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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Beauregard's report of the battle of Drury's Bluff. (search)
, a general action at Cross-Keys? The answer was an affirmative nod. Then General Shields will not be blind to the importance of his cooperating in it: he will surely attack you again to-day? Hereupon he turned upon me, as though vexed with my obtuseness, with brows knit, and waving his clenched fist towards the commanding positions of the artillery near him, said: No, sir; he cannot do it, sir. I should tear him to pieces! And Shields did not do it, because he could not! The two Yankee Generals have now had their forwardness a little rebuked; are taught to keep their places quietly until they are wanted. The Sabbath-eve has descended as calmly as though no blood or crime had polluted it, and Jackson has rested until the midnight hour ushers in the working day with a waning moon. He then addresses himself to his work and takes the aggressive. The trains are sent over to Ewell to carry rations to his hungry men and to replenish the guns with their horrid food; a foot bridge i
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Stonewall Jackson. (search)
, a general action at Cross-Keys? The answer was an affirmative nod. Then General Shields will not be blind to the importance of his cooperating in it: he will surely attack you again to-day? Hereupon he turned upon me, as though vexed with my obtuseness, with brows knit, and waving his clenched fist towards the commanding positions of the artillery near him, said: No, sir; he cannot do it, sir. I should tear him to pieces! And Shields did not do it, because he could not! The two Yankee Generals have now had their forwardness a little rebuked; are taught to keep their places quietly until they are wanted. The Sabbath-eve has descended as calmly as though no blood or crime had polluted it, and Jackson has rested until the midnight hour ushers in the working day with a waning moon. He then addresses himself to his work and takes the aggressive. The trains are sent over to Ewell to carry rations to his hungry men and to replenish the guns with their horrid food; a foot bridge i
The Daily Dispatch: November 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], Hog Cholera. (search)
signal of their approach will be the signal for the torch to be applied, and if the strong man must fall, he will pull down the pillars of the temple upon his persecutors and bury himself and them in a common ruin. The Yankees do not understand the spirit of the Southern people. They might as well attempt to subjugate the winds as to conquer such a people. They have determined to sacrifice every worldly possession on the altar of independence and liberty. They will never permit Yankee Generals to wring from them either their rights, or, that which the Yankees are alone fighting for, their commerce. They are not themselves dependent upon cotton, valuable as it is to them, and essential to the rest of the world. They can give up the cultivation of cotton altogether, and still live in comfort and plenty. Their wonderful soil produces in boundless abundance every va y of agricultural production. They can raise more than enough of wheat, corn, rye, oats, hay, to supply their o
The Daily Dispatch: January 22, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Norfolk. (search)
hat the militia of the county (Hertford) had been called out in consequence of the appearance of the Burnside expedition on the coast. It states that the notorious C. H. Foster was guiding the fleet. The occupation of Roanoke Island by the enemy, will very much interrupt the transportation of supplies to Norfolk. But there can be no danger of an attack upon Norfolk from that direction, we imagine. It is to be hoped that if the now famous Burnside, who, like all expeditionary Yankee Generals, is reported to be irresistible before he sets sail, really intends to beat up the quarters of the North State, that he will have courage and pluck to leave his ships and give our soldiers a fair shake. Nothing would be more agreeable. With such an extent of frontier, and no navy, it would be say to expect or hope that no landing could be effected by our execrable invaders. But when they do land, all that we ask is that they may penetrate into the country, and let as see what stuff t
The Daily Dispatch: January 28, 1862., [Electronic resource], Northern items. (search)
Northern items. The Victorious Yankees (?) Generals of Somerset. The New York Herald publishes sketches of the lives of the two Yankee Generals engaged in the last battle at Somerset, Ky., and of our own lamented Zollicoffer: Brig. Gen. Alvin Schoepff, the commander-in-chief during the engagement, is a foreigner by birth, and was appointed by Lincoln to his present position as from the State of Maryland. Schoepff, when he came to this country, was penniless. He hired himself as a porter in one of the New York hotels, from whence he went to Washington, still acting in this capacity. In the Federal Capital he became acquainted with Mr. Holt, then Commissioner of Patents. To this gentleman he is indebted for his first lift in the world. Gen. G. H. Thomas. Is an officer of the regular United States Army. He is a Virginian, and is between 40 and 45 years of age. He was appointed a cadet at West Point in 1836. He was brevetted a captain for gallant and merito
The Daily Dispatch: May 13, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ation is now about settled. It is to subjugate the South, rob her people of all their property, of every sort, for the purpose of paying the almost fabulous Yankee national debt, and to drive all true Southern men into exile. To carry out this stupendous scheme of subjugation and robbery, it is important for the invaders to obtain possession of this city, and for the purpose of accomplishing this object a powerful, or at least a numerous army, under the command of the most skillful of Yankee Generals, is now actually within twenty-five miles of the Capital of the Confederate States of America. If Richmond should fall into the hands of the enemy, such fall, although not fatal to the cause of Southern liberty and independence, would be a terrible blow to our cause, from the staggering effect of which it would require millions of treasure and oceans of the best blood of the land to recover. Then it seems to me that every effort to the power of the Government and people of the Confede
The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1862., [Electronic resource], Federal gunboats at West point. (search)
and murderers with the most scrupulous accuracy. It is true that ten thousand lives of such depraved wretches could not stone for the life of one pure, high minded patriot; but as each of them values his existence as highly as an honest man the wholesome lesson of retribution will not be without its influence. All the atrocities and horrors that may characterize the war hereafter rest upon the heads of the invaders, who have inaugurated the system of hanging prisoners, and who have manifested in their whole conduct of the war a degree of inhumanity and barbarity which has shocked the moral sense of the world. We trust most devoutly that Old Stonewall may succeed in capturing the arch fiend and savage, Pope himself. If he were not as fleet of foot as black in heart, we might anticipate a luxury, compared with which the capture of a thousand other Yankee Generals would be dull and insipid. Pope and Butler! If those two precious miscreants could only fall into Southern hands!
The Daily Dispatch: September 26, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the North. (search)
ns something different from the sort of campaigning indulged in by Pike, McCullough, Van-Dorn, Hindman, and their associates. Our Government is therefore required to reinforce Butler, to strengthen Cairo, and to look to it that the Mississippi is kept open and free from obstruction. General Pope telegraphs from the West that the Indians are more formidable than he anticipated and asks for authority to have two regiments of volunteers mounted to pursue the Indian war parties. Yankee Generals wounded. The following is a complete list of casualties among the Yankee general officers in the battles in Western Maryland: Major-General Hooker, wounded the foot; Major-General Sedgwick, wounded severely in three places; Major General Rodman, mortally wounded. Major-General Richardson, wounded in shoulder severely; Brigadier-General Mansfield, killed; Brigadier General Hartsuft, severely; Brigadier-General Dana, slight; Brigadier-General Weber, Brigadier-General Duryea, al
The Daily Dispatch: December 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], Another haul upon the Yankees. (search)
of the Yankee soldiers whom this same Lee is constantly sending there in a dying condition, whom has the world to blame for such an untimely arrest of the "irresistible conflict" but Robert E. Lee? It is with pain that we pay these land things against Gen. Lee. were there the slightest appearance, or the painters hope of information, we should forbear. But we are none whatever. We cannot see the faintest sign of remorse for having slaughtered 100,000 Yankees, decrepitated three Yankee Generals, broken up Lincoln's Cabinet and stopped the supplies of Seward & Co. On the contrary, we are afraid he stands prepared to repeat the game whenever it may be found convenient to play it. We very much fear that the next Yankee army which Lincoln sends here to take Richmond and sack it, will be caught in a cul de sac themselves, as the late Mr. Burnside and his thieves were caught of Fredericksburg. Poor old Mr. Burnside? to what a condition has he been reduced by this same meddling Con
The Daily Dispatch: March 3, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
vision, they have chosen not to make any hostile movement towards Rosecrans, but have lain at Tullahoma, while he was daily strengthening himself, completing his communications, and accumulating supplies. They are strongly fortified at Tullahoma, but not more to than they were at Murfreesboro'; and there are a good many proofs that their morale is low. We do not anticipate Rosecrans will win a very easy victory, but we do not doubt a moment his triumph. The difficulty between two Yankee Generals. The Charleston Mercury has some late and trustworthy tidings from Beaufort, which fully confirm the news heretofore published of a personal difficulty having occurred between Major-Generals Hunter and Foster. It says: The quarrel related to precedence in rank, and concluded by Gen. Foster informing Gen. Hunter that sooner than fight under him he would fight against him; and, suiting the action to the word, Gen. F. dealt Gen. H. a blow in the face. Gen. H. was not view to asse
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