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Newspaper
Weekly Confederate
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1865
Page
4
A Confederate essay urges steadfast endurance and defiance against Union forces. It argues the North cannot conquer while Confederate armies remain and condemns fear as the real danger. The piece catalogs recent Union setbacks and asserts that perseverance, not surrender, preserves liberty and regional independence.
A Kinston correspondent reports W J Vestal and P J Sinclair reportedly ran the blockade to Newbern and Deep Gully, with Sinclair passing a permit to join the enemy. The piece links these acts to pro-Union sentiment in the Progress and a faltering gold market. Four Yadkin county prisoners escaped from jail, with a $400 reward posted. Captain Leroy Jones, Wake Senior Reserves commander, died of typhoid fever. Charleston bombardment totals 12,262 shells through Jan 1, 1865.
The 1865 session discusses a bill to buy cotton and yarn for soldiers and the needy, a jailor authority for military prisoners, and several measures on tax in kind and property protection. House actions include militia expansion, trustee elections, and debates on habeas corpus, adjournment, and resolutions protesting arming slaves.
The legislature reports a bill to hold jailors responsible for keeping deserters and discharges further consideration. Other measures include extending time to perfect land titles, penalties for not working on public roads, and a motion to tabling a tax appointment. A report on the sinking fund Commissioners commends their management and states no state debt to them. The adjournment debate continues. A message to remove secrecy from late secret sessions is proposed.
Telegraphic Richmond dispatches report rumors about French demands for passports and discuss congressional amendments on Maximilian. Debates on Monroe doctrine expansion, secret sessions, and leadership changes in the Senate. Reports from Petersburg and Richmond cover peace talks, prisoner exchanges, and Breckinridge becoming War Secretary.
Richmond January 31 report states General Lee’s nomination for General-in-Chief was delayed by presidential illness preventing signature. Grant’s flag of truce exchange at Petersburg enabled Confederate commissioners to travel to Grant’s headquarters then to Washington. Confederate House passes post free carriage bill for soldiers with 65 yeas 13 nays.
From Charleston on January 31 a Confederate force concentrates near Augusta and Branchville while the 20th army corps holds Robertsville. Infantry and artillery are encamped near Salketchie junction, likely 15th and 17th army corps. An enemy advance from White Point drove in our line to Kinga Creek, then retreated to White Point. A pontoon bridge show of force at Salketchie yielded no action. In Richmond the New York Tribune notes shippings losses and British register use for vessels trading with Brazil. Grant is gifted thirty thousand dollars by Philadelphia citizens. McClellan sails for Europe. the American hotel and other buildings burn in Buffalo.
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