The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-06-24
Yankee Baysne, Chargias.


The late Robert Baylor semple used to tell Of a
Hro HOOD in his VEINS, aid who always charged his
adversary for the time with being negro. This
Wa done. Of course 10 divert attention from hls
Joins In The hue and cry. and Il the loudes, in the
shout Of stop thief
Doubtless Mcclellan Is acsuatcd by some such
feeling. or knows the Yankee nation to be sore on
shis subject, when he feeds them with the fond
fancy that their robbers have immortaized them.
SELVES by their desperate charges with the oayones
npon the thick array Of tia rebel legions. McCief
Ian gaesscs right The Yankees are sore upon this
sabject-very sore. From the beginning OF ti,s
war they have never made single charge OF tue
hayonet, nor have they ever stood before one OF
the many charges tina, have been made upon
,,As,a long enough for che weapons to cross. They
Invariably run before their adversary gets within
thirty yards Of them. The correspondent Of the
London 7imes, Russell, was nnlucky enough to
S,ate in one Of his letters that they neither made
nor attempted single charge during the whole
xiay at Manassas, aud the contcmptuous comments
with which hts statement was accompanied brought
down shower of abuse upon his head. Ii did
more than that. II caused his exclusion from the
urmy of Mcclellan, who had notion Of allowing
shrewd foreigner 10 be witness TO his defeats In
the field, and his victories on paper, thereby cir
cumscrieins the limits within which, his imagna-
tion Nigh, range when giving tongue to his eS-
ploits. He with safety make the Yankee
nation believe tina, his nicn famous men at the
bayonet AMI he makes good OF his IMMUNITY
from criticism. There is nobody to contradict him,
OF tell unralatable truths to the world.
One of the gentlemen connected with the Eran.
lssv went all tue hospitals IL there any
person therein who received his wounds from the
bayonet This happened nearly a fortnight since
and We do not know that precisely reco,lect the
Issue Of the investigation stated in the paper.
We are under the impression however, that only
two were found Illus wounded, and that they
were accidentally hurt by some of their own com
Iades in the hurry Of the conflict THIS statement
agrees with all we have hear; from other quarters
Wehavee Examined many persons officers and mcn--
with regard to the matter and they all say the Yam
KEGS made no hayonet charge either Williamsburg
OF at Chickahominy. Indeed, they all asseverate
the dxec; reverse. They say that men repeat
edly charged and that in instance did the Yam
KEGS stand long enough 10 receive the shock. Nc
Clellans statement sin his official dispatch with
gard to charge made upon Earys brigade at VIII
hamsburg, was VIGOROUSLY false that General
Early felt himself constrained to give it the lie di.
Ieei. under his own hand in the newspapers. His
statements abou, Yankee charges at Chckahominy
given the lie just direct by every General on
the field But il is not wonderful. man who
ean descend to lie be did about that battle in
other respects, will descend to anything.
Mcclellan evidently wishes TO stimulate his men
to The bayonet trial He has tried whistey, and it
failed He Is now trying to make them believe
that they did things which they never did, in the
hope that they may fly TO do the same thing again.