The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-07-09
Our Troops In the Late Battles.

We have been, all our lives. devoted 10 that
species OF literature which consists in the descrip-
tcn Of battles and sieges Consegue ntly the guam
.itv we nave read In this department is greatly dis
oroportionste to the quantity We have read in ali
other DEPARTMENTS put together. We caa safely
aver that we never read OF any single feat, ar any
series of fea.s either In ancient CT modern times,
tha. csn at all compare with the exploits of our ar
my on the Chickahomny, during the week ending
With Thursday last. The storm of Badsjos was an
sehievment Of unriyalled splendar st that day
Che British army has frequently, In Iudis accom-
plished enterprises in the way OF storming that ap
psared Impossible. But when, before, did any army
ever storm. twenty miles of redoneis and entrench
,,epts, MI constructed with the utmost skill, and
defended with the most obstinate pertiuacity Our
brave-,roops went from reooubt to redout, and
from ear.hwork 10 earthwork without batting or
Looking the right left They lost heavily, II is
szue but they accomplished far more than is TO be
looked for in the immediate results CT their victory,
enormous ~ they are They established for the IA
selves name which will be of everlasting service
10 their country. The prestige Of nsincibiiity is
theirs, and will remain theirs In ell future time
The moral Ia TO the physical, says Napoleon in the
proportion CT three 10 enc. Their enemies, in flu
rurc will be half beaten before firing shot. Tie
very terror of their will do As nach for them
as theis bullets and bayonst Even II they had
succssded in routing the enemy al all points. they
would have gained much by the incompatible
bravery with which they fought.
hat .hey did rent the enemy at all points. This
= fact which all the lying bulletins and all the
Newspaper correspondence in the world cannot snc
cssd Ia sepprassina. The world can see that the en-
eny had = line sx.snd.ng FROM long distance
above ti.e Ncedcg Bridges In Hanover to the
Io0g9 Bridge in Hsarico. The world can see
shst all the formidable positions along that immense
hne hays bccn abandoned The world can see that
shs whaIs routs Ia strewed with the deIris Of a
broken and rcnted army. The world can see thar
the York River Railroad 10 In our possession and
NAat the formidable position on this side of the
Chiekahominy, which was 10 be the base OF Nc
Gjllsn's advance upon the city, is in our hands.
The world can see the evidences Of unparalleled
diuester In the ruin Of wagons destruction Of com
naissssy stores, 1he reiinQuishneni Of tents, the
abandonment q hospitals, the capture of 10000
pgiscners, the dispersion and disorganization of
whole divisions the piles of dead abandoned 10 onr
Sorees. tho retreat OF Mcclellan to W.stovrr. and
his reliance on bis guuboafs efter all his bragpsdo
ola, 70 enssse his safety. Yankee newspapers cen.
not 10 the world oEt Of its senses The world VIII
see all this in spiss If them aI. and 1t VIII ask
e this be the fruit Of Mccleiisn's victory what
sort cf fruit would defeat be sxpectsdt to bring
Sssth1
II nny be that Mcclellan may be reinforced, and
mska smother Effort Be 1t 20. We axe Ia the
haads II tlsn<ral who has just proved himself d
In fia,,sarf f war and who ba. ta,,Obt hys