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The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Col. Branton Duncan, of Kentucky. (search)
be, not to say sloppy, are certainly best fortified to stand a ten-hour fight, or any emergency, and suffer but little, comparatively speaking, and hardly ever sink from exhaustion on the battle field. It is great economy to attend to this. Much is wasted and no good results to soldiers, from the food not being suitably cooked. If some arrangement could be made in respect to this, twelve men would be more effective on the battle ground than twenty-four, or even more, whose systems have not been prepared to stand protracted and hard labor without food often, as in the last battle. On the 21st, some fought bravely from 7 a. m. to 6 p. m., who could not have done so but for the strengthening, stimulating food they had been using for four weeks previous. The sick should have such diet as their cases demand. Without it, some may be kept, if not in bed, still of no use to the army for weeks or months. These are facts of vital importance to the victory or to the support of the army.
The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Gen. McClellan and the Press. (search)
enaced — Rare News. The following specimen of news is from the Washington correspondent of the New York Herald, of August 7th: A gentleman who has been recently compelled to leave Vienna, states that the rebels have about ten thousand men at that point and Fall's Church, and that they are menacing an attack upon Alexandria. He says that he has mingled freely among their troops, and confirms the statement that they had over one hundred thousand at Bull Run and Manassas on the 21st ult. The estimate made of their killed in that engagement is twenty-seven hundred, exclusive of wounded. They admit that the slaughter on their side was double what it was on ours. He reports that the wives of rebel soldiers state that their husbands are engaged in mining the road between. Fall's Church and Fairfax Court-House, and that they intend to connect the mines with small vials, filled with explosive material, and that their main batteries in the direction of Manassas Junction ha