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The Daily Dispatch: April 9, 1862., [Electronic resource], By Goddin & Apperson, Auctioneers. (search)
ficer South Atlantic Blockading Squadron. Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy. General Shields's account of the battle of Kernstown. The Federal Gen. Shields has furnished an accountGen. Shields has furnished an account of the battle of Kernstown, which the Northern papers call "informed," and they might have added, grossly exaggerated. After giving a brief description of the skirmish with Ashby's cavalry, on the 2a shell, which broke his arm above the elbow, injured his shoulder and otherwise damaged him, Gen. Shields proceeds: "About eight o'clock in the morning (Sunday) I sent forward two experienced of able in a few days to ride in a buggy and place myself at the head of my command.* * * James Shields. [The same paper from which we copy the foregoing unwittingly convicts Gen. Shields of Gen. Shields of falsehood, by giving the number of Yankees killed and wounded at a much higher figure; and when the boasting Federal officer states that the Confederate loss in killed and wounded was 1,000, he knows