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The Daily Dispatch: January 30, 1865., [Electronic resource], Falling back. (search)
the fight and cried "hold, enough!" ere it began; Martin Duggan and Alderman O'Byrne, famous only for the facility with which they changed one flag to another; W. D. Weed, a coarse, unmannered Yankee, who sent his sons and his money to Europe at the beginning of the war, and Alderman Lachlison, "a canny Scotchman, who has, by his unguarded act, caused the blush of shame to mantle the cheek of his "brave braw ladies," complete the roll of "falling-back" patriots and heroes. We wish General Sherman joy of these accessions. We can promise him heavy reinforcements from the same classes in every Confederate city which it may be his felicity to occupy. The speculators and extortioners, the men who have been growing rich by this war, while their sons and brothers have fought its battles, will hasten to his standard wherever he advances. These penitent sinners will fling themselves on their knees as soon as he comes in sight, each one bawling "Peccavi," singing Yankee Doodle at the t