Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-02
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War News Fifty Years Ago
From the Richmond Dispatch, Dee>

Tho usual report IS that all Is quiet on the
front.the tetersburg front and down the
river front; but there strong indications of
an approaching struggle on the right OF Peters
burg. the old scene OF General Grants evolutions
The Northern papers received here within tho
last two days CONFIRM the reports we have
already published that Butler and his staff ana
some other Yankee officials were tho Grey
hound when 1t took fire and burned in James
River. But all of them made their escape in
due time, which goes to prove that there is
truth in the old adage that the devil takes good
care of his own.
The Northern newspapers. such OF them as
have been allowed through the lines. tell of a
wondcrful gun that Yankee ingenuity has re-
Gently brought to tho surface-a gun that Will
throw shells into Richmond and burn us all
1t s Claimed that this very destructive gun vii,
De gotten In position on or about the first day
throw It's shot six miles. Darbytown is tho
nearest point the Yanks to Richmond, and
that is little seven miles We are not
at all frightened about this new gun
When tho negro pockets were thrown to the
front down the river three days ago. there was
men of Hunters brigade. and they asked the
permission OF the general commanding to go
right In and Wipe the negroes off tho face of
tho earth The permission given and tho
work was going rapidly tho Federals
sailed ,aal,a for truce The upshot was the negro
pickets were called off and whites put in their
place. Since then there has been more quiet
on picket lines,
Tho news from the Army of tho Tennessee
Is to the effect that Hoods men nre still ad-
vancing and that Thomas has fallen back TO
franklin, In Tennessee. ito await reinforce
ments."
force of Confederate cavalry has appeared
| on the Baltimore and Ohio Railway at New
creek and Piedmont and succeeded In inter-
ruptinE communication that line of railway
Il very important line of communication for the
Federals operating in Western Virginia
small engagement between the cavalry
FORCES of the Confederacy and the United states
! took place at Aoorefield. Western Virginia a
Few days ago. Just what Confederate force.
were engaged doth not appear, but the suppo-
sition is that Rossers men there. Anyhow
the >Confedcrntes captured many horses ana n
lot of valuable stores.
According to the unreliable Northern papers.
icneral Mcclellan has been appointed TO tho
important position OF engineer In chief OF tho
Morris and Essex IN. J.) Railway Mt a salary
or 100000 per year with certain perouIsftes
rms pays better than being President of tho
United States, the position to which McCleIlan
aspfrcd, but did not get there
The Northern papers tell us that a new Fed
erai corps Is heing organized. It la to have
zo,VOo men, and General Hancock ls to be thc
soinE.anoer This division of the Yankee army
80 the Yankee papers tell us, is to be known as
| tho First Army Corps : -
Washington dispatch in the New Yorl,
Herald says: The rebel ex-gcneral Roger
rrYor who was member OF Congress from
I NTsinia IN 1850, now private soldier in tho
confederate army, was captured on Friday 1,s
by the Firth Corps pickets. Of the Army Of tho
fotorac, while attempting, to exchange papers
win our -pickets, as a rctaliatory act for tho
recent capture or Captain Burbrdgc by the
rebel pickets under similar circumstances Con
erai Pryor says that General Lee had issued an
Greer 1or the return OF Captain Burbridge on
saturday and Pryor will probably be returned
as soon rs Burbridge is sent back Since IN.
capture Burbridgc has been dismissed trnn,
inc army for disobcying the order forbddinu
'hc exchange of papers the holding OF inter-
course with the enemy under any pretext what
ever. Pryor has been brought to Washington
ana Is now In the old Capitol prison"