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The Daily Dispatch: February 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], Spirit of the army. (search)
Spirit of the army. [correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.]
Army of the Peninsula, Feb. 13, 1862.
The dim glimmering camp fire did lend scarce sufficient light to illumine the columns of your learned contemporary — the Examiner--yet I have seen enough to know that we have suffered a terrible (I call things by their right names) defeat at Roanoke; and this, coupled with the disgraceful disaster at Somerset, and the unimpeded march of our enemies into Tennessee and Alabama, does, we must be allowed to think, form something more than a three days wonder.
Patience we know at times wine battles, but talk not to men of patience when their homes are threatened with destruction.
The decreasing finances of the North is all very well in its place; we are glad of it, but we haven't time to wait upon it now. Our recognition by England and France is a fine thing, too, in its way. But I say out with this patient, craven, contemptible dependence upon anything but the strong det