To: chajin; henkster; CougarGA7; BroJoeK; central_va; Larry Lucido; wagglebee; Colonel_Flagg; Amagi; ...
The Pennsylvania Raid: How the Rebels Escaped Across the Potomac – 2
News from the Southwest: A Disastrous Defeat at Corinth Acknowledged by the Rebels – 2
The Army of the Potomac: A Forward Movement to be Made Immediately – 2
The War in Kentucky: Some of the Results of the Late Battle at Perryville – 2
News from Washington: Our Special Washington Dispatches – 3
Another Promise Broken – 3
Editorial: A Forward Movement – 3
Church and State – 4
An Original but Doubtful View – 4
Great Expectations Disappointed – 4
Don’t Know the Things that Belong to Their Peace – 4
Where the Cash Comes From to Build Rebel Navies – 4
Good Advice from the Right Quarter – 4
Disaster to the Propeller Tonawanda – 4
Assembly Nomination – 4
3 posted on
10/14/2022 4:46:00 AM PDT by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Homer_J_Simpson; All
Should read: ‘how the rebels went back home after they kicked our asses’
4 posted on
10/14/2022 4:52:09 AM PDT by
notdownwidems
(Washington D.C. has become the enemy of free people everywhere!)
To: Homer_J_Simpson
"Great Expectations Disappointed – 4" This refers to Jefferson Davis' orders to CSA Gen. Bragg at the Battle of Perryville, that Bragg was to march to Louisville, KY and then permanently occupy Cincinnati, Ohio.
Even as late as the Battle of Nashville, in December 1864, Jefferson Davis will still be ordering his generals (John Bell Hood) to march on Union cities in Illinois and Indiana.
5 posted on
10/14/2022 6:36:08 AM PDT by
BroJoeK
(future DDG 134 -- we remember)
To: Homer_J_Simpson; x; Bull Snipe
"Where the Cash Comes From to Build Rebel Navies – 4" Our editors believe Confederates are paying for foreign weapons and ships by shipments of cotton escaping the Union blockade.
"...at the present enormous price of cotton, a ship-load of it in the markets of England, or at Havana, will procure guns enough to arm a division, and artillery enough to accompany it.
A single cargo of cotton running the blockade from Charleston to England, will itself purchase a very respectable iron-clad steamer quite fit for rebel service..."
In the beginning of the Union blockade it's estimated that nine out of ten Confederate ships successfully slipped through.
By 1864 that number was down to two out of three and all-told about 1,500 Confederate ships were seized or wrecked in the blockade.
Overall, the Union blockade reduced the number of trips from Confederate ports by 60%, but exports of cotton on slow-moving bulk carriers fell 95%.
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6 posted on
10/14/2022 6:58:02 AM PDT by
BroJoeK
(future DDG 134 -- we remember)
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