Posted on 12/29/2024 6:53:56 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 -- 10:30 P.M.
Major-Gen. Dix, New-York:
The following extracts from Richmond papers of to-day have been received by the Department:
FROM WILMINGTON.
The following official dispatches were received last night:
WILMINGTON, Dec. 27 -- 6 P.M.
To His Excellency, the President of the Confederate States:
The enemy has reembarked under the cover of his fleet. His movement is not developed. I have visited Fort Fisher, and find the damage slight, excepting the buildings not necessary for defence. Only two guns were disabled. The marks remaining indicate that the bombardment was very heavy. Maj. Gen. WRITING, commanding the defenses at the mouth of the river; Col. LAMB, commanding the fart, and the officers and men comprising the garrison, deserve especial commendation for the gallantry, efficiency and fortitude displayed under very trying circumstances.
(Signed,) BRAXTON BRAGG."
"FROM SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA.
The Lynchburg Virginian has the following additional in relation to the capture of the salt works, announced officially yesterday: We had been led to hope that these important works were safe. But the source from which the report of their capture comes leaves us no room to doubt its correctness. They were occupied by the enemy on Tuesday, the 20th, and held by them, as is stated, until Thursday, when the Yankees retreated toward Bristol. We learn that the place was held by about two hundred reserves, under Col. PRESTON, the most of whom escaped capture. The works are reported to be but little damaged, and we understood from persons who have visited them since the occupation of the enemy, think they can be put in working order again by the first of February. A large quantity of salt already gotten out was destroyed, and all the outbuildings at the place were burned.
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A News Circular from Gen. Grant: What the Fugitive Telegraph Operator Reports – 5
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Editorial: The Internal Revenue Law – Telling Other People’s Secrets – 6-7
Editorial: The Southern Press and Southern Sentiment – 7
Disaster at Sea: Wreck of the Bark Burnside – 7
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Official Vote of the Nation – 7
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I’ve stood on the battle site at Ft Fisher. There’s a nice little self-supported museum on site. The letters displayed inside the museum were heartbreaking. I noticed in the news the IRS was levying a $2 tax on a gallon of liquor at that time, too. Lol
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