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The Daily Dispatch: September 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], Intermittent fevers. (search)
ace at which to cross the Potomac, but it does not appear that they have found one. We suspect that their opportunity has gone by — that they are beginning to realize the fact, and that they are hesitating between the desperate expedient of storming our defences and the demoralizing alternative of falling back into the interior of Virginia. If they hesitate a few days longer, we shall next hear that they are moving 'onward to Richmond.' If we may believe a tithe of what we hear of the sufferings of the rebel soldiers from the want of proper food and clothing, and from the ravages of the small-pox, measles, fevers, and other diseases, we may feel assured that Beauregard is meditating more upon the necessary preparations for a retrograde movement than upon the division of the spoils of Washington. At all events, he must soon make up his mind to attack our lines or to repel an attack; for, from all appearances, McClellan is prepared for a fight, and thoroughly understands his game."
The Daily Dispatch: September 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway (search)
the life-blood of innumerable plantations, which were drained of their pecuniary resources to educate some medical student; but, when she had pocketed all his money, she made him an M. D., and thus enabled him to lay waste the whole country for miles around the place of his residence. A single Philadelphia diploma has often proved sufficient to depopulate a healthy Southern district. We defy that worthy representative of a city which has become bloated by Southern money, the redoubtable McClellan, even if he were the greatest military genius of modern times, to cause as much death and destruction in the Southern States as these Philadelphia doctors. No wonder that Philadelphia trembles in her boots; that all her sins, and pills, and drugs crowd upon her guilty memory, more terrible than the air-drawn dagger which struck terror to Macbeth. Her startled conscience assures her that there are in the army of the Confederacy at least one hundred thousand doctors who are coming back
The Daily Dispatch: September 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], Lincoln as a letter writer. (search)
Gen. McClellan. --The Commander-in-Chief of the Yankees, who has superseded Gen. Scott, professed, when a West Pointer, to sympathize warmly with the South. Like all genial and generous Northerhan such a country as the United States. The enthusiasm with which the North has taken up McClellan, without knowing anything about him, and converting him into a Napoleon on the strength of his will establish the fact that the great Captain still lives. At present we hear of nobody but McClellan, who, in a military point of view, is a greater humbug than the Lieutenant-General. It is sainant-General. It is said that the best time at Bull Run was surpassed by McClellan's reindeer in the late foot race at Lewinsville, where McClellan himself was present as one of the chief backers. nant-General. It is said that the best time at Bull Run was surpassed by McClellan's reindeer in the late foot race at Lewinsville, where McClellan himself was present as one of the chief backers.