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The Daily Dispatch: November 9, 1863., [Electronic resource], A Pious Yankee Chaplain. (search)
r mail matter, when Capt. Enrigh "took" the United States mail between Burlington and Williamsport the other week. The letter is dated. "Camp near Roenet, Oct. 11th, 1863. "All quiet on the Potomac. Rosecrans is all right. A very sanguinary battle will come off at or near Chattanooga before long. Oh! for success. I now believe we shall have it. And O for a little more 'Greek fire' to be rained upon Charleston, that sink of inequity! As fire and brimstone was the remedy for Sodom and Gomorrah, so is 'Greek fire' the remedy, and a very befitting one, too, for that nest and bathed of rebellion. Burn it to the ground, and the inhabitants along with it if they choose to remain in if; then raise its very foundations until one stone shall not be left upon another, and then rear a he catacomb of skulls on its ruins to tell to generations following the folly and wickedness of its former inhabitants. And so mote it be." The more we see and know of our late "brethren" a