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The Daily Dispatch: March 5, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Burnside Expedition. (search)
clamation from Com. Goldsborough and Gen. Burnside "to the people of North Carolina," savors of the usual amount of Puritan cant and inflated patriotism: Roanoke Island, N. C., Feb. 18.--The mission of our joint expedition is not to invade any of your rights, but to assert the authority of the United States, and to close withievish hands upon, even to private letters and other matters of no possible interest to the public. The following is Com. Lynch's report of the engagement at Roanoke island: Flag-Ship Sha-Bish, off Roanoke island, Feb. 7, 1862.--Mr. I have the honor to report that the enemy, at 10 A. M. to with twenty-two heavy steamers and Roanoke island, Feb. 7, 1862.--Mr. I have the honor to report that the enemy, at 10 A. M. to with twenty-two heavy steamers and one tug, made an attack upon this squadron and the battery at Pork Point. As his numerical force was over whelming, we the action at long range, but as our shell fell short, while his burns over and around as, (owing, I think, to the superior quality of his powder,) we were eventually compelled to shorten the distance.
The Daily Dispatch: March 5, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Burnside Expedition. (search)
The Prospect ahead. The public mind of the entire South is fast recovering from the causeless panic occasioned by the unfortunate affairs at Roanoke Island and Fort Donelson. Considerate men see that much ultimate good may come of them, by inuring us to defeats that must often occur in a war with a power possessed of inferior numbers and superior resources of all kinds, by curing us of that rashness which our continued successes had begotten,--and, most of all, by stimulating enlistments, and thus increasing the numbers and efficiency of our armies. It is now almost certain, that by the 1st of April we shall have a larger disposable force in the field than that of our enemies; for they must retain two hundred thousand men in Maryland to guard and retain that State and the City of Washington, a hundred thousand in Kentucky and Missouri to hold those States, some twenty thousand in their various forts, and probably eighty thousand in their fleets. Thus, their stationary forc
The Daily Dispatch: March 5, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 18 (search)
ce," in a recent number of your paper. As far as I am concerned, he might with more propriety have subscribed in Justice to his lubrication. He says: "The forces under Gen. Henningeen, with fifteen pieces of artillery, were ordered to Roanoke island, but that he unfortunately misunderstood his orders and remained at Elizabeth City. There can be no reasonable doubt that his force and his fifteen pieces of artillery were to defend this identical, causeway. There can be no doubt that if tll not permit them with impunity to report or lie me into any kind of undeserved disrepute. I will simply state, as matters of fact, that I did not disobey or misunderstand any order; that obeying my orders, I could not possibly have been on Roanoke Island with my command; that I had not the amount of artillery mentioned, and as a matter of opinion, (or rather conviction,) I will add, that if I had, I could not have changed the issue of the gallant fight made by a portion of our forces on the i