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The Daily Dispatch: June 30, 1863., [Electronic resource], Imperturbable indeed! (search)
Imperturbable indeed! The letter writers which follow Hooker's army are constantly covering him over with their fulsome praises. They are no doubt fed and possibly feed for them. At the crossing to the Wilderness he sat in his saddle watching the scene "with the rains of his command well in hand,"--he was the last to crossby that way! In the hurried march from Stafford, he was in the van picking up people who professed to be going to mill. Such people were not to be trusted — and Hooker knew well enough the cat in the meal table&c. These writers make him always and everywhere great. A whipping exalts him and we now even find him unappalled by ths of Heaven! One of his adulators says: On Thursday afternoon, while the storm was raging in its fury, the thunders rolling and the lightning flashing, General Hooker and staff rode up and dismounted under a group of large shade trees, the place selected for camp. A flash of lightning struck and ran down the branches of on