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The Daily Dispatch: June 7, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
inued illness — and that trusting to the report of others he knew not how formidable the position of Busaco really was. This is the "case," Now for the "parallel." In the year 1864 Lieut. Gen. Grant, of the United States Army, invaded Virginia.--He, too, had a high reputation. He had taken Fort Donelson and Vicksburg, and these exploits had made him the idol of Yankeedom, who worshipped him as no professional destroyer of the human race had ever been worshipped since the days of the god Mars. He had been ordered to take Richmond, drive the "rebels" out of Virginia, and "crush the rebellion" in thirty days--that is to say, before the Presidential Convention met at Baltimore. He commenced his march in the direct line to Richmond. He had the choice of two others, the possession of which would not have cost a drop of blood. But he is a straight up and down man, and preferred the direct line. He had not proceeded far before he found that Lee had thrown himself across his line of
The Daily Dispatch: July 9, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
otoriety, has written a letter declining the nomination for State Elector on the Ohio Democratic State ticket. The letter is addressed to the Columbus (O) Crisis. We give two or three most significant extracts there from: I now fully realize and comprehend the meaning of the term "horrid bella." Now that "rampant war has yoked her red dragons to her iron car," now that all humanity, all magnanimity, is trampled under feet, I feel its full force. Our Generals blush behind the buckler of Mars, while the she devil, Bellona, with blazing torch, lights on our arms to an ignominious victory over women and children. Hammal crossed the Alps, and remained for thirty years in the heart of the Roman Empire, defeating their armies, delaying their power. Does the example of that heathen leader teach us nothing? He passed through an enemy's country and left friends behind. Carthaginian and Romans met in battle, but neither waged a war of desolation on women and children. Sadness, con
The Daily Dispatch: July 14, 1864., [Electronic resource], The loss of the Alabama. (search)
bin, came on deck as the vessel was just sinking and was advised fly a man named Mars to pull off his coat and uniform cap, so that he would not be recognized, and farge, his determination not to be taken being proven by his giving his papers to Mars, with orders to Mars to save himself and the papers, and to deliver them to the Mars to save himself and the papers, and to deliver them to the first Confederate authority that he should encounter. The principal papers and the chronometers had been sent off the night before. The papers given to Mars were diMars were dispatches from the Confederate Government and the ship's accounts Mars, on swimming toward the yacht, was cut off by a boat from the Kearsarge, and was taken in. He haMars, on swimming toward the yacht, was cut off by a boat from the Kearsarge, and was taken in. He had the papers in his shirt, and while putting him in he sent to the officer in command of the boat that he should like another swim, and leaped back into the water.--The same man Mars had already saved the lives of two men who had fallen overboard on our passage here, and was a bold and determined man. He was picked up by a French
The Daily Dispatch: October 5, 1864., [Electronic resource], Napoleon and his Generals. (search)
t Regnier was certainly disaffected to Napoleon at the time; his unskillful conduct might have been intentional.) Desaix.--"Clever, indefatigable, always improving his mind, full of information about his profession, a great soldier, a noble character in all points of view; perhaps not amongst the greatest of generals by nature, but likely to become so by study and practice, when he was killed." Kleber.--"Knew him perfectly; colossal in body, colossal in mind. He was the god of war; Mars in human shape. He knew more than Hoche, more than Desaix; he was a greater general, but he was idle, indolent, and would not work." Berthier and Clarke.--"Old women--Catins. The Emperor knew them and their talents; they were fit for tools, machines, good for writing down his orders, and making arrangements according to rule; he employed them for nothing else. Bah! they were very poor. I could do their work as well or better than they could, but the Emperor was too wise to employ a ma
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