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The Daily Dispatch: may 21, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 16 (search)
to do so, will make the work of the army harder, but the work will be cheerfully and thoroughly done. There is no army in all rebeldom, nor all the armies combined that can stand for a moment before the invincible legions of the Army of the Potomac. I say this with a full knowledge of the officers and men composing the army. During the march from Williamsburg here, I have collected the following facts respecting the battle at that place: The Excelsior brigade, commanded by Col. Nelson Taylor, Acting-Brigadier-General, all fought gallantly, and lost more men than any others. Some of the newspapers have very wrongly attributed the victory at Williamsburg to Hancock's troops. This is a great mistake.--Hancock's conduct was, as General McClellan observes in his dispatches, brilliant and superb, but, compared to the bulk of the hard fighting of the day, it was a mere dash of a few minutes. The hard fighting was done by the divisions of General Philip Kearney and General
The Daily Dispatch: may 21, 1862., [Electronic resource], $10 reward. (search)
"Mississippians never Surrender" This was the response of the authorities of Vicksburg to the insolent summons of the Yankee gunboat Captain to surrender the city. It is similar to the memorable reply of General Taylor to Santa Anna, who, with a force of four to one, demanded his surrender on the field of Buena Vista. As the Mexican hosts were overthrown and routed there, we have good reason to hope that the Federal hosts will be overthrown and dismayed on every future field where the subjugation of the South is attempted. Since Jeff Thompson so successfully and heroically resisted the Federal gunboats on the Mississippi, and their great armada of iron-clads was so signally repulsed at Drury's Bluff, these monsters of the water have lost much of their terror, and there is a strong probability that they will meet with stern resistance, rather than willing surrender, hereafter. Let the war cry be, "Confederates never surrender !"