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The Daily Dispatch: August 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], Americans in Paris. (search)
n Sunday last. Certain it is that all soldiers will fight the better by understanding what they are struggling for, and by having their hearts in the cause. The result of the deliberations of the conservative Republicans at these various meetings was the adoption of the following programmer for a new Cabinet: Nathaniel P. Banks, of Illinois, Secretary of State. John C. Fremont, of California, Secretary of War. Cornelius Vanderbilt, of New York, Secretary of the Navy. Joseph Holt, of Kentucky, Attorney General. In another article the Herald assails the army officers, and says that the disaster was owing to their inexperience and incompetency. At the same time it pays as emphatic a compliment to the Confederate officers. At the meeting of the "Union Defence Committee," above referred to, Mr. Moses Grinnell had the assurance to say that "the repulse of the Union's arms was not a thing unexpected even in Washington: there were circumstances which led to th