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The Daily Dispatch: August 10, 1864., [Electronic resource], Foreign Miscellany. (search)
Yankee army of the Potomac. A short time will probably solve the next plans of this army. One thing is certain, and that is, if its commanders keep it where it is through the present and ensuing months, death will do much to thin their ranks. The Confederate cause will be assisted not a little by that determination on their part. It would have been infinitely preferable to us to have had a general engagement with the enemy on the north bank of the Chickahominy, or even on the south bank of the James, immediately after Grant slided over on that side. But as such a trial of conclusions could not be had then, and at those places, we are just as well off now to let disease work its telling effects on the army of Northern men, hemmed in, as they are, on the flat land and swamps of the Appomattox and the James. It is better that our enemies should be nursed first, and then die, than that we should have to hazard our men's lives and use our ammunition in the killing of them. W