The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-07-11
VOL. XIV.

and D. IL uiil snruc,i them on my right We ekilleJ
vast numbers Of the enemy, and left vast army of
my wounded in his hands Knowing the great lack
OF provisions aud medical stores in the rebel ranks
| let them take thousand Of my well men aad sA
my sick. My wounded. a!ek, aud soand men, will
aid greatly TO the distress of the enemy and help 10
crush this unnatural rebellion No such magnificent
scheme was devised Ii; Sebastopal.
The rebels havingcut my telegraph wires, fourd
II necessary TO invent new system Of signals |
therefore adopted the old idea of signaling by lights;
so msde bonires Out Of few million IT dollars
worth of eonsiissary aud quartermaster stores |
am happy To state that the signals understood
throughout my whole line. In this age Of progress
we onght to improve upon old ideas, and am con
tiient that can firmly claim that such signal
lights were used at Sebastopo
On the 2oth the rebel Generals Ewell aud Stuart
cut the railroad destroyed my stores At Dispatch
Station, White House &C. We lost stores TO the
part OF my original scheme. long conceived and
now handsomely executed. Neither the Russians
nor Allies dill anything Of the Kind AZ Sebastopo
On the 23th l resolved to toll the enemv still
further on, a1fd 1t became again necessary to Llakc
signals 10 my army. The better to deceive The en-
envy, blew M ine engine and several .onS of
powder, instead Of using signal guns. eln happy
to say that te xplosions heard troHg bout
whole line, and were understood by my gallant
boys. No such substitute for sigma guns used
Al Sebastepol.
That quiet Sabbath afternoon I resumed my
marcA for James river. but the serenity and calm,
Of that holy day broken in by the rebel Nc
Laws, who attacked me III Il most barbarous and
uncyiEzed manner. We fought hiIn until dark,
wksA iisgusted with the atgoeious eonluc, Of Me
LaHt, 1fes3fvpd to leave him and cantinua niy
march 10 James river. used fhe s,ifle hrppy
pedient of making signal lights by burning my
stores lett near the battle ground two thotI-
sand Of my sick and wounded directing Gen Sum.
ner to destroy al medical ana coNuissary stores
At Savage Station Ii is difficult 10 conceive how
the rebels sustain this new burden.
In my piiieia! report 10 the hen. Secretary of
War, / would earnestly call the attention of the
Rev. MIR Beecler and the Purltans OF New Eng,
land to the fact that was attacked The holy
Sabbath day by that goddess rebel MeLaws. Such
n thing was only of weekly recurrence at sebasto-
pol
On the Seth, let the rebel Jackson and D. H.
Hill take thousand of my men, on the road 10
White Oak river. Some five hundred mules were
also turned to the rebel Col Munford 10 add 20
the difficulties of the forage question with the enemy
Finding that the rebels Jackson and Hill Were close
behind me, tore up the bridge a; White Oak river
and resolved to give them battle at long taw This is
popular mode OF fighting with my men, whentheir
long range guns are ont of reach of the balls Of
the enemy But, while we were having fine time
ut our favorte game at White Oak river, the ever
lasting LonGstreet and A. p Hill struck in flank
and killed and captured great number of my
lnen. Ny great master, General Scott could not
stand fire in the and front, could be ex-
peced 10 stand fire in flank and rear. therefore
fell back and tolled the rebels None of the
Generals at Sebastopoi acted unfairly did these
four rebel Generals
had now toiled The rebels to the very place /
| wanted to get them, 'Malvin Hil' magnificent
height, defended the tanks by the gun
boats and only approachable by ravines swept
sby my artillery. l anticipated a glorious time
in siaughtering the rebels. The rebel troops
of Jackson, Huger, Magruder D. II. Hin, and
Whiting, swarmed around me all day. They
came up 20 my batteries yelling and shouting, and
moved them down with grape and ealinster ri
half range. 1t glorious victory but could
not persuade our men that it a glorious victo-
ry far than. l therefore yielded the wishes OF
my heroic boys and resolved 20 :oii the rebels OH
When the beligerents at Seb2stopol gained bril-
liant battle they held the field MY abandonment
of Mayn Hill was, therefore, different from any
thing done at Sebastopol. l hstter myself that l
have seriously crippled the enemy by leaving ano
ther large lot of sick and wounded in his hands.
had almost forgotten to state that have abandon
ed in all about fifty of my magnificent Parrot aI,
Napoleon guns. The enemy will be compelled to
feed large number of horses to transport these
guns and il is difficult 10 imagine how starving
beldom can support such a burden. it is very graf
flying to report the excellent health of my men,
notwth standing their tatigue A report on the lAt
July that Stuart's cavalry was in our rear, devel
oped the fact that our unfirng boys could march
five miles in an hour. That they might march
with greater ease, all threw away their knpsacl:s
and oyercoGts, and several thousand threw away
their guns. Nothing OF this Kind was done at Sc
bastopo.
ain now on the banks of Ike majestic james
whales aad catfish disporting in its yeiioNsh
CLASSY bosom the soft Zephyrs gently ritfic liz sur
face. The mosquitoes and the frogs unite dul-
Get symphony with the owls and whippoos Wills
The dense dark foliage speaks eloquentiy Of rebel
sharpshooters. In fact ait nature is redoient with
grandeur, magncence, lnagniloquence, and glory.
l feel inspired, elevated, submated, etLegialiZed
by the great scenes through which | have passed.
My victories have won eternal fame imlnor-
tality is mine, Immortality is lniGe. have ia
ken Richmond, but L have taken the gunb0ats. /
have not pushed Johnston TO the WALL but l
have pushed myself against the old reioubiabIr
Stonewall Immortality is mine Immortality is
mine
EWitb lofty sentiments Of exalted esteem,
abide,
G. Il. MCCLELLAg,
Maj. Gen'l Comdg near the Gunboats
p. ST. omitted to state that fort y-six of the re
bel regiments from North Carolina ! have
told you before of the strong Union sentiments eX
istipg among the troops from that State. From
the eloseuess with which they followed me- it is
now demonstrated beyond all peradventure that
they desired to establish intimate relations with uy
brave and noble reserves. Had not the Tar River
boys kept shooting bullets the sweetest intimacy
might have been established between n...
Sincerely, q. b. MCC.,
Near the t,Unt,,n.s