December 7, 1864

Cowardin, J.A., fl. 1864

Newspaper

Title: Daily dispatch. [Vol. 27, no. 136 (December 7, 1864)]

Also known as the "The Richmond Dispatch." Says not much has changed on the front lines of Lee and Grant's armies and that "the tacit truce heretofore existing between the pickets has not been broken by the presence of Butler's's negroes." Update on the Confederate Congress and the South Carolina legislature. Short item from Georgia on "horrors of Sherman's march." Several advertisements for runaways. Editorial against Sherman's march says "we do not hesitate to say that the expedition of Sherman into Georgia is one of the most ridiculous conceptions that ever entered into the mind of…

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