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The Daily Dispatch: August 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Programme. (search)
The Programme. --A gentleman of Nashville, Tenn., has received a letter of warning from one of the large cities of Eastern United States, of which the following is an extract: Entrench and fortify all your cities, towns, and railroad depots. If the Federal troops are successful next time they will try to march right through the South, carrying everything before them. Look to your ports of entry, for they will try to open them against your wish to England and France. The South has no time to loose. The North is put forth extra exertions. They will have 300 guns, 200,000 men, large bodies of cavalry and mounted men. They also expect to perform great things on the Mississippi river. They will resort to all kinds of tricks in the next battle. McClellan is noted for cutting his way through and getting in the rear of his opponent. They talk of shooting all your officers. Let them dress in plain clothes. They talk of smoking the masked batteries out by firing the woods.
The Daily Dispatch: August 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], $100 reward (search)
maining 500,000 bushels of the deficiency of supply caused by the blockade be obtained for the South. Thus Western Virginia alone can supply the whole deficiency of the salt supply of the South, provided only adequate steps be taken to hold possession of the Kanawha Valley.--This single object alone is worth a costly military expedition, and yet, unfortunately, this is the very portion of Western Virginia that has been most neglected. The recapture of the dreary country penetrated by McClellan and Roscencranz is of secondary importance. But the possession of the rich and beautiful Valley of the Kanawha, with its prolific Saline, which has been overrun by Cox, is of primary importance. No portion of the State of equal extent is half so important, and we look with great interest to the operations of Generals Floyd and Wise. True, the salt of Kanawha would have to be wagoned eastward over the mountains; but it is comparatively a light article, and the turnpike roads from th
The Daily Dispatch: August 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
by the Northern press. He was a regular officer of such unusual energy and enterprise that, not long ago, he was seriously spoken of by the "On to Richmond" wing of the Republicans as the proper man to put in the place of Gen. Scott. Lyon and McClellan were the brag Generals of the North, and one of them has already bitten the dust. McClellan is now their sheet anchor; but how long he will continue so, remains to be seen. The first misstep will hurl him from power as rapidly as he has risenof such unusual energy and enterprise that, not long ago, he was seriously spoken of by the "On to Richmond" wing of the Republicans as the proper man to put in the place of Gen. Scott. Lyon and McClellan were the brag Generals of the North, and one of them has already bitten the dust. McClellan is now their sheet anchor; but how long he will continue so, remains to be seen. The first misstep will hurl him from power as rapidly as he has risen, or a Southern bullet may send him after Lyon.