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The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Current events. (search)
From Charleston.[Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.]
Charleston, S. C., Aug. 7, 1861.
I have not intruded upon your columns of late for two reasons — viz., I had no news, and you have had plenty to do, and more interesting matter for the public.
It is useless for me to say that my heart rejoices with exceeding joy over the complete rout of the Northern army at Bull Run on the 21st of July. I fully agree with some writer, that the classic name of "Bull Run" shall be changed and called always hereafter by the more suggestive name of "Yankee Run." Let all writers hereafter, and the makers of school geographies, adopt the name of Yankee Run.
I think I predicted, in a communication to you some months ago, that the first defeat old "General Tureen" (alias Fuss and Feathers) met with, he would be laid aside to rot. He is now neither "fish, flesh nor fowl." He has few friends at the North and not one South.
The hundred thousand given him by the tyrant, however,