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The Daily Dispatch: July 28, 1863., [Electronic resource], Adversity the test of fortitude. (search)
recent events. In quick succession we have had the drawn battle of Gettysburg and the retreat of Gen Lee to the Potomac-- the surrender of Vicksburg and Port Hudson, and the capture of Morgan's expedition in Ohio. Our armies in the Southwest have been, with small exception, inactive, while the enemy has reduced the two garrisons on the Mississippi, by which some 35,000 or 40,000 men have been lost to the Confederacy. Why there was not some concentration of our forces under Johnston. Bragg, and Holmes, at some point or other, to strike a blow while the enemy was thus engaged, is a question those officers alone can answer. But there was not, and the enemy having achieved one great labor finds himself free to move where he thinks best, forcing upon our troops activity at last to elude him. These events create anxiety in the public mind; but if the South is only true to the character it has thus far exhibited, they will arouse it to a more determined resistance. It is well