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The Daily Dispatch: June 12, 1862., [Electronic resource], Maj. Gen Lovell
Maj. Gen Lovell and the fall of New Orleans.
The subjoined communication is copied from the Charleston Mercury, of May 28th:
The capture of New Orleans very naturally excited great feeling throughout the country, and the people and the newspapers immediately went to work to find a victim upon whose head to wreak vengeance.
The of a public servant to meet the expectations of those for whom he labors, should not, in case of his failure to do everything with which he is charged, be the signal for his destruction in the public confidence, without it is made manifest that he has been wanting in the vigilance and energy demanded by the position to which he has been assigned.
The felt of New Orleans was a great misfortune.
No one knew better the vast importance of holding possession of that city and the lower Valley of the Mississippi than Gen. Lovell; and a fair, candid statement, founded upon personal observation, and upon the official evidence of what was done is submi
Release of Surgeons.
From a paragraph in the New York Herald, of the 7th, we learn that Secretary Staunton has decided to release all the Confederate Surgeons held at the North as prisoners of . The reason of his course is that related unconditionally Dr. Mitchell Maryland, and Dr. Stone, of regiment, taken at the late battle at Manchester, May 28th, ten Federal Surgeons were captured among the other prisoners.
They were released upon the field of one Surgeon, who afterwards received the sanction of Gen. Jackson to their act.--Believing it the duty of Surgeons to remain with their wounded who fall into the hands of the enemy, if an opportunity of escape I offered them, and recognizing the rule of war, that medical men are to be treated as , these Surgeons were allowed to pass beyond our lines without excluding the parole.
The only demand made upon them is, that they should proceed to Washington and endeavor to get released from parole these Surgeons were held at the Nort