Newspapers in the Confederate capital of Richmond typically maintain as positive a view of the war as they can muster. Today’s Richmond Daily Dispatch counters “Yankee accounts of the misfortunes” of the Confederate’s Army of the Tennessee. Having “suffered only an inconsiderable loss in numbers,” the army is now in South Carolina under the command…
In the middle of the bitter winter cold, Confederate General Robert E. Lee, embedded in the trenches near Petersburg, writes to the Confederate Secretary of War in the nearby Southern capital of Richmond. The subject is army desertion. “I have endeavored to ascertain the causes [of the] alarming frequency of desertions,” the general writes. Lee…
Today’s Richmond Daily Dispatch reports of early movements of Sherman‘s army out of Savannah. “One corps of Sherman’s army has been sent to Hilton Head in transports.–Large bodies of troops have moved from Savannah into Carolina within the past few days. Our informant thinks a movement on Branchville is intended; and, if successful, from thence…