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The Daily Dispatch: March 26, 1862., [Electronic resource], A Lesson for the Faint-Hearted. (search)
world. It is well remembered that at the time Vera Cruz was taken by the Americans, in the Mexican war, a report that Scott had bombarded the city before the women and children were removed, filled all Europe with horror, and won for him from the foreign press the title of "Butcher Scott." Yet not a single instance has occurred, since the beginning of this war, in which the brutal savages we are contending against have given women and children any chance of escape from a bombarded town. Burnside and Goldsborough, after issuing a proclamation, in which they denounced as wicked and ridiculous falsehoods the statements of Federal barbarity to this defenceless class, and in which they proclaimed themselves Christians, and alive to all the moral and humans responsibilities of the name, deliberately, and without a word of notice, threw shells into Newbern for two hours, when it was full of women and children, who were running about the streets in mortal terror, and fired into steamboats