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July (search for this): article 6
avy Gazette, July 13, 1864.] Lieutenant-General Ulysses Grant seems to us to be in what he would most probably term, in his own nervous diction, "a very tight place." It is quite true that in his present position he must give much anxiety to the enemy, and that he menaces the Confederate capital with a greater danger than any the tenacious and valiant Southerners have yet had to encounter from Federal foes; but it is scarcely possible that he can retain that position under the fire of the July and August sun; and as yet any attempt to improve it by advancing has not been attended with encouraging results. As a line is length without breadth, and as a circle is bounded by a line, General Grant may maintain that he has not departed from his pledge to fight out the possession of Richmond "on this line" by moving round the capital, but it is difficult to perceive what advantage he has gained by approaching it now from the south side if he fails in his purpose of cutting the Confederat
July 13th, 1864 AD (search for this): article 6
Russell on the Situation. [From the London Army and Navy Gazette, July 13, 1864.] Lieutenant-General Ulysses Grant seems to us to be in what he would most probably term, in his own nervous diction, "a very tight place." It is quite true that in his present position he must give much anxiety to the enemy, and that he menaces the Confederate capital with a greater danger than any the tenacious and valiant Southerners have yet had to encounter from Federal foes; but it is scarcely possible that he can retain that position under the fire of the July and August sun; and as yet any attempt to improve it by advancing has not been attended with encouraging results. As a line is length without breadth, and as a circle is bounded by a line, General Grant may maintain that he has not departed from his pledge to fight out the possession of Richmond "on this line" by moving round the capital, but it is difficult to perceive what advantage he has gained by approaching it now from the south si
Farragut (search for this): article 6
his corps across the James river to aid the cavalry force belonging to Grant's army. The next great Federal army, on which the hopes of the North have so long been fixed, promises to become a source of fearful anxiety. Sherman, if not retreating, is certainly not advancing; and if the Confederates can interfere seriously with his communications, he must fall back as soon as he has eaten up all the supplies of the district. At Charleston all is quiet, and Mobile has ceased to care for Farragut's flotilla. The blockade cannot keep out arms, supplies and special correspondents, or keep in cotton in the South. On every point of the ragged circle which the Federal seek to penetrate, they are encountered by skillful, resolute and successful opponents. All the enormous advantages possessed by the Federal have been nullified by want of skill, by the interference of Washington civilians, and by the absence of an animating homogeneous spirit on the part of their soldiery. Some fight f
Ulysses Grant (search for this): article 6
ssell on the Situation. [From the London Army and Navy Gazette, July 13, 1864.] Lieutenant-General Ulysses Grant seems to us to be in what he would most probably term, in his own nervous diction, uraging results. As a line is length without breadth, and as a circle is bounded by a line, General Grant may maintain that he has not departed from his pledge to fight out the possession of Richmon with the view of getting his corps across the James river to aid the cavalry force belonging to Grant's army. The next great Federal army, on which the hopes of the North have so long been fixed, p attainment of their object now, after all their losses in money and men; nor does it look as if Grant were going to achieve it.--Even if Richmond fell, the South would fight long and desperately. But Petersburg bars the way, and Grant is still sitting in front of the Confederate earthworks whittling sticks, as is his wont, filling the hospitals with the living, and fattening the rank soil with
Ferdinand S. Hunter (search for this): article 6
erceive what advantage he has gained by approaching it now from the south side if he fails in his purpose of cutting the Confederate communications. That the combination on which he relied for that purpose has signally failed cannot be doubted. Hunter may have done damage to the western lines, but he has suffered dearly for his interference, and the injury was speedily repaired. The cavalry, in which the Federal seem to have established a decided preponderance, have failed to effect a perde to march a whole corps and a division to their assistance, with results yet unknown to us. Sheridan, from whom a good deal was expected, has not turned out to be a Zeidlitz, a Murat, or even a Paget. He failed in a very feeble effort to reach Hunter, and he has since lost, we are told, one thousand men in a scamper across the Peninsula, south of Richmond, with the view of getting his corps across the James river to aid the cavalry force belonging to Grant's army. The next great Federal army
Meade (search for this): article 6
be doubted. Hunter may have done damage to the western lines, but he has suffered dearly for his interference, and the injury was speedily repaired. The cavalry, in which the Federal seem to have established a decided preponderance, have failed to effect a permanent destruction; and an attempt made by an expedition under Wilson to break up the line between Richmond, via Petersburg and Weldon, must have ended badly, if it be true that the Confederates intercepted the horsemen and forced Meade to march a whole corps and a division to their assistance, with results yet unknown to us. Sheridan, from whom a good deal was expected, has not turned out to be a Zeidlitz, a Murat, or even a Paget. He failed in a very feeble effort to reach Hunter, and he has since lost, we are told, one thousand men in a scamper across the Peninsula, south of Richmond, with the view of getting his corps across the James river to aid the cavalry force belonging to Grant's army. The next great Federal arm
Sheridan (search for this): article 6
interference, and the injury was speedily repaired. The cavalry, in which the Federal seem to have established a decided preponderance, have failed to effect a permanent destruction; and an attempt made by an expedition under Wilson to break up the line between Richmond, via Petersburg and Weldon, must have ended badly, if it be true that the Confederates intercepted the horsemen and forced Meade to march a whole corps and a division to their assistance, with results yet unknown to us. Sheridan, from whom a good deal was expected, has not turned out to be a Zeidlitz, a Murat, or even a Paget. He failed in a very feeble effort to reach Hunter, and he has since lost, we are told, one thousand men in a scamper across the Peninsula, south of Richmond, with the view of getting his corps across the James river to aid the cavalry force belonging to Grant's army. The next great Federal army, on which the hopes of the North have so long been fixed, promises to become a source of fearful
Sherman (search for this): article 6
m a good deal was expected, has not turned out to be a Zeidlitz, a Murat, or even a Paget. He failed in a very feeble effort to reach Hunter, and he has since lost, we are told, one thousand men in a scamper across the Peninsula, south of Richmond, with the view of getting his corps across the James river to aid the cavalry force belonging to Grant's army. The next great Federal army, on which the hopes of the North have so long been fixed, promises to become a source of fearful anxiety. Sherman, if not retreating, is certainly not advancing; and if the Confederates can interfere seriously with his communications, he must fall back as soon as he has eaten up all the supplies of the district. At Charleston all is quiet, and Mobile has ceased to care for Farragut's flotilla. The blockade cannot keep out arms, supplies and special correspondents, or keep in cotton in the South. On every point of the ragged circle which the Federal seek to penetrate, they are encountered by skil
Weldon, N. C. (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): article 6
e communications. That the combination on which he relied for that purpose has signally failed cannot be doubted. Hunter may have done damage to the western lines, but he has suffered dearly for his interference, and the injury was speedily repaired. The cavalry, in which the Federal seem to have established a decided preponderance, have failed to effect a permanent destruction; and an attempt made by an expedition under Wilson to break up the line between Richmond, via Petersburg and Weldon, must have ended badly, if it be true that the Confederates intercepted the horsemen and forced Meade to march a whole corps and a division to their assistance, with results yet unknown to us. Sheridan, from whom a good deal was expected, has not turned out to be a Zeidlitz, a Murat, or even a Paget. He failed in a very feeble effort to reach Hunter, and he has since lost, we are told, one thousand men in a scamper across the Peninsula, south of Richmond, with the view of getting his corps
Georgia (Georgia, United States) (search for this): article 6
ghts because, conscript though he be, he hates his enemy, and is striking for the principle of State rights, which converts the land of his birthplace into a fatherland for him against all the world. Who can be a native of a Union? A native of Georgia or Virginia has something tangible to point to when he is asked where is his country. If the Union were destroyed formally to-morrow, as we believe it has been practically long ago, the man of Maine or Ohio could go back to his home, not much dexcessive size, which rendered him a disagreeable companion to the rest of the world. New York, indeed, would lose some trade, and tariffs would be modified in some States; but there the mischief would cease. Far otherwise would it be with Georgia or Virginia. If the South were crushed he would become an outcast, a pariah, the scorn of bitter enemies. Therefore, the Southerners fight to the death against the invading revolutionary North and all their hordes, sustained by such a spirit a
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