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The Daily Dispatch: June 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 21 (search)
[for the Richmond Dispatch.]Reflections on the battle-field. Bethel Church, June 15, 1861. "And Harold stands upon this place of skulls!" Not "the deadly Waterloo!" nor yet the grave into which freedom has fallen still-born from the loins of a vigorous young nation, in strides for the preservation of life and liberty, before the bayonets of a rude and licentious despotism! But on a new battle ground, almost within hail of old Yorktown, and dedicated to the same holy cause that made her victories memorable in the record of human achievements. From that consecrated field, where Washington received the oppressor's sword, and the genius of freedom felt that her shackles were rent asunder, came that gallant Southern band who met foemen of more than triple their numerical force, and drove them back in confusion and dismay.--Here, in a narrow defile of swamp and morass land, where three counties kiss each other, the "dashing Magruder" planted the standard of his country, and