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The Daily Dispatch: February 26, 1862., [Electronic resource], Cannonading heard two hundred miles. (search)
[for the Richmond Dispatch.] Messrs. Editors: A communication in this morning's Dispatch, over the signature of "Justice," in defence of the Secretary of War, contains the following language in relation to Col. Henningsen: "Here comes in a fact of great significance. This report says that 'the forces under Col. Henningson, with fifteen pieces of artillery, were ordered to Roanoke, but that he unfortunately misunderstood his orders and stopped at Elizabeth City.'--There can be no reasonable doubt that his force and his fifteen pieces of artillery were to defend this identical causeway.--There can be no doubt that if those fifteen pieces of cannon had been placed so as to command this cause way that it would have swept away any enemy that dared venture upon it, and thus changed what became a sad disaster into a glorious victory. Thus we see that the Secretary had provided the means, but that the plans were frustrated by the mistake of a subordinate. Is he, then, to be hel