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The Daily Dispatch: October 28, 1864., [Electronic resource], Servants Wanted. (search)
ion from the Trans-Mississippi. The only intelligence from General Price is the following telegram from Kansas City, Missouri, on Monday: A courier just from the front reports that Price is in full retreat and closely pursued by our forces.--When the courier left the enemy was twenty-five miles south of here. A letter from Butler's army says of the recent gunboat fight in the James: Yesterday morning, two new batteries which had been constructed by General Butler on James river, near Chaffin's Bluff, opened on the rebel gunboats in the vicinity, and drove them all, except a stubborn iron-clad, about half a mile further up the river. The iron-clad, later in the day, joined her consorts. The engagement, for the short time it lasted, is represented by those who witnessed it as particularly lively and interesting. The Confederate prisoners recently kept under fire on Morris island have been removed from their position by General Foster, he having been inform
The Daily Dispatch: October 28, 1864., [Electronic resource], Servants Wanted. (search)
ves belonging to citizens or residents of some of the Confederate States, and of this class fifty-nine, as I learn, were sent, with other negroes, to work on the fortifications around Richmond until their owners should appear and claim them. As soon as I was informed of the fact, less than two days afterwards, not wishing to employ them here, I ordered them to be sent to the interior. By a misapprehension of the engineer officer in charge, they were transferred to our lines south of James river, but when apprised of the error, I repeated the order for their removal. If any negroes were included among this number who were not identified as the slaves of citizens or residents of some of the Confederate States, they were so included without the knowledge or authority of the War Department, as already explained, and the mistake, when discovered, would have been corrected. It only remains for me to say, that negroes employed upon our fortifications are not allowed to be placed