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The Daily Dispatch: may 5, 1862., [Electronic resource], Spirit of the Southern people. (search)
ock at night and while performing their patriotic undertaking, would frequently hear the blowing of the steam whistle of the enemy's gunboats. A few hours before the officers appeared at Urbana the enemy was engaged in taking the measure of the draw-bridge there to see if their boats could pass up that stream. The officers were nobly seconded in their endeavors by the five dragoons sent with them, and ran considerable danger of being nabbed by the minions of Lincoln. They passed through Gloucester on their return, and report the people as most enthusiastic in their devotion to Southern rights. This was specially the case in regard to the ladies, who entertained them on their way up. They speak in this connection in high praise of Misses Bettle C. Broaddus, Virginia T. Jones, Pamela Jones Justice Brocks and Eliza Broaddus, also Mr. Edwin Broaddus; and express the opinion, from personal observation, that there is not the slightest Yankee in the composition of any of them. The na
The Daily Dispatch: may 5, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 17 (search)
, I apprehend there were very few on our side who imagined that the works which the enemy had erected were either so numerous or so formidable as we found them, while within the last three weeks they have been greatly strengthened. Besides the connected fortification, with its salient angles, and mounting many heavy columbiad, which surrounds the ancient town itself, and besides the water batteries for sweeping the river, which are erected on this side at Yorktown and on the other side at Gloucester, there is an outer chain of earth-works, which we can see, stretched across the entire Peninsula. There are inner lines of fortifications, also; so that when defeated at one point he can fall back to another. The enemy understand the character of the foe he has consented to encounter. The caution, skill, and energy of our Commanding-General, and the magnificent material and complete equipments of our army, have convinced our Southern adversary that all his efforts will be necessary to h