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The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
dare say that Early, Breckinridge, Mosby, Imboden and Company are for the present engaged in the important work of providing, at convenient stations, all the way up the Shenandoah Valley, the depots of supplies necessary to enable an army of sixty or eighty thousand men to move down in light marching order so rapidly as to be in Maryland again in advance of any reliable warning of their numbers or their near approach. In this view of the subject, we care less to know what Hunter, Crook and Averill are doing than what the Administration is about at Washington. When we were satisfied that General Joe Johnston had been removed from the command of the rebel army of Georgia and recalled to Richmond, we guessed that it was for more important service nearer Washington. We showed, too, from his military experience and knowledge of all the country between Richmond and the line of the upper Potomac, and especially the Shenandoah Valley, that he was the very man to head the movement of a