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The Daily Dispatch: October 5, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
s at a distance from the city was cheering. We give a brief sketch of the situation: The Yankees Defeated in Southwestern Virginia. The advance into Southwestern Virginia by the enemy was made in two columns. One came from Tennessee towardsSouthwestern Virginia by the enemy was made in two columns. One came from Tennessee towards Bristol, and consisted of four regiments (two white and two negro), under the command of Acting Brigadier General Carter, a notorious Tennessee renegade. The other came from Kentucky, through Cumberland gap, and numbered eight thousand men, under r-General." The following is the dispatch of General Lee to the War Department: "Headquarters Army Northern Virginia," October 4, 1864. "Hon. Secretary of War: "General Breckinridge reports that the enemy attacked Saltville on. It is about sixteen miles the other side of Staunton and eight miles this side of Harrisonburg. The raid in Northern Virginia. The raiding party mentioned yesterday as the day before at Russell's Hill, fifteen miles from Gordonsville, has
The Daily Dispatch: October 5, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
lk, will, in that walk, leave all competition behind. Who could become a Henry by pouring over Blackstone and Coke? Who could become a Newton by studying his eyes out over volumes of mathematics and natural philosophy? It is the great original genius that lays the corner-stone of every art and every science. Men of routine can only learn by rote what genius has dedicated to mankind. Military schools will prescribe the study of Jackson's campaign in the Valley and Lee's campaign in Northern Virginia. But no military school can create a Jackson or a Lee. Nature must do that, and it is very seldom that nature condescends to do any such thing. Forrest has never been to a military school; but he has executed military movements which no military school could teach, and which military schools in future times will use as patterns for the instruction of pupils. Boldness of design, rapidity of execution, perfect secrecy, cautious planning, daring execution — these are the characteri