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McClellan (search for this): article 7
ays, for nearly every day we get a pipe full of indications to smoke on for twenty-four hours. As I have previously stated, all expectations of a fight are based upon the supposition that public opinion at the North will force the army on. McClellan is too much of a soldier to fight without some prospect of success, and so long as the responsibility of a defeat would fall upon his shoulders, will not hazard a battle without calculating well the chances of victory. He has yet a great deal undles and sandbag revetments, and will stand a heavy cannonading before giving way. The armament of these forts having arrived from a place where they make most excellent guns, they have been put in position, and all that is now asked is for Mr. McClellan to bring on his Yankees. Different artillery corps are drilled in these batteries nearly every day, and some have become proficient marksmen. All have obtained perfectly the range of any point where a hostile battery could be placed. T
December 15th (search for this): article 7
Army of the Potomac.[our own correspondent.] Centreville, Dec. 15th. Rumors of an impending battle are thick enough, but are traceable to no authentic source, nor do they near any great amount of probability upon their face. From the immense sheaf of reports I can pick out a straw or two to show which way the wind blows. From below we hear that the enemy is about to advance towards the Occoquan, with the design of crossing at Colchester. Hampton's Legion has gone down to look after them there, and the other troops a few miles below are on the qui vive to catch a glimpse of "Uncle Dabe's" grand army. The forces in entrenched camps by the batteries on the Potomac have relaxed none of their vigilance, and, although chafing at the delay, have not become disheartened, and still cherish faint hopes of a battle before the winter closes. From above, rumor says a force seems to be gradually advancing towards Leesburg, and that the lines have been drawn very closely in that vicini
June, 12 AD (search for this): article 7
, and will stand a heavy cannonading before giving way. The armament of these forts having arrived from a place where they make most excellent guns, they have been put in position, and all that is now asked is for Mr. McClellan to bring on his Yankees. Different artillery corps are drilled in these batteries nearly every day, and some have become proficient marksmen. All have obtained perfectly the range of any point where a hostile battery could be placed. The New York Herald, of December 6th, contains a list of the number and name of the regiments and battalions now composing the Confederate Army, which seems to cause some considerable alarm in Richmond for fear it was furnished by some spy in the War Department. If there be a clerk who acts the spy, who furnished the Herald with such a list, for God-sake do not disturb him. His many blunders and accuracies will do the other side more harm than ours, and he may be looked upon as a public benefactor rather than a traitor. Th
July (search for this): article 7
ratio could be adopted. This caused some little rivalry among the States as to which should approach nearest the standard, and finally individuals began to argue the matter, each of course maintaining his own State was equal or superior to any. The South Carolina papers published lists of the troops sent from that State, Georgia followed, and so on throughout the Confederacy. No paper in the South took the trouble to condense these various reports, but the Herald did; and some time in July last came out with a full list of the rebel army up to that date, giving at the same time a partial list of the regular Confederate officers which I had obtained from the War Department in Montgomery, and published during the second session of Congress. Everybody raised the cry of a spy in the departments, but by comparing the Herald's list with the files of Southern papers, it could be readily seen from what source it sprang. The recent list is hut a rehash of the old one, giving such addi
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