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The Daily Dispatch: May 16, 1863., [Electronic resource], The late victories — rumors. (search)
y thousand muskets and rifles, and a vast amount of coats, knapsacks, etc., abandoned by the enemy. This is the best evidence of a stampeded and flying army. None other escaping from the field of fight would have left so much behind. Even Northern accounts show that the army of Hooker, or a very large part of it, ran "as only men do as when convinced that sure destruction is starting them." We quote their own words applied to the flight of the Datchmen commanded by that hero of bombast, Carl Shurz, and have not a doubt that it may be applied with equal propriety to many thousands of Yankee birth, who are certainly not better or braver men than the Germans. The enemy was dreadfully defeated beyond a doubt, and with his demoralization and his rapidly disbanding regiments he cannot with any immediate movement menace our own Army of the Potomac, which stands now with no superior in history, ancient or modern. The victories we have recently won are clearly among the grandest on rec