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The Daily Dispatch: June 1, 1864., [Electronic resource], The Yankee letters. (search)
The Yankee letters. We glean some points of interest from the private letters found upon R B Francis, the correspondent of the New York World, who was captured on Sunday at Tunstall's Station. These letters are dated the 23rd of May, and the writers all agree that Grant's base of supplies is to be the White House. One, writing from Hanover Town, says--"I do not anticipate any fighting for a day or two, although we may at any time find the enemy in our front. Breckinridge, with a division of 12,000 men, is at Hanover C. H." Another--" We are now only eighteen miles from Richmond, and I have no doubt but this time we shall go into Richmond. Our losses have been terrible. We have received a great many new men." Another grows boastful, and indulges in the favorite Yankee along about a speedy "crushing of the rebellion," which has been constantly harped upon by Northern newspapers and correspondents from the very beginning of the war. Yet Richmond still stands, and his defiance to