Captain Theodrick (Tod) Carter Plaque: The Carter House, Franklin, Tennessee

CAPTAIN THEODRICK (TOD) CARTER

20th Tennessee Volunteer Infantry Smith’s Brigade

Bate’s Division, Cheatham’s Corps,

Army of Tennessee

C.S.A.

Born at the Carter House March 24, 1840 and educated at Harpeth Academy.  He was an attorney-at-law and Master Mason.  Tod enlisted in Co. H, 20th Tenn. Infantry May 1, 1862.  Appointed Assistant Quarter Master on Oct. 24, 1862 and served as war correspondent for the Chattanooga “Daily Rebel” using the name “Mint Julep”.

Capt. Carter Participated in Most of the Army of Tenn. Battles.  He was captured at Chattanooga on Nov. 25, 1863, but escaped from a prison train in Pennsylvania Feb. 1864.  He retured to the army in March 1864 serving in the Atlanta and Ten. Campaigns.  Mortally wounded 200 yards Southwest of his home on Nov. 30, 1864 in the Battle of Franklin and died at the Carter House Dec. 2, 1864.

“Rest soldier rest, you are not forgotten, For you did not die in vain.”

Plaque donated by Compatriot G. Daniel Clark the Tod Carter Camp #854, sons of Confederate Veterans.

SOURCE: Interpretive Marker, just outside the back door of The Carter House Visitor Center, The Carter House, Franklin, Tennessee

Gen. Joseph E. Johnston . . .

. . . who was wounded at the battle of Seven Pines, arrived in Richmond on Monday from Amelia Springs, where he has been sojourning for several weeks.  He has been assigned to an important command in a new field, which will doubtless be made known in a day or two. – Savannah Rep.

 – Published in The Chattanooga Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Wednesday, September 10, 1862, p. 1

Glorious News From Kirby Smith

Covington and Newport, Ky. Captured!!

CINCINNATI SURRENDERED!!

All U. S. Property to be Seized!!

GRENADA, Miss., Sep. 8. – The Memphis Argus of the 7^th contains the following dispatch:

The steamboat “B” arrived last evening about four o’clock from Cairo.  A gentleman on board had a copy of an extra just issued from the Cairo Gazette office previous to the departure of the “B” which states substantially as follows:

On Thursday morning the Federal forces at Covington and Newport, Kentucky, were marched out to meet Gen’l Kirby Smith, who was nine miles off.  After an hour’s march Gen’s Smith was encountered, and the Federal forces were drawn up in line of battle, and ordered to fire.  When they had fired one round it was discovered that the Confederates were an overwhelming force, and the Federal force was ordered to fall back.  Gen’l Smith advancing upon them.  When the Confederates reached Covington, and Newport, Gen’l Smith demanded the surrender of both places, which was complied with, he taking possession on Friday morning 10 ½ o’clock.

A flag of truce was then sent across the river, and the surrender of Cincinnati demanded – two hours being allowed the authorities to comply.  The Mayor asked for four hours, which was granted.

Gen’l Smith in response to inquires informed the citizens that private property would be respected, but all united States property must be delivered up.

- Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Wednesday, September 10, 1862, p. 1

Note: This article also appeared, with minor differences in the text, under the headline “News By Telegraph” in The Charleston Mercury, Charleston, South Carolina, September 10, 1862, and is transcribed here.

Government of the Confederate States

President,

JEFFERSON DAVIS,

Of Mississippi.

Vice President,

ALEX. H. STEPHENS,

Of Georgia.

Secretary of State,

JUDAH P. BENJAMIN,

Of Louisiana.

Secretary of the Treasury,

C. G. MEMMINGER,

Of South Carolina.

Secretary of War,

GEORGE W. RANDOLPH,

Of Virginia.

Secretary of the Navy,

STEPHEN R. MALLORY,

Of Florida.

Attorney General,

THOMAS R. WATTS,

Of Alabama.

Postmaster General,

JOHN H. REAGAN,

Of Texas.

CONFEDERATE CONGRESS. – First Session.

The following is a list of the members of the first Congress of the permanent Government of the Confederate States.

SENATE.

ALABAMA

Wm. L. Yancey

C Clay, Jr.

ARKANSAS

Robert W Johnson

J B Mitchell

FLORIDA

James M Baker

N E Maxwell

GEORGIA

John W Lewis

B H Hill

KENTUCKY

Henry C Burnett

Wm E Sims

LOUISIANA

Edward Sparrow

T. J. Semmes

MISSISSIPPI

A G Brown

James Phelan

MISSOURI

John B Clark

R L E Peyton

NORTH CAROLINA

George Davis

Wm T Dortch

SOUTH CAROLINA

Robert W Barnwell

James L Orr

TENNESSEE

Gustave A Henry

Landon C Haynes

TEXAS

Louis C Wingfall

W S Oldham

VIRGINIA

R M T Hunter

Wm Ballard Preston

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

ALABAMA

Dist.

1 T J Foster

2 W R Smith

3 J P Ralls

4 J L M Curry

5 F S Lyon

6 W P Chilton

7 D Clopton

8 J F Pugh

9 _ S Dorgan

ARKANSAS

1 A G Garland

2 Jas M Patterson

(incomplete)

FLORIDA

1 James B Dawkins

3 R P Hilton

GEORGIA

1 Julian Hartridge

2 Chas J Monnerlyn

3 Hines Holt

4 Augustus H Keenan

5 David W Lewis

6 W W Clark

7 Robert P Trippe

8 Lucius J Gartell

9 Hardy Strickland

10 Augustus R Wright

KENTUCKY

1 Alfred Boyd

2 John W Crockett

3 H E Read

4 George W Ewing

5 J S Chrisman

6 L T Burnett

7 H W Bruce

8 G B Hodge

9 E M Bruce

10 J W Moore

11 R J Breckinridge

12 J M. Elliot

LOUISIANA

1 Charles J Villiere

2 Charles M Conrad

3 Duncan F Kenner

4 Lucien J Dupree

5 John L Lewis

6 John Perkins, Jr.

MISSISSIPPI

1 J W Clapp

2 Reuben Davis

3 Israel Welch

4 H C Chambers

5 O R Singleton

6 John J McRae

MISSISSIPPI [sic MISSOURI]

1 W M Cook

2 T C Harris

3 Casper W Bell

4 Adam H Condon

5 L W Freeman

6 G G West

NORTH CAROLINA

1 W N H Smith

2 R W Bridges

3 O R Keenan

4 T D McDowell

5 A H Arrington

6 J R McLean

7 T S Ashe

8 Wm Landor

9 R S Gaither

10 A T Davidson

SOUTH CAROLINA

1 John McQueen

2 W Porcher Miles

3 L M Ayer

4 M L Bonham

5 James Farrow

6 W W Boyce

TENNESSEE

1 Joseph B Heiskel

2 W G Swan

3 W H Trobs

4 E F Gardenhire

5 Henry S Foote

7 Meredith P Gentry

8 Thomas Menees

9 J D C Atkins

10 John V Wright

11 D M. Currin

TEXAS

1 John A Wilcox

2 O B Herbert

3 P W Gray

4 F B Sexton

5 M P Graham

6 B H. Ebberson

VIRGINIA

1 M R H Garnett

2 John B Chambliss

3 John Tyler

4 Roger A Pryor

5 Thomas S Bocock

6 John Goode, Jr

7 Jas P Holcombe

8 D C DeJarnette

9 William Smith

10 Alexander R Bote

11 John B Baldwin

12 Woller R Staple

13 Walter Preston

14 Albert Jenkins

15 Robert Johnson

16 Chas W Russell

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, August 9, 1862, p 4

NOTE:  There are a few omissions and spelling errors.  This list appears as it was printed in the paper.

The Conscription Law

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED “AN ACT TO FURTHER PROVIDE FOR THE PUBLIC DEFENSE.”

In view of the exigencies of the country, and the absolute necessity of keeping in the service our gallant army, and of placing in the field a large additional force to meet the advancing columns of the enemy now invading our soil; therefore,

SECTION 1.  The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the President be, and is hereby authorized to call out and place in the military service of the Confederate States, for three years unless the war shall have sooner ended, all white men who are residents of the Confederate States between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five years at the time of the call or calls be made, who are not legally exempted from military service.  All of the persons aforesaid who are not now in the service of the Confederacy and whose term of service will expire before the end of the war, and shall be continued in the service for three years from the date of their original enlistment, unless the war shall have been sooner ended: Provided, however, That all such battalions and regiments, whose terms of original enlistments were for twelve months, shall have the right within forty days, on a day to be fixed by a commander of the brigade to reorganize said companies, battalions and regiments by electing their officers, which they had a right heretofore to elect, who shall be commissioned by the President: Provided further, that furloughs not exceeding sixty days, with transportation home and back, shall be granted to all those retained in the services by the provision of this act beyond the period of their original enlistment, and who have heretofore not received furloughs under the provisions of an act entitled, “An act providing for the granting of bounty and furloughs to privates and non-commissioned officers in the Provisional Army,” approved 11^th December, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, said furloughs to be granted at such times, and such numbers as the Secretary of War may deem most compatible with the public [interest] and Provided, further, That in lieu of a furlough, the [commutation] value in money of the transportation herein above granted, shall be paid to each private, musician or non-commissioned officer who may elect to receive it at such time as the furlough would otherwise be granted: Provided, further, That all persons under the age of eighteen years, or over the age of thirty-five years, who are now enrolled in the military service of the Confederate States, in the regiments, battalions, and companies hereafter to be organized, shall be required to remain in their respective companies, battalions and regiments for ninety days, unless their places can be supplied by other recruits not now in the service, who are between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five years, and all laws and parts of laws providing for the reenlistment of volunteers and the organization thereof into companies, squadrons, battalion or regiments, shall be and the same [are] hereby repealed.

[SEC. 2.]  Be it further enacted, That, such companies, squadrons [battalions] regiments organized or in process or organization by authority from the Secretary of War as may be within thirty days from passage of this act so far completed as to have the whole number of men requisite for organization actually enrolled, not embracing in said organization any person now in service shall be mustered into the service of the Confederate States as part of the land forces of the same, to be received in that arm of the service into which they are authorized to organize, and shall elect their company, battalion and regimental officers.

SEC. 3.  Be it further enacted, That for the enrollment of all persons comprehended within the provisions of this act, who are not already in service in the armies of the Confederate States, it shall be lawful for the President, with the consent of the Governors of the States, to employ State officers, and on failure to obtain such consent, he shall employ Confederate officers, charged with the duty of making such enrollments in accordance with the rules and regulations to be prescribed by law.

SEC. 4.  Be it further enacted, That persons enrolled under the provisions of the proceeding section shall be assigned by the Secretary of War to the different companies now in service until each company is filled to its maximum number, and the person so enrolled shall be assigned to companies from the States from which they respectively come.

SEC. 5.  Be it further enacted, That all seamen and ordinary seamen in the Confederate States, enrolled under the provisions of this act may on application of the Secretary of the Navy; be transferred from the land forces to the naval service.

SEC 6.  Be it further enacted, That in all cases where a State may not have in the army a number of regiments, battalions squadrons or companies, sufficient to absorb the number of person[s] subject to military service under this act, belonging to such State then the residue or excess [thereof] shall be kept as a reserve under such regulations as may be established by the Secretary of War, and that at stated periods of not greater than three months details, determined by lot, shall be made from said reserve, so that each company, as nearly as practicable, be kept full.  Provided, That the persons held in reserve may remain at home until called into service by the President.  Provided, also, That during their stay at home they shall not receive pay.  Provided, further, that the persons comprehended in this act shall not be subject to the rules and articles of war until mustered into the active service of Confederate States; except that said persons when enrolled and liable to duty, in case they shall willfully refuse to obey said call each of them shall be held to be a deserter and punished as such under said articles Provided further, That whenever, in the opinion of the President, the exigencies of the public service may require it, he shall be authorized to call into active service the entire reserve, or so much as may be necessary; not previously assigned to different companies in service under provision of section four of this act; said reserve shall be organized under such rules as the Secretary of War may adopt, Provided, The company, battalion and regimental officers shall be elected by the troops composing the same.  Provided, The troops raised in any one State shall not be combined in regimental, battalion, squadron or company organizations with troops raised in any other states.

SEC. 8.  Be it further enacted, That each man who may hereafter be mustered into the service, and who shall arm himself with a musket, with a musket [sic], shot-gun or rifle, accepted as an efficient weapon, shall be paid the value thereof, to be ascertained by the mustering officer, under such regulation as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, if he is willing to sell the same, and if he is not, then he shall be entitled to receive one dollar a month for the use of said received and approved musket, rifle, shotgun or carbine.

SEC 9.  Be it further enacted.  That all vacancies shall be filled by the president from the company, battalion squadron or regiment in which said vacancies shall occur, by promotion, according to seniority, except in cases of disability or other incompetency; Provided, however, That the President may, when in his opinion, it may be proper, fill such vacancy or vacancies by the promotion of any officer or private or privates, from  such company, battalion squadron or regiment who shall have been distinguished in the service by the exhibition of valor and skill, and that whenever a vacancy shall occur in the lowest grade of the commissioned officer of the company, said vacancy shall be filled by election.  Provided, That all appointments made by the President shall be by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.

SEC. 10.  Be it further enacted, That the provisions of the first section of this act relating to the election of officers, shall apply to those regiments battalions or squadrons which are composed of twelve months’ and war companies combined in the same organization, without regard to the manner in which the officer thereof were originally appointed.

SEC. 11.  Be it further enacted, That each company of infantry shall consist of one hundred and twenty-five rank and file; each company of field artillery company [sic] of one hundred and fifty rank and file; and each company of cavalry of eighty rank and file.

SEC. 13 [sic].  Be it further enacted, that all persons subject to enrollment, who are now in the service under the provisions of this act, shall be permitted previous to such enrollment to volunteer in companies new in the service.

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, August 9, 1862, p 4

Horrible Murder

From the Knoxville Register.

“This community was inexpressibly shocked to-day by intelligence of the murder of Gen. Wm. R. Casswell, by some unknown fiend, near his residence, some six miles east of this city.  The only particulars we have of the affair is that he was found about half a mile from his own home with his throat cut.  His servants report that they saw him struggling with some one in the road, but before they could reach him life was extinct and the murderer fled.  Immediately upon receipt of the intelligence here a party of our citizens mounted horses and started out to scour the country in search of the assassin.

The General was in the city yesterday and interchanged greetings with numerous friends.

Gen. C. was about 51 or 52 years of age.  He was one of the most universally esteemed and respected of our citizens.  Perhaps no man who occupied as prominent a position as a public man ever enjoyed more personal popularity.  Affable in his demeanor to everyone, kind and generous and upright and just in all his transactions.  It is remarkable that he should have an enemy so desperate a character as his slayer must have been.  The affair is as inexplicable as horrible.

Gen. Caswell was a distinguished soldier, having served through the Mexican campaign.  He was one of the earliest in this city to embrace the cause of the South at the breaking out of the war.  He was appointed by Gov. Harris a Brigadier in the State service, and commanded the forces rendez-voused here until they were turned over to the Confederate Government when he returned to private life.

P. S.  Passengers by the train last night from above say the report at McMillans station was that Gen. Caswell had been assassinated by a party of men, who fired upon him from the woods, and after he had fallen from his horse, rushed upon him and mangled him with their knives.  A company of cavalry has been sent out to search for the perpetrators.

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, August 9, 1862, p. 3

Trading With The Yankees

The citizens of St. Tammany Parish, La., having petitioned Gen. Ruggles, commanding as Provost Marshal General in that State, to be allowed to trade with the city of New Orleans, in provision, &c.  Gen. R. has returned the following able and patriotic answers, refusing the request:

FIRST DISTRICT PROVOST MARSHAL GENERAL’S OFFICE,

TANGIPAHOA, July 11, 1862

To Messrs. H. B. Hand, Thomas Gillespie and other citizens of the Parish of St. Tammany:

GENTLEMEN – Your petition asking permission to open trade with the enemies of your country, who occupy New Orleans and Baton Rouge, the commercial and political capitals of your State, has been received by Gen. Ruggles, and I am directed by him to reply.

In doing so I beg leave to call your attention to General Order No. 2, from these headquarters, and to paragraph 1^st of General Order No. 9, from the Department Headquarters, prohibiting all intercourse and traffic with the enemy, or persons within in its lines, and announcing the penalty of death against those who engage in it.  Copies of these are herewith enclosed for your information.

These orders have been called for by the stern necessities of the times, and it is believed, have met with the most universal approval of the citizens of the country.  For is there anything novel in the regulation they prescribe, or the penalties they announce.  They but declare and clothe with penal sanctions doctrines long established and universally recognized.

Even in your communication, while asking to be exempt from their provisions, you recognize their justice, for you say: “We are aware that in time of war there should be no trade between beligerants.”  But you urge that yours is an exceptional case, and that to enforce this rule would subject you to great hardships.

For now more than twelve months your country has been engaged in a gigantic struggle for existence.  Her noble people have poured out their treasures as water, and like the ancient patriarchs, have not even withheld their children from the sacrifice, but have cheerfully sent them forth to encounter the toils of the march, the diseases of the camp and perils of the battlefield.  Hundreds of them have fallen by the wayside – thousands have lingered and died in the hospitals, many of them for want of medicines which could not be obtained; and thousands more have perished on the field of battle.  But their thin and wasted ranks have been filled by others eagerly pressing forward to take the place of the fallen, and to-day your flag is proudly born in the face of and behind the foe by men half-clothed, half-fed, and who for months have not known even the rude comforts of a soldier’s tent.  Nor has the army been alone in this respect; every class of society, as to a greater or less extent, been subjected to hardships and privations, which to their lasting honor be it said, have been firmly and even cheerfully borne.  And if, [gentlemen[, the time has come, when you are called upon to take your portion of the wide-spread suffering, the General commanding hopes and believes that you will not be found wanting in courage and fortitude to bear it like men and patriots.

You say that if not permitted to dispose of your bricks, lumber, etc., they will be “mere rubbish on your hands.”  You cannot be ignorant, gentlemen, that in this you but share the common fate of your fellow-citizens.  More than two hundred millions of dollars’ worth of produce is now held by the patriotic planters of the Confederate States, and so far from seeking to sell or barter this, they stand ready to destroy, and have in many instances voluntarily applied the torch, and with self-sacrificing devotion worthy of men who aspire to be free, calmly see it reduced to ashes, rather [than] sell even at the most exorbitant rates to the enemies of their country.  And if you will but turn your eyes to a neighboring parish, you may there see the very materials which you fear will become “rubbish” on your hands – though but recently formed into comfortable dwellings, and sheltering helpless women and children – reduced to heaps of “rubbish” and ashes, while their inmates have been driven to the woods, and deprived of all means of subsistence.  And this has been done by the very men with whom you would now open commercial intercourse, to whose avarice you would minister and whose wants you would supply.

The General commanding directs me in conclusion to say that regarding these prohibitions of traffic with the enemy, as essential to the successful defense of the country, he is determined rigidly to enforce them; and that any one who may be detected in attempting to evade or violate them will be promptly brought to condign punishment.

Very respectfully,

JAMES O. FUQUA,

District Provost Marshal Gen’l.

(Official.)

L. D. SANDIDGE, C.S.A., A.A.A.A. and Inspector General

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, August 9, 1862, p. 3

Arrest Of Vallandingham

The New York Tribune of the 28^th ult., has a special dispatch from Columbus, Ohio, stating that Rev. D. Brooks, of St. Louis, and Rev. D. Hoyt, of Louisville, were arrested on Friday night at the house of a notorious rebel, Judge Clark, of Ohio.  It is reported that important papers were found on them, implicating Hon. C. G. Vallandingham, who will be taken to Cincinnati

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, August 9, 1862, p. 3

The Richmond Examiner urges . . .

. . . that the cartel for the exchange of prisoners delivers a surplus of 8,000 Yankee prisoners and leave citizens seized at will by the Yankees, to rot in dungeons.

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, August 9, 1862, p. 3

The Yankee Supreme Court

The Yankee Congress has passed a bill recasting the judicial districts which are presided over by different justices of the Supreme Court.  Among other districts, the following are coolly named: Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney; South Carolina Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Mississippi, Justice James M. Wayne; Louisiana, Texas, Arkansaw [sic], Kentucky and Tennessee, Justice John Catron.

Our old friend, - Judge W., is likely to have a leisure time of it. – Savannah Republican.

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, August 9, 1862, p 4

Change Of Prison

The Hundred and Fifty odd Yankee officers, including generals, majors, colonels, lieutenants, and captains, were yesterday removed from their quarters on eighteenth street, and more closely confined in the noted Libby prison, corner of Twentieth and Cary streets, which is now nearly emptied of the Yankee wounded.  The officers left their rather comfortable quarters reluctantly, but the misconduct of some of them rendered the change necessary and imperative.  Their personal effects – cots, lounges and baggage – were all removed with them, and carts were running all day between the two places.  It is to be hoped if their comfort is not enhanced here, their security will be. – Richmond Examiner.

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, August 9, 1862, p. 3

Deserters From the Enemy

The Rockingham Register says that desertion from the Yankee army since its attempted occupation of the Valley of Virginia have been quite numerous.  Those seen by the editor concurred in stating that if others of their companions in arms knew that they would be received kindly in the Confederate lines that whole companies and regiments would desert.  They represent the Federal service as too intolerable to be borne, especially as it obliges many who really love the South and have friends and kinsmen in the Southern Confederacy to lift their hands against their best friends.

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, August 9, 1862, p. 3

The Confederate Arsenal and Armory at . . .

. . . Fayetteville, N. C., may now be said to be in full blast; at least there is nothing pertaining to the Minnie rifle and sabre bayonet that cannot be manufactured there.  A good deal of the machinery and many of the tools are new, and equal to any in the world.  A few days since a large lot of rifles manufactured at the Armory, was sent to the Chief of Ordinance, Richmond, Va.

Besides making new ones and altering old arms, the force at the Armory had been engaged lately in restoring and putting in order several thousand Enfield and Belgian rifles, swords, sabres and bayonets, and also several boxes of pistols received from the Modern Greece, considerably damaged.  They will soon be restored to their original appearance and condition by the industry and skill of the mechanics engaged.

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, August 9, 1862, p. 3

On the night of the 3d day of July . . .

. . . the secessionists of Middletown, Delaware, hoisted a Confederate flag on a pole which had been erected by the Unionists, and that early on the morning of the 4^th the “Stars and Bars” were supported by forty rounds  by the supports of the Abolition Government.  When they discovered their mistake they were so enraged that they immediately hauled down the flag and tore it into shreds, and vigorously applied themselves to washing the pole with soap and water to cleanse it of the polluting effects of the Confederate banner.

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, August 9, 1862, p. 3

Telegraphic

From Richmond.

Richmond, Aug. 7.

One hundred and ten prisoners from Pope’s army, taken by Stuart’s cavalry, near Gordonville, arrived to-night by special train, no officers among them.  No particulars of the capture have been received.

Richmond. Aug. 7.

Gen. Stuart left Hanover Court House on Monday with Lee’s Cavalry, and proceeded within eight miles of Fredericksburg, and learning that two brigades of the enemy had gone in the direction of Hanover Junction, he went in pursuit, and overtook their rear guard at Massapona Shops.  A skirmish took place in which Stuart took sixty (60) prisoners.  The enemy was reinforced, and having a strong position on rising ground, Stuart fell back, and the enemy did not pursue.  In the meantime a detachment sent for the purpose captured a train of twelve wagons and fifty soldiers on the Fredericksburg road, Stuart returned to Hanover Court House last night.

From Mobile.

MOBILE, Aug. 8. – A schooner from Havana ran the blockade yesterday morning.  Her cargo is powder, lead, caps, salt, coffee, cavalry sabers and soap.

From The North Via Mobile.

MOBILE, Aug. 8. – A special dispatch to the Tribune says persons from Memphis say that twenty transports arrived there on Tuesday from below, and forty from above.  It is believed that the city is to be evacuated and most of the troops there sent to other points, leaving a mere garrison behind.

The Chicago Times says not three hundred troops have been raised in that city yet.

The Democratic convention met at Indianapolis on the 30^th, 50,000 in attendance.  It is the largest ever held in the States.  Gov. Hendricks presided; Wickliff, of Ky.; Richardson, Voorhies, Carlisle and others were present.  Resolutions were passed denouncing the prosecution of the war – opposing subjugation or coercion – denouncing emancipation in every form, and calling for an entire change in the administration.  Wickliff said he was for the Union if the South and slavery were not interfered with, but if war was waged to free slaves not another drop of blood should be spilled.

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, August 9, 1862, p. 3

Emptying The Hospitals

The number inmates in the several hospitals in Richmond has decreased so of late that it has been deemed more economical to remove the few patients to other hospitals and close them while they undergo renovation for the reception of victims of future battles.  None of the hospitals now contain half the number of wounded that did a week after the late battles.

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, August 9, 1862, p. 2

The Richmond Enquirer . . .

after alluding to the steps taken by the President relative to the orders issued by Pope and Steinne [it] says:

We take occasion to say that the President is also demanding redress for the outrages of the enemy in other quarters. * * *

We have authority for saying that communications were sent to the Lincoln Government some week since, respecting the execution of Mumford, at New Orleans, and other outrages committed by the Yankee Generals, but no reply has yet been received.  Another demand has recently been made in regard to them and the additional atrocities perpetrated by Lincoln officers in different parts of the Confederate States.  A short time has been given to the Federal authorities within which to reply before orders will be issued for the execution of the measures necessary for the repression of these outrages also.

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, August 9, 1862, p. 2

From McClellan’s Army

The correspondent of the New York Express furnishes that paper with a long letter from Harrison’s Landing, from which we make a few selections:

WHAT HE SAYS ABOUT CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS.

The men were exceedingly intelligent in their looks and very pleasant in their conversation.  When a large crowd left the boat to gather “relics” upon the shore, they managed to get entangled with the secesh, and for some minutes quite a scene was in progress.  Both sides were good humored, asked and answered questions, and discussed the questions of secession.  The rebels used old logic, while our people fell back on past glory, the flag, etc., the whole discussion resulting in an agreement at to disagree, of course.  The Federal guards were obliged to interfere, and sent the boat’s party back, much to the regret of not a few, who seemed perfectly fascinated at the sight of a real, live gray-backed rebel.

NO UNION SENTIMENT IN REBEL ARMY.

To sum this whole visit up, it seems perfectly plain that it is useless to talk of Union sentiment in the Rebel army.  It has no existence, in my judgment, at all.  The advice of an officer to a listening throng is applicable here, and I give it here for the consideration of your readers:  “There is one way in which you can defeat us.  Put every man you have in the field, meet us at every point, fight until there is not a Southern regiment or soldier left, and the thing is accomplished.  Then you can have the country and welcome.  Make your people understand this matter, and open their eyes to the solemn truth, that if they insist on a restoration of the Union, it can only be gained by a war which will leave the south without a living man, and make the North desolate beyond recovery.”

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, August 9, 1862, p. 2

No less than . . .

. . . 80,000 pounds of molten lead were among the spoils of our lat victories near Richmond.

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, August 9, 1862, p. 2

Mobile, Ala., has subscribed . . .

. . . through her citizens and Council, $17,000 for the benefit of the sick and wounded soldiers.

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, August 9, 1862, p. 2