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The truth of history.
We stated the other day that the European public would not believe McClellan's telegrams touching the paper victory at Sharpsburg, and that the London Times would sift his statements to the bottom as soon as they came to hand.
That we were not far wrong, the facility with which it extracted the truth from his lying bulletins, dated from Berkeley, sufficietly proves.
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"A series of six days of battle and six days of defeat is now described in the letters received from New York.
Routs wherein officers led the way in flight, and in which they never succeeded in staying the headlong scamper of their men; a general ' stampede' to the cry of ' the rebels are coming;' a run from post to post, the enemy ever pursuing, and the dead and wounded left in the hands of the pursuers; these are the events which are now detailed in horrible minuteness by those who survived them.
Six days and seventeen hours of flight and slaughter are the real facts which ha
The Daily Dispatch: September 29, 1862., [Electronic resource], Death of the grandson of Lord Byron
The very latest.
We have received New York and Philadelphia papers of the 26th, brought by flag of truce boat which arrived at Varina yesterday.
Surg.-Gen. Hammond reports at Washington that 3,000 dead Confederates have been buried on the field at Sharpsburg by the Federal, and that 600 remain unburied.
Attorney. General Bates made a speech in Washington Thursday night, and did not say one word about Lincoln's emancipation proclamation.
It is said he urgently opposed it. The Republicans of New York have nominated Brig.-Gen. James S. Wadsworth for Governor of that State.
He is now Military Governor of Washington city. Gen. Milroy has been appointed to the command of Western Virginia.--The militia recently called out in Pennsylvania during the panic are returning their arms to the State and themselves to their homes.
The Relief Committee of San Francisco has given $100,000 to the United States Sanitary Committee for the relief of sick and wounded soldiers.
A Convention of
The Daily Dispatch: September 29, 1862., [Electronic resource], West Pointers in the two armies. (search)
Affairs in Suffolk.
Our advices from Suffolk are to Wednesday night last.
The number of troops now in and around Suffolk is estimated at 17,500. Major-General Peck is in command, assisted by Brigadiers Ferry and Vessey.
The infantry number 15,000, cavalry 2,500 and there are three batteries of artillery, numbering 17 pieces.
The railroad is guarded all through the Dismal Swamp, chiefly by new levies recently raised.
The enemy is fortifying four miles this side of Suffolk, and they say they will hold the town at all hazards.
The tidings of Gen. Mansfield's death, who fell at Sharpsburg, was received at Suffolk with some regret by the citizens of that place.
Gen, M. had been in command there for several months previous to his fall, and unlike Yankee officers generally, was very mild and lenient in his rule.
The people fear that they will not see his like again during Lincoln's Administration.