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The Daily Dispatch: October 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Norfolk. (search)
iled, and he accomplished with volunteers what Scott would never so much as attempt without regulars. If Scott had been at Buena Vista, he would have retired, as he advised Taylor to do, after he had deprived him of his regular soldiers. But old Zack understood the volunteer character and capacity, stood his ground, defeated five times his numbers, and thus made the march of Scott to Mexico an easy consummation of a conquest already achieved. No mere martinet could ever have gained the battle of Buena Vista; none but a man who combined military knowledge with a knowledge of volunteers and the proper mode of handling them. Old Zack was the model of a chieftain of Southern volunteers. We want no mere soldier on the one hand, nor a mere politician on the other. We want a regularly educated military man who can bring all the aids of martial science and training to bear upon the objects he has in view, and who has also the genius to comprehend the peculiar qualities and aptitude of So