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The Daily Dispatch: August 23, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the North. (search)
From the North. We give below some further extracts from late Northern papers. Gen. H. W. Benham, who got whipped at James Island, has been dismissed from the U. S. army. D. A. Mahoney, editor of the Dubuque (Iowa) Herald, has been arrested for "discouraging enlisting." Gen. McCall has been relieved of his command to recruit his health. Our disasters in Virginia — Wilson and Company Responsible. From the New York Herald.] The sentiments expressed by Senator Wilson, in his speech in the Senate on the 28th of last March, in reference to stopping enlistments and reducing the army, were also the views of Wade, Sumner, and Chandler. It is likewise clearly shown, by the speech of Mr. Wilson, that all our disasters in Virginia were brought about through the intercession and influence of this band of radicals at the War Department, with Wilson at their head. Says Wilson, "I have over and over again been to the War Office, and urged upon the Department to stop recruiting in ev