THE GREAT REBELLION: The Trouble Among the Rebel Leaders, and the Cause of It; The Stone Blockade of the Southern Harbors (11/23/1861)

New York Times archives – Times Machine ^ | 11/23/1861

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WASHINGTON, Friday, Nov. 22.

THE TROUBLE AMONG THE REBEL LEADERS.

It is now definitely ascertained in military circles at Washington that BEAUREGARD recently tendered his resignation as a General of the Confederate army, in consequence of his difference With JEFF. DAVIS as to the conduct of the war. Violent parties have sprung up among the Confederates on this question, BEAUREGARD representing the offensive war party, who believe in invading the North and wintering in Baltimore, Philadelphia and New-York, and JEFF. DAVIS representing the defensive war party, who trust to time and the patient defence of their own soil to give them independence. The Beauregard party complain that the policy of DAVIS has led to the invasion of South Carolina, and will fill the Cotton States with the horrors of war, and end in their destruction, and it is believed that DAVIS has succumbed to the war policy to prevent South Carolina and Georgia from seceding from the Confederate States. Gen. BEAUREGARD was induced to withdraw his resignation, and no doubt on the assurance that a "change would be made, and that he might have the privilege of attacking the Union armies on the Potomac. Gen. MCCLELAN would not be surprised at being offered battle any day' and he is prepared for it.

THE CASE OF CALHOUN BENHAM.

CALHOUN BENHAM, of California, who, with Senator GWIN, was arrested by Gen. SUMNER on his recent passage from the Pacific, is a brother-in-law of GEORGE D. PRENTICE, of the Louisville Journal. One object of MT. PRENTICE, who is now in Washington, is to procure BENHAM's release, if compatible with the public interests. He knows of no treasonable intent on the part of Mr. BENHAM, but says he was coming to the States to attend to a lawsuit in which they had a mutual

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The Great Rebellion: The Trouble Among the Rebel Leaders, and the Cause of it – 2-3
The Stone Blockade – 3
From the Rebel States: Movements in Eastern Tennessee – 3-4
Down the Mississippi – 4
The National Prisoners at Columbia, S.C. – 4
Operations in the Kanawha Valley: The Great Kanawha, Gauley and New Rivers – 5
Editorial: The Mason and Slidell Affair-Absurd Apprehensions of War with England – 6
Editorial: Which Can Best Afford to Wait-The North or the South? – 6-7
Editorial: Southern South Carolina-Its Social and Political Character – 7
Editorial: Government Mail and Military Roads – 7-8
Editorial: Black Flags and Last Ditches – 8
Speculators in the South – 8
Assassination of Hon. Josiah M. Anderson, of Tennessee – 8
No More Troops from Mississippi – 8
Kentucky – 8
The Tammany Regiment – 8
Assassination of Judge Richards – 8