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The Daily Dispatch: October 8, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
The enemy were then driven to the New Market road, when, being found strongly entrenched, they were not pressed. Our loss is small; that of the enemy unknown. The brave General Gregg died at the head of his brigade. The Yankees Burn Rapid Ann bridge. An official dispatch from Gordonsville last night states that Yankee raiders burnt the railroad bridge over the Rapid Ann yesterday. From the Valley. A dispatch from General Early to General Lee, dated the 8th instant, says: "Sheridan's whole force commenced falling back down the Valley last night along the pike." Our cavalry were in pursuit. Mr. Powhatan Weisiger, company E, Fourth Virginia cavalry, was severely wounded in the foot in an engagement at Waterbridge, near Staunton, on Sunday, 2d instant, but is now here, doing as well as could be hoped for. From Georgia. It was rumored last night that Hood had defeated Sherman in a general engagement and captured several thousand prisoners.
The Daily Dispatch: October 8, 1864., [Electronic resource], Specie sent Abroad. (search)
only by the reverse of all those propositions. Is it possible we cannot crush Sherman? He has three hundred miles of railroad to keep up, which must and can be desward the absentees. Do that, and the moon will not wax and wane thrice before Sherman is defeated and the exiles can go home. I know that we all want peace, ane who more fervently prays for it than I do. But how can we make it? Not with Sherman, who says he means extermination.--I recently read a letter from him more intergians! do not despond. In the midst of disaster be strong. I do not doubt. Sherman, in Atlanta, must be destroyed. I said twelve months ago that if the enemy ev only come by the defeat of the enemy. McClellan will never be elected unless Sherman is defeated. The preservation of our honor, the preservation of our State, thur State, the election of McClellan, and the securing of an honorable peace, all depend upon the defeat of Sherman. Every good to freemen depends upon his defeat.