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The Daily Dispatch: May 6, 1863., [Electronic resource], What of the odds?--"Twenty Millions against Eight" (search)
t the very fact that these appeals for help are made show the state of the war? With all their odds against us — with all their foreign aid, have we not defeated them in a hundred fields? Look at the last and most brilliant of our battles. The best appointed and largest army ever raised by Lincoln,--fully double as large as the Confederate army under Gen. Lee, --takes its own time, crosses where it chooses without hindrance, and takes it own battle ground. If the scene had advantages Hooker had the opportunity to possess them, and, no doubt, according to his best judgment, did so. Yet he is assailed by inferior numbers in his chosen position, routed, and driven back whence he came with immense loss! Do the Yankees desire further proof of the folly of their bold assumption that twenty millions could whip eight? Had there not been that difference this war never would have been begun! It is time now to modify their impudent assertion into an inquiry — viz: "Can Twenty Millions
The Daily Dispatch: May 6, 1863., [Electronic resource], The battles on the Rappahannock. (search)
in its vicinity. (Signed,) R. E. Lee, General. Of the details of these brilliant victories we have not yet been advised, but the public will not be kept long in suspense. A letter has been received by a relative of General Jackson, stating that the left arm of that able and brave officer has been amputated, and that his condition is favorable. There is cause for devout thankfulness that he will be spared to his country. Brigadier-General Paxton, who was killed at Chancellorsville, was the only surviving officer of the old Stonewall Brigade, except Gen. Jackson, and Col. Grigsby, who resigned sometime ago. The ambulance committee, of this city, started last night for the scene of action, and it is hoped that, ere this, our wounded men have received the attention of which they so much stood in need. The Yankees have been "driven over the river," (says Gen. Lee.) and with that, we suppose, terminates Fighting Joe Hooker's first grand movement "on to Richmond."
The Daily Dispatch: May 6, 1863., [Electronic resource], The great victory. (search)
e 21 inst., has been received. Its news is not of a very important character, though the following summary will be found interesting: The situation. General Hooker's army had made a positives and, so far, a successful, advance, having crossed the Rappahannock on Wednesday, encountered the enemy on the other side drove thported to be in magnificent condition, both as regards health and discipline. The crossing was made by the right wing above and the left wing below the city, General Hooker superintending the losing of the pontoon bridges near Kelly's Ford in person. The rebels made but a slight show of resistance at this point; as the One Hundred and Fifty-fourth New York and Seventy-third Pennsylvania crossed over, but fell back after a little skirmishing. The advance of Hooker's army has crossed the Rapidan. Gen. Lee's forces are therefore outflanked to a great extent, and must either give battle or fall back to Richmond. Our army correspondence to-day relative to