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The Daily Dispatch: may 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], Affairs in Virginia. (search)
men, and obtained large quantities of cannon and all other enginery of war. They are now ready for a grand military demonstration upon the Capital, their success in which they do not doubt. The Administration have had information enough on this subject, lately, to convince them that the city is not secure. The attack will be made, in all probability, before the first of July. Preparations to meet it to do not seem to me to be adequate. New York papers declare, every now and then, that Washington is now impregnable. How can that be, when there is not a fort or entrenchment within twenty miles of it? There has not yet been used a spade or shovel anywhere in the neighborhood of the city for military defence. No prospect of Peace. "Ion" writes from Washington to the Baltimore Sun, May 17: Some few of the Union journals commend to the attention of the coming Congress the interests of peace, and this suggestion is promptly denounced as "next door to treason." There is n
The Daily Dispatch: may 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], Promotion. (search)
Promotion. --Gen. McClellan, of Cincinnati, has received a telegram from Washington, announcing his appointment as Major General in the United States Army, a position next in rank to Lieutenant-General Winfield Scott. The Western division of the army will be placed under his control.