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The Daily Dispatch: November 7, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
thousand handsome things said of his generalship by the newspaper correspondents. Last Thursday week, when his troops were beaten on the Darbytown, the Williamsburg and Nine Mileroads, he was at Dr. Johnson's house, on the Darbytown road, three miles away from any of the fights, yet the newspaper men all agreed that "General Butler's operations on the north side were an entire success." But we must admit there is an other view which may be taken of Butler's absence, His "success" on the 27th ultimo may have been discovered by Lincoln to be of such a questionable kind that he wants no more of them. Burnside made the fight of the mine of Petersburg last summer. The result of that famous affair was not satisfactory to Mr. Lincoln, and Burnside was quietly withdrawn from the Army of the Potomac. There is a possibility that Butler has met with similar treatment. Certainly he failed worse in his undertaking than Burnside in his. The latter blew up some of our men and took some prisone
The Daily Dispatch: November 7, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ifying immensely in the destruction of the Albemarle at Plymouth. Lieutenant Cushing, the "hero" of the affair, has arrived in Washington, and is the lion of the day. Secretary Welles is to recommend to Congress to vote him a resolution of thanks, and he is promoted to Lieutenant Commander. The affair has released from duty in Albemarle sound eleven Yankee steamers which can now be used elsewhere. The following is Lieutenant Cushing's official report of the matter: On the night of the 27th, having prepared my steam launch, I proceeded up towards Plymouth with thirteen officers and men, partly volunteers from the squadron. The distance from the mouth of the river to the ram was about eight miles, the stream averaging in width some two hundred yards, and lined with the enemy's pickets. A mile below the town was the wreck of the Southfield, surrounded by some schooners, and it was understood a gun was mounted there to command the bend. I therefore took one of the Shamrock's cut