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The Daily Dispatch: June 19, 1863., [Electronic resource], From the Rappahannock. (search)
o destroy another." For their crimes, "the battle is no longer ours, but God's." So far our army has not "made war." The London Daily News, after pronouncing Hooker's campaign another "Federal failure," adds, "But, although General Lee announces a great victory, he does not announce that he has pursued a flying enemy, or that he holds a foot of ground more than he did when Hooker began to move." Our policy has always been to pause after repulsing attack. Sedgwick's flying corps was not pursued after midnight on that memorable Monday, when all of them might have been driven and drowned in the Rappahannock. It may be that as soon as Lee shall have swept Hooker and his host from the soil of Virginia, a mad and merciless internecine war shall burst forth with overwhelming fury among the authors, instigators, and actors in the cruel crusade against us. I hold my pen to send you a letter from one who resided in Stafford during the whole of the Yankee occupation. [The let