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The Daily Dispatch: November 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], Violent Assault. (search)
he Stars and Stripes." We are happy, however, to be able to say, that while the prisoners themselves were not at liberty to reply as they would have desired to this base suggestion, yet they had the satisfaction of witnessing the mortification of Foster, occasioned by a peremptory order from the officer in command of the Rip Raps, forbidding him to utter such language, and intimating that none but a coward would take such an occasion to make such a proposition. Foster plead, as an excuse foFoster plead, as an excuse for his conduct, that he had been instructed to make the proposition by General Wool; this the officer flatly denied, and afterwards told the men to resist such a suggestion if made to them again. Two deserters from our ranks joined the enemy at the Rip Raps a short time before our men left. They were both Georgians and deserted from Magruder's forces. One of them had a note on the Southwestern Bank, which he supposed to be worthless, and tried to get clear of it by passing it on the Hatter