Posted on 09/08/2024 6:51:51 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
[OFFICIAL.]
WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 -- 10:30 P.M.
To Maj. Gen. John A. Dix, New-York:
The department is still without any dispatches from south of Nashville. It is supposed to be Gen. SHERMAN's design to withdraw his advance columns, and give his army rest in Atlanta, and reestablish himself securely there and restore his railway communications, broken by WHEELER and FORREST, before making further advances.
No operations by the armies of Gen. GRANT or Gen. SHERIDAN are reported to-day.
The Provost-marshal-General's office is busily employed in arranging the credits of the several districts, and is ordered to draft without delay for the deficiencies in the districts that have not filled their quota, beginning with those most in arrears. Credits for volunteers will be allowed as long as possible, but the advantage of filling the armies immediately requires the draft to be speedily made in the defaulting districts. All applications for its postponement have therefore been refused.
EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War.
THE MIDDLE DIVISION.
Special Dispatches to the New-York Times.
WASHINGTON. Wednesday, Sept. 7.
The TIMES special correspondent at Charlestown, Mr. E.A. PAUL, under date of to-day, sends the following dispatch to this bureau.
CHARLESTOWN, Va., Wednesday, Sept. 7.
A heavy fall of rain on Monday night, continuing through yesterday, put an effectual quietus upon all military movements for the time being. To-day, however, the weather has cleared up, and the roads will soon be passable again.
The enemy show no disposition to offer battle in a general engagement yet. On Monday Gen. BIRGE's brigade, of GRANGER's division, Nineteenth Corps, advanced to the Winchester and Berryville pike, where the enemy fell back almost without firing a shot. The First New-York Dragoons, Maj. SMITH, the same day went on a reconnoissance to the right,
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The War in Tennessee: Rebel Cavalry near Murfreesboro – 3
The Fall of Atlanta: The Reported Heavy Loss of the Rebels Confirmed – 3
From Memphis – 3
The Indian Outbreak: The Frontier Settlements Deserted – 3-4
From Washington – 4-5
Editorial: The Exchange of Prisoners – Gen. Butler’s Statement – 5
Commencement of Brown University – 5
Renomination of Thaddeus Stevens for Congress – 5
Fire in Boston – 5
Filled Her Quota – 5
Heller’s Salle Diabolique – 5
Thanks for posting. These newspapers are the closest thing to going back in time. I have a book from 1880 on the Civil war with photos that was passed down through time in my family. Pretty crazy, only 15 years after it ended and 15 years after Lincoln was assassinated by the Democrat actor with LDS - Lincoln Derangement Syndrome.
And Secretary Stanton’s collusion against Lincoln’s Reconstruction plans and to eliminate VP Johnson, and Seward. The cabinet member from the so called “cabinet of
rivals”.
The Secretary of War who devised a plan, which failed= the Dalhgren Raid to free Union prisoners, assassinate Jefferson Davis and burn Richmond. Led by none other than the psychopath Hugh “Kill Cavalry” Kilpatrick and his killed junior officer Col. Ulric Dahlgren.
Historian Stephen W. Sears confirmed the “unscrupulous” Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton as the authority behind the plan to have the freed Richmond prisoners commit arson and assassination. The plan’s documents were found on Dahlgren’s body and published, and these were confirmed by Captain John Entee of the Union Bureau of Military Intelligence (who rode with Dahlgren on the mission) reporting to Provost Marshal of the Army of the Potomac Marsena Patrick (documented again).
What’s more, Stanton requested and got the documents after the war from Francis Lieber, who was ordered to collect CSA documents. Lieber had the documents in his possesion, and noted their contents, gave them to Stanton, who clearly disposed of them— much as he asked for and got J.Wilkes Booth’s diary- with critical date pages ripped out (and he never presented this to the Trial Tribunal of the Lincoln Assassination conspirators. Stanton’s animus toward Seward and Johnson- is well documented, and he ran the Union’s spy networks (including the Pinkertons). Stanton fully aligned with Radical Republicans, whom Lincoln had to fight with throughout the war.
God Bless Lincoln’s memory— he was a rare President under the enmity of so many who said they were in support of him. Would the country have had the peacemaker to guide the post war reconciliation.
Correction: Capt. John McEntee.
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