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The Daily Dispatch: January 1, 1862., [Electronic resource], How the Yankees stand the climate of South Carolina. (search)
orly able to withstand assault from heavy columns. Zollicoffer was pressed before Cumberland Gap by a force more than double his own; Pound Gap was at the mercy of Nelson, having only a thousand men to oppose against ten thousand; Rosencranz was on the Gauley with an army which he now confesses to have been fifteen thousand strong, against Floyd, having only twenty-three hundred, Reynolds was on Cheat Mountain with five thousand, opposed by Johnson with only twelve or fourteen hundred; and Sherman had succeeded in landing fifteen or twenty thousand men at Beaufort, while we had in that region at the time but a few thousand forces, little better than militia, poorly provided with arms and ammunition. And to crown all, the splendid weather invited them to the charge. Then was presented the golden opportunity to strike at every one of these points. Bold, effective blows, stricken then simultaneously by all their armies, could not have failed to crush our strength in several quart
The Daily Dispatch: January 1, 1862., [Electronic resource], A warning from Havana. (search)
A warning from Havana. --A Southerner in Havana, writing to us on the 5th ultimo, says: My countrymen have to contend with unscrupulous foes, and our people should not be fulled into any fancied security by the very moderate proclamations of Sherman and others; for I have this day learned from a Yankee, styling himself the intimate friend of the Yankee General, Burnside, that the latter, at his table, in New York, had mentioned, in confidence that the proclamations of the Generals of Lincoln were to be a part of the programme to induce, as far as possible, non-resistance, until Charleston and Savannah could be placed under their batteries, and laid in ashes. As the burning of either city would create horror in the minds of civilized nations, it appears that the invading forces are to be supplied with heavy siege guns of great range, and, under pretence of the ignorance of their effect, they are to ignore even the rights of humanity until they can effect their complete des