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The Daily Dispatch: October 27, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ned, is that it implies an immediate advance upon the lines of General Bragg, which we most ardently hope for. We are afraid, notwithstanding the bravado of the Yankee papers, that their hearts will fail them when the hour arrives, although the late victory of Col. Stevenson, and the near prospect of famine consequent upon it, are very well calculated to hasten their movements. The renegade Thomas, and not Grant, it seems, is to conduct operations at Chattanooga. The noble old county of Southampton, for its sins, was doomed to be the birthplace of this miscreant. The Yankees are so deficient in good material for officers that they readily pick up our renegades to fashion them out of. We have no fears from Thomas. Arnold never did anything after he had sold himself to the British, nor is there any cause to believe that Thomas will be more successful. We hold him to be much worse than Arnold. Arnold was a Yankee, to whom it was perfectly natural to sell himself and his country for