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The Daily Dispatch: May 15, 1862., [Electronic resource], For hire. (search)
How is it that he has held a ragged and half starved army in the bleak climate of Missouri in so good a fighting trim as to win every battle where there was not a great disparity of numbers — holding his men in his hand to do, and eagerly desiring to do, whatever they were ordered? This is the secret of success, and it shows that mere military knowledge and experience are not the compiled measure of a soldier's fitness for command. Beauregard has a great deal of this control of his troops Napoleon had it, and every great soldier must have it. Between a martinet and a commander of this kind, there is an infinite difference. The officer whom his men are attached to can handle a brigade with as much effect as one lacking it can a division. Gen. Bragg's Address to his troops. On the 3d instant General Bragg issued an encouraging address to the Second Corps, Army of the Mississippi, a copy of which we lay before our readers: Soldiers: You are again about to encounter
The Daily Dispatch: May 15, 1862., [Electronic resource], The War in the Southwest. (search)
ust, the futility of an attack, up on us behind our defences.--Speculations however, can be indulged in by any one, and it is not unlikely that all I have suggested above may be scattered like chaff before the wind by a sudden demonstration within twenty-four hours. A camp rumor is afloat to-day that the commanding Generals of the two armies have been instructed by their respective Governments to declare an armistice of sixty days, pending negotiations said to be under weigh between Louis Napoleon as a mediator, the United States and the Confederate Government. There is no reason for believing this, and if true, in the present spirit of the army, there is no news that would be more unwelcome. Our soldiers are anxious to cross arms with the foe again. They are satisfied of their ability to whip the Federals any how and anywhere, and they long for one more opportunity to test their strength. Huntsville has been re-taken. There is no doubt about it. Mitchell's force is now c