THE GREAT REBELLION: Surrender of Col. Pegram and his Whole Force to Gen. McClellan; The Rebels Retreating Towards Arkansas; Editorial-Treason is no Longer a Crime (7/15/1861)

New York Times archives – Times Machine ^ | 7/15/1861

[Homer_J_Simpson]

WASHINGTON, Sunday, July 14.

The following was received, July 13, from Beverly, Va.:

"I have received from Col. PEGRAM propositions for his surrender, with his officers and remnant of his command, say 600 men. They are said to be extremely penitent, and determined never again to take up arms against the General Government. I shall have near 900 or 1,000 prisoners to take care of when Col. PEGRAM comes in.

The latest accounts make the loss of the rebels in killed some 150."

Gen MCCLELLAN's dispatches have diffused general joy here, and none share in it in a greater degree than Lieut.-Gen. SCOTT himself. The intelligence served to make the military hereabout impatient for an opportunity to achieve results similar to those narrated.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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The Great Rebellion: Highly Important from Western Virginia – 2-3
Our St. Louis Correspondence: Authentic Description of the Battle of Carthage – 3-4
Military Establishment of Illinois* – 4
Another Feat – 4
Sanitary Commission: Appeal of the Executive Finance Committee in the City of New York** – 4-5
Editorial: Treason no Longer a Crime – 5-6
Editorial: Fortune’s Reverses – 6
Surrender of a Rebel Army – 6
Bodies Found in the River – 6

* First mention of U.S. Grant I have seen in the NY Times.

** George and Charley Strong and Mr. Ruggles all mentioned in this article.

[BroJoeK]

"Editorial: Treason no Longer a Crime – 5-6"

"...Never having felt the effects of treason, we are not yet conscious there is such a crime.
But when it has cost us a hundred thousand lives, and saddled us with a debt of $1,000,000,000, as it bids fair to do, then we shall begin to see that an attempt to subvert law and order is to destroy property and life, and is the gravest of crimes..."

Seems to me our editors already have a pretty fair estimate of what Civil War will cost in blood & treasure.
Their estimates are still low, but getting closer to actual.

[GranTorino]

Treason is still not a crime.