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The Daily Dispatch: July 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway Negro. (search)
en, such as this last and the corruption that lies at the root of the fabric of American statecraft, smiled upon or disregarded in time of peace, will be tern up and scattered to the winds, like the shreds of another Bastille, amid the shouts of an indignant people. It is time, indeed, for the North to set its house in order, and to look well to what it is doing. If anything should happen to the veteran Scott, the command of the army will devolve upon a mere youth, hitherto unheard of, and quite inexperienced. The South appears to number among its commanders men of some ability, who understand the conduct of a campaign. They have evacuated the advanced position of Harper's Ferry, an event which we predicted as inevitable some days since, and concentrated a powerful army at Manassas Gap, a place said to be easy of defence, and where the Southerners will not only bar the advance of the Federal army further, but present an imposing and very threatening front towards Washington.
The Daily Dispatch: July 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], A Federal Congressman on the fight at Bull Run. (search)
it has been most consummate in design. While our little army was occupying Harper's Ferry, the old chief, falsely calculating that we would hold that point at all haorth of it, the two to converge at Winchester, thus cutting off our army at Harper's Ferry, and obtaining possession of the commanding strategies point of the Virginihe murmurings of his own troops, and the grumblings of the press, abandoned Harper's Ferry, which was a more trap possessing no military value, and full back to Winch tempted the advancing columns of the enemy to battle. His retirement from Harper's Ferry, however, had completely upset all Patterson's instructions from General, S Valley had been abandoned by Scott after the falling back of our army from Harper's Ferry. That fire chief movement of the enemy before that event was intended to bhis is certain, that all the movements of Johnston, from the abandonment of Harper's Ferry to the mighty events of the 21st, stamp him as a master of strategy, that h
The Daily Dispatch: July 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], Anecdotes of Jefferson, Davis. (search)
e answer as was given to the first Colonel. Davis called a halt — said it would not do to leave him there — got down, examined, and found him to be very sick indeed, even too sick to sit on a horse — asked him if he had any relations "in the company" of which he was a member, and who he "would have left to take care of him." He selected his cousin, a Lieutenant in the company. Davis said he would send him back to stay with him, which he did. And then tying his horse to a chaparral bush for the sick soldier to ride, when he should be able. Col. Davis went from there to the camp on foot, a distance of five miles. The sick man lived, got well, was at the battle of Buena Vista, and is now Captain of a company which is ready to fight in defence of the Confederate States, when its services are needed. The Lieutenant, who was unable to get the sick man in to camp before 10 o'clock at night, is now a Lieutenant in a volunteer company of Southern troops at Harper's Ferry, or a day the