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The Daily Dispatch: August 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], Yankee Presences to prevarication. (search)
letter of Gen. McCunn to me, brought on one occasion by this same Capt. Johnston. It will serve, if printed as written, to show the literary status of our enemies. All who know me are well aware I would never make a bargain with such men, even about shooting pickets, especially after they had taken the first shot. It is so evident that Col. Cameron's body has been a mere pretext, while military information has in every instance been the real object, that even our men have caricatured their conduct, after a sham corn-cob fight, by a wag of one party putting a dirty rag on a pole and approaching the other party to demand the dead body of a rival wag in the company. --The greatest laughter heard since the beginning of the war resulted from this piece of wit, and the dead body of Col. Stiggins is as much the word in camp as the elephant after the celebrated play. W. E. Jones, Capt. 1st Va. Cavalry. [Captain J. did not enclose the letter from Capt. Johnston. --Editors.]