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The Daily Dispatch: July 9, 1862., [Electronic resource], Late Northern news. (search)
ted to that species of literature which consists in the description of battles and sieges. Consequently the quantity we have read in this department is greatly disproportionate to the quantity we have read in all other departments put together. We can safely over that we never read of any single feat, or any series of feats, either in ancient or modern times, that can at all compare with the exploits of our army on the Chickahominy, during the week ending with Thursday last. The storm of Badajos was an achievement of unrivalled splendor at that day.--The British army has frequently, in India, accomplished enterprises in the way of storming that appeared impossible. But when, before, did any army ever stern, twenty miles of redoubts and entrenchments, all constructed with the utmost skill, and defended with the most obstinate pertinacity? Our brave troops went on from redoubt to redout, and from earthwork to earthwork, without halting or looking to the right or left. They lost he