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The Daily Dispatch: may 27, 1862., [Electronic resource], The action at Forts Jackson and St. Philip. (search)
d mutiny, and that alone. Fort Macon was taken by land batteries. Let our men stand to their guns and fight them as the officers and men of our Navy did the other day at Drewry's Stuff, and there are few rivers in this country in which the Yankee gunboats will venture far — certainly not the James, the Cape Fear, or the Southern inlets below Charleston. I hope the above statement will cool some what the excitement produced by the name and approach of gunboats. As far as our side is concerned, there can be no doubt as to the accuracy of the above statements. What effect we may have produced on the enemy, there is no means of ascertaining. In time, however, from the false and contradictory statements they are compelled to make, the truth is gradually sifted. Thank God, our leaders are not obliged to lie, either to keep our courage up or to satisfy our Government or people. Very respectfully, W. H. C. Whiting, Brig. Gen. Comm'g 1st Div. Reserve, Army of the Potomac.