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The Daily Dispatch: may 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], Vicksburg batteries. (search)
ers to the details and routine of a business which must be learned as a trade; your military organization is precisely in the condition of a ship at sea, with a captain ignorant of navigation, with a mate for the first time in his life out of the sight of land, and with a crew who never before saw the ocean, all sea-sick and home-sick. This is by no means a just picture of the new military organization of Virginia; but we will say that that organization is in its infancy, that it is in the first month of its existence, and without the efficiency which time and experience confer. We put an extreme case in order to show where the shoe pinches in our present operations, and to point out what is most needed by Virginia at the present moment. We conceive that the presence of the military organization of the Confederate States, of its able chief officers, of its ample financial resources, of its experience, power and authority, will supply to us precisely that which we now sorely need —