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The Daily Dispatch: November 26, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 7 (search)
confirmation of this story, and it is not credited in official circles. It is supposed to have originated in the transfer of troops from Petersburg to the north side of James river to meet an apprehended attack there by General Grant. All the Union iron-clads previously lying at Fortress Monroe were, on last Friday morning, sent up the James river to Dutch gap, and this and other significant movements lead to expectations of stirring events in that vicinity shortly. A dispatch from Washington says: There is information from City Point, dated yesterday morning, that but a short time will elapse before the Dutch Gap canal will be opened. Reported Invasion of Kentucky by Breckinridge — the Fate of Lieutenant-Governor Jacobs. General Breckinridge is suspected of a design to march from East Tennessee on an invasions expedition into Kentucky, and General Burbridge is making rapid dispositions of his forces to prevent the movement. The Baltimore American has the f
The Daily Dispatch: November 26, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
at much-be-praised engagement. "I had forgotten it," was the reply. "I had forgotten it, but you never do." Scott can never forget the time when he was accounted a great general, because the people did not know what a real bona fide war was, and when praise from his lips was deemed a passport to fame. He seems to be insensible of the change around him. Like the Stuarts and Bourbons, he has learned nothing and forgotten nothing. Frederick the Great sent a sword, or some such token, to General Washington, with this inscription upon it: "From the oldest general in Europe to the greatest general in the world." From the sublime to the ridiculous is but one step. The original inscription, when the donor and the person on whom the gift was bestowed, not less than the mighty deeds by which both had been distinguished, are taken into consideration, presented an example of moral sublimity which it is impossible not to admire. The parody, wanting in all the essentials of the other, is simply