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The Daily Dispatch: October 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], Terms of the Dispatch. (search)
dditional particulars were received last night by telegraph: Va. Oct. 7.--An intelligent gentleman who was present at the battle of Greenbrier, on the 3d inst., has just reached here and has communicated some additional detail of the engagement. He states that brigGen. H. R. Jackson occupies the same position now with his brigade that he occupied in the battle, and that his pickets their former positions. The Virginia regiments engaged were those commanded by Colonels Jackson, Scott, and Taliferro, with Hansbrough's battalion, and their artillery companies, (with two battalion commanded by Captains Anderson, Shumaker and Rice. Capt. Shumaker was wounded by the bursting of a bomb, and Capt. Rice had a portion of his foot shot off. The first and twelfth Georgia regiments, and first Arkansas regiment, were also engaged. One of the members of the latter regiment was killed. Among the killed and wounded in the Georgia regiments was David Brown, of the City Guards
The Daily Dispatch: October 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], Another distinguished Exile. (search)
e which could by any possibility interfere with any of our plans. When other papers publish things of the kind, we sometimes copy them; and why not, since they have already become known to the whole world? Our correspondent says, "I know that Gen. Scott and other Federal officers have said that they needed no spies so long as they can get the Dispatch." If old Scott said any such thing he lied like the dirty old dog we always suspected him to be and that no man now doubts he is. It is of a pieScott said any such thing he lied like the dirty old dog we always suspected him to be and that no man now doubts he is. It is of a piece with his assertion that he knew "every hog-path in Virginia"--of a piece with his rattlesnake stories — of a piece with the ridiculous gabble about himself and his knowledge and performances in which he habitually indulges, which his toadies call conversation, and which always made us believe it impossible for him to be a great General, in spite of the reputation he has won from the exertions of others — for we hold that no man who is a fool in conversation can be great in anything else, and