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The Daily Dispatch: December 30, 1861., [Electronic resource], A duel. (search)
Yankee account of the Woodsonville fight — the usual Federal Victory.(?) The following is the Yankee report from the Woodsonville fight. For huge lying it puts far in the background all previous efforts of the Yankees in that line. The official report of Gen. Hardee, which has already been published in the Dispatch, shows our loss to have been only four killed and nine wounded: Louisville,Dec. 18.--The recent Munfordsville, Ky., engagement, considering the disproportion of numbers, proves the most brilliant Federal victory yet achieved. Four companies of 350 men of Col. Willich's regiment, led by Lieut. Col. Von Webber, drove back over 3,000 rebel cavalry, infantry, and artillery. They were first attacked by a regiment of Texas Rangers, whom they repulsed, when they were drawn into ambush and fired at on all sides by the rebel infantry.--The Federals returned the fire vigorously and stood their ground until the rebels fell back, leaving all their dead and most of their
The Daily Dispatch: December 30, 1861., [Electronic resource], A duel. (search)
The Washington correspondent (Dec. 18) of the New York Herald professes that the Federal President and his Premier are not at all troubled at the state of their relations with England, and adds: "The President is as full of mirth to-night as ever, and the Secretary of State puffs his Havens with the same gay and festive air as when he toured through the West." If this be true, what a brace of marble hearted ruffians they must be, even conceding that their cause is righteous and ours the reversal. A President and Premier who, with one half "the nation" at war with the other; the blood of the "loyal" citizens flowing even mere freely than that of the "rebel;" destitution pervading the manufacturing districts, and starvation impending; workshops and stores shut up; a general stagnation of commerce and the shadows of universal bankruptcy, throwing an ominous pall over the land; the walls of widows and orphans rising to heaven; a national debt of six hundred millions of