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The Daily Dispatch: may 29, 1862., [Electronic resource], The freedom of the press in New Orleans. (search)
The dirt Digger
Gen. McClellan, alias the "Young Napoleon," has given it to be understood that he in tends to take Richmond as he has taken other places, with the spade, and not with the musket.
He has muskets enough, but he prefers the spade.
Let him sit down and dig dirt, and there is sure to be a universal evacuation.
ly suggest that it scarcely resembles the which set down and dug dirt nowhere except with the hoofs of cavalry and with cannon balls.
Napoleon was the fastest, McClellan the a lowest of Generals.
But, even admitting that to dig dirt is an efficient means of crushing the Southern Confederacy, we submit that the General who adoptstheir ditches, and half of them might as well be equipped with spades as muskets.
What mar glory is there in overcoming an enemy by digging dirt?
Suppose that McClellan should adopt the device of bringing with his army vast quantities of codfish; and placing it to the windward of every Southern town he wished to capture, and the
Gen. McClellan.
It has been generally believed that McClellan, whilst overrated in a military way, possessed at least the qualities of a gentleman.
We understand that his deportment on the Penisut has not been such as to confirm that impressioMcClellan, whilst overrated in a military way, possessed at least the qualities of a gentleman.
We understand that his deportment on the Penisut has not been such as to confirm that impression of his character.
Perhaps the "outside barbarians" of that region, who have derived their ideas of a gentleman from certain antiquated models not much reverenced among the elegant and refined circles of Lincolndom, may not be able to know a gentleman when they see him!
But their impression is that McClellan is a humbug in that as well as in some other things, and that the veneering over his mats vulgarity is very thin indeed.
We are informed that on a late occasion he rode up to the clerkhe American army.
Insult to the memory of a dead enemy never yet fell from the lips of a gentleman and a soldier.
Let McClellan be content with carrying on a war which has brought to the grave so many of the noble sons of the South.
Let the man w
Yankee news.
--A prisoner caught by our troops yesterday on the Chickahominy, four miles north-east of this city, reports that orders had been given by McClellan to attack our army on Tuesday, but the rain prevented, and that an attack would be commenced this (Thursday) morning.
Another Yankee, captured near Ashland, says that Lincoln has issued a proclamation calling for 50,000 additional troops to fill the vacancies caused by death, desertion, and the incidents of battle.