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The Daily Dispatch: October 30, 1863., [Electronic resource], A Chinese Bull Run. (search)
A Chinese Bull Run. --We make the following extract, says the Bangor (Me.) Whig, from the letter of a young man in China, formerly residing here, to a relative in this city: Shanghai, Sunday, June 28. I must tell you about a seconnd I, like a fool, volunteered my services, expecting to see some fun and get some loot. We had about eight hundred Chinese soldiers, but the officers were all English and American. --It took us nearly two days to march thirty miles over ditchethem up. Before the report died away five thousand rebels were on the walls. The first volley they gave us killed forty Chinese soldiers, one Englishman and two Americans, and we did not wait for another. The Chinese started first, and it was not and advise me to try it again, for I shan't do it. I shan't volunteer on any more Quixotic expeditions for the Emperor of China. I have had enough. But I don't count the time as lost. I gained considerable information on my way in. I did not exam