Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: July 12, 1862., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for West Point (New York, United States) or search for West Point (New York, United States) in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

The Daily Dispatch: July 12, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
Gen. Sherman, that 35,000 have been lost to the Federal colors since that day. The Confederate retreats are always at first disorderly routs. But after a while the Federal officers remonstrate at having their work represented as so easy, and a second version appears describing them as in the highest degree orderly, and the resistance as being most desperate. Different flashes of official light show the same transaction as a victory and a defeat. There was "Gen. Franklin's victory at West Point," which loomed out as a victory under a transient gleam, but retired from sight to come out as a defeat under a later illumination. It is quietly admitted now that Franklin's force ran at creditable speed to their gunboats. Above the hurly-burly and through the darkness we can see, however, a few things distinctly. We know that the Stars and Stripes are at New Orleans, and that there is a General there so intolerant of the saucy tongues of American ladies, that he answers a scornful phr