DECEMBER 22, 1864:
The Richmond
Daily Dispatch (down to a single sheet, front and back) reports the war
news as it has it:
Nothing
of interest has occurred on the lines below Richmond. At Petersburg the enemy
keep up their now daily bombardment of our lines.
Information
was received here on yesterday that a column of Sheridan's forces, estimated at
eight thousand men, had crossed the Blue Ridge . . . The telegraph wire between
Gordonsville and Trevillian's [ ] was cut in several places yesterday morning .
. .
We
have no further news of Stoneman's operations in Southwestern Virginia. There
has been no confirmation of the report that Breckinridge had beaten the raiders
[ ] From the nature of the case, it is difficult to get any authentic
information from points beyond Dublin station . . .
An
official dispatch from Wilmington, received Tuesday night, announced that
thirty of the sixty-five Yankee war vessels that recently sailed from Hampton
Roads had arrived off that place. No- thing was heard from Wilmington on
yesterday. It is to be hoped the gale which sprung up last night swept the
North Carolina coast with greater violence than it evinced here.
From
Savannah, we have nothing . . .
We are still without advices from General Hood, except through the Northern papers. [ ] If half they tell be true, Hood is in a bad fix, indeed.
We are still without advices from General Hood, except through the Northern papers. [ ] If half they tell be true, Hood is in a bad fix, indeed.
