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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: July 6, 1863., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Burnside or search for Burnside in all documents.
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Exit Hooker.
"Fighting Joe" has disappeared at last.
He has gone the way of all Yankee Generals.-- He brings up the rear of that illustrious procession,--Scott, McDowell, McClellan, Pope, Burnside,--last and least, Hooker.
The grim shades of the departed rise to welcome him to the infernal pit,--the Young Napoleon, probably in the advance, greeting Hooker with an iron grip of salutation, and a significant smile, suggestive of Congress committees, and bubble reputations built up by bluste hat is to become of Maj Gen. Hooker alias "Fighting Joe," and Commander in Chief, "with the reins well in hand," of "the finest army on the planet, " it is impossible to predict.
Whether, like Pope, he is to be sent to hunting Indians, or, like Burnside, to console himself for his inability to cope with armed men by persecuting and hanging the defenceless and non-combatant, remains to be seen.
As for the luckless McClellan, there seems no prospect of resurrection.
No emergency, however pressi