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The Daily Dispatch: October 30, 1863., [Electronic resource], A Chinese Bull Run. (search)
--We make the following extract, says the Bangor (Me.) Whig, from the letter of a young man in China, formerly residing here, to a relative in this city: Shanghai, Sunday, June 28. I must tell you about a second edition of Bull Run that we had here last spring. Shortly after I got back from Japan the commander of the Imperial army sent a force out to take a rebel city, about thirty miles from Shanghai, and I, like a fool, volunteered my services, expecting to see some fun and get some loot. We had about eight hundred Chinese soldiers, but the officers were all English and American. --It took us nearly two days to march thirty miles overnglo-Saxon race over the long tailed inhabitants of this Celestial Empire was seen. In fifteen minutes the Chinese soldiers were half a mile astern. I got into Shanghai that night in about the same state that our father Adam was before his wife made him that first pair of pants.--Now, you needn't write and advise me to try it ag