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The Daily Dispatch: July 27, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
esented that they were until recently serving under Banks, in Louisiana. On Saturday the enemy took possession of some pits which had been used by our artillery firing upon the Yankee transports, and proceeded to construct fortifications in the vicinity. It was for this purpose, undoubtedly, that the Federal troops were sent across the river. From Georgia. The telegram from Atlanta shows that the enemy has again been repulsed in an attempt to break our lines. It appears that Sherman, in imitation of Grant, commenced shelling the city without giving notice of his intention, thus exposing the lives of women and children to danger. In every respect do the Yankees violate the usages of civilized warfare, and for each non- combatant killed, at least four prisoners ought to suffer death. The address of Gen. Hood to his troops is spirited and to the point, yet some will perceive in it a slight reflection upon the policy of the late commander of the Army of Tennessee.
The Daily Dispatch: July 27, 1864., [Electronic resource], The late peace movement. (search)
now, and they would only have been dead if my advice had been taken. " Perhaps this "Cossack philosophy"reconciles the Lincoln despotism to purposes more inhuman than even those which successive despots of Russia pronounced. "barbarous. " The Chief of the Cossacks himself only contemplated the death of the nobles, whilst Lincoln denounces it against all public servants, of high and low degree, and against the people at large who refuse the oath of allegiance. The proclamation of Sherman, fulminating death against men women, and children, who will not kiss the feet of Federal domination, throws into the shade the wildest excess of Cossack inhumanity. There is a grim originality about the Hetman's philosophy, but it is not as wise as it is striking. To such logic applied to them, the Confederates will reply: If we are to die any how, we may as well die with arms in our hands, fighting for our country. Die we must, either in the natural order of events, or by the hands