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The Daily Dispatch: December 5, 1862., [Electronic resource], Progress of the War. (search)
But for them the war might to-day be approaching its honorable and successful termination. 'Of the war, as now conducted, there is no visible end. Of the policy which now rules in the field and the council chamber, there is no issue, except bankruptcy, foreign intervention, separation, and a ruin of States and of people at which civilization itself stands appalled. " The mud the Yankees are Contending with. A correspondent writing from Falmouth, opposite Fredericksburg, on the 21st, says: A rain storm in Virginia is a far different affair in its effects from one up North, where, from the lighter character of the soil, it soon disappears from the surface. But down here, where the earth is hard, cloyed and impervious, the water of even a few hours' storm seldom dries off in less than as many days. Imagine the effect, then, of a storm of several days upon the road, with the difficulties of travel increased by the passage of every successive vehicle. We are only in