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The Daily Dispatch: July 9, 1862., [Electronic resource], Late Northern news. (search)
ur possession, and that the formidable position on this side of the Chickahominy, which was to be the base of McClellan's advance upon the city, is in our hands. --The world can see the evidences of unparalleled disaster in the ruin of wagons, destruction of commissary stores, the relinquishment of tents, the abandonment of hospitals, the capture of 10,000 prisoners, the dispersion and disorganization of whole divisions, the piles of dead abandoned to our forces, the retreat of McClellan to Westover, and his reliance on his gunboats, after all his braggadocio, to ensure his safety. Yankee newspapers cannot lie the world out of its senses. The world will see all this in spite of them all, and it will ask, if this be the fruit of McClellan's victory, what sort of fruit would a defeat be expected to bring forth? It may be that McClellan may be reinforced, and make another effort. Be it so. We are in the hands of a General who has just proved himself a master in the art of war, and