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The Daily Dispatch: October 27, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
s evidently to get into Alabama. From this, he is shut out by the range of mountains. The fight in the Valley — what is expected of Sheridan. However much the Confederates may have been deceived by Sheridan's lying bulletins, the Yankees have not been gulled. They can see that the capture of a certain number of guns is not a victory. A letter from Harper's Ferry, in the Herald, cities all Yankee generals whose heads have been out off for their failures in the Valley, and says that Hunter, who got as far as Lynchburg, came nearest to success, but got his head out off for failing to do what the Government expected of him. It says: The question now arises, therefore, what is to be the fate of "Little Phil Sheridan, " who, after three very gallant and splendidly-fought engagements, has Wisely abstained from trying the strength of his teeth against the iron defences upon and around Mount Crawford! Is he, too, to feel the relentless headsman's Shall the failure to capture Ly