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The Daily Dispatch: November 26, 1864., [Electronic resource], Death of a Midshipman. (search)
rom the Navy Department concerning his death have been issued: "C. S. Navy Department, "Richmond, November 17, 1864. "General Order. --Information has reached the Department of the death of Passed Midshipman William B. Sinclair, late of the Florida, at sea, on the 10th of July last. In passing from a prize ship to the Florida, his boat was swamped, and he, the only one of the crew lost, perished in rescuing a seaman who could not swim. "On this, as on many previous occasions, this young officer displayed that courage, coolness, and conscientious devotion to duty and to right, which ever marked his brief career. "S. R. Mallory,"Secretary of the Navy." "Office of Orders and Detail, "Richmond, November 18, 1864. "Commanding officers of squadrons and the school ship Patrick Henry will have the above order read on board each vessel of their respective commands, the ensign and flag to be at half-mast during the ceremony. "S. S. Lee,"Captain in charge."
The Daily Dispatch: November 26, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
e, contemptible, and altogether wanting in the element of truth. "The greatest general in the world!" Why, the man started, six months ago, with at least two hundred and fifty thousand men, to take this little town, and not only has not done it, but has been flogged at least one dozen times by a force not one-third as large in the beginning as that he brought with him. Is that what Scott calls being the greatest general in the world? This judgment is rendered to the disparagement of General Lee, whose campaign against the overwhelming odds of Grant places him in the highest rank of captains, living or dead, and to whose genius Scott is indebted for all the credit he derived, so far as able design is concerned, from the Mexican war. Had Grant even been what his adversary certainly is, the ablest general in the world, it certainly could become nobody, born in Virginia, but a renegade and traitor, like Scott, to bestow this or any other compliment upon him. His laurels — such as th