Posted on 12/05/2021 6:25:51 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
WASHINGTON, Thursday, Dec. 4, 1861.
THE REBELS IN POSSESSION OF ANANDALE.
Information has been received this evening that the rebel forces are now in possession of Annandale, and their pickets posted this side. Major ADAMS, of the Lincoln Cavalry, made a reconnoissance to that point, and deployed his skirmishers three-quarters of a mile beyond Annandale, capturing one of the rebel pickets. He then fell back with his command, by order of Gen. KEARNKY. The rebels then took possession of Annandale with a large force of cavalry.
Information has been received that there are twelve forts round Centreville, defended by field pieces only -- no heavy guns.
Four regiments of the enemy have lately left Centreville for Leesburgh, where there are now about fifteen thousand men.
The pickets of Gen. SMITH'S Division were fired upon last night at Lewinsville, but no injury was done. It was said to have been by TOBIAS ADAMS and ORLANDO GUNNELL, of the rebel army, who frequently, come home. Their fathers are farmers of the neighborhood, and are now imprisoned here for complicity with the rebels and persecution of Union men. GUNNELL is very wealthy. One of his negroes is in Gen. SMITH'S camp, and thirty others were carried to work on the fortifications at Manassas.
Last night a deserter from the rebels named WILLIAMS, entered our lines, He is an Englishman, and was taken out of his bed at Charleston, on the night of the 4th of June, and pressed into the rebel service. He was a private in the Fourteenth South Carolina Regiment, but has been for some weeks a servant of BEAUREGARD. He escaped on Monday last. He was dressed in a new uniform of blue like those of the New-York soldiers, and having on the New-York buttons.
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News from Washington: The Slaves Incarcerated in the Washington Prison – 2-4
Letters from the Camps: Affairs on the Lower Potomac – 4
Defensive Preparations in Canada – 4-5
Winter Quarters – 5
Commodore Wilkes: His Welcome by the Historical Society – 5
The Letters of Mr. Russell: Correspondence of the London Times from the Seat of War in America – 5-6
The Preparations in Canada – 7
Editorial: Abolition and the Constitution – 7
Editorial: A New Phase of Chivalry – 7-8
Editorial: The Famine in Ireland – 8
Movements of European Steamers – 8
Are they talking about the pro-Trump demonstrators that got arrested after January 06?
This must be “misinformation”.
Obviously a country founded on racism wouldn’t have a war to end it.
The National Army will need a victory over Bobby Lee before any talk of confiscating rebel slaves can become a reality.
No, he’s talking about the FR version of CRT. History as told by the New York Times. Total and utter bullshit.
Re: Slaves Incarcerated in the Washington Prison
Are they talking about the pro-Trump demonstrators that got arrested after January 06?
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I thought so reading the title until I got to the date /-)
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Worse, 160 years later US citizens are still incarcerated in a gulag for practicing their first amendment constitutional right where they are being tortured, abused, threatened and the media completely ignores it.
Interesting when you read the third or fourth column. It states that, without the “rebels” in Congress, Congress would easily pass a bill confiscating Southern slaves.....HOWEVER, this law would not pass unless a COLONIZATION PLAN was passed. In other words, Lincoln and Republicans wanted African slaves out of the country, and certainly not to migrate north.
A lot of talk and chatter these last 6 months. Things are about to get hot.
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How can this be? Everyone is taught that the war was fought to free the slaves.
I think “General Kearnky” should read “General Kearney” (the namesake of Kearney, Nebraska)—the capital E was mistaken for a K.
Yeah the Times Machine Robo-reader does a pretty good job of interpreting the ancient text, but it misses occasionally.
Yeah, I’m thrilled to meet such a big fan of the NYT/ sarc.
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