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Gen. Butler.
It is again announced that the old hero at Fortress Monroe, "Bombastes Furioso," is to leave that post, and, as it is expressed, for one of "more active service." This is refreshing intelligence.
We would like to know why Butler does not find the service "active" enough in the Peninsula?
If he has been pining for employment, why did he not accompany Pierce to Bethel?
Why has he not fulfilled his various threats of taking Richmond and Norfolk?
What has he done at Fortress Monroe except capture contrabands, steal chickens, and defile and burn private property?
The miserable pretender!
In what other military service on the face of the earth could such an egregious humbug be tolerated?
We learn that he was hugely delighted at the result of the great battle of Manassas, which proved that other people can lose a fight as well as Beauregard, and that Scott and he will go down to posterity in the same category,
Gen. Scott.
It was always the great boast of Gen. Scott's friends, before the battle of ManassGen. Scott's friends, before the battle of Manassas, that he never suffered a defeat The Lieutenant-General has been very successful in making the pu ly, a great many being killed and wounded, and Scott himself made prisoner of war. In the bloody ba eans and resources, conquered gloriously where Scott had failed, and taught the Indians of Florida eer falsification of history to pretend that Gen. Scott has never known defeat.
He was successful i gave way readily before the splendid column of Scott, composed in great part of Old Zack's regulars nine favors, when he is refused the hundredth, Scott never forgave Virginia for declining to vote f nteer subordinate in the same war, should beat Scott in a Presidential campaign, and receive the vo o one is more despised and execrated than Wingfield Scott, and the North, which has used him only t ed with his name, now scarcely ever refer to Gen. Scott. It is Gen. McClellan who orders this and th
The Daily Dispatch: August 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], He Ought to change his name. (search)
He Ought to change his name.
Alexander the Great hearing that there was a man of the same name with himself in his army, and that he was a notorious coward, sent for him, and said unto him, "fight better, or change your name."
Ought not old Scott to profit by this example?
He lost the battle of Manassas.
He confesses himself to be a great coward.
Why, then, should he cling to "Winfield," a name indicative of victory?
Why does he not write "Losefield" as descriptive of his present status?
The Daily Dispatch: August 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], Sketch of the life of Ben McCullough . (search)
The Daily Dispatch: August 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], Notice to our subscribers. (search)
The Daily Dispatch: August 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], Subscriptions to the Dispatch . (search)