Posted on 02/10/2024 6:29:42 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
BALTIMORE, Tuesday, Feb. 9.
A special dispatch from Fortress Monroe to the Baltimore American, from Mr. C.C. FULTON, who is at City Point, says:
The rebel flag of truce steamer Shultz, with Commissioner OULD and Capt. HATCH, the truce officer, arrived on Sunday at City Point.
Two citizen prisoners, brought down by the Shultz were sent on board the New-York. They were both Marylanders; one of them, Mr. A. BRENGLE, Of Frederick, Md., was captured at Middletown on the 20th of June last, whilst acting as volunteer assistant to the Sanitary Commission, and the other, GEORGE W. LANGLEY, of Baltimore County, was captured whilst driving a wagon of the Sanitary Commission, near Chancellorsville, on the 27th of November. They were released through the intercession of the Rev. Mr. PETRIKEN.
They brought exciting news from Richmond, which they represent was in a state of the most feverish excitement from midnight on Saturday up to the time they left, on Sunday afternoon.
At midnight on Saturday the bells of the city were rung, and men were rushing through the streets crying "To arms! to arms! the Yankees are coming! the Yankees are coming!"
During the remainder of the night there was an intense commotion everywhere visible. The Home Guard was called out, and the tramp of armed men could be heard in all directions.
Cannon were hauled through the streets; women and children were hurrying to and fro, and there were all the evidences of such a panic as has seldom been witnessed in Richmond.
On Sunday there was no abatement in the excitement. The Guards were all marched out of the city to defences, and the armed citizens were placed on guard over the prisoners. Horsemen were dashing to and fro and the excitement among the prisoners
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Gen. Butler’s Department: Details of the Late Advance on Richmond – 2
The Army of the Potomac: The Late Movement Across the Rapidan – 2-3
The War in North Carolina: Arrival of Rebel Deserters at Newbern – 3
Rebel Raid into Kansas – 3
Very Late from the South: Failure of the Rebel Campaign in North Carolina – 3-4
The War in Tennessee: Guerrillas Dispersed – 4
From Porto Rico – 4
The Reception of Gen. Meade in Philadelphia – 4
News from Washington: Special Dispatches to the N.Y. Times – 4-5
Editorial: Are Negro Soldiers Southern “Deserters?” – 5-6
The Farce of Rebel “Re-Enlistment” – 6
The Quota of New-York Under the Draft – 6
Richmond Menaced and Missed – 6
Employment for Rebel Prisoners and Possible Retaliation – 6
The Lights Going Out – 6
Fascinating article titled Are Negro Slaves “Southern” deserters?
The author discusses how the South was deemed a belligerent rather than rebels, which inferred on them belligerent rights. These rights included punishing deserters the way they saw fit.
The reason they didn’t deem the South rebels or traitors is because then they would hang any captured seaman as a pirate and soldier as a traitor. By doing this, the South would react in kind and it would be a complete bloodbath that would “degrade our humanity”.
The author’s main points then is that the designation of belligerent was for convenience but should not be extended to allow the South to hang captured Northern black soldiers who were once slaves.
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