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The Daily Dispatch: March 31, 1862., [Electronic resource], Wendell Phillip's late Speech. (search)
vulgar; but as a general rule, the victors acted with great moderation to the vanquishes who fell into their hands. The number of killed in the assault is variously estimated at from 100 to 300 men. The assailants fought with remarkable bravery, and the number of their dead attest their heroism. They fell in piles where they fought, and they fought at the very muzzle of the enemy's guns. Col. Aldrette was killed early in the action, and that dispirited his men. He was a stone hearted Mexican, and his soldiers trusted his judgment, and had proved his valor. His fall was a serious blow to the foes. Matamoras is a desperate looking place to-day and it was a horrible place on Tuesday. The dead were corrupting every corner with stench, and the ruined houses, broken and barricaded streets, and the general disorder, gave the town a wrecked and cast away appearance. The places which were once so fell of life were now the crumbling habitations of the dead, and active and excited
The Daily Dispatch: March 31, 1862., [Electronic resource], Affairs in Norfolk. (search)
The B uiat ruffians. The murderous firing of the Yankees upon the flag of trues which we sent, after the battle near Winchester, to bury our dead; is of a piece with the shelling of a town full of women and children at Newbern, and with their whole inhuman and barbarous conduct through the war. Gen. Shields, the commander of the enemy's forces, by whom this brutal deed was performed, is the same who received an ov tion from the citizens of Richmond soon after he Mexican war. This is his method of repaying Virginia hospitality.