Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: May 13, 1864., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Scotts or search for Scotts in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

The Daily Dispatch: May 13, 1864., [Electronic resource], Struck by lightning. (search)
ut forty-five when he was called to the chief command of the American army. For seven long years he conducted with unfailing fortitude and increasing energy that remarkable struggle.--In the war of 1812 we dug up the old officers of the Revolution, men who had been successful in their youth, and placed them at the head of our armies. The consequence was a steady series of disasters and defeats not retrieved till we supplied the places of the octogenarians by the younger men — the Jacksons, Scotts, Ripleys, and others — who soon turned the tide of battle. Our wonderful naval victories were won mostly by young men. There are not wanting in ancient or modern history many examples of aged Generals who have achieved remarkable military successes. In our own country Taylor and Scott, in the Mexican war, surpassed all others in energy and generalship. No youth of twenty-one ever fought with more vim than Rough and Ready, and Scott's achievements in Mexico, seconded by the remarkable