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The Daily Dispatch: February 22, 1865., [Electronic resource], Spirit of our soldiers. (search)
n; therefore. "Resolved, That we accept the issue, and are determined to resist until our independence shall have been acknowledged or extermination reached. "Resolved, That we are determined to follow wherever Jeff. Davis directs or General Lee leads. "Resolved, That as Virginians we mean to prove worthy of Virginia. "Resolved, That copies of these resolutions be forwarded to the Confederate Congress and the Virginia Legislature; also to the Richmond papers for publication.again dedicate ourselves to the cause; again we unfurl a banner which we have borne from "Bull Run" to Bermuda Hundreds, and again we swear to die free-men rather than live slaves. 4. "Resolved, That we hail with pleasure the appointment of R. E. Lee General-in-Chief; that we have an abiding confidence in his judgment, patriotism and valor; and that wherever he orders we will go with joyful acclamation. 5. "Resolved, That the people at home be exhorted to sustain the army, to drive bac
The Daily Dispatch: February 22, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
o Richmond, says: It is well known now to the public that General Schofield has a very heavy force near Wilmington, which, of course, will flank any body that Lee may send out south of that point to oppose Sherman's army. We can count the time almost by weeks in which General Sherman, in his victorious march, will form a newcentration, under the two best generals of the national armies, of some two hundred thousand veteran Union soldiers on the blood-stained fields of Virginia, what is Lee, with his hundred thousand men and his reduced supplies, to do? We admit that the progress of these various concentrating movements on our part may be delayed.n has sent forth, we may well calculate that not many months will be required to put him, with a powerful and flushed army, on the southern border of Virginia. Lee, before that event, may have evacuated Richmond, and have taken his position on some new line south of the rebel capital. What then will he do? Will he fight or r