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The Daily Dispatch: November 26, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
never forget them. That is General Winfield (or rather Wingfield) Scott. The memory of this old man, with regard to himself and his exploiarkably tenacious. "Oh! oh! you have forgotten Lundy's Lane," said Scott, groaning with affected pain, to Mr. Clay, when, on one occasion, trgotten it," was the reply. "I had forgotten it, but you never do." Scott can never forget the time when he was accounted a great general, beals of the other, is simply ridiculous. It is like every word that Scott ever spoke in his life — puerile, contemptible, and altogether wantas 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 ren 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 isd become nobody, born in Virginia, but a renegade and traitor, like Scott, to bestow this or any other compliment upon him. His laurels — suc