The President informs me that he did not go to Falmouth, but
merely to Fort Lyon near Alexandria.
SOURCE: Gideon Welles, Diary of Gideon Welles,
Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson, Vol. 1: 1861 – March 30,
1864, p. 327
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Friday, May 5, 2017
Thursday, May 4, 2017
Diary of Gideon Welles: Wednesday, June 10, 1863
Rumors of a cavalry fight in Culpeper. The President and
Stanton have gone to Falmouth. Nothing definite from Vicksburg. Am not
favorably impressed with what I hear of the fight on the Rappahannock.
The accounts of piratical depredations disturb me. My views,
instructions, and arrangements to capture the Alabama, which would have
prevented these depredations, have failed through the misconduct of Wilkes. The
Rebel cruisers are now beginning to arm their prizes and find adventurers to
man them. Our neutral friends will be likely to find the police of the
seas in a bad way.
SOURCE: Gideon Welles, Diary of Gideon Welles,
Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson, Vol. 1: 1861 – March 30,
1864, p. 326-7
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Specials to the New York Papers
(Times Correspondent.)
WASHINGTON, April 28. – The President has received a special dispatch to-night from a source altogether different from that through which the information came yesterday of the fall of New Orleans, confirming the same.
The news from the Department of the Rappahannock is important. Our forces have not yet occupied Fredericksburgh but stay at Falmouth, on the opposite side of the river.
Information recently received renders it pretty certain that there is a large rebel force in the neighborhood ready to dispute Gen. McDowell’s progress toward Richmond. Report places this force under the command of Gen. G. A. Smith.
(World’s Special.)
The confirmatory news of the occupation of New Orleans by the Union forces, has just been received. It removes very materially, the doubts which have existed in the minds of some as to the entire reliability of the rebel telegrams.
There is reason to believe there has been a discussion at the Treasury Department, respecting the policy of raising the blockade of Southern ports, as they come into possession of the Union forces. We are assured by a gentleman who is in constant communication with the Government, that there is little doubt that the blockade of New Orleans will be raised immediately on the Union authority being reinstated there.
(Herald’s Special.)
Rumors are in circulation that the rebels are preparing to evacuate Yorktown.
WASHINGTON, April 29 – Specials state the there is a rumor that the Government is in possession of information which may possibly lead to a cessation of hostilities. A mediation on compromise is said to form the basis of the rumor. Doubtful.
It rumored that Gen’l Cadwallader is to take the place of Gen’l Smith at the west.
Mr. Sedgwick, of New York is appointed on the Special Committee of Confiscation. It is stated that a majority of the committee favor a strong bill for the confiscation of rebel property.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 4
WASHINGTON, April 28. – The President has received a special dispatch to-night from a source altogether different from that through which the information came yesterday of the fall of New Orleans, confirming the same.
The news from the Department of the Rappahannock is important. Our forces have not yet occupied Fredericksburgh but stay at Falmouth, on the opposite side of the river.
Information recently received renders it pretty certain that there is a large rebel force in the neighborhood ready to dispute Gen. McDowell’s progress toward Richmond. Report places this force under the command of Gen. G. A. Smith.
(World’s Special.)
The confirmatory news of the occupation of New Orleans by the Union forces, has just been received. It removes very materially, the doubts which have existed in the minds of some as to the entire reliability of the rebel telegrams.
There is reason to believe there has been a discussion at the Treasury Department, respecting the policy of raising the blockade of Southern ports, as they come into possession of the Union forces. We are assured by a gentleman who is in constant communication with the Government, that there is little doubt that the blockade of New Orleans will be raised immediately on the Union authority being reinstated there.
(Herald’s Special.)
Rumors are in circulation that the rebels are preparing to evacuate Yorktown.
WASHINGTON, April 29 – Specials state the there is a rumor that the Government is in possession of information which may possibly lead to a cessation of hostilities. A mediation on compromise is said to form the basis of the rumor. Doubtful.
It rumored that Gen’l Cadwallader is to take the place of Gen’l Smith at the west.
Mr. Sedgwick, of New York is appointed on the Special Committee of Confiscation. It is stated that a majority of the committee favor a strong bill for the confiscation of rebel property.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 4
Saturday, June 26, 2010
“Shiloh,” “Falmouth.”
HARRISBURGH, PA., April 30. – Gov. Curtain has ordered that Shiloh shall be inscribed on the banner of the 77th Pennsylvania regiment and Falmouth, Va., on that of the 1st Pennsylvania Cavalry, in acknowledgement of their gallantry at the battles of those places.
The Governor has received the most gratifying intelligence from Yorktown, in relation to the perfect arrangements for the early and prompt transportation of the killed and Wounded Pennsylvania soldiers to points within the state.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 3
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