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The Daily Dispatch: December 8, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Times special in Richmond--first letter. (search)
stness of the women, but the settled and unconquerable firmness of the men requires nothing to be added to it. The possibility of Richmond's falling is calmly discussed, and preparations have long been made for such a contingency. Surprise is expressed that the Federal have not long ago possessed themselves of several other Southern cities as well as New Orleans. The possession of a capital city in these days of railroads is a very different thing from what it used to be in the days of Wagram and Jena. Great suffering might be inflicted on women and children if Mobile and Charleston fell — suffering which there is only too much reason to fear would be most acceptable to the Federal, judging from the record of their deeds during the last year and a half. But every considerable city in the South might be reduced to ashes without changing the mood or undermining the resolutions of the feeblest heart, if any feeble hearts there be, in the Southern Confederacy. How they Bear th
The Daily Dispatch: December 16, 1862., [Electronic resource], Progress of the war. (search)
62. What the Yankee Opinions were before the fight. A correspondent of the New York Times, writing before the fight from Burnside's army, says: It is a notable fact in military history, that though the crossing of a river in the face of an enemy is justly esteemed as one of the most difficult of tactical operations, there is no example on record of the passage of a river being successfully defended against a determined assailant. Napoleon crossed the Danube at Eseling and at Wagram, in presence of an army of 120,000 men, provided with 400 pieces of cannon, and at a point where the bed of the stream is broadest. This may be owing to the fact that, on account of its very difficulty it is rarely attempted without good hope of success.--The necessity of subdividing the force and disposing it over an extended line, is of course an element of weakness for the defensive, while, if the line should not be thus guarded, the force would all the time be exposed to flank and rear
The Daily Dispatch: December 17, 1862., [Electronic resource], Important from Fredericksburg — the enemy Recrosses the Rappahannock. (search)
el leaders are sensible of all the weakness as well as of all the strength of their position at Fredericksburg, and you may in a little time expect to learn that they have taken advantage of the opportunity before the operations of Gen. Burnside are fully developed to retreat ere retreat is rendered perilous or impossible." It seems, however, that the retreating has been done, not by the rebels, but by the Yankees. Burnside has had his Resting, and he has withdrawn. Will he try to have his Wagram still? We shall see. The great probability is that he has gone down to his gunboats, and that he will try to make his way across the country-from Port Royal. If so, he will have a lively time of it this winter, crossing rivers and wading morasses, with a powerful army in front of him. We hope he has resolved upon that operation. We wish to see that army utterly destroyed, and the road to destruction lies clear before it. Let them "push along, keep moving," say we with all our heart.
The Daily Dispatch: September 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], The cruise of the "Tallahassee." (search)
was compelled by them to give the capital the cold shoulder, and cross over twenty-five miles below it, where he now lies. Napoleon never lost 150,000 men in attempting to take any capital; Grant did. Napoleon never lost a battle on his advance to a capital. Grant lost every one he fought between the Rapid Ann and the James. The five great campaigns of Napoleon, after he had obtained supreme power, were those of Marengo, (1800,) Austerlitz, (1805,) Jena, (1806,) Friedland, (1807,) and Wagram, (1809.) We speak of the campaign of Marengo as having been made after he had obtained supreme power, because, though at the time he was nominally but the First Consul of the French Republic, in reality, he was as absolute as his contemporaries, Francis and Alexander, and as he himself ever was, after he had become emperor. Moreover, we speak of these five campaigns because they were all fortunate; and it is to the fortunate campaigns, of course, that the Herald likens this campaign of Gran
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