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The Daily Dispatch: August 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], How the Western Colonels were taken. (search)
General Rosencrantz.
This General has attracted much attention because of his appointment to succeed McClellan, who having become famous for absolutely nothing, was transferred to succeed McDowell.Gov. Rosencrantz may be an extraordinary General; but he has to show it if he is, From what we learn of his antecedents, we should not suppose him to be much of a soldier.
He is represented to us, by persons who know him well, as a very visionary man. He is more of a literary man than a soldier.
to take charge of that army under circumstances which will require him to do a great deal and show true generalship, or at once to note all favor with the Yankees, who are as ready to condemn a General for nothing as they are to applaud him for nothing.
The literary off making General, we conjecture, will have figuratively, if not really, to perform the hari kari, and descend to the melancholy and dreary regions of ruined reputations, whither Butler, Pattleson and McDowell have preceded him.
The Daily Dispatch: August 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], One hundred and Fifty Dollars reward. (search)
[for the Richmond Dispatch.]Rebel Song.Arranged by J. A. Turner.no. 3--the destruction of McDowell.
McDowell came down like the wolf on the field, And his cohorts had brass enough, thinking it said; And the of bin guns was as bright as the brace levels old Abraham Monkey and Ass, Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host, with their banners, one Sunday was Like the leaves of the forest when autumns had blown, That seat, in the evening, were running or strown, For aMcDowell came down like the wolf on the field, And his cohorts had brass enough, thinking it said; And the of bin guns was as bright as the brace levels old Abraham Monkey and Ass, Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host, with their banners, one Sunday was Like the leaves of the forest when autumns had blown, That seat, in the evening, were running or strown, For a was spread on the wings of the blast, And it breathed in the face of the foe as it past;-- No wonder it for led the array, And David and Johnston commanded that day, And there ran the stand that was swift as the wind, Put the Yankees him and left him behind; Yet and was swifter than they; But only the former has gotten away.
There trembled the Congressmen, frightened and pale.
With here and there scattered some Yankee female; And their tents were abandoned, their cannon , And their trumpe