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The Daily Dispatch: August 6, 1863., [Electronic resource], Later from Europe. (search)
s. In another article, which appears in the impression of the 21st, it says it can see termination of the war at present in view, and goes on. Let us look to what has just happened. On the 4th, so it is said, Vicksburg surrendered, its desperate condition having probably been known some days before. On the same day Lee was found to have commenced his retreat from Gettysburg back into Virginia. On the same day the Confederate Vice President, with a commissioner, came down the James river with a flag of truce, bearing letters from President Davis to President Lincoln, and wish deliver them in person. some hesitation, was refused, and that in a way which implied that the Federal Government would not communicate with the Confederate, unless the subject of the communication was known before the envoys were even admitted within the Federal lines New, it is not too much to say that at the time the Federal Government returned this answer to a request which could only be of a
The Daily Dispatch: August 6, 1863., [Electronic resource], The enemy in James river. (search)
The enemy in James river. We learn that the enemy on Tuesday last made his appearance again in James river.--On the afternoon of that day two Monitors and three gunboats entered the mouth of the river and proceeded up as far as Sandy Point, where they anchored for the night. Of their movements yesterday we heard nothing, but it is not believed that the expedition contemplates more than a negro stealing affair. The enemy in James river. We learn that the enemy on Tuesday last made his appearance again in James river.--On the afternoon of that day two Monitors and three gunboats entered the mouth of the river and proceeded up as far as Sandy Point, where they anchored for the night. Of their movements yesterday we heard nothing, but it is not believed that the expedition contemplates more than a negro stealing affair.