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The Daily Dispatch: May 11, 1863., [Electronic resource], The very latest. (search)
"The finest army on the Planet."
--The New York Herald, (editorial,) of the 19th April, contains the following:
How goes the war?
What is the prospect?
Do the combinations of the spring campaign as they are gradually unfolded give us satisfactory assurances of great victories and a glorious peace, or of another summer of disappointments and disasters?
We answer that we have an abiding faith that the days of the rebellion are numbered, and that the end draws nigh.
General Hooker, who commands the "finest army on the planet." is preparing for a forward movement which cannot be successfully resisted; for his force will advance this time, not in broken detachments, scattered over half the State of Virginia, but on masse on the road to Richmond.
"The best army on the planet" seems to have been struck by the tail of a comet
The Daily Dispatch: May 11, 1863., [Electronic resource], A Recollection from Hooker 's history. (search)
A Recollection from Hooker's history.
There can be nothing more interesting to the public to-day than a reminiscence of the gentleman that has just been so badly crushed on the Rappahannock.
A broken-down gambler, he is about the best specimen come portions of it for the amusement of the Confederate public.
We will take the first question put to him when "Major-Gen. Hooker was sworn by the chairman of the committee:"
Question.--To what do you attribute the failure of the Peninsula state how be followed the retreating Confederates.
When they reached Fort Magruder, where the Federals got their defeat, Hooker says:
I supposed then that Gen. Heintzalman was there, but it turned out that he had left, and Gen. Sumner was in c e, and i have no doubt that it is so, that he said to Gen. McClellan: " General, you have three old women in advance.
Gen. Hooker is engaged heavily, and they will send him no reinforcements.
It is necessary for you to go in advance." I think Gov.
Hooker's strength in the late battles.
Hooker's Medical Director gives us the data by which the strength of the Yankee army may be estimated.
The number of sick in the whole army on the 1st of April was 10,777; and the ratio of sick for the whole army 67:64 per 1,000.
By this single rule of three these figures, according tHooker's Medical Director gives us the data by which the strength of the Yankee army may be estimated.
The number of sick in the whole army on the 1st of April was 10,777; and the ratio of sick for the whole army 67:64 per 1,000.
By this single rule of three these figures, according to the arithmeticians of our acquaintance, make up a grand total for Hooker of over 158,000 men. Deduct the 10,000 sick and there remain 148,000 fit for duty.
Of these, we may suppose 40,000 were at Deep Run with Sedgwick and in Stafford as camp guard, leaving 108,000 stretched between Wilderness and Chancellorsville. according to the arithmeticians of our acquaintance, make up a grand total for Hooker of over 158,000 men. Deduct the 10,000 sick and there remain 148,000 fit for duty.
Of these, we may suppose 40,000 were at Deep Run with Sedgwick and in Stafford as camp guard, leaving 108,000 stretched between Wilderness and Chancellorsville.
The Daily Dispatch: May 11, 1863., [Electronic resource], The very latest. (search)
Fainting Joe.
In Hooker's braggart evidence before the committee of the Federal Congress he gave it to be understood that if he had not received a wound and fainted at the battle of Sharpsburg there would have been a great Federal victory instead of a drawn battle.
Possibly he may have the face to adopt a similar pretext as the cause of his late failure.
One of the Yankee prisoners here says he saw him fall from his horse during the late battle, and perhaps he fainted.
Without Hooker vi Federal victory instead of a drawn battle.
Possibly he may have the face to adopt a similar pretext as the cause of his late failure.
One of the Yankee prisoners here says he saw him fall from his horse during the late battle, and perhaps he fainted.
Without Hooker victory was, of course, impossible.
But what can be done with a General who, however truculent before Congressional committees, always faints in a fight?
He will be known hereafter as "Fainting Joe," instead of "Fighting Joe."
The Daily Dispatch: May 11, 1863., [Electronic resource], Gen. Jones 's expedition to the Northwest . (search)
Yankee Predictions.
We have been so fortunate as to find one true Yankee prediction.
The army correspondent of the Philadelphia Press, speaking of the advance of Hooker's army, said: "Some discoveries may be made that will surprise the public considerably." The "discoveries" have been made, and the public "surprised," but not exactly in the seat intended by the writer.
Here is another prediction of the same scribe, but not so true.
"We are entirely prepared for the enemy, and when the great battle is fought we shall be the visitors, especially if we are attacked by the on my in the progress of our advance,"