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The Daily Dispatch: February 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], The New York Herald of the 15th. (search)
The New York Herald of the 15th. The waste of composition and labor exhibited in the columns of this paper in its issue of the 15th inst., is truly astonishing.--Three whole pages are devoted to the "Brilliant victory at Roanoke." The first page contains an elaborate map of "the Scene of the Great Success of Gen. Burnside and Commodore Goldborough--Roanoke Island and its Rebel Batteries." Then follows the accounts of the battle extracted and published in our issue of yesterday. The second page is devoted entirely to the publication of the names, regiments, staff officers, and commanders "who won the victory." In addition to these details of every regiment, in which the names of every field officer is paraded, biographical sketches of each individual are given, so that even the most searching curiosity is thoroughly satiated. The third page is almost exclusively devoted to the "Naval Section," giving minute descriptions of the officers and of each gunboat and steamer.
The Daily Dispatch: February 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], Fred. Douglas on the War. (search)
Fred. Douglas on the War. --The New York Times gives the following report of a lecture on the war by the notorious Fred. Douglas: Mr. Douglass, in commencing, said that at the time he proposed to speak, the victories of Fort Henry and Roanoke Island had not been fought, and even those victories had not removed the somewhat sombre view which he took of the war. This war had developed our patience. [Laughter.] He was not here to find fault with the Government; that was dangerous. [Laughter.] Such as it was, it was our only bulwark, and he was for standing by the Government. [Applause.] He would not find fault with Bull Run, Ball's Bluff, or Big Bethel, but he meant to call attention to the uncertainty and vacillation and hesitation in grappling with the great question of the war — Slavery. The great question was, "What shall be done with the slaves after they are emancipated?" He appeared as one who had studied Slavery on both sides of Mason and Dixon's line. He considere
The Daily Dispatch: February 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Charleston. (search)
ave never heard of a war in which there were no reverses, and in which one party was always victorious and the other always beaten. If a defeat entails no dishonor, if it be a defeat of a weaker by a stronger party, and the defeated nobly put forth all his energies, so that he is only overcome at last from sheer weakness and exhaustion, there can be no cause in such a defeat for shame and discouragement. Such has been the character of every disaster we have suffered during this war. In Roanoke Island we had but twenty-five hundred men against ten thousand of the enemy and a hundred ships, at Fort Donelson, our Spartan band seems to have been literally crushed under the dead weight of enormous superiority of numbers. We may the result, but there is no cause of mortification either in it, or of any emotion but pride in the patriot heroes who so long and resolutely struggled against overwhelming forces, and only gave way at last from the utter physical impossibility of farther resistan
The Daily Dispatch: February 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 9 (search)
eturns thanks to Brig.-Gen. Burnside and Flag Officer Goldsborough, and to Brig.-Gen. Grant and Flag-Officer Foote, and the land and naval forces under their respective commands, for their gallant achievements in the capture of Fort Henry and Roanoke Island. While it will be no ordinary pleasure for him to acknowledge and reward, in becoming manner, the valor of the living, he also recognizes his duty to pay fitting honor to the memory of the gallant dead. The charge at Roanoke Island, Roanoke Island, like the bayonet charge at Mill Springs, proves that the close grapple and sharp steel of loyal and patriotic soldiers must always put rebels and traitors to flight. The late achievements of the navy show that the flag of the Union, once borne in proud glory around the world by naval heroes, will soon again float over every rebel city and stronghold, and that it shall forever be honored and respected, as the emblem of Liberty and Union, in every land and upon every sea. By order of the Presid