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The Daily Dispatch: November 8, 1862., [Electronic resource], Later from the North. (search)
" as he called it, (horrid old creature that he is.) trying to make me angry. But cousin Mary stopped him, and even Senator — said that as I was an avowed enemy of the South," (though Heaven knows I am not,) and had only come here to nurse--,(her husband) I was entitled to be treated with the courtesy due to a "prisoner of war!" and not vexed and vexed and ridiculed. But I assure you you can have no idea what confidence the people here have that this "chart" is correct, and so, whenever Lee or Jackson want to make McClellan stop anywhere or avoid a battle. They send off some "deserters." first to tell him they are in immense force, and any other odiousness they please; and then they get significant hints to the same effect, published in the Richmond rebel papers and these papers are actually carried to McClellan, and even sold to him at a high price, the two men passing themselves off as Union farmers, who gave him the information which stopped him ten days after the battle of
The Daily Dispatch: November 8, 1862., [Electronic resource], Latest from Europe. (search)
y's Gap, which they are fronting. It adds: Yesterday General Stahel, with a portion of Sigel's command, drove the enemy out of Thoroughfare Gap, and General Carl Schurz immediately occupied it. General Bayard's force meantime holds Aldle and all the country between that point and Sigal's front Buckland Mills is also in our possession. Thus the rebels are pretty closely outflanked, hemmed in, and out off from Richmond.--General McClellan is fifty miles nearer the rebel capital than General Lee's army, and a vigorous movement — protected, of course, by a cautious attention to his rear — may at any moment put him in possession of that place. McClellan's left flank is therefore protected, Washington is secured against another sudden attack the rebels are kept from the line of the Rappahannock — the fords across which are said to be strongly fortified — and are gradually being pushed farther up the valley. At every step, therefore, McClellan approaches nearer to, and the rebel a