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The Daily Dispatch: September 21, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ove intelligence, We learned that Grant opened the campaign with one hundred and fifty thousand men. He had modelled his operations upon the great German campaigns of Napoleon, alluded to by us the other day. He expected to turn the right flank of Lee's army, cut him off from Richmond, and destroy him, or drive him to the mountains. Then he would march upon Richmond and enter it in triumph at the head of a victorious army. The Northern papers all said that was his plan. The theory was beautiful, and if General Lee had not been of a most unaccommodating nature, the success would have been correspondent. But he refused to be beaten, and as his defeat formed an important part of the theory, and had been taken for granted in constructing it, the whole structure came to the ground. The New York Herald, however, says his achievements during this campaign have surpassed all the achievements of Napoleon. They have not thus far, however, proved quite so successful as some of Napoleon's;
The Daily Dispatch: September 21, 1864., [Electronic resource], From Georgia. (search)
ne million of pounds of the best beef which the Yankee markets afford, and will feed them full for some time yet to come. Grant has proved nearly as serviceable to Lee in his quality of commissary and quartermaster as Banks did to Jackson in times gone by. As Hampton is now understood to be General Lee's Master of Horse, it cGeneral Lee's Master of Horse, it can hardly be improper to give the public of Virginia, who know him only from his exploits, and who are deeply interested in matters of which he will have the principal charge, some idea of what sort of a man he is. We speak, ourselves, only from hearsay, for we do not recollect that we ever saw him in our lives. He is said to be, rdsman, and an excellent shot; but above all, that he is what Carlyle calls "an earnest man," with no frivolity or childishness about him, but devoted with all the deep enthusiasm of his nature to the cause in which he is engaged, we have said enough, we think, to show that the cavalry of General Lee's army is in very good hands.