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The Daily Dispatch: July 31, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway (search)
ay a week long until your "time is up!" One letter from Berlin, Conn., dated July 19, is particularly race. It is addressed by a father to his son. After a somewhat prosy exordium respecting the Haying season, and the condition of grass, potatoes, and cord crops generally, pater familias waxes warm, romantic, and even patriotic Thus he handles the Northern military leaders: "Lyons and McClellan are Connecticut boys --the only ones who have done much We are getting out of patience with Scott. We like the spirit of Congress We want the rebellion crushed and the traitors hung. and the sooner, the better. Burg has been plenty at the South; pluck is lacking. We want it understood that we acknowledge he inferiority at the North. I still hope you will move on and conquer Richmond before you return--But the hope is faint !"I must give this old man some credit for kindly feeling, for he only wishes that the Foreign in the House of Congress were "at Wethersfield, working for a living!
The Daily Dispatch: July 31, 1861., [Electronic resource], Gen. Scott's programme — his opposition to the advance on Richmond — his resentment towards that city. (search)
Gen. Scott's programme — his opposition to the advance on Richmond — his resentment towards that city. The infamous editor of the New York Times--appropriately styled by the Tribune the "little villain"--has become the champion of General ScottGeneral Scott. He defends him against the party who clamored for the march to Richmond, led on by General Greeley, and to which the President yielded. In vindication of Gen. Scott, Raymond, of the Times, gives the substance of a conversation at the General's taGen. Scott, Raymond, of the Times, gives the substance of a conversation at the General's table, in presence of his Aids and a "single guest," (the "little villain" himself, we suppose.) This conversation, he says, took place on Tuesday, before the battle at Stone Bridge. Taken in connection with the impassioned remark of the aged Fuss andederalists would be victorious in the battle then raging. The Times says: If the matter had been left to him, (General Scott,) he said, he would have commenced by a perfect blockade of every Southern port on the Atlantic and the Gulf. Then h
The Daily Dispatch: July 31, 1861., [Electronic resource], The President and Gen. Scott. (search)
The President and Gen. Scott. Mr. Richardson, from Illinois, made a bold development in the Hoto the plans he had formed. The strategy of Gen. Scott was the finest ever planned, and had he not n this side, disapproved of the conduct of General Scott. Mr. Richardson.--I have not charged ar him question any military movement that General Scott makes. But when I have said that of my fry place, and make the declaration, that if General Scott cannot conduct this war, we have nobody thd by the advice and on the recommendation of Gen. Scott. The gentleman said that Gen. Scott had Nobody on this side has said aught against Gen. Scott. The charge came from the gentleman from Ilould and did not." I stand here to vindicate Gen. Scott I am indebted to the gentleman from Missouriconversation implies," said the President to Gen. Scott, "that I forced you to battle."--To which Geer having forced him to fight the battle. General Scott thus paid a compliment to the President pe[13 more...]
The Daily Dispatch: July 31, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway (search)
our banner. No nobler spirit stood and bravely met the terrific scene enacted on the crimsoned plain of Manassas, on the memorable 21st, than the heroic Macon. Orderly Sergeant Massenburg was wounded in the neck and carried from the field. Private Dixon was also mortally wounded while bravely discharging his duty. Private McCurdy was a good deal injured by the explosion of one of the caissons. The remains of Lieut. Edgar Macon, who fought and fell at Manassas, were conveyed to Orange Court-House, where they were received by his friends, and deposited in the family burying-ground at Montpelier, where his family for five generations repose, and among them his uncle, Ex-President Madison--a fit grave for the soldier who fell in such a cause, to be laid by such a statesman. But, singular coincidence, in the same ground lies also the son of Gen. Winfield Scott. This needs no comment. Every Southern man's heart will make it when he thinks how and where our gallant friend fell.
The Daily Dispatch: July 31, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway (search)
en sitting on the door-step of the house describing the charge of the Black Horse Cavalry, part of which I believe is Captain Scott's Fauquier Cavalry. He said they advanced in wedge form, then opened, disclosing a battery which fired upon his regiof the failure on Sunday at Bull Run. The President leaned wholly upon the judgment of his great military chieftain, General Scott. The latter said:"I am the greatest coward in the army, and ought to be removed for surrendering my own opinion of d, in a crisis like this, to popular clamor, induced by bunkum threats in Congress and daily newspaper harangue." General Scott has for a long while been of the opinion, in view of the well drilled militia of the South, that camps of instruction The popular sentiment of the people, which is frequently very erroneous, and proved to be so at this time. overruled Gen. Scott, and an early battle was determined upon. It has been had, and the results are before us. All of the members of t
The Daily Dispatch: July 31, 1861., [Electronic resource], $100 reward (search)
York Herald, 26th.] The disclosures of Mr. Richardson, of Illinois, in the debate in Congress on Wednesday, on this disastrous affair at Bull Run, relieve General Scott of the responsibility, and clearly fix it upon the shoulders of the President. General Scott does not say so, but the inference is clear that his better judgmGeneral Scott does not say so, but the inference is clear that his better judgment was overruled by the wishes of Mr. Lincoln. But how was Mr. Lincoln inveigled into those masked batteries? By this insane war cry of our anti-slavery Jacobin club, of "Onward to Richmond;" by the incessant pressure upon him of such abolition hot-heads in Congress as Sumner, Lovejoy, Trumbull, Chandler, and others of that schoobin organs as the New York Tribune and Times. "Honest Old Abe" must now perceive that they have been leading him on the broad highway to destruction, and that General Scott's grand and infallible plan for a short war has thus already been destroyed. [from the New York Daily News.] The mischievous person who presides over
The Daily Dispatch: July 31, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway Negro. (search)
nation and approval of all officers prior to their being commissioned. The disaster also finds an explanation though not an apology, in the declaration of General Scott that for once he had yielded his judgment to the politicians who beset him, and permitted the army to be led, unprepared, into battle. The same sort of untoward influence still exists, and will hamper any commander, or council of war, or Cabinet. The President, it is true, did not undertake to warp General Scott's judgment, but it is not doubted that the Cabinet did. Congress vigorously and almost unanimously seconds the efforts of the Administration and of the State authorities te lines. Gen. McClellan is about to assume the command of the army of the Potomac. Will he act under the advice or direction of the politicians? Will he have the whole responsibility of his command, or will he share it with Gen. Scott? Much is expected from General McClellan, and it is hoped that he will be untrammeled.