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The Daily Dispatch: September 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], [Second week.] (search)
paroled and told to get in their boats and make a straight course for home. Obtained a Portland paper this morning, in which we are called "pirates," and a long list of atrocities committed by the crew of the pirate " Tallahassee" given to the public. The number of direct, unmitigated lies embraced in this account of our doings is most astonishing. One man especially, who, to my personal knowledge, was treated kindly on board, publishes a "stunner." Some stories told by the late Baron Munchausen, and generally considered difficult of belief, were simple exaggerations compared to the stories of this martyr. His clothes were stolen, his hat taken from his head, his boots from his feet, and, horrible to tell, he was given nothing to eat but meat and bread. When the captain of the Howard was with us, there was a Herald on board containing some falsehoods of this kind, and they were shown to him with the remark that all prisoners had received the same treatment given him. He repli
The Daily Dispatch: October 7, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Northern papers of the 3d instant contain some additional intelligence, which we copy below: The attack on Richmond. The correspondence relative to the attack on Richmond are fully equal to Munchausen, though in two or three glimmers of truth we find how much the Yankees suffered. Of the advance from Deep Bottom, a letter says: Colonel Samuel V. Duncan's Third brigade, of General Paine's colored division, of the Eighteenth corps, being in the lead, they charged this line of the enemy's work, but were repulsed with much loss, nineteen officers out of twenty-two being either killed or wounded. A charge was then made by the Second brigade of the same division, under Colonel Draper, with entire success, the works being carried with considerable loss on both sides. The Second brigade was assisted in this affair by the Fifth regiment of colored troops, a part of the First brigade, under Major Terry, who lost one hundred and forty-three men and five officers in the
The Daily Dispatch: January 4, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
hen agreed to take care of the American interest; that if he intended to carry out this promise there was now no other appointment of any note left in the city of New York--every other office being filled except this; on Thursday, we received a satisfactory message; we returned on the 15th; Mr. Andrews remained a few days; I have not stated all the conversation, but the substance of it. Stoneman's raid — a List of Munchausens. Stoneman has arrived at Nashville, and gives a regular Munchausen account of his raid into Southwestern Virginia. The following is the story: The forces consisted of General Burbridge's troops and General Gillem's East Tennessee troops, all under command of Major-General Stoneman. They left Knoxville on the 18th. The movement was unknown to the rebels, who were not discovered until after three days. At Kingsport, General Jones's command was attacked, consisting of about five hundred of Morgan's old command. The forces were killed scattered
The Daily Dispatch: January 28, 1865., [Electronic resource], The Army of Tennessee. (search)
we hear now! A great disappointment, a great misfortune at the best, but not the irreparable calamity that so many imagined. The Army of Tennessee, under such leaders as Johnston or Beauregard, will still, with the blessing of God, retrieve its laurels. There is no reliance on Yankee accounts of the condition of Confederate armies. Such accounts, and all others, from Yankee sources, when transferred to Confederate columns, should be read as so many Gulliver's Travels and adventures of Munchausen. But a lie when put in type seems to have a stronger fascination. We are prone to believe a thing when in print, that we would have no faith in, in manuscript or by word of mouth. We should be careful how we put confidence in all we read. The Devil may, after all, have had something to do with Dr. Faustus. The Army of Tennessee, under proper leadership, will yet vindicate its claims to the gratitude and admiration of the country. Its patient endurance of years of toil, peril and a
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