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The Daily Dispatch: may 2, 1862., [Electronic resource], English opinion of Affairs in America. (search)
sh armies for a time carried all before them. Every city was occupied, every battle was won by the Royalists. But the determination of the Colonists remained — a power mightier than armies and superior to the fatal accidents of a hundred campaigns. The power that, though strong in the field, was weak in the hearts of the people, found it necessary to succumb in the end. Should the Federal occupy Nashville, and make prisoners of all that remains of the Confederate army of the West; should Johnston be routed on the Potomac, and Virginia overrun by the conquerors; should the Northern flotilla steam down the broad Mississippi and burn New Orleans; should Savannah and Charleston, Richmond and Norfolk, every stronghold of the South be lost, the Unionists will be no nearer to the end than now. The resolve of the South to remain no longer in the Union is fixed and irrevocable. If the Union conquests carried along with them Union sentiment, we might admit that a restoration of the Union was
The Daily Dispatch: may 2, 1862., [Electronic resource], The War. (search)
; and now that force in Eastern Virginia; and now that that force is in motion, it is hardly likely that any draft will be made upon it for us. The troops in the West have their hands full, so long as our Generals manage to meet the enemy with only equal, or more often inferior numbers to their own. So it seems as though General Hunter's chance for help is poor. If he is made to wait till Halleck has utterly destroyed the army of Beauregard and Polk, and McClellan has annihilated that of Joe Johnston, he will wait perforce till the war is over. What is said of the Texas Rangers. A correspondent of the New Orleans Delta (April 18) gives the following graphic description of the part which the Texas Rangers took in the great battle of Shiloh: I will promise by stating that on the 4th and 5th of April the regiment was stationed beyond Monterey, to the left and north of Owl Creek, which skirted the enemy's encampments on the right. On the 4th they scouted unceasingly, and s