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The Daily Dispatch: September 15, 1863., [Electronic resource], Negro man for sale (search)
ilence prevails along our picket lines from the lofty Blue Ridge to tide-water. Hostilities, as if by mutuality, have been suspended between the two most powerful armies of America. How long this apparent armistice will continue here I know not, perhaps until some huge and bloody tragedy can be performed on some other field of Mars. I have such unbounded confidence in the skill of Gen. Lee that I never allow my brain to be perplexed by idle conjectures about his schemes. Deserters from Gen. Meade's army are constantly coming into our camps. They give very unfavorable accounts of the army. They consist chiefly of drafted men from the New England States; generally well clad, but very unsoldierly like in their deportment, evincing a great want in drill and discipline. On yesterday I witnessed a review of Gen. Wm. E. Jones's brigade, commanded at present by Gen. Lunsford L. Lomax. It is a fine body of troops, and looked very formidable drawn up in line, on an extensive field we