The Daily Dispatch: April 5, 1862., [Electronic resource]

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Yankees and Mules.

It is said that the Yankee officers bear with great resignation the loss of their men, but that they are inconsolable for the death of a mule or a horse. They are said to declare that they would ‘"rather have ten Yankees killed than one mule."’ The reason of this is because of the value of these animals to them in transportation, upon which they are obliged to rely in their long march of invasion, and which becomes more difficult and expensive the farther they advance. The mules, horses, and wagons are their vulnerable point, and the attacks of our guerrillas should be directed against them night and day. We should make the mules, horses, and wagons our chief aim, because the less of them will bring with it the ruin of their army, whereas for every Yankee you kill, there are two other vagabonds to take his place, whom the North is glad to get rid of on any term. We are sorry that the mules, who are respectable and industrious animals, and have been forced into the war against their naturally pacific inclinations, should be doomed to such a fate, but there is no other way so effectual of discomforting their masters.