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The Daily Dispatch: may 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 11 (search)
In answer to a serenade from Gen. Price's band, a few nights since, at Corluth, General Beauregard made a speech, in which he said he hoped soon to be in possession of some Northern cities to compensate for the loss of New Orleans. The Vicksburg Whig. of the 9th, learns that all the cotton along the Mississippi river is being burned. Judge Perkins alone consigned 1,300 bales to the flames. On the morning of May 4th, the Federal fleet was at Fort Adams, 50 miles below Natchez, Miss., An early attack upon Vicksburg was apprehended. The New York Herald. seems to think that a General and a showman are alike, by calling on McClellan, instead of Baroan, to exploit the executor. A Wise ruler will preserve the liberty of the press, because it is his interest to know the true state of the nation.
The Daily Dispatch: may 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], The destruction of the "Virginia." (search)
the water were criminally delayed. It cannot be denied that a long pause of apathy, indolence, dissipation, and recklessness, followed the battle of Manassas. The Government went to sleep, officers, if not soldiers, drank hard and did not a great deal for discipline and less in the way of campaigning, while the enemy worked night and day for our subjugation. Nothing was done worthy of notice in the way of increasing our forces until the beginning of the present year. Up to the time of McClellan's advance upon Manassas, General Johnson was left with no effective force to meet such an army as the enemy brought into the field. Our defensive policy, pushed to an extremes that many thought perilous, became unavoidable for the want of power to pursue a different one. It is true, that our only great achievement on the water was the greatest known to the world; but it is equally true, that the wonderful agent by which it was accomplished has recently been blown up in full view of the e
The Daily Dispatch: may 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 20 (search)
. If New Orleans were taken, there would be a panic for a time throughout Louisiana, but at Charleston the effect would probably be a burning desire to retrieve the disgrace. At this moment the chances appear as greatly that the army of Gen. McClellan will be arrested by difficulties of transit as that it will achieve any great success. In advancing with an army which has been transported by sea, he must of necessity be weak in cavalry, and comparatively so in artillery. The loss of a baqual in number to his own — in the midst of their resources, in command of the Southern railways, and actuated by a spirit which, under like circumstances, has seldom been found wanting in any race of men. What would be the aspect of the war if McClellan should fail to take Richmond and fall back upon his transports? What the effect on the money market of New York? Such an event is by no means as improbable as that the Merrimac in her first sally should destroy two frigates and three gunboats
The Daily Dispatch: may 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], War Matters (search)
umbers at Smithfield. The nearness of Smithfield to James river offers facilities for the landing of the enemy which we could not prevent. It is stated that they have also appeared at Chuckatuck, Nassemond county, in large force. Burnsided reported to be making his way slowly towards Murfreesboro', N. C., and other positions in the vicinity of the Seaboard railroad. If these reports be correct, the indications point very plainly to an attempted junction of the forces under Burnside and McClellan, and then a grand movement towards Richmond on the south side of James river. The Express also makes the following allusion to a rumor which prevailed to some extent in Richmond on Saturday last: We understand that a most terrific rumor prevailed in Richmond on Saturday, relative to Petersburg. Some re(lie)able person appeared in the streets of the former city, almost out of breath and scarcely able to articulate for the time; yet managed to gain forth to his hearers, that 20,
The Daily Dispatch: may 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], Pryor's Brigade. (search)
vainglorious gabbling among those who imagine him to be an eagle. We observe that, he is now spreading his feather in New Jersey, and disporting himself in grand style over the imagined successes on the Peninsula. He chuckles hugely over McClellan's bulletins, and exclaims, "Didn't I tell you so?" It is thus that one humbug exults in the success of another. With the exception of Brandreth's pills, wooden nutmegs, and Wingfield Scott, McClellan is the greatest humbug extant. His only tre chuckles hugely over McClellan's bulletins, and exclaims, "Didn't I tell you so?" It is thus that one humbug exults in the success of another. With the exception of Brandreth's pills, wooden nutmegs, and Wingfield Scott, McClellan is the greatest humbug extant. His only triumph — in Western Virginia.--was gained by nine thousand over fifteen hundred men, and he has ever since (nearly a year) been employed in his "On to Richmond." "Didn't I tell you so?" quoth old Scott. A young Napoleon!