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The Daily Dispatch: July 16, 1862., [Electronic resource], The enemy's lines before Washington. (search)
on the son who could bow with sorrow the head of a parent so worthy of honor and respect!. A Yankee letter on the Secessionville fight. The following rich and racy letter was found, says the Charleston Courier, in the enemy's camps on James Island, by the pickets of company B, Col. Gaderry's regiment, and placed at our disposal. We give one or two entrusts. The author, leaveing out his profanity, writes well, and apparently with a good deal of condor. The heavy repulse he speaks of no doubt accounts for his magnifying our small force of less than eight hundred men to over ten thousand. James Island, S. C., June 19, 1862. Friend I received your letter when I was on Tybes Island, but I have not had a chance to answer it until now. We have been knocking around like h — Ii since we left Fort Pulaski. We were a week on a d — d old boat, thicker than four in a bed. We are now near Charleston, with a poor show of getting any nearer yet. I have not had a rag of cl