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The Daily Dispatch: January 14, 1862., [Electronic resource], Letter from the Gulf shore. (search)
Letter from the Gulf shore. Picayune Butler and Mobile — the defensive condition of the city-- the land forces — the Harbour Forts and batteries — the Mississippi coast, &c., &c., Mobile, Jan. 7, 1862. We can still boast, as when citizens of the old Union, "we are a great country," and we realize that we still are, and that we are waging a great war for our great country, when the mind makes a tour of the points of military interest. Starting from the camp dotted borders of Virginia in the Northeast, it traverses a frontier of a thousand miles westward, or around three thousand miles of coast to the mouth of the Rio Grande; and Mobile is but little more than midway between Richmond and Fort Brown and yet either seems remote and is really distant. Such is the magnificent sweep of the fair to heritance of the Southron, and his embattled lines in its defence are magnificently to keeping, being some four thousand miles it length. Along these lines new points<