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The Daily Dispatch: January 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the Potomac. (search)
From the Potomac. [special Correspondence of the Dispatch.] "Independent Scout Brusque," near Centreville. January 20th, 1862. The weather, oh the weather! Cold stormy weather, chilly winds morning through leafless tress, sweeping in boreal blasts along barren mountain and meadow; fitful showers drizzling destruction on the fair snow; thick fog stealthily looming up from the semi thawing earth; gurgling troubled streams swelling o'er dessicate fields; sad and timid stars lured by "the momentary blue sky;" struggling frowning clouds giving dismal glimpses of the pale sky moon; dying campfires emitting spasmodic sparks and a great gloomy silence prevailing all around are the chief features that marked my journey from our out-posts line to this my resting place this night. Yet, let the sound "to arms!" be given and this silence will be ruthlessly broken by shouts of joy; the cold and stormy weather braved, by our patriot army, and like the magic movement of the Roderick