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The Daily Dispatch: September 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 13 (search)
on the subject of Lincoln's proclamation about Fremont, the Herald says: General Fremont ought to have aided the President in Missouri. Instead of that he became a source of weakness and embarrassment to him. When he entered upon his duties in that State the rebels had been swept out us chaff before the wind. But now more than half the State has been reconquered by the Confederate arms. Disaster after disaster has befallen our arms there. --The death of Lyon, and the retreat front Springfield, caused from want of those reinforcements which Gen. Fremont ought to have sent, are now followed up by the still more disastrous capture of Lexington from the same cause, including the loss of 3,500 of the best troops, who were sacrificed by neglect, the gain of all their small arms, artillery, ammunition, and equipage, together with three thousand horses to the cause of the rebels, to say nothing of the moral affect of such a misfortune. It is very evident that there must have been