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The Daily Dispatch: December 5, 1863., [Electronic resource], East Tennessee. (search)
rtment for a desperate and decisive struggle. The latest telegram gives a different account of Friday's fight and some particulars of the position of Meade's army at the last Northern accounts, which were to the 1st inst: The following additional particulars of the engagement on Friday have been furnished: The number of prisoners taken by the Third corps has been greatly exaggerated. Only sixty have as yet been reported to the Provost Marshal. Among the wounded are Colonel McClellan and Colonel Higgins. of the 86th Pennsylvania, also two Captains, whose names are unknown. The Medical Director of the corps estimates our loss at 325 wounded and about 400 killed. The enemy retreated from the front of the Third corps during the night leaving their dead and wounded on the field. Owing to the enemy's change of position it became necessary for us to leave them there; their number greatly exceeded ours. A note dated on Sunday says: Yesterday clo
The Daily Dispatch: December 5, 1863., [Electronic resource], East Tennessee. (search)
king. Oh! let them for Heaven's sake, for the sake of the country, for the sake of their constituents, abjure speech making.--This is no time for Bunkum. The day when speeches could be made for that locality with effect is gone by. The time is come for action, action, action. He who wastes the precious hours of the session in speech-making is an enemy to his country, a traitor to his cause, a wretch who ought to be expelled from the boundaries of the Confederacy. He does more harm than McClellan found it possible to do with 150,000 men — more harm than Grant has just done us at Chattanooga — more harm than all Yankeedom, with all its malignity, has been, or ever will be, able to do us. Let no such man be trusted; for he is one who would ruin his country to astonish his constituents. Cough him down, hiss him out, put the previous question upon him; make his seat too hot to hold him, do anything to get rid of his everlasting gabble. Above all, pass a law allowing no man to speak m