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The Daily Dispatch: July 8, 1863., [Electronic resource], Progress of the war. (search)
The dispatches in the Yankee papers are curiosities in their way. The New York Herald, of Saturday, professes to give the very latest news, and to be ahead of its contemporaries. One of its dispatches, dated Baltimore, 3d, 10 P. M., says that Meade had driven Lee, four miles northeast of Gettysburg. This is followed by a dispatch, dated Hanover, Pa., 4th, 1 A. M., three hours later, which says Lee had been driven only three quarters of a mile. A telegram in the Philadelphia Inquirer, which the telegrapher says is a "brief and candid statement," says the Yankees were "repulsed, overpowered, and outflanked," on Wednesday, but on Thursday repulsed the rebels with "substantial success." On that evening he says Gen. Meade called a council of his corps commanders, and it was resolved to continue the fight so long as there was any one left to fight. A dispatch about Friday's fighting, dated at midnight, states that the fighting was fearful, and mildly adds: "We captured more prisoner
The Daily Dispatch: July 8, 1863., [Electronic resource], Vicksburg. (search)
Arrival of a flag of truce best — no papers allowed to be Landed — reports of the Gettysburg fish. Petersburg, July 7. --Another flag of truce boat arrived at City Point to-day, but not a paper was allowed to be brought off. Captain Mulford states, with regret, that Gen. Sickles is dead. Paroled prisoners overheard one of the Federal say, at Fortress Monroe, that the loss in Gen. Meade's army could not be less than sixty thousand--killed, wounded and missing. The officers on the truce beat are much defecte
The Daily Dispatch: July 8, 1863., [Electronic resource], Epitaph for Gen. Meade. (search)
Epitaph for Gen. Meade. The following epitaph, from the grave stone of an infant, should be placed upon the monument of Meade: "If so soon I'm done for, Wonder what I was begun for." Epitaph for Gen. Meade. The following epitaph, from the grave stone of an infant, should be placed upon the monument of Meade: "If so soon I'm done for, Wonder what I was begun for."