The Richmond Dispatch of the 22d of February pays the flowing extraordinary compliment to the Federal Navy. We quote:
“There is no disaster of the present war which it is so difficult to bear with any degree of patience or philosophy as the almost uniform success of the enemy’s gunboats over our land batteries. It is a thing absolutely unprecedented in its extent in the history of warfare. In nine cases of every ten which have ever occurred before, land fortifications have driven off vessels as often as they attacked them. In the Russian war the immense steam navies of England and France were beaten by the Russian fortifications in almost every encounter.”
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, March 22, 1862, p. 2
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