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Posted on 10/8/13 at 5:56 am to BadLeroyDawg
Posted on 10/8/13 at 5:56 am to BadLeroyDawg
Thursday, 8 October 1863
President Jefferson Davis speaks in Atlanta making a short address from the train platform expressing his gratitude "...at the stand Georgia had always occupied..." and complimenting the state for "...her soldiers having done their duty on every field." He also thanked Governor Joseph Brown for having received "...his earnest promise of co-operation."
Confederate Secretary of State Judah P. Benjamin writes to President Jefferson Davis that the Cabinet was of "...opinion that as soon as such an offensive encroachment on the sovereignty of the Confederacy had been made public..." because of Great Britain's unwillingness to announce recognition of the new American country that "...the British consular agents should be expelled from the Confederacy..."
Stephen D. Yancey wrote to Henry E. McCulloch..."A staff officer for the Confederate District of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona writes to the commander of the Northern Sub-District of Texas at Bonham that, according to intelligence received, 30,000 Union troops have embarked from Berwick Bay. Based on the fact that they have not shown up on the Texas coast, General Magruder believes they have headed eastward. If so, he will send reinforcements to northern Texas."
Last night the garrison at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, were alarmed by an attack, and the cavalry and two regiments of infantry started out to meet the enemy. Near Charlestown, a force of over three hundred cavalry, commanded by Imboden, were posted. The Confederates had a large portion of their force dismounted and in ambuscade. Captain Somers, with his company of cavalry, had advanced to hunt up the enemy. He met a company of Rebel cavalry, who charged upon him and were repulsed. They purposely retreated, Captain Somers and his company pursuing until they entered the fatal ambuscade. At the first fire Captain Somers and ten men were killed, as many more wounded, and nearly all the others captured. The few who escaped carried the information into camp, and the rest of the cavalry started back out in pursuit, but were unable to come up with the Southerners.
The following order was issued at Richmond, Virginia, by the Confederate Adjutant General Cooper: “The Chief of the Nitre and Mining Bureau is directed, through the officers of his bureau, to impress copper, coal, and such other minerals as may be needed for the use of the government.”
A fight occurred near Salem, Mississippi, between almost four thousand Confederates, under General S. D. Lee, and over five thousand Federals, under McCullis and Phillips, resulting in the defeat of the Rebels with a loss of fifteen killed and wounded.
Another Draft Riot occurred as a mob at Jackson, New Hampshire, surrounded and burned the hotel where the Deputy Provost-Marshal was stopping while serving notices on drafted men.
Carthage, Missouri, was burned by the Confederate partisan troops.
A party of about one hundred partisan Confederate guerrillas, under command of Captain Richardson, at two o'clock this afternoon, placed obstructions on the track of the Lebanon Branch Railroad, at New Hope, Kentucky, twenty miles from the junction, threw the train off the track, and fired into it, but did no damage to the passengers. They then captured the train, burned two passenger cars, baggage and express cars, destroyed the locomotive, robbed the passengers of money and clothing, and decamped.
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President Jefferson Davis speaks in Atlanta making a short address from the train platform expressing his gratitude "...at the stand Georgia had always occupied..." and complimenting the state for "...her soldiers having done their duty on every field." He also thanked Governor Joseph Brown for having received "...his earnest promise of co-operation."
Confederate Secretary of State Judah P. Benjamin writes to President Jefferson Davis that the Cabinet was of "...opinion that as soon as such an offensive encroachment on the sovereignty of the Confederacy had been made public..." because of Great Britain's unwillingness to announce recognition of the new American country that "...the British consular agents should be expelled from the Confederacy..."
Stephen D. Yancey wrote to Henry E. McCulloch..."A staff officer for the Confederate District of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona writes to the commander of the Northern Sub-District of Texas at Bonham that, according to intelligence received, 30,000 Union troops have embarked from Berwick Bay. Based on the fact that they have not shown up on the Texas coast, General Magruder believes they have headed eastward. If so, he will send reinforcements to northern Texas."
Last night the garrison at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, were alarmed by an attack, and the cavalry and two regiments of infantry started out to meet the enemy. Near Charlestown, a force of over three hundred cavalry, commanded by Imboden, were posted. The Confederates had a large portion of their force dismounted and in ambuscade. Captain Somers, with his company of cavalry, had advanced to hunt up the enemy. He met a company of Rebel cavalry, who charged upon him and were repulsed. They purposely retreated, Captain Somers and his company pursuing until they entered the fatal ambuscade. At the first fire Captain Somers and ten men were killed, as many more wounded, and nearly all the others captured. The few who escaped carried the information into camp, and the rest of the cavalry started back out in pursuit, but were unable to come up with the Southerners.
The following order was issued at Richmond, Virginia, by the Confederate Adjutant General Cooper: “The Chief of the Nitre and Mining Bureau is directed, through the officers of his bureau, to impress copper, coal, and such other minerals as may be needed for the use of the government.”
A fight occurred near Salem, Mississippi, between almost four thousand Confederates, under General S. D. Lee, and over five thousand Federals, under McCullis and Phillips, resulting in the defeat of the Rebels with a loss of fifteen killed and wounded.
Another Draft Riot occurred as a mob at Jackson, New Hampshire, surrounded and burned the hotel where the Deputy Provost-Marshal was stopping while serving notices on drafted men.
Carthage, Missouri, was burned by the Confederate partisan troops.
A party of about one hundred partisan Confederate guerrillas, under command of Captain Richardson, at two o'clock this afternoon, placed obstructions on the track of the Lebanon Branch Railroad, at New Hope, Kentucky, twenty miles from the junction, threw the train off the track, and fired into it, but did no damage to the passengers. They then captured the train, burned two passenger cars, baggage and express cars, destroyed the locomotive, robbed the passengers of money and clothing, and decamped.
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Posted on 10/9/13 at 4:52 am to BadLeroyDawg
Friday, 9 October 1863
United States Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles commended Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren on the work of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron off Charleston, South Carolina the preceding month and cited Brigadier General Quincy Adams Gillmore's "brilliant operations" on Morris Island. Noting that, though the first step in the capture of Charleston was taken, the remainder would be full of risk, he added: "While there is intense feeling pervading the country in regard to the fate of Charleston . . . the public impatience must not be permitted to hasten your own movements into immature and inconsiderate action against your own deliberate convictions nor impel you to hazards that may jeopardize the best interest of the country without adequate results. . . ."
The CSS Georgia, commanded by Lieutenant W. L. Maury, captured and burned the ship Bold Hunter off the coast of French West Africa. She had been bound for Calcutta with a cargo of coal.
Two iron-plated rams, built on the Mersey, England, by the Lairds for the use of the Confederate States of America, were seized by order of the British government, upon a charge of an intention to evade the neutrality laws.
Major General J. G. Foster sent the following dispatch to the Federal War Department: “I have the honor to report that the expedition sent out on Sunday, under General Wistar, to break up or capture the guerrillas and boats' crews organized by the enemy in Matthews County, has returned, having in the main accomplished its object. Four rebel naval officers, twenty-five men, and twenty-five head of cattle belonging to the Confederacy, together with horses, mules, and arms, are the results. A large number of Rebel boats were destroyed. Our loss was one man killed. General Wistar reports the Fourth United States infantry (colored) making thirty miles in one day, with no stragglers.”
Fort Johnson, in Charleston Harbor, S. C., was again silenced. A well directed shot from the Union batteries entered an embrasure and dismounted the gun.
One of the two-hundred pounder batteries on Morris Island, that had been silent for a week, opened on Fort Sumter and the other Confederate forts.
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United States Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles commended Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren on the work of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron off Charleston, South Carolina the preceding month and cited Brigadier General Quincy Adams Gillmore's "brilliant operations" on Morris Island. Noting that, though the first step in the capture of Charleston was taken, the remainder would be full of risk, he added: "While there is intense feeling pervading the country in regard to the fate of Charleston . . . the public impatience must not be permitted to hasten your own movements into immature and inconsiderate action against your own deliberate convictions nor impel you to hazards that may jeopardize the best interest of the country without adequate results. . . ."
The CSS Georgia, commanded by Lieutenant W. L. Maury, captured and burned the ship Bold Hunter off the coast of French West Africa. She had been bound for Calcutta with a cargo of coal.
Two iron-plated rams, built on the Mersey, England, by the Lairds for the use of the Confederate States of America, were seized by order of the British government, upon a charge of an intention to evade the neutrality laws.
Major General J. G. Foster sent the following dispatch to the Federal War Department: “I have the honor to report that the expedition sent out on Sunday, under General Wistar, to break up or capture the guerrillas and boats' crews organized by the enemy in Matthews County, has returned, having in the main accomplished its object. Four rebel naval officers, twenty-five men, and twenty-five head of cattle belonging to the Confederacy, together with horses, mules, and arms, are the results. A large number of Rebel boats were destroyed. Our loss was one man killed. General Wistar reports the Fourth United States infantry (colored) making thirty miles in one day, with no stragglers.”
Fort Johnson, in Charleston Harbor, S. C., was again silenced. A well directed shot from the Union batteries entered an embrasure and dismounted the gun.
One of the two-hundred pounder batteries on Morris Island, that had been silent for a week, opened on Fort Sumter and the other Confederate forts.
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