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The Daily Dispatch: February 18, 1865., [Electronic resource], Proclamation by the President, appointing a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer, with thanksgiving. (search)
, says: From the reports of deserters, and from other sources of information equally reliable, it would seem that General Lee is contemplating an attack on our centre, and is making, or has made, the necessary dispositions for such a movement. y advantage here he might claim a decisive victory. We know from experience that it is a favorite species of tactics with Lee to mass upon our centre, and endeavor to pierce it. In the present campaign this seems to be the only plan of operations rthe Potomac can no longer be flanked, and if it is to be dislodged it can only be by cutting it in two. Accordingly, Lee is reported to be massing all available troops around Petersburg, with the view of making an attack. The scream of the lohere the late feigned assault was made. Such an enterprise may seem rather bold and hazardous for the rebel army, but Lee is in a critical position, and must make some desperate push before long, unless he designs to evacuate Petersburg. Whate
The Daily Dispatch: February 18, 1865., [Electronic resource], Proclamation by the President, appointing a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer, with thanksgiving. (search)
Lee.by A. J. Requier. First of a race of heroes, whom the Fates-- Welding the wonders of an Iron Age-- Have reared to pace its ocean-bounded stage, And wield the thunder of patrician States On cannon-smitten seas and mountain gates; Chief among chieftains!--christian, scholar, sage-- Whose truth grows loftier for the conflict's rage, And when the victor's laurel wreath elates-- Thy genius and thy virtues have been made, A people's heritage! and, doubly crowned, Thy Fame shows Richmond wrenched from ramparts round, With ghastly gunners in the trenches aid; Then points exultant to the flory hail That hurled their kin through Shenandoah's vale.