... prejudices of youth, it has dropped over the errors and weaknesses of it a most reverend and majestic garb. Conservative or Whig, what matters how we call the man whose last effort was as pure a piece of service for England as Nelson's fall upon the deck ...

... enomy had been driven from several positions, but still confronted him. He captured 20 guns and 2,500 prisoners. The Richmond Whig estimates the Confederate lost 5,000 men, including six generals killed and seven wounded. The Federal loss is estimated at ...