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The Daily Dispatch: June 17, 1862., [Electronic resource], A Lesson of hope. (search)
Sibley's campaign in New Mexico.
Richmond, June 13, 1862. To the Editors of the Dispatch:
It having been said in a city paper that "not one single Southern soldier has yet set his foot on the soil of a Northern State," allow me to point out wherein the writer is mistaken.
Not only one Southern foot, but a whole army have pressed Northern soil.
In the month of November inst, Gen. Henry H. Sibley, with a small army of Texas, left San Antonio to conquer the United States Territory of New Mexico.
He had no newspapers to tell the people that his march was the most successful one of modern times--thirteen hundred miles over or comparative desert, often making fifty miles without water, his men living for fifteen days on beefs his defeating in two pitched battles three times his own number of the best troops in the United States army, (almost twice his number being old United States Regulars;) of his having marched three hundred miles into the enemy's country, planting the C