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The Daily Dispatch: July 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Engagements at Aquis Creek — a gallant defence — Hishly interesting statements — the results of the achievement. (search)
in so brief a space of time, the defence of Game Point I consider unparalelled in the annals of modern warfare. To sum up the injury known to have been sustained by the enemy, the Anacosta was so much injured that the carpenters who surveyed her pronounce that she cannot be repaired. The Pawnee is admitted to have been eight times struck--one of them a raking shot, which dismounted two of her guns. The Freeborn took up twenty-one dead bodies.--Among them, it is reported that of the 2d Lieutenant of the Pawnee — and there were upwards of fifty wounded--among them, the Commander of the latter vessel. The results of the achievement cannot be two highly estimated. Had the battery been silenced, Gen. Scott, in pursuance of his plan, would have fortified the railroad, taken possession of Fredericksburg, therefrom take the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, cut off the communication between our Northern army, and marched with his hordes directly upon the Capital. An. Eye-Witness.
The Daily Dispatch: July 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], Official report of a Skirmish — Improbable statement of an Indiana Colonel. (search)
Official report of a Skirmish — Improbable statement of an Indiana Colonel. The following report was received by Gen. Scott, at Washington, on the 28th ult. The veliant Colonel admits that it "sounds like fiction," and we think it is: Cumberland, June 27.--To Gen. McClellan: I have been accustomed of sending my mounted pickets of thirteen men in all the different parts along the several approaches to Cumberland. Finding it next to impossible to get reliable information of the enemy, yesterday I mounted the thirteen and directed them, if possible, to get to Frankfort, a town midway between this place and Romney, to see if there were rebel troops there. They went within a quarter of a mile of the place, and found it full of cavalry. Returning, they overtook a party of forty-one horsemen, and at once charged them, routing and driving them back more than a mile, killing eight of them and securing seventeen horses. Corporal Hayes, in command of my men, was desperately wou
The Daily Dispatch: July 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], Official report of a Skirmish — Improbable statement of an Indiana Colonel. (search)
seen but few letters from Farmville. Supposing you have no regular correspondent here, although a boy I take the liberty of saying a few words as to matters about our quiet little town — The only thing that rouses our few remaining citizens from the lethargy into which they have fallen, is the war news. They are expecting to hear of a battle in the vicinity of Alexandria or Manassas. If Lincoln's cut-throats were to meet our brave boys in open field, we could whip them two to one; but old Scott and his master know that too well, and will not try it. They have heard of the big battle at Bethel, where we whipped them four to one, and they are getting a little more cautious. There has a large number of troops passed our town since the first of May. The greater part of them are from Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. The Southwestern counties of Virginia have sent a large number, and our little county of Prince Edward has also done her duty; she has eight hundred voters, and ha
The Daily Dispatch: July 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], The blind in Ireland (search)
battery." In examining the other day a history of the Mexican war, by the present General Mansfield, (now one of General Scott's right-hand men in Washington city,) I was struck with the following magniloquent laudation of General Scott after tGeneral Scott after the battle of Churubusco: "Before the carnage of another battle, he must make a final effort to stay the iron arm of destruction and reclaim warring nations to the paths of peace. Hence his beautiful letter, expressing the Christian sentiment, 'Enou reproduce the "beautiful letter" above alluded to. I might possibly suggest the inquiry whether this can be the same General Scott who, with this same toady General Mansfield by his side, is now directing an invasion of his native State, and outragry principle of Christianity, (not to say of humanity,) by the character of the warfare he is waging. Did I not regard Gen. Scott as a monster of ingratitude and deaf to all remonstrance, I would like to ask him, "Has not enough blood been shed in t