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The Daily Dispatch: May 7, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Ulm and Richmond — Bonaparte and McClellan. The Whig says a Northern paper proclaims the intention of McClellan to seize all the communications leading to thisMcClellan to seize all the communications leading to this city, cut off the supplies, shut up our armies as Mack was shut up at Ulm, and take them all without a battle.--This is very grand a k and it is probably suggested ichmond cannot be made an Ulm, unless General Johnston be made a Mack and General McClellan a Bonaparte; and as we are unable to see how these metamorphoses can be af anything but a copy of the old Austrian professor; and we should think even McClellan's warmest admirers can hardly claim anything Napoleonic for his Of all the shich his operations before this very town of film present to the movements of McClellan in his approach to Richmond. McClellan started his army from Washington McClellan started his army from Washington two months ago. He himself, after issuing a thundering proclamation to his troops, started after them about six weeks ago. From Washington to Richmond, by way of Yor
The Daily Dispatch: May 7, 1862., [Electronic resource], Sharp Shooting. (search)
Sharp Shooting. --A gentlemen informs us of the death of one of McClellan's sharp-shooters, on the Peninsula, under circumstances which possess interest sufficient to give them to the public. Several of our men, it seems, were killed while going to a spring near by, but by whom no one could imagine. It was at last determined to stop this inhuman game, if possible, even at the cost of killing the hireling himself, who was thus, in cold blood, butchering our men. So a sharp look out was kept for this sharp-shooter, and the next time he fired, the smoke of his rifle revealed the locality of his pit.--That night a pit was dug by the Confederate soldiers, commanding the position of the Yankee sharp-shooter, and arrangements made to get rid of the annoying creature.--For this purpose a young Kentuckian was placed in our pit, with a trusty rifle, and provisions enough to last him until the next night. Next morning early, a man was dispatched as usual with two buckets, to go to the s