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The Daily Dispatch: may 5, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 17 (search)
information we have received, it is manifest that they are in a state of no little trepidation. They dread even the name of the Potomac Army. They are not so safe after all, even behind their formidable fortifications. They are undoubtedly constructing masked batteries, which will open at unexpected moments; and inner works, which, to some extent will command their outer chain of defences. Except the preliminary contest on the day of our arrival, the engagement at Lee's mill on the 16th inst., and the brilliant and successful little charge of some of our Massachusetts boys on a rebel redoubt, we have done little in the actual fighting line further than to keep our sharpshooters on the lookout for imprudent rebels, and our artillerists in practice by sending an occasional shell at the enemy's working parties. We have done an immense amount of preparatory work, however. This is a siege in the conduct of which much scientific skill is needed. The enemy knows that the only way t