The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-08-02
McC,ellan.s Lc~ses.

e.. ..a,sd, souae time ago our belief that Nc
,,., had lost. stucc he landed In Virginia, at
|, a os, men That we made good guess, we
enabled to prove from tho showing of the
v.,.ees themselves.
=, chandler in his speech, says that, FIRST and
-, ~. 400 men had been sent TO him. This infor.
..a,o he obtained from the War Office Il can.
~. therefore. Re called in question.
., Agate. the correspondent; of the Cincinnati,
.,,.,-..a thorough war paper-says tha, fresi.
riDesln, after bis visi, to Mcclellan nj Berk.
~. s..s 10 four gentlemen. only the Friday before
~. 3sv ao which he was writing, with marked
i -,,.sis !" Il esna tell where the men have gone
"a, armv have sent shere, at one .ime and
. - ere huaared aad ----, perhaps prudence
.nu,res thar saenld leave the nexs two places for
3sras Nank) oae henired and thousand
.. end / csa oGly fad Just half th.., nanny row.
i ,r,s,s ran thev Lsve Comet Burnside accounts 10
q, every MAI he has tasen--so many killed in
,,,,s 50 many wounded; 80 many sick in the
,<oi,s.: 80 many absent on furlough. So does
Rc..ha,l so does Buell.. and so do others. Blu,
4 .ssY tell what has become of half the army I
. ~, down 70 The Peninsula
Now the Aaif of $4,000 is 79. co., and this is the
s,,us loss Of McClellsn's army. according 10 Lia-
4 o,,as s;ims,e, As we may be sure lie did not
,,s.rsra;e bis own lossss, shall assume !, ,Cs;o
p,srs aad put ;aese losses q. aa.oo0 ear own essi.
q .s.s As the Yankee President can get no account,
\ of ,hsse men from Mcclellan, who is constantly
Yrtas tbs, he defeated our army In every battle,
] IL ~slea lie himself was beaten into jelly, we
take iss liberty Of relieving his perplexity.
! They lost, say, 1900 men before York. They
,s $500 S, Williamsburg. They lost 600 at Bar
Evansville. They lost, according to Chandler, 10,
L ee By digging on the Chickahominy. They lost
!, 90 s; Seven Pines The remaining As. .000 they
. either in the bsstles of the las. of June and is,
ot July, from disease or struggling of aud perish
!1s IN tie swamps- Thus we account for the whole
ss sh,y thousand, and thus it appears that when we
rsae heir entire loss In the last named battles at
Ibe.ween 10000 and 5oooo we did no, miss the
asrk very far
This loss believe 10 be unparalleled In the his
ksa-y Of any modern bssieging army. The French did
o sustain the fourth par; of 1t in the siege of Sara
kosss the allies did no. sustain a greater In the
scse Of SehAs'opoi When we take these facts
into consideration, and add to them that the army
which has undergone this tremendous loss has
sbandoned line Of sn,rerchments unequalled in
strength and is now twenty five miles off from the
lately bsleaguered city, whereas i. was before only
afve, stand in utter amazement q, the impu.
I isgce which claims victory Still more are we
3asoanded al the efrontery which supports man
SwAo cal tell soldiers thus beaten and demoraIized d
\ as' they have earned the right Of inscribipc on
3hAr banners the names of the feIds ou -rh;, ,h :,
4si been sisaally and ignominicusly routed Sure
= those soldiers must have known that they had
Deem beaten, aud all the inscriptions in The world
c5nli not have made them believe themselves vic.
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