Volume 14 , Issue 51

From Grant's Army - 1865

In the same newspaper out of Richmond, Virginia, dated 13 January 1865, page 2 of the Daily Dispatch, we found this headline that mentions a letter from Grant's Army, dated the 7th January 1865:

"There is nothing new to report on the lines in front of Petersburg. Some shelling took place near the Appomatox yesterday morning, but without any important result.

"Four deserters were executed yesterday. One was hung and three were shot. The first was W. Thornton, of the One Hundred and Seventy-ninth New York, for having deserted to the enemy. The others were: John Benson, Fifth New Hampshire; peter M. Cox, Fourth New Jersey; and Michael Wood, One Hundred and Eighty-fourth Pennsylvania.

"Some fifteen deserters front he enemy came in this morning, four of them being cavalrymen, with their horses and equipments. A party of poor whites, numbering about 25, said to be lately inmates of a poor-house in Prince George county, came into the lines yesterday, and were sent North today. They were forced to leave on account of the scarcity of food in the district where they had lived, and looked as though they had suffered for the bare necessities of life for some time."   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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