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The Daily Dispatch: April 29, 1863., [Electronic resource], Federal Devastation. (search)
to military, considerations, and that the capital of the Northern Confederacy, though able to effect the easy and fruitless crime of drowning whole provinces by breaking down the bank of a mighty river, is incapable of defending her archives, her public buildings, and the seat of her Government. The promised vengeance against Charleston languishes and evaporates in empty threats. Savannah, taken with so much ease by the British in the War of Independence resists firmly and effectually. Port Hudson has repulsed an attack, and the Mississippi itself has turned traitor, and, by way of set-off for the inundation of Southern territory, has filled up and rendered useless the canal which was to carry the Federal gunboats to the other side of Vicksburg. The confederates threaten Fort Donelson, and a new invasion of Kentucky is seriously apprehended. Under these gloomy auspices the mouth of March has closed, and the period will shortly arrive when the summer heats will again land thei