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The Daily Dispatch: July 28, 1863., [Electronic resource], Our army correspondence. (search)
ommon-place compliment, but what is patent to one who has the opportunity of observing it every day, The reverse at Gettysburg, though by no means a defeat, and Meade's negative victory, by which he saved his army from annihilation, and too badly crippled to accept the gauge of battle at Hagerstown afterwards, and the deliberate withdrawal of Gen. Lee across the Potomac, all attest the never flinching determination of the rank and file of our army, and the unbounded confidence reposed in them by their able leaders. A little over 300 prisoners were started to-day on to Richmond. Most of them are Milroy's "weary boys," who were "picked up"during and after the storming of the fortifications here by Early's division. A considerable number yet remain in the hospital, physically unable to be removed. They have been paroled. P. S.--During Gen. Ewell's late visit to Martinsburg a portion of his corps were occupied in completing the destruction of the Baltimore and Ohio road, &c.