NEWS OF 150 YEARS AGO
March-April 1865
From The Missouri Democrat, Monday, April 10, 1865.
HALLELUJAH!
KEEP JUBILEE!
Fling Out Your Flags!
Fire all your Guns!
ILLUMINATE!
UNION AND PEACE!
CAPITULATION OF LEE!
HIS ARMY SURRENDERED!
Official from Sec’y Stanton.
PARTICULARS PROMISED.
FROM NEW YORK.
Arrival From City Point.
THE PEACE TALK IN RICHMOND.
FROM THE MOBILE FLEET.
Thanksgiving for Victory.
GOV. BROUGH’S PROCLAMATION.
From Mobile Bay.
The Attack on Fort Spanish.
Four Days of Hard Fighting.
A Temporary Caisation. [sic]
Details of Casualties.
The Fort and City Doomed.
Narrow Escape of Admiral Thatcher.
NEWS VIA CAIRO
FROM WASHINGTON.
OFFICIAL WAR DEPARTMENT,
WASHINGTON, April 9, 1865.
Major General Dix:
The official report of the surrender of General Lee and his army to General Grant, on the terms proposed by General Grant, will be given as soon as possible.
E. M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
Having transmitted the above appetize for momentous news, the telegraph last night failed to send more for the Associated Press. The promised details were, however, received at the Military Telegraph office, addressed to General Pope, but at so late an hour that the message was not delivered last night to the General. There is, however, no doubt of the authenticity of the dispatch above given, and none of the surrender of General Lee and his whole remaining army to Lieutenant-General Grant. The telegraph line worked badly, having broken down east of Cincinnati, and leaves us with the most meager dispatches from the East.—ED
FROM NEW YORK.
FORT SUMTER.—RHETT & CO., FROM CITY POINT.—THE RAILROAD TO RICHMOND.—THE PRESIDENT’S PEACE INTERVIEWS.—FROM THE NAVY AT MOBILE.
NEW YORK, April 9.—The steamship Mattamoras arrived this morning from City Point, with 900 rebel prisoners, part of those captured at Bentonville, Goldsboro, and Columbia. Among the prisoners is Col. Rhett, of Ft. Sumter notoriety.
The Petersburg correspondent of the Times contradicts the statement that the railroad to Richmond is nearly repaired. Not a workman has been put upon it.
The Herald’s Richmond correspondent says Mr. Lincoln was on the 4th informed by Generals Weitzel and Shepley, that prominent rebels desired an interview with him. He replied that he was willing to grant interviews, but in the presence of a friend. After the reception of the officers of the army and navy, it was announced to the President that Judge Campbell, the Assistant Secretary of War, and Mr. Meyers of the late rebel Congress, were awaiting an audience with the President in another room.
The President, accompanied by General Weitzel, immediately retur[n]ed to the room and held a conference which lasted but a short time and was adjourned to the flagship Malvern. The result of these conferences cannot be made known, but auspicious results are known to be about to occur from them.
A naval letter to the Herald, from Mobile, states that the monitor Milwaukee was blown up by a torpedo on the 28th, and the Osage on the 29th; both while operating with the other monitors against the Spanish Fort. One of the turrets of the Milwaukee is still out of water and in working order, and is used. The Osage is submerged too deep to be used. They will probably be raised. The rebels are busy sending down torpedoes and fire-rafts.
