Posted on 09/08/2021 7:20:16 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
WASHINGTON, Saturday, Sept. 7.
Nothing has occurred to-day over the river to disturb the general quiet not even a skirmish between pickets breaking the monotony of camp life. The rebels have receded on a line west from Ball's Cross Roads to Chain Bridge, and our pickets have advanced a mile west. A balloon observation made to-day by Gen. FITZ JOHN PORTER, showed the rebels to be occupying about the same position as before, without any material change in their numbers, except that they very congregating in larger force about Munson's Hill. From information received, it is probable that the rebels are transferring men from Manassas -- to what point is unknown. But few remain there.
The following appointments were made to-day at the War Department, of volunteers: Charles M. Thurston, of Maryland; Willis A. Gorman, of Minnesota, and Daniel Butterfield, of New-York, to be Brigadier-Generals of Volunteers. John Clark, of Massachusetts; N.J. Sappington, of Maryland; James M. Sanderson, of California; Josiah M. Lucas, of District of Columbia; Alexander M. Lloyd, of Pennsylvania; Samuel Gamage, of California; Judson M. Sherman, of New-York; Benjamin P. Walker, of Indiana; James P. Fredericks, of New-York, and E.T.S. Schenck, of Ohio, to be Commissaries of Subsistence for the Volunteers, with the rank of Captain. William M. Wiley to be an additional Paymaster of Volunteers. William A. Stokes, of Pennsylvania, to be Major of the Eighteenth Infantry, United States Army.
Col. HENRY VAN RENSSELEAR and Lieutenant-Colonels GEORGE W. CULLUM, SCHYULER HAMILTON and EDWARD H. WRIGHT, Aids to Lieut.-Gen. SCOTT, have, under the act of Aug. 5, 1861, been made by the President Colonels, with the pay and allowances of Colonels of cavalry.
Gen. MCCLELLAN to-day promulgated the following general order:
HEAD-QUARTERS, ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,
WASHINGTON, Friday, Sept. 6, 1861.
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Important from Kanawha – 3
Gen. Rosecrans’ Column – 3-4
The War in Missouri – 4-5
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Really amazing just what a propaganda organ The New York Times was in those days. Nothing has changed.
In the Civil War the New York Times was a "moderate" Lincoln Republican paper in competition to Horace Greeley's abolitionist NY Tribune.
In 2021 it is a radical Democrat outlet for as many propaganda lies & anti-American hatreds as they can get away with.
Some days the Times reprints whole articles from Confederate papers, though I see none today.
I do see an editorial quoting & mocking the Confederate congress voting large sums for a new Confederate navy, including iron-clads & submarines.
These turned out to be no joke, though arguably less effective than the Confederate congress doubtless hoped.
If you prefer a more "fair & balanced" presentation, then I recommend Homer's weekly Harper's pages, updated almost daily.
Of course, if what you truly wish for is the bluff & bluster opinions of actual Confederate newspapers, those are still available elsewhere online.
My guess is even you would quickly grow embarrassed & tired of them.
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