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The Daily Dispatch: July 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Ranaway (search)
Howitzer Hospital, &c.[Special correspondence of the Dispatch.] Yorktown, Va., July 8th, 1861. In consequence of the very courteous request of the Secretary of War, the limits of your correspondent are very much narrowed. We had prepared an account of the skirmish near Young's Mill, but after consultation with the Major of our Battalion, thought it advisable to take it from the post-office. His reasons should have their weight with all of your correspondents, however much it may restrict their bounds. No one can possibly furnish an accurate account of these skirmishes without giving information to the enemy which he should by no means possess. This will be our reason for silence in the future and apology for the present deviation from matters appertaining to war and "rumors of war," to dwell for a moment on things in which your lady readers feel a very deep interest. One of the greatest evils which follow in the train of war, is the sufferings of the sick. This