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The Daily Dispatch: August 19, 1862., [Electronic resource], McClellan 's Evacuation of Berkeley . (search)
Correspondence of Gen. Lee and Gen. Halleck.
In another column will be found the correspondence between the Confederate and the Federal Generals on the subject of outrages perpetrated and threatened against Southern citizens.
The reply of the Federal General is evasive and unsatisfactory.
It now remains for the Confederate Government to protect its people by the only means in its power, and that is, prompt and effective retaliation.
Authority should be given, so far as relates to all future outrages, to the Confederate officers nearest the scenes where these barbarities are practiced, to try and punish the offenders on the spot, without the tedious and expensive process of transporting them to Richmond.
In the war of the Revolution, the notorious British commander, Ferguson, pursued a course precisely similar to that of Pape, and Col. Campbell retaliated at once by trying and hanging, upon the very hill where the battle occurred, the prisoners taken from Ferguson, who had bee
Dead.
--Lieut. C. S. Webster, U. S. A., a grandson of the great lexicographer, Nosh Webster, and a great grandson of Martha Washington, died at New Haven, Connecticut, on the 10th inst. His brother Eugene was killed on Gen. Lee's staff in the battles before Richmond.
Pure British.
The London Times calls the Yankees a "mongrel race," and speaks of us as the genuine descendants of Englishmen.
We certainly have much more English blood in our veins than the Yankees or rather English, Scotch, and Welsh — that is British blood.
Look, for instance, at this list of Generals, taken at random: Lee, (English;) Johnston (Scottish;) Longstreet, Jackson, Jones, Pemberton Davis, Johnson, Ewell, Pendleton, Early, Garland Bragg, Smith, Stevens, Mason, Ashby, Hill.
Anderson, Whiting, Pryor, Randolph, (English,) Stuart, Robertson, Buchanan.
(Scotch;) and Morgan (Welsh.)
Now, look at the Yankees.
We seem to be copying from the tomb-stones of Frankfort on the Rhine; Schenke, Stelnwchr, Schœfpff, Siegel, Rosecranz, Carl Schurz, Heintzelman, and Blencker
The Daily Dispatch: August 19, 1862., [Electronic resource], The law of retaliation. (search)