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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: October 10, 1864., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Sherman or search for Sherman in all documents.
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A certain Captain Coverdale, an English officer, who is serving with Sherman, writes to the London Times, in August, that Sherman has lost, up to that date, twenty- two thousand men, while the rebels — that is, the army under Hood — have lost fifty- two thousand, killed, wounded and prisoners!
What a tremendous Army Hood must have had, seeing that there are believed to be quite as many left behind!
The President, he says, "has called out, since the war began, 1,300,000!
He has "calledSherman has lost, up to that date, twenty- two thousand men, while the rebels — that is, the army under Hood — have lost fifty- two thousand, killed, wounded and prisoners!
What a tremendous Army Hood must have had, seeing that there are believed to be quite as many left behind!
The President, he says, "has called out, since the war began, 1,300,000!
He has "called out" more than double that number.
Whether they all came when they were called is another matter.
At any rate, a great many more than 1,300,000 have actually served.
He thinks that the new call for 500,000 will not be sufficient; for, in his opinion, the Confederates "have got to be subjugated, or been annihilated, before they give up." The expression. "got to be whipped," is genuine Yankee, not English.
The name of the writer, "Coverdale," smacks strongly of Plymouth Rock.
The Yankees b
The Daily Dispatch: October 10, 1864., [Electronic resource], Returned officers by flag of truth. (search)