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The Daily Dispatch: October 9, 1863., [Electronic resource], Two hundred dollars reward. (search)
ed the war; one of which, Bethel. the first of the long and splendid array, was achieved by the same Magruder and D. H. Hill, with but the loss of a single life. Gen. Magruder is a man of no ordinary military abilities, and possesses in an eminent degree that great quality of energy which is the life and soul of the true warrior. His defence of the Peninsula, and the wonderful success with which, at the head of from five to ten thousand men, he kept McClellan's host of 120,000 at bay till Johnston brought up his army, are among the most memorable military achievements of the war. In no one respect did Gen. Magruder evince more sagacity than his contempt of the gunboat humbug at a period when the community in general was appalled by the bloodless racket of those noisy monsters, whose look he always regarded as worse than their bite, and whom he has always chastised without an effort. We can assure the gallant and accomplished chieftain that the eyes of his countrymen are still on him