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The Daily Dispatch: December 8, 1863., [Electronic resource], From Gen. Lee's army. (search)
From Gen. Lee's army. [from our Own Correspondent.] Army of Northern Virginia,Near Orange C. H., Va., Dec. 5, 1863. A mountain in labor, and behold at parturition a mouse is brought forth. Meade has marched up the hill and then marched down again. Perhaps he reasoned after this wise, "That he who fights and runs away may live to fight another day."--But doubtless some of your hot-house military critics in Richmond who have "never smell gunpowder" will animadvert upon Gen. Lee for not having fallen upon Meade and crushed him before be could get back across the Rapidan. So, then, let me say that whatever Gen. Lee does is for the best, though it is quite true, I believe, that Gen' Lee was disposed to have attacked Meade on Tuesday, but was dissuaded from doing so by the advice of his Lieut. General, and it is equally true that he intended to have fought Meade on Wednesday certain, but Meade had gone. Meade has combined to put himself behind the Rapidan with but slight lo
The Daily Dispatch: December 8, 1863., [Electronic resource], Confederate women and the War. (search)
Affairs on the Rapidan. Orange C. H., Dec. 7. --The previous reports of the enemy retiring behind the Rappahannock are confirmed by later intelligence. They are tearing up the railroad between the Rappahannock and Rapidan rivers. Large wagon trains were seen moving down between the two rivers yesterday. They have some camps around Stevensburg, Culpeper county, and their cavalry pickets extend to Mitchell's Station, four miles north of the Rapidan.