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The Daily Dispatch: August 3, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Exploits of the C. S. Naval steamers. (search)
that Gen Couch was showing men in the Cumberland Valley and Gen. Sedgwick on the road from York — although these bodies were only militiamen — and that French was hurrying his men up to Gettysburg from Harper's Ferry, Lee, unless he made one more, and that a decisively successful onslaught upon the Federals, probably fell back over the Blue Ridge, or sought upon its slopes a strong defensive position. On the other hand, the calling up of French and the rumor that an order had been sent to Gen. Dix to abandon the Peninsula and hasten to Washington — these are signs of weakness in the Federal camp, and imply that Meade had suffered great losses, and with difficulty held his own. But conjecture, though attractive, is profitless, and we must await the arrival of the next mail for knowledge. [from the Manchester Guardian There is a special difficulty in using our past experience of official bulletin to assist us in estimating the true significance of the scanty intelligence which<
The Daily Dispatch: August 3, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Exploits of the C. S. Naval steamers. (search)
cements. The adroit Yankees thought they could make more out of the letter by misrepresenting it than by publishing it entire. It was so short that there was no other excuse for not publishing the letter itself. The letter was written while Dix and Keys were dodging about the peninsula, endeavoring to discern a hole through which they could creep, if possible, without fighting, into Richmond. They did not find it and contented themselves with stealing what fell in their way and departetion in the President's letter of any concern. let alone disapprobation of General Lee's movements. While on the subject we venture, however, to remark, as we did not choose to do pending the excitement here, that we trust that the events of Dix's advance and retreat with impunity, and the fact that his forces were not even equal in numbers to our own, will afford a lesson for the future that will be of value to the Government and the army. In two impudent raids of the enemy near this ci