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The Daily Dispatch: January 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], Results of the battle of Manassas . (search)
The Southern Generals.
It is fortunate for the South, in this hour of her trial, that she has at the head of her armies the very best military talent in America.
There are no such Generals in the Federal army as the splendid soldiers who guide the movements of the Southern hosts.
There are none who have so thoroughly mastered the profound and intricate science of war, both theoretically and practically, and none so intensely animated by the most heartfelt devotion to their cause.
McClellan, whom they consider the best General they have, and who directs all their movements, was originally a strong sympathizer with the Southern cause, and but for the bait of exalted military position held out to him, would now be in the service of the Southern Confederacy.
At all events, he at one time wrote to a prominent Southern officer, indicating his desire to bear arms under the Southern flag; and not until he was tempted by the high prize held out to him by the Federalists, did he relin
The Herald, the organ.
The New York Herald was, at the last advices, engaged in snubbing the hapless Greeley for endeavoring to fan the flames of discontent against Gen. McClellan, on account of his procrastination in advancing upon the rebels at Manassas.
The Herald insists that McClellan knows what he is about, that he is bringing the drill and discipline of his army to perfection and is determined this time to make sure work of it. The Herald has also discovered that the line of the PoMcClellan knows what he is about, that he is bringing the drill and discipline of his army to perfection and is determined this time to make sure work of it. The Herald has also discovered that the line of the Potomac is not the only nor the most important road to the subjugation of the South.
That by the Mississippi, and from Bowling Green, are of as great importance, and moreover, says the Herald, the period is not far distant when the
term of enlistment of the Southern volunteers will expire, and they have determined not to re- enlist.
Their hopes are based upon the desertion by the South of its own cause, and on the conviction that the men whom they cannot defeat in battle, by their refusa