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The Daily Dispatch: December 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], Negro Hiring for 1862. (search)
x weeks, or even a less time. As old "Fuss" found out, however, that he could not get the Grand Army ready in that time, the period of final settlement was postponed until the 23d of June, the day on which the question of accepting or rejecting the Ordinance was to be put to the people. The 23d came, and the "rebellion," so far from having been crushed, had increased in strength, and was daily waxing greater. Hence old Scott determined to take "a hasty plate of soup" in Richmond on the 4th of July. But, upon second thought, he changed his mind and put off the grand catastrophe until the 21st. Then the "Grand Army" was to move in force and bear down all before it. Accordingly, it set out upon that day, having been engaged for some days previously in marshalling its forces, crossing the river; and fighting at Ball Run. It left few troops behind it, either in Washington or Alexandria. Old Scott, after he was whipped, fled, like the egregious old scoundrel he is, by saying that he wa