Posted on 12/31/2023 6:22:35 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
We have received full files of Richmond papers to December 28. They do not furnish any exciting news, but the following extracts are interesting:
The Richmond Enquirer publishes a batch of correspondence between Gens. HITCHCOCK and MEREDITH, and the rebel Commissioner CULD, which still leaves the matter of the exchange of prisoners involved in the old question of the validity of certain paroles given in the field, and the declaration of the exchange of the Vicksburgh and Port Hudson captures. Speaking of the last efforts by Gen. HITCHCOCK to renew the exchange, the Richmond Enquirer of the 28th remarks:
"An attempt at informal renewal of the cartel has been made by the enemy, under the immediate agency of Gen. BUTLER, who initiated his effort by sending five hundred Confederate soldiers to City Point. Commissioner OULD returned five hundred Federal soldiers, but informed Commissioner HITCHCOCK that the Confederate authorities could hold no communication with Gen. BUTLER, and that there must be no further effort at a partial exchange. If the enemy desire to renew the cartel, it must be done upon fair terms, and through an agent not outlawed and beyond the pale of military respectability."
AVERILL'S RAID.
The great Gen. AVERILL has gone not "up the spout," but back into his den. Cast your eye upon a map, and I'll tell you how he went and how he came. He came from New Creek, a depot on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, in the County of Hardy, along the western base of the Shenandoah Mountains, through Covington to Salem, burnt things generally, and returned over nearly the same route. IMBODEN seized the gap where the Parkersburgh turnpike crosses the Shenandoah, and prevented a raid on Staunton. AVERILL left five hundred men to hold IMBODEN there, and pushed on toward Salem.
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Southern News: The Exchange of Prisoners – 2-3
The Army of the Potomac: Bad Condition of the Roads – 3
Gen. Grant’s Department: Raid by Wheeler’s Rebel Cavalry – 3-4
Gen. Kelley’s Department: A Rebel Force Moving Down the Shenandoah Valley – 4
The War in the Southwest – 4
News from Washington: Special Dispatches to the N.Y. Times – 4
The Health of Justice Taney – 4
Battle Record for 1863: Chronological Table of the Events of the Year – 4-9
Editorial: Negro Equality in the South – 9-10
Editorial: The Closing Year – 10
This and Other Times – 10
Armament of the Monitors – A Query for the Navy Department – 10
The Exchange Question – 10-11
Sailors and Their Prizes – 11
General News – 11
Mexico: Morelia Occupied by the French Troops – 11
My Great-Great Grand father was part of this prisoner exchange - records show he was imprisoned at Point Lookout (?) Maryland after Gettysburg; then released in Baltimore, December 1863. Thanks for the reminder.
Sheridan was such a pompous ambitious dick
Poor Averell
The South Was Right, by James and Walter Kennedy.
Sherman said no.
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