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The Daily Dispatch: September 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], One hundred Dollars reward. (search)
Stringham and Butler.
--The New York Herald insists that General Wool is entitled to the whole credit of the Hatteras affair, and adds: "As soon as it is accomplished the officer commanding the naval force and the officer commanding the land force hasten to their homes to receive ovations which properly belong to another." Stringham and Butler are fair specimens of the vanity, assurance and humbugging propensities of the mock heroes of the North.
Nothing better can be expected of Butler; but Stringham, who is an old naval commander, ought to be ashamed of himself to permit his countrymen to glorify him, much less to run off in search of a glorification over such a victory as that at Hatteras.
No one knows better than Stringham thStringham that the reduction of the sand-bank forts by an immensely superior force was simply owing to the fact that we had no guns of sufficient range to reach the fleet, whilst the fleet had guns that enabled it to take a position entirely free from danger, a