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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC08838 |
| From Archive Folder | Collection of miscellaneous Civil War-era newspapers |
| Title | Daily dispatch. [Vol. 27, no. 136 (December 7, 1864)] |
| Date | 7 December 1864 |
| Author | J.A. Cowardin (fl. 1864) |
| Document Type | Newspapers and Magazines |
| Content Description | 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 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 man. There was no object that he could possibly gain at all commensurate with the advantages he was certain to lose." Badly damaged -- edges frayed and bottom has a dark stain that might have come from smoke or from burning. |
| Subjects | Truce African American Troops African American History Union General Union Forces Civil War Military History Confederate States of America Government and Civics Sherman's March to the Sea Wartime Pillaging and Destruction |
| People | Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891) |
| Place written | Richmond, Virginia |
| Theme | The American Civil War |
| Sub-collection | American Civil War Newspapers and Magazines |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |
| Civil War: Theater of War | Main Eastern Theater Main Western Theater |