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The Daily Dispatch: April 29, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
rom the volleys of Confederate invincible. I was glad to see them on the scene of their triumphs welcomed and welcoming their fellow-citizens.--It is right that the home of Washington should give cordial greeting to honored citizens from the home of Jefferson Davis. The Yankees, standing on the consecrated home of Washington's boyhood, fired on Southern soldiers at the grave of his mother. MaLaws's brave division slow a thousand of the miscreants, and partly expiated the offence by offering them a sacrifice at her tomb. And while Mississippians, and other gallant representatives of all the States, are so nobly fighting the battles of the Confederacy upon the sacred and outraged soil of Virginia's most favored section' Fredericksburg, having sent nearly all her sons to the defence of North Carolina, has also given three of her cherished children--Major-General Maury, Major-General Stevenson, and Brigadier-General Barton--to defend at Vicksburg the citadel and heart of Mississippi.