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The Daily Dispatch: June 13, 1862., [Electronic resource], Words of Encouragement. (search)
Words of Encouragement.
--The tide of war having turned in favor of the Confederacy, the Charleston Courier remarks:
The sun burst through the clouds that had for several months hung over the Southern sky in the opening week of April.
The first Sunday of that month witnessed a brilliant victory, won by the forces under Johnston and Beauregard, against large odds and in the face of numerous disadvantages.
The success our troops met with at Williamsburg was decisive and complete, and though the enemy, as his won't is, boasted of that discomfiture, representing it as a great victory, the truth has reached the ear of the deluded nation, and turned his joy into sorrow, his exultation into mourning.
The intrepid and irresistible Jackson, who at Kernstown checked and chastised the foe, though outnumbered ten to one, forced Milroy to retreat, fell upon the enemy at McDowell's, and made him flee in hot haste, leaving rich spoils to the victors, drove him from Front Royal in wild