So say our telegraph dispatches. If this be true, where will the rebels
rally? Richmond and Norfolk cannot long
withstand an attack of the Federal forces.
There has been no fight at Corinth, and it is possible there may be
none. The fact of it is, the Southern
Confederacy is not fighting at this juncture for vitality, but its leaders are
contending simply that they themselves may escape. The rebellion is virtually dead, the rebels
scattered; they can never again concentrate in sufficient force to contend with
any show against the Federal troops.
Yorktown evacuated, Gloucester is ours, gunboats going up York river,
McClellan pushing the enemy to the wall, soon Richmond, the capital of the
rebel league, will be hours and the stars and stripes again wave over the
ancient dominion.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette,
Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, May 6, 1862, p. 2
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