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The Daily Dispatch: may 2, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Impending Battles.a programme of the campaign. The New York Herald, whose editors seem to regard themselves complete masters of strategic science, continues to solve the knotty problem of the war with as much self-satisfaction as it is possible to imagine. In its issue of April 28th that paper lays down the programme of the campaign as follows: A great battle at Corinth, Mississippi, and another at Yorktown, Virginia are imminent, and the news of the deadly clash of arms may reach us at any moment from either of these places — from which of them first it is almost impossible to say. Though the news we published yesterday from St. Louis and Chicago would indicate that Halleck will probably have the start of McClellan, no one can tell what a day may bring forth in Virginia. One of those battle scenes lies in the northeast corner of the rebel Confederacy, and the other in the southwest. Our Generals will probable move to the attack at both points nearly at the same time, in
The Daily Dispatch: may 2, 1862., [Electronic resource], The War. (search)
nd it is stated in the New York papers that one of the objects of M. Mercier's visit to Richmond was to obtain the plans of the Merrimac. It would be a singular sequel if our contest for the supremacy of the American Constitution should have planted the seeds of republicanism in England, and have enabled France to avenge Waterloo and St. Helena in her cherished designs upon her British neighbor. From Yorktown. The following peculiar letter we copy from the New York Times, of the 28th April: Camp Winfield Scott, Near Yorktown, Va., April 24, 1862. Day and night the rebels continue to work on their entrenchments with the utmost vigor, and without suffering any serious molestation from our guns. Their miserable flag, which flaunted in proud defiance over a parapet on the day of our arrival, is less conspicuous to-day. The infantry and cavalry that our fire forced to precipitately retreat to the extreme rear of their works, are now assembled with additional numbe