Confederate Echoes of Sherman Raid in New York and Britain
A long dispatch reviews Confederate views on Sherman’s Atlanta to Savannah movements, British legal cases, and pro-Union press. It notes Rumble’s trial in Cockburn court, ship transfers from the Vietor to Scylla and Rappahannock, and tensions over federal agents pressuring emigrants while Northern editors defend Yankee policy. It closes with local Louisiana and Texas politics, prisoner returns, and Confederate congress actions.
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Charlesv
Crumbiz
M H
Sherman
Govey
Old England
Tee Pameo
Cockburn
England
Crities
Shereess
Guneo Vietor
Lenton
Gordon, Cl
Raymond
Thas
Harour T
Scylla
Calais
Rappahannock
Rumble
Indant
Raleigh
New York
New York Times
Washington
Hne
Ireland
York
Wales
Appeal to North Carolina and Virginia on war rations
A Confederate-era plea urges Carolina and Virginia residents to donate or pledge rations for the army. It outlines a plan for each citizen to supply bacon, flour, or their equivalent for six months for soldiers, with staged contributions and local meetings to organize subscriptions. The message, signed by Z. B. Vance, appeals to patriotism and warns of enemy advances through disrupted rail lines.
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Trent
Virginia
North Carolina
Cance
Countyard
South Carolina
Commissary Department
Expct
Z. B. Vance
Telegraph Line Progress and War News From the South
From Georgia reports the Atlanta West Point telegraph line is nearly finished with only nine miles left to reach Atlanta. Predatory bands roam North Georgia and Dalton is the only fortified post. A government courier brings dispatches from the Trans Mississ ippi noting quiet conditions there and Price leaving Missouri with thousands of fresh troops. Blockade running persists along the Gulf, Galveston to New Orleans and Skikport stores are stocked as the Trans Mississippi army remains in high spirits and well supplied.
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Petersburg
Richm
Hostili
Assa Jes
Witwincron
Goldshoro State Journal
Yankee Wilmpgton
Herad of the Union
North Carolinam
Wilmington
New Orleans
Savannah
Sherman
Casriette
Beaurégard
Lee
Joe Johnston
Davis
Chattanooga
Atlanta
Beauregard
Hawley
Allen
Tecnisiapa
Lousiana
Mobb
Mississippi River
Texas
Ile
Legisature O Txas
Louisiana
Mobile Register
Clinton
Mobile
Bennet Lane
Red River
Price
Shreveport
Matamoras
Legislature of
Upper Georgia
West Point
Georgia
Teries
Dalton
Rome
Trast Point
There
Trans- Mississippi
Missouri
Ste
General Price
Reynolds
Trans Mississippi
Gaveston
West Indies
Willington
Charleston
Galveston
Skvport
Trans- Missi
Vox
Trans-Mississippi
Love of Country and Lost Faith in War
A patriotic tableau closes with a tale of a French soldier guiding Jerome to see country as all that surrounds us, and reports on Captain Beall, Virginia-born, who faced a Yankee court martial and was hanged after defending his actions as loyal service to his country.
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Jerusalem
Paris
Jerome
Liute Sant
Vincennes
Fontiers
St. Louis
Republic
Beall
Petersburg Express
Yankees
Bealls
Jefferson County
Virginia
Virginia University
Second
Virgina Infantry
Stonewall Jackson
Navy
Canada
Parsons
Lake Erie
Island Qeen
Michigan
Jhnson
Niagara Flis
New York
MeppLing With Fire Arms Accidental Burn Injures Laura
A report from a city street recounts Laura, granddaughter of Mr. T. V. Moss, badly burned and injured by an accidental discharge of a double barreled gun held by Marcelus, a slave of Mrs. Jeffress, in a frightful fire arms incident. Captain Searon Gaves, Assistant Adjutant General of Ramseur’s brigade, has returned safely from Yankee prison, according to friends.
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Laura
T. V. Moss
Marcelus
Confederate House Declares Resolve to Prosecute War
Richmond Whig reports that the Confederate House adopted resolutions from the Foreign Relations Committee after the President's peace negotiations with the United States. The vote included J. T. Leach of North Carolina dissenting. The resolutions pledge continued war, call for public vow renewals, and authorize measures to sustain the army and families, invoking God and civil liberty.
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Richmond Whig
House of Representatives
Committee On Foreign Relations
J. T. Leach
N. C
Lincoln
Seward
Congress
Confederate States
United States
Nissi i
Cunp
Thea
Filling Vacancies among Commissioned Officers
Confederate bill outlines how to fill vacancies in companies battalions and regiments through nomination by captains lieutenant colonels or brigade commanders with brigade division and army level approvals and Senate consent. The act covers vacancies at all commissioned officer grades and ensures assignment by generals pending presidential appointment with Senate consent.
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House of
Congress of the
Confederate States of America
Coonel
Clonel
Belo Gs
Brgade
Justice for North Carolina soldier aid in Confederate column
A letter from A N V dated February 20 1865 requests space to correct a misimpression about the North Carolina Agency for transmitting supplies to North Carolina troops. It asserts nearly twelve thousand boxes were sent and only about a dozen lost, with many reaching the brigade and even a single company, urging publication to ensure justice and noting Franco-American relations.
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MacBain
S R
North Carolina
Medical Department of
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