son of Gen. Jackson, of Parkersburg, Va., is under arrest at Wheeling for disloyalty. There is great anxiety in Washington because of the condition of affairs in East Tennessee. Henderson, a clerk in the Federal Treasury Department, has stolen $150,000. This is regarded a small affair in Washington. Several Abolitionists have been arrested in Louisville for kidnapping negroes in the Northwest and selling them in Kentucky. Capt. Purcell, of Gen. Hunter's (brother of Senator Hunter, of Va.,) staff, it is thought, will be held as hostage to force the surrender of Quantrell to the Federal authorities. Gen. Anderson, of Sumter fame, is very ill in New York. The cold weather of January was terrible in Europe. In parts of England the ice was nine inches thick on the 1st of January. Old John Brown's brother has been appointed superintendent of freedmen in Northern Virginia.
The Daily Dispatch: March 2, 1864., [Electronic resource], Quantrell, (search)
Quantrell, the famous Missouri partizan, has effected a change of base, which the Yankee cultivators of cotton plantations appear to think a base change. The correspondent of the St. Louis Republican, writing from near Vicksburg, says: Quantrell and his men, some 600 or 900 strong, are acting vigorously down here. They came in not long since, capturing a number of wagons and negroes. The bloodthirsty rascals killed 8 or 10 laborers [niggers] on one plantation. Quantrell, the famous Missouri partizan, has effected a change of base, which the Yankee cultivators of cotton plantations appear to think a base change. The correspondent of the St. Louis Republican, writing from near Vicksburg, says: Quantrell and his men, some 600 or 900 strong, are acting vigorously down here. They came in not long since, capturing a number of wagons and negroes. The bloodthirsty rascals killed 8 or 10 laborers [niggers] on one plantation.
The Daily Dispatch: March 14, 1864., [Electronic resource], The recent affair at Suffolk. (search)
on their arrival at Monterey, and he at once appointed Imperialist Commander of the Northern line. Juarez is at Saltillo. The French are at San Luis Potosi, and marching on Victoria. Vidaurri has four thousand men under his command at Monterey. Yankee emissaries are stirring up the Mexicans against both the French and Confederates. Vidaurri will, however, arrange all that when the proper time comes. In Northern Texas the wheat crop, which was supposed to be destroyed by the severe cold about the 1st of January, is coming out better than was expected. Some depredations have been committed by Jayhawkers, but they are being driven out by detachments of cavalry, and rapidly brought either to punishment or pardon, as their cases merit. Quantrell and his men are wintering in Northern Texas. They will be heard from in due time. Preparations for planting are general, and in much of the lower country corn is already in the ground. But little cotton will be planted.
The Daily Dispatch: May 7, 1864., [Electronic resource], Trans-Mississippi news. (search)
Trans-Mississippi news. --Gen Price is reported to have attacked Little Rock and captured it. He then fell back and attacked Steele's forces, and routed them with terrible loss. The troops under Quantrell are said to have committed sad havoc on the leased plantations — hanged all the overseers that he caught and all the negroes dressed in Federal uniform. He had also captured some 800 negroes who were at work on the plantations. Gen Price had issued orders against this conduct, but very little attention was paid to them.
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