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MARGINALIA 


OR, 


GLEANINGS  FROM  AN  ARMY  NOTE-BOOK. 


BY      "PEKSONNE," 

AIUiY    CORRESPONDENT    OF    THE    CHARLESTON    COURIER. 


(  OLUMBIA,    8     C: 

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Entered  according  to  Act  of  Congress,  in  the  year  1864, 

By  F.  G.  DeFOXTAINE, 

In  the  Clerk's  Office  of  the  District  Court  of  the  Confederate  States,  for  the  District  of 

South  Carolina. 


INTRODUCTION. 


The  object  of  the  present  work  is  three-fold — to  perpetuate  the  memory 
of  the  outrages  of  an  infamous  foe — to  exhibit  the  virtues  of  the  Southern 
people,  and  to  preserve  to  posterity  a  selection  of  Sketches  and  Incidents 
illustrative  of  the  different  phases  of  the  Southern  war.  Compiled  as  they 
arc  from  various  sources,  it  is  unnecessary  to  apologize'  for  the  fact  that 
some  of  the  anecdotes  herein  presented  have  been  published  before ;  but 
for  the  first  time  they  are  now  given  to  the  world  in  an  aggregated  form. 
It  is  believed  that  they  will  entertain  and  instruct  the  reader  of  the  present 
generation ;  yet,  if  no  other  purpose  is  served,  they  may  supply  the  future 
historian  with  "  facts  stranger  than  Gction,"  and,  t6  our  children  and 
children's  children,  exhibit  the  lights  and  shadows  of  the  times  in  which 
thrir  fathers  lived. 

The  incidents  of  "  Marginalia  "  are  characteristic  of  every  class  of  persons 
on  both  sides — Presidents  and  People — Generals  and  Privates — Soldiers 
individually  and  collectively — self-sacrificing  civilians — noble  hearted  wo- 
men, brave  boyf ,  impulsive  children  and  devoted  slaves.  The  highest  moral 
integrity,  and  the  lowest  human  depravity,  are  blended  in  their  exhibition 
with  the  humorous,  religious  and  heroic;  and  the  compiler  deems  it  no  fault, 
if,  in  the  miscellaneous  arrangement  of  his  subjects,  the  thoughts  of  his 
readers  trip  suddenly 

"  From  grave  to  gay — from  lively  to  severe." 


TO 

HON.  GEORGE  A.  TRENHOLM, 

SECRETAKY  OF  THE  TREASURY  OF  THE  CONFEDERATE  STATES, 

■ 

THIS   VOLUME   OF 

INCIDENTS  ILLUSTRATIVE  OF  THE  SOUTHERN  REVOLUTION, 

Js  dedicated  a*  to  one  who,  in  bis  own  person,  nobly  represents  the  highest  type  of 

Southern  character. 


INDEX. 


Page. 

The  Two  Causes 1 

Tbo  Two  Races 1 

Mr.  Seward  to  Lord  Lyons 3 

The  Persistency  of  Hate 3 

The  Piety  of  the  Confederates 3 

Hemes 4 

General  Lee 5 

Liberty's  There  Yet *. 6 

Didn't  Wish  to  Expose  his  Hear <> 

Portrait  of  Stonewall  Jackson 7 

A  Yankee  Opinion  of  Southern  Woman's 

Hate 8 

Worthy  of  Their  Sires 8 

The  Agonies  of  th.-  Battle-field 9 

Shoulder  Straps  do  not  Stake  an  Officer..  !• 

"Stonewall"  administers  the  Sacraaient  9 

The  Mountaineers  of  Virginia 10 

A  Noble  Slave 11 

Federal  and  Confederate  Generals 12 

Turks  and  Yankees 12 

A  Pillaging  Expedition 12 

Pen  Portrait  of  Gen.  John  Morgan 13 

The  Battle-field 14 

Gallant  Exploit 15 

Fidelity  of  our  Negroes 16 

A  Good  Caution 17 

Hurrah  for  tie-  I  >.■ » 1 1  17 

Running  a  Fal  Lady: 17 

Issuing  his  Rations 17 

Barbarous  Federal  Generals 18 

Waifs  from  a  Clamp  Diary  19 

Negro  Dignity' 20 

An  Incident  of  the  Battle,  of  Fredericks- 
burg   20 

Yankee  Reverenoe  for  General  Lee 21 

The  Spirit  of  our  Homes 21 

The  True  Spirit 22 

litj  of  our  Blares  23 

A  Southern  Florence  Nightingale 2.> 

An  Apt  Reply i  i 

A  Noble  f'omp  imenl 21 

I  D 

id  his  Wife  2., 

':■  Bident  Davis  and  his  Chil- 
dren   27 

The  Sport  of  our  Soldiers 

A  Nob|e  Boy 29 

29 

,",ii 

■nwchr 31 

Our  '  

\   i  onthful  Hero 

G<mi.  ey  .1  ohnston.  '. 

Pettigrew .",1 

31 

Men 

Col.  I  

How  a  Brave  Man  can  Die 35 


PagH. 

Model  Speeches  by  onr  Generals 39 

Individual  Prowess , 40 

A  Brigade  of  Heroes 41 

A  Spiritod  Dash  in  the  Enemies  Lines....  41 

The  Lone  Sentinel 42 

A  Touching  Inoident 42 

Yankee  Cruelty 43 

Vandalism  in  Jackson,  Mississippi 43 

Richmond  during  the   First  Year  of  the 

War 44 

Curious  Item , 44 

X/Uss 'em   for  Me 45 

The  Latest  Mud  Story 45 

"  1  >hiii  Mine  Eyes  for  Two    Hours" 45 

Samson  aifd  Gen.  Popo 46 

Stuart's  Cavalry 46 

Bnby  Patriotism 47 

Col.  Ashby 17 

English  Tribute  to  Southern   Soldiery 48 

They  W  n't  Hun 49 

A  Yankee  Hero 49 

Gen.  Jenkins'  ParolingJProccss _ 50 

\    Beautiful  Document 50 

Vandalism  in  East  Tenn 51 

Weak  in  bis  Religion 51 

Brutal  Treatment  of  Confederates 51 

A  Confirmed  Lunatic 52 

Fighting  Joe  Hooker  at  Chancellorsville.  62 

A  Peeress  of  "Molly  Stark" 53 

A  True  Girl '. 54 

gro  vs.  Yankees 54 

I  on  a  Dark  Subject 55 

Borg 56 

Death  of  a  Brave  Man 56 

Interest  ing  Soene 57 

All  Quiet  on  the  Ogeechee 57 

The  Si  ar. 5S 

Id  A  Iventure 

An  Independent   North  I  arolinian 59 

Incidents  of  Oak  Hill 59 

Grai  e  Robbers 

Romance  and  Reality 60 

Sharply  Shot S3 

"  The  Shtone  Man" 62 

Morg  Telegraph  Operator 

Yankee C, ) 

[ncidenl 64 

...  86 

II  .  i '   .    Vioktburg— Bill  of  I  an .. 



Life  Amonr;  th«'  Picket.- 

'  

-■  69 

Benj.  F.  Batter 

ting 7n 

<e  Love  for  tho  Negro 71 


INDEX. 


Teanesseeans  «n  a  Charge 7 1 

■  :il  Negro 

Like-  m  Postage  Stamp 

In'l  Talk 

Selling  a  Colonel 

An  fncident 

A  Base  de  Qaerre *■ 

Moral  tb.  Brute  Force 

■in;:   Incident T ti 

Yankee  Testimony 77 

The  Climax  of  Vandal  Fiendisbncss 77 

■  thing  Rick 

How  Old  Smith  Escaped 7^ 

Had  a  Reputation 7'.1 

Taking  the  Oatl 7'.' 

The  Yaiiki.  ro 7'.' 

81 

81 

.  mi I 

Wanted  to  be  Taken 

Boy  Heroes 82 

ral   Atrocities  in  Baltimore 83 

Supi'lie.  and  Information  for  Rebels 86 

r 86 

Don't  Like  Forrest 87 

The  Pions  Slave 88 

Yankee  Raiders  in  Richmond 89 

Milroy  in  Winchester,  Virginia 89 

Admirable  Retort PO 

A  Brave  Negro 90 

.  Randolph  Blockaded 91 

Gen.  Stuart  and  the  Miller '.'1 

Jackson   after  the  .Main  Chance 92 

Whiskey  and  Turpentine 92 

Northern  Testimony  concerning  a  North- 
ern Prison 92 

Stung  by  a  Bung 94 

Death  on  the  Battle-field 94 

Major  A:  M.  Lee  and  Son 94 

Piety  of  a  General 96 

Oar  Rag  90 

Without  Saddle  or  Spur 90 

The  John  Brown  Raid 96 

Laconic 97 

A  Bloody  Charge  on  a  Stove  Pipe 97 

A  Good  Thing  from  Gen.  Bragg 

■• 98 

To  tubs  and  a  Lazy  Soldier 99 

.' 99 

Confederate   fanatic 100 

Lovers  vs.  Substitutes l  DO 

Gun 100 

Scathing  Satire .101 

A  Western  Banger  and  his  Revenge 104 

Rebel-ions 106 

tfol  Drunk 106 

be  Battle  of  Gettysburg...  1 06 

A  Council  of  War 106 

How  Did  he  Die 106 

Willie  P.  Mangum 107 

Gen.  Joe  Johnston  a  Shoemaker 107 

Camp  Fun 107 

Scene  in  a.  Hospital 108 

Army  Signal  Corps 108 

Our  Cavalry" in   '  raia lio 

A  Laughable  Mistake im  ■ 


P»ee. 

Outrages  on   Chnrrhr? Ill 

112 

Late 1 12 

m  the  Rappahannock 118 

•\  .Military  Execution 114 

For  Three  Years  or  the  War L16 

B  i 116 

[uoorrij  110 

Dr.  Warren  Stone  of  New*  Orleans' 116 

A  Candi  I  Witness 117 

A  Brutal  Murder 117 

Tombstone  Harangue 1  IS 

How  to  Obey  Orders 110 

Yankco  Barbarity 120 

Siege  of  Vicksburgby  Moonlight 121 

f  S  :nkee  Officers 122 

A  Devil  in  a  Stove  Pipe 123 

The  Old  Lady  and  Black  Flag 123 

Execution  of  two  Spies 124 

Joe  Parson 8  of  Baltimore 12S 

A  V'w  War  Cry 129 

Fool   Cavalry ISO 

A  New  Inquisition  with  Old  Horrors ISO 

Novel  System  of  Exchange 132 

A  Yankee  llero 132 

Incident — Annie  Clark 133 

Serenade — Scigel 133 

A  Substituted  Stay  Behind 134 

The  Frenchman's  Preference 134 

Narrative — Lamar  Fontaine,  185 

"  Bress  do  Lor'  I  is  Seoesh  V  t" 136 

The  Ubiquitous  Jackson 137 

Female  I  137 

.An  Item  for  the  Northern  Press 137 

Lamar  Fontaine  on  a  Scout 138 

Southern   Ladies  141 

A  Brave  Boy 141 

Last  Moments  of  Captain  Wise 142 

Wasn't  Skeered 143 

Horrors  of  War .' M  ! 

Keen  Retort 144 

A  Heroic  Cirl 146 

Yankee  Outrages  in  Memphis,  Tenn 146 

11  Jackson's  Secrets 115 

An  Incident  of  the  Rappahanock 146 

A  Household  Angel 146 

The  Ladies  of  Fredericksburg 147 

Old  Blizzard 148 

Departure  of  Confederates  from  New  Or- 

:,148 

Afraid  of  Fire 150 

ing  South  Carolinian 151 

ate  Flag, 151 

Fun  in  the  Federal  Camp 152 

'   Rule  in    New  Orleans 153 

of  Them .'. 155 

Who's  Bat 155 

K<  i  ping  Cool 150 

•  ■  ("ill 150 

Aunt  Betsey...; 166 

The  One  Hundred  California  Cavalry 150 

Ahead  of  All 157 

An  Exemption  Story 158 

Gen.  Johnston  and  Judy  Paxton 158 

Wanted  to  Trade 15'.) 

A  Yankee  Brigadier  and  VirginiaMatron.150 


INDEX. 


r.iee. 

The  Martyr  Mumfonl 159 

Norah  McCarty 160 

A  Dusky  Volunteer 1G2 

A  Battlo  Incident 162 

Enormities  in  the  West 163 

Jeb  Stuart  and  Gen.  Bayard 163 

A  Noble  Mother 16-1 

A  Providential  Rescue 164 

A  Lean  Trio 164 

A  True  Heroine 165 

Singular  Battle  Incident 165 

Narrow  Escape  of  Stonewall  Jackson 166 

r  a  Faithful  Servant 166 

A  Feat  of  Daring .' 167 

Cavalry  Pictures 168 

Abe's  Latest  Joke <.   170 

A  Vigilant  Sentinel 171 

An  Incident  of  the  Siege  of  Vioksburg....l71 

Three  Wild  Irishmen 172 

An  Adventure  in  thu  AVest 173 

The  Private  Soldier 174 

Presence  of  Mind 175 

"Here's  Your  Mule" 170 

Yankee  Officer  at  Vicksburg 1 76 

A  Joke  on  a  Chaplain  .176 

Maintaining  the  Honor  of  the  Flag 177 

Dis  Am  Massa  Linkun's  Proclamation....  178 

The  Nigger  Minister  in  Washington 17!) 

What  Nassau  Darkies  Think  of  Yankees.180 

Fighting  a  Jew 181 

Romantic  Incident  181 

Morgan  in  Kentucky 1^2 

A  Patriotic  Mother.. 

A  Document  of  Evidence 185 

Brilliant  Charge 187 

Badly  Frightened - 1S8 

.  on  lake  Grelnbaoks 188 

•  deracy  in  January,  1S63 189 

A  Heroine  at  Vicksburg 189 

The  Pugnacious  >  190 

Well  Put 191 

The  Cutest  Above  the  Graves 192 

Juvenile  Joke ,192 

Incident  of  the  Columbus  Fight 192 

Jackson's  Last   Hours 

Bu tier's  Perquisites 196 

Gen.  Hardee  and  the  Arkansian 

8  tuart's  Exploits 196 

.i 

Incident  of  the  Battles  on   the   Rappa- 

I; 200 



-in 201 

.■  the  Battle  of  Williamsburg., 

A  Poser 

■  I  ween  Two 



ei  and  <  bildren  in  Battle 

Uabama 

A   V  





Parting  with  the  Stonewall  I 



The  Hero  among  Children 207 


Pag*. 
Recollection  of  the  Stonewall  Brigade. ...208 

The  Last  Scene  of  All 208 

Jackson  and  Lee 209 

Could'ut  Get  Board 209 

Gen.  D.  II.  Hill 210 

Sti  phen  D.  Lee 210 

An  Incident 210 

Won't  Some  One  Kiss  me  for  my  Mother.211 

Push  them  to  the  Slaughter  Pen 212 

National  Statistics 213 

Brute  Butler 213 

How  Lincoln  Recruits  his  Armies 2!  I 

Anecdote  of  Gen.  Sherman 214 

The  Right  Sort  of  Spirit 214 

Incident  of  the  Campaigu  on  the  South- 
Side 215 

The  Creoles  of  Louisiana 215 

John  Robinson 216 

Wendell  Phillips , 216 

Scenes  on  the  Mississippi 217 

A  GallantAct  217 

An  Army  Wedding 218 

Incident  pf  the  Battle  of  Oostanaula 220 

Affecting  Incident 220 

The  Ne  Plus  Ultra  of  Yankee  Impudence. 221 

Gen.  E.  C.  Walthall 221 

Seigel's  Equestrianism 222 

Pillow's  Conscripts 222 

A  Warrior's  Death  223 

A  Gallant  Sergeant 223 

Worthy  of  his  Father 223 

How  Gen.  Polk  Got  into  an  Indiana  Ke- 

giment 

and  His  Mother 221 

Exciting  Partisan  Adventure 225 

An  Incident 225 

Interesting  to  Yankee  Purchasers  of  Beal 

Estate 226 

Dwight  Sherwood 

Arrested  by  Ladies 227 

Backing  a  5  in       

o  Patriotism 

it  for  the  Times  228 

field 229 

230 

(.'.ii  i  Fare 233 

A  Rebel  Lieutenant  apd  his  Broth   

■  v  Miller  -The  Young  Warrior 234 

iy  in  the  Yankee  Lines 

A  Nighl  in  Charleston 





An  Ii  

The  Rebel  I  

Lincoln  upon  the  Battle-field — More  of 

Pr<  ridential  Jokes 

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MARGIN-ALIA; 


OR, 


GLEANINGS  FROM  AN  ARMY  NOTE-BOOK 


THE   TWO    CAUSES. 


"Let  it  be  remarked,"  says  the  London  Index,  u  that  while  all  other  nations 
have  written  thci*  own  histories,  the  brief  history  of  the  Confederates, 
already  so  full  of  imperishable  glory,  has  been  written  for  them  by  their 
euemies,  or  at  best  by  lukewarm  neutrals.  AboVe  all  has  the  Confederate 
nation  distinguished  itself  from  its  adversaries  by  modesty  and  truth,  those 
noblest  ornaments  of  human  nature.  A  heartfelt,  unostentatious  piety  has 
been  the  source  whence  their  army  and  people  have  drawn  their  inspirations 
of  duty,  of  honor,  and  of  consolation.  The  North  has  produced  no  such 
man  as  Stonewall  Jackson;  and  to  Davis,  Lee,  and  Longstreet,  it  can  oppose 
only  an  Abe  Lincoln,  a  Hooker,  and  a  Pope.  While  on  one  side  of  the 
Potomac  internal  peace  has  never  been  disturbed,  freedom  of  speech  and  of 
the  press  has  never  been  impaired,  and  the  rights  of  the  citizens  have 
remained  sacred,  though  the  body  politic  was  straining  in  an  agony  of  des- 
perate self-defence ;  on  the  other  side  of  that  stream,  though  no  enemy's 
foot  has  yet  trod  the  soil,  a  military  despotism  maintains  itself  bv  a  reign 
of  terror.  Surely  these  are  palpable  facts  which  might  weigh  against 
unsupported  slanders,  whether  clothed  in  the  meretricious  charms  of  fiction, 
or  uttered  by  blasphemers  of  the  Beecher  and  Cheever  school  " 

THE    TWO    RACES. 

In  the  year  1*34,  M.  Michael  Chevalier,  the  distinguished  political 
economist  of  France,  was  sent  to  the   United  y   M    Thiers,  than 

Minister   of  the    Interior,  on   the   Bpscial    mission    of    inspecting   the   public 
works  of  the  country.      Hut.  extending  his  sojourn  and  cnla; 
of  hit  observations,  he  BpenJ  two  year-  in  visiting  1  parts  of  the 

then  Union,  and  studying  the  characteristics  of  its  •  ion-,  and 

the  working  of  its  political  machinery.     His  i  ns  and  imprei 

1 


2  GLEANINGS    FROM 

were  communicated  to  the  Journal  det  Dibats,  in  a  Becies  oT  letters,  which 
■were  deemed  of  sufficient  value  to  justify  their  transfer,  subsequently,  from 
the  columns  of  that  pap<  r  to  a  book.  As  the  book  is  not  of  easy  access,  we 
make  from  one  of  his  letters,  written  at  Charleston,  May  28,  1834,  the  fol- 
lowing extract,  showing  the  difference  which  he  then  discovered  as  existing 
between  the  two  great  people  now  at  war: 

"The  Southerner  of  pure  race  is  frank,  hearty,  open,  cordial  in  his  man* 
.  noble  in  his  sentiments,  elevated  in  his  notions;  he  is  a  worthy 
endant  of  the  English  gentleman.  Surrounded,  from  infancy,  by  hiJB 
slaves,  who  relieve  him  from  all  personal  exertion,  he  is  rather  indisposed  i  i 
activity,  and  is  even  Indolent.  He  is  generous  and  profuse.  *  *  *  * 
To  him  "the  practice  of  hospitality  is  at  once  a  duty,  a  pleasure,  and  a  happi- 
ness. Like  the  Eastern  patriarchs,  or  Homer's  heroes,  he  spits  an  ox  to 
regale  the  guest  whom  Providence 'sends  him  and  an  old  friend  recommends 
to  his  attention;  and  fo  moisten  this  solid  repast,  he  offers  Madeira — of 
which  he  is  as  proud  as  of  his  horses — that  has  been  twice  to  the  East 
Indies,  and  has  been  ripening  full  twenty  years.  He  loves  the  institutions 
of  his  country,  yet  he  shows  with  pride  his  family  plate,  the  arms  on  which, 
half  effaced  by  time,  attest,  his  descent  from  the  first  colonists,  and  prove 
that  his  ancestors  were  of  a  good  family  in  England*  When  his  mind  has 
been  cultivated  by  study,  and  a  tour  in  Europe  has  polished  his  manners 
and  refined  his  imagination,  there  is  no  place  in  the  world  in  which  he 
would  not  appear  to  advantage,  no  destiny  too  high  for  him  to  reach;  he  is 
one  of  those  whom  a  man  ,i3  glad  to  have  as  a  companion  and  desires  as  a 
friend.  Ardent  ami  warm  hearted,  he  is  of  the  block  from  which  great 
orators  are  made.  He  is  better  able  to  command  men  than  to  conquer 
nature  and  subdue  the  soil.  When  he  has  a  certain  degree  of  the  spirit  of 
method,  and  1  will  not  say  will  (for  he  has  enough  of  that),  but  of  that 
active  perseverance  so  common  at  the  North,  he  has  all  the  qualities  needful 
to  form  a  great  statesman. 

"The  Yankee,  on  the  contrary,  is  reserved,  cautious,  distrustful;  his 
manners  are  without  grace,  cold,  and  often  unprepossessing;  he  is  narrow  in 
his  ideas,  but  practical ;  and  possessing'  the  idea  of  the  proper,  he  never 
rises  to  the  grand.  He  has  nothing  chivalric  about  him,  and  yet  he  i3 
adventurous,  and  loves  a  roving  life.  His  imagination  is  active  and  original, 
producing,  however,  not  poetry,  but  drollery.  The  Yankee  is  the  laborious 
ant;  he  is  industrious  and  sober,  frugal,  and  on  the  sterile  soil  of  New 
England,  niggardly.  *  *  *  lie  is  crafty,  sly,  always  calculating,  boast- 
ing even  of  the  tricks  which  he  plays  upon  the  careless  or  trusting  buyer, 
because  he  looks  upon  them  as  marks  of  his  superior  sagacity,  and  well 
provided  with  mental  reservations  to  lull  his  conscience.  He  is  little  given 
to  hospitality,  or  rather  he  displays  it  only  on  rare  occasions,  and  then  he 


AN   ARMY    NOTE-BOOK.  3 

does  so  on  a  great  scale.  He  is  a  ready  speaker  and  a  close  reasoncr,  but 
not  a  brilliant  orator.  For  a  statesman,  he  wants  that  greatness  of  mind  and 
soul  which  enables  a  man  to  enter  into  and  love  another's  nature,  and  leads 
him  naturally  to  consult  his  neighbor's  good,  in  consulting  his  own.  He  is 
individualism  incarnate.  But  if  he  is  not  a  great  statesman,  he  is  an  able 
administrator,  an  unrivalled  man  of  business.  If  he  is  m>t  suited  to  com- 
mand men,  he  has  no  equal  in  acting  upon  things,  in  combining,  arranging, 
and  giving  them  value." 

MR.    SEWARD    TO   LORD   LYONS. 

"  My  lord,  I  can  touch  a  bell  on  my  right  hand  and  order  the  arrest  of  a 
citizen  in  Ohio.  I  can  touch  the  bell  again,  and  order  the  imprisonment  of 
a  citizen  in  New  York;  and  no  power  on  earth  but  that  of  the  President 
can   release   them.     Can  the   Queen  <♦{  England/ in   her  dominions,  do  as 

murh?" 

the  1'ersistency  of  hate. 

Just  twenty  years  ago,  in  the  Federal  Congress,  Mr.  Dcjlct,  of  Alabama, 
asked  Mr.  Adams,  of  Massachusetts,  whether  he  understood  him  to  say, 
"that  in  God's  good. time  the  abolition  of  slavery  would  come,  and  let  it 
come." 

31  r.  Adams  nodded  assent,  and  said  with  great  earnestness,  "  Let  it 
come." 

Mr.  JDellet. — "  Yes,  let  it  come.     No  matter  what  the  consequen 
let  it  come,  said  the  gentleman.     Let  it  come,  though  women  and  children 
should  be  slain,  though  blood   should   flow   like   water,  though  the  Union 
itself  be  destroyed,  though  Government  shall  be  broken  up.     No  matter 
though  five  millions  of  the  people  of  the  South  perish." 

Mr.  ADJLlfeS. — "  Five  hundred  millions,  let  it  come." 

THE    PIETY    OF   THE   CONFKDEIIA 

A  Baltimore  correspondent,  writing  to  the  London  Indexj  says  : 
"  But  before  1  close,  [  must  tell  you  of  the  beautiful  humility  ami  heroio 
which  seemed  to  pervade  tin'  heart!  of  all  the  Confederates  I  saw.     I 
have  never  seen  a  siron-  religious  sentimt  tii  mi  ■_■-  aerally  prevalent  as  I  find 
them.     <  >f  twenty  men  with  whom   I  ooovened  one  rifteinoto, 
tei  n  were  profenors  of  religion,  and  tl  nth  said  In-  was  a  man 

■  ■I'  pray<  r,  and  looked  to  God  m  liu  pn  lector.     A  plain,  no  let 
boy  naid  :  '  Jn  all  my  Lot  with  tie  w  Yankees,  I  1 

them  alio  .  .ik  about  what  twenty  mill- 

ion! of  nirn   'in   dn,  and   what  hundreds  of  million-  cm   do,  and 

what  their  powerful  navy  can  do;  but  they  ieulution 


4  GLEANINGS    FROM 

altogether j  but,  sir,  the  Lord   is  our  trust,  and  He  will  be  our  defence.' 

The  Rev. was  with  me  daring  a  part  of  my  tour.      Il<-  was 

i  on  one  occasion  to  lead  in  pltyer,  in  a  barn  fillol  with  wounded,  deaf 
SharpsburLr.  Alter  a  season  of  most  solemn  and  affecting  devotion,  a  young 
man  called  the  reverend  gentlemen  to  his  side,  and  said  :  '  ]  am  dying,  sir; 
but  I  am  not  afraid  to  die,  for  I  hope  to  go  to  heaven.  Nor  am  I  sorry 
that  I  have  been  slain  in  battle,  fur  1  would  willingly  sacrifice  a  dozen  lives, 
if  I  had  them,  ior  such  a  cause  as  we  are  fighting  lor.' 

"Time  and  again  I  heard  the  one  hnndred  and  twenty-fourth  Psalm 
quoted  :  '  If  it  had  not  been  the  Lord  who  was  on  our  side,  when  men  rose 
up  against  usj  then  they  had  swallowed  us  up  quick,  when  their  wrath  was 
kindled  against  us.  Blessed  be  the  Lord,  who  hath  not  given  us  as  a  prey 
to  their  teeth.  Our  help  is  in  the  name  of  the  Lord,  who  made  heaven 
and  earth.' 

"They  are  not  given  to  vaunting  themselves;  there  is  nothing  at  all  of 
the  spirit  of  bravado  about  them ;  and  so  far  from  manifesting  a  ferocious 
disposition,  they  very  frankly  confess  they  are  tired  of  the  war;  but  at  the 
same  time  they  are  animated  by  a  determined  resolution  that,  God  helping 
them,  they  will  never  be  subjugated.  When  one  of  them  was  asked  if  he 
did  not  fear  that  the  prodigious  armies  now  organizing  against  them  would 
utterly  overwhelm  them,  he  replied  that,  '  With  God  above,  and  General 
Lee  at  their  head,  they  feared  nothing  that  man  could  do.'  History,  sir, 
furnishes  no  legends  more  touching  and  glorious  than  are  exhibited  in  the 
sacrifices  and  endurance  of  the  Southern  people.  Such  a  people  merit  the 
admiration  of  the  world,  and  deserve  to  achieve  their  independence." 

IIEROES. 

Heroes  more  often  die  unknown  than  known.  Battles  are  won  through 
deeds  of  valor  that  Sal  Eddin  might  envy,  and  the  doers  thereof  are  seldom 
named.  Much  praise  is  lavished  on  brave  generals  individually;  the  pri- 
vate obtains  his  collectively,  and  collective  praise  is  of  no  more  value  to  tho 
individual  soldier  than  the  collective  prosperity  of  a  nation  is  to  the"  starv- 
ing workman  out  of  employ.  Pillow  was  brave  at  Belmont.  Pillow  always 
is  brave;  but  there  were  many  hundreds  just  as  brave  as  Pillow  on  that 
field  whose  names  will  never  be  heard  in  connection  with  it.  Among  them 
was  one  Dr.  Brooks,  originally  froifl  Illinois,  but,  at  Belmont,  a  member  of 
Colonel  Tappan's  regiment.  When  our  forces  were  beaten  in  the  early  part 
of  the  action,  the  greater  number  obtained  shelter  beneath  the  jutting  bank 
that  there  skirts  the  river's  side.  On  that  bank,  for  some  ten  minutes  stood' 
Brooks  returning  the  volleys  of  the  enemy  from  his  solitary  rifle.  Federal 
bullets  were  whistling  a  sort  of  orchestral  version  of  Temps'  "  Kill,  kill," 
duet  around  him,  but  Brooks  continued  unhurt  and  unmoved.     Finally,  a 


AX   ARMY   NOTE-BOOK.  5 

shell  dropped  near  hiin,  exploded,  and  shattered  his  skull.  On  that  hank 
ho  lingered,  unattended  and  unoared  for,  till  found  hy  Dr.  Creiirhton,  a 
Mcmphian  surgeon,  from  Thursday,  the  day  of  battle,  till  the  following 
Saturday,  and  then  died.  How  long  would  a  genera]  have  been  left  thus 
unattended  after  a  display  of  such  heroism  ?  Now  this  would  seem  hard, 
yet  there  is  good  reason  for  it.  All  eyes  are  on  a  general,  the  movements 
of  all  depend  upon  iiim,  and,  in  some  eases,  the  safety  of  all."  Cases  of 
individual  bravery  and  prowess  in  such  an  army  as  ours  become  so  nume- 
rous that  they  are  regarded  as  a  matter  of  course;  and  in  lueb  a  stru^o-le, 
the  reward  the  brave  soldier  should  seek  is  the  knowledge  of  duty  done, 
and  the  patriotic  pride  of  feeling  that  his  country'^  freedom  is  due  to  him 
and  such  as  he. 

In  the  same  battle  a  Mississippian  gave  singular  evidence  of  possessing 
that  sang  fro! <1  which  has  been  so  long  the  peculiar  characteristic  of  the 
French  zouave.  He  was  out  of  percussion  caps;  an  old-fashioned  shell 
happening  to  land  near  him,  he  cut  off  a  fuse  that  waa  attached  to  it,  and 
continued  touching  off  his  gun  with  it  from  his  left  hand,  pointing  the 
instrument  with  his  right  alone.  He,  too,  was  killed,  cut  in  two  by  a  ball 
from  one  of  our  own  guns  which  the  enemy  took  in,  the  early  part  of  the 
day. 

The  tenacity  of  Southern  courage  was  finely  exemplified  in  the  case  of 
young  Lieutenant  Walker.  When  his  captain  was  shot  down,  he  assumed 
the  command,  and  with  flashing  eye,  and  lip  quivering  with  anxiety  "to  do 
something,"  led  his  men  toward  the  foe,  as  eagerly  as  though  life,  wealth, 
and  bliss  were  only  to  be  found  in  their  bristling  lines.  He,  too,  was  killed, 
shot  down  in  the  very  fever  of  his  glorious  excitement.  ISut  even  when  on 
the  ground,  he  strove  to  be  leader  still,  and  complete  exhaustion  alone,  con- 
quered him.  One  man,  striving  to  relieve  a  wounded  comrade,  approached 
the  river's  edge  to  obtain  a  bucket  of  water,  amid  a  very  hail-storm  of  bul- 
lets. He  filled  the  bucket,  turned  from  the  river,  received  a  .Minie  ball 
through  his  brave  and  tender  heart,  and  fell  forward — dead.  It  may  be 
doubted  whether  greater  individual  bravery  was  ever  displayed  than  that 
which  turned  the  surprise  of  Belmont  into  a  glorious  victory.  Enough  to 
fill  a  volume  might  bfl  gathered  from  the  eiperieneea  of  a  single  regiment. 

• 

You  cannol  imagine  a  plainer  or  more  unostentatious  looking  man  than 
the  Commander-in-Chief  of  the  Confederate  armies — Gteneral  Lee.  Take 
a  human  form,  ten  inches  in  height,  its  well  knit 

together,  full  in  it-  proportions,  and  ye!  without  superfluity.     Add  to  it  a 

well  sh;i].cd,  squarely  built  head,  with  a  front  whoi  ked 

with  energy   and   geliui,  ■  pair  of  keen,  -brown  in  the  parlor, 


6  ]  ftOM 

hut   Mack  in   the  field — that  sc<  •  *  a  glance;  a 

handsomely  si  i.W  nerelsj  a 

mouth  indicative  of  an  iron  will,  and  i  countenance  whose  natural  expres- 
Bion  is  one  of  gentlei — and  benei  rthel      i.  month  and  1 

part  ni'  the  bos  with  a  heavy  growth  of  ah  rt,  grey  hair ;  invest  the  whole 
figure  with  grace,  and  an  ui  of  strength,  purpose  and 

tionj  lei  it  speak  to  you  in  i  voice  whose  tones  of  politeness  never 
vary,  whether  uttered  to  the  highest  or  the  low<  -t  in  rank,  and  yon  bai 
lull  and  complete  a  description  as  I  sen  give  of  the  distinguished  man  wb.o, 
at  tlii—  moment,  holds  in  the  hollow  of  his  hand  the  destiny  of  his  oountry. 
The  genera]  is  as  unostentatious  and  BDasauming  in  dress  as  be  u  in  man* 
Oolonel's  coat  (thrt-<  .-tars  without  the  wreath),  S  good 
deal  faded,  bine  pantaloons,  high  top  boots,  bine  cloth  talma,  and  a  high 
felt  hat.  without  adornment,  save  a  small  cord  around  the  crown. 

"LIBERTY  'S  THESE   YET." 

Captain  McFarland,  describing  some  of  the  scenes  of  the  first  battle  of 
Manassas,  relates  the  following: 

"  Meanwhile  our  reinforcements  were  pouring  by,  and  pressing  with 

enthusiastic   cheers   to    the   battle-field-      On   the  other  hand,  many   of  OUt 

wounded  were  borne  past  us  to  the  rear.  One  poor  fellow  was  shot  through 
the  left  oheek  \  as  he  came  past  me  he  smiled,  and  muttered  with  difficulty, 
'  Boys,  they  've  Bpoiled  my  beauty.'  lie  could  say  no  more,  hut  an  expres- 
sion of  acute  pain  flitted  across  his  lace,  and  shaking  his  clenched  fist  in  the 
direction  of  tl  passed  on.     Another  came  by,  shot  intbe  breast. 

Hi-  clothing  had  1h.ii  stripped    from   over   his  ghastly  wound,  and  at  every 

breath  the  warm  life-blood  gushed  Groin  his  bosom.  1  rode  up  to  him.  as, 
leaning  on  two  companions,  he  stopped  fpr  a  moment  to  rest,  '  My  poor  fel- 
low,' said  I.  '1  am  sorry  to  see  you  thus.'  '  STes,  yes,'  was  his  reply. 
'They've  done  for  me  now,  hut  my  father*  i  there  yet!  our  army'*  there  yet! 
ow  oattse  it  there  yet ! '  and,  raising  himself  from  the  arms  of  his  compan- 
ions, his  pale  face  lighting  up  like  a  sunbeam,  he  oried,  with  an  enthusiasm 
I  shall  ni  -.'and  Uberty't  there  yet!'     But  this  spasmodic  exertion 

was  too  much  for  him;  a  purple  flood  poured  IVom  his  wound,  and  he 
swooned  away.  I  was  enthusiastic  before,  but  I  felt  then  as  if  I  could  have 
ridden  singly  and  alone  upon  a  regiment,  regardless  of  all  but  my  country's 
cause." 

did'nt  wish  to  expose  ms  rear. 

When  Prince  Napoleon  visited  our  army  at  Manassas,  his  supper  the  fin  t 
night  was  a  half-picked  bone — provisions  beis  ee,  and  the  fibre  of 

our  generals  so  scanty,  that  nothing   hetter   could   bo  provided   irom  the 


AN    ARMY    NOTE-HOOK.  7 

• 

vicinity.  The  next  day  he  rode  over  the  battle-field,  but  turned  very  sick 
at  the  sicrht  and  odor  that  met  his  3  *'      luently,  he  reviewed  our 

troops.     While  riding  down  the  line,  he  express  ire  to  pass  hack  in 

the  rear.  Lieutenant  Colonel*  Skinner,  ol  the  First.  Virginia  Regiment, 
who  was  by  the  side  of  the  Prince,  for  the  moment  was  placed  in  a 
dilemma,  but  recovering  himself  quickly,  a  flush  mantled  his  ragged  face, 
Bfl  lie  replied  in  French  :  "  Your  royal  highness,  we  would  gladly  take  you 
to  tli"  rear,  but  the  fact  is,  the  linen  of  the  men  is  in  rather  an  exposed 
condition.  It  being  a  part  of  the  person  which  we  never  expect  to  show  to 
the  enemy,  our  men  think  rags  there  of  but  little  consequence." 

PORTRAIT   OF   "STONEWALt"    JACKSON. 

Imagine  a  man  about  five  feet  ten  inches  high,  rather  thick  set,  full 
'.  bread,  stalwart  shoulders,  and.  indeed,  the  whole  physique  indicating 
what  is  commonly  called  a  ''well  made"  man.  He  is  the  picture  of 
health,  yet  there  appeals  no  redundancy, of  flesh.  His  face  is  slightly 
bronzed,  from  the  constant  exposure  of  his  campaigns.  It  was  said  of 
1  ir  that  if  he  had  not  been  a  conqueror,  he  would  have  excelled  all  his 
contemporary  -  as  a  boxer  or  athlete;  and  so  I  should  say  of  Jackson,  he 
would  be  a  dangerous  antagonist  at  fisticuff.     His  appearance  at  first  im- 

a  with  the  idea  of  trreat  powers  of  endurance,  strength,  and  i 
tieity  of  i'r.mi  .      'i  he  I  (pression  of  his  fac  rather  than  dimini 

the  general  effect. 

There  you  see  self-command,  perseverance,  indomitable  will,  that  seems 
neither  to  know  nor  think  of  any  earthly  obstacle;  and  all  this  without  the 

'  admixture  of  vanity,  assumption,  pride,  fool-hardiness,  or  aOythil 
the  kind.  ■  a  disposition  to  assert  its  prel  asions,  but  froiu  the 

,   conviction   of  his  relative   position,  which  seta   the  vexed 
i  test— e  peculiarity,  I  would  remark,  of  g 
minds.     It  is  only  the  little  and  the  frivolous  vho  art  btrnding 

be  world.     His  far-  mage  in 

tli.    higl  .  and   Ins  phrenological  developments  indicate  a 

nd  activity.  -  broad  and  prominent,  the 

;  ital  and  sincipital  1  well  balanced:   eyes 

of  mildness,  energy,  and  001 
:md  nose  both  long  and  well  formed.     Hi 

A  slightly  braid.  1  on  t! 
I  tie'  col'...  irk  of  a  major 

ral. 

of  our  n 

• 
wall.     To  military  fame  which  tfa  the 


UflNGfi   fROM 

simplicity  of  b  child,  the  straight-forwardness  of  a  Western  farmer.    Last 
Sunday  he  irae  dressed  aa  sbove,  ami  oommon  a  horse  as  one 

could  find  in  a  summer  day. 

It  is  said  he  is  a  fatalist,  aa  Napoleon  was,  and  has  no  fear  that  he  can  be 
killed  before  his  time  OODies.  Hf  is  as  calm  in  the  midst  of  a  hurricane  of 
bullets  as  he  was  in  t ho  pew  of  his  church  at  Lexington,  when  he  was  pro- 
fessor of  thr  institute,  lie  appears  to  be  a  man  of  almost  superhuman 
endurance.  Neither  heat  nor  cold  makes  the  slightest  impression  upon 
him.  lie  cares  nothing  for  good  quarters  and  dainty  fare.  Wrapped  in 
his  blanket,  he  throws  himself  down  on  the  ground  anywhere,  and  sleeps  as 
soundly  as  though  he  were  in  a  palace.  He  lives  as  the  soldiers  live,  and 
endures  all  the  fatigue  and  all  the  suffering  that  they  endure.  His  vig- 
ilance is  something  marvellous.  He  never  seems  to  sleep,  and  lets  nothing 
pass  without  his  personal  scrutiny.  He  can  neither,  be  caught  napping  nor 
whipped  when  he  is  wide  awake.  The  rapidity  of  his  marches  is  something 
portentous:  He  is  heard  of  by  the  enemy  at  one  point,  and  before  they  can 
make  up  their  minds  to  follow  him,  he  is  off  at  another.  His  men  have 
little  ba'_"_ra'-e,  and  he  moves,  as  nearly  as  he  can,  without  encumbrance, 
lie  keeps  so  constantly  in  motion  that  he. never  has  a  sick  list,  and  no  need 
of  hospitals.  In  these  habits,  and  a  will  as  determined  as  that  of  Julius 
Csesar,  are  read  the  secret  of  his  great  success.  His  men  adore  him, 
because  he  requires  them  to  do  nothing  which  he  does  not  do  himself, 
because  he  constantly  leads  them  to  victory,  and  because  they  see  he  is  a 
great  soldier. 

A    YANKEE    OPINION    OF   A    SOUTHERN    WOMAN'S    HATE. 

Rev.  Dr.  Storrs,  in  his  anniversary  address  at  the  exercises  of  the  Hol- 
yokc  Seminary,  Massachusetts,  said  that  a  returned  prisoner  lately  re- 
marked'that  while  at  the  South  he  could  easily  endure  the  taunts  of  the 
men  he  had  never  before  realized  -what  and  how  terrible  was  the  stinging 
hate  of  woman — so  intense,  bitter,  and  beyond  all  belief;  and  he  had  come 
back  with  one  additional  mercy  for  which  to  thank  God — that  the  devil  was 
not  a  woman. 

WORTHY    OP   THEIR   SIRES. 

On  which  side  of  the  present  conflict  is  the  blood  of  the  old  Revolution 
of  1776  r*  On  the  side  of  the  South,  many  of  the  very  names  which  adorn 
the  pages  of  our  revolutionary  history  are  now  conspicuous  in  the  contest. 
In  the  "allaut  and  accomplished  General  Lee,  we  have  a  son  of  Light- 
Horse  Harrj  Lee,  on  whom  Washington  so  confidently  relied  during  the 
•whole  of  the  war  of  the  Revolution.  In  the  late  General  Garnett,  the 
^blood  of  the  brave  Mercer,  who  fell  at  Trenton,  by  the  side  of  Washington, 


AN   ARMY   NOTE-BOOK.  9 

coursed  its  rich  stream.  (ieneral  Magrudcr,  who  commanded  at  Bethel, 
bears  by  descent  the  revolutionary  name  of  Bankhead.  Major  Randolph, 
who  so  effectually  manoeuvred  the  howitzers  on  that  occasion,  is  a  grandson 
of  Jefferson,  the  immortal  author  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence;  and 
Captain  Brown,  who  commanded  one  of  the  batteries  under  Randolph,  is  a 
grandson  of  a  gallant  soldier,  who  carried  to  the  grave  a  bullet  from  the 
field  of  Guilford.  General  Johnston  is  the  son  of  an  officer  who  served 
under  Lee  in  his  legions.  Floyd  is  of  revolutionary  stock,  descended  from 
the  Prestons  and  Lewises.  Governor  Winston,  in  the  field  with  his  regi- 
ment from  Alabama,  is  a  grandson  of  Patrick  Henry;  and  Hampton,  of 
South  Carolina,  with  his  splendid  legion,  equipped  at  his  personal  expense, 
is  a  grandson  of  Wade  Hampton,  of  revolutionary  fame. 

THE   AGONIES   OF   THE   BATTLE-FIELD. 

A  writer  relating  the  scenes  he  saw  at  the  first  battle  of  Manassas,  says: 
"In  a  little  clump  of  second-growth  pines,  a  number  of  wounded  had 
crawled  for  shelter.  Many  of  our  men  were  busy  doing  them  offices  of 
kindness  and  humanity.  There  was  one  New  York  zouave  who  appeared 
to  be  dying;  his  jaws  were  working,  and  he  seemed  to  be  in  great  agony. 
I  poured  some  water  down  his  throat,  which  revived  him.  Fixing  his 
eyes  upon  me,  with  a  look  of  fierce  hatred,  he  muttered  :  '  You  d — d  rebel, 
if  I  had  a  musket  I  would  blow  out  your  infernal  soul.'  Another  pale 
youth  was  lying  in  the  wet  undergrowth,  shivering  in  the  rain,  and  in  the 
cold  of  approaching  death,  lie  was  looking  wistfully  towards  a  1 
warm  blanket  spread  across  my  saddle,  and  said,  in  his  halting,  shivering 
breath:  '  I  'in  so  cold.'  I  spread  the  blanket  over  him,  and  left  him  to  that 
end  of  his  wretchedness  which  could  not  be  fur  distant.", 

SHOULDER-STRAl>S   DO    NOT    MAKE    AN    OFFICER. 

During  one  of  the  campaigns  in  Virginia,  an  altercation  took  place 
between  an  officer  and  one  of  his  privates,  who  was  in  evcrv  wav,  socially 
and  intellectually,  his  superior.  In  the  course  of  (ho  conversation,  the 
rdinate  made  some  irritating  remark,  when  the  officer  exclaimed :  "If 
you  repeat  that  again,  I  will  lay  down  my  rank  and  fight  you."  "Lay 
down  your  rank."  was  the  indignant  response  ;  "that  wont  make  you  a 
thinan  \  oowardlj  V.iiik..  would  fight  with  straps  on  his  shoulders,  but 
it  takes  b  gentleman  to  fight  for  eleven  dollars  a  month." 

"STONEWALL"   ADMINISTERS   TIIK   BAGBAJfXNT. 

On  the  morning  of  a  battle  near  H  Perryj  after  a  sennon  03 

of  his  CI  3tonewall  Jackson,  who,  by  the  way.  was  an  Elder  in  the 

byterian  Church,  administered  tie  saeraflfc  hureh  members  in 

•J 


10  OLEANINGS    FK<   M 

hlfl  armv.  He  invited  all  Christians  (o  ].avt ii  ijiate  in  this  ci  Mtiony.  A 
ISaptist,  the  Btraightest  of  his  beet,  thoroughly  imbued  with  the  idea  of 
close  communion,  was  seen  to  hesitate,  hut  the  occasion,  ami  the  man  who 
presided,  overcame  his  scruples,  ami  thus  it  has  happened  that  the  prospect 
of  a  fight  and  the  eloquence  of  Jaokson  made  a  Baptist  forget  that  baptism 
is  the  door  into  the  Church.  In  all  Jackson's  army,  an  oath  is  rarely 
uttered!  A  religious  enthusiasm  |ferrades  it.  which  makes  every  man  a 
hero.  Conscious  of  the  justice  of  our  cause,  and  imhued  with  the  strongest 
convictions  "i"  patriotism,  his  men  are  irresistible:  In  this  incident  we 
have  an  explanation  of  General  dackson's  invincibility,  and  we  are  thus 
enabled  to  understand  why  his  men  are  all  heroes,  and  why  they  endure, 
without  a  murmur,  the  severest  hardships  to  which  any  troops  have  been 
subjected  during  the  war.  When  peace  is  restored,  it  will  be  honor  enough 
for  any  man  to  say,  "  I  belonged  to  the  army  of  Stonewall  Jackson." 

THE    MOUNTAINEERS   OF    VIRGINIA. 

In  an  appeal  to  the  people,  published  by  Colonel  Imboden,  commanding 
the  Confederate  forces  in  the  neighborhood  of  Staunton,  this  officer  relates 
some  characteristic  anecdotes  of  the  patriotism,  hardihood,  and  simplicity  of 
the  mountaineers  of  Virginia. 

"On  a  certain  occasion,"  says  Colonel  Imboden,  "I  halted,  near  sunset,  by 
a  log  cabin  in  one  of  the  wildest  gorges  on  the  Dry  Fork  of  Cheat.  An 
aged  mother  and  several  daughters  were  the  only  members  of  the  family  at 
home.  The  lather  had  been  in  Camp  Chase  over  a  year,  on  a  charge  of 
being  a  rebel ;  an  only  son  is  a  soldier  in  one  of  my  companies.  I  asked 
for  corn  to  feed  over  three  hundred  horses.  The  old  lady  said  they  only 
had  a  little,  raised  by  herself  and  daughters,  but  I  was  welcome  to  it  if  I 
needed  it.  I  took  half  she  had,  and  paid  her  for  it,  when  she  seemed  to 
doubt  the  propriety  of  receiving  money  from  a  Southern  soldier,  as  she 
thought  it  a  duty  to  give  us  what  we  wanted.  Her  son's  company  was  not 
along,  and  she  did  not  see  him.  The  eldest  daughter  said  :  f  Colonel,  tell 
brother  we  are  all  well,  and  doing  well.  We  expect  our  papa  will  soon  bo 
released  from  Camp  Chase  and  come  home.  Tell  him  to  be  contented  in 
the  army,  and  write  to  us  if  he  can.  If  we  had  known  you  were  coming 
we  would  have  had  his  winter  clothes  ready  to  send  to  him,  but  we  will  have 
no  other  chance  when  you  leave.  Tell  him  we  have  made  enough  corn  to 
do  us,  and  have  plenty  of  meat.  We  have  caught  five  large  bears  in  a  pen, 
and  salted  them  down  for  winter.  The  Yankee  sheriff  came  with  five 
soldiers  along  to  collect  the  taxes,  and  wanted  to  take  the  mare,  but  I  had 
sold  the  bear  skins  for  money  enough  to  pay  him,  and  I  hope  it  is  the  last 
time  I  will  ever  have  to  pay  Yankee  taxes.'  I  thought,  as  I  rode  away 
into  the  wilderness,  that  the  strippling  soldier — but  seventeen  years  of  age — 


AN   ARMY   NOTEBOOK.  11 

whose  home  I  had  just  left,  would  hereafter,  in  the  eyes  of  a  just  and 
impartial  posterity,  have  a  prouder  claim  to  honor  than  the  son  of  any 
heartless  speculator,  though  he  inherited  millions  of  his  father's  ill-got t tii 
gains." 

The  Colonel  refers,  in  another  place,  to  an  old  mountaineer,  seventy-five 
years  of  age,  wh"  has  ••killed  more  Yankees  than  any  man  in  the-  command 
nine  the  war  began."  He  hunts  them  as  he  does  large  game,  and  rarely 
tails  to  bring  down  his  man  at  two  hundred  yards  with  a  long  old  rifle.  He 
got  two  shots  last  week,  and  says  at  the  second  shot  "  the  Yankee  behaved 
mighty  curious  ;■  he  put  his  hand  to  his  side  at  the  crack  of  the  gun,  and 
laid  down  on  the  horse's  neck,  like  he  was  sick,  and  then  fell  off."  Such 
was  the  old  man's  simple  account  of  the  fate  of  one  of  the  invading 
Bcoundrels. 

A    NOBLE    SLAVE. 

The  following  incident  is  related  by  an  eye-witness — one  of  upwards  of 
fifty  who  arc  cognizant  of  the  facts.  Such  instances  of  genuine  loyalty 
have  their  parallel  nowhere  so  frequently  as  in  the  pages  of  Southern  his- 
tory, and  give  a  flat  contradiction  to  all  the  partial  and  puritanical  state- 
ments ever  made  by  Mrs.  Stowe  and  her  tribe  of  worshipping  abolitionists  ; 

"  The  night  before  the  attack  of  the  abolitionists  on  Secessionvillc, 
(June  10,  1802,)  Daniel,  a  servant  of  Lieutenant  Bellinger,  of  Lamar's 
Artillery,  had  taken  his  Blaster's  sword  and  pistol  to  a  house  about  one 
hundred  yards  in  rear  of  the  fort  to  clean  them,  and  haying  fallen  asleep, 
•  lid  not  awaken  until  the  alarm  of  the  assault  was  given,  just  at  daylight. 
Suddenly,  remembering  that  his  master  was  without  his  weapons,  he  seized 
them  and  tnshed  to  the  fort  through  the  hot  fire  with  which  the  em 
who  had  flanked    the  work  -weeping  down    the   men    in   the   rear. 

Daniel  attempted  to  enter  at  the  usual  place  of  entrance,  but  teeing  that  it 
irae  certain  death  to  proceed  further  in  that  direction — three  of  our  men, 
who,  like  himself,  had  slept  out  of  the  works*  were  killed  at  his  side — he 
tried   another  place.     But    th<    itorm  of  projectiles  shut  him  out  there, 

rmined,  however,  to  do  bis  duty,  he  rushed  across  the  line  of  fire,  ami 

fell,  mortally   wounded,   pierced   by    three    balls.      But,  faithful    even    unto 

th,  he  entn  ated  the  men  near  him  to  carry  the  sword  and  pistol  for  him 

to  hu  0  •  that  it  v.  r  w.i- 

killed.      •  Mj  iW,   '  they  kill-  1   him  1 

no | sword.'     And,  forgetting  tin  f  his  own  wounds,  he  upbraided 

himself  for  hit  which  he  believed  1  loath. 

-  the  fight  ml  Bellinger,  1  Daniel's 

.   to  where  he  lay,  and  the  faithful  fellow,  upon  hearing 

his  name  called,  raised  his  languid  eyes,  ^nd  exclaimed  :   '  Al 


12  GLEANINGS    ntOM 

told  rae  you  were  dead,  but,  thank  God.  if  1  'in  to  die  this  day.  that  it's  mc 
and  not  vmi.'  and.  taking  the  pistol  from  his  bosom,  he  gare  it  to  the  lieu- 
tenant. Baying:  '  I  tried  to  carry  your  sword  to  you,  but  they  shot  mo.  and 
when  1  fell  it  dropped,  and  1  'm  afraid  it  'a  lost.'  '  Come,  Daniel,'  raid  his 
master,  'don't  trouble  yourself  about  that  now.  we  '11  take  you  to  thi 
and  he  11  BOOn  make  you  all  right.'  Daniel,  however,  expressed  no  hopes  of 
■ry.  and  lamented  that  he  could  not  see  his  master's  children  hefore  he 
died.  •  Tell  them  at  home,'  he  raid,  'that  1  promise))  to  take  care  of  you, 
and  that  I  tried  to  do  so  to  the  last  of  my  life.' 

"lie  lingered  several   days,  and   died.     The   last  words  he  c\. 
being,   '  Duncan   and   Normie   will    he  sorry   when   they  hear   1  'm    dead.' 
Those  were  the  names  of  his  master's  children." 

FEDERAL  AND  CONFEDERATE   GENERALS. 

In  reading  the  reports  of  the  battles  in  Mexico,  and  remembering  the 
positions  now  occupied  by  the  various  officers,  some  curious  coincidences 
are  found.  Thus,  Magruder  gives  special  credit  to  Sumner,  and  Joseph  E. 
Johnston  is  warm  in  his  commendations  of  Heno.  After  the  battle  of 
Churubusco,  Major  Loring  reports  to  his  immediate  superior,  Earl  Van 
Dorn :  "  The  rifle's  were  accompanied  throughout  by  the  distinguished 
young  Lieutenants,  Beauregard,  Smith,  and  McClellan,  the  two  latter  in 
command  of  a  portion  of  the  engineer  corps.  All,  I  am  happy  to  say,  bore 
themselves  with  the  greatest  gallantry." 

At  Ohnrnbnsoo,  McClellan  was  under  the  immediate  command  of  Lieu- 
tenant Gr.  W.  Smith,  subsequently  street  commissioner  in  New  York,  and 
now  one  of  the  generals  in  the  Confederate  service. 

TURKS   AND    YANKEES. 

A  historian  of  the  Saracen  conquerors  says:  "  It  was,  moreover,  a  common 
injunction  to  spare  as  much  as  possible  the  countries  they  invaded.  'De- 
stroy not  palm  trees,'  says  Ahabeker  to  Yesuf,  'nor  burn  any  field  of  corn; 
cut  down  no  fruit  trees,  do  no  mischief  to  cuttle,  only  such  as  ye  kill  to 
eat.'  " 

Compare  these  Turks  of  more  than  a  thousand  years  ago,  in  the  very  mid-' 
night  of  the  ages,  with  the  Yankees  of  this  day,  who  organized  expeditions 
for  the  express  purpose  of  doing  what  the  most  savage  and  barbarous  people 
of  the  world  would  not  permit. 

A   riLLAOINQ   EXPEDITION. 

The  St.  Louis  I)<  mocrat  contains  the  following  account  of  the  movements 
of  a  cavalry  brigade  under  Colonel  Cornyn,  of  the  Federal  army: 


AN   ARMY   NOTE-BOOK.  13 

"This  brigade  left  Corinth,  Mississippi,  on  one  of  the  last  days  of  May, 
'for  the  purpose  of  making  a  path  of  desolation  through  a  section  of  country 
not  heretofore  traveled  by  our  forces.'  It  was  the  intention  (to  quote  more 
of  the  select  language  of  the  narrator)  to  'play  the  devil  generally,'  and  to 
leave  on  the  minds  of  non-combatant  people  'a  vivid  impression  as  to  what 
war  really  is.'  The  brigade  was  five  nights  in  the  saddle,  and  in  that  brief 
space  their  abolition  eulogist  claims  that,  among  other  acts  of  signal  ven- 
geance, they  burned  seven  cotton  factories  (all  private  property),  costing  an 
average  of  two  hundred  thousand  dollars  each,  the  largest  of  these  contain* 
in:;  three  hundred  looms,  being  valued  at  one  million  dollars,  and  employ- 
ing hundreds  of  men,  women,  and  children,  The  stock  of  manufactured 
goods  on  hand  is  described  to  have  been  more  valuable  than  the  buildings 
and  machinery.  Steam  flouring-mills,  steam  saw-mills,  private  dwellings, 
yellow,  waving  wheat-fields  just  ready  for  the  sickle,  were  alike  destroyed  in 
the  wantonness  of  vengeance.  Speaking  of  the  immense  amount  of  forage 
committed  to  the  flames,  the  jubilant  narrator  says:  'Immense  is  not  the 
word — language  cannot  describe  the  scene — the  smoke  rising  from  burning- 
corn  cribs  in  every  direction,  and  for  many  miles  on  each  side  of  our  path.' 
Great  numbers  of  slaves  were  brought  away,  but  this  was  a  matter  of 
course." 

A   PEN   PORTRAIT    OF   GENERAL   JACK    MORGAN. 

The  following  sketch  of  this  redoubtable  chief,  though  somewhat  florid 

of  the  most  graphic  that  has  been  given  to  the  public  : 
"Morgan  is  precisely  six  feet  in  stature;  his  limbs  arc  faultlessly  sym- 
metrical, and  his  action  is  the  very  poetry  of  motion.  His  hair  is  auburn 
bis  eyes  blue,  his  forehead  high  and  broad;  his  face  wears  the  flush  of  hale 
health,  and  is  radiant  with  the  light  of  thought.  Mis  hands  and  feet  are 
small,  and  in  his  locomotion  there  is  a  remarkable  elasticity  and  trrace. 
His  brow  is  of  an  eminently  mental  mould.  Decision  flashes  from  his  eye* 
and  his  lip  indicates  a  firmness  beyond  the  reach  of  embarrassment.  His 
address  captivates  everybody — 'the  girls  all  love  him.  and  the  boys  all 
;■  by  him.'  lie  is,  in  the  broadest  and  most  comprehensive  sense  of  the 
terms,  a  gentleman  lar,  a  soldier,  and  a   Morgan.     Wary,  intrepid., 

circui  ml  bold,  he  is  endowed  with  the  rare  capacity  of  Belf-p 

;n  the  very  jaw-  of  peri) — he  can  think,  and  deliberately  d-  cide  what  it 
will  behest  to  do,  however  great  tie  danger.     11      ;•  oeptiv<  :'.  olties  are 
preeminently  fine.    Intuitively  he  comprehends  in  a  twinkling  all  mai 
of  riddles,  whether  they  come  in  the  form  of  a  'weak  ini  the 

em  ui_\ .'  or  iii  the  more  '  questionable  shape '  (,i 

Hi-  predominating  cl  His 

<juick,  his  decision  qaick,  and  hi 


14  GLEANIXfJS    FROM 

"In  the  puritv  of  hi-  sentiments,  the  elevation  of  his  principles,  the 
daring  of  hifl  spirit,  :uul  the  manly  oomeliness  of  his  person,  he  is  emphat- 
ically a  Chevalier  Bayard.  Of  one  briirbt.  noble  quality  ho  is  the  fortunate 
possessor,  which  shines  conspicuously — looms  ap  over  all  ha  ''ilur  brilliant 
I  allude  to  the  holy  awe  with  which  he  views  tb  character  and 
feelings  of  that  connecting  link  between  good  men  and  angels,  commonly 

called  woman.      When  he  captured  that  train  of  ears  between  Nashville  and 

Louisville,  with  about  i  doeen  women  and  four  Yankee  officers  aboard,  one 
of  the  women,  who  was  the  wife  of  one  of  the  captured  officers,  rushed  op 
to  him,  and   i  1:  'Oh,  Captain  Morgan,  I    implore  you  don't,  for 

II.  awn's  sake,  hurt  my  poor  little  hushand.'  '  Madam,'  replied  the  Colonel, 
'I  am  a  Southern  soldier,  the  proper  definition  of  which  is,  an  honorable 
gentleman.  The  soldiers  of  our  army,  madam,  arc  not  fighting  for  plunder, 
and  we  therefore  respect  private  property.  "We  are  not  capable  of  poltruon- 
crv.  and  we  therefore  invariably  treat  with  the  profoundest  respect  the 
There  is  a  locomotive  and  train  of  cars,  madam  ;  they  are  valuable  to  your 
Government,  and  would  be  still  more  so  to  mine.  I  cannot  consent,  how- 
.  that  youtself  and  the  ladies  who  are  with  you  shall  be  turned  into 
this  forest  without  protection.  Take  it.  madam,  and  with  it  take  your  poor 
little  husband,  and  go  home.'  "Whereupon  the  astonished  and  delighted 
feminine  Yankee  grasped  his  hand  in  a  spasm  of  ecstacy,  and  rained  upon 
it  a  flood  of  grateful  kisses  and  tears. 

"That  feature  in  his  character  which  is  seen  first,  and  remembered 
longest  by  all,  is  his  unaffected  modesty.  It  sheds  a  soft  and  sweet  fra- 
grance around  and  over  his  whole  character.  Whenever  yon  praise  any 
(feed  of  his  daring,  his  response  is :  '  Ah,  sir,  it  was  the  boys  did  that — the 
boys,  sir,  the  boys.'  "Wherever  he  is,  he  is  always  the  centre  of  attraction — 
tie  observed  of  all  observers.  Yet  he  never  seems  to  be  aware  of  it.  Old 
men  stare  at  him.  and  all  the  young  ones  shout  for  him;  but  he  moves 
along  just  as  though  nothing  had  occurred." 

Till:    BATTLE-FIELD. 

Dr.  Cross,  in  the  Holston  JourAal,  thus  describes  the  field  of  battle  on 
the  day  after  the  fighl  of  Murfreerooro'*: 

•'Ah  !  how  many  expired  with  the  year.  Here  they  lie,  friend  and  foe, 
in  every  position,  a  vast,  promiscuous  ruin.  , 

•Tliey  rieep  theix loai sleep ;  thej  bare  fought  their  last  battle; 
No  souud  can  awake  them  to  glory  again.' 

•  After  a  pretty  thorough  inspection  of  the  ground  in  the  rear  of  our 
lines,  from  Stone's  Iliv  r  to  the  extreme  left,  1  ride  to  the  front,  where  the 
dead  lie  thick  among  the  cedars,  in  the  proportion  of  five  Yankees  to  one 


AN    ARMY'  NOTE-BOOK.  15 

Southron.  Here  are  sights  to  sicken  the  bravest  hearts — sad  lessons  for 
human  passion  and  oppression.  Here  is  a  foot,  shot  off  at  the  ankle,  a  fine 
model  for  a  sculptor;  here  is  an  officer's  hand,  severed  from  the  wrist,  the 
glove  still  upon  it,  and  the  sword  still  in  its  grasp  ;  hero  is  an  entire  brain, 
perfectly  isolated,  showing  no  Bign  of  violence)  as  if  carefully  taken  from 
the  skull  that  enclosed  it  by  the  hands  of  a  skillful  surgeon;  here's  a  corpse 
sitting  upon  the  ground,  with  its  back  against  a  tree,  in  the  most  natural 
position  of  life,  holding  before  its  face  the  photograph  likeness  of  a  good 
looking  old  lady,  probably  the  dead  man's  mother;  here  if  a  poor  fellow, 
who  has  crawled  into  the  corner  of  a  fence  to  read  his  sister's  letter,  and 
expired  in  the  act  of  its  perusal,  the  precious  document  still  open  before 
him,  full  of  affectionate  counsel ;  here  is  a  handsome  young  man,  with  a 
placid  countenance,  lying  upon  his  back,  his  Bible  upon  his  bosom,  and  his 
hands  over  it,  as  if  he  had  gone  to  sleep  saying  his  evening  prayer.  Many 
others  present  the  melancholy  contrast  of  scattered  cards,  obscene  pictures. 
and  filthy  ballad-books — 'miserable  comforters'  for  a  dying  hour,  but  an 
instructive  commentary  upon  the  Yankee  cause.  One  lies  upon  his  face, 
literally  biting  the  ground,  his  rigid  lingers  fastened  firmly  into  the  gory 
sod;  and  another,  with  upturned  face,  open  eyes,  knit  brow,  compressed 
lips,  and  clenched  fists,  displays  all  the  desperation  of  Yankee  vengeance, 
imprinted  on  his  clay.  Dissevered  heads,  arms,  legs,  are  scattered  every- 
where; and  the  coagulated  pools  of  blood  gleam  ghastly  in  the  morniiu' 
sun.     It  is  a  fearful  sight  for  Christian  eyes." 

G  U.LANT    EXTLOIT. 

The  following  incident    is  related,  and    its   accuracy  vouched   for,  by  an 
officer  under  whose  command  it  Occam  d  ; 

"Sergeant  Gray,  of  Captain  Wood's  company,  of  Septt's  Thirty  Seventh 
Virginia  Regiment,  captured  in  one  of  Jackson's  recent  battles  a  Yankee 
captain,  lieutenant,  and  eleven  privates.  Be  overhauled  them,  and  com- 
manded  a  halt,  when  the  captain  ordered  his  men  to  fire.  They  did 
without  inflicting  serious  injury  upon  Gray,  who  rushed  upon  the.  captain, 
took  his  sword  from  him,  and  told  him  if  he  did  not  opmmaad  his  men  to 
.he  would  kill  him  ins!  The  gallant  captain  succumbed, 

when  e,.  h  pri  bed  singly  np  ind  laid  his  arms  at  the  eon- 

r  hi  had  -•  i  an  d  all,  he  shoulden  d  the  eleven  muaki 
and  marched   the  thirteen  Yanks  into  caap.     This  is  what  one  resolute 
man  did,  and  were  the  i  for,  it   would  I ■>  bo 

iii'i' 


10  OLKANI.V.s    FBOM 


Till:    KIUKLITY    OF  uoes. 


The  fid-  thus  far.  1i:l>  been  as  much  a  subject  of 

gratification  t  i  us  as  of  surprise  to  the  enemy.  It  has  b  en  though!  that 
.  slave  would  gladly  avail  himself  of  an  opportunity  to  regain  his  free- 
dom, but  the  i  v  •  been  disappoint*  d,  \  characteristic  Inoident  is 
related  by  ■  respectable  gentleman  whj)  livi  q  Fairfax  Oourt-House 
and  Alexandria. 

II  owner  of  ah  old  man  and  two  younger  men.     Having  confi- 

■  in  their  faithfulness,  and  the  honi  sty  of  the  Federals,  he  left  them 
on  his  plantation.  The  latter,  however,  visited  the  premises,  and  ask<  'I  the 
old  man  if  he  did  uol  wan!  his  freedom.  The  old  fellow  told  him  no;  that 
lie  wa-  living  near  the  line,  and  if  he  desired  it.  could  have  obtained  bis 
liberty  any  time  within  the  lasl  twenty  years,  Bimply  by  crossing  over.  As 
he  was  old  and  infirm',  they  left  him,  but  carried  oil  the  two  boys.  General 
Tyler,  for  it  v,  1  them  if  they  did  not  want  their  freedom.     '■  Oh, 

yes,"  said  one  of  them.  "Would  you  fight  for  us?"  "Yes,  sir,  and  I 
would  Bhoot  my  old  muster  the  very  first  man."  This  gave  the  officer  ■ 
confidence  in  the  artful  hut  faithful  respondent.  So  they  put  him  in  uni- 
form, mounted  him  on  horseback,  and  treated  him  with  other  mark-;  of 
He,  however,  had  not  wavered  in  the  slightest  degree  in  his  fidelity,) 
and  was  taking  observations  of  the  various  points.  After  having  possi 
himself  of  all   the  ry  information,   he  started  off  before   day,   one 

morning,  and  came  to  this  place.  His  master  carried  him  to  General  Bon- 
ham,  who  obtained  from  him  very  valuable  information,  as  be  had  not  only 

i  lined  the  location  of  the  Federal  batteries,  but  the  number  and  cali- 
bre of  their  guns.     The  other  boy  remained  in  Alexandria. 
Another  incident,  equally  characterisac,  is  recorded  of  a  free  negro — a 

ndant  of  the  slaves  manumitted  by-Oeneral  Washington — who  owns 

and  occupies  a  far f  one  hundred  and  fifty  acres  in  Fairfax  County,  near 

Mount  Vernon.  This  man  has  offered  twenty-eight  acres  of  his  farm,  to  be 
sold,  that  the  procee  Is  might  be  used  in  the  defence  of  Virginia,  and  he  is 
willing  to  fight  himself. 

This  reminds  us  of  still  another  incident,  though  it  has  but  slight  appli- 

d  to  the  subject.  A  gang  of  slaves  were, rolling  a  cargo  of  bomb-shells 
on  a  small  steamer,  for  transportation  to 'a  fort.  One  of  the  darkies,  not 
understanding  their  use,  exclaimed,  "Q-orra  mighty!  what  de  white  folks 
gwine  to  do  wid  deso  big  balls?"  "  Why,  you  fool  nigga,"  replied  a  know- 
ihg-looking  comrade,  "  dem  is  Davis  pills,  to  work  de  Vankecs  out  ob  Fort 

ens." 


AN    ARMY    NOTE-BOOK.        •  17 

A    GOOD    CAUTION. 

At  one  time  there  was  ;i  fear  that  the  President,  for  some  cause,  would 
attempt  to  depr  egard  of  his  command.    Wigfall,  of  Texas,  a  bold, 

dashing,  independent,  plain-spoken  man,  referring  to  the  subject  on  one 
occasion,  in  the  presence  of  Davis,  rem  irke  I :  "  Mr.  President,  don't  touch 
him.  Whenever  a  man  becomes  so  popular  that  the  men  of  the  country 
name  their  race-horses  and  steamboats,  andthe  women  name  their  babies 
after  him,  don't  touch  him,  let  him  alone!" 

Ill  URAII    FOR    THE    DEVIL. 

While  the  Yankees  were  occupying  Canton.  Mississippi,  a  little  boy,  five 
years  of  a  ng  by  a  bevy  of  soldiers,  shouted,  "Hurrah  for  Jeff. 

Davis."  '-Hurrah  for  the  devil,"  was  the  indignant  response.  "That's 
right,"  said  the  little  fellow;  "you  hurrah  for  your  captain,  and  I'll  hurrah 
for  mine." 

RUNNING    A    FAT    LADY. 

During  one  of  the  raids  of  the  Federals  in  North  Carolina,  they  entered 
the  house  of  a  venerable  lady,  and  deliberately  proceeded  to  hew  and  hack 
her  elegant  furniture.  She  remonstrated  against  this  vandalism,  when  the 
brutes  drove  her  out  of  the  house,  and,  at  the  point  of  the  bayonet,  com- 
pelled her  to  donble-qnick  around  the  premises,  amid  ,thcir  gibes  and 
laughter,  until  the  ;  tan  fell,  exhausted.     A  fact  which  adds   to  the 

barbarity  of  th  nt  is,  that  the  lady  was  so  portly  as  for  several  years    ¥ 

•  e  been  an  invalid.     The  wretches,  when  they  left,  had  thcaudaci: 
say  that  "the  exercise  would  do  her  good." 

rma  his  rations. 

After  thi  ■?  Boonsboro*  in  Maryland,  when   our  army  fell  back, 

one  of  our  pic)  ikee,  and  order. -d  la  soften.' 

P  the  Confi  lerate  suddenly  mounted  the  Yankee, 

and  made  him  a  pri  for  camp.     He  did  not  know  exactly 

course  to  traveled  in  the  direction  of  Shar] 

the  end  of  th  .  •  neral  Evans,  of  South  Carolina,  and 

•■  Wh  ib  -re?  '  was  the  inqni 

"W:ili.  I.  '.nt  l  reckon  he  '- 

.  we  '11  git  inthin'  I 
Dothin'  f;ir  thn 

the  reply  where   have  you 


]  -  ■  ul.KANIN'-.S    IROM 

"Ben J  v.l.v.  -.\.  Ve  ben  lost)  and  as  (bribe  livin'  ;>art.  I  jest  concluded 
I  '■!  turn  commissary,  and  press  pervisiooa  to  keep  me  and  the  Yank,  so  i 
marched  bim  but  we  've  ben 

two  of  th  ,  Gineralj  i  bone.     JTer  haven't  ■ 

drop  eorjul'  i 

Portnnatelj  the  general  bad;  and,  considerably  mollified  by  i  Btrong  i»ull 
at  t li . •  Bask,  die  Confederate  resumed  bis  journey! 

:  ai.    •  1 1 :  N"  I :  U  A  I ,  ■: . —  J  \\  I  ORS. 

Tne  North,  even — we  mean  the  h >t.  conservative  portion  of  the  peo- 
ple— aro  pU(  to  shame  at  the  infamy  and  atrocities  of  some  of  her  military 
tyrants.  The  Philadelphia  Evening  Journal  has  an  article  on  "Barbarous 
Federal  Generals,"  in  whicb  it  speaks  out  thus  boldly: 

"Whatever  may  be  the  final  result  of  the  present  sanguinary  war — 
whether  the  seceded  States  become  subjugated  or  independent — the  future 
impartial  historian  will  pronounce  the  judgment  of  posterity  against  a  few 
names  that  have  figured  conspicuously  in  the  I '•  d<  ral  service. 

•■One  of  those  worthies  is  Ken.  Butler,  who  commenced  hid  military 
Bethel,  and  ended  it  at  New  Orleans,  where  he  played  such 
fantastic  trioks  against  humanity  that  the  administration  was  compelled  to 
remove  him.  and  appoint  a  man  whose  instincts  are  not  so  brutal-»-who,  in 
oompafison,  is  a  gentleman — we  mean  General  Banks.  Another  one  is 
Turchin,  of  Illinois,  a  colonel  who  was  tried  by  court-martial  for  permitting 
and  encouraging  his  men  to  arson,  murder,  plunder,  and  rapi — mho  was 
condemned  and  ordered  to  be  dismissed  in  dishonor  from  the  service,  which 
ace  was  approved  by  General  Bnell  and  promulgated,  but  who  was 
immediately  promoted  from  his  colonelcy  to  a  brigadier-generalship  by 
.Mr.   Lincoln,  and  is  now  in  service  under  General  Roseorapz. 

"Another  is  an  adventurer  from  the  land  of  the  blue-noses,  named 
McNiel,  who  in  cold  blood  ordered  ten  innocent  non-combatanttj  to  be  shut, 
becatise  thej  resided  in  the  neighborhood  of  one  who  had  been  abdu 
from  his  borne  by  a  guerilla  band.  The  flimsy  pretext  for  this  barbarity 
was,  that  it  was  done  in  retaliation  for  his  murder,  but  his  Bubsequ£n1 
return,  sale  and  sound,  destroyed  the  last  prop  upon  which  such  an  infamous, 
wholesale  murder  was  sought  to  be  justified.  1 1'  the  heart-rending  agony 
of  the  ten  widows,  and  the  wailing  of  their  orphaned  children,  do  not  lvach 
hi.-  conscience,  then  he  will  suffer  all  the  more  in  hell,  where  there  are 
/    saints  in  comparison  to  bim. 

■•  Another  name  i>  that  of  Milroy,  a  canting,  Methodistical  preacher,  who 
has  embraced  the  opportunity  of  civil  war  to  wreak  the  petty  vengeance 

and    malice    of   his    narrow   soul     upon    the    unfortunate,    heart-broken,    and 
impoverished  women  and  children  of  Virginia.     His  conduct  in  West  Vir- 


AN    ARMY    NOTE- HOOK.  19 

ginia  was  bad  enough,  but  his  ferocity  in  the  valley  around  Winchester  is 
shocking.  Bui  a  short-time  since  he  ordered  a  family  out  of  the  lines,  and 
would  not  permit  them  to  take  their  clothing  with  them.  Jt  is  said  that 
even  their  crinoline  was  denied  them,  although  they  had  treated  our  troops 
in  the  must  kindly  manner.  Be  moved  into  the  mansion  immediately,  and. 
appropriated  it  for  bis  headquarters,  together. with  the  spoons,  pianos,  &c, 
and,  in  j^tit  of  generosity,  presented  one  of  the  pianos  to  a  female  who  was 
residing  in  one  of  the  camps  thereabouts.  This  family,  although  it  was 
Well  known  to  have  sheltered  and  succored  our  BQldierS  when  the  fate  of 
war  had  thrown  them  captive  in  the  neighborhood,  was  thus  cruelly  and 
unnecessarily  thrown  helpless  upon  the  world,  to  gratify  the  lust  of  pillage 
of  this  general. 

"  Aii.'tln  r  n  nne  is  that  of  Steinwehr,  whose  complicity  in  the  shocking 
of  the  burning  of  New  Market  will  be  remembered.  It  was  proven 
that  those  who  were  trying  to  escape  from  the  burning  houses  were  driven 
back  into  the  flames  with  the  sabres  of  ferocious  soldiers.  Can  the  mind  of 
man  contemplate  a  greater  scene  of  horror  than  was  presented  by  frantic 
citizens,  driven  from  their  homes  by  the  torch  of  the  incendiary,  shrieking 
and  terror  stricken?  How  they  must  have  cried  for  mercy;  bow  their 
piercing  shriek-  must  have  risen  above  the  roar  of  the  crackling  flames, 
cuveloping  their  own  homstcads.  But  these  did  not  pierce  the  heart  of 
this  general.  No;  nor  were  any  of  his  accomplices  punished  for  this  deed 
of  infamy  and  horror. 

"These  incarnate  fiends,  without  having  any  military  ability  whatever, 
have  driven  the  people  into  hostility,  when  they  might  have  hern  secured 
as  friends.     This  article  will  aed  into  b  disparagement  of  our  army 

and  it«  officers;  but  let  us  tell  those  who  would  do  so,  that  nothing  dispar- 
-o  much,  either  at  home  or  abroad,  as  the  neglect  to  seek  out 
and  punish  such  offenders.     The  administration  cannol  plead  ignorano 

The  acts  of  Butler,  M    i  1   Milroy  were  brought  to  their 

protest  of  the  enemy,  while  those  of  Turohin  and  Steinwehr 

brought    forward    in  tic  evidence   before  the   court-martial.      ln< 
I  and  promoted  by  the  administration,  wh 
tenant    Edgerbj  tic    Democratic   ticket  in   '» 

Hampshire,  and  Lieutenant  Van  13  uren  for  permitting  hii 
h'  n-i  i     insure  promotion — rob,  murder,  and  destroy;  to  incur  dia- 

ry  and    inhumanity,   or   vote    tie 

vw  ix 

I 

loridians,"  n] 

ckoHtujf  to  a  small  I  r  be  came  across. 


20  QLEAJIIM 

In  the  fi-ht  ligo,  South  Carolina^  one  of  our  aharpt  -  hod 

a  fiddle  strapped  to  hi<  back.     1    found  him   li:iril  nt   work,  trying  to  get 
id,  With  tlic  d — d  Yankees  for  making  Mm  lose  hu  1  oir. 
man,  wit! 

in  death; 
But  Yankees,  true  to  country,  will 
till  they  die,  and  then — '.'■  *tiU. 

NEQRO   DION!  n 

Private  Gibbs,  of  Charleston,  was  captured  and  sent  to  Hilton  Head, 
:ni<l  :i  negro,  in  uniform  and  armed,  was  placed  as  g  lard  over  him.  A  mis- 
chievous  idea  oocured  to  Gibbs,  to  test  the  negro's  sense  of  "freedom  and 
i  quality  with  the  white  man."  So,  stepping  up  to  him  in  an  unguarded 
moment.  Gibbs  asked  him,  authoritatively,  -Whom  do  you  belong  to?" 
Taken  by  surprise,  the  negro  answered, submissively,  "To  <le  'stare  of  Ged- 
ilis,  on  <le  main,  sir."  meaning  an  estate  on  the  main-land — -then,  recollecting 
hie  changed  condition,  he  walled  his  eyes  angrily  at  Gibbs,  and  said:  "Look 
'ere!  stand  off  dare.  Didn't  you  know  I  put  here  to  guard  you?  1  belong 
to  Mister  General  Hunter  and  myself,  now;"  and  he  strutted  forward  and 
baok  with  pompous  dignity. 

AN    INCIDENT   OF   THE    BATTLE   OF   FREDERIC! 

The  Lexington  (Virginia)  Gazettegires  the  following  extract  from  a  letter 
written  by  ay  officer  to  a  citizen  of  that  town.  It  relates  an  amusing  inci- 
dent, which  the  officer  says,  "unlike  most  good  things  of  the  kind,  is  true:" 

"On  Monday  succeeding  the  battle  of  Fredericksburg,  the  Yankees  asked 
and  obtained  a  flag  oi"  truce,  to  collect  and  carry  off  their  dead.  As  sunn  as 
it  was  understood  that  this  was  the  case,  there  was  a  cessation  of  the  pre- 
vious incessant  firing  between  the  skirmishers  on  both  sides.  Soon  the  men 
of  both  parties  began  to  lay  down  their  arms  and  walk  out  into  th«'  neutral 
ground  between,  and  talk  and  swap  newspapers,  tobacco,  coffee,  &c.  Then 
the  lines  grew  more  confused  and  mixed,  till  at  last  there  was  do  separation 
between  the  advanced  lines  of  both  parties. 

"About  this  time,  one  of  our  fellows,  a  tough,  wild-looking  specimen, 
with  his  tues  (nit.  of  his  shoes,  his  bushy  hair  protruding  from  the  topless 
crown  of  his  hat,  ragged  pants,  and  no  coat,  with  a  dingy,  chocolate  tint 
pervading  his  whole  person,  was  rambling  around  generally,  with  nothing  to 
give,  but  ready  to  accept  anything,  from  a  newspaper  to  an  overcoat. 
Presently  he  espied  a  braa  new  Belgian  musket  lying  abandoned  on  the 
ground.  This, was  precisely  the  thing  our  Confederate  Adonis  wanted  to 
complete  his  equipment  and  costume;  so  he  picks  it  up,  and  starts  off  for 
his  lines.     Just  then  he  is  spied  by  a  Yankee  major  on  horseback — a  fellow 


AN    ARMY    NOTE-BOOK.  21 

got  up  in  the  highest  style  of  military  tailoring,  with  new  coat  and  trap- 
pings, and,  above  all,  a  superb  pair  of  patent  leather  top-boots.  He  rides 
up  quickly,  and  calls  out,  rather  sharply: 

'"  Put  down  that  musket,  sir!     You  can't  have  that.' 

"Our  Brummell  gives  him  an  edgewise  dance  of  incredulity,  and  making 
no  reply,  purtucs  the  even  tenor  of  his  way.  Fretted  thai  his  appearance 
and  authority  should  hot  have  produced  more  effect  upon  such  a  looking 
fellow,  the  Yankee  rides  up  close  to  him,  and  calls  out,  very  curtly  and 
st i  rnly: 

"'Don't  you  know,  sir,  that  you  can't  come  within  our  lines  and  carry  off 
guns  under  a  flag  of  truce  ?  Put  it  down,  sir,  and  go  back  to  your  reg- 
iment.' 

•  Mercury  looks  up  at  him  kindly  and  inquiringly,  as  if  to  be  satisfied 
that  he  is  in  earnest,  and,  shaking  his  head  at  him,  but  without  even  slack- 
ening his  pace,  or  weakening  his  hold  of  the  musket,  coolly  replies: 

"'Never  mind,  sir!  I  '11  shoot  you  to-morrow,  and  get  them  hoofs.' 

"  Do  you  think  it  will  make  much  difference  with  that  fellow  whether  the 
Government  gives  him  shoes  or  not?" 

YANKEE  REVERENCE   FOR   GENERAL   LEE. 

When  the  army  was  passing  through  Pennsylvania,  the  ladies  frequently 
ciime  out  of  their  hou>cs  to  show  their  feeling  of  hostility  to  us,  and  to  dis- 
play some  evidence  of  it.      At  one  place,  a  beautiful  girl  ran  down  the  b1 
of  an  elegant  mansion,  and,  standing  on  the  tefrac<    in   front,  waved  a  min- 
iature United  States  flag  in  the  face  of  our  troops.     Behind  her,  applauding 
her  act,  Wat  grouped  a  party  of  ladies,  all  richly  and  fashionably  attired, 
nging  1"  a  family  of  some  not-.     The  troops  pasted   by  qui- 
ilt  to  the  flushed  beauty  as  she  flaunted  her  flag  in  their 
At  that  moment  General   Lee  rode  up.     His  noble  far,.,  and  quiet, 
reproving  look  met   hot  1   the  waving  tie.'  wa^  lowen  1      lor  a 

moment  she  looked  at  him.  and  then,  throwing  down  the  miniature  ha: 

Dted  audibly,  as  the  clasped  her  white  ha'  her:  -  <  Hi  !  1  wish 

be    M  The    flair    v,  ]    up,   but    with    ham]-  Mill    held 

tightly  together,  and  i  sad,  thoughtful  fa  n<  back  to  thi 

.No  further  attempt  to  sb^w  Onion  sentiment  wn 

THE   SPIRIT   or   01  B    Hum 
\  few  instances  il 
"Mr.  J  I  fourteen 

old 

in  the  w.v 


12  ilOM 

"General  Jos  ph  Grab  m,  of  Lincoln  County,  North  Carolina,  has  left  a 
name  renowned  la  history  ae  b  Revolutionary  hero.  3U  mantle  has  fallen 
upon  hie  d  Hi-  youn  mot  Win.  A.  Graham, 

baa  fire  bow  in  the  army.  Hia  Bistor,  the  youngest  daughter  of  General 
Graham,  and  wife  of  .the  Rev.  I'r.  Robert  II.  Morrison,  has  two  Bona  and 
four  sons-in-law  in  I  ■   the  latter  being  'BetfcaL'   Hill  and 

'  Stonewall '  Jackson 

••  Th"  Shnlet  family,  originally  from  Orangeburg  District,  Boata  Caro- 
lina, exhibit  a  representation  of  fifty-one  names  in  the  Confederate  service. 
•  sriing  family  have  in  Confederate  service  Bixty-three  representa- 
tives, all  hailing  fopm  South  Carolina. 

"In  Cleveland  G  i  at  ■  N  irth  Carolina,  Mrs.  Ham  rick,  a  widow,  haa  but 

a   children,  all  suns,  six  of  whom  she   has  devoted    to  the  Southern 

She  would  devote  the  seventh,  and  her  all,  hut  that  he  is  a  small 

too  young  for  the  army.     At  aha  first  call  of  her  country,  this  noble 

mother  urged  hi  r  Bona  to  the  field.     With  3u<?h  sons  and  such  mothers,  we 

fear  nol  the  issue. 

••In  the  list  of  casualties  of  the  Fifth  Virginia  Regiment  at  Fredericks" 
burg,  we  see  among  the  killed  Lieutenant  Bell,  of  Augusta  County,  the 
ninth  killed  out  of  twelve  ol    that  family  in  that  regiment/ 

'i  in.   tki  i:   BPIEIT. 

In  these  limes  of  trial  to  nun's  souls,  a  modest  exhibition  of  genuine 
patriotism  and  courage,  in  soldier  or  citizen,  woman  or  child,  commands  the 
admiration  and  sympathy  of  all.  What  language  ran  describe  the  emo- 
tions o!  those  who  fully  appreciate  the  unyielding  heroism  with  which  the 
patriotic  preacher.  Rev,  Peyton  Harrison,  of  Cumberland  County,  Vir- 
ginia, hear-  the  weighty  afflictions  imposed  upon  him  by  this  unholy  war? 
At  Manassas,  the  flower  of  the  flock  fell,  at  the  head  of  his  company,  and 
with  perfect  resignation  he  bowed  to  the  stroke.  At  Fort  Donelson, 
another  ion,  Rev.  Dabney  Can-  Harrison,  a  joint-heir, with  his  brother 
n  to  their  lather's  love,  fell  while  gallantly  leading  hia  men  in 
defence  of  that  position.  Closely  following  upon  the  tele-ram  of  Captain 
Dabney  Harrison's  death, the  news  of  hia  daughter's  death  came  upon  him — 
a  lovely  young  lady,  who  breathed  her  last  at  Brandon,  on  dames  River,  a 
d;iy  or  two  since.  And  yet,  in  the  face  of  this  battalion  of  sorrows,  he 
evinced  that  undying  spirit,  the  bulwark  of  Southern  independence,  when 
he  said,  in  a  quiet  and  determined  manner:  "I  have  two  more  sons  left  to 
devote  to  our  cause  J  when  they,  too,  are  gone,  I  will  shoulder  the  musket 
myself."  • 


AX    ARMY    NOTE-BOOK.  23 

FIDELITY   OF    Oil;    SLAVES. 

The  characteristic  exhibitions'  of  Yankee  character  and  purpose  do  us, 
incidentally,  great  benefit  in  affording  instances  of  the  well-tried  fidelity  of 
the  servants. 

\<i  old  •  ..nit  woman,  who  had  been  faithful  Under  all  trial- am]  tempta- 
tions, went  to  the  Yankee  who  had  the  basket  of  keys  belonging  to  her 
mi-tress,  and  demanded  the  smoke-house  key.  b,  as  her  mistress 

had  had  neither  breakfast  nor  dinner,  she  was  determined  to  cook  her  some- 
thing to  eat  before  she  left.  This  faithful  ne^ro  cook  happened  to  be  pos- 
1  of  a  tongue  which  could  run,  when  provoked,  as  fast  ami  foul  asa  fish- 
woman's.  When  the  Yankee  refused  to  let  her  have  the  key.  to  ^ct  her 
mistress  something  to  cat,  she  poured  out  upon  him  a  stream  of  denuncia- 
tory  epithets  which  he  richly  deserved,  but  which  it  would  not  do  for  u-  to 
publish.  The  reJder  may  form  some  idea  of  what  she  said  from  the  Fol- 
lowing, which  are  some  of  the  mildest  epithets  used  in  the  old  woman's 
vocabulary:  "  You  mean,  low,  trifling,  dirty,  poor  white  trash,  you  ain't  fit 
for  nothing  I""  tO  rob  and  steal.  You  poor,  cowardly  robbers,  that'.-  fit  to 
steal  niggers,  and  den  rob  jler masters  and  mistresses,  what  ain't  got  nothing 
to  fight  you  wid.  Why  don't  you  go  up  the  Valley,  whar  Massa  Jackson 
is.  H(  S  _  :  guns,  and  swords,  and  bayonets,  just  like  you  is;  why  don't 
you  go  up  dcre  and  see  him.  you  mean,  sneaking,  cowardly,  poor  wl 
trash,  de  wua  kind  in  de  world."  The  old  cook  gave  him  "Jessie,"  and.  ae 
she  was  in  tin    panoply  of  an  Ethiopian  skin,  they  were  compelled  to  take  it. 

A   sorniKRN    FLORENCE    MUIITi  v  ,.\  I  :  . 

A  few  years  ago,  Sir  John  Musgrave  and   bis  beautiful  da  ited 

New   York,  bringing  with  them  the  |  od    name,  and   wearing 

the  livery*  lent  of  manner.-.     Tbev  ■■ 

by  the  merchant  pi  eat  commercial  m.  trop- 

olis.     The  daughtei    >■  [ant  son  of  Henry  Grinnell 

ous  and  noble-hearted   merchant  ol  New    Fork,  who  bath   | 
-  now,  the  unflinching  and  daunt..  South,  and  who 

I   tb.'    Lincoln   Government  in  tin    .  .  of  a  bold  and    manly 

opinion  in  our  behalf,  and    in  tie    manifestation  of  the  m  ,Pa]   aid 

Sir  .John  and  nia  daughter  returned  to  England,  and  -  fter  his 
impanied    I  ,1,,. 
:-  of  that  ministra- 
tion                         nl  wound*  r.     ( >n  her  return 

•  Grinnell  mi  t   her  in    I 

where  thi                                all  the  luxui  i,irh 

the  princely  wealth   of  I                ben  could  so  well  afford   them.     Colonel 


24  GLEANINGS    FROM 

,  of  Virginia]  had  often  met  Miae  Mnsgiave  in  New  York,  and 


whilst  passing  down   the  street  in    Richmond,  suddenly  and   unexpectedly 
wearingfhat  bland  and  joyous  Bmile  and  expression  of  recognition 
which  iitaparta  Buch  a  beautiful  benevol  nee  to  her  oonntenanpe.     ••  Mfei 

•  iitl  — : ;   "  I  W.i  D  have  expected  t<>  B66  an   angel 

from  heaven!     Pray,  Miss  Musgrave,  how  came  you  hen 

II,  ■•  jtorj  ••  Id, with  most  unaffi  r  leaving 

York."  saidvlie,   "1   returned   to   England,  and  went  with  Florence 
i  tin  gale  to  the  Crimea.     On  my  return   home  1   married   Mr.  Grrinnell, 
and   pn  the   breaking  out  of  the  war  in  America,  my   husband   avowed    his 
rminatfon  to  link  his  fortunes  with  the  South;  and  I  aceompanied  him. 
lie  soon  raised  a   company— fitted  them  out  at  an  expense  to  himself  of 
fifteen   thousand    dollars — preferred    that    some   one   of   more   experience 
should  lie  captain,  taking  for  himself  a  lieutenancy — aud  he  has  gone  to 
fight   for  the  South,  and    1    am   here  in  one  of  the   hospitals   of  Richmond, 
a"  the  best  1  can  for  the  wounded  and   dying  soldiers  of  the  Confed- 
eracy."    And    she    passed    on — if  not  an   angel  from  heaven,  certainly  an 
angel  of  earth — the  Florence  Nightingale  of  America! 

AN    APT    REPLY. 

"When  the  streets  of  Montgomery  were  crowded  with  soldiery,  and  in- 
spiriting martial  music  stirred  all  hearts,  a  lady  chanced  to  pass  along  one 
of  the  principal  thoroughfares,  when  a  volunteer,  who  probably  i'elt  the 
"one  touch  of  nature  which  makes  the  whole  world  kin,"  very  politely 
saluted  her  by  raising  his  hat,  and  remark i n g  :  "  Farewell,  my  good  lady; 
1  'm  "oing  off  to  fight  for  you;"  to  which  she  instantly  and  very  composedly 
repUecl:  "And  I  intend  remaining  here  to  pray  for  you,  sir."  There  was 
something  in  this  reply  so  apropos — so  womanly — that  there"  was  a  general 
raising  of  hats  anion-  the  group,  who  doubtless  felt  that  a  warm  and  truly 
POttS  heart  heat  in  the  bfcsom  of  the  fair  creature  who  had  pledged  her- 
self  to  invoke  the  benediction  of  Heaven  upon  them. 

The  following  noble  compliment,  nobly  won,  was  conferred  on  a  private 
in  his  army  by  fjeneral  Beauregard,  Mr.  Jones  is  a  native  of  Fairfax 
County,  but  a  resident t)f  Warrenton,  Virginia,  and  his  town,  county,  and 
State  will  do  well  to  he  proud  of  the  young  hero,  who  has  won  such  uncom- 
,,„,,,  honors.  The  order  which  follows  was  read  at  the  head-of  every  regiment 
in  Beauregard's  whole  army.  All  praise  to  the  general  who  thus  honors 
merit,  even  in  the  ranks: 


an  army  note-book.  25 

'•Headquarters  Army  op  tiik  Mississippi, 
Corinth,  MissiSjUfMj  April  12,  1.862. 
"[GFXERAL  ORDERS  No.  14.] 

"The  Commander  of  the  forces  desires  to  call  the  special  attention  of  the 
army  to  the  intrepid  behavior  of  Private  Eicon  Jones,  Company  K,  Seven- 
teenth Regiment  Virginia  Volunteers,  while  on  detached  service  in  the 
signal  corps,  dnring  the  bombardment  of  the  upper  or  Rucker's  Battery  at 
Madrid  Rend;  when  the  signal-flag,  having  been  twice  shot  from  his  hand, 
was,  nevertheless,  promptly  recovered  by  him,  and  his  messages  accurately 
transmitted  without  interruptions. 

"  Preferring  the  post  of  danger  and  of  duty  to  the  relief  proffered  by  his 

commanding  officer,  Private  Jones  remained  at  his  perilous  position  for  six 

days  and  nights,  affording  an   example  of  patriotic  devotion  and  personal 

valor  eminently  worthy  of  the  emulation  of  his  young  couutrymeh-in-arms. 

"By  command  of  General  Beauregard. 

F.  H.  JORDAN, 
Assistant  AdjiUa't  //." 

FEMALE    HEROISM. 

Two  of  the  late  Judge  Clopton's  daughters  had  a  servant  hired  at  Fortress 
Monroe,  and  could  not  get  her  by  Bending.  Thev  made  one  of  their  ser- 
vants row  them  to  the  fort  in  a  boat;  they  were  armed  with  revolvers,  and 
demanded  admittance;  the  sentinel  refused;  they  insisted,  and  were. told 
that  they  would  be  fired  upon  ;  they  said  fire,  then,  and  drew  their  revolvers 
and  entered  the  fort.  They  told  the  officers  that  they  had  heard  that  the 
Hampton  1  not  throw  up  sand-hanks,  but   that  it  should  be 

done,  if  the  ladies  had  to  do  it;  that  they  would   head   a  company  of  I 
to  do  it.     The  officers  said,  if  th  nens  of  the  ladies,  they  did 

not  know  what  the  men  of  Hampton  wonld 

OLD   ABE   AND    III      v.  |  it. 

Russell,  of  the  London  '/'■  irnisheol  the  following  concerning  the 

eupants  of  the  White  J 

••  I.  hubbub  and  phiz-drinks  a; 

than  now  Mr.  Russell  to  the  aristocrati 

the  White   House.     Th*  servant  who  took   ti 

QVit<  d.  ,rv.  '  par- 

ticularly inqui  'ion   in  life;  ami  wha 

i,:    to   be 
'  and 
ters  dinin  .x.ed, 

I 


GLEANINGS   FROM 

i  that  it  would  1  to  no  iudig- 

.  and  informed  me  that  i  was  about  to  participate  in  a  prandial  enjoy- 
ment of  no  ordinary  character.     Mr.  Jeams  having  been  thus  conciliated, 

•om. 
••Mr.-.  Lincoln  was-alreadj  81      is  of  the 

middl  '.:,  of  a  plom.pi  aerating  to  the  embonpoint 

natural  to  her  years;  her  features  arc  plain,  her  nose  and  mouth  of  the  ordi- 
I  her  manners  and  appearance  homely;  stiffened,  however,  hy 
the  consciousness  that  her  position  requires  her  to  be  something  more  than 
plain   Mrs.  Lincoln,  the  wife  of  the  Illinois  lawyer.     She  is  profuse  in  the 
use  of  the  word  'sir,'  in  every  instance,  which  is  now  almost  an  American- 
ism confined  to  certain  classes,  although  it  \  so  common  in  England. 
'.all  not  attempt  to  describe,  though  it  was  very  gorgeous  and 
She  handled  a  fan  with  much  energy,  displaying  a  round, 
well-proportioned  arm,  and  was  adorned  with  some  simple  jewelry.     Mrs. 
•  in  struck  me  as  being  desirous  of  making  herself  agreeable." 
The  portrait  of  the  host  is  thus  given  in  another  chapter: 
"  Soon    afterwards    there    entered,  with    a   shambling,   irregular,   almost 
.  a  tall,  lank,  lean  man,  considerably  over  six  feet  in  height, 
with   stooping   shoulders,  long,  pendulous   arms,  terminating    in    hands   of 
ordinary  dimensions,  which,  however,  were  far  exceeded  in  proportion 
by  his  feet.     He  wt                 1  in  an  ill-fitting,  wrinkled  suit  of  black,  which 
one  in  mind  of  an  undertaker's  uniform  at  a  funeral  3  round  his  neck  a 
rope* of  black  silk  was  knotted  in  a  large  bulb,  with  flying  ends  projecting 
beyond   the    collar    oi    his   coat;    his    turned-down    shirt-collar    disclosed    a 
sinewy,  muscular,  yellow  neck,  and  above  that,  nestling  in  a  great  ma 
black  hair,  bristling  and   compact,  like  a  rulf  of  mourning  pins,  rose  the 
strange,  quaint  lace  and  head,  covered  with  its  thatch  of  wild  republican 
hair,  of   Lincoln.      The  impression    produced   by  the  size  of  his  extremities, 
and  by   the  flapping  and  wide-projecting   ears,  may  be  removed    by  the 
trance  of  kindliness,  sagacity,  and   the  awkward   bonhomie  of  his  face; 
the   mouth    is  absolutely  prodigious;    the  lips,  straggling,  and  extending 
almost  from  one  line  of  black  heard  to  the  other,  are  only  kept  in  order  by 
two  deep  furrows  l'rom  the  nostril  to  the  chin;   the  nose  itself — a  prominent 
organ — st. nels  out  from  the   face,  with  an  inquiring,  anxious  air,  as  though 
it  were  sniffling  some  good   thing  in  the  wind;   the  eyes,  dark  and  deeply 
set,  are  penetrating,  but  lull  of  an  expression  which  almost  amounts  to 
tenderness;  and  above  them  projects  the  shaggy  brow,  running  into  the 
small,  bard  frontal  space,  the  development  oi  v,  liieh  can  scarcely  be  estimated 
accuratelji  owing  to    the  irregular  locks  of   thick   hair  carelessly  brushed 
across  it.''                 / 


AN    ARMY   NOTE-BOOK.  27 

A   PORTRAIT    OF   PRESIDENT   DAVIS    AND    HIS    CHILDREN. 

A  correspondent  of  the  Charleston  Courier,  writiug  under  date  June  17, 
1861,  describes  as  follows: 

"The  parlors  of  the  President,  at  the  Spottswbod  Hotel,  this  evening  have 
been  the  locale  of  a  pleasant  interchange  of  courtesies  between  himself  and 
the  members  of  the  Virginia  Convention.     On  the  first  day  of  their  session, 
the  body  passed  a  resolution  instructing  the  Chairman  bo  address  Mr.  Davis, 
and  ascertain  when  it  would  be  convenient  to  receive  them.     He  responds], 
naming  the  evening,  upon  which  a  resolution  was  passed  that  the  members 
should  pay  their  respects  in  a  body.     They  accordingly  assembled  at  i 
o'clock,  and,  headed  by  the  venerable  Ex-President  John  Tyler,  and  Hon. 
John  Janney,  the  President  of  the  Convention,  proceeded  arm  in  arm  from 
the  Capitol  to  the  hotel.     Arriving  here,  the  door  of  the  private  entrance 
was  thrown  open,  and  the  procession  ascended  to  the  Presidential  pai 
where  were  present  the  Chief  Magistrate;  Hon.  Robert  Toombs,  Seer 
of  State;  Hon.  Mr.  Mallory,  Secretary  of  the  Navy;  Hon.  Mr.  Meinmi; 
Secretary  of  the  Treasury;  and  Mr.  Win.  M.  Browne,  Assistant  Seen 
of  State.     As  the  gentlemen  severally  advanced,  they  were  introduced  by 
Mr.  Ewbank,  the   Secretary  of  the  Convention,  and   in   ten   minutes  the 
apartments  were  filled  by  a  hundred  or  more  of  the  'solid  men'  of  Virginia, 
each  one  happy  in. that  happiest  of  all  reflections,  that  he  was  looking  his 
very  1 

"  The  President  always  looks  well,  but  never,  to  my  mind,  is  he  bo  much 
in  his  element  as  when  the  cefltre  of  an  admiring  throng;  throwing  out 
brilliant  scintillations  of  thought  with  which  his  fertile  mind  is  so 
pregnant  This  was  especially  the  case  this  evening.  Not  only  was  each 
■man  met  with  a  kind  and  different  greeting  from  that  received  by  his 
neighbor,  but,  after  the  formalities  of  the  introduction  were  over,  the  free- 
dom with  which  he  moved  hither  and  thither,  dropping  a  complimenl 
one,  calling  up  some  reminiscence  of  to  another,  touching  gently 

anon   t!ic  «  vrnts  of  the  time   to  a  third,  relating  a  brief  but  appropt 
aneci  L  making  himself  eminently  a 

fail  to  pro  luce  upon  the  mind  n  the  im| 

a  who  sj  ir»   the 

the  forum  or  the  fi 
Coml  with  the  caution  of  the 

giving  full  scope  to 

puts  more  into  ts,  with  less  r  h  eflbrt,  tl  >uld 

to.    Yon  J 
■ 
yet  involuntarily  d 


28  GLEANINGS    FROM 

Boon  forget  that  you  arc  talking  with  the  President  of  the  Southern  Tnion, 
and  remember  only  the  man.     Such  is  President  Davis  in  the  parlor.  What 

nan,  and  soldier,  the  world  already  k^ 
"/Moving  around  in  the  crowd  were  two  microscopic  Danrises — Maggie 

and  Jeff.,  Jr. — as  handsome  and  brilliant  a  pair  of  household  i  -  ever 

heart.     Maggie  is  what  the  ladies  would  call 'a  perfect 

She  has  large,  brown,  ex;  long  lashes,  whioh,  but  for 

natural  vivacity,  would  give  her  an  almost  pensive  cast  of  countenance; 
round,  rosy  cheeks;  a'  sweet  little  nose  and  mouth;  a  dimpled  chin;  i  fine 
growth  of  black  hair,  dipped  short  on  the  heck,  and  a  clear,  rosy  complex- 
ion. Add  to  these  charms  a  tiny  form,  pretty  enough  to  belong  to  a  divinity, 
and  you  have  a  pen-and-ink  portrait  of  a  diminutive  specimen  of  humanity 
who  would  make  a  jewel  of  a  picture  in  any  kind  of  setting,  whether  she 
belonged  to  a  President  'or  any  other  man.' 

"The  other  Davis — young  Jeff. — is  a  chubby,  broad-shouldered,  gray* 
.  big-headed,  brown-haired  chap,  five  years  old,  fat,  fair,  and  fresh  as  a 
rosebud;  but  beyond  these  points,  he  is  a  boy  like  any  other. 

"The  father  seems  proud  of  both  these  bantlings;  and  as  they  edged 
through  the  crowd  and  took  a  place  by  his  side  once  or  twice,  though 
engaged  in  conversation  with  a  number  of  gentlemen  around  him,  he  still 
found  time  to  bestow  upon  them  the  smiles  and  caresses  of  affection." 

THE   SPIRIT   OP  OUR   SOLDIERS. 

The  full  story  of  moral  heroism,  personal  sacrifice,  and  gallant  deeds  writ- 
ten in  blued  during  this  war,  can  never  be  transferred  to  history.  We  can 
only  preserve  such  instances  as  occasionally  find  their  record  in  the  columns 
of  the  pn 

"A  mother  had  proposed  to  hire  a  substitute.  The  son  replied  :  'No,  I 
say  now  that  I  will  never  leave  my  flag  in  the  hour  of  peril.  Come  weal, 
come  woe,  I  will  always  be  found  fighting  under  the  Confederate  flag  until 
liberty  and  peace  are  restored,  and  the  Southern  Confederacy  is  acknowl- 
edged by  the  civilized  world.  If  you  have  any  money  to  spare  to  lure  a 
substitute,  you  had  better  do  it;  though,  if  you  hire  five  hundred  it  will 
have  no  effect  towards  bringing  mo  home,  for  I  intend  seeing  this  war  out,  if 
I  live. 

"A  mere  youth,  who  belonged  to  the  cavalry,  rode  by  a  poor,  weary,  and 
forsaken  soldier,  and  observing  that  lie  Wis  barefooted  and  the  blood  run- 
ning from  his  feet,  immediately  jerked  off  his  boots,  .and,  throwing  them  to 
him,  said  :  'Take  them,  I  have  a  horse  and  you  are  a-foot ;'  and  rode  off 
before  a  reply  could  be  made.  The  result  was.  the  poor  little  fellow  took 
pneumonia  and  died.'-' 


AN   ARMY   NOTE- BOOK.  29 

A  Northern  paper  contains  the  following: 

"A  rebel  major,  -who  was  wounded  and  taken  prisoner,  said,  after  one  of 
onr  surge"ons  had  dressed  his  wounds :  'Gentlemen,  I  did  not  expect  such 
kind  treatment  at  your  hands;  but  I  tell  you,  in  all  candor,  you  never  MM 
capture  Richmond,  unless  you  do  it  over  the  dead  and  wounded  bodies  of 
fifty  thousand  men.  We  have' resolved  it;  we  shall  endeavor  to  perform 
it.'     This  sentiment  is  shared  by  all  the  prisoners  we  have  captured."  ' 

"During  one  of  the  adventurous  raids  of  General  John  Morgan  in  Ken- 
tucky, a  shell  struck  a  Sergeant  McDaniel  on  the  leg,  crushing  and  man- 
gling it  so  terribly  that  he  died  a  few  hours  after.  As  the.  general  rode  by 
him,  he  called  out:  'How  are  you,  general;'  and  as  the  general  turned 
around*  he  said:  'Don't  mind  me,  I  am  past  cure;'  and  calling  to  some  com- 
rades who  were  near,  said:  '  Here  are  some  few  cartridges — you  will  need 
them.'  These  were  about  the  last  words  spoken  by  the  poor  fellow. 
Another  poor  fellow,  who  was  shot  through  the  intestines,  as  the  surgeon 
approached  him,  said  :  'Doctor,  don't  mind  me;  my  wound  is  fatal;  goto 
those  whom  you  can  assist.' " 

A   NOBLE   BOY. 

A  friend  from  Holly  Springs  related  to  us  the  following  incident,  which 
< ■■.■furred  in  Jackson,  Tennessee.  Little  Bennie  Malone,  a  boy  about  ten 
years  of  age,  and  son  of  Dr.  B.  J.  Malone,  of  Jackson,  resented  manfully  an 
insult  offered  his  mother,  by  one  of  the  infamous  Yankees  quartered  there 
by  striking  him  a  severe  blow  on  the  head,  with  a  rock.  Standing  by  a 
squad  of  Yankees  on  t)\<  Ik,  he  heard  one  of  them  use  sonic  insult- 

ing language  about  his  mother,  ai  -he  passed  them,  when  ho  said:  "Sir. 
she  is  my  mother;"  to  which  the  chivalrio  Yankee  replied:   "I  don't  care 
a  d — n  if  she  is."     At  this  moment  the  little  fellow  let  fly  a  rock,  which 
ight  the  accursed  Eankee  to  the  ground,  whence  he  was  carried  to  his 
quarters.     "When  last  heard  from  ho  wad  oonaiderod  to  be  in  :i  precarious 
fion.  and  fears  were  entertained  that  he  might  recover.     Little  Bennie 
ted   and   carried    before  the  military  authorities,  but  on  a  hearing 
of  ti  •  was  released. 

A   Fl.\';i  i  I,   ORDKAL. 
<in  the  battle-field  of  Gaines'  Mill,  near  Richmond,  on  the  L'Tth  of  June 

1862,  Colonel  ■  ,.„], 

Carolina  Volui  II.  Taylor,  was  hi]  .   having  i 

down  tin  lag       ||, 

I  fell,  and  thi  Shubriek 

Hayne,  who,  in  like  tm  lawn;  when  a  fourth,  Alfred  <;. 

l'inckney,   took    them    from     Haync.    and    aim  ntfy   fill,    mortally 


30  GLEANINGS    FUOM 

Avoundcd,  across  the  body  of  his  friend.     Gadsden   Hoil  I  ready  to 

i .  a  tlinn,  in  turn,  but  fell}  pierced  with  several  balls,  b-  fore  the  oppor- 
tunity occurred.  Hayne  was  l»ut  eighteen,  and  (he  other  three  not  twenty- 
one  j  Thus  in  a  few  mom<  nte  were  offered  and  accepted  apoo 

the    aitar  0$   their   country   five  as   noble   spirit-  as  ha\<  aced    the 

annals  of  any  history,  upon  their  iirst  battle-field. 

Not  long  before,  while  their  regiment  was  drawn  up  in  line,  their  colonel 
had  said  t"  them  of  the  colors:  "l'ie  by  them,  hoys,  but  n<i,r  Let  them 
trail."      How   faithfully  was  this  order  carried  out.     Surely,  such  heroism 
ie  grateful  remembrance  of  their  country. 

TREATMF.NT   OF   FEMALB    PRISONERS. 

The  Washington  correspondent  of  the  Baltimore  Exchange  says : 

"'J'he  'grand  army  of  the  North/  no  Longer  running  from  Richmond,  is 
now  warring  against  wtpnen.  A  constant  reader  of  your  paper,  I  notice 
your  moderate  notice  of  these  'female  rebels,'  and  for  the  sake  of  truth, 
send  you  the  enclosed,  leaving  with  your  discretion  to  do  with  it  what  your 
judgment  suggests;  for  mine,  awed  by  the  surrounding  bayonets,  dare  not 
venture  beyond  the  truth,  and  even  trembles  at  this.  But  to  facts. 
Imagine  a  listener,  rather  than  an  actor,  relating  her  experience. 

••  ( hi  Saturday,  at  eleven,  A.  31.,  Mrs. ,  entertaining  her  Bister,  a 

lady  friend  was  much  surprised  to  see  two  men  inter  ami  announce  that  she 
was  under  arrc.-i,  and  her  family  also.  Immediately,  armed  men  placed 
themselves  in  her  parlors,  at  all  the  doors,  and  around  the  house,  while  the 
two  men  proceeded  up  stairs,  throwing  open  the  saored  doors  of  her  apart- 
ments, forcing  Open  drawers,  desks,  wardrohes,  boxes,  tearing  the  Redding 
from  the  beds,  searching  the  pockets  of  dresses,  with  an  activity  which 
threatened  destruction  to  everything.  Remonstrance  was  vain,  for  they 
Were  told  to  hush,  or  else  they  should  have  guards  placed  over  each  one  of 
them.  Their  hands  were  violently  seized  because  a  pocket-book  was  de- 
tained, and  the  unfortunate  female  pushed  into  a  room  with  a  soldier  over 
lei-.  They  were  grossly  insulted,  bringing  the  tears  into  their  women's 
eyes.  Every  insult,  in  act  and  Bpeech,  was  shown  to  them;  and  when  their 
desks  ami  pockets  had  been  robbed  of  their  contents,  they  were  all  huddled 
into  one  room,  with  armed  men  to  guard  them. 

■•  I  have  long  wished  for  some  term  to  define  a  mass  of  vulgarity,  ruffianly 
conduct,  and  insult  to  unprotected  Women,  and  have  lbund  it  in  a  New 
Ywrk  detective  policeman.  The  prisoners  have  four  guards  over  them. 
They  turned  them  out  of  their  parlors;  sleep  and  smoke  on  their  solas;  an- 
swer the  bell  when  their  friends  call ;  their  cards  and  notes  .arc  all  exam- 
ined. They  illuminate  the  house,  seated  at  the  front  windows,  with  their 
legs  over  the  chairs;  thrust  themselves  whenever  the  ladies  meet  together 


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(the  family  being  large)  to  hear  their  remarks;  have  examined  and  threat- 
ened the  servants  if  they  did  not  toll.  The  prisoners  cannot  get  a  pitcher 
of  water  without  a  guard  being  sent  with  their  servants.  Their  mail  is 
taken  possession  of,  and  their  privacy  intruded  up  in  every  way. 

'•  \nw,  as  there  i>  a  God  in  heaven,  have  I  stated  exactly  what  this  nine- 
teenth century  has  allowed.  Isolated  from  all  their  friends,  thus  arc  they 
left  to  the  yengeanoe  of  this  Government.  The  charge  of  treasonable  cor- 
respondence cannot  he  sustained.  No  letter  has  ever  been  written  to  any 
Confederate  leader;  nor  can  proof  be  found  to  sustain  this  arrest.  They 
are  entirety  ignorant  into  whose  hands  they  have  fallen,  and  arc  as  much 
guarded  as  if  they  were  the  veriest  convicts  on  record." 

THE    BRIGADIER   GENERAL   ADOLPH   VON    STEIN WEIIR. 

Among  the  many  aspirants  for  infamy  in  the  Yankee  army,  there  is  no 
officer  of  rank  so  little  known  to  the  Southern  public  as  the  Brigadier 
Steinwehr,  who,  in  his  late  order  to  his  understrapper,  Steadman,  exhibits  a 
enM-blooded  impudence  which  is  truly  Gothif.  lie  is  a  genuine  Yankee 
fee,  fau,  fum  general,  who  proffers  the  hospitalities  of  his  tent  to  Virginia 
gentlemen  with  the  condition  annexed  of  shooting  or  hanging  one  of  his 
From  a  gentlemen,  whom  chance  threw  much  in  the  way  of  this 
truculent  general  long  before  he  was  the  imposing  brigadier  that  he  nov 
we  have  obtained  some  interesting  particulars  of  his  life  in  America,  which 
we  propose  to  lay  before  our  i 

Brigadier  Steinwehr  is,  as  his  name  implies,  a  German,  and  hails  from 
the  little  principality  of  Saxe  Gotha.  His  family  have  been  respectable; 
and  an  uncle  of  his  is  now  a  General  of  that  picayune  Government.  8( 
wehr,  the  Yankee  general,  first  made  his  appearance  in  the  old  United 
in  the  character  of  a  draughtsman,  in  the  hvdro^rajdiical  bureau, 
under  Professor  Bache,  ami.  ry  <it'  three  dollars  a  day,  worked  in 

Mobile,  under  direction  «-t  Captain ,  of  the  United  who 

iged  in  the  survey  of  the  .  \u  iotimi  >  up 

,  and  their  oondnet  gave  rise  to  a  y 

mdal.     As  the  details  would  I-  ;.p  ears  polite,  we  ■ 

then  over  in  siiem  with  maotionifl 

intimacy.     Madam  left  Mobile  the  divorced  wife  of  a  dishonored  I 
iwehr  beat  ompany,  mark*  !.  for  life,  with  th 

liin. 

nr  Yan- 

•    STork  at  able 

■ 


32  GLEAKINGS    FROM 

the  enchanted  ground,  the  inner  circle  of  the  elite.     German  barons  W< 
drag  in  tin-  market;  a  Japanese  Tommy  was  worth  barons  at  that 

time.  <  )ur  Yankee  fledgeling  general  left  the  metropolii  in  disgust,  and 
turned  up  in  Albany,  New  York,  litre  barons  were  Bearoe,  and  as  the 
Baron  Steinwehr  had  i V •  1 1  the  knife  and  boots  of  Americans,  and  ethers,  be 
droped  a  peg  or  two,  and  tried  the  scientific  and  injured  ihnooenoe  caper. 

In    Albany.  1  •  •.ited    himself  to    the     \'an    Koti-clhvrs,   Ten    Kycks, 

Townsends,  Bayards,  and  others,  as  a  German  noble,  who,  suffering  from  his 

1  »ve  of  liberty,  his  contempt  of  rank.  ,y.c.  and  being  an  outcast  from  the 
land  of  his  lathers,  deprived  him  of  his  vast  possessions,  was  forced  to  fall 
back  upon  his  acquirements  for  a  living.  He  met  with  a  great  deal  of  sym- 
pathy and  encouragement,  lie  made  a  great  noise;  he  was  to  write  a  book; 
! i  drawing:  make  a  physical  geography,  Ac;  in  short,  he  "got  into 
and  all  went  swimmingly  with  him  for  a  time.  But  it  was  not 
long  before  he  displayed  qualities  which  did  not  increase  his  popularity. 
He  obtained  endorsements  on  bills  which  he  forgot  to  honor;  borrowed 
books  aud  other  articles  of  value,  and  pawned  them;  borrowed  small  change 
which  he  never  repaid,  and  at  last — "breathe  it  not  in  Gath" — be  was  sus- 
pected of  stealing  what  he  could  not  borrow,  lie  cheated  at  cards,  and  was 
tabooed  in  Albany.  For  this  same  trick  he  had  been  kicked  by  the  less  re- 
fined inhabitants  of  New  York.  City.  Albany  refused  him,  and  he  was 
obliged  to  leave  his  drawing  pupils  untaught,  and  his  projected  physical 
geography  unfinished. 

A  penniless  rowdy,  he  returned  to  New  York  City  about  the  time 
"Honest  Abe"  made  the  discovery  that  seventy-five  thousand  Yankee 
volunteers  could  not  sqUftloh  "the  rebellion."  He  saw  in  the  disorders  and 
■  ssities  of  the  tames  an  opportunity  for  a  position;  and  a  brewer,  named 
Bpeyer,  upon  whom  he  had  been  sponging,  saw  an  opportunity  of  getting 
rid  of  a  heavy  encumbrance.  Speyer,  who  ruled  a  large  portion  of  the 
r-sclling  and  drinking  community,  set  himself  to  work,  and  raised  a 
iment  for  Steinwehr;  and  the  latter,  having  lived  in  Albany,  knew  the 
modes  of  doing  business  there,  and  had  little  difficulty  in  obtaining  the  com- 
mission of  colonel.  How  he  rose  to  his  present  position  can  be  briefly  told. 
Not  deficient  in  pluck  or  impudence,  he  stood  while  others  ran;  he  worked 
while  others  loafed,  and  is  now  a  brigadier  general.  The  styling  himself 
A.  Steinwehr,  is  an  attempt  to  Anglicise  his  name — the  "  Baron  Adolpb 
vmi  Steinwehr"  being  played  out,  Should  he,  at  any  time,  fall  into  the 
hands  of  our  troops,  the  following  description  will  ser.ve  to  identify  him:  In 
height,  he  is  about  five  feet  four  inches,  compactly  made,  but  rather  sbort- 
leg^ed,  broad  shoulders,  quick  in  his  manner — in  all'ectation  of  the  French 
style;  bald  head,  what  hair  there  is  left  being  sandy;  bluish-grey  eyes; 
nose   aquiline,  and  slightly  flattened  by  a  blow;  mouth  large,    but  well 


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formed;  chin  prominent;  moustache  Bandy,  sprinkled  with  gray,  and  a 
frightful  gash  on  the  left  cheek,  from  the  eye  to  the  goatee — a  touvemr  of 
Mobile. 

OUR   OLD    MEN. 

A  gentleman,  who  has  been  traveling  through  the  country,  relates  the 
following:  Riding  up  to  a  house,  he  called  for  a  drink  of  water,  and  in- 
quired of  the  lady  who  sent  it  to  him,  if  there  were  any  young  men  who 
wished  to  volunteer.  He  was  told  that  she  thought  there  was.  During  the 
conversation,  the  old  man  came  limping  to  the  door,  and  heard  the  inquiry 
for  volunteers,  when  the  old  lady  remarked:  "  Why,  old  man,  you  can  go;" 
and,  turning  to  the  recruiting  officer,  she  said:  "  ILo  can't  get  about  much, 
to  be  sure,  but  then,  he  can  sit  in  a  fort  and  touch  off  cannon." 

At  the  time  South  ('arolina  seceded,  a  venerable  citizen  of  that  State  was 
residing  in  Galveston,  Texas,  and,  there  being  a  prospect  of  her  coercion, 
expressed  his  determination  to  return  and  volunteer.  His  extreme  age 
was  suggest)  '1  to  him,  by  an  affectionate  grand-daughter,  as  a  reason  why  he 
should  remain  at  home.  "  Why,  grand-pa,  suppose  you  went,  what  good 
could  you  do?"  "What  good!"  replied  the  old  sire,  with  spirit;  "why,  I 
could  stand  by  and  say,  hurrah,  boys!" 

A   YOUTHFUL    IIEUO. 

Among  the  many  youthful  heroes  who  fell,  dying  or  wounded,  at  the  bat- 
tle of  Williamsburg,  was  John  Tyler  Wall  r,  the  same  who  at' 
received  the  approbation  of  General  Evan.-  lor  his  heroic  conduct. 

Young  Waller  (fourteen  years  of  age)  belonged  to  the  gallant  "Home 
Guard,"  of  Lynchburg,  Virginia,  Captain  Otey,  whose  company  was  in  the. 
thickest  of  the  fight  during  the  entire  pi  riod  of  the  action.     When  met  by 
hie  lather,  who  was  deeply  distressed,  he  remarked  :  "IhtJier,  T/cll  dt  fend- 
ing my  dear  moth*  r't  grave."     God  grant  him  recovery  from  his  wounds. 

\TKAL    A  T.T.I  MB    HDNSI    .TOIlNSTuN. 

AiShiloh,  the  brave  and  heroic  Sidney  Johnston  directed  the  First  Mis- 

i  bo  a  Ivai  I    .  and  then  riding  to  where  an  Arkan 

barrel   of  a  musket    in    his   hand,  and    cried    <.ut:   "Von 
Ark  ,  can 

and  led  a  chai  which  i!  k  in 

dismay,  but  not  until  one  of  th<  it  ad  am  '1  bullets  had  struck  thi 
man  upon  the  field,  and  he  who  saori: 
Van  But    a    few    mon  -   wound,  the 

let  of  the  Southern  .  frith 

Yankee  wounded,  groaning  pitifully.     Tun  ,  the 


GLEANINGS    rUOM 

ouly  one  of  his  staff  with  him,  he  said :  "Co  back  and  mitigate  the  sufier- 
I  those  poor,  miserable  devils."     The  Burgi  on  declined,  upon 
ground  that  hi.-  proper  position  \  I  to  Johnston. 

But  the  general  re]  .        •  and  hia  Burgeon  left  him  to  attend  to 

of  the  enemy's  wounded.  A  few  momenta  afterwards,  Gen- 
eral Johnston  received  a  Bevere  wound  in  the  thigh,  from  the  hemorrhage 
of  which  he  died.  Sad  bis  surgeon  hem  present,  the  wound  might  have 
the  hemorrhage  stopped,  and  his  life  saved.  As  it  was,  he 
i  the  fact  of  his  wound,  continued  to  lead  forward  his  successful 
columns,  and  finally  perished,  the  victim  of  his  own  magnanimous,  heroic 
nature. 

GENERAL  RBTTIGREW. 

lie  received  a  disabling  wound  through  the  lungs,  and  as  he  was  being 
carried  off  the  field,  he  inquired  of  his  attendants,  "How  goes  the  battle?" 
The  reply  was,  "Against  us."  "Then,"  said  the  gallant  Pettigrew,  "lay 
me  down,  and  go  and  fight."     He  was  laid  down,  and  was  made  a  prisoner. 

BRECKINRIDGE  AT  EATON  ROUGE. 

A  correspondent  of  the  Mobile  Tribune,  writing  from  Grenada,  says: 
••  Honor  to  whom  honor  is  due,"  and  it  is  but  right  that  the  fact  should 
be  recorded,  that  the  Kentuekians  won  the  most  glory  in  the  Baton  Kouge 
battle.  They  distinguished  themselves  for  gallantry,  as  they  had  done  at 
Shiloh,  under  the  same  loved  leaded  Breckinridge,  too,  acted  with  the 
intrepidity  of  a  Marlborough.  At  one  critical  period,  when  the  fall  of 
General  Clarke  was,  apparently,  about  to  throw  the  army  into  a  panic,  he 
rode  quickly  forward,  and  eloquently  exclaimed  :  "Come,  my  brave  boys,  and 
follow  me — I  will  lead  you  on  to  victory!"  The  next  moment,  a  whole 
phalanx  of  bayonets  was  rushing  like  an  avalanche  upon  the  foe,  and  the 
victory  W8S  ours!" 

Ml.N    Wliosi;   NABOBS   SHOULD   never  die. 

When  Brigadier  General  Garland,  of  Virginia,  fell,  mortally  wounded,  on 
the  bloody  field  of  Sharpsburg.  his  aid  rode  up  to  the  dying  hero,  with  the 
inquiry  :  "Are  you  hurt,  general?'' 

"Ye-,"  he  answered,  "I  am  dying — go  tell  the  senior  colonel  of  this 
brigade  to  assume  the  command." 

But  not  among  generals  alone  do  we  find  ever-memorable  illustrations  of 
all  that  is  ennobling,  and  all  that  is  divine  in  human  impulses  and  charac- 
ter. The  armies  of  the  South  furnish  from  among  the  common  soldiery 
instances  of  heroism,  and  of  an  inextinguishable  love  of  glory,  which  no 


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AN   ARMY   NOTE-BOOK.  35 

recorded  example  of  human  greatness  transcends  in  ennobling  characteris- 
tics. 

When  Sergeant  S  pi  thaler,  of  the  "Swiss  Rifles/'  fell,  mortally  wounded, 
on  the  battle-field  of  Perryvillc.  his  thigh  crushed  and  torn  by  a  cannon- 
shot,  Colonel  Tyler,  his  commanding  officer,  went  to  him,  saying:  "Let  me 
have  you  removed  to  the  rear." 

">"o!"  said  the  expiring  hero,  "let  me  die  on  the  battle-field." 
His  name  should  never  be  stricken   from  the  rollfrof  his  company,  and 
whenever  it  is  called,  let  some  war-worn  comrade  answer,  as  was  dom 
one  who  fell  thus  in  the  old   war  for  Independence — let  some  old  vet.  ran 
answer:  "Dead  on  the  field."  * 

colonel  Colquitt's  gallantry  at  jackson. 

Lieutenant  Hutchinson,  in  command  of  the  color  company  (Uarris 
County,  Georgia),  of  the  Forty-Sixth  Georgia  Volunteers,  In  the  battle  of 
Jaokaon,  thus  alludes  to  the  gallantry  of  Colonel  Colquitt,  in  a  private 
letter: 

"Perhaps  no  man  ever  behaved  with  more  coolness  and  bravery  on  the 
field  of  battle,  than  did  Colonel  Colquitt.  He  was  with  us,  side  by  side* 
during  the  action  of  three  hours,  and  when  tme  asked,  'where  he  was!" 
'  There  he  sits,'  was  the  reply,  'on  his  horse,  the  balls  whizzing  around  him, 
and  cutting  the  leaves  over  his  head.'  At  one  time,  I  heard  his  voice 
above  the  noise  of  musketry,  shouting,  '  Stand  firm,  meal  Remember  pern 
an  Georgians  J  imt  us  /all  together 1 "  The  whole  brigade  arc  pleased  with 
his  bearing,  and  none  more  than  the  Forty-Sixth  Georgia,  who  would  not 
exchange  him." 

H"W   A    BRAVE    MAN    CAN    DIE — COLONBL   ROBERT   A.    SMITH. 

GtafiaAx  HoaprrAx  Bio.  1. 
RiOHMOifD,  Febmary   I  I.   1 

My  Dl  \k  SlE:  At  your  request,  T  willingly  furnish  you  with  the  follow- 
in?  narrative  of  the  last  houn  of  the  Doble  and  devoted  Colonel  Robert  \. 
Smith,  who  commanded  and  bravely  led  the  Forty-Fourth  Georgia  Volun- 

on  the  bloody  field  of  Ellig  »n's   Mill,  Dear  the  city.     1  fully  a 
with  you,  that  th<  P  that  Christian  gentleman,  polite  and  aocotn- 

plished  soldier,  and  intrepid  Warrior,  should  find  a  permanent  phu 
rar. 

lo- 
n«l    Snsith   had    l,e<n    in   a  very  1  ;li — confined    mueh    of  the 

tune  to  bifl  1"   1       The  BYi  ttit  .     |  hil  mar- 

•with Ti is  usual  kind  welcome,  he  invited   me  in.     I 
for  a  few  min  ■ 


;jr,  GLEANINGS   FROM 

ercd  in,  with  orders.     With  a  conn-  trim,  a.«  if  considering  some 

gubji  dy  well  I  rdeis,  and 

soon  the  couri< 

u  w,  i  .  t*m  gi  t  ready  to-night  fin*  the  work  of  to-mor- 

row." 

-What  is  that,  Colonel?"  I  asked. 

Ee  then  briefl)  gavfc  th<  i  t  your  men  oook  their 

rations  w<  11."  ^ 

"Colonel."  said  1.  after  a  moment's  silence,  "you  will  not  be  able  to  go 
out  with  us."  -for  he  had  raised  himself,  and  was  sitting  on  the 

side  of  his  bed  a  moment — as  if  in  i  de<  p  rev*  iddenly,  lifting  his 

drooping  eyes,  i  hteniug  up,  said,  "  Y<   ,  Captain,  I  shall  go,  if  I  < 

lie  then. reclined  upon  his  bed,  and  closed  his  eyes,  l  saw  that  he  was 
quite  feeble, and  felt  little  like  talking,  and  1  left  his  tent. 

All  was  BOW  hurry  and  bustle  in  camp.  Some  with  gloomy  countenances, 
sonic  with  buoyanl  spirits,  vent  to  work  preparing  for  filling  their  canteens 
and  haversacks.  I  was  busily  engaged,  for  several  hours,  in  getting  my 
company  all  r< 

At  ode  o'clock,  A.  M.,  on  the  26th,  we  were  to  leave  our  camp  to  take 
up  the  line  of  march  for  the  hanks  of  the  Chickahorniny,  on  the  Mechan- 
UJSVille  road.  About  midnight,  1  went  to  the  colonel's  tentj  he  was  awake. 
I  silently  approached  his  bed,  "Ah!"  said  he,  "you  up  already?  Well, 
soon  will  be  the  time."  lie  was  quite  feeble.  1  said  to  him : 
"Colonel,  you  are  not  trying  to  go  out  this  morning,  are  you?" 
"  1  have  thought  but  little  about  it,"  said  he. 

-  quite  anxious  to  have  him  go  With  us,  had  he  been  able;  but  I  knew 

he  was  not  able.     Every  man.  haw  each  been  consulted,  would  have  said 

that   he  wanted   Colonel   Smith   to   be    in  command  when  we  went    into  the 

fi'dit.     But  all   would  now  say,  he  cannot  go  this  time.      I    remonstrated 

i.-t  his  going,  but  to  no  effect :  he  said,  ••  L  Bhall  go." 

Soon  the  order  oajne  lor  us  to  get  into  line.     I   was  with   my  company 

until  the  regiment  was  formed.      When    we   we're   ready  to    march,  Colonel 

gmjt.b  eame  out,  and  was  assisted  to  mount  his  horse.     We  were  ordered  to 

"jcit.  fact  ,"  and   "counter-march,"   as  we  should  move  forward  Kit  in  front. 

We    started    towards  the    Mechanic- ville   Turnpike,  but  the 'road   being 

very  muddy,  and  the  night  very  dark,  we  had  to  stop  frequently,  half  an  hour 

at  a  time,  in  order  that    the  troops  abend  of  us  might  get   out  of  our  way. 

1  was  inarching  jusj  behind  Colonel  Smith;  and  about  the  second  time  we 

Stopped,  which  was  before  we  bad  ^ot  more  than  one-half  mile  from  camp, 

the  colonel  beckpned  me  to  him.     When  1  was  by  his  side,  he  said  to  me: 

•■  I  am  very  sick;  help  me  de>wn." 


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I  took  hiui  under  each  arm,  and  assisted  him  from  bis  horse.  When  I 
had  led  him  to  a  log,  he  sat  down,  and  very  .soon  began  to  vomit.  I  held 
his  head  some  time;  he  was  very  sick.  Alter  he  became  easy,  I  entreated 
him  to  return  to  camp,  or  go  to  some  house,  assuring  him  that  he  was  not 
able  to  proceed  further. 

"No,"  said  he,  "1  will  go  on." 

I  assisted  hiui  to  and  upon  his  horse,  and  again  we  moved  forward.  About 
day-light,  we  reached  the  Mechaniosville  road,  and  halted.  Again  I  assisted 
him  from  his  horse.  lie  could  scarcely  stand  when  he  was  on  his 
Very  soon  he  was  vomiting  again,  and,  while  holding  his  head,  I  found  he 
had  an  ague.  I  told  him  that  he  was  doing  great  injustice  to  himself  to 
:i;  but  he  persisted,  and  said  that  he  was  determined  to  go.  I  knew 
that  it  WW  to   urge   him  further,  since  he   was   determined   to  go. 

■me  half  or  three-quarters  of  an  hour,  we  marched  on  until 
We  were  within  half  a  mile  or'  the  ChickaKoaainy,  where  we  iuclined  to  the 
right  of  the  road,  under  cover  of  a  hill,  and  in  a  beautiful  grove  of  majes- 
tic oaks,  we  were  hall  id,  and  ordered  to  "stack  arms"  and  rest.  Soo*n  the 
troops  of  our  ((ioneral  Kipley's)  brigade  were  all  down  resting.  I  went  to 
Colonel  Smith,  and  asked  him  how  he  felt. 
"  Very  poorly,"  he  replied. 

I  then  asked  him  if  he  wished  anything.  After  he  had  a  bed  fixed  of 
leaves,  with  a  blanket  spread  over  them,  he  laid  down,  and  said  to  me: 

"  "Captain,  you  will  be  detached  this  evening,  as  skirmishers — your  com- 
pany, with  three  oth 

"  Well,''  I  replied,  "I  will  do  the  best  I  can." 

"Yes,  I  know  you  will  discharge  your  duty;  I  hope  you  will  come  out 

il." 
1  then   left  him.     I   knew  from  his  flushed  chocks  that  the  fever   I 
ng  upon  him.     '•  Poor  l<llow,"  thought  I,  "how  he  is  sufl 
■   n,  all  around  was  still.    I  ■;,,,,. 

There  one  sits  apart,  meditaf  iboul  home  and  its  end 

let  they  lie,  with  tht  earth  for  their  b  sd  in  slumber, 

:i'l  and  n.v.  d  ou<  -  I  ild  we  know  | 

v>  io  a  he  !:■  -  |h  epiag  b  p,  ju^t  upon  the  eve  of  a  terribh 

and  in  full   view  oi  I  -  beHreoched  in  g  I   in 

hum 

r  <Tic   more   embr.  that 

his  darling  little  ol 
that  cur  one 

;ing  v.ith  ili«.i;.  -acrifice  D] 

Here 

]  in 


38  GLEAMN'.-    FROM 

humble,  jet  bold,  supplication.  '  See,  he  smiles.  Oh  !  little  he  thinks  of  the 
hi  terrible  hour  just  ahead;  1 1  <-.  perhaps,  i<  by  thai  fond  mother's 
> i <  1  e ,  telling  her  how  he  lias  fbu»ht  to  win  his  country".-  freedom.  Well, 
niv  pleasant-looking  fellow-soldier,  1  hops  all  your  fond  dreams  maybe  real- 
ized.   But  here  is  the  betrothed  lover;  see  that  placid  oonntenaneej  how  calm 

He  wots  not  that  the  confln ••  r  at  hand.     !!<■  B 

as  he  trusts  in  his  GoUj  yet  he  aski  ta  spend  ■  little  sacra  time  with  the 
idol  of  his  heart.  But  hear,  the  order  is  going  round  to  ub«  ready,"  and 
soon  we  start. 

Pray  excuse  this  digression.  A  deeping  army,  just  before  agreat  battle! 
Oh!  who  would  survive  the  conflict? 

I  went  to  my  e  lonel,  and  Baw  that  he  was  already  up,  and  prepario 
the  Geld.  1  was  ordered  to  take  my  eompany  and  report  to  General  11  ill  for 
orders.  Soon  J  was  o If.  After  the  skirmishers  had  made  the  reeonnois- 
sance  ordered,  and  gotten  possession  of  the  bridge  over  the  Chiokahominy, 
the  brigade  orossed,  and  1  Baw  Colonel  Smith, as  he  rode  along  ahead  of  his 
ment  Soon  thereafter  I  saw  him  assisted  from  his  horse,  a  gentleman 
actually  faking  him  in  his  arms,  as  he  would  a  little  child.  Having  drawn 
his  sword,  ami  formed  his  line  of  battle,  lie  Bpoke  a  oheering  word  or  two  to 
his  men,  when  General  Hill  ordered  the  whole  line  forward,  to  char 
battery. 

;  hat  noble  man  and  gallant  soldier,  Colonel  Smith,  as*  he  dismounts 
his  horse,  and  marches  off  on  foot,  telling  his  men  to  follow  him.  Onward, 
and  yet  onward  he  goes!  Though  weak  and  faint  from  physical  debility, 
and  Buffering  with  scorohing  fever  and  aching  pais,  ye1  bo  strong  in  devo- 
tion to  bis  country's  cause,  that,  even  when  he  was  not  able  to  mount  his 
horse  without  assistance,  he  could  gallantly  lead  his  devuted  regiment  over  a 
wide  space  of  ground  in  double-quick  time,  and  under  a  perfect  storm  of 
shot  and  shell. 

My  company  being  ordered  on  the  Hank  of  the  brigade  by  the  general 
commanding,  i  did  not  see  the  colonel  when  he  was  wounded;  but  from 
others,  who  saw  him,  I  learned  that  he  most  bravely  rushed  on  until. he  fell, 
pierced   hv  t!  had-      Then,  ai'tcr  he  had   fallen,  to  those  who  went 

to  assist  aim,  he  would  cry-aloud:  "Charge,  men,  charge  If 

Deal  Colonel  Smith,  he  is  gonej  but  never  was  a  truer  patriot,  a  braver 
soldier,  or  humbler  Christian  carried  upon  a  litter  from  the  battle  field. 

As  you  are  advised,  he  died  a  lew  days  alter  he  was  wounded.  His  death, 
no  doubt,  was  caused  by  his.  extreme  physical  debility  at  the  time  he  went 
into  the  action  of  the  20th  day  of  June,  thus  showing  his  self-sacrificing 
devotion  to  his  country.  He  knew  that  his  whole  regiment  loved  him;  he 
knew  it  had  confidence  in  him,  and  he  knew  that  it  would  fight  under  him" 
better  than  any  other  living  man     And  as  he  was  devoted  to  his  mcn;  and 


AN    ARMY    NOTE-BOOK.  39 

wished  their  reputation  to  be  Sustained,  and  wished  them  to  succeed  in  the 
great  conflict  in  which  they  were  about  to  engage,  he  willingly  sacri6ced 
his  life.  He  is  gone;  but  be  was  a  good  man.  He  has  fallen,  but  to  rise 
again.  He  is  dead,  yet  he  still  lives — yes,  lives  in  (he  hearts  of  his  coun- 
trymen. But  with  the  men  of  his  regiment  be  lives  in  Christian  example 
and  noble  actions.     By  his  men  he  will  ever  be  remembered. 

MODEL   SPEECHES   BY    OUR   GENERALS. 

On  reaching  Fairfax,  President  Davis  v  I  with  deafening  shouts 

of  welcome,  and  the  rejoicing  soldiers  were  importunate  for  a  speech  from 
the  gblden-tongued  orator.  Their  desire  was  gratified  by  these  pointed, 
stirring,  and  eloquent  words  J 

"  Soldiers :  Generals  Beauregard  and  Johnston  are  here,  the  orators  of 
the  day.  They  speak  from  the  mouths  of  cannon,  of  muskets,  and  of  rifles; 
and  when  they  -peak,  the  country  listens.     I  will  keep  silence." 

While  on  his  way  to  Jackson,  Tennessee,- to  take  command  of  the  Con- 
federate H  neral  Bragg  made  the  following  brief,  pithy,  and  sensible 
h  at  Meridian,  ppi : 
"Fellow  Citizens:  In  deference  to  your  repeated  calls,  I  appear,  only  to 

.nd  he  seen,  and  to  tender  you  my  thanks  for  your  kindn. 
"  This  is  a  time  for  acts,  riot  words.     Experience  has  taught  me.  too,  that 
every  man   should  stick  to  his  trade.     In   many  efforts,  I  believe  I  never 
made  but  one  successful   speech,  and   that   was   in  a   few  words,  when   I 
courted  my  wife — the  result   then  being  due  less  to  any  merit  either  in  the 
speech  or  the  speaker,  than  to  an  unfortunate  habit  with  young  ladii 
deciding  more  from  impulse  than  n  ison,  b-   which,  as  in  n.v  case,  tie  v  ire 
be  unfortunate.      lender  well,  then,  my  f"llow-citizens,  this  piece 
.vice:   never  call   on  an  old   soldier  for  speeches;   and,  if  yon  will   par- 
don  me   the   liberty.  I    will    add    m vr  Bend. politicians  to  emnmand  your' 
time  our  cause  will  prosper." 
1  1  Jos  Johnstln,  while  in   Mobile,  was  serenade.]  at   the  reside  ■ 

of  General  MeCall,  with  whom  i  journing,  by  quite  a  niob  of  ' 

Lilians.      They  called  (or  him,  loud  and  long.      Finally  he  appeared,  w! 

thr.  e  loud  shouts 
r<  plii  :   Man  istas  i-  nol 

Charleston  "    Thr  f| 

'I'm  whiol  do  one  i  • 

n   that    bl  inder  our 

tie    -,  ;],.  in  w<  ;.  m,.,.-'      v.  • 

"  and  reti;  ,at  hedio 

stop  to  answer. 


40  ANINGS    FROM 

OUTRi  UBS. 

As  one  of  the  latest,  but  by  do  means  ■■  .  we  take  fie  fol- 

lowing from  the  Staunton  (Virginia)  Spt  'tator,  referring  I 
of  some  emissaries  <>i  Mr.  and  Mrs.  General  Mill  family  of  Mr. 

Lloyd   Lo  ■  ,n.  whose  only  offence  was  the  oba 
itment  of  a  day  of  special  prayer: 

M  One  of  them  stepped  up  and  demanded  all  the  keys  bel  the 

premises.     Mrs.  Logan  refused  I  up.     But  in  the  meantime 

had  taken  possession  of  every  room,  from  the  basement  tt  the  attic,  in- 
chiding  the  chambers  of  her  daughters.     One  of  her  daughters,  Who  had 
just  left  her  chamber,  and  had  witness   1  what  they  wore  doing,  ran  down 
;<nd  besought  her  mother  to  give  them  the  keys,  as  they  were  breaking  • 
lock  in  the  house.     The  k  then  given  to  them. 

.  room,  and  ransacked  every  drawer,  and  stole. whatever  they  could  lay 
■  Is  upon.     Ti  all  the  money  they  found,  and  would  not 

allow  Mrs.  Logan  to  take  a  single  garment  of  clothing  belonging  to  her  hus- 
band and  sons.  They  did  'condescend.'  however,  to  allow  her  and  her 
daughters  to  take  part  of  their  wardrobe.  One  of  the  Yankees  drw 
himself  up  in  one  of  Mr.  Logan's  suits  of  clothes,  and  no  douht  thinking 
that.  U  he  had  en  a  gentleman's  clothes,  he  looked  more  like  a  gentleman 
than  he  ever  did  hei'ore,  walked  up,  with  an  air  of  pride,  and  asked  one  of 
the  daughters  '  how  she  thought  lie  looked  in  her  father's  olothesF  She 
wilted  him  with  the  pntmpt  reply:  "You  look,  sir,  the  personification  and 
embodiment  of  a  rogue,  which  u  you?  true  character.' 

"  Mrs.  Milrov.  worthy  to  be  the  wife  of  her  husband,  had  arrived,  with 
the  view  of  taking  possession  of  the  line  mansion.  When  this  family  were 
thus  thrust  from  their  own  home,  Mrs.  Miiroy  clapped  her  hands  in  exulta- 
tion,  and  exclaimed:  '  Go,  ye  secesh,  i  hope  you  may  he  made  lo  starve.' 
They  were  taken,  under  guard  of  sixty  ca\airy.  lo  Newtown,  where  they  were 
left,  as  the  Yankees  .supposed,  without  the  means  of  getting  further." 

INDIVIDUAL   PROWESS. 

At  the  battle  of  Brandy  Station,  when  the  enemy's  cavalry  came  upon 
Stewart's  horse  artillery,  which  were  unsupported,  Kdwin  Sully,  son  of  Sully, 
the  celebrated  painter,  Sprang  to  his  piece,  and  loaded  and  fired  it  three 
times  alone  and  unaided.  One  horseman  rode  up  to  young  Sully,  and 
ordered  him  to  surrender.  Sully  refused,  and  ordered  the  Yankee  to  sur- 
render to  him.  The  dragoon's  pistol,  which  was  leveled  at  the  time,  snap- 
ped, when  he  drew  his  sword,  and,  dashing  the  spars  into  his  horse,  tried  to 
cut  Sully  down  ;  hut  our  hero  was  ready  fur  him,  ami  as  the  fellow  made 
the  blow,  be  avoided  it,  and  as  the  horse  dashed  past,  seizing  his  rammer 


AN    ARMY    NOTE-BOOK.  41 

with  both  hands,  and  swinging  it  around  his  head,  he  brought  it  down  with 
all  his  force  on  the  back  of  the  Yankee's  head;  killing  him  instantly,  and 
tumbling  him  headlong  from  his  horse,  of  which,  with  the  accoutrements, 
he  took  immediate  possession. 

Young  Sully  was  highly  praised  by  his  immediate  officers,  and  by  Gen- 
eral J.  E.  B.  Stuart,  who  mentioned  him  favorably  to  General  Lee,  who 
spoke  of  him  in  the  highest  term-. 

A   BRIGADE   OF  HERO] 
t 

President  Davis,  in  communicating  by  telegraph  to  Governor  James  Whit- 
field, of  Mississippi,  the  sad  tidings  ol  Barksd  de's  death,  added: 

"  I  le  fell  like  a  hero,  at  the  head  of  a  brigade  of  heroes."  A  just  tribute  to 
tie1  brave  y,  is  issippiana. 

IRITED    DASH    INTO    THE   ENEMY'S    LINES. 

t 

Sergeant  Mickler,  of  the  Beaufort  Troop,  South  Carolina  cavalry,  Com- 
pany  B,  t  by  Colonel  Butler,  with  General  Hampton's  permission, 
out  of  our  lines,  to  act  as  scouts,  and  do  whatever  damage  they  could  to  the 
vees.     He  had  command  of  a  squad  of  picked  men  from  the  regiment, 
and  some  few  from  the  Fir.-f  North  Carolina  cavalry.      He  has  been  all 
along  very  successful  in  keeping  the  authorities  well  apprized  of  the  move- 
ments of  the  Yankees  in  the  section  of  country  to  which  he  was  sent,  and 
varying  the  monotony  by  capturing,  from  time  to  time,  Bquads  of  Yankee 
cavalry,    helping    thereby    to    arm,    mount,    and    equip    our    hard-rl  . 
cent. 
But  the  handsomest  affair  that  they  have  yet  been  engaged  in,occti 
the  little  town  of  Brentsville,  Prince  "VYilliam  County.     Two  of  the  squad 
were  sitting  in  a  house,  near  a  high  road,  -as  of  danger,  when,  on 
looking  out  of  the  window,  one  of  them  observed  a  squad  of  seven  Yankee 
cavalry  coming  up  to  the  leu  e.     They  managed  to  slip  out  of  the  house 
unol  up  £      eant  Mi< '. 
and  reported                   i  him.     He  immediately  took  fiv.  .']  of  the 
same    regirm  nf,  and  went   in   pu  •   the 

■I  the  village  of  Brentsville.     He  chn 
the  seven  with 

.  only  three,  who  were  well  -nc- 

rl  in  what  |  heae 

thr  |  'iicklcr    and     I  ^Lr<  d,  of 

!•.   I  "in]  of  the   Brooi. 

K. 

I  run- 
Unl)   one  ol  them  8U(  .'..    ._•  his 

6 


42  &0M 

ir  gallant  little  party  of  throe  ng  in  tumbling   ftve    of 

them  from  1 1 1 .  i r  horses  in  ilio  streets  of  Brentaville,  ihr.  e  of  tin  m  dead,  and 
two  wounded:     They  captured,  moreover,  om  of  them  unhurt. 

The  Yankees  fought  with  plaok  to  the  last,  but  th(  ad  vim  of  the 

attack  was  too  much  for  them!  They  were  Michigan  men,  and  wcto  quite 
indignant  at  being  called  "  Fant< 

rate  Schoolbred  particularly  distinguished  himself/ kilting,  according 
tu  tl.  in  of  hia  comrades,  two,  and  wounding  and  taking  prisoner  a 

third,  a  Yank.  ant,  lately  promoted  for  gallantry.     II.'  Baved  his 

own  life  ami  took  the  lieutenant  by  his  admirable  self-possession.  Bi 
riding  ahnos(  >i'h'  by  side  with  the  lieutenant^ and  had  Bhot  every  barrel 
of  his  pistol,  when  the  latter,  observing  this,  turned  on  him  with  a  fresh 
\  and,  putting  the  muzzle  close  to  him.  exclaimed  :  "Now,  I  have  you, 
y0U  ,] — ,1  rebel."  Sehoolbred,  with  great  coolm  as,  threw  his  empty  pistol 
:,t  bim,  and.  with  great  ^ < ■  < > ■  1  fortunej  struck  the  pistol  pointed  at  him,  and 
knocked  it  nut  of  the  hand  of  the  rankee.  He  then  drew  another  pistol 
and  Bhot  tlie  Yankee,  who,  rolling  off  his  horse,  cried  out:  "I  am  wounded  : 
[    jive  up." 

T1IF,   LONE   8ENTIN1  !.. 

Iu  the  General  Assembly  of  the  Pin  sbyterian  Church,  held  in  Columbia, 
i  Carolina,  one  of  the  members,  Colonel  Preston,  of  Virginia,  in  speak- 
ing on  the  death  of  Jackson,  related  the  following: 

At  the  battle  of  Manas- is,  the  victory  was  decided  in  our  favor  by  the 
■  ration  of  the  armies  of  Johnston  and  Beauregard.  Johnston's  army, 
leaving  their  camps,  with  the  foe  in  front  of  them,  Buddenlj  crossed  the 
mountains,  and,  by  bia  forced  marches,  first  gained  lor  Jackson's  troops  the 
name  of  fool  cavalry.  Jackson  that  night  ordered  out  his  usual  pickets,  but 
the  ..llicer  of  the  guard  came1  to  bim  and   told  him  that  tin'  soldiers  were  all 

asleep,  completely  exhausted,  and  asked  whether  he  should  arouse  them. 

'No,'  replied  the  general,  'let  the  nun  sleep,  1  will  watch  the  camps;'  and 
silently  he  rode  around  thai  sleeping  best,  the  only  sentinel,  until  day  broke 
in  the  ca.it." 

A    TOUCHING    [JNOIDENT. 

On  receipt  of  the  news  id'  General  A.  11.  (iladden's  wound,  at  Columbia, 
South  Carolina,  Nancy,  a  slave  of  his  (who,  for  faithful  conduct  to  his  wile 
in  her  last  ilkiess,  to  heT  infant,  .Mary,  and  to  himself,  in  an  attack  of 
cholera  in  New  Orleans,  had  received  some  privileges,)  jel  out  to  join  her 
master  at  Corinth,  with  the  necessary  documents  from  the  headquarters  of 
Governor  Pickens.  Hearing  at.  Huntsville  information  of  the  place  being 
occupied  by  the  enemy,  she,  with  others,  had  to  come  by  Mobile,  fondly 
hoping  to  be  permitted  again  to  nurse  the  wounded  soldier  and  patriot. 


AN    ARMY    NOTE  BOOK.  43 

But,  alas!  his  spirit  had  fled,  and  the  sad  news  that  reached  her  deeply 
affected  her.  Being  thus  far  South,  and  having  i  boo  in  .\ew  Orleans,  and 
learning  that  Lieutenant  Gladden,  his  nephew,  was  wounded  also,  Bhe  i 

permission  to  pass  on  to  attend  him  and  si  e  her  son,  which  was  granted, 
and  she  left  for  New  Orleans.  Oh!  ye  ol  the  North,  if  jour  souls  could 
appreciate  the  relations  of  master  and  servant  in  the  South,  you  would 
appreciate  such  affection  as  this.  But  you  arc  dead  to  such  a  sentiment, 
and  must  be  left  to  your  idol — the  almighty  dollar — your  measure  of 
sentiment,  religion,  justice,  and  right. 

YANKEE    CRUELTY — FORTY-THREE    NEGROES    DROWI 
One  of  the  most  atrocious  incidents  of  the  whole  war,  has-  been  re' 
(    by  a  gentiem*n  who  obtained  the   facts  from  Captain  James  G.  White,  of 
King  William  County,  Virginia,  who  for  the  accuracy  of  the  - 

meat     Winn   the  Yankees  made  their  raid  to  Aylett'-  risited  the 

plane  of  Dr.  Gregg,  living  in  the  neighborhood,  and  took  from  their  com- 
fortable homes  forty-three  negroes,  who  were  hurried  off  to  York  River,  and 
placed  on  board  a  vessel  bound  northward.  Along  with  these  negroes,  as  a 
nor,  was  a  gentleman  named  Lee,  a  resident  and  highly  respectable 
citisea  of  King  William,  who  has  since  b<  •  i.  and  allowed  to  return 

to  his  bora  .      He  States  that  when   the  vessel  arrived   in  Chesapeake  I 
the  small  pox  made  its  appearance  among  the  negroes,  that  disease  having 

to  some  extent   among  the  same  family   before  they  were  dr. 
from  their  homes  in  King  William.     The  captain  of  the  Yankee  \ 

were  greatly  alarmed  at  the  appearance  of  thi  on  board 

and  very  soon  determined   to  rid  the  vessel  of  the  presence  of  the  Degroes. 
Vv  ithout  attempting  to  make  the  shore,  and   not  consid.  rjng  for  an   ins! 
the  inhumanity  of  the  cruel  deed,  the  wh  ,,  thrown   into 

every  one  lei  h   by  drownin  one,  perh 

die  cruel  i,y  those  win.  profesi  to  be  their 

ear:  -  and  wannest  sym] 

YAM'AUsM     IN    .  II. 

The  following  extract  from  ■  letter  n  i  sired  fr    b  ■ 
but    in    keeping  with  the   eon  duet  of  the   en 
battling  : 

*        *        "I 

;dcs  destroying  every  pound 

Ufd   milk 
■ 
hardly       Thi  an(j 

D   mi   the  mud  ,  tOf>]|    I 


14  GLiAimi 

chopped  his  piano  and  nieb'dcon  to  pieces,  and  oven  carried  off  his  robes. 

be  church  the 

"TM  f  robbed  a  "  Ltb  ftm?  children  of  her  cow  and  :  .  her 

la-t  pound  oi'  bieal  from  her,  and  rel  leav*  any  for  her  children  j 

and  even  took  off  a  cake  tint  was  cooking,  Baying  they  intend.  1  to  starve 

.nit.     Ladies'  wardrobi  \  king  torn  I  .  and 

thing  like  jewelrj  0      prisoner  taken  had  ti: 

welry.     Fenci  -.  and  shrubbery  were  wantonly 

•  that  a  fiendish  malignity  oonld 
]'ut  I  will  not  shock  you  further  with  the  r<  cital  oi'  these  cruel  wroi 

ni<HM<iM»    DURING    TI1K    1  Ml    OF    VHi;    WAR. 

Tents  multiply  on   the  hill-sides  around    Richmond.      Turn  your  eye  in 
any  direction,  and  they  whiten  the  landscape.      Main  street  is  .■  r  all  timed 
tilled  with  straggling  Boldiers,  in  every  variety  of  uniform.     Not  the  i 
ezhilirating  sighl  is  that  of  squadiions  of  newly-arrived  cavalry  dashing 
through  I  ;  and  a  cheering  sound    is  that  of  the  artillery  rumbling 

incuts.      Richmond  may  lie  likened  somewhat  to  Paris,  when 
the  allied  i camped  there  in  1815,  and  when  and  Spaniard, 

Highlander  ami   Hungarian,  from  the  four  quarters  of  Europe,  min 

in   wild   confusion.     Here  wc   have   the  representatives  of  those 
numerous  and  peculiar  communities  sprea  !  over  the  broad  surface  of  the 
hern  Confederacy.     The  wild,  uncouth,  shaggy  ranger  from  the  banks 
oft!.  randc;  the  genteel  but  heavily-bearded  Marylander,  who 

mounts  bis  uniform  with  a  curious  sngarloaf-shaped  hat,  with  goW  hand; 
the  red-shirted  Arkans:  oatmanj  the  tall,  straight,  active 

mountaineer  from  the   Blue    Ridge  or  A  the  sallow  turpentine- 

.er  from  the  old  North  Carolina  shore;   the  easy,  self-reliant  South  Caro- 
linian, with  the  inevitable  Bprig  of  Palmetto  in  his  hat;  the  moustacl 
close-croppM1.,   BCarlet-trqUSered   Zouave,  from    New    Orleans;  and   a   d< 
other  varieties  of  Confederate  Boldiers  might  he  named,  who  enliven  the 
streets  of  Richmond  with  their  presence.     Several   r  .:  off 

day,  hut  their  ]  1.  iilled  up  before  night.     Twenty  companies 

within  a  lew  days. 

CUKloi  3   m-:M. 

There  is  a  curious  Item  in  "no  oi  :h<   Yanl  .  in  which  the  writer 

ant  of  a  regiment  raising  in  New  Xork'City,  to  he  called  tho 

iloium   Light  Sharp  "     The  colonel's  name  i>  Berdon,  and  the 

lieutenant  colonel  is  Edge,  the  well-known  pyrotechnist  (who  used  to  soil 

large  quantities  oi  his  fireworks  to  the  South).     The  calcium  lights  are  to 

be  used  to  discover  rebel  camps  on  dark  nights.     Edge  is  making  a  tremen- 


AN    ARMY    NOTE-ROOK.  45 

dons  quantity  of  novel  projectiles.     One  of  his  inventions  is  an  incendiary 
shell,  to  be  fire  1   from  a   mortar  weighing  only  twenty  pounds.     It  can   he 
thrown  half  a  mile,  and  when  it  bursts  it    forma  a  ball  of  fire  two  inch' 
(lianfeter,  which  can  only  be  extinguished   by  immersion  in  water.     Wit 
these  shells  the  "sharpshooters"  expect  to  set  fire  to  the  entire  Southern 
Confederacy. 

SS   'EM    FOR    MB." 

Blunt,  of  the  Twentieth  Tennessee,  and  now  of  General   Stuart's  staff, 

tolls  a  story  of  a  little  girl  he  met  during  a  recent  tour  in  East  Tennessee. 

The  little  maiden  was  vexed  with  a  party  of  gentlemen  who  were  teasing 

her,  when   Blunt  walked  up.     ''Look  here,"  she  said,  "you  look  like  a 

i'  man — cuss  'cm  for  me,  wont  you  V 

TIIE    LAST    MUD    STORY    OUT. 

We  have   some   tough  stories  of  ''Virginia    mud."   but    tho    following 

lot  from   a   letter   written  by  a  Federal  soldier   from   Stafford   Court- 

N  bo  I   Northern  paper,  beats  all  the  mud  stories  extant: 

Vs  an  illustration  of  muddy  traveling,  I  may  relate  a  story  of  a  march, 

which  came  from  one  of  the  officers  on  Colonel  Slocum's  staff.     As  he  rode 

to  the  top  of  an  eminence,  on  the  way  down,   he  says:  'I   saw  a  driver 

astride  of  a  team,  in  a  distant  mud-hoie,  jerkfl  at  the  single 

line  with   which   he   drove   his  four  mules,  and  waving  his  hat  furiously 

above  his  head.     At  fir>t  1  thought  he  was  trying  to  ur^e  his  team  over 

>n  saw  that  it  made  no  progress  forward,  while  the  driver  con- 
tinued his  exertions,  and  the  thought  of  deserting  hi-  saddle  appeared 

1  his  head.      1  reached  the  spot,  but  the  hand   and   head  of 
thi'   driv  tw   him    throw   his    hat 

rds  me  with  a  eoi  heard  him  give  three  cheers  fox 

the  American  Union,  and  the  mud 

"  I 

k.  T urchin,  01  ' 

said  tt  hie  troops:  ••  I  shut  mine  eyee  for  one  hour."     <»n  being 
hour  was  hot  long  < 
It   "1  ll  'hen  lot  I 

"Tie 

thin 

wives   and    D  hands   a' 

■ 


46  oom 

1  of  all  their  wearing  apparel  tzcept  what  they  had   on — in   a  word, 
fcted,  and  i ••.  I  in,  that  i 

and  brutal  Beldiery  towards  less  and 

alarmed  population.     This  is  an   everlasting  •  '.'-  oan   never  be 

:  from  the  page  of  history. 
«I  am  responsible  for  thes<  Is.     1   have  no  mop 

occurred,  just  than  1  hai  enoe.     1  know  similar 

win  n  we  o  icupied  Bowling  I 
tacky,  and  the  matter  was  hushed  np,  to  sa  lit  of  our  army,  hop- 

ing it  would  occur,  no'  more;  but  this 'leni  led  to  have  its  proper  efl 

and  it  is  no  longeT  endurable." 

In  republishing  the  above,  the  St.  Louis  Republican  says: 

"We  could  hardly  give  credence  to  the  a  iy,  but  are  told  that  it 

i  d  worse  than   this  correspondent   relates.     The  conduct  of  some  of 

the  worst  a  licentious  and  brutal  soldiery  could  inflict  upon 

-  Willi,  u;  so  vile,  indeed,  that  an  officer  of  the  army,  who  regards 

the   honor  Of  his  cloth,  has   determined   to   lay  the  matter  before  the   &0T« 

ernment." 

Bubeequently,  Turchin  was  tried  by  court-martial,  convicted,  and  cashiered 
for  his  barbarities,  and  received  from  Lincoln  a  brigadier  general's  commis- 
sion, in  token  of  his  Gracious  Majesty's  approval  of  his  conduct  1 

SAMSON    AND   GENERA!    POPE, 

A  ehapl  lin,  reading  the  Bible  to  the  sick  soldiers  in  one  of  the  hospitals, 
hit   upon   the  story  of  Samson  and   the   incident  of  his  slaying  thousands  of 

Philistines  with  the  jaw-bone  of  an  ass,  when  he  was  suddenly  interrupted 
I.,  b  wounded  man,  apparently  asleep,  with  the  inquiry:  "Who  told  that 
'.'"  "It  is  from  the  Bible/'  solemnly  responded  the  chaplain.  "Well, 
hang  me  if  1  didn't  think  it  was  a  despatch  signed  'John  Pope,  Major 
General  commanding.'  " 

STUAUT's    i'AVAI.KV. 

A  party  of  five  hundred  of  our  men,  who  had  been  captured  at  various 
times,  were  on  the  route  to  Berkeley,  Virginia,  and  having  been  "double- 
quioked'1  for  two  miles  ormon  .sat  down  to  rest  by  the  road-side.  While  in 
this  situation,  one  of  the  Federal  ambulances,  with  a  pair  of  frightened 
horses,  ran  away,  and  came  lumbering  down  the  turnpike.  As  quick  as 
thought,  one  of  our  men  jumped  to  his  feet,  and  exclaimed:  "Boys,  here's 
Stuart's  cavalry  coming,  hurrah!"  In  the  words  of  the  narrator,  "such  a 
skedaddling,  kickiug  114)  of  heels,  anu  scattering  through  the  woods,  as  im- 
mediately took  place,  you  never  saw  in  your  life.  We  had  two  regiments, 
one  of  cavalry  and   the  other  of  infantry,  guarding  us,  aud   for  live  or  ten 


AN    ARMY    NOTfc-BOOK.  47 

minute?  the   majority  of  them  were  out  of  Bight."     3ome  twenty  or  thirty 
knowing  ones,  taking  advantage  of  the  excib  ment,  made  their  a  the 

confusion.      It   was    as    much    a^   B   man's   life    was   wort!)    bo  SBy    "Stuart" 
again  until  they  reached  their  destination. 

BABY    PATRIOTISM. 

Soon  after  the  occupation  of  Memphis  by  the  Federals,  a  party  of  the 
soldiers  were  walking  on  the  principal  street,  when  a  little  three  year-old 
rascal,  supposing  them  to  he  Confederates,  left  the  side  of  his  mother,  rao 
in  anion-  them,  and,  in  the  most  Cordial  manner,  shouted  at  the  top  of  hit 
lungs:  "Howdy,  soldier!  howdy,  soldier!  hoVrdy,  soldier!"  shaking  Lands 
with  half  a  dozen  of  them,  who  seemed  delighted  at  such  a  w&rm'demoi; 
tif >n  of  sympathy — the  first 'they  had  ne  t  with  since  landing  on  the  bluff 
But  while  in  the  midst  of  this  hand-shaking,  he  suddenly  screamed  out  : 
••.\.>\v  go  Bboot  de  Yankees — shoot  'em  all  dead — kill  de  Yankees;"' ami  it 
was  amusing  to  witness  the  change  that  came  over  their  smiling  faces.  Hands 
dropped,  curses  were  mattered,  and,  aa  they  "resumed  their  walk,  a  hearty 
laugh  followed  from  the  crowd  ol  10  had  wit  net  enc. 

A  lady  and  child  were  srossing  to  Edgefield,  Tennessee,  in  ■  boat  with 
some  Federals,  when  tic  little  patriot  shouted  for  Jeff.  Davis.  "Madam," 
said  the  Federal,  "do  you  teach yenr children  that';"  ••  Y<  -  replied, 

bravely;    "al*0  to  bate  yOU  from    their   eradesto   tl:  <;.,  home, 

you  wooden-nutmeg  manufacturers:  the  spirit  of  the  South  is  invincible,  the 
rebel  flowers  thrive  hen  trampled   upon.     "Out   of  the  mouth- 

babes  and  pit." 

LON1  Ei   A8H91  .  ■•M.MA    RANG] 

A  Northern  writer  tlr;  |    tribute  to   one   of  the    nobfost 

her'  •  vert  di<  d  on  the  battle-field: 

"Ashby  has  displa;  nius  in  the  management  of  his  men,  which 

nder.     He  prot  cti  d  the  n  tn  at  of  Jack- 
admirably^     1 1  and  alwaj 

through   these  mountains  and  fi 

..  in  the  hunt  of  the  fox  and  deer,  and  has  often  i,im- 

nioriL'  the  still   eh 

Virgiuiai  i.    Whil  |  ,  will  throw  1 

tl,. 

.1-    will  dr^p  t 

a  man  ot 
I 


48  *  GLEAN  1N< 

quiet  demeanor,  a  silent  man,  wh  !.  and  is  held  in  the 

fabulous  regard  by  his  men  and  inferior  o  He  i-  a  Christian, 

and  B  man 

Hi-  appearance  is  not  striking.     He  ifl  of  small  stature,  but  a 

:tli  with  those  for  whom  he  is  sti  y  are  the 

elements  Of  an  almost  womanly  nature   and  of  a  hero  combined,  that  it   is 
not  until  his  sabre  is  waving  abuve  his  head,  his  clear,  thrilling  voice  ri 
out,  "Follow  mel"  and  bis  eye  flashes  with  a  battle-light^  that  th. 
conies  as  it  were  transformed  to  a  giant,  and  performs  the  deeds  that  have 

bjfl  name  famous  throughout  the  land. 

AN    ENGLISH    TIUBUTE  TO    SOI   .  SOLDIERY. 

Mr.  Lawley,  the  correspondent  of  the  Londdn  Timet,  pays  the  following 

compliment  to  Southern  troops: 

"In  the  shelter  of  the  dense  woods  about  Culpcpcr,  in  wonderful  spirits, 
with  physique  ineffably  improved  since  the  bloody  day  at  Sharpsbnrg,  are 
clustered  the  tatterdemalion  regiments  of  the  South.  It  is  a strange  thing 
to  look  at  these  men,  so  ragged,  slovenly.  s,  without  a  superfluous 

ounce  of  flesh  Upon  their  bones,  with  wild,  matted  hair,  in  mendieants' 
and  to  think,  when  the  battle-flag  goes  to  the  front,  how  they  can  and  do 
fight.  'There  is  only  one  attitude  in  which  1  never  should  be  ashamed  of 
your  Boeing  my  men,  and  that  is. when  they  are  fighting.'  These  were  Gc'n- 
eral  Lee's  words  to  me  the  first  time  1  ever  saw  him;  they  have  been  con- 
firmed by  every  other  distinguished  officer  in  the  Confederacy.  Ther 
triumphs  of  daring  which  these  poor,  ragged  men  have  attempted,  and 
mpted  successfully,  in  this  war,  which  have  never  been  attempted  by 
>  Sybarite  opponents.  Again  and  again  they  have  stormed  batteries, 
formidably* defended,  at  the  point  of  the  bayonet;  nothing  of  the  kind  has 
ever  been  attempted  by  the  Federals.  Again  and  again  has  General 
Stuart's  cavalry  surprised  Federal  camps  at  eightj  no  Confederate  camp 
has  beeo  surprised  since  the  cniiiiuencenient  of  the  war.  One  or  two  regi- 
ments of  these  tattered  nun  will  stand  linn,  though  attacked  by  overwhelm- 
Cumbers  of  the  enemy,  and  will  constantly,  under  such  circumstances, 
successfully  hold  their  ground." 

A  Federal  officer,  writing  after  the  battle  of  Chancellorsville,  adds  the 
following  praise  from  an  enemy: 

"Their  artillery  horses  are  poor,  starved  frames  of  beasts,  tied  on  to  their 
carriages  and  caissons  with  odds  and  ends  of  rope  and  strips  of  raw  hide. 
Their  supply  and  ammunition  trains  look  like  a  congregation  of  all  the 
Crippled  California  emigrant  trains  that  ever  escaped  off  the  desert  out  of 
the  clutches  of  the  rampaging  Comanche  Indians.  The  men  are  ill-dressed, 
ill-equipped,  and  ill-provided — a  set  of  ragamuilins  that  a  man  is  ashamed  to 


AN    ARMY    NOTEBOOK.  49 

be  seen  among,  even  when  he  is  a  prisoner,  and  can't  help  it.  And  yet 
they  have  beaten  us  fairly,  beaten  us  all  to  pii  ten  us  so  easily  that 

we  are  objects  of  contempt,  even  to  their  commonest  private  soldiers,  with 
no  shirts  to  hang  out  of  the  holes  of  their  pantaloons,  and  cartridge-boxes 
tied  round  their  waists  with  strands  of  rope." 

"THEY    WONT    BUN!" 

A  Mobile  physician,  just  returned  from  the  North,  *was  one  day  in  a  rail- 
road car,  in  which  were  a  number  of  Lincolnite  soldiers,  who  were  discuss- 
ing matters  connected  with  their  service.  One  of  them  exclaimed  :  ""Win- 
is  it  that  our  boys  can't  be  brought  to  charge  the  ^outharncrs  ?  Can  you 
tell  me.  sir?"  turning  to  our  friend,  the  Alobilian,  whose  incog,  was  val- 
uable to  him,  and  who  disclaimed  any  opinion  on  the  subject,  saying  that  he 
was  a  doctor,  and  knew  nothing  of  the  matter.  "Whereupon  a  comrade  of 
the  soldier  spoke  up,  and  said:  "I'll  tell  you  the  reason  our  boys  wont 
charge — they  know  the  Southerners  wont  run'.'" 

A  .YANKEE    HERO. 

During  General  Longstreet's  investment  of  Suffolk,  and  on  the  day  that 
Colonel  Connolly's  Fifty-Fifth  Kcgiment  North  Carolina  troops  reinforced 
the  rifle-pits  in  such  splendid  style,  an  incident  occurred  ludicrously  illus- 
trative of  Yankee  chivalry,  and  which — though  there  was  an  awful  fire 
from  the  enemy's  artillery  at  that  time — produced  a  shout  of  laughter  in  that, 
gallant  regiment.  A  Yankee  regiment  was  sent  out,  under  cover  of  tbeir  artil- 
lery, to  prevent  Connally  from  reinforcing  the  pits.  The  colonel  of  this 
:ient  advanced  it  through  a  partially  cleared  ground,  where  there  was 
once  a  dwelling-hous*  ,  A  solitary  chimney  stood  where  the  house  had 
been.  Behind  this  chimney  the  heroic  colonel  "took  his  stand,"  while  his 
regiment  moved  forward.     They  had  cry  far,  however,  before  the 

fifty-fifth  opened  on  them,  causing  them  to  waver  and  halt.     The  redoubt- 
able colonel  stuck  his  head  out  ir  in  behind  the  chimney,  and  ch< 
them  on.      Another  volley,  I  What  arc 

ymi  running  for,  you  COWirdly"  (whiz  went  I  bullet  by  his  heal,  which  im- 

;.iz.  and  another  duck  of  the 
.  j.     "I> — n  you,  go  back.     What  >u — running  for?"     (T 

words  we  veen  alien  of  the  h. 

med  from  behind  the  chimnej       Batitwaf"M 

ii   behind   that  ch 

'   at  doubl  I  roars  of 

laughter  front  our  boys. 


;>0 

ETKIN81  P  LR0LQN3    I 

While  General  Jenkins  was  in  Hagerstown,  he  exhibited  many  traits 
which  it   is  to  be  hoped  are  char  ol  the  man.     An  i n *-i < K-n t  will 

illustrate.     About    i ne  aant   and   five  men,  wearing  the 

uniform  df  Union  soldiers,  crept  out  of  some  of  th<  town, 

where  they  had  been  hidden,  wad  delivered  themselves  op.  When  they 
made  their  appearance  before  General  Jenkins,  the  following  conversation 
occurred : 

//,.  •'  Halloo!  who  are  you,  and  where  ili'l  you  come  from?" 

Lieutenant.  "We  belong  to  the   Union   army,  or  did  belong  to  it,  but 

don't  wish  to  fighl  any  longer  against  our  Southern  brethren]  bo,  when  our 

1  behind,  and  to  day  we  come  out  to  be  paroled." 

Jenkins.  "What  did  you  say  about  'Southern  brethren!'  Bj  God,  if  I 
thought  I  had  a  twenty-fifth  cousin  who  was  as  white-livered  as  you  arc,  I 
would  kill  him,  and  set  him  up  in  my  barn-yard  to  make  Bheep  own  their 
lambs.  I'll  show  you  how  I  parole  such  pukes  as  you  are.  You  are  too 
d — d  miserable  to  be  paroled  in  military  style." 

So  saying,  he  ordered  a  detail  of  six  men  and  a  sergeant — "good,  lusty 
fellows,  with  thick  hoots" — who  parole  1  the  recreant  Federals' in  the  west 
border  of  the  town,  where  the  paroling]'!  sed,  and  the  detail  and 

crowd  came  back,  highly  pleased  with  Jenkins'  mode  of  paroling  cowards. 

A    BEAUTIFUL    DOOtJMENTl 

Admiral  Goldsborough,  in  command  of  the  Yankee  frigate  Minnesota, 
issued  the  following  notice,  which  was  published  in  tin-  Norfolk  (Yirgiuia) 

/  Hi'. a  : 

"Flag  Ship  Minnesota,  Norfolk  Earbob,  duly  30. 
"William  W.Lamb,  Wbuldrfrt  Mayor, 

ami  tin  Rebels  generally  of  Norfolk^   Virginia: 

v  Whereas  it  is  reported  to  me  that  ahem  twenty-five  thousand  infernal 
blackguard  rebels  an'  making  their  way  from  Richmond,  through  Suffolk, 
to  drive  out  the  soldiers  of  Abraham  Lincoln,  and  cut  the  throats  of  the 
Union  men  of  Norfolk-.  Therefore,  take  notioe,  thai  on  the  first  appearance 
of  the  first  d — d  r<  idrel  within  these  Lines,  I'll  blow  you  and  your 

city  to  h — . 

"('fell  this  to  your  women.) 

-Yours,  GrOLDSBOROOGff, 

Admiral,  dc." 
Th    iir.-t  idea  that  will  probably  occur  to  our  readers,  after  its  perusal,  is, 
that  the  above  publication  is  spurious.     Jjfo  decent  man  euuld  well  suppose 
otherwise.     But  there  is  no  spuriousness  in  the  case.     It  is  a  genuine  docu- 


AN    ARMY   NOTE-BOOK.  51 

ment,  from  the  pen  of  "Admiral,  &c,  Groldsboroughf,"  and  as  such  we  pub- 
lish it.  u  ;i  striking  record  of  the  times. 

There  is  DO  doubt  tli.it  GroldsbOTOUgh  was  drunk  when  he  penned  the 
infamous  production.  But  this  is  bo  palliation  of  liis  offence.  We  are  not 
surprised  at  such  a  beastly  exhibition  by  a  Lincoln  admiral,  because  we 
expect  nothing  better  from  mail  a  source.  Bat  what  will  bo  thought  in 
Europe  of  a  naval  commander  who  could,  under  any  conceivable  circum- 
stances, degrade  himself,  his  profession,  and  his  country,  by  such  a  vulgar, 
filthy,  blackguard  production. 

ABOLITION  VANDALISM    IN  EAST    TENNESSEE. 

A  reliable  gentleman,  from  East  Tennessee,  writing  from  Shelbyville, 
gives  an  account  of  one  achievement  of  East.  Tennessee  tories : 

"A  party  oi  leans  went   to  the  house  of  s  good   Southern 

lady,  Mrs.  Cheslej  Williams,  living  in  Eaglevilfe,  Williamson  County.  Ten- 
e,  with  the  avowed    intention   of  every  thing  they  could  put 

their  roguish  hands  on.  The  first  place  they  entered  was  her  smoke-house, 
and  1  ':,    r  monstrated  with  them  for  taxing  her  ment,  they  knocked 

her  down,  beat  her,  and  finally  choked  her  until  she  could  not  speak.  I 
saw  her  eight  or  nine  days  after  it  occurred,  and  she  was  then  unable  to 
move.     She  is  now  a  cripple  for  life." 

"  WEAK    IN    HIS    HI 

the  battle   of  Kins  ton,  when   the  shells  were   exploding  around   the 

ry  of  artillery,  a   chaplain   asked   ode  of  the   soldiers,  sitting  on   his 

r   he   was   supported   by    Divine    Providence.     The   soldi&r 

replied:  Ninth   New 

BRUTAL  TREATMENT    <>F   OONFXD 

The  exchanged  officers  and  privates,  I   hundred  in  number,  who 

have   arrived    by  flair  of  truce  boat   from   Old    Point,  all    speak    in  the  D 

unqn  mi  of  the  inhuman  treatment  to  which  they  were  aubj< 

by  the  Federal  guard  at  Can      I  Columbus,  Ohio     There  ws 

tinetinn  B  '      .  but  all    were  alik  1    to 

lothing, 
ral  T.  .1    Churchi  Arkansas  Posl 

■ 
by  the  ill  manm  .  -  though  : 

who  :  >-n  Virgin- 

al th  h    lie 

Mabama, 


GLEANINGS    FROM 

who  fought  nobly  on  the  Peninsula  <jf  Virginia,  under  General  Magruder, 
WU  made  to  haul  oil  his  shirt  in  the  presence  of  Yankee  women,  who 
chuckled  heartily  at  the  sight  of  a  denuded  gentleman. 

Captai:;  .a  brother  of  ral,  who  was  taken  near  Lexing- 

ton, Kentucky,  was  subjected  to  i  .:      _nity.  and  when  he 

ostratedj  and  stated  that  Federal  »rere  not  I  by  Con- 

hut  his  mouth,  a  d — d  secesh  scoundrel;   if  he  did 
not,  he  would  be  knocked  down." 

A   CON1XRMED    I.i'NATIC. 

The  humorous  editor  of  the  Richmond    Whig  published   the  following 
advertisement : 

"  Strayed. — A  liberal  reward  will  be  given  for  the  apprehension  of  a  con- 
firmed lunatic,  named  old  Stonewall,  who  escaped  from  the  asylum,  in  this 
place,  early  in  the  spring  of  the  present  year.  lie  endeavors  to  avoid  de- 
tection by  calling  himself  T.  J.  Jackson,  and  fancies  he  is  an  otlieer  in  the 
Confederate  army.  When  last  heard  from,  he  was  offering  personal  indig- 
nity to  an  aged  and  feeble  ex-Senator  of  the  United  States,  who  had  n 
done  him  the  slightest  harm.  He  is  reported  to  have  misdirected  an  imbc- 
cible  cobbler  from  .Massachusetts,  who  was  making  his  way  peaceably 
towards  Staunton,  and  innoculated  a  Woolly  Horse  with  the  blind  Btaggers, 
besides  molesting,  and  sometimes  even  maiming,  other  good  and  loyal 
citizens  of  the  United  States. 

"It  is  thought  that  he  is  attempting  to  make  his  way  to  Washington, 
near  which  city  he  was  caught  lurking  a  week  or  two  since.  He  is  marked 
by  an  excessive  irrascibility,  a  propensity  to  steal  wagons  and  munitions  of 
war,  and  an  indisposition  to  sit  down  quietly  and  behave  himself.  The 
entire  efforts  of  the  United  and  Confederate  Governments  having  failed  to 
-t  him,  the  undersigned  is  constrained  to  offer  an  adequate  reward  to 
the  powers  of  France  and  Great  Britain  to  assist  in  facilitating  his  perma- 
nent stoppage  and  detention. 

"BY  ORDER  OF  THE  SUPERINTEN  DENT 

OF  THE  LUNATIC  ASYLUM  AT  STAUNTON." 

riGBtTINQ    JOE    HOOKER    AT    CIIANCELLOItSVIELE. 

There  is  a  page  in  the  history  of  the  campaign  that  culminated  in  the 
battle  of  Chancellorsville,  which  has  never  been  written — a  page  that  sets 
forth  Hooker  in  his  true  colors,  as  the  most  dasta/dly  of  the  many  braggarts 
the  Yankee  nation  has  furnished  during  this  war.  ^Yc  have  the  facts  from 
such  a  source  that  we  unhesitatingly  vouch  for  their  absolute  authenticity 
It  will  be  seen  that  "fighting  Joe  Hooker,"  the  great  paladin  of  the  North, 


AN   ARMY   NOTE-BOOK.  53 

sought,  in  th«  hour  of  danger,  to  shield  himself  from  Confederate  shot 
behind  Confederate  petticoat.-! 

When  the  Yankee  army  suddenly  made  its  appearance  at  Chancellors- 

ville,  four  Fredericksburg  ladies — Mrs.  Forbes,  the  mother  of  Mr. 

John  Forbes,  late  member  of  the  legislature  from  Fauquier,  Miss  Kate 
Forbes,  and  two  others — were  in  the  house  which  gives  name  to  the  local- 
ity. IIonk<  r  refused  to  permit  them  to  come  into  our  lines,  or  to  send 
them  to  the  rear  of  his  own.  'On  the  morning  of  Sunday,  the  3d  of  May, 
when  the  groat  battle  had  begun,  and  whet)  the  Confederate  line  was  drawn 
up  within  five  hundred  yards  of  the  house,  the  ladies  again  applied  to 
Hooker,  who  was  standing  in  the  porch,  and  entreated  him  not  wantonly  to 
expose  their  lives,  but  to  permit  them  to  go  to  a  place  of  safety.  This  he 
refused,  telling  them  that  General  Lee  would  not  fire  upon  the  house  so 
long  as  they  were  in  it. 

They  asked  him  if  he  supposed  that  General  Lee  would  risk  the  safety  of 
bis  army,  and  perhaps  of  the  Confederacy,  on  account  of  the  lives  of  two  or 
three  women.  "Well,"  he  replied,  "he  didn't  fir-  upon  Fredericksburg 
under  similar  circumstances."  Tie  then  ordered  the  ladies  to  go  up  stairs, 
and  show  themselves  in  the  balcony,  where  they  would  be  in  full  view  of 
our  whole  line  of  battle.  The  ladies  obeyed,  but  scarce  had  they  gotten 
upon  the  balcony,  before  a  cannon-shot  struck  a  pillar  of  the  porch  below, 
against  which  Hooker  was  leaning,  kuocking  him  to  the  ground,  and  injur- 
ing him,  it  is  believed,  very  severely.  In  the  next  moment  a  shell  cnt 
the  roof,  and  set  the  house  on  fire.  All  was  now  panic  and  confusion,  and 
Hooker,  finding  that  the  presence  of  the  ladies  was  not  likely  to  protect  his 
D,  ordered  them  to  the  rear,  and  took  care  to  send  them  by  S 
route  directly  across  our  line  of  fire.     By  a  miracle,  the;  I   Unhurt, 

and   have  since  been  permitted  to  return  to  their  friends.     The  house  con- 

I  at  the  time  of  its  burning  two  hundred  and  fif't)  wounded  Yanl 
and  tlir<  e  Confi  derab   .  one  of  whom  was  a  lieutenant  colonel.     They  were 
all  burned  alive. 

A   i  r.w.K." 

The   following  incidei  I  I  ;   the   patriotism  an 

railway  car,  and  is 
WOltl  ntly 

from  Sooth  Carolina  was  riding  up  Baltimore  i  in 

conversation   with    anotl  the  day. 

elderly  lady  Wl  .  and   list' 

\  i  ry 

I '.;   J 
when  "If  the  m<  n  of  iter  what  was 


54  GLEANING.-    FROM 

lay,  the  women  will."  The  gentleman  replied:  "Madam,  f 
<lMii"t  think  you  peed  to  be  alarmed  upon  that  point,  for  I  am  satisfied,  from 
what  I  -  i  sterday,  from  the  anarmed  men  of  Baltimore,  that  if  you  j 
arms  in  their  hands  they  will  face  any  danger  in  defence  of  their  rights  and 
their  homes.  Now,  if  you  have  a  hufil  and,  and  boys  that  are  able  to  carry 
.  1    advise  you  when  yon  g  I  i  make  them  arms  in 

defence  of  the  cause  of  the  South."     She  replied:  "I  have  been  a  widow 
for  twenty  years;  but  I  have  two  I  to  bear  anna,  ind  if  they  do  not 

fight  in  defence  of  the  Smith,  they  > '<  ill  i  another  plati  of  mint" 

Of  the  truth  of  this  incident  there  can  he  no  doubt,  as  the  author  is  well 
known  in  Baltimore. 

A  Tun;  GIRL. 

A  correspondent  of  the  Atlanta  Confederacy  writes: 

"A  most  touching  incident  occurred  a(  the  cars  when  we  readied  Wytho- 
ville.  They  were  crowded  with  wounded  soldiers  returnuig'to  their  homes 
from  Richmond.  A  young  lady,  on  our  arrival  at  the  aforesaid  place,  of 
elegant  manners,  and  of  bright,  philanthropic  face,  appeared  in  the  ears, 
bearing  in  one  hand  a  large  basket,  filled  with  pies  and  other  refreshments, 
and  in  the  other  bandages  and  lint,  for  the  wounded,  accompanied  by  a 
young  clergyman,  with  two  large  buckets  lull  of  butter-milk.  As  sbe 
passed  along,  she  inquired  of  each  soldier  if  she  could  administer  in  any 
way  to  their  relief.  They  were  perfectly  overcome  by  her  kindness,  and 
asked  her  who  she  was.  She  replied:  'Never  mind  my  name;  the  only 
compensation  1  ask  is  the  consciousness  of  having  relieved  the  sufferings  of 
the  soldiers  who  have  hern  fighting  the  battles  of  my  country.'  With  one 
voice  they  exclaimed  :  'God  bless  the  good  Samaritan;'  and  many  an  eye 
was  hedimmed  with  tears  as  she  passed  through  the  ears  on  her  errand  of 
mercy." 

BQUTH    CAROLINA   NEGRO    VI'.Rsi  s    YANK 

The  Huntsville  Confederate  has  the  following: 

"  When  at  Atlanta,  recently,  we  were  struck  with  the  excellent  face  and 
polite  manners  of  an  old  negro  man,  who  acted  as  a  porter  for  us.  As  we 
dropped  a  douceur  into  hifl  hand,  we  could  not  hut  compliment  him.  'Ah.' 
said  he,  with  evident  pride,  'Master,  I'm  a  South  CarTma  nigger.  You 
'  catch  me  standin'  about  de  streets,  but,  when  you  see  me  on  de  street, 
I  'm  on  some  business.'  ^y  acknowledgment  to  him  that  South  Carolina 
and  Virginia  negroes  were  the  politest -we  had  ever  seen,  induced  him  to 
draw  nearer  to  us,  and  in  a  m08t  confidential  and  confident  tone,  he  said  : 
•  Master,  don't  you  think  we  South  Car'lina  niggers  could  whip  de  Yank. 
We  do." 


AN    ARMY    (TOTE- BOOK.  55 

LIGHT   ON   A   DARK   SUBJECT. 

The  New  York  Vanity  Fair  has  an  excelli  at  hit  at  the  "  intelligent  con- 

trabands,"  who  figure  so  largely  in  the  correspondence  of  the  press  from  the 

v;ui'  if  war,  and  at  the  verdancy  of  editor!  an-!  readers  who  helicve 

one  -won!  in  twenty  spoken  by  the  colored  individuals  in  question.     Here  is 

f  Vanity  Fair's  squib  : 

"You  b'long  to  de  army,  Mars'r?"  asked  the  Intelligent  Contraband, 
uneasily. 

u  Yes.  That  is — T  am — yes;  T  am  with  the  army,  sir,"  replied  the  Trib- 
une correspondent;  "and  I  would  like.  sir.  to  ask  you  a  few  questions. 
Where  is  Beauregard,  at  Corinth  or  Richmond  f" 

In'  Contraband.  "  Yi.-.  Mars'r." 

Tribune  Correspondent.  "  Where,  at  Richmond  f" 

Int.   Con.   "Yfe,  Mars'r." 

Trib.  C<>r.  "And  how  many  men  has  he?" 

Int.  Con.   "Niggers,  Mars'r?" 

Trib.  Cor.  •  Idiers." 

Jut.  Cm.  "'];<  ut  sixty  hundred  t'ousand,  1  'spi 

Trib.  Cor.  "Whatl     Are  you  sure?     Are  n't  you  mistaken  ?" 
.    Mars'r." 

Trib.  Cor.   "  Well,  when  did  he  arrive  here?" 

Jht.  ('<>?).  "  Oh,  two,  trei .  lour  munts  ago." 

Trib.  Cor.  "  Fou  mean  week'--,  don't  youT' 

hi.  Co*  Mars'r." 

I'rih.  Cur.   "  Do  you  think  the  rebels  will  evacuate  lliehmond?" 

Int.  Con.  "<)!..  v,v.  M..r-'r;  dey '11  fitc  like  de  debhil !" 

Trib.    Cor.    "You   don't  understand   mc,  sir.      I   mean,  will    th< 

Int.  Con.  "Yis,  Mars'r;  dey  alien  runs  away." 

Trib.  it  if  Met'lellan  had  attacked  the  city  three  ireekj  i 

I  have  killed  them  all,  couldn't  b< 
//<■'  M.ir-'r ;    lie    killed    'em    all.  .  .  r   a 

At  tl,  -  poia  the  mind  of  th-    iir  •ntrahand  ft  .  med 

illuminated    by    tie 

u.   and    :, 

'     kin', 

Th'      i 

It  ot  druu,. 
ness.     To  which  tie  ntrahand  rei  lied : 


56  GLEANINGS    FROM 

"  Now.  Mars'r,  dnt's  jes*  wat  I  want," 

'•  Whose  Blave  were  you?"  asked  the  correspondent,  after  a  pause. 

Int.  Oon.  "  Mars'r  Davis's. 

Trib.  Cor.  "What,  fyti.  Davis  T 

Int.   Con,   '•  Vis,  Mars'r." 

Trib.  Cor.  "And  lie  treated  you  with  great  brutality,  no  doubt  '.'" 

Jut.  Con.  "Tifl,  Marair,  treat  me  fus'  rate." 

Trib.  Cor.  u  But  you  want  your  freedom,  don't  you?" 

Jut.  Con.  "Oh,  yis,  Mars'r." 

Trib.  Cor.  "  How  would  you  like  to  go  North  ?" 

Int.  Cor.  «  Putty  cold  Norf,  ain't  it?" 

Trib.  Cor.  «  Oh,  no.     Ever  been  North  ?" 

Int.  Con.  "Yis,  Mars'r." 

2Vi&.  Cor.  «  To  what  place  ?" 

2»*.  Cbn.  "To  Floridcr,  Mars'r." 

2VtJ.  Cor.  "Florida?" 

7/tf.  Con.  "  Yis,  Mars'r." 

ZW&.  Cor.  "Why,  did  Jeff.  Davis  ever  live  in  Florida?" 

Jut.  Con.  "  Oh,  yis,  Mars'r;  he  lib  dar  some  forty,  fifty  year,  I  'spec's." 

The  evidently  untrustworthy  nature  of  the  replies  of  this  man  and 
brother  began  to  strike  the  correspondent  at  about  this  juncture,  and  he 
shut  up  his  note-book  and  retired. 

SLAVES   AT    VIC%SBT3RG. 

After  the  surrender,  General  McPhcrson,  the  general  who  superintended 
the  departure  of  our  men  from  the  city,  was  willing  that  all  the  negroes 
who  chose  might  accompany  their  masters.  It  was  nothing  but  right,  he 
said,  that  freemen,  as  he  contended  they  were,  should  make  their  own  elec- 
tion to  go  from  or  remain  in  the  city;  but  in  this  determination  he  was 
overruled,  and  only  the  servants  of  the  officers  were  allowed  to  go  out,  if 
they  chose.  Colonel  Watkins'  negro  man  was  offered  every  inducement  by 
the  Yankees  to  remain  with  them.  Finally,  on  being  promised,  if  he  would 
remain,  a  plantation  on  the  Mississippi,  after  the  war  was  over,  should  be 
given  him,  he  replied,  as  any  other  negro  would  have  done:  "Of  what  use 
would  a  plantation  here  be  to  me  without  negroes  to  work  it?"  So  he 
accompanied  his  master  out  of  the  city. 

DEATH   OF  A   BRAVE    MAN. 

A  gentleman,  just  from  Isle  of  Wight  County,  gives  the  following 
particular!  of  Lieutenant  Ganibrill's  death.  They  stamp  him  one  of  the 
bravest  men  this  war  has  produced.  Lieutenant  Gambrill  was  overhauled 
near  Barham's  Cross-Boads,  Isle  of  Wight  County,  Virginia,  by  twenty-one 


AN   ARMY  NOTE-BOOK.  f)7 

of  the  enemy,  who  immediately  demanded  a  surrender.  lie  instantly  re- 
plied: "I  never  have  surrendered,  and  never  intend  to,"  at  the  same  time 
drawing  his  revolvers  and  emptying  the  barrels  of  each  before  he  fell. 
Seven  of  the  enemy  were  killed  and  two  wounded  in  the  brief  space  of  four 
minutes,  wben  the  lieutenant  fell,  mortally  wounded.  The  survivors  then 
repaired  to  the  house  of  Mis.  Ely,  in  the  immediate  vicinity,  and  told  her 
that  a  particular  friend  of  hers  was  lying  dead  in  tbe  mud,  a  short  distance 
off.  Upon  asking  his  name,  and  being  told  that  it , was  Lieutenant  Gam- 
brill,  Mrs.  Ely  replied,  "That  she  would  bury  him,  if  it  cost  her  life." 
"You  ought  to."  rejoined  the  Yankee,  "for  a  braver  man  never  lived,"  and 
they  then  related  to  Mrs.  Ely  the  particulars  of  his  death,  and  how  despe- 
rately he  defended  himself.  A  lieutenant  who  commanded  the  gang,  said  to 
lily,  that  he  t:i  tught,  at  one  time,  Gambrill  would  have  killed  him,  but 
added  that,  had  he  done  so,  it  would  have  consoled  bis  friends  to  know  that 
he  met  death  at  the  hands  of  as  brave  a  man  as  ever  breathed. 

True  to  her  |  Ely  procure  I   a  cart,  and  calling  upon  a  couple 

of  ladies  in  the  neighborhood,  secure'!    the  body,  washed   it,  ami    with   her 
own  hands,  .  by  her  lady  friends,  gave  the  body  of  Lieutenant  Gam- 

brill  sepulture. 

INTERESTING    SCENE. 

An  army  correspondent  of  a  Northern  paper  says  that  the  following  scene 
took  place  in  the  army  of  tbe  Potomac  not  long  since.     A  chaplain  wan 
a    horse,  and   without  much  ceremony  took  one  belonging  to  a    Virginia 
farmer,  but  his  possession  of  the   property  was  very  brief,  as  the  following 
convt  hows:  The  chaplain  rode  into  the  presence  of  his  superior 

officer,  ami  was  asked  where  he  got  that  horse?    The  chaplain  says:  "  D 
on  the  road  there."     The  officer  remarked  :  "  You  had  better  take  him  back 
-  haplaia  Bays  :  ••  V,  ,n  earth, 

an  ass  from   hi  o  ride  in  !<m."     Tbe  offn  «  r 

replied:  "You  arc-  aristj  that  is  not  a  iu  arc  not  on 

way  to  Jerusali  m;  and  the  sooner  you  restore  that   horse  to  its  owner, 
tbe  better  it  will  be 

At. I. 

A  good  urn  d  ;it    ' 

1 

I 
'•'•  l  a!  to  h  s  mouth  and 

it,  as  loo  I 


58  •  OLIAHINOa   Fin  I  M 

THE  SOLDIER'S   3  I 

The  Richmond  Whig  reports  the  following  incident,  which  Bhows  the 
stuff  <>t'  which  our  volunb  ade  : 

•■At  the  Richmond)  'Varieties,'  Mm'lle  Boisverl  was  singing  the  touching 
song  of  'Home,  Sweet  Home/  when  the  attention  of  a  portion  of  the  an- 
diem  traefced  by  the  frequent  sobs  of  a  Mississippi  volunteer,  as  fine 

a  specimen  of  manhood  as  one  w6uld  wish  to  gaze  upon.  The  soldier  was 
dunking  of  his  home  and  the  loved  ones  a  thousand  miles  away,  and  became 
entirely  oblivious  of  the  hundreds  gazing  upon  him.  At  the  conclusion  of 
the  song,  he  vociferously  called  out  an  encore,  offering  five  dollars  it'  the 
lady  would  sing  it  over  again.  The  pretty  cantatrice  came  forward,  and 
Bang  in  its  place  the  c Marseillaise,'  with  her  usual  lire.  The  Mississippian, 
with  a  yell  of  triumph,  raised  himself  to  his  full  height,  exclaiming:  'I 
was  a  child  just  now,  but  now  I  am  a  man.  Hurrah  for  Jeff.  Davis  and  the 
Southern  Confederacy  J*" 

A    BOLD   ADVEN!  I  BE. 

The   Washington    Chronicle   gives   the   following   particulars  of  a  bold 
adventure  hit  upon  by  a  number  of  our  brave  officers,  while  being  conveyed, 
on  board  of  a  steamboat,  to  Fort  Delaware,  having  been  refused  exchs 
It  is  decidedly  good,  and  shows  what  a  few  fearless  and  daring  spirts  may 
do: 

"The  steamer  Maple  Leaf,  Captain  Win.  II.  Deal,  left  Old  Point  for  Fort 
Delaware,  having  on  board  ninety  Confederates,  all  commissioned  officers, 
who,  it  was  understood,  were  not  to  be  exchanged  for  the  present.  Every- 
thing went  on  quietly  until  the  steamer  was  just  beyond  Cape  Henry  light, 
when  the  prisoners  gradually  approached  the  guard,  only  twelve  in  number, 
and  Buddenly  disarmed  them,  placing  them  and  the  officers  and  crew  under 
close  arrest,  and  would  not  permit  them  to  see  in  what  direction  the  vessel 
was  Bteaming. 

"After  proceeding  about  forty-live  miles  beyond  Cape  Henry,  the  steamer 
was  run  in  near  the  Virginia  shoro,  where  all  but  twenty-six  landed  in  the 
yawl-boats  of  the  Leaf,  They  piloted  the  steamer  themselves,  and  attended 
to  the  fire-room  and  engine.  It  is  said  that  the  muskets  of  the  guard  were 
without  .and    unloaded,  and   each    man    was  seized    by  full  r  of  the 

Confederates,  thus  rendering  resistance  useless. 

"During  their  possession  of  the  boat,  they  refrained  from  doing  any  dam- 
age to  the  steamer,  and  treated  the  officers  and  crew  with  civility.  The 
ringleaders  of  the  party  were  a  son  of  Semmes,  of  the  Alabama,  and  a  man 
named  McGowan,  of  Texas. 

"The  entire  party  were  mostly  from  the  extreme  Southern  States,  were 
all  dressed  in  new  and  handsome  uniforms,  and  seemed  to  be  in  possession 


AN    ARMY    NOTE-ROOK.  59 

of  a  considerable  amount  of  money.  As  soon  as  the  party  had  effected  a 
landing*  Captain  Deal  resumed  the  command  of  the  steamer,  when  she  put 
back  immediately,  to  report  to  General  l>ix." 

AN   INDEPENDENT   NORTH   OABOLINIAN. 

The  following  incident  is  related  of  Mr.  Xichol  Hunter,  Clerk  of  the 
Court,  and  one  of  the  sturdy  citizens  of  Kinston  : 

When  the  Yankee  army  halted,  he  was  carried  before  General  Foster, 
who  mot  him  thus  : 

"Well,  sir,  what  arc  you  here  for?'' 

"  That  is  precisely  what  I  came  here  to  find  out,  sir." 

"Who  are  your" 

"I  am  Clerk  of  the  County  Court." 

"What  are  your  predilections?" 

"Intensely  Southern,  sir,  and  I  thank  God  for  it." 

"You  are  very  bold  and  frank  in  your  expressions;  have  a  care  how  you 
talk  to  me,  sir." 

"I  am  not  bolder  or  more  frankly  spoken  than  every  man  with  Southern 
1  in  his  veins,  and  I  do  not  hesitate  to  tell  the  truth  anywhere." 

"  You  can  go,  sir."     Efe  went. 

INTERESTING    [NCXDENTS   IN   THE   OAK   HILL   VICTORY. 

Mr.  John  A.  Quarles,  a  young  man  of  Arkansas,  who  had  boon  prevented 
by  illness  from  joining  a  company  which  went  to  Missouri  from  Ins  neigh- 
borhood, left  home  as  soon  as  he  became  well  enough,  with  a  view  of  joining 
McCulloch'a  army.  He  arrived  just  in  lime  to  take  part  in  the  great  b 
and  fought  as  an  independent  volunteer  in  the  hottest  part  of  the  field.  Be 
and  another  young  Arkansian,  A.  McNeill,  w<  re  taken  prisoners  in  thebi  I 
their  gun  and  all  their  money  stolen  from  them,  and  they  them- 

■  neray  in    front  of  the    ranks,  and    finally  I 
placed  in  the  front  of  Siegel's  battery,  that  they  might  be  killed  by 
their  own  friends.     During  the  tcrriM.'  storm  of  balls  thai  came  rushing 
from  our  I  of  mind 

n  that  they  should  fall  u  round,  as 

though  killed,     [t  was  not 

md 
they  }•  fight  nndi 

the  fi.  ndi 

\ 

to  the  gi 


no  ou  •  BOM 

pelf,  and  paw  with   her  own   eyes  Beveral   coffins  opcn<  I,  and   the  1m »tl io>= 

that   she  saw  the  body  of  a  lady  who  died  aboul   four"  months 

before;  that  she  saw  wh<  :  lur  fingers  had  been  cut  off;  and  she  also 

.■  body  of  a  little  ohi  about  two  or 

She   ;:  that   the}    had  opened  all   the  vaults  hut 

one. 

ROMANCE   AND   REALITY    OF   Till:    WAB. 

The   Holly  springs  correspondent  of  the  St.  Louis   Democrat  narrates 
rienoe   of  a   cotton-buyer  among   the    Mississippi   guerrillas,  as 
iws : 

••  The  experience  of  a  Mr.  Cones,  who  was '  gobbh  -  now  yclept, 

near  LaGrange,  was  n  lieved  by  Borne  flash*  -  "i  humor,  which  may  be  an 
apology  for  the  very  emphatic  language  which  was  used  by  the  actors. 

"Cones,  in  company  with  two  or  three  other  buyers,  had  bought  some 
cotton  out  at  Moscow,  twelve  miles  from  LaGrange, -just  before  our  army 
marched  from  the  latter  place )  and  as  General  Quinby's  division  had  just, 
removed  from  there,  they  thought  the  sooner  they  got  the  cotton  into  La- 
Grange  the  better j  consequently,  four  of  them,  besides  the  drivers  of  the 
teams,  Started  out  after  it.  Cone-  was  thr  only  one  of  the  four  who  was  not 
armed,  and  was  not  on  horseback,  he  riding  in  one  of  the  wagons.  They 
succeeded  in  getting  the  cotton,  and  hurried  back,  until  they  (•aim-  in  Bight 
of  the  Union  pickets  at  LaGrange,  and  then  Cone's  three  friends,  thinking 
the  teams  were  out  of  danger,  left  him  and  rode  on  into  town. 

'"(inly  two  or  three  minutes  after  they  had  left,  and  as  the  wagons  went 
down  into  a  hollow,  out  of  sight  of  the  piCkot-guard,  five  guerrillas  da 
out  ol  tin  woods,  and  were  alongside  in  an  instant.    '  Halt!'     livery  one  of 
the  teams  halted,  as  though  they  had  run  against  a  Btone  wall.     The  next 
in-taut  tin'  muzzle  of  a  revolver  was  at  the  ear  ol'  every  one  of  them,  Cones 

included,  who  was  riding  on  the  cotton. 

•••An-  you  armed  V   asked   the  guerrilla  who  held  his  pistol  at  I 
car. 

'"No,  sir.' 

"  '  Then  get  down  and  unhitch  them  mules,  ami  turn  'em  d — d  quick  !' 

"  It  was  done  in  the  time  speoifii  d. 

"Guerrilla.  '  Have  you  a  matoh?     T  want  to  touch  ofFthis  cotton.' 

"Cones.  'No,  sir.     I  am  glad  to  say  1  haven't' 

"Guerrilla.  f  Then  get  on  that  mule,  quick  1' 

"In  an  instant  Cones  was  mounted  on  what  he  says  was  '  a  wouderful 
sharp-backed  nude.' 

iving   the    mule    a    terrific    slash    with    the   wagon   whip). 
'  Now,  d — n  you,  lick  them  mules  up;  make  'em  go;  give  'em  thunder!' 


AN   ARMY   ROTS-BOOK.  01 

"And  away  they  went,  at  a  pace  which  to  Cones,  on  his  razor-back,  he 
thought  must  split  him  in  two  before  many  miles,  three  guerrillas  behind 
lashing  the  mule  at  every  jump.  Five  miles  or  more  they  went  at  this  rate, 
and  not  another  word  had  been  spoken  by  any  one,  when  they  turned  out  of 
the  main  road  into  an  old  and  unfrequented  path,  that  wound  it-  zigzags 
through  one  of  the  densely  wooded  creek  bottoms.  '  Halt!'  said  the  guer- 
rilla, and  he  who  gave  the  command  commenced  hurriedly  to  relieve  him* 
self  of  some  of  his  accoutrements,  as  though  he  was  about  to  go  to  work  in 
good  earnest  at  some  devilish  deed.  The  place  was  lonely,  and  fittin 
sueh  murderous  intents,  and  Cones  felt  a  cold  sort  of  chill  run  down 

the  lull  length  of  even  his  long  li 

"G\  the  cork  of  his  canteen).  'You  look  like  a  pi 

I   feller.     Let 's  take  a  drink  ;  and  for  fear  you  might  think  it 's  pizen, 
rink  first.' 
'   And  suiting  (he  action  to  his  words,  he  placed  the  canteen   to  his  lips, 
and  turned  his  I  sition  of  one  martfing  astronomical 

lions.     After  a  long  pull,  he  passed  the  canteen  Qm  r.  -.  who  thought 

it '  might  n't  be  piz<  a,'  and  imbibed. 

Now,  lick  up  them  mules;  give  'em  thunder;  hurry  up.' 
\ nd  each  injunction   he     .  n  the  rear  of  the  flying  mules 

with  his  whip. 

''They  bivouacki  I  in  a  thicket  that  night,  but  early  next  mornio 
tlv  ir  jeorney  .  M  3  of  that 

i  into  a  rude-looking  camp,  which  turned  out  to  be  the  neal  of  Rich- 
d  and  his  guerilla  Pillow.     I 

mom<  r  a  num- 

d  : 
"  Well,  sir,  I    ll  pai 

.    had    :ii'. 

ain't  a  g  -oh'  that  d— 1 

;rn- 
-d  if  I  h 

-  poon  writfen.  and.  mu 

lie  was  t< 


62  MM 

capture,  and  who  1  -way  sulky  because  the  colonel  would  not  shoot 

'  that  J — d  cotton-buyer,'  instead  of  paroling  him. 

was  unarmed,  and  began  to  ha\  apprehensions  of  what 

illow,  when   the  guerilla  said:  ' ( >ld  feller,  let's  take,  a  drink.' 
Cones'  heart  felt  lighter  immediat  a." 

►TKR    BHAKPLY    SHOT. 

Pen  rsburg  Expr<     rei  llowing : 

••  A  gentleman  informs  us  of  the  death  of  one  of  McCl 

•i  the  Peninsula,  under  circumstances  which  possess  interest  sufficient 
public.     Several  ofour  men,  it  B  •"  killed  while 

going  to  a  Bpring  near  by,  but  by  whom  no  one  oould  imagine.     It  w 

mined  to  stop  this  inhuman  game,  if  .  even  at  the  cost  of 

killing  the  hireling  himself,  who  was  thus,  in  cold  blood,  butchering  our 
nun.     Su  a  sharp  lookout  was  kept  for  this  sharpshooter,  and  the  next  time 
■ed,  the  smoke  of  his  rifle  revealed  the  locality  of  his  pit.     That  night 
:i  pit  was  dug  by  tl     I  liers,  commanding  the  position  of  the 

Yankee  sharp  ad  arrangements  made  to  get  rid  of  the  annoying 

r  this  purpose  a  young  Kentuckian  was  placed  in  our  pit,  with 
a  trusty  ritle,  and  provisions  enough  tn  last  him  until  the  next  night.    N 
morning,  man  was  dispatched,  as  usual,  with  two  buokets,  to  go  to 

the  Bpring.  He  had  proceeded  about  one  or  two  hundred  yards,  when  the 
Vankec  marksman  elevated  himself,  and,  placing  his  rifle  to  his  shoulder, 
about  to  pull  trigger,  but  the  Kentuckian  was  lob  quick  for  him,  for  he 
pulled  his  trigger  first,  and  simultaneously  therewith  the  Yankee  fell. 
Upon  repairing  to  the  spot,  which  the  Kentuokian  did  immediately,  he  dis- 
covered a  rifle-pit,  and  a  sturdy  Yankee  in  it,  in  the  last  agonies  of  expiring 
nature.  The  pit  was  provided  with  a  cushioned  chair,  pipes  and  tobacco, 
liquor,  and  provisions.  But  the  rifle  which  had  been  used  was  really  :i 
valuable  prize.  It  was  of  most  Buperb  manufacture,  and  supplied  with  the 
latest  invention,  an  improved  telesoopio  Bight  upon  its  end.  The  pit  had 
a  dug  at  night,  and  its  occupant  had  Keen  provisioned  at  night;  so  hut 
for  a  sharp  lo  the  Bmoke  of  his  '-run,  there  is  n  >  saying  how  long 

this  Xankee  vandal  would  have  enjoyed  the  luxury  of  killing  Southern 
men.  without  even  a  chance  of  losing  his  own  worthless  life.  We  aro 
.'ratified  to  know  that,  he  at  last  met  with  so  righteous  a  fate." 

'•nit;  shtoni  man  !". 

"When  there  were  flyilg  rumors  that  Jackson  had  captured  two  thousand 
of  the  enemy,  and  was  pushing  Pope  "to  the  wall,"  the  departments  were 
silent  upon  the  subject,  and  no  one  could  <^-{  a  (due  to  the  facts.  The  Yan- 
kees realized  the  truth  of  a  trite  observation,  made  by  one  of  our  prisoners, 


AN    ARMY    NOTE-BOOK.  <Y.', 

"Faith,"  Baid  ho,  "but  this  Shtone  man,  Jackson,  wid 
u  wall  in  the  handle  to  hia  name,  is  worms  than  an  Irish  hed 

mnd  it,  and  ;  r  it.  and  Sivil  kin  a  moo  do  in  a 

dilemmer,  bat  ter  fall  into  it  gracefully?     Cush  la,  but  I  think  our  Pope 
.do  a  bull  ov  it  this  time,  shure." 

MORGAN    AM"   Tin:   TELEGRAPH    OPERATOR. 

One  Sunday  morning,  daring  the  summer  of  1862,  Captain  Morgan,  with 
forty  of  his  men,  suddenly  appeared  at  Gallatin,  Tennessee,  twenty-eight 
miles  the  other  Bide  of  Nashville.  After  catchiugjall  the  Union  men  in  the 
place,  and  confining  them  in  a  guard- house,  Captain  Morgan,  dressed  in  a 

nil  uniform,  proceeded  to  tl  li  office,  at  the  railroad  dej 

short  distance  from  the  town.     Entering  the  office,  the  following  eonvi 
tion  took  place  between  Captain  Morgan  and   tlw  telegraphic  operator,  a 
I  fellow  : 

iy,  sir.     What  news  have  you  ?" 
"  Nothing,  sir,  except  it  is  r  .  !,  Cap- 

tain John  Morgan,  is  this  -ide  of  the  Cumberland  with  some  of  his  cavalry. 
I  wish  I  cook!  '  of  the  d — d   rascal;  I  'd  make  a  hole  through  him 

than  he  would  find  pic;. 
While  thu  og,  the  operator  drew  a  fine  navy  revolver,  and  flour- 

I  it,  as  if  i  speratetf  he  would  use  the  instru- 

ment in  <  id  meet  with  the  fami  in. 

"  Do  you  know  who  /  am  V  quietly  remarked  Captain  Morgan,  contin- 
uing u. 

••  1  have  not  t!,.it  ;  ,'(,r. 

"Will,  /am  <'.ipt-ain  Mor_  atlemen. 

-\:  the 

:    he  sank   to  1 1 » « -  floor.      He  literally 

Aft  r  tin;  frighten*  1  individual  ha  I 

bville.     Then,  takii  with  him  as  a 

'i  with  his  mi  □ 
Bowi;:      G  ille. 

In    due   timi 

■ 
cd   it  to  QtOA 


64  OLEAMMiS    ROM 

thousand  atoi  rd  with  his  prison- 

mp. 

TRUING   a   van.. 

A  _<  otli  man  of  a  Virginia  regiment,  writing  to  his  moth  r,  gives  the  fol- 
lowing aeoount  "1'  an  adventure  Ik-  had  in  one  "i'  the  recent  battl  -.     We 
m  ilir  Examim  r : 
••  [  niu-t  tell  you  of  a  prisoner  tb  [spied  the  villain  in  the 

road,  and  put  after  him.     lie  dismounted,  and,  leaving  his  horse  in  the 
[,  took  to  the  woods  on  foot     As  the  limbs  of  I  -  impeded  my 

■  a  time  1"-;  Bight  of  him.     But,  ha  tred  bis  b 

and  effects,  1  followed  in  the  direction  in  which  he  had  disappeared, 
rode  under  a  tall  pine,  with  the  muzzle  of  my  gun  elevated,  1  was  af 
ished  to  hear  him,  from  the  tret  my  head,  sing  out:  'Don'!  b! 

mender,'      The  Bcoundrel  saw  the   glittering  ui'  the   gun-barrel,  and 
thought  that  1  was  aiming  at  him.     !   pretty  soon  got  him  down,  and  car- 
ried him  to  the  roar,  having  first  I  hia  personal  effects,  which 
I  of  Baddle  and  halter,                a  of  milk,  six  pounds  of  bacon, 
pounds  of  coffee,  ditto  Bugar,  one  pound  of  butter,  a  cap,  one  frying-pan, 
one  spade,  a  p                ap*  a  curry-comb  and  brush,  one  oil-cloth,  two  blan- 

a   .-mall   tent,  and   a   half-bushel  of  corn  and    oats — the  fellow  ne 
only  a  saw-mill  to  be  fully  equipped." 

A  HEROIC   INOID] 

We  clip  the  following  from  the  Mobile  Register: 
"  We  an-  indebb  d  to  high  authority  for  the  fact  of  the  following  occur- 
rence in   New  OrieanB)  intelligence  of  which  has  reached  this  city. 
11.  M.  Eyams,  wife  of  the  Lieutenant  governor  of  the  State,  passt  I  i  d  the 
i  a  number  of  Xankee  officers)  sitting  in  a  doorway  as  she  went  by. 
.One  of  them  arose  and  followed  her  a  few  steps,  and,  arrcstii 
by  placing  himself  in  front  of  her,  told  her  that  she  had  omitted  tu  bow  in 
attempted  to  avoid  the  ruffian,  when  he  repeated,  his  remark, 
and  asked  her  if  .-he  had  not  read  General  Butler's 'Order  No.  28/ with 
rence  to  the  treatment  of  Union  officers  and  Boldiers  with  respeot.     En- 
ass  the  follow,  he  threw    his  arm  around    the  lady's  waist,  and 

],r,  :d  lips  upon  her  i  the  villain  released  her  from   his 

embrace,  the  Southern  lady  coolly  drew  a  pistol  and  shot  him  through  the 
that  he  fell  dead  at   her  feet,  in  the  insolent  flush  of  his  cowardly 
triumph  over  the  insulted  virtue  of  a  feeble  and  unprotected  woman. 

"Another  of  the  officers  immediately  aros  iproaching  the  noble 

and  COU1  lOk    her   by  the  arm,  and   told   her,  so  that   the  other 

Federals  could  hear,  that  she  must  accompany  him  before  General  Butler. 


AN   ARMY    ROTS-BOOK.  <if> 

He  immediately  placed   her  in  a  cab  and  drove  away,  but  not  to  the  Beast's 
qaurters.     He  directed  the  cab  out  of  the  city,  and  through  the  line  of  sen- 

.  and  further  on  still,  until  beyond   the  reach  of  the  tyrant's  out; 
Tli''  act  of  the  heroine  had  made  a  hero  of  the  witness.     He  told  her  that 
he  considered  her  act  justifiable  and  noble,  and  that  in  a  moment  he  had 
mined  that  slie  ah  mid  Dot  be  sacrificed  to  Butl<  r'a  vengeance,  and  had 
ed  the  expedient  by  .which  he  had  rescued  her.     Tic   continued   to 
•    her  on  her  journey  through   the  country,  until  they  arrived  in  the 
Southern  lin<  a  at  Camp  Moore,  when  he  delivered  himself  up  to  the  Cou-' 
federate  authorities,  to  be  dealt  with  as  a  prisoner  or  otherwise." 

;;er  of  a  female  volunteer. 

Among  the  registered  enemies  of  the  United  States  Government  who    ■ 
been  pent  across  the  lines  from  New  Orleans,  there  was  one  in  Jack- 
Mississippi,  a  lady  whose  adventures   place  her  in  the  ranks  of  the 
Molbj  Pitchers  of  the  present  revolution.     At  the  breaking  Out  <>f  the  war, 
Mrs    Laura  .7.  Williams  was  a  resident  of  Arkansas.     Like  most  of  tli<- 
a  of  the  South,  her  whole  soul  was  enlisted  in  the  struggle  for  inde- 
pendence.    Her  husband  was  a  Northern  man  by  birth  and  education,  and 
man.     After  Arkansas  seceded  from  the  Union,  he  went  to 
aecticut,  he  said,  to  see  his  relatioi^  and  settle  up  some  business,     sirs. 
Williams  suspce*'d  his  purpose,  and  finally  she  received  information  that  he 
had  joined  the  fankei   army.     The  Jackson  Mi  \  ,,f 

her  story : 

SI'  1  herself  in  a  Confederate  uniform,  and  adopting  the  name 

<»f  r  Henry    Iknford,"   she  proceeded    to    Texas,  where    she    raised    and 

an  independent  company,  and  went  to  Virginia  with  it 

enaut.     She  was  in  the  bail  Bbnrg,  and  seven]  skirmishes: 

but  finally,  her  sex  having  b  i  red  by  tin  surgeon.of  the  regiment — 

is  Volunteers,  to  which  the  company  had  been  attach)  1  — 

After  remaining  the:  •  time,  she 

h,  and  WSJ  in  the  |  3hiloh,  where  she  displa 

1.  but.  ol 
i  she  did  not  make  herself  k'  .irn.      In 

WSS  wounded  in  the  head,  and  w 
the  r 

rass  him. 
>\r  1   while   - 

was  OS] 

I 
with  ■  .r  uniform  .  and 

'  appoarar 


r,G  LNINGB  FROM 

before  General  Butler  in  a  Southern  homespun  dress.  She  refused  to  take 
the  oath — told  him  she  gloried  In  b  i — had  fought   side  by  ride 

with  Southern  men  for  Southern  rights,  and  if  she  ever  lr     . 

would  do  it  again.     .Butler  di  acorrigible  sho 

.  hi-  had  ever  met  with.     By  ord<  r  of  the  I  was  placed  in  con- 

finement, when'  she  remained  three  months.     Some  tin. 
she  ■  '    1  for  carrying  on  "contt     no  I  correspondence,"  and  kept  in  a 

dungeon  fourteen  days,  on  bread  and  wati  r,  at  the  •  xpiration  of  which  time 
Bhe  was  placed  in  the  State  Prison,  a  langerous  enemy.  I!«r  husband, 
it  so  happened,  was  a  lieutenant  in  the  Thirteenth  Connecticut  Regiment, 
and  on  duty  ac  guard  in  the  city.     He  accidentally  found  hei 

and  asked  if  she  wanted  to  Bee  him.     She  senl  him  word  she  n<  rer  wa 

■•  him  so  long  as  he  wore  the  Yankee  uniform.  But  he  forced  himself 
upon  lnr,  tried  to  persuade  her  to  take  the  oath,  and  get  I  release,  when  he 
£uid  he  would  resign,  and   take  her  to  his  relatione  tecticut.     She 

indignantly  spurned  his  pn  he  left  her  to  her  fate.     When 

ral  Bank.-  a-surued  command,  he  released  a  great  many  prisoners,  but 
kept  her  in  confinement  until  the  17th  of  May,  1863,  when  she  was  sent 
.across  the  lines  to  Meadesville,  with  the  registered  enemies. 

HOTEL  DE   VICKSBURQ. 

The  Chicago  Tribune  published  the  following  bill  of  fare,  found  in  one  of 
the  camps  at  Vicksburg.  It  was  Burmounted  by  an  engraving  of  a  mule's 
head,  behind  which  was  a  hand  brandishing  what  mi  bi  en  a  Bowie, 

or  a  carving  knife.  The  Tribune  thought  it  a  melancholy  burlesque.  The 
mosl  melancholy  thing  about  it  was.  the  reflection  whicb  it  must  have  sug- 
gested to  a  thoughtful  Yankee — if  there  be  such  an  animal — on  the  pros- 
pect of  conquering  the  men  who  could  live  and  jest  on  Buch  I 

HOTEL  DE  YK'K- 


BILL  bf  i'auk  roit  July,  1863; 


Soup — Mule  pie. 

.,/ — Mule  bacon  with  poke  greens;  mule  ham  canvassed. 
Roast — Mule  sirloin;  mule  rump  stuilcd  with  rice. 
Vegetabletr— -Peas  and  rice. 

Entrees — Mule  head  stuffed,  a  la  mock  ;  mule  beef  jerked,  a  la  Mexicanaj 
mule  ears  fricasseed,  a  lagetchj  mule  side  stewed,'  new  style,  hair  on;  mule 
liver  hashed. 

Dishes — Mule  salad;  mule  hoof  soused;  mule  brains,  a  la  omelette; 
mule  kidney  stuffed  with  peas;  mule  tripe  fried  in  pea-meal  batter;  mule 
tongue  cold,  a  la  Bray. 


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Jetties — Mule  foot. 

Pastry — Pea-meal  pudding)  blackberry  sauce;  cottonwood-berry  pies; 
China-berry  tarts. 

Dessert — White-oak  acorns;  beech  nuts;  blackberry-leaf  tea;  genuine 
Conf 

Liquors — Mississippi  water,  vintage  of  1  ins,  superior,  •?•'!;  lime-stone 
Water,  late  importation,  very  fine,  S2  To;  spring  water,  Vicksburg  brand. 

Meals  at  all  hours.  Gentlemen  to  wait  upon  themselves.  Any  inatten- 
tion on  the  part  of  servants  will  be  promptly  reported  at  the  office. 

JEFF.  I 'AVIS  &  CO.,  Proprietors. 

Card. — The  proprietors  of  the  justly  celebrated  Hotel  de  Vicksburg, 
having  enlargi  d  and  refitted  the  same,  are  now  prepared  to  accommodate 
all  who  may  favor  them  with  a  call.  Parties  arriving  by  the  river,  or  by 
Grant's  inland  route,  will  find  Grape,  Canister  &  Co/s  carriages  at  the 
landing,  or  any  depot  on  the  line  of  entrenchments.  Buck,  Ball  &  Co.  take 
charge  of  all  b  No  effort  will  be  spared  to  make  the  visit  of  all  as 

interesting  as  possible. 

A    HELLISH   OUTRAGE   BY   YANKEES. 

By  a  letter  from  Wetzel  County,  Virginia,  we  learned  the  particulars  of  a 
revolting  outi  aitted  by  8ome  Yankee  fiends  upon  the  person 

of  the  wife  of  Mr.  L.  S.  Hall,  member  of  the  State  Legislature  from  Wet- 
zel, and  one  of  the  first  advocates  of  secession  in  his  section. 

Mr-.  Hall  had  her  clothing  tied  over  her  head,  and  in  that  condition 

0   the  street  of   ^eif    Markotville,   her    husband's   place   of 
nee.     1\<  •  that  an  which  death  is  preferable  was 

r    ii       The  Yankee  hell-bounds  afterwards  burned 
down  Mr.  Hall's  out-houses,  and  ransacked  his  house. 

When  our  an  ion 

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This  so  completely  "took  her  down,"  that  she  has  n't  made  an  ugly  face 
since. 

LIFE   AMONG    THE    PICKETS." 

"One  of  the  Garrison,"  in  a  diary  of  the  daily  progress  of  the  siege  of 
Vickstrarg,  recorded  the  following  as  among  the  incidents  of  the  21st  of 
June : 

The  brass  band  of  the  First  llcgimcnt  Mississippi  Light  Artillery  per- 
formed to-night  some  soul-stirring  :iirs  at  the  breastworks  on  General 
Baldwin's  line.  Contrary  to  the  expectation  of  many,  the  enemy  did  not 
lire  upon  the  musicians — thus  proving  good  the  saying  that  ".Music  hath 
charms  to  soothe  the  savage,"  &c.  They  prized  the  music,  but  said  the 
serenade  would  not  be  complete  without  "  Yankee  Doodle."  They  were 
told  that  Yankee  Doodle  did  not  circulate  in  "Grant's  Bull-Pen,"  as  they 
classically  dubbed  Vicksburg.  Captain  Sublett,  of  the  Forty-Sixth  Missis- 
sippi, was  our  spokesman.  He  went  outside  the  lines,  and  chatted  for  some 
time  with  the  pickets  of  the  Fourth  Iowa.  The  latter  seemed  anxious  to 
know  how  we  intended  celebrating  the  4th  of  July,  and  what  we  were  to 
have  for  dinner.  Sublett  enumerated  a  mouth-watering  catalogue  of  lux- 
uries, such  as  oysters,  duck,  roast  mutton,  <fcc,  to  which  a  nasal-twanged 
Yankee  added:  "and  pea-bread."     Sublett  soon  after  returned  to  our  line. 

A  good  thing  is  told  of  the  opposing  subterranean  working  parties  at 
General  Shoup's  line.  It  was  discovered  that  the  enemy  designed  blowing 
us  up  at  that  point,  so  General  Shoup  promptly  started  a  countermine,  and 
soon  the  working  parties  could  hear  each  others  picks.  Making  a  small 
hole  through  the  thin  partition  now  separating  them,  they  conversed  freely 
and  friendly.  Our  men  asked  if  their  neighborly  diggers  had  anything 
good  to  eat  or  drink.  Plenty  of  cheese,  sardines,  crackers  and  whisky, 
was  the  reply;  and  at  the  same  time  our  men  were  assured  that  if  they 
would  make  out  a  requisition  in  proper  form,  it  would  be  promptly  tilled. 
Of  course,  the  requisition  was  soon  drawn  up  according  to  army  regulations, 
and  our  boys  had  a  feast. 

BRILLIANT   EXPLOIT. 

A  party  of  our  daring  marines  started  to  get  a  steamboat.  The  party  was 
under  the  command  of  Captain  James  Duke.  After  experiencing  rather 
hard  fare  in  the  marshes  of  the  Mississippi  for  some  days,  they  discovered 
the  Boston  towing  the  ship  Jenny  Lind,  loaded  with  ice,  up  to  New  Orleans. 
•  This  was  some  three  miles  from  the  Pass  a  l'Outre  light-house.  The  brave 
fellows  hailed  the 'ship,  and  a  line  was  thrown  out  to  them;  they  were  in  an 
open  boat.  On  getting  aboard  of  the  Boston,  the  Confederates  made  a 
very  pretty  display  of  revolvers,  when  the  captain   of  the  ship  remarked: 


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"I  told  you  they  were  d — d  rebels."  ■  It  was  too  late;  the  fastenings  were 
instantly  cut,  and  our  men  were  in  possession  of  the  steamer.  In  coming 
round  at  sea,  they  met  the  bark  Lennox,  from  New  York,  loaded  with  an 
assorted  cargo,  principally  stores,  to  which  they  helped  themselves,  and,  re- 
taining the  captain' and  mate  as  prisoners,  sent  the  passengers  and  crew 
ashore;  they  then  set  fire  to  her,  completely  destroying  the  vessel. 

There  were  about  forty  on  the  Lennox.  About  an  hour  afterwards,  they 
came  up  with  the  bark  Texana,  also  from  Xcw  York.  They  did  not  take 
anything  from  her  but  the  captain  and  mate — the  balance  they  sent  ashore. 
The  Texana  was  then  set  on  fire,  and  was  burning  splendidly  when  she  was 
left.  There  were  about  seventeen  prisoners  on  board  of  the  Boston.  She 
Was  a  staunch  tug,  running  about  twelve  knots  an  hour,  and  was  a  propeller. 
In  the  Mississippi  Kivcr  the  Confederates  were  for  some  time  within  speak- 
ing distance  of  the  United  States  man-of-war  Portsmouth,  sixteen  guns,  and 
about  half  an  hour  previous  to  their  capturing  the  Boston,  a  gunboat  had 
passed  up  within  gun-shot  of  our  men. 

HOW   YANKEE   GENERALS   PECEIVE   THEIR   TROOPS. 

At  Cold  Harbor,  near  llichmond,  after  the  fight  was  over,  a  wounded 
Yankee  called  to  one  of  our  officers,  and  besought  him  to  tell  him  what 
devils  had  been  fighting  them,  as  he  had  "never  seen  such  a  fight  before." 
The  officer  satisfied  his  curiosity,  and  among  other  forces,  mentioned  those 
of  dackson.  "Was  that  devil  here?"  replied  the  Yankee;  "why, yesterday, 
.McClellan  had  an  ord^r  read  to  the  army,  saying  that  he  had  been  cut  to 
pieces  in  the  Valley." 

CARRYING  "THE  FLAG"  INTO  THE  NORTH. 

\mong  the.  paroled  prisoners  who  reached  Richmond,  from  the  flag  of 
truce  boat,  was  C.  S.  Clnncey,  color-bearer  of  the  First  Louisiana  Regiment. 
who  was  taken  prisoner  in  the  battle  of  the  2d  July,  1863,  at  Gettysburg, 
whilst  bearing  his  colors  up  to  the  very  front  of  the  enemy's  breast w 
amidst  a  perfect  tornado  of  shell  and  bullets.     Finding  himself  cut  off  from 

kpe,  and  certain  to  be  either  killed  or  captured,  Clancey  tore   his   dready 
bullet-torn  flag  from  its  staff,  and  secured  it  underneath  his  shin.      \\v  Wa.s 
taken  prisoner,  and  carried  to  Fori  McHenrj,  Baltimore,  and  from  th. 
sent  to  Fort  Delaware,  carrying  his  flag  with  him,n"t  floating  to  the  bn 

.  but  furh-  i  bi  oeatfa  his  shirt      I  ,  M,f  nolle 

in  the. fbrt»  and  when  the. sick  and  wounded  pi  -elected  to 

sent  southward,  i-  I  was  pat  on   board   the 

mer,  with  a  number  of  others,  still  holding  fast  to  his  rogimentaJ  oolors 
which  he  brou  away,  and  exhibited  in  Richmond.    The  flat,'  bean 

the  |  ■  as  of  upwards  of  two  hundred  bullets,  and  one  shell;  and  the 


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piece  of  another  passed  through  it  in  the  fight  at  Gettysburg.  Clancey  is 
the  sixth  color-bearer  of  the  regiment,  fire  having  fallen  in  battle,  with  the 

identical  flag  in  their  grasp.  The  sixth,  Clancey,  has  carried  the  flag  for 
nearly  a  year,  and  he  certainly  can  claim  to  have  carried  it  farther  into  the 
North  than  the  Confederate  flag  has  ever  yet  been  advanced,  and,  what  is 
better,  back  again  in  triumph. 

GENERAL  BENJAMIN  F.  BUTLER. 

Mr.  Yost,  the  editor  of  the  Staunton  Vindicator,  who  attended  the 
Charleston  Democratic  Convention,  where  he  met  General  Butler,  who  was 
a  delegate  to  that  body  from  Massachusetts,  gave  the  following  account  of 
him : 

"A  more  craven-hearted  coward  never  walked  the  earth.  With  the  most 
revolting  countenauce  ever  worn  by  man,  he  is  the  impersonation  of  a  horse- 
thief  or  land  pirate.  Without  a  particle  of  courage  or  honor,  he  is  endeav- 
oring to  ape  the  man  of  war.  Driveu  with  brickbats  and  sticks  back  i'rom 
his  passage  with  his  regiment  through  Baltimore  by  unarmed  citizens,  he 
has  recently  signalized  his  cowardice  by  offering  insult  and  contumely  to  the 
people  of  that  city,  when  their  hands  were  tied.  We  have  seen  the  mis- 
erable creature  snubbed,  spit  upon  and  insulted  beyond  endurance  to  a  gen- 
tleman, with  no  other  response  than  trembling  fear  and  poltroonery.  During 
the  sessions  of  the  Charleston  Convention,  he  was  bought  with  a  price,  and  ■ 
when  called  to  an  account,  by  young  Smith,  of  California,  for  some  Yankee 
trick,  he  begged  like  a  whipped  spaniel,  and  cowered  before  the  gaze  of  a 
brave  and  honest  man.  The  man,  in  fact,  is  a  brute.  He  looks  like  one — 
acts  like  one.  For  such  a  creature  to  talk  of  couriering  the  South!  For 
such  a  miserable  poltroon  to  threaten  to  invade  Virginia!" 

RAPID   FIGHTING. 

The  rapid  succession  of  battles  which  has  characterized  the  present  war 
has,  we'  believe,  no  parallel  in  history.  The  languor  and  lassitude  which 
seemed  to  have  overcome  both  armies  the  first  year,  have  been  totally  re- 
versed. An  activity  almost  inconceivable  has  succeeded;  and  achievements 
almost  incredible  Marches  of  hundreds  of  miles,  performed  in  marvellously 
short  periods,  have  shown  that  our  troops  and  our  officers  arc  not  a  whit  be- 
hind the  renowned  generals  and  the  famous  armies  of  European  history  in 
this  important  branch  of  the  art  of  war.  Battles  on  a  scale  equalling  the 
-Teatest  of  European  battles,  and  campaigns- of  much  more  extraordinary 
magnitude  than  are  ever  seen  in  Europe,  have  demonstrated  the  resources 
and  the  energy  of  the  people  of  this  continent.  We  do  not  remember  any 
other  war  which  compares  with  the  present,  in  these  particulars.  Those  of 
Frederick   and   Napoleon  possess  more  similarity  than  any  others,  in  the 


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rapidity  of  movement  and  number  of  battles  by  which  they  were  character- 
ized. The  Italian  campaign  of  179G  has  always  been  regarded  an  replete 
with  battles  to  such  an  extent  as  to  defy  competition.  But  we  think  the 
Virginia  campaign  of  1862  tar  excels  it.  In  his  Italian  campaign,  Napo- 
leon fought  the  battles  of  Montenotte,  La  Favorite,  Castaglione,  Milesimo, 
Lndi,  Areola  and  Kivoli.  There  were  other  combats,  but  these,  we  think, 
were  all  the  pitched  battles  of  magnitude.  Now  let  us  see  what  was  done 
by  the  army  of  Virginia  during  the  campaign  of  1862,  commencing  on  the 
1st  of  March.  It  fought  the  battles  of  Karnstown,  McDowell,  Front  Royal, 
"Winchester,  Strasburg,  Cross  Keys,  and  Port  Republic  (constituting  the 
Valley  campaign),  Williamsburg,  Barhamsville,  Hanover  Court-House, 
Seven  Pines,  Mechanicsville,  Gaines'  Mill,  Savage  Station,  White  Oak 
Swamp,  Malvern  TI ill  (constituting  the  Richmond  campaign),  Cedar  Run, 
Manassas  Junction.  .Manassas  Plains — August  29th — Manassas  Plains — 
August  30th — (constituting  the  campaign  of  Northern  Virginia),  Harper's 
Ferry,  Boonesboro'  Sharpsburg  (constituting,  in  part,  the  campaign  of 
Maryland).  Histm-y  does  not  record  a  series  of  battles  like  these,  fought 
by  one  army,  in  so  short  a  space  of  time. 

YANKEE   LOVE   FOR   THE   NEGRO. 

An  officer  who* participated' in  the  attack  on  the  Yankee  forces  on  James' 
Island,  and  captured  a  number  of  negroes  of  the  Fifty- Fourth  Massachut 
gays:  One  of  the  prisoners  told  me  he  was  in  Beaufort  the  day  the  negroes 
captured  in  the  Combahee  raid  were  brought  in.  The  men  were  ordered 
into  the  ranks,  and  every  one  who  refused  was  bucked  and  gagged  in  the 
most  inhuman  manner  until  they  consented  to  enlist  in  the  ranks.  Some  of 
these  poor  wretches  were  kept  trussed  up  for  three  or  four  days,  and  bucked 
and  gagged  at  intervals,  until  they  gave  in  their  adhesion,  and  took  a  place 
in  the  ranks.  The  officer  says  ho  conversed  with  several  of  the  prisoners 
and  they  all  gave  substantially  the  same  account.  Many  of  the  negroes 
had  been  induced,  with  the  promise  of  freedom,  to  run  away  from  the  plan- 
tations. 

JINM-TANS    ON    A    CHARGE. 

An  ancient  Tenncsscan,  who  had  been  driven  from  bis  home  in  ftfurrn 
boro'  by  the  prowling  wolves  of  I  m,  amused  us,  in  a  discourse  the 

r  day,  with  several  on  ditt  of  the  ;  Shiloh.     Having  three  I 

in    Beauregard's  army,  he  naturally  betook  himself,  after  ea 

in  a  Tenm  ment,  which  had   a 

co  with  rifles  from  their  own  |ikQ 

of  many  colore,  alter  the  wild  1  done  wit 

man  "had  on'"  just  what  he  left  his  home  in,  tad  that*  i  by  the 


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wear  and  tear  of  camp.  For  head  gear,  a  coon-skin  cap,  with  a  fox  tail  for 
ornament,  was  the  height  of  the  fashion.  When,  at  length,  arms  were  re- 
ceived in  camp,  this  regiment  was  offered  the  Enfield  rifle ;  but  after  consul- 
tation they  declined  the  Enfield  in  favor  of  their  own  old  household  rifles, 
which  they  better  understood. 

The  battle  of  Shiloh  at  last  found  this  regiment  in  the  field,  actively 
drawing  beads  on  the  foe.  In  the  distance  a  Yankee  battery,  planted  on 
an  eminence,  was  pouring  grape  and  canister  upon  our  columns,  and  orders 
came  to  charge  it.  Breckinridge,  who  commanded  the  brigade,'  forgetting 
that  his  regiment  had  not  a  bayonet  in  the  whole  crowd,  passed  the  order 
over  to  it,  and,  with  a  whoop  and  a  yell,  off  it  started  to  execute  the  mission. 
And  they  filled  the  bill  to  a  nicety.  The  Yanks  did  not  wait  to  see  that 
no  bayonets  were  coming,  but  fled  in  dismay  before  the  impetuous  charge 
of  the  coon-skin  Tennesseans.  When  the  guns  were  all  taken,  and  order 
was  restored,  the  colonel  addressed  his  regiment — told  them  they  had  done 
very  well,  but  yonder  was  another  battery  they  might  just  as  well  take, 
now  their  hands  were  in.  With  another  terrific  yell,  off  they  started,  and 
with  a  like  result.  Here  they  were  about  to  venture  again  on  a  third,  but 
just  in  the  nick  of  time  they  were  told  it  was  a  Confederate  battery,  and 
they  had  better  leave  it  alone.  That  was  a  charge  without  the  bayonet — 
a  real  charge,  too. 

A   LOYAL   NEGRO. 

A  committee  was  appointed  in  Portsmouth,  Virginia,  to  urge  Robert  Butt, 
a  negro  of  that  place,  of  worthy  repute,  and  who  rendered  himself  famous 
for  his  kindness  during  the  prevalence  of  the  yellow  fever,  to  become  a  can- 
didate for  Congress,  to  represent  that  District.  The  negro,  more  loyal  than 
Scgar  or  Cowper,  promptly  sent  the  following  response,  which  was  copied 

from  the  original : 

.    Portsmouth,  December  22,  1362. 

To  John  Council,  John  0.  Laiorcnce,  Nicholas  Buthr,  and  others,  Committee: 
Gents:  Accept  my  grateful  acknowledgments  for  your  flattering  invita- 
tion to  become  a  candidate  to  represent  the  District  in  the  Thirty-Seventh 
Congress  of  the  United  States. 

There  was  a  day,  in  the  history  of  our  once  glorious  country,  when  such 
an  invitation  would  have  been  received  with  some  consideration,  but  now 
things  are  very  different,  and  to  accept  such  a  position  when  I  know,  if 
elected,  I  cannot  represent  the  voice  of  the  people  of  this  District.  In  my 
humble  opinion,  gentlemen,  any  individual  who  would  suffer  his  name  to  be 
used  in  this  connection,  and  under  the  existing  circumstances,  would  dis- 
grace himself,  and  show  but  little  respect  for  his  friends  of  the  District  who 
aro  beyond  the  lines  of  the  United  States  Government,  fighting  for  our 


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t 

very  existence.  I  must  decline  your  invitation  to  become  a  candidate  to  be 
voted  for  by  ballot  for  a  seat  in  a  Congress  which  knows  no  law,  except  the 
higher  law,  and  are  every  day  enacting  unconstitutional  measures,  thereby 
disgracing  the  capital  of  the  country.  Xo,  gentlemen,  I  will  leave  this 
position  to  some  one  who  is  more  anxious  to  act  the  traitor,  and  have  his 
name  written  high  upon  the  page  of  infamy,  than  one  who  has  ever  borne 
within  his  bosom  the  true  motto  of  his  mother  State — "Down  with  the 
tyrant." 

I  am,  gentlemen,  very  respectfully, 

Your  obedient,  humble  servant, 

BOBERT  BUTT. 

"like  a  postage  stamp/' 

In  the  capitol  square,  in  Richmond,  a  drunken  soldier  accosted  the  Pres- 
ident: 

"Are  you  Mr.  Davis?" 

"I  am,"  was  the  stern  reply. 

"Are  you  the  President  of  the  Confederate  States?" 

"I  am." 

"  Well,  I  thought  you  looked  like  a  postage  stamp." 

could  n't  talk. 

After  the  capture  of  Winchester,  Lieutenant  General  Ewell  and  Major 
General  Early  went  to  Fort  Jackson,  one  of  the  enemy's  strougholds,  to 
rai.-e  the  Confederate  flag  which  had  just  been  made  by  the  young  ladies  of 
Winchester,  from  two  "Stars  and  Stripes"  which  formerly  floated  there. 
As  they  came  down  from  the  hill,  they  met  the  party  of  young  ladies  who 
had  made  the  flag,  who,  as  the  generals  passed,  gave  "three  cheers  for 
General  Ewell."  He  replied:  "Thank  you,  ladies,  now  call  on  General 
Early  for  a  speech."  "Speech  from  General  Early,"  was  the  cry  from  the 
party.  He  stopped,  raised  his  hat,  and  said:  "Ladies,  T  never  could  muster 
courage  to  addren  one  ladjf,  much  lesa  such  a  crowd  as  this,"  and  passed  on, 
amid  much  laughter  from  the  fair  workers. 

BELLING   A   COI.uxeL. 

The  Point  Coupee  Ei  ho  tells  the  following  story  : 

"  There  is  an  inate  spirit  of  reckless  devilment  among  our  'soldier  boys,' 
that  u  oft<  a  atuiu  ngljf  illustrated,  and  not  anfrequently  at  the  expense  of 
th.>  officer*,  of  winch  t lie  following  ia  a  prtfttv  fair  sample.     But  we  will  let 

the  victim,  Colonel  C ,  tell  it  his  own  way,  hi  iish  for  a 

joke,  even  at  his  own  expense  : 
10 


74  GLEANINGS   FROM 

-  "'Shortly  after  reaching  Port  Hudson,'  says  the  colonel,  'I  selected  my 
encampment,  and  established  my  headquarters  on  the  road  leading  to  Clin- 
ton. One  of  the  boys,  for  the  want  of  better  employment,  executed  a  very 
neat  signboard,  in  large  letters,  'Headquarters  — th  Regiment,  Arkansas 

Volunteers,  R.  II.  C tt,  commanding,'  and  nailed  it  to  a  tree,  facing 

the  road.  My  attention  was  first  called  by  seeing  people  stop  in  passing  to 
read  it,  and  I  ordered  it  to  be  taken  down.  Missing  it  a  day  or  two  after- 
wards, I  supposed  my  order  had  been  observed,  and  thought  no  more  of  the 
matter,  until  rather  unpleasantly  reminded  of  it.  I  was  sitting  one  evening, 
in  front  of  my  tent,  in  company  with  some  brother  officers,  when  a  lean, 
lank  specimen  of  the  country  gentleman  rode  up,  dismounted,  and,  hitching 
his  'critter/  approached  the  crowd,  and  inquired  : 

"  '  Is  any  of  you  gentlemen  Colonel  C tt  ?' 

"  '  That  is  my  name,  sir.' 

"  '  Well,  colonel,  I  came  in  to  see  if  you  was  ready  to  pay  for  them 
chickens?' 

"  '  Chickens !     I  presume  you  are  mistaken,  sir.' 
"  '  Nary  time,  colonel,  and  you  '11  save  trouble  if  you  '11  pay  up.' 
"  '  But,  my  friend,  I  never  bought  any  chickens  from  you.'  % 

"'Well,  I  didn't  say  you  howjht  'em,  colonel,  but  you  can't  say  you 
did  n't  git  'em.' 

"  '  But  I  do  say  that  I  did  n't  get  them  !     Never  saw  you  in  my — ' 
"  '  Easy,  colonel,  easy.     I  '11  leave  it  to  these  gentlemen.     Aint  this  your 
signboard  ?'  hauling  it  from  the  breast  of  his  overcoat. 
"  '  Admitted,  sir;  what  then  V 
"  l  Aint  this  your  name  on  it?' 
"  <  Well,  what  then  V 

"  '  Well,  just  this  :  last  night,  when  me  and  my  old  woman  went  to  bed, 
there  was  thirty-two  hens,  besides  the  old  rooster,  in  the  hen-house,  and 
when  we  got  up  this  morning  (and  then  it  was  nigh  sun-up,  for  we  waited 
for  the  old  rooster  to  crow  for  day),  there  was  nary  darned  chicken  on  the 
place,  but  this  here  signboard  was  stuck  up  on  the  hen-house  door;  and  as 
it 's  got  your  name  on  it,  why,  it  stands  to  reason  you  tuck  the  chickens.' 

"  Amid  a  perfect  roar  of  laughter  from  my  companions,  I  '  paid  up.' .  The 
old  fellow,  counted  his  money,  and  handed  me  the  confounded  signboard  as 
my  '  receipt.'  Mounting  his  horse,  he  started  off,  but  turning  in  his  saddle, 
he  drawled  out : 

"'Good-by,  colonel.  When  you  come  again,  leave  the  old  rooster  and 
the  scttin'  hens,  and  don't  forget  your  siyn ."  " 


AN    ARMY    NOTEBOOK.  75 

AN    INCIDENT. 

The  following  incident  is  related  to  have  occurred  at  the  battle  of  Shiloh  : 
"  It  appears  that  our  commanding  generals  were  short  of  battle-flags,  and 
sonic  of  the  brigades  were  compelled  to  dispense  with  this  necessary  appen- 
dage.  As  all  the  brigades  and  divisions  were  placed  in  battle  array  with 
their  battle-flags,  with  the  exception  of  General  lluggles',  he  rode  up  to  the 
general  on  whose  staff  he  was,  and  asked  the  reason  why  he  had  none. 
Just  at  that  moment  a  rainbow  appeared,  and  the  general,  pointing  to  it 
with  his  sword,  exclaimed:  '  Behold  my  battle- flag  !'  " 

A   RUSE   DE   GUERRE. 

1  luring  the  fight  at  Manassas,  Lieutenant  Turnbull  was  ordered  to  take 
his  company  and  scout  in  a  certain  quarter.  He  set  out  on  this  perilous 
duty  with  twenty-eight  men,  the  strength  of  Company  A  at  that  time. 
After  advancing  some  distance,  the  little  party  came  to  a  fence,  and  was 
about  to  cross  over,  when  suddenly  about  one  hundred  Yankees  sprang  to 
their  feet  on  the  other  side,  cocked  their  pieces,  and  leveled  them  at  the 
scouts — one  with  fixed  bayonet  was  aiming  at  the  lieutenant,  within  a  few 
feet  of  his  breast.  "Hold  on,"  said  he,  pushing  aside  the  presented  musket 
at  the  same  time,  "don't  shoot  your  friends;  will  you  shoot  a  fellow,  without 
giving  him  a  chance?  Who  are  you'/"  Just  at  this  crisis  one  of  Lieuten- 
ant T .'s  party  came  up  to  the  fence,  a  short  distance  off,  and  discovered  the 
enemy,  and,  without  being  dismayed,  exclaimed  :  "  Lieutenant,  here  's  lots 
of  the  rascals  right  here  now."  The  lieutenant,  seizing  the  opportunity, 
said:  "  Well,  boys,  you  had  as  well-  surrender — our  whole  brigade  is  just 
back  here!"  Ten  laid  down  their  anus,  and  delivered  themselves  up  pris- 
oners of  war,  whilst  the  others  skedaddled  for  dear  life. 

MOItAT,    VKUSUS    HRUTE   FOIU  E. 

Tt  is  a  significant  fact,  illustrated  in  various  episodes  of  the  war,  that  the 
bullies  and  blackguards  are  invariably  the  greatest  cowards,  and  the  first  to^ 
run  in  battle.     On  the  contrary,  the  m    le  '.  retiring  men,  with  no  appa- 
of  character,  from  whom  little  or  nothing  has  been  expected,  are 
the    belt    fighters.     Why   it   is    that  the    " shoulder-hitters,"    "1 
"wharf-fats,"  and  men  of  desperate  renown,  who  have  lived  amid  - 
excitement  and  personal  adventure  all  their  lives,  thus  prove  recreant  to 
their  reputation   for  r<  ckless  daring,  we  cannot  explain  ;  but  it   is  emphat- 
ically true  thai  the  gentli  men  of  the  land,  those  who  con- 
.  to  the  bosom  of  their  families,  their  pi                   nr  trades,  and  even   to 
idle  and  enervating  pui                         >wn  the  I                .oral  courage,  ami 
the  -                      ir  1  for  personal  safi 


76  GLEANINGS    FROM 

9 

Tn  proof  of  this  singular  fact,  we  may  mention  a  circumstance  that  oc- 
curred on  Roanoke  [aland,  in  the  fight  that  preceded  its  capture.  There 
were  two  men  who  went  from  the  same  town,  and  were  in  the  same'eom- 
One  was  celebrated  as  the  "game-cock  of  nty" — a  huge, 

muscular  hulk  of  a  fellow,  who  could  out-jump,  out-walk,  and  out-whip 
everybody  in  the  neighborhood — a  terror  to  all  men  smaller  than  himself; 
the  hero  of  countless  fights  (in  tl.  of  which  he  had  the  honor  of  los- 

ing  one   ear  and  a  portion   of  his   n  131    by   m  I,  and   a   dare-devil 

generally  of  the  first  water. 

The  other  was  a  quiet  little  man,  an  humble  book-keeper  in  a  store,  and 
occasionally  the  manipulator  of  a  yard  .-tick.  Everybody  wai  his  friend,  and 
he  was  regarded  as  a  harmless,  modest,  innocent  individual,  who  would  not 
hurt  a  chicken. 

Well,  war-time  cam<>.  and  the  call  was  made  for  volunteers.  The  little 
man  promptly  went  forward  and  registered  his  enlistment,  but  the  bully 
held  off,  until  popular  pressure  became  so  strong  that  he  could  not  resist. 
In  the  course  of  events,  their  company  was  ordered  to  Roanoke  Island,  and 
the  battle  soon  after  occurred. 

The  reflective  character  of  the  two  men  now  stood  out  in  bold  relief. 
The  "game-cock,"  at  the  very  lirst  discharge  of  the  big  guns,  commenced 
to  vomit  violently;  the  clerk,  too  small  to  work  the  heavy  artillery,  was  ap- 
pointed to  fill  the  station  of  the  powder  monkey,  and  did  his  work  as  if  it 
was. so  much  sport,  passing  fearlessly  front  the  magazine  to  the  men  amid 
the  lire,  raising  his  hat  in  salutation  to  the  shells,  and  Binging  and  Bhoutlng 
in  high  glee.  Very  soon  a  shell  burst  in  the  works,  not  far  from  the  bully, 
and,  to  use  the  language  of  our  narrator,  '•  a  frightender  man  you  never 
seen.  He  acted  like  a  man  with  the  delirium  tremens,  and  screaming: 
'Oh,  Lord!  oh,  murder!  I  'm  killed,  I  'm  killed — let  me  get  away,  let  me 
go,'  started  in  a  bee  line  for  the  '  rat-hole,'  from  which  nothing  but  main 
force  could  have  brought,  him  out  till  the  end  of  the  action." 

The  little  man,  however,  stood  bravely  to  his  post  throughout  the  fight, 
won  golden  opinions  front  the  company,  proved  himself  as  gallant  a  soldier. 
as  the  best,  and  is  now  lieutenant  of  his  company,  while  the  miserable, 
craven-hearted  wretch  of  a  "  game-cock  "  is  living  at  home  in  disgrace, 
with  all  the  manhood  that  he  ever  had  cowed  out  of  him. 

All  T.CTING    INCIDENT. 

Frederick  Llubbard,  of  the  New  Orleans  Washington  Artillery,  and 
Henry  Hubbard,  of  the  First  Minnesota  Infantry,  brothers,  were  both 
wounded  at  Manassas,  fighting  on  opposite  sides;  and  after  the  battle  met, 
i'or  the  first  time  in  seven  years,  iu  a  stable,  where  they  and  nine  other 
wounded  men  were  laid.     The  artillery-man,  being  the  less  wounded  of  the 


AN    ARMY    NOTE-BOOK.  77 

two,  was  found  ministering  to  his  brother.  The  case  excited  so  much 
interest,  thai  a  surgeon  at  once  dressed  the  Yankee's  wounds,  and  had  him 
removed  to  his  own  hospital. 

•  YANKEE   TESTIMONY. 

Willingly  or  unwillingly,  the  Yankees  are  giving  expressive  and  signifi- 
cant testimony  against  their  own  themes  and  pretensions,  and  in  favor  of 
the  South. 

The  following  account  of  the  horrible  condition  of  the  slaves  in  Nashville 
is  from  the  charge  to  the  grand  jury,  by  Judge  Brien,  on  the  Act  for  the 
Punishment  of  Slaves : 

"  We  of  the  city  of  Nashville  are  absolutely  cursed  with  the  presence  of  a 

iie^m  population  which  we  find  it  impossible  to  control.     Nashville  is  made 

tic  general  ren  fezvous  for  all  the  runaway  negroes  in  this  and  some  of  the 

adjoining  States.     They  thrust  themselves  into  the  houses  of  our  citizens, 

and  defy  the  owners  to  ou*t  them.     They  pilfer,  they  steal,  they  scruple  at 

nothing;    they   respect    nobody;    they  regard    no   law,   human    or    divine. 

••  of  them  are  engaged   iMJiOSpitals,  hut  they  are  so  numerous  that  this 

haps  only  a  fractional  part.     They  promenade  our  streets;  they  crowd 

our  sidewalks  ;  they  thread  our  alleys;   they  fill  our  houses,  cellars,  garrets. 

They  are  too  lazy  to  work;  too  ignorant  to  distinguish  between  liberty  and 

license;  too  shameless  to  respect  common  decency,  and  too  degraded  to  ob- 

•   the  ordinary  rules  of  morality.     The  men  are  thieves  and  burglars, 

the  women  prostitutes  and  vagrants.     There  is  scarcely  a  stable,  a  hog-pen, 

or  a  hen-roost  that  does  nit   hear  the  impress  of  a  long  heel  and   hollowlcss 

>.     These  negroes  are  a  curse  to  the  army,  a  cancer  .  a  blight 

upon  honesty,  morality,  and  decency,  and  a  leech  upon  the  Government." 

THE   CLIMA3    of   VANDAL    FIENDI8H1 

Mississippi  has  been  reserved  for  the  capping  of  the  climax  to  Yankee 
ility.      N  d    with   burrin  t-.nn- 

houses,  and  plantations,  their  barbaric  instincts  found  rent  in  the  perpetra- 
tion of  an  act  at  which  humanity  revolts. 

The  Monl  Kit? contained  the  following: 

"Two  gentlemen  fn>in  Canton.  i  ns,  and  relet 

ly  what    foil  we  cone  ,,n,l 

heartless  brutality  of  which  the  incarn   I 
guilty  dun:  I  war  : 

ir«.  M    K.  Fort 

lity,  and  supposed  to  be  *roi 
was  visiting  tin-  hi  x  miles  f 

of   her  v. 


78  ULKAMNOS    FROM 

the  oountry  for  the  purpose  of  hiding  lier  money,  wont,  with  a  gang  of  De- 
grees; to  the  house,  at  two  o'clock  in  the  morning,  took  her  out  of  bed,  and 
whipped  her  until  six  o'clock — four  hoars — to  make  her  till  where  her 
money  could  he  found.  She  had  do  money,  and,  of  coarse,  could  not  satisfy 
the  savages.     The  wretched  lady  died  under  the  torture  of  the  lash." 

.    SOMETHING    EICH. 

Bimon  Cameron,  late  Secretary  of  War  of  the  United  States,  was  singu- 
larly exercised  about  the  body  of  his  deceased  brother,  Colonel  Cameron,  of 
the  New  York  Volunteers,  killed  at  the  battle  of  Manassas.  Actuate  1  by  a 
silly  pride  about  addressing  General  Johnston  on  the  subject,  in  the  latter's 
proper  official  capacity,  he  resorted  to  every  device  to  secure  his  object. 
A  flag  of  truce  came  to  our  pickets,  and  sent  in  the  following  note  to 
Colonel  J.  E.  B.  Stuart,  of  the  cavalry,  commanding  at  Fairfax.  Court- 
House  ; 

"War  Department,  July  30,  1861. 

"To  whom  if  may  Concern:  The  bearers,  Messrs.  Gormon,  of  Baltimore, 
Applegate,  and  Sterling,  visit  Richmond  forihe  single  purpose  of  obtaining 
the  remains  of  the  late  Colonel  Cameron.  All  United  States  troops  will 
show  them  the  utmost  courtesy  and  protection  going  and  returning. 

"SIMON  CAMFUOX,  Secretary  of  War." 

Colonel  Stuart  returned  the  communication  with  the  following  endorse- 
ment: 

"  Headquarters  Fairfax  C.  II.,  August  2,  1861. 

"The  within  communication  has  been  sent  me,  but  being  addressed  'To 
whom  it  may  concern,'  is  returned,  for  the  reason  that  its  object  does  not 
concern  me,  nor  any  one  else,  that  I  am  aware  of,  in  the  ('on federate  States 
of  America.  J.  E.  B.  STUART, 

"Colonel  Fvr&t  Cavalry,  Commanding" 

The  gentlemen  were  also  informed  that  General  Johnston,  when  properly 
addressed  on  the  subject,  would  give  any  aid  in  his  power  for  the  recovery 
of  Colonel  C's  remains. 

HOW   OLD    SMITH    ESCAPED. 

"Old  Smith,"  an  old  German  drummer  in  the  Sixteenth  Mississippi 
Regiment,  was  notorious  for  straggling  On  the  march.  Whether  advancing 
or  retreating,  he  was  always  in  the  rear. 

In  General  Jackson's  great  retreat  from  the  valley  of  the  Shenandoah, 
after  whipping  Banks,  old  Smith  got  some  miles  behind,  and  while  sitting 
on  the  roadside,  solitary  and  alone,  resting  and  eating  his  beef  and  biscuit, 
he  observed  a  full  regiment  of  Yankee  cavalry  approaching.     He  jumped 


AN    ARMY    NOTE-BOOK.  70 

out  into  the  woods,  and  as  the  Yankees  came  near,  he  thundered  away  on 
his  drum,  beating  the  long  roll  with  a  terrible  vim.  [The  long  roll  is  the 
signal  c»f  an  enemy  at  hand,  and  to  form  line  of  battle.]  His  trick  was  suc- 
cessful, for  the  Yankees,  supposing,  of  course,  that  there  was  an  infantry 
regiment  lying  in  the  thicket,  faced  about  and  skedaddled  in  the  regular 
Bull  Run  style.  Old  Smith,  replacing  his  drum  00  his  shoulder,  came  out 
into  the  road  again,  with  his  beef  and  biscuit  in  one  hand  and  drumsticks  in 
the  other,  and  resumed  his  march  with  his  usual  equanimity. 

HAD   A   REPUTATION. 

Among  other  incidents  of  the  battle  of  Murfrcesboro',  we  heard  of  one  in 
which  a  soldier  observed  a  rabbit  lopping  across  the  field  under  a  heavy  fire. 
"  l!un,  cotton-tail,"  he  said;  "if  I  had  n't  got  a  reputation  to  sustain,  I  'd 
travel,  too !" 

TAKING   THE   OATH. 

A  very  shrewd,  sensible  man,  in  Maury  County,  Tennessee,  who  had 
been  a  strong  Union  man  until  the  Yankees  got  there,  but  who,  after  that, 
became  equally  as  strong  a  Southern  man,  went  to  Columbia  one  day,  and 
Wta  brought  before  General  Negley.  "Well,"  said  the  general,  "Mr.  B., 
you  must  take  the  oath  before  going  home."  . 

"  Very  well,"  said  B.,  "just  have  it  boxed  up,  general,  and  I  '11  take  it 
out." 

"  Oh,"  said  General  Negley,  "you  don't  understand  me;  you  must  take 
the  oath  to  support  the  Government  of  the  Unit  b.m 

"Why,  general,"  said  friend  B.,  "I  have  a  wife  and  several  children, 
and  it  is  as  much  as  I  can  do  to  support  them.  I  am  a  poor  man,  and  I 
can't  think  of  supporting  the  whole  United  States;  that's  rather  too  much." 

By  this  time  Negley  became  rather  impatient.  "  Here,"  said  he,  hand- 
ing 1>.  the  printed  oath,  "  read  it  for  yourself." 

u  I  can't  road." 

"Well,  then,"  said  Negley,  turning  to  the  Provost  Marshal,  "give  him  a 
pass  anyhow;  he  h  c." 

And  thus  h<  me  without  taking  the  oath.      The  Yankee  general 

that  time.     We  give  this  incid<  i 
laon  prisoners. 

TIIK        '  AND    THJ 

A  Nod  ti  of 

January  18,  If 

Since  the  ls(  of  January,  tho  chihjfon  "f  I'™1  :iTO  bavin  •  me 

of  it.    They  an  Fn  »,  with  do  one  (  half 


SO  ui  r.AMNiis  ntOM 

clothed,  and  worse  fed.  God  only  knows  what  will  become  of  the  poor 
creatures. 

"Colonel  ^lssey,  post  commandant,  is  a  true  gentleman,  and  vfell  liked. 
Prompt.  courteous,  and  like,  he  is  a  gjood   man  for  the   position. 

Every  day  negroes  are  eomiog  into  the  damp  with  their  little  bundles, 
claiming  protection  and  food.  Thursday  afternoon  the  following  actual 
event  took  place : 

"J.  B.  Pillow,  brother  of  the  rebel  general,  who  has  a  beautiful  planta- 
tion a  fevf  miles  from  Helena,  and  who  was  worth  half  a  million  of  dollars 
previous  to  the  war,  came  into  camp,  through  the  lines,  with  one  hundred 
and  eighty-three  negroes,  of  both  sexes  and  of  all  ages.  At  the  head  of  his 
servants,  who  followed  in  single  tile,  he  walked  to  the  colonel's  headquarters, 
where  the  following  conversation  took  place : 

"  '  Good  morning,  sir.' 

"  '  Good  morning,  sir.' 

"  '  Where  is  the  commandant  of  the  post  ?' 

"  l  Before  you,  sir/ 

"  '  Well,  colonel,  here  is  my  small  charge,  in  the  shape  of  free  American 
citizens  of  African  descent,  which  I  deliver  over  to  you.  Here  is  a  correct 
list  of  their  names,  ages,  sexes,  and  occupations.  Please  send  them  on  to 
the  President,  with  my  compliments,  and  say  to  him  that  if  he  wishes  any- 
thin"1  else  under  my  roof,  on  my  grounds,  or  in  my  pockets,  all  he  has  to  do 
is  to  ask  and  receive.' 

"  f  Mr.  Pillow,  I  cannot  "receive  these  people;  I  have  no  food  for  them — 
have  nothing  for  them  to  do — have  not  food  enough  for  our  soldiers, 
hardly.' 

"  '  And  I  cannot  use  them.  I  had  bacon  to  keep  them,  but  it  has  been 
stolen.  I  had  corn,  but  it  has  been  gobbled.  Now,  I  have  nothing  for 
them  to  eat ;  and  as  Lincoln  has  turned  this  army  into  a  nigger  boarding- 
house,  you  will  please  seat  this  people  at  your  table.' 

"  <  But  I  have  no  such  power.' 

"  'Then  give  them  work.  If  you  fail  to  manage  them,  I  will  teach  you. 
The  art  can  bo  learned  in  about  thirty  years.' 

"  '  I  have  nothing  for  them  to  do.' 

"'Nor  have  I.  You  will  not  see  them  starve,  I  hope.  I  am  a  loyal 
man — have  been  a  prosperous  one,  but  can  no  longer  care  for  these  people. 
You  have  surely  some  use  for  them.  Nearly  all  trades  are  here  represented 
among  the  men.     The  women  you  can  find  use  for  somewhere.' 

"  '  Well,  I  can't  take  them.' 

"  '  My  God,  what  will  they  live  on?  Can  you  sell  me  corn  and  bacon? 
They  will  starve  unless  you  do.'. 

u  '  No,  I  cannot.' 


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"  '  And  you  cannot  keep  them  ?' 

"'No.' 

"  •  Well,  God  only  knows  what  will  become  of  them.' 

"At  the  head  of  his  ol>l  servants  he  left,  and  the  free  people  followed  him 
crying,  and  wondering  what  next  would  come  in  their  behalf.  The 
poor  creatures  come  into  camp,  steal  provisions,  &c.,  are  kicked  and  cuffed 
.tbout  by  all  hands,  and  are* at  times  most  unmercifully  pounded  by  some  sol- 
dier who  will  not  stand  their  'sass.'  The  only  idea  ninety-five  of  every  hun- 
dred of  slaves  have  of  freedom  is,  ease,  freedom  from  labor,  theft,  and 
lust." 

CAMP   ANECDOTE. 

A  correspondent  of  the    Kutaw  Whig  and   Observer  wrote  thus  from 

Fredericksburg: 

"  A  young,  stout,  hale,  hearty  man  in  a  South  Carolina  regiment,  went  to 

General  Lee  for  the   purpose  of  getting  a  furlough,  when   the  following 

amusing  incident  took  place: 

"General  Lee:  'Sir,  do  you  knew  the  position  of  a  soldier?'  • 

"Soldier  (saluting  the  general).   '  I  do,  sir.'  m 

"General  Le< .  %  A^ume  the  position  of  a  soldier.     I  want  to  see  if  you 

can  execute  two  or  three  orders  as  I  give  them.' 

//  Lee  (viewing  him  closely,  and  scrutinizing  his  position,)  said  : 

'  About  face,  forward,  march  !'  and  never. said  halt." 

TOO   GOOD   TO   BE   LOST. 

A  countryman  was  in  the  town  of  Lumpkin,  and  some  one  asked  him 
how  he  liked  the  war  news.  lie  replied:  "  Very  well."  "Are  you  ready 
y"  he  was  asked.  "  Yes,"  he  replied.  "Are  you  not  afraid?"  "No. 
If  I  should  see  a  Yankee,  with  his  gun  leveled  and  looking  right  at  me,  I 
would  draw  out  my  pocket-book,  and  ask  him  what  he  would  take  for  his 
gUO,  and  right  there  the  fight  would  end." 

:  N. 

While  resting  on  the  roadside,  a  citizen  came  ridincr  down  the' line,  afford  - 
.  butt  lor  the  remarks  which  were  mercilessly  thrown  out  fn 
side.     As  he  rode  through  the  n  tie  fellow — flat  on  hi-  bark  in  a 

fen c1  corner — noticed  an  enormous  white  beaver  tl  i   the  citi;- 

head,  and  called  out,  very  peremptorily  :  "Come  down  OUt  of  that  hat,  sir; 
•    try  to  hide  ;    I   know  j  ■."'      The 

luckli  spurred  up,  but,  a  lew  ]  by  the 

following 

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on,  one  soldier  called  to  another  across  the  road :  "Bill,  that  fellow  is  like  a 
ship."  "What  for?"  asks  Bill.  "  'Cause  the  rigging  cost  more  than  the 
hull."  This  was  more  than  human  nature  could  stand,  and  the  citizen  put 
whip  and  spur  to  work.  Nor  did  he  pause  until  Kershaw's  brigade  was  far 
in  the  distance  behind  him. 

WANTED    TO    BE    "TOOK." 

Referring  to  the  fact  that  many  of  the  Federal  soldiers  are  seeking  cap- 
tivity for  the  purpose  of  securing  a  parole,  the  Kentucky  Statesman  relates 
the  following,  as  having  occurred  in  the  vicinity  of  Lexington  : 

"  A  Confederate  soldier,  exhausted,  laid  down  by  the  roadside  to  rest,  and 
falling  asleep,  was  left  some  distance  behind  the  army.  When  he  awoke,  he 
found  a  Yankee  soldier  sitting  by  his*  side  fanning  off  the  flies,  and  patiently 
waiting  to  be  taken  prisoner.     Of  course  he  was  accommodated." 

BOY    HEROES. 

While  the  "musrjuito  fleet"  of  Commodore  Hollins  was  on  the  Missis- 
sippi, an  attempt  was  made  to  dislodge  the  enemy  from  Point  Pleasant,  near 
'Island  No.  10.  After  firing  several  rounds,  the  enemy  retired,  without  re- 
plying. Just  at  this  moment  several  persons,  supposed  to  be  women,  came 
out  on  the  balconies  of  the  houses  and  the  bank,  waving  white  flags.  The 
*  captain  of  the  Pontchartrain  ordered  her  to  approach  the  shore,  which  she, 
did  cautiously.  When  within  about  forty  yards  of  the  shore,  the  supposed 
women,  with  other  Federals,  commenced  a  very  brisk  fire  on  the  boat  with 
their  muskets,  killing  one  and  wounding  two  others.  The  one  killed  was  a 
boy  of  fourteen  years,  known  on  the  boat  as  powder-boy.  He  deserves  to 
be  written  down  a  hero.  While  strong  and  stalwart  men  were  seeking  a 
hiding-place  under  the  bomb-proof  shelter,  this  brave,,  manly  boy,  stood  to 
his  post  till  pierced  by  the  fatal  ball.  He  had  hardly  fallen,  when  little 
Johnny  lleeder,  of  about  the  same  age,  stepped  up  to  the  captain,  amidst  a 
shower  of  bullets,  and  spoke  with  heroic  firmness:  "Captain,  I  will  be  your 
powder-boy  now."  We  scarcely  know  which  most  to  admire.  Both  were 
brave,  and  gave  striking  evidence  of  the  folly  of  our  enemies  in  supposing 
they  can  subjugate  us. 

The  Nashville  was  saved  from  the  enemy  at  Beaufort  by  two  young  lads, 
the  sons  of  Captains  Pegram  and  Sinclair.  On  hearing  that  the  Yankees 
were  about  to  invade  the  town  of  Newborn,  they  "drummed  up"  a  crew, 
ran  the  blockade,  and  arrived  safely  in  another  Southern  port. 

Two  half-grown  lads  were  out  hunting  in  the  neighborhood  of  Ncwbern, 
and  were  discovered  and  accosted  by  a  Yankee  lieutenant. 

One  of  the  boys  wore 'the  letters  "  N.  C"  on  his  cap,  which  attracted  the 
Yankee'.'  attention,  and  ho  inquired  of  the  boy  what  they  meant.     The  boy 


AN    ARMY   NOTE-BOOK.  83 

replied,  "North  Carolina,"  whereupon  the  lieutenant  ordered  him  to  re- 
move them.  This  the  boy  declined  doing,  when  lie  was  again  ordered  to 
take  them  off,  and  again  refused  to  do  so.  The  lieutenant  then  remarked 
that  he  would  take  them  off  himself;  and  was  in  th.c  act  of  dismounting 
from  his  horse  to  do  so,  when  the  boy  winked  to  his  .comrade,  who  took  his 
meaning,  and  in  a  moment  the  guns  of  both  the  boys  were  leveled  at  the, 
head  of  the  Yankee  officer,  and  he  was  commanded  to  surrender. 

Seeing  the  utter  hopelessness  of  his  case,  and  perfectly  astounded  at  the 
spirit  displayed  by  the  boys,  the  Yankee  gave  up  his  pistol,  and  on  being 
ordered  to  dismount,  did  so.  The  boys  then  secured  him,  and  again  plac- 
ing him  on  his  horse,  conducted  him  to  Kiuston,  where  he  was  safely 
lodged  in  jail. 

The  Columbia  (South  Carolina)  Guardian  says : 

"Dr.  Patterson,  who  has  just  returned  from  llichmond,  has  left  at  our 
office  a  musket  carried  by  a  noble  and  gallant  boy  from  Georgia,  Garvin 
Wightman.  The  gun  bears  upon  it  the  evidence  of  hot  work,  the  stock 
having  no  less  than  five  bullet  marks,  four  of  them  apparently  from  grape- 
shot,  and  the  other  evidently  from  a  Minie  ball.  In  a  note  to  Dr.  Patter- 
son, the  youth  says:  'This  was  shot  in  my  hand  while  retreating  from  a 
.battery  that  we  had  taken,  but  could  not  hold.  It  was  struck  with  grape 
shot  and  ball;  take  care  of  it  for  me,  as  I  captured  it  at  the  battle  of  Wil- 
liamsburg from  a  Yankee.  It  has  killed  five,  and  done  service  in  the  bat- 
tles of  Williamsburg  and  Richmond. ' 

"Dr.  Patterson  states  that  Garvin  is  only  about  fifteen  or  sixteen  years 
of  age,  and  was  at  first  detailed  to  guard  the  requisition  stores,  but  finding 
.that  this  duty  would  prevent  him  from  participating  in  the  battles,  he 
joined  a  North  Carolina  regiment,  and  went  into  action.  Hifl  father  and 
family,  we  are  informed,  are  Charlestonianfl. 

asides  the  scars  on  the  gun,  Garvin  received  sundry  other  favors  from 
the  Yankees.  Two  balls  passed  through  his  cap,  and  his  clothing  has  .sundry 
bullet  holes.  In  his  ease,  too,  we  have  another  of  those  remarkable  occur- 
renees  showing  a  special  Providence.  In  his  left  breast  pocket,  or  between 
his  vest  and  his  shirt,  he  carried  his  Sabbath-Sohool  hymn-book  rolled  up. 
11  entered  this  book,  and  penetrated  through  the  outer  folds,  lodging 
in  the  centre,  thus  unquestionably  saving  bis  life.  The  book  with  the  ball 
is  in  the  possi  ssion  of  i;r.  Patterson." 

FEDERAL  ATROCITIES   IN    BALTIMORE. 

The    following   letter,   from    a   neutral    source,    tells   a   story   tliat    would 
re  it  qo4  i  by  a  thousand  Bimilar  i 

both  in  Baltimore  an 


-  t  GLEANINGS   l'lto.M 

Quebec,  October  4,  1S61. 
To  the  Editor  of  the  Morning  Chronicle: 

Sir:  The  horrors  practiced  by  the  Lincoln  Government  upon  the  people, 
of  that  once  beautiful  and  refined  city,  Baltimore,  have  earned  for  it  the 
name  of  the  Warsaw  of  America.  At  this  moment  the  most  honored  and 
talented  men  of  Maryland  are  pining  in  the  fortress  cells  of  that  city, 
deprived  of  the  commonest  requisites  of  the  hum/Jest  condition*  of  life,  made 
tu  endure  nauseating  circumstances  that  the  meanest  fekm,*is  fret  from;  seven 
and  eight  gentlemen  forced  into  a  cell,  without  bedding,  blankets,  water  to 
wash,  or  changes  of  linen  from  week's  end  to  week's  end ;  and,  with  a 
refinement  of  cruelty  and  mental  torture,  unknown  in  any  civilized  country 
in  the  world,  cut  off  from  all  intercourse  or  knowledge  of  their  families  or 
of  the  outor  world. 

Men  alone  are  not  the  only  victims  of  the  wicked  and  accursed  tyranny, 
but  even  ladies  of  rank  are  similarly  situated,  their  crimes  being  receiving 
letters  from  absent  husbands  and  fathers,  or  Wearing  red  and  white  ribbons 
or  dresses,  or  having  given  charity  to  the  widow  or  orphan  of  some  one  who 
died  in  the  Southern  army.  Against  the  men  no  charges  are  made,  and  the 
only  warrant  upon  which  they  are  held  is,  that  their  names  are  inscribed  by 
Mr.  Lincoln  or  Mr.  Seward  upon  a  list  in  the  hands  of  a  convicted  mur- 
derer and  burglar.  The  experience  of  one  week  in  Baltimore,  and  the  hor- 
rors inflicted  upon  the  unhappy  people  of  that  fated  city,  would  appear  to 
any  man  used  to  the  actions  of  a  regular  government — even  of  the  greatest 
European  despotism — an  exaggeration,  did  not  the  papers  in  the  service  of 
the- tyrannous  fanatics,  who  despotically  wield  the  government  of  the  land, 
themselves  foreshadow  the  gross  iniquity,  and  call  upon  the  gaping  and 
frightened  crowd  to  fall  down  and  worship  the  bloody  idol  they  have  set  up 
before  them. 

The  prime  executioner  and  minister  to  the  vengeance  of  Lincoln  and 
Seward  is  of  the  most  abhorrent  stamp,  and  has  inaugurated  their  reign  of 
terror  in  Baltimore  only  as  such  a  wretch  could  conceive  it.  This  man  is  a 
pardoned  convict,  named  Berrett,  who,  after  receiving  sentence  of  death  for 
murder  and  burglary,  and  having  been  known  to  have  committed  six  assas- 
sinations, was  released  from  prison,  and  made  a  jailor,  but  was  dismissed  for 
misconduct;  he  was  the  captain  of  a. murderous  crew,  called  the  "Blood- 
Tubs/'  and  when  all  honest  men  shrank  from  him,  President  Lincoln  and 
his  minion,  Seward,  sought  and  employed  him  as  the  minister  of  their  ven- 
geance. This  ruffian  has  daily  interviews  with  the  President,  and  returns 
from  Washington  with  a  fresh  list  of  proscribed  victims.  Berrct  has  chosen 
the  tools  and  habits  of  his  old  trade  of  burglar  to  do  the  work  of  his 
employers. 


,  AN    ARMY    NOTEBOOK..  85 

The  universal  terror  and  abject  subserviency  of  the  Northern  States  to 
the  dictates  of  their  oppressor,  lias  been  shared  by  Maryland,  and  it  lias, 
therefore,  been  deemed  more  prudent  to  make  the  domiciliary  visits  in  the 
dead  of  the  night.  Berrett  takes  with  him  several  escaped  thieves,  his 
former  "  pals,"  and,  accompanied  by  a  file  of  soldiers,  g  tea  forth  after  mid- 
night to  do  the  bidding  of  the  "best  and  freest  Government  in  the  world," 
by  breaking  into  the  houses  of  their  victims,  dragging  them  from  their 
beds,  and  thrusting  them,  handcuffed,  into  the  cells  of  Fortress  Mc  Henry. 
General  Howard,  an  old  gentleman,  the  candidate  for  governor,. aud  his  son, 
Mr.  F.  Howard,  were  taken  from  their  beds  and  from  the  sides  of  their 
vivos  between  one  aud  two  o'clock  in  the  morning  by  berrett  and  a  file  of 
soldiers,  who  wound*  d  with  their  bayonets  Mr.  F.  Howard's  little  son,  six 
-  old,  and  so  ill-treated  Mrs.  Howard  that  she  died  on  the  Sunday  fol- 
lowing. .  Mr.  Lincoln  thought  "she  was  served  too  well,  and  declared  tjiat 
the  wives  and  brats  of  traitors  deserved  to  be  threaded  upon  red-hot  jack- 
chains."  To  the  suffering  children  and  wives  of  his  victims  he  replies  to 
their  request  to  be  permitted  to  see  their  parents  with  a  refusal  couched  in 
obscene  and  brutal  language,  or  with  some  filthy  jest,  that  could  not  be  put 
upon  paper. 

rrett,  upon  Seward's  order,  broke  into  the  mansion  of  a  lady  of  rank, 
whose  husband  is  in  Europe,  and  with  his  file  of  soldiers  pulled  her  from 
her  bed,  without  permitting  her  to  dress,  or  even  putting  on  her  shoes;  the 
fellow  forced  her  to  go  with  him  from  the  attic  to  the  cellar  in  her  night- 
gown, whilst  he  tore  up  the  carpet,  forced  the  doors,  and  cut  to  pieces  the 

■s,  brocaded  chairs,  sofas,  &c.,  and  turned  out  every  trunk  and 
drawer,  leaving  the  beautiful  residence  a  total  wreck.  No  reason  has  been 
icd  for  this  outrage,  except  that  his  patron,  the  President,  willed  it. 
On  the  following  night,  the  house  of  a  venerable  gentleman  was  forcibly 
entered,  and  every  bed  cut  to  pieces;  his  throe  daughb  rs  were  pulled  out 
of  their  beds,  and  subjected  to  brutal  indelicacies  the  heart  sickens  at. 
The  following  morning  the  colonel  of  these  honorable  and  gal]  lers 

of  their  count:  Wilson,  wis  taken  int.  various  rol 

rty  having  been  found  in  his  shop  in  Brooklyn,  New  York. 
The  house  of  I  1  no  connection  with  politic;-,  bed' 

for  arms;  of  c  found,  but  a  quantity  of  wine  was,  and 

•land  oft  table  ami  :>iy  carried  it  off. 

ward  has 

throw::  rid  them,  and  thn  i 

Mr.  from  thi 

■  1   in  at 

Mr.  ' 


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bing  hltu  of  all  the  money  he  had  with  him.  Lincoln,  when  told  of  the 
yenng  ladies'  grief,  and  that  their  dresses  were  wet  with  tears,  ridiculed  'u\ 
and  made  filthy  aud  obscene  jokes  at  their  expense.  .Mr.  Wallis,  President 
of  the  Senate,  a  man  of  refined  miud,  elegantly  educated,  who  held  his  large 
fort une  as  a  trust  for  every  good  and  benevolent  purpose,  whose  eloquence 
and  high  talent  vied  with  his  goodness  and  his  virtues,  has  been  consigned 
to  a  narrow  cell,  with  six  other  gentlemen,  without  the  commonest  conven- 
ience that  the  poorest  beggar  can  command  for  the  wants  of  nature — torn 
from  his  wife  aud  family  while  suffering  from  severe  sickness,  without  a 
change  of  linen,  and  robbed  of  all  his  money.  Mr.  Ross  Winans,  nearly 
eighty  years  of  age,  was  taken  from  his  splendid  mansion  in  the  middle  of 
the  night,  and,  for  a  second  time,  consigned  to  a  cell.  This  time  his  crime 
was  giving  food,  daily,  to  twenty-five  hundred  poor  people.  His  last  release 
from  prison  cost  him  fifty  thousand  dollars  bribe. 

Mrs.  Davis,  a  lady  of  large  fortune,  had  fed  nearly  one  thousand  poor 
daily.  Mr.  Seward  commanded  her  to  desist  from  doing  so;  she  refused, 
and  published  his  command  and  her  letter  of  refusal.  The  paper  that  pub- 
lished it  has  been  suppressed,  the  materials  of  the  office  carried  off,  and  the 
editor  imprisoned. 

SUPPLIES    AND   INFORMATION    FOR   TIIE   REBELS. 

"A  Yankee  upstart,  belonging  to  Milroy's  command,  when  in  the  Valley 
of  Virginia,  summoned  an  aged  citizen  to  appear  before  him,  to  furnish 
some  information.     When  duly  arraigned,  the  Yankee  began  : 

"  '  Do  you  know  of  any  one  who  has  furnished  supplies  to  the  rebels?' 

"  Old  Man.  '  I  believe  I  do.' 

"Yank.  'Who  was  it?' 

"Answer.  l  General  Panks.' 

''Yank.  '  Sergeant,  take  him  to  the  guard-house.  Wait  a  while.  Now, 
old  white-headed  rebel,  mind  whose  presence  you  are  in,  and  answer  cor- 
•  rectly.  Do  you  know  any  one  who  has  been  passing  through  our  lines  and 
back  again  to  the  rebels,  carrying  information  ?' 

"Ans.  '  Yes,  sir,  I  do.' 

"  Yank.  '  Who  was  it  ?' 

"Ans.  'General  J.  E.  B.  Stuart.' 

"  Yank.  '  Sergeant,  take  him  to  the  guard-house.'  " 

NOT   A   STRAGGLER. 

On  the  morning  after  the  great  battle  of  Manassas  Plains,  Sergeant , 


of  Company  A,  Sixteenth  Mississippi  Regiment,  being  barefooted,  straggled 
off  from  his  command,  traversing  the  battle-field  iu  pursuit  of  a  pair  of 
shoes,  which  some  frightened  Yankee  might  have  thrown  away  in  his  flight. 


AN    ARMY   NOTE-BOOK.  87 

After  looking  for  ;i  long  time  in  vain,  he  at  test  saw  a' pretty  good  pair  on 
the  pedal  extremities  of  a  dead  Yankee.  He  sat  down  at  the,  feet  of  the 
•lead  Yankee,  pulled  off  his  shoes,  and  put  them  on  his  own  feet.  Admir- 
ing the  fit,  and  complimenting  himself  upon  this  addition  to  his  marching 
abilities,  he  arose,  and,  with  knapsack  on  his  back  and  gun  in  hand,  was 
about  starting  to  overtake  his  regimmit,  when  he  observed  coming  towards 
him  a  small  squadron  of  cavalry,  all  of  whom,  as  it  was  drizzling  rain,  were 
wrapped  in  their  large  rubber  oil-cloth  overcoats.  It  will  be  remembered 
that  the  cavalry  are  frequently  assigned  to  the  duty  of  picking  up  the 
stragglers,  and  hence  there  is  no  good  feeling  between  the  infantry  and  cav- 
alry.    As  they  approached  Sergeant ,  the  foremost  one  asked  :  "  What 

are  you  doing  here,  sir,  away  from  your  command  ?" 

"That  's  none  of  your  business,  by  G — d,"  answered  the  sergeant. 

"  You  arc  a  straggler,  sir,  and  deserve  the  severest  punishment." 

"It  's  a  d — d  lie,  sir;  I  am  not,  a  straggler;  I  only  left  my  regiment  a 
few  minutes  ago  to  hunt  me  a  pair  of  shoes.  I  went  all  through  .the  fight 
yesterday,  and  that  's  more  than  you  can  say;  for  where  were  you  yesterday 
when  General  Stuart  wanted  your  d — d  cavalry  to  charge  the  Yaukees  after 
we  put  'em  to  running  ?  You  were  lying  back  in  the  pine  thickets,  and 
could  n't  be  found;  but  to-day,  when  there  's  no  danger,  you  can  come  out 
and  charge  other  men  with  straggling,  d — n  you." 

The  cavalry-man,  instead  of  getting  mad,  seemed  to  enjoy  this  raking 
over  from  the  plucky  little  sergeant,  and,  as  he  rode  on,  laughed  heartily  at 
it.  As  the  squadron  was  filing  nearly  past  the  sergeant,  one  of  them 
inquired : 

"  Po  you  know  who  you  were  talking  to?" 

"  Yes,  to  a  cowardly  Virginia  cavalry-man/' 

"  No,  sir;  that  's  G-cncral  Lee." 

"7/-0-'; — mhati**  And  his  mouth  expanded  from  a  pucker  to  its  most 
astonishing  dimensions.     "General  Lee,  did  you  s;i; 

'•  \n d  hie  Jtafff" 

"Y 

iz-t-K-z-on  to  grind.     I  'm  a  gorner!" 

With  th;s  exclamation  the  sergeant  palled  nff  his  hat,  and,  readjusts 
oyer  his  disl  nded  eyes,  Btru  le-quick  on  th<  r  his 

l 

"Tin1  prisoners,  y,  were  remarkably  impudent 

Uy  il Seers.     One  of  tl  ral 

For- 


\ 

88  GLEANINGS    FROM 

rest  demanded  a  surrender,  and  the  Yankee  negotiators  were  trying  to  get 
the  best  terms  possible,  Forrest  appeared  suddenly  to  get  very  mad;  swore 
he  would  wait  no  longer,  that  he  would  rather  kill  the  whole  of  them 
than  not;  ordered  his  couriers  immediately  to  direct  the  commanders  of 
the  separate  batteries  to  place  them  on  separate  points  or  hills ;  and  or- 
dered four  separate  regiments  to  be  formed  immediately  at  particular  points 
in  line  of  battle;  and  that  the  couriers  absolutely  dashed  off  as  though 
they  were  going  to  have  the  orders  executed.  And  as  they  dashed  off, 
Forrest 'told  them  his  signal  gun  would  be  fired  in  ten  minutes — when,  in 
fact,  he  said,  the  rascal  had  but  two  little  cannon,  and  not  more  than  a 
half  regiment  of  men  alb  told.  That  Forrest  was  nothing  but  a  damned 
swindler." 

THE   TlOUS    SLAVE. 

A  letter  from  the  South  Carolina  coast  contains  the  following  character-  . 
istic  anecdote: 

"  I  happened  to  notice,  one  morning  not  long  since,  on  the  wharf  of  our 
island,  a  very  old  negro  oysterman  -drawing  out  his  boat  on  the  shore,  in 
order  to  dip  the  water  out  that  had  collected  during  the  night,  preparatory 
to  going  out  among  the  oyster-banks.  A  regular  soldier  was  assisting  him, 
partly  for  amusement,  and  partly  to  hear  him  talk. 

"The  oysterman  was  indeed  an  interesting  specimen  of  humanity.  He 
was  bent  and  stiffened  by  age,  his  head  was  as  white  as  cotton,  while  as 
happy  a  smile  played  upon  his  shriveled  countenance  as  ever  wreathed  the 
face  of  beauty,  and  his  deep-set  black  eyes  beamed  with  kindness  and  hu- 
mility. His  boat  was  a  very  old  canoe,  full  of  holes  all  along  the  sides, 
and  I  asked  him  if  he  was  not  afraid  to  venture  out  on  the  water  in  such  a  , 
thing.  He  said  he  was  not;  that  the  old  boat  and  old  man  knew  each  other,  • 
they  had  worked  together  for  many  years;  that  he  did, not  know  which 
would  give  out  first,  but-  that  one  thing  was  certain,  we  all  had  to  die  at  some 
time,  and  there  was  no  way  to  get  away  from  death  wheu  he  came;  that  his 
Master  above  could  take  care  of  his  old  servant  as  wejl  in  the  old  boat  as 
on  the  land;  that  that  kind  Master  had  permitted  him  to  live  some  eighty- 
six  years,  had  given  hinivfood,  drink,  and  clothing  all  that  time,  to  prepare 
for  death,  and  if  he  were  not  prepared  and  ready  to  die  now,  he  would  be 
the  greatest  sinner  in'the  world.  He  concluded  by  telling  us.  that  we  were 
all' slaves — slaves  to  sin,  to  our  passions  and  appetites — and  that  death  alone 
could  make  us  perfectly  free  and  happy  in  the  Paradise  of  God.  How  far 
superior,  thought  we,  is  the  simple  and  child-like  faith  of  this  honest  fcld 
negfo  to  all  the  day-dreams  of  philosophers,  that  have  constructed  their 
systems  apart  from  the  sublime  philosophy  of  the  Redeemer  of  mankind. 
This  sable  eon  of  Africa  was  fully  imbued  with  the  glorious  faith  and  doc- 


AN   ARMY   NOTE-BOOK.  89 

brines  of  St.  ■  Paul,  that  made  Felix  tremble,  and   almost  persuaded   King 
Agrippa  to  be  a  Christian." 

YANKEE    RAID-MAKERS    IN    TOWN'. 

Thirteen  Yankees,  including  one  Lieutenant,  named  Marsh,  all  belonging 
to  an  Illinois  regiment,  and  attached  to  a  raid-making  party,  arrived  at  the 
Libby  prison,  from  Tunstall's  Station,  where  they  wore  taken  by  a  portion 
of  General  Wise's  command.  Sundry  other  members  of  the  detachment 
were  brought  in,  by  citizens  and  sojdiers,  who  picked  them  up  straggling  on 
the  roads,  hatless,  horseless,  and  hungry.  One  ludicrously  appointed  indi- 
vidual, having  seen  the  spires  of  the  city  from  afar  off,  and  being  anxious 
to  get  shelter  and  something  to  eat,  directed  his  steps  thither;  and,  meeting 
a  gentleman  on  the  road,  addressed  him : 

•■  'Ere  you  keeps  mit  der  Lippy  brison?" 

"What?"  said  the  gentleman,  reining  his  steed,  and  looking  curiously  at 
the  woe-begone  excursionist. 

"I  vants  to  go  to  brison — umph,  yaw!" 

"What  do  you  want  to  go  therefor?"  asked  the  gen^cman,  seeing  at 
once  that  he  was  one  of  the  strayed-off  raid  party,  but  wishing  to  chat 
awhile  with  the  poor  devil. 

"  I  bes  so  sick  as  der  belle  von  dis  var— - und  I  kom  you  gleb  meinself 
up — yaw."  ' 

"  Where  did  you  come  from?"  inquired  the' gentleman. 

"  Vrom  Yankeeland,  mit  a  tam  officer,  for  to  break  into  der  railroad  und 
shpile  die  passengers.     Vcre 's   der  brison?" 

Finding  the  tired  and  hungry  Dutchman  in  a  hurry  to  get  along,  the  gen- 
tleman directed  him  to  keep  the  road,  and  he  would  soon  reach  the  object  of 
his  wishes.     Into  town  the  fellow  came,  and.  overcome  by  heat  and  fat  i 

at  down  in  front  of  the  telegraph  office  and  went  to  sleep,  where  be  was 
soon  observed,  and  his  character  being  ascertained,  he  was  put  in  "der 
brison" — the  only  Yankee  (and  he  a  I'utclnnan)  who  has  yet  "entered 
Richmond"  on  his  own  book. 

The  party  captured  were  sent  down  for  exchange,  with  others,  by  fla  ■ 
truce,  making  rather  a  short  stay. 

MILRoy    IN    WIN'   B  \  IK'    IMA. 

The  reign  of  this  officer  rivalled  in  brutality  and  robbery  thai  of  Butler 
in  New  Orleans.     A  private  letter  says: 

"'i  :  Is  full  of  hospitals.     They  have  Taylor's  Hotel,  V<>rk  House, 

Union  Hotel,  and  when  I  left,  were  turnii  g  th<  ■  A  th<  r  fa 

take  hospitals  of  them.  The  soldiers  have  been  camped  aboul  in  town 
all  winter,  and  such  B  'lirly  plaO<  hurch  op: 


DO  GLEANINGS    FROM 

taken  for  a  stable,  and  we  had  the  horses  quartered  all  around  us.  The 
typhoid  lever  has  at  last  become  so  bad  that  it  has  grown  to  an  epidemic, 
and  ■  there  is  scarcely  a  family  in  town  but  have  two  Qr  mere,  and  in  some 
cases  the  whole  family  is  down,  and  dependent  upon  their  neighbors  for 
help.  All  the  servants  have  gone,  and  the  people  have  been  worked  and 
worried  to  death. 

*  ■    *  *  *  * 

"The  Yankees  will  not  allow  the  people  to  buy  anything  without  taking 
the  oath,  and  we  would  rather  starve  than  do  that.  We  could  get  nothing 
either  one  way  or  the  other,  and  just  had  to  live  on  bread, , and  sometimes 
had  butter.  They  would  not  even  allow  us  to  buy  a  bone  of  meat  to  make 
soup  for  the  sick.  When  the  Confederates  came  towards  Winchester,  the 
Yankees  or;co  surrounded  with  six  hundred  of  their  men  about  fifty  of  ours, 
and  did  not  kill  one — all  escaped.  Old  Milroy  was  ripping  mad,  swore  ter- 
ribly, called  the  officer  who  had  command,  and  said:  "Why  is  it  that  six 
hundred  Yankees  having  one  hundred  rebels  surrounded,  let  them  all 
escape  ?  "  The  officer  said  :  "  All  I  can  say  is,  the  rebels  fought  with  daring 
bravery,  and  the  Yankees  like  cowards."  They  put  the  officer  under  arrest 
for  forty  days.  Milroy  never  goes  out.  He  had  his  wife  and  four  or  five 
children — ugly  little  red-headed  things — with  him.  They  had  Mrs.  Logan's 
fine  house.  Yrou  heard,  I  suppose,  they  sent  Mrs.  Logan  and  family  over 
the  lines.  They  took  possession  of  the  house  and  everything  in  it.  Instead 
of  coming  up  the  Valley  to  fight  the  men,  they  stopped  in  Winchester  and 
fou<rht  women  and  children.  The  women  were,  firm  and  faithful;  never 
would  give  up  one  step.  When  Milroy's  wife  first  came,  she  had  one  little 
trunk,  and  when  she  left  she  had  five,  very  large  ones — carried  off  every- 
thing she  could  lay  her  hands  on.  They  say  they  will  not  leave  a  negro  in 
town  when  they  leave." 

ADMIRABLE    RETORT. 

A  lady  went  to  General  Milroy  and  asked  for  a  pass  to  go  over  the  lines. 
He  said :  "I  will  give  you  a  pass  to  hell."  She  told  him  she  did  not  know 
his  lines  extended  that  far;  she  had  often  heard  it,  but  now  had  it  from  his 
own  lips. 

A   BRAVE   NEGRO. 

In  the  battle  of  Belmont,  Lieutenant  Shelton,  of  the  Thirteenth  Arkansas 
Regiment,  and  his  servant  Jack  were  in  the  fight'.  Both  Jack  and  his  mas- 
ter were  wounded,  but  not  till  they  had  made  most  heroicefforts  to  drive 
back  the  insolent  invaders.  Finally,  after  Jack  had  fired  at  the  enemy 
twenty-seven  times,  he  fell,  seriously  wounded  in  the  arm.  Jack's  son  was 
upon  the  field  and  loaded  the  rifle  for  his  father,  and  shot  at  the  enemy  three 


AN    ARMY   NOTE-BOOK.  9i 

times  after  he  was  upon  the  ground.  Jack's  son  hid  behind  a  tree,  and 
when  the  enemy  retreated  they  took  him  to  Cairo  and  refused  to  lei  him 
return.  Jack  was  taken  from  the  field  in  great  pain,  and  brought  to  the 
Overton  Hospital,  where  he  bore  his  sufferings  with  great  fortitude,  till  death 
relieved  him  of  his  pain.- 

GENERAL   RANDOLPH    "BLOCKADED.." 

One  afternoon  our  estimable  Secretary  of  War,  General  George  W.  Ran- 
dolph, visited  the  lines  below  Richmond,  and  after  spending  an  agreeable 
hour  or  two  at  General  Lee's  headquarters,  started  for  the  city.  He  pro- 
ceeded without  interruption  until  he  reached  the  picket's  post  on  the  "Nine 
Mile  Road,"  where  he  found  several  citizens  who  were  returning  from  a 
visit  to  tbe  camp.  They  had  been  stopped  by  the  sentinel,  who  informed 
them  that  he  had  orders  to  allow  no  one  to  pass  in  or  out  of  the  lines  who 
did  not  give,  the  countersign.  General  Randolph  informed  the  picket  that 
he  was  the  Secretary  of  War,  and  that  the  orders  he  had  received  could 
not  apply  to  him.  The  soldier  replied  that  he  did  not  know  whether  he 
■was  Secretary  of  War  or  not — a  Yankee  spy  might  say  the  same  thine* 
but  be  that  as  it  may,  his  orders  were  to  allow  no  one  to  pass  who  could  not 
give  the  countersign,  and,  having  a  ball  and  two  buckshot  in  his  musket,  he 
would  enforce  the  observance  of  his  orders  by  all  comers  and  goers. 

Here  was  a  "fix"  for  a  party  of  gentlemen,  with  night  coming  on,  and  a 
heavy  drizzle  of  rain  descending.  The  officer  of  the  day  was  called,  but 
he  could  do  nothing,  as  the  adjutant  of  the  post  had  neglected  to  obtain 
the  countersign  from  headquarters.  At  length  somebody  rode  to  headquar- 
ters, about  a  mile  distant,  and  returned  with  the  countersign.  The  Secre- 
tary and  other  camp  visitors  were  then  released,  and  went  on  their  way 
rejoicing,  though  previously,  it  is  said,  in  a  very  bad  humor,  believing  that 
the  sentinel  had  exceeded  his  duty. 

A  somewhat  similar  incident  is  related  of  Napoleon.     He  tried  to  pass 
one  of  his  sentinels,  but  the  Old  Guard  told  him  he  could  not  pass  without 
the  countersign,  if  he  were  the  "Little  Corporal"  himself — meaning  Napo- 
leon.    The  sentinel  was  rewarded  by  Napoleon  for  his  fidelity  to  his  tl 
by  the  decoration  of  the  Legion  of  Honor. 

GENERAL  STUART  AND  Tin;  Mil 

On  a  scouting  expedition  to  Massaponax  Church,  General  Stuart  rode 
■]  bo  a  mill  around  which  the  enemy  had  just  been  encamped,  to  see  what 
information  ho  could  obtain.  The  old  miller  looked  at  bin  closely,  and 
paid,  "  Seems  like  [ 's  Been  .you  afore."     "Yes,"  said  the  General,  "  ]    . 

recollect,  on  a  scout  a  few  d  M  v  nam*    u  Btuart."     The 

old  fellow  seemed    mucfa  phase!      "Gen  ;,H 


112  GLEANINGS   FROM  i 

around  here  last  night  and  this  morning.  They  said  you  had  been  a 
bothering  them  a  long-  time  with  your  cavalry,  but  that  now  they  were 
going  to  get  w  your  rear  and  cut  you  off,  and  the  first  thing  they  knowed 
youdrapped  right  in  behind  them.     3  la!  ha!  ha!     Give  it  to  'cm,  General." 

JACKSON    AFTER   THE    MAIN    CIIANCE. 

After  .Jackson  took  Harper's  Ferry,  he  had  a  conversation  with  Colonel 
Ford,  (a  Federal  officer,)  who  detailed  the  following  incident:  "While  we 
were  in  conversation,"  says  Colonel  Ford,  "an  orderly  rode  rapidly  across 
the  bridge,  and  said  to  General  Jackson:  'lam  ordered  by  General  McLaws 
th  report  to  you  that  General  McClcllan  is  within  six  miles,  with  an  immense 
army.'  Jackson  took  no  notice  of  the  orderly,  apparently,  and  continued 
his  conversation ;  but  when  the  orderly  had  turned  away,  Jackson  called 
after  him,  with  the  question:  'Has  McClcllan  any  baggage  train  or  drove 
of  cattle?'  The  reply  was,  that  he  had.  Jackson  remarked  that  he  could 
whip  any  army  that  was  followed  by  a  drove  "of  cattle,  alluding  to  the  hun- 
gry condition  of  his  men." 

"WHISKY   AND   TURPENTINE. 

The  dhattanooga  Rchel  told  the  following: 

One  of  the  Yankee  prisoners  here  asked  a  guard  if  he  knew  "where  a 
feller  could  get  a  drink  of  whisky  ?  " 

"Well* no,"  said  the  ragged  custodian,  "but,  stranger,  ycr  kin  git  a  first- 
rate  artikle  of  turpentine  round  the  corner,  and  I  reckon  that  won't,  pizin 
your  blue,  stomach !  " 

"What  does  he  say,  Bill?"  said  another  prisoner. 

"Why  he  wanted  I  should  drink  abcout  a  gill  of  turpentine;  feller  warnt 
tu  burn  us  coutj  wish  to  h — 1  I  was  ter  hum!" 

NORTHERN    TESTIMONY   CONCERNING   A    NORTHERN    PRISON: 

An  Ohio  paper  published  the  following: 

"It  must  not  be  forgotten  that  there  have  been  from  six  to  seven  hun- 
dred political  prisoners  at  Camp  Chase  at  a  time,  and  although  seven  hun- 
dred have  been  discharged  without  trial,  there*  are  yet  there  some  four 
hundred.  One  or  two  hundred  of  these  have  arrived  from  Kentucky  and 
Western  Virginia.  Tdicse  men  arc  taken  from  their  homes,  some  from  their 
beds  at  night,  some  from  their  houses  in  daytime,  and  a  great  many  of 
them  are  picked  up  in  their  fields  at  work,  and  never  suffered  to  see  their 
families  before  being  spirited  off  to  Ohio  and  incarcerated  in  this  celebrated 
]>astilc,  which  will  soon  be  as  famous  as  Olmutz  itself. 

"  Our  Ohioans  are  put  into  the  same  prison  with  these  men  from  other 
States,  and   from  them  we  have  learned  Mine   facts,  which   the  people  of 


AN    ARMY    NOTE-BOOK.  93 

Ohio  ought  to  know.  Many  of  these  men  have  been  kept  in  this  prison  for 
over  one  year,  a  great  many  for  five,  six,  seven,  and  eight  months,  without 
even  seeing  outside,  or  being  allowed  to  communicate  personally  with  any 
one,  not  even  wife,  child,  father,  mother,  or  stranger. 

"  They  are  furnished  with  nothing  but  a  single  blanket,  even  these  cold 
nights,  unless  they  are  able  to  purchase  additional  comforts  with  money 
they  may  be  able  to  command.  Many  are  poor  men,  and  unable  to  pur- 
chase; they  were  not  permitted  to  bring  along  a  change  of  clothing,  and 
many  had  on,  when  seized,  nothing  but  summer  wear,  and  that  has  become 
filthy,  worn  out,  and  scarcely  hangs  upon  their  backs. 

"  They  have  no  bedding,  and  are,  therefore,  compelled  to  sleep  on  the 
bare  boards.  They  have  not  enough  wood  furnished  to  keep  fireS  up  all 
night,  and  hence  the  suffering  is  intensified  by  the  cold  weather.  If  they 
attempt,  after  night,  to  walk  out  in  the  yard  to  take  off  the  chills  of  the 
dreary  night,  they  are  instantly  threatened  to  be  shot  by  the  guards,  as 
ordered  by  those  in  command.  • 

"  Dr.  Allen,  of  Columbia  County,  Ohio,  said  he  laid  on  a  bare  board  until 
his  hips  were  black  and  blue.  The  wood  furnished  them  is  four  feet  long, 
and  they  are  compelled,*  each  mess,  to  chop  it  up  for  themsclvesfcand,  the 
provisions  being  furnished  raw,  they  have  to  cook  for  themselves.  Recol- 
lect, always,  that  these  are  political  prisoners,  against  whom  no  one  appears 
as  accuser,  and  no  trial  is  permitted. 

"The  prison  has  become  filthy — awfully  so — and  the  rats  are  in  droves.  If 
the  prisoners  attempt  to  kill  one  of  the  rats,  they  arc  forbidden,  and  threat-. 
ened  with  being  shot  instantly.     Recollect,  always,  as  wc  have  said  above 
these  are  political  prisoners,  against  whom  some  malicious  negro- worshipper 
has  created  a  suspicion  of  disloyalty,  but  whose  name  is  kept  a  secret,  and 
henoq  there  ran  be  no  trial. 

"The  place  is  perfectly  alive  with  lice,  and  no  chance  ia  given  to  escape 
the  living  vermin.  A  dead  man,  one  of  the  prisoners,  was  carried  out  to 
the  dead-yard,  and  laid  there  over  night,  and  when  visited  in  the  men 
by  other  prisoners,  who  heard  there  was  a  dead  man  there,  they  found  the 
hair  on  his  head  stiff  with  lice  and  nits — the  lice  creeping  into  hi 
greal  numbers,  sad,  as  he  lay  with  his  mouth  open,  the  lire  were  thick, 
crawling  in  and  ou(  -  I  ith. 

"Two  of  the  pi  I   int..  a  scuflle  in  trying  their  .  and 

finally  into  a  fight,  as  wz  .],  and  several  other  persona  rui  bed  t<>  part 

them,  when  t!.  From  the  lookout  fired  on  them,  lulling  an  old  i 

by  the  name  of  Jon  nia,  and  tlic  ball  grazing  the  skull 

fell,  and  as  killed  ;hcr* 

"I  tie'  ball«  pa    ■  i  thi  ird  at  the  bend  of  a  sick  mo  i' 


94  QLXANINOS    FROM 

pital.  and  only  escaped  him  by  a  few  inches.  The  two  men  engaged  in  the 
scuffle  were,  not  hurt. 

"We  might  go  further,  but  God  knows  this  is  enough  for  once.  It  is 
enough  to  m;.ke  one's  blood  run  cold  to  think  of  it. 

"  Now,  if  any  one  doubts  this — if  tin;  authorities  at  camp  or  at  the  State- 
House  doubt  it — if  the  Legislature,  when  it  meets,  will  raise  a  committee,  we 
promise  to  name  the  witnesses,  who,  if  sent  for,  will,  under  oath,  prove  all 
thi<  and  as  much  more,  some  of  which  is  too  indecent  to  print  iu  a  newspa- 
per for  the  public  eye." 

"STTJ.NG    BY    A    BUNG." 

"Hermes,"  the  correspondent  of  the  Charleston  (South  Carolina!)  Met- 
cury,  related  the  following  incident  : 

"At  Sharpsburg,  General  Lee,  meeting  one  of  the  many  stragglers,  in- 
quired :  '  Where  are  you  going,  sir  ?' 

"  '  Going  to  the  rear.'  • 

"  '  What  are  you  going  to  the  rear  for  V 

"'Well,  I've  been  stung  by  a  bumj,  and  I  'm  what  they  call  demoral- 
ized.' 

"  This  was  enough.  General  Lee  had  n't  the  heart  to  say  more  to  an  in- 
nocent who  had  been  '  stung  by  a  bung' — meaning,  probably,  that  he  had 
been  stunned  by  a  bomb — and  the  soldier  departed  on  his  way." 

DEATH   ON   THE   BATTLE-FIELD. 

A  correspondent  of  the  Due  West  Telescope  stated  that  a  Christian  soldier 
was  pierced  by  a  Minie  ball  in  the  left  breast,  during  the  first  charge  of  our 
troops  at  Perry ville ;  and  in  reply  to  a  friend  who  proffered  him  assistance, 
said :  "  No,  I  die.  Tell  my  parents  I  die  happy.  On,  on  to  victory. 
Jesus  is  with  me,  and  can  give  me  all  the  help  I  need."  A  gasp,  a  shud- 
der, and  all  was  over — all  of  this  world's  pain  and  sorrow. 

MAJOR   A.    M.   LEA  AND   HIS    SON.  N 

One  of  the  most  affecting  incidents  of  the  brilliant  and  successful  recap- 
ture of  Galveston  by  the  forces,  under  Major  General  Magrudcr,  was  the 
meeting  between  Major  Lea,  of  our  army,  with  his  eldest  and  fondly-loved 
son,  who  was  first  lieutenant  of  the  Harriet  Lane.  Nearly  two  years  ago, 
the  father,-  then  residing  in  Texas,  had  written  repeatedly  to  the  son,  then 
on  the  coast  of  China,  suggesting  the  principles  that  should  determine  his 
course  in  the  then  approaching  struggle  between,  the  North  and  the  South 
'of  the  United  States,  and  saying  that  he  could  not  dictate  to  one  so  long  ob- 
ligated to  act  on  his  own  judgment;  and  that,  decide  as  he  might,  such  w;is 
his  confidence  in  his  high  consciousness,  he  would  continue  to  regard  him 


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•with  the  respect  of  a  gentleman  and  the  affection  of  a  father;  but  that,  if  he 
should  elect  the  side  of  the  enemy,  they  would  probably  never  meet  on 
earth,  unless  perchance  they  should  meet  in  battle.  / 

The  father  has  served  nearly  eighteen  months  eastward  of  the  Ml 
sippi,  and,  through  unsolicited  orders,  arrived  at  Eouston,  en  route  for  San 
Antonio,  when,  hearing  of  the  intended  attack  on  the  Harriet  Lane,  aboard 
of  which  he  had  heard  was  his  son,  also  placed  there  simply  in  the  order  of 
Providence,  he  solicited  permission  to  join  the  expedition,  in  expectation  of 
nursing  or  burying  his  son,  whose  courage  wag  obliged  to  expose  him  fatally 
to  the  equal  daring  of  our  Texas  boys.  During  the  fight,  Major  Lea  was 
ordered  by  the  general  to  keep  a  lookout  from  a  house-top  for  all  move- 
ments in  the  bay.  As  soon  as  daylight  enabled  him  to  see  that  the  Lane 
had  been  captured,  by  permission  of  the  general,  who  knew  nothing  of  the 
expected  meeting,  he  hastened  aboard,  when  he  was  not  surprised  to  find 
his  son  mortally  wounded.  Wading  through  blood,  amidst  the  dying  and 
the  dead,  he  reached  the  youth,  pale  anl  exhausted.  "  Edward,  't  is  your 
father."  "I  know  you,  father,  but  cannot  move,"  he  said,  faintly.  "Are 
you  mortally  wounded?"  "Badly,  but  hope  not  fatally."  "Do  you  suffer 
pain?"      "Cannot  speak."   he  whispered.      A  stimulant  was   given   him. 

w  came  you  here,  father  t"  When  answered,  a  gleam  of  surprise  and 
gratification  passed  over  his  fine  face.  Tie  then  expended  nearly  his  last 
words  in,  making  arrangements  for  his  wounded  comrades.  His  father  knelt 
and  blessed  him,  and  hastened  ashore  for  a  litter,  and  returned  just  after 
life  had  fled. 

When  told  by  the  surgeon  that  he  had  bat  a  few  minutes  to  live,  and 
■sked  to  express  his  v.  isbi  9,  he  answered^  confidingly  :  "  My  father  is  here," 
and  spoke  not  again.  He  was  borne  in  procession  to  the  grave  frpm  the 
headquarters  of  General  Magruder,  in  company  with  his  captain,  and  tin  v 
buried  together,  with  appropriate  military  honors,  in  the  presence  of 
many  officers  of  both  armies,  and  many  generous  citizens  all  of  whom 

heir  deep  sympathy  with  th<  lemo 

r  the  Episcopal  (  hurch  for  the  burial  of  the  dead,  and  then  a  I 
thi^  brief  add; 

My  friendi  nan  ha  i  time  to  rejoi< 

wlv  n    w<  (hat 

• 

to  believe,  whilst  I  our  rights  wit! 

that  those  we  m<  cf   in  battle  maj  I  -  oar 

own.    We  have  !;■  re  buried  two  brave  and  1 

; 


90  GLEANINGS    FROM 


TIETY    IN    A    GENERAL. 

The  chaplain  of  the  Fifth  Kentucky  Regiment  writes  of  Kirby  Smith  : 
"  Before  going  into  the  battle  at  Richmond,  Kentucky,  he  spent  a  season 
alone  in  his  tent  in  prayer.  "When  the  battle  was  over,  he  returned  to  his 
tent,  and  gave  thanks  to  God  for  the  victory.  When  at  Lexington,  Ken- 
tucky, the  minister  at  the  Episcopal  Church  refused  to  officiate  on  thanks- 
giving uay,  and  General  Smith  arose,  read  a  chapter,  led  in  prayer,  and 
finished  the  services.  In  the  Kentucky  campaign,  General  Smith  was  the 
only  general  who  succeeded  in  his  part  of  the  programme." 

OUR  RAGGED   BOYS. 

At  the  battle  of  Murfrcesboro',  the  Yankees  captured  a  young  rebel,  who 
wore  a  gunny-bag  with  a  hole  in  it  for  a  shirt.  "Could  n't  your  Govern- 
ment afford  to  give  you  a  shirt?"  said  his  captor.  "  Shirt,  the  d — 1,"  aajd 
he  of  the  gunny-bag,  ''do  you  expect  a  man  to  have  a  thousand  shirts?" 

WITHOUT  SADDLE  OR  SPUR. 

The  following  "joke"  is  told  of  an  army  surgeon,  who  got  on  a  little 
"  bender"  while  his  command  was  passing  through  Mobile  : 

Surgeon  was  dressing  a  wound  at  the  battle  of  Murfreesboro' — soldier 
came  by  on  a  Yankee's  back,  actually  riding  him  to  the  rear. 

"  Doctor,"  cried  the  lucky  Confederate,  from  his  novel  perch,  "  if  I  had 
them  spurs  you  went  to  bed  in  at  Mobile,  I  'd  give  this  feller  hail  Columby. 
Get  up,  here,  you  whey-faced  Yankee  son-of-a-gun,"  and  he  drove  his  heels 
into  the  sides  of  his  jaded  "  animal,"  and  pushed  on,  amid  the  roars  of 
laughter  from  the  surgc6n  and  his  corps  of  assistants. 

THE  JOHN   BROWN   RAID — AN   IMPORTANT   DISCLOSURE. 

Mr.  Sumner  was  reelected  to  the  United  States  Senate  by  the  Legislature 
of  Massachusetts.  Mr.  Swans,  member  of  the  Senate  of  that  State,  al- 
though a  Republican,  would  not,' it  seems,  vote  for  Mr.  Sumner,  and  gave 
the  following  reasons  for  refusing  : 

"  I  come  now,  Mr.  President,  to  what  is  known  in  history  as  the  John 
Brown  raid.  This  expedition  was  planned  and  fitted  out  in  Boston,  and  its 
expenses  defrayed  by  subscription.  The  day  he  started  for  Harper's  Ferry 
on  his  deed  of  murder,  he  dined  in  room  No.  4,.  Parker  House,  in  company 
with  some  of  the  most  ardent  and  zealous  supporters  of  Mr.  Sumner,  and  for 
this  reason  I  allude  to  it.  The  Republican  party  now  disown  the  act,  they 
call  him  a  monomaniac,  an  insane  man ;  but  when  the  telegraphic  wires, 
with  lightning  speed,  brought  the  news  of  his  death  to  New  England,  so  de- 
praved at  that  time  was  the  public  sentiment  here,  that  the  village  church- 


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bells  tolled  out  his  funeral  knell,  and  the  ministers  of  Got],  with  a  few  lion-  . 
orable  exceptions,  prayed  in  their  pulpits  that  the  spirit  of  the  'departed 
saint  '  might  rest  in  peace.  This  act,  Mr  President,  was  the  deathblow  to 
the  peace  of  the  Union.  Witho  it  it,  Virginia  would  not  have  seceded,  and 
God  grant  the  names  of  the  persons  who  were  engaged  in  this  transaction 
shall  leave  a  record  of  them  for  history. 

"Another  deed  of  murder,  Mr.  President,  and  I  will  not  detain  you 
longer.  When  Anthony  Burns,  the  fugitive  slave,  was  confined  in  the 
Court-House  in  this  city,  a  meeting  was  held  at  Faueuil  Hall,  to  consider 
the  subject.  Theodore  Parker  and  the  Rev.  Thomas  W.  Eiiggiosoo  were 
there.  Mr.  Parker,  in  concluding  an  eloquent  speech  alluded  to  the  fact 
that  a  slave  was  confined  in  the  Court-House,  and  exclaimed,  in  substance: 
'Why  stand  we  here  idle?  To  the  rescue!'  A  rush  was  made  for  the 
Court-House.  and  at  the  door  stood  a  poor  laboring  man,  a  Mr.  Patchelder,  a 
night-watch.  His  wife  and  two  children  were  sleeping  at  home,  possibly 
dreaming  of  him  as  he  was  toiling  for  their  daily  bread.  •  The  crowd  de- 
manded admittance;  he  refused,  and  was  immediately  assassinated  on  the 
Who  killed  him  the  world  never  knew.  These  men,  Mr.  President, 
were  the  confidential  friends  and  supporters  of  Mr.  Sumner,  and  for  this 
reason  I  have  alluded  to  the  subject." 


LACONIC 


Kites  (a  member  of  the  Legislature,  and  Confederate  District  Attorney 
for  West  Tennessee)  returned  to  his  home  in  Memphis,  and  gave  some  sort 
of  parole,  by  which  he  protects  himself  and  property.  He  writes  to  a  friend 
outside  of  the  lines  as  folio? 

"Dear  Vance:  Come  in  and  save  your  property. 

Vance  answei 

'■/>ir  L'.-f's:  Come  out  and  save  your  character.  \  A 

A   BT/ioi>v   CHARGE   ON    A    STOVE-PIPE. 

Having  had  a  special  but  temporary  object  in  view  in  taking  p 
Munson's  Hill,  in  \  irginia,  it   was  do(   deemed   necessary   I  that 

Put  lest  the  V  light  h.ir.i--v  the  tr 

■r  artifice 

i  on  the  II,  with  ii- 

tuni'  .  .  ii"   black   cylinder 

ian.     An  aeronaut  9  I    his  car  and  a-cmd   to 

rder  to  ascertain  the  nature  of  the  work  which  our  forces 
had  thrown  up,  an 
In  the  eves  ul  the  ingenuou 
Pi 


98  GLEANINGS    FROM  • 

• 

immense  size,  and  several  regiments  were  ordered  to  capture  the  gun  and 
dislodge  the  Confederates. 

Bight  gallantly  did  the  Yankee  aoldiera  rush  to  the  charge.  But  their 
fears  being  silenced  by  the  retreat  of  our  troops,  in  the  absence  of  danger, 
their  desire  for  plunder  was  inflamed,  and  before  they  had  gone  half- way  up 
the  hill,  they  scattered  in  different  directions  in  quest  of  booty.  The  ma- 
rauders mistook  the  columns  they  belonged  to,  and  on  their  way  to  the  main 
body  they  met,  and  in  their  excess  of  valor,  fell  upon  each  other.  The 
battle  raged  fiercely  for  some  minutes,  for  Yankees  are  the  very  people  to 
fight  Yankees.  Obstinately  did  each  contend  for  the  victory,  and  before  the 
blunder  was  discovered,  eight  Lincolnites  lay  low  in  death,  and  forty  more 
were  pierced  with  bullets.     They  captured  the  stove-pipe. 

A  GOOD  THING  FROM  BRAGG. 

A  correspondent  wrote : 

"A  soldier  who  had  been  favored  by  fortune  faith  the  extraordinary  good 
luck  of  having  obtained  a  leave  of  absence  to  visit  North  Carolina,  tele- 
graphed General  Bragg,  commanding  the  army  of  Tennessee,  that  he  had 
■  been  married  a  week,  and  desired  an  extension  of  his  furlough.  Mis  wish 
was  seconded  by  friends  of  the  general,  with  but  little  hope,  it  is  true,  of 
succeeding  in  the  darling  wish  of  the  darling  husband.  In  the  course  of 
the  day,  the  loving  swain  was  delighted  with  the  following  electric 
response : 

.  "  '  Your  leave  is  extended  for  thirty  daj^s.  I  refer  you  to  Deuteronomy, 
twentieth  chapter  and  seventh  verse,  and  twenty-fourth  chapter  and  filth 
verse.' 

"The  Bible  was  instantly  called  into  requisition,  and,  upon  reference,  the 
following  quotations  were  developed  :■ 

"  'And  what  man  is  there  that  hath  betrothed  a  wife  and  hath  not  taken 
her?  Let  him  go  and  return  unto  his  house,  lest  he  die  iji  the  battle  and 
another  man  take  her.' — Deuteronomy,  twentieth  chapter  and  seventh 
verse. 

"  The  second  reference  disclosed  : 

"  'When  a  man  hath  taken  a  new  wife,  he  shaM  not  go  out  to  tear,  neither- 
shall  he  be  charged  with  any  business :  but  he  shall  be  free  at  home  one 
year,  and  shall  cheer  up  his  wife  which  he  has  taken.' — Deuteronomy, 
twenty-fourth  chapter  and  filth  verse." 

A    NOVEL   INTERVIEW. 

As  one  of  Wharton's  scouts  was  riding  leisurely  along  near  Lavergne,  he 
espied  an  enemy  approaching  about  sixty  yards  down  the  lane.  "Who  goes 
there?"  he  challenged.     "  Wilder's  scout,"  was  roughly  returned.     "Who 


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there?"     Wharton's  scout:  "Surrender  or  die."     "Never  surrender; 

come   on!"     But  Wharton's  scout  did  not  "come  on."     The  truth  is,  he 

said,  t hat   his  antagonist  was  loaded  down  with  six-shooters,  and  "he  wai 

• 
never  good  at  the  d — d  things."     There  was  a  pause.     Both  parties  eyed 

each   other.      "Can't   we   coinnromi-e   this  thing?"  erics   Yankee.     "No; 

surrenderor  I'll  shoot  you."     "Shoot  and  be  d — d.     Never  surrender; 

come  on."     Pause.     Then  Wharton's  scout  exclaimed  :  "  I  '11  tell  you  what 

I  '11  do."     "  What?"     "  (live  me  the  road,  and  I  '11  let  you  off."     "Done." 

The  Yankee  turned  aside,  and  our  man  slowly  passed,  head  erect,  as  fierce 

as  a  Hon.     "Good   by."     "Good    by."      And    the  two  rode    their  ways. 

Wharton's  scout  considered  it  a  pretty  good  "get  off,"  when  it  is  taken  into 

account  that  the  ground  was  far  into  the  Yankee  lines.     He  said  he  was  n't 

particular  about  a  fight,  and  only  wanted  to  save  Southern  honor. 

GENERAL    TOOMBS    AND    A    LAZY    SOLDIER. 

Quite  an  amusing  scene  occurred  mar  Warrenton,  Virginia.  General 
Toombs  ordered  the  "fatigue"  to  "tote"  rails  and  fill  up  a  bad  place  in  the 
road,  when  one  soldier  said  he  could  not  tote  a  rail;  whereupon  the  general 
dismounted,  and  told  the  fellow  if  he  would  hold  his  horse  he  would  do  it. 
'The  man  held  the  horse,  and  the  general  shouldered  the  rail  and  carried  it 
1  threw  it  across  the  hole  which  he  had  ordered  filled.  The  soldier 
was  a  large,  strapping  fellow,  and  the  rebuke  the  general  gave  him  caused 
after  peal  of  laughter,  while  the  man  looked  as  if  he  would  have  liked 
to  have  been  in  the  hole,  covered  from  Bight  by  the  rails  he  "could  not 

THE   TK5ERS. 

A  good  story  was  "towld"  of  the  gallant  Captain  Atkins,  of  Wheat's  ccle- 

1   battalion.     Atkins,  who  is  well   known   as  the  "Wild  Irishman," 

being  SIX  feet  two  inches  in  height,  and  of  the  ('barley  O'Mallcy  school,  was 

formerly  of  the  British  Legion  in  the  army  of  Italy,  where,  meeting  Colonel 

Wheat,  he  1"  came  so  attached  to  him,  that  he  afterwards  came  over  to  this 

try  to  join  him.     It  was  Captain  Atkins  who  led  Wl  ttalion  at 

r  the   noble  Wheat  fell    wounded,  leading   the   celebrated 

f  of  the  Louisiana   I  -li  a  bare  shillalah.    In  the  battle  in  which 

lorious  Wheal  fell,  Atk;  ling  the  roll  of  bis  company  the 

.  but  one  |  ..i,,^ 

il  a  man 
but  m  Howivcr,  1  immediately  pi  tton 

the  only  onanimi 

.  the  chip  of 

'old   /  i.  h. 


100  GLEANINGS   FROM 

did  splendidly.'  Pid  n't  they,  says  T.  'They  did,'  scz  he.  'and  desarve  pro- 
motion.1    Well,  then,  says  I,  they  Ve  got  it,  for  ivory  mother's  son  of 'em 

iave  been  put  on  the  staff  of  Colonel  Wheat  in  heaven,  and  the  only  man 
left  was  unanimously  elected  a  lieutenant  this  morning.  Wi'  that  the  gen- 
eral orders  nie  to  Richmond  to  fill  up  me  company  with  conscripts;  so, 
calling  me  lieutenant,  I  gave  him  strict  orders  as  to  the  discipline  to  be 
ob.-arved  in  me  absence,  and  left  him  in  charge  of  the  company  until  me 
return." 

CONFEDERATE    FANATICS. 

The  captured  Yankee  officers  at  Richmond  seemed  to  have  a  high  respect 
for  our  infantry*  One  of  th*em  remarked  that  the  cavalry-men  were  not  as 
well  built  oor  as  courageous  as  their  cavalry;  but  the  infantry  were  too  des- 
perate  lor  than.  "  For,"  said  he,  "when  the  ragged  infantry  come  upon 
a  battery,  it  is  no  use  to  try  to  hold  it.  They  are  j^oir.g  to  have  it,  and  if 
Napoleon's  men  were  behind  it,  they  could  not  stop  them.  They,  are  crazy 
about  batteries." 

LOVERS   VERSUS    SUBSTITUTES. 

We  knew  a  young  lady  who  was  engaged  to  be  married  to  one  who  was 
in  the  army.  He  suddenly  returned  home.  "  Why  have  you  left  the 
army?"  she  inquired  of  him.  "I  have  found  a  substitute,"  he  replied. 
"  Well,  sir,  I  can  follow  your  example,  and  find  a  substitute  too.  Good 
morning."  ■  And  she  left  him  in  the  middle  of  the  room,  a  disgraced  lover, 
because  a  disgraced  soldier. 

TOBY   TRIES    HIS    GUN. 

Toby  is  a  high  private  in- the  first  regiment  of  the  Mississippi  army.'  His 
company  is  armed  with  the  breech-loading  Maynard  rifle,  "warranted  to 
shoot  twelve  times  a  minute,  and  to  carry  a  ball  effectively  sixteen  hundred 
yards."  Men  who  fought  at  Monterey  and  Bucna  Vista  call  the  new-fangled 
thing  a  "pop-gun."  To  test  its  efficacy,  Toby's  captain  told  the  men  "  they 
must  try  their  guns."  In  obedience  to  the  command,  Toby  procured  the 
necessary  munitions  of  war,  and  started  with  his  "pop-gun"  for  the  woods. 
Saw  a  squirrel  up  a  high  tree — took  aim — fired.  Effects  of  shot  immediate 
and  wonderful.  Tree  effectually  topped,  and  nothing' of  the  squirrel  to  be 
found,  except  two  broken  hairs.  "  Pop-gun  "  rose  in  value — equal  to  a 
four-pounder.  But  Toby  would  n't  shoot  towards  any  more  trees — afraid  of 
being  arrested  for  cutting  down  other  people's  timber.  Walked  a  mile  and 
a  quarter  to  get  sight  of  a  hill.  By  aid  of  a  small  telescope,  saw  hill  in 
distance ;  saw  a  large  rock  on  hill;  put  in  a  big  load;  shut  both  eyes — fired. 
A«  soon  as  breath  returned,  opened  eyes;  could  sec,  just  could,  but  could  n't 
tear;  at  least  could  n't  distinguish  any  sounds;  thought  Niagara  had  broke 


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loose,  or  all  out-doors  gone  to  drum-beating.  Determined  to  sec  if  shot 
hit.  Borrowed  horse,  and  started  towards  hill.  After  traveling  two  days 
a#d  nights,  reached  place;  saw  setting  sun  shining  through  the  hill. 
Knew  right  away  that  was  where  the  shot  hit.  Went  closer — stumbled 
over  rocky  fragments  scattered  for  half  a  mile  in  line  of  bullet.  Came  to 
hole — knew  the  bullet  hit  there,  because  saw  lead  on  the  cdircs — walked  in, 
walked  through;  saw  teamster  on  the  other  side  "indulging  in  profane  lan- 
guage;" in  fact,  ••  cussin'  considerable,"  because  lightning  had  killed  his  team. 
Looked  as  finder  directed — saw  six  dead  oxen  in  line  with  hole  through 

■ 

the  mountain  ;  knew  that  was  the  bullet's  work,  but  did  n't  say  so  to  angry 
teamster,  [thought  best  to  be  leaving;  in  consequence,  didn't  explore  path 
of  bullet  any  further;  therefore,  don't  know  where  it  stopped;  don't  know 
whether  it  Stopped  at.  all;  in  fact,  rather  think  it  did  n't.  .Mounted  horse;, 
rode  back  through  the  hole  made  by  bullet;  but  never  told  captain  a 
word  about  it ;  to  tell  the  truth,  was  a  little  afraid  he  'd  think  it*&  hoax.  "  It 
is  a  right  big  story,  boys,"  said  Toby,  in  conclusion,  "  but  it's  true,  sure  as 
shooting.  Nothing  to  do  with  Maynard  rifle  but  load  her  up,  turn  her 
north,  and  pull  the  trigger;  if  twenty  of  them  don't  clear  out  all  Yaukee- 
dom.  then  I  'm  a  liar,  that's  all." 

SCATIIINt;    SATIRE. 

The  following  mild   (?)  and  philosophic' views  of  Yankee  nature, 
exhibited   in   their  adulations  of  the  Beast,  is  from  the   columns   of  the 
Richmond  Examiner : 

"To  the  well-regulated  mind,  the  beastly  practices  of  beasts  excite  no 

disagreeable  emotion;  and  it  is  said   that  the  scientiflc   intellect  fipd 

world  of  enjoyment  in  the  contemplation  of  the  disgusting  utility  of  the 

t  order  of  creatures.     Surely,  the  feast  of  the  vulture  upon  carrion   is 

not  reprehensible,  and  occasions  in    the  beholder  no  special   wonder,  and 

any  anim  '      for  gratifying  his  peculi..' 

the  tiger   that  lap*  bjood,  and   the  beetle  that  gorges  excrement,  arc  but   I 
Yankees  of  the  animal  kingdom,  accommodating  the.  wants  of  nature;  and 
illy  to   impute    to  them  improper  motives  in   partaking  of  their 
cening  repatto.     It  followi  that  our  fe< 

: 

i  in  it  her  by  rage  nor  Man 

miaation  to  interp  a  them  ai 

•  iral 
■  •  find   t.">. 

oalmne  m  of  m  ,ons 

of  p. 


102  GLEANINGS    FROM 

'•  The  foregoing  reflection-;  are  naturally  enough,  by  the  account 

in  Yankee  newspapers,  of  Butler's  triumphant  progression  from  New  York, 
to  Washington,  and  back  again  to  Boston.  A  great  hue  and  cry  has  beta 
raised  at  the  South  because  the  spawn  of  Northern  cities  saw  fit  to  prostrate 
themselves  before  this  new  Haynau — this  modern  Verres — returned  from 
his  conquests — this  Beast  emerging  from  hjs  cave  filled  with  dead  men's 
bones.  Why  this  outcry  ?  Wherefore  assail  the  Brute,  clotted  with  gore, 
or  the  chimpanzees  that  danced  and  chatted. at  his  coming,  and  beslobbered 
him  with  praise?  What  had  this  hog-hyena  done  contrary  to  his  instincts, 
that  we  should  so  berate  him  and  his  worshippers?  He  had  hung  Mum- 
ford.  That  was  true  -Yankee  courage.  lie  had  issued  a  hellish  order 
against  the  ladies  of  New  Orleans.  That  was  unaffected  Yankee  gallantry. 
He  had'  put  the  mayor  and  hundreds  of  others  into  dungeons.  That  was 
the  Yankee  conception  of  the  proper  method  of  administering  the  laws  of 
'  the  best  Government  the  world  ever  saw.'  He  had  banished  from  the  city 
more  than  twenty  thousand  people,  who  refused  to  perjure  themselves  by 
taking  the  oath  of  allegiance  to  the  United  States.  That  was  the  Yankee 
idea  of  justice.  He  drove  those  people  off  without  a  change  ol  clothing, 
and  with  only  fifty  dollars  in  money.  That  was  the  Yankee  idea  of  human- 
ity. He  confiscated  property  by  millions.  That  was  Yankee  honesty,  lie 
supplied  the  rebels  in  Texas  with  munitions  of  war,  and  pocketed  the  pro- 
ceeds of  the  cotton  received  in  exchange.  That  was  a  smart  Yankee  trick. 
His  troops  were  whipped  af  Baton  Rouge  while  he  was  in  New  Orleans. 
He  was  never  under  fire,  and  never  smelt  gunpowder,  except  at  Hatteras, 
when  the  long-range  guns  of  his  fleet  opened  upon  a  mud  fort  which  had 
no  ordnance  that  could  reach  him  two  miles  off,  and  on  the  strength  of  this 
he  issued  an  address  as  pompous  as  Satan's  speech  to  his  legions  in  the 
bottomless  pit.  That  was  making  material  for  Yankee  history.  After  in- 
flicting innumerable  tortures  upon  an  innocent  and  unarmed' people — after 
outraging  the  sensibilities  of  civilized  humanity  by  his  brutal  treatment  of 
women  and  children — after  placing  bayonets  in  the  hands  of  slaves — after 
peculations  the  most  prodigious,  and  lies  the  most  infamous,  he  returns, 
reeking  with  crime,  to  his  own  people,  and  they  receive  him  with  acclama- 
tions of  joy,  in  a  manner  that  befits  him  and  becomete  themselves.  Nothing 
is  out  of  keeping;  his  whole  career  and  its  rewards  are  strictly  artistic  in 
conception  and  in  execution. 

"  He  was  a  thief.  A  sword  that  he  had  stolen  from  a  woman — the  niece 
of  the  brave  Twiggs — was  presented  to  him  as  a  reward  of  valor.  He  had 
vio luted  the  laws  of  God  and  man.  The  law-makers  of  the  United  States 
voted  him  thanks,  and  the  preachers  of  the  Yankee  gospel  of  blood  came  to 
him  and  worshipped  him.  lie  had  broken  into  the  sales  and  strong  boxes 
of  merchants.     The  Now  York  Chamber  of  Commerce  gave  him  a  dinner. 


AN   ARMY   NOTE-BOOK.  103 

TTc  had  insulted  woraon.  Things  in  female  attire  lavished  harlot  smiles 
upon  him.  He' was  a  murderer.  And  s  nation  of  assassins  have  deified 
him.  He  is  the  representative  man  of  a  people  lost  to  all  shame,  to  all  hu- 
manity, to  all  justice,  all  honor,  all  virtue,  all  manhood.  Cowards  by 
nature,  thieves  upon  principle,  and  assassins  at  heart,  it  would  be  marvelous 
indeed  if  the  people  of  the  North  refused  to  render  homage  to  Benjamin 
Sutler,  the  beastliest,  bloodiest  poltroon  and  pick-pocket  the  world  ever 
saw." 

A   NOBLE   REPLY. 

A  Yankee  pii^oner  told  General  N.  G.  Evans,  at  Leesburg,  that  the-South 
could  not  triumph  in  this  war,  unless  they  were  prepared  to  "wade  knee 
deep  in  Norther;;  blood." 

The  general  replied:  "Sir,  we  shall  go  breast  Jeep,  if  necessary;  only 
leave  our  arms  free  to  cut  down  our  enemies." 

ANECDOTE   OF   STONKWAI.L. 

The  Richm  ml  correspondent  of  the  Charleston  Mercury  ;:'vos  the  follow- 
ing an"  idote  of  Stonewall  Jackson,  the  niyht  after  the  battle  of  Fredericks- 
burg : 

"On  Sunday  night,  a  friend  of  Old  Stonewall,  invited  to  share  his  tent, 
turned  in  about  eleven,  and  wrapped  up  snugly  in  the  blankets.  At  one 
o'clock  Jackson  entered,  and  just  as  he  was,  bran  new  uniform,  boots,  spurs, 
and  all,  pitched  into  the  pallet,  was  snoring  in  fifteen  minutes,  and  in  fil 
more  had  robbed  his  friend  of  all  the  blankets.  After  a  hard  struggle,  this 
friend  managed  to  gel  hack  enough  cover  to  keep  him  from  freezing — the 
night  was  very  cold — and  slept,  as  he  supposed,  "five  minutes.  He  was 
aroused  by  Jackson,  wli  himself  of  every  particle  of 

raiment,  opened   th  .  and   went   forth   in  puris  naturalibtu. 

He   called   for  his  old    negro  man — tin'   same  who   knows  when   a   battle  is 
off  by  the  fervor  of  his  rs— and  made  him  d 

him  two  large  buckets  of  water,  which  had  been  standing  in  the  ft 
air.     This  done,  he  returned  to  the  tent,  rubbed  himself  dry  with  a 
lonned   his  new  uniform,  and  went  OUl 
J 
then  jusl   hall  ; 

and  told  him  t 

LID   AT&0< 

the 

Willi 


104  GLEANINGS   FROM 

case,  which  makes  the  hlood  run  cold.  The  daughter  of  one  of  the  most 
prominent  citizens  (whose  name  has  been  given)  was  seized,  disrobed,  and 
then  whipped  by  these  worse  than  savages.  Her  alleged  offence  was  the 
utterance  of  some  "rebel"  sentiment  that  offended  the  miscreants.  Such 
are  the  scenes  which  have  been  inaugurated  since  the  victories  of  the  Sogth 
near  llichmond.  •  This  is  their  revenge  for  a  fair  defeat  in  an  open  field. 

A   WESTERN    RANGER   AND    I1IS   REVENGE. 

During  the  political  canvass  of  1860,  there  appeared  a  champion  of  the 
Douglas  Democrats  in  Tennessee,  an  athletic,  hair-brained,  go-ahead  indi- 
vidual, of  ready  address  and  bright  mind,  who  made  much  repute  as  a 
rough-and-tumble  occasional  elector  and  orator.  When  hard  knocks  and 
sore  bones  were  to  be  given  and  received,  he  was  usually  chosen  as  the  best 
butt  and  representative.  "When  an.  appointment  could  be  filled  by  none  of 
the  regular  speakers,  he  was  sure  to  be  sent  as  a  proxy  for  the  absentee. 
Especially  at  the  night  mass,  or  the  sudden  impromptu  gathering,  was  this 
Old  Zach  of  the  Douglas  men  peculiarly  felicitous  and  at  home.  He  knew 
everybody-^-hc  was  good  at  local  hits — he  had  the  issues  all  at  his  fin 
ends.  Comely,  sanguineous,  and  good-humored— a  big,  manly  voice,  and  a 
clear,  honest  eye — he  put  many  an  older  and  abler  speaker  to  the  right 
about  before  the  canvass  closed.  Add  that  he  was  one  of  the  first  soldiers, 
most  zealous  partisans,  and  most  efficient  organizers  when  the  war  began,  and 
•  none,  who  have  had  much  acquaintance  with  Tennessee,  will  mistake  the 
portrait  tc  be  other  than  the  redoubtable  politician  and  dauntless  guerrilla 
chief — Dick  McCann. 

As  a  captain  in  Rains'  regiment  for  the  first  ycar;  and  leader  of  an  inde- 
pendent band  during  half  of  the  second,  and  afterwards  major  of  cavalry, 
McCann  has  immortalized  himself  locally.  He  is  the  John  Morgan  of 
.Middle  Tennessee.  Familiar  with  every  highway,  path,  and  by-way,  he 
moves  invisib'ly,  and  strikes  always  where  least  expected.  Some  of  the 
most  daring  exploits  have  been  done  by  him.  His  operations  have  been 
limited,  because  his  command  has  been  small,  but  not  less  useful  or  bril- 
liant. Always  up  and  doing — always  ready,  ambitious,  and  spirited — 
always  full  of  animal  life  and  vim — always  quick-witted,  shrewd,  and 
courageous — he  has  illustrated  to  a  nicety  the  dashing  traits  which  ever 
made  him  a  darling  with  the  mob,  and  has  reenacted  his  political  career 
over  the  same  field,  as  a  military  campaigner  and  soldier.  Such  is  Dick 
McCann. 

Many  months  ago — immediately  succeeding  a  superb  raid  of  his  up  to  the 
very  breastworks  of  Nashville — he  was  outlawed  by  a  Federal  proclamation. 
Under  this  (one  of  the  bloodiest  documents  of  the  war)  "  his  premises,  out- 
houses, fences,  and  crops,  and  all  things  pertaining  to  the  same  "  (as  read 


AN    ARMY    NOTE-BOOK.  105 

the  order),  were  "  remanded  to  the  proper  authorities,  to  be  destroyed  hy 
fire."  The  order  was  ohcyed  to  the  letter.  A  regiment  (the  Thirty-Second 
Illinois,  Colonel  Moore)  inarched  out  to  the  place,  and  deliberately  executed 
each  detail,  leaving  a  once  fair  farm  a  heap  of  charring  ruins. 

McCann  wrote  to  Rosecranz:  "Hum  and  be  d — d;  but  if  I  don't  give 
you  and  your  officers  who  do  so  h — 1,  my  name  'a  not  Dick  McCann."  His 
boast  has  not  been  idle.  For  months,  cold  and  wet,  early  and  late,  he  has 
been  seen  in  his  saddle,  flying,  with  his  little  hattalion  of  picked  men,  from 
point  to  point,  and  many  a  Yankee  has  paid  the  bitter  penalty  of  his  com- 
mander's folly.  Some  time  since,  however,  Major  Dick  performed  the 
crowning  act. 

(lathering  his  clan,  he  left  Unionville,  thirteen  miles  out  of  Shelbyvillo, 
at  sunset.  He  pushed,  by  roads  best  known  to  himself,  to  the  left  of  Mur- 
freesboro',  until  he  reached  Antioch.  This  is  a  depot  nine  miles  out  of 
Nashville,  on  the  Chattanooga  railroad.  Here  he  waited  for  dawn,  and  the 
out  train  of  cars.  Doth  came  in  season — the  one  loaded  with  mist  and  rain, 
the  other  with  a  regiment  of  Federal  troops.  From  a  copse  Borne  distance 
off,  .McCann  and  his  party  fired  two  rouud  volleys.  J.1  he  engineer  was 
killed;  several  blue-coats  rolled  down  the  embankment;  the  whistle  blew 
shrilly  and  long,  and,  after  much  confusion,  the  cars  stopped.  Too  late!  too 
late !  McCann  and  his  one  hundred  riding  men  were  off,  off  to  the  woods, 
where  letHhem  follow  that  dare. 

The  cars  went  no  further  than  Lavergne  that  day.     One  of  MeCann's 
nun  slipped  thither  in  disguise,  and  spent  the  night.     He  reported  th< 
ualtics  at  forty-two  killed  and  sixty-seven  wounded. 

"REBEIi"-I01 

The  Chattanooga  (Tennessi  i     Rebel  perpetrated  the  followin 
Pat  dreamed  that  the  immortal  spirit  of  Stonewall  Jackson  knocked  at 
the  gal  -  of  Paradise. 
"  '  Wh    i  omea  there?'  inquired  the  good  St.  P< 
"  'Jackson,'  was  the  reply. 
"  'What  Jack 
wall !' 
'•  •  ( kmu  in  ;  bully  for  you.'  " 

"  'i  pie  who  ;  •  about  bi 

their  la>t  drop  of  b      I  irtionlar  ab<  ul  the  I 

'•'!  ;il  attendant  oi  <//>,•  but 

officer  who  run-  at  the  ti; 
1  1 


inc.  is  men 

NOT    DRl  NK. 

A  correspondent  of  the  Richmond  Dispatch,  speaking  of  General  Jack- 
son, related  tlie  following: 

"He  is  said  to  be,  under  ordinary  circumstances,  inclined  to  take 'cat 

and  before  and  during  the  battles  around  Richmond,  he  took  I 
regular  slumber.  One  evening,  as  he  was  riding  with  a  single  companion! 
he  was  observed  to  be  asleep, and  to  be  nodding.  His  companion  wondered) 
but  did  not  wake  him.  1'rescntly  they  ;  ass<  d  a  man  lying  on  the  road-side. 
who  cried  out:  '  Hellow,  where  did  that  man  get  his  liquor?'  This  woke 
Jackson,  who  said  :  '  Well,  1  think  I  M  better  keep  awake  qom 

GENERAL   EWELL   STRUCK   IN    THE   BATTLE   OF   GETTYSBURG. 

During  the  battle  of  Gettysburg,  General  Ewell,  reining  in  his  horse,  and 
calling  one  of  his  aids  to  him,  said:  "]  have  been  struck,  assist  me  to 
alight." 

Having  helped  him  from  his  hur-c.  the  aid  inquired  whore  the  general 
had  been  hit. 

"Here,"  said  General  Ewell,  pointing  to  his  wooden  leg;  "  I  '11  trouble 
you  to  hand  me  my  other  leg." 

The  fractured  artificial  limb  having  been  removed,  and  a  fresh  one  jiut  on 
in  its  ])lace,  the  brave  old  general  remounted   his  horse,  and  again  rodi 
the  front.  % 

A  001  NOIL   <>F   WAR. 

"Dixie,"  of  the  Jackson  Appeal,  told  the  following: 

"Here  is  a  good  story  of  Old  Stonewall,  for  the  accuracy  of  which  1  do 
not  vouch,  though  it  came  to  me  directly  from  the  camp.  The  night  after 
the  battle,  a  council  of  war  was  held  l>y  General  Lee,  to  which  all  his  gen- 
erals of  distinction  were  invited.  General  Jackson  slept  throughout  the 
proceedings,  and  upon  being  awaked  and  asked  for  his  opinion,  curtly  said: 
'Drive  'em  in  the  river,  drive  'em  in  the  river.'  " 

HOW    I > 1 1  >   HE   DIB? 

A  doting  father,  as  he  was  riding  into  Savannah  from  the  country,  after 
the  tirst  battle  of  Manassas,  was  met  by  a  mes  enger,  who  reported  to  him 
the  sad  news  of  the  death  of  a  favorite  sun.  "  How  and  where  did  he  di 
was  the  instant  interrogatory.  ''.Under  Beauregard,  at  Manassas,  fighting 
against  odds  two  to  one,"  was  the  reply.  "And  lunv  went  the  day?"  was 
immediately  ejaculated.  "  The  enemy  were  routed  and  put  to  llight,"  was 
the  response.  "  Thank  God !"  said  the  lather;  "I  am  satisfied,  then;  I 
give  up  my  boy." 


AN    ARMY    VOTE-BOOK.  10? 

WILLIS    P.    MAXfiUM. 

One  of  the  most  interesting  incidents  of  the  first  battle  of  Manassas 
was  related  of  Willie  P.  Maogum,  Jr.,  son  of  ex-Senator  Bfangam,  of 
North   Carolina.     The  tan  was  attach  mel   Fisher's  regi- 

ment, and  owed"  the  preservation  of  hia  life  to  a  copy  of  the  Bible  pre- 
Bented   to  him  by  his   sister.     Ete   bad  the  good   honk   in   his  left  bi 
coat  pocket.     It  w\  -     ruck  by  a  ball  near  the  edge,  But  the  hook  ohan 
the  direction  of  the  bullet,  and  it  glanced  off,  inflict  in  re  hut  not 

dangerous  flesh  wound.  The  hook  was  saturated  with  blood,  but  the  ad- 
vice written  on  a  fly-leaf  by  the  sister  who  gave  it,  was  perfectly  legible. 
It  read  thus:  "To  my  brother.  He  will  read  a  portion  of  this  blessed 
Word  every  day,  and  remember  hia  sister." 

GKNl  ELAL  101  JOHNSTON  TURN-   BHOXMAKBB. 

officer,  while  riding  by  the  quarters  of  the  general  one  day,  with  a  sad- 
dle on  hia  hack,  inquired  of  a  person  standing  by  if  he  knew  where  to  direct 
him  to  a  shoemaker.     "There  is  one,"  was  the  waggish  answer,  pointing  at 
the  same  time  to  Johnston,  who  was  in  citizens'  clothes.     Onward  strode 
tie    interrogator,  until  he  reached  the  general.     He  then  threw  down  the 
;'\  at    the  general,  with  his  hands  in   bis  pockets, 
the  word  of  command  :  "That  saddle  must  be  ready  in  one  hour,  sir." 
He   then   turned  to   depart.     "Hold!'-  said  Johnston.     "What  did   you 
"I  said,  have  that  saddle  ready  in  an  hour,"  responded  Captain 
a  know  who  I  am  V     ■   Y< ■<;  you  are  a  shoemaker, 
and  I  want  you  to  hurry  up,  too."     "I  am  General  Johnston,  sir,"  shouted 
r.      In  another  moment  the  saddle  \vn-   picked  up,  and   the 
in  in  retreat.     "  If  ated  the  general;  "who  I  >ld  you  I  w 

i  officer,  sir — I  do  n't  know  his  name."     Then  leave  the 
1  return  in  an  hour,  precisely."    He  heard,  and  he  obeyed.   In  one 
hour  '  aded,  and   in    1  -ion.      "  N 

nr  country  m  I  have  endeavored  to  ob 

h  ia  the  min  who  D 

•;■  1 1  n 

Tb  }lir. 

•   followin  n  of  soldiers'  wit  : 

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108  GLEANINGS    FROM 

"A  'cavalry-man'  cornea,  rejoicing  in  immense  top-boots,  for  which,  in 
fond  pride,  he  had  invested  fully  forty  dollars  of  pay;  at  once  the  cry 
from  an  hundred  voices  follows  him  along  the  line  :  '  Come  up  out'er  them 
boots;  come  out;  too  soon  to  go  into  winter  quarters.  I  know  you're  in 
thar;  1  Bee  your  arms  stickin'  out.'  A  bmnpkin  rides  by  in  an  uncom- 
monly big  hat,  and  is  frightened  at  the  shout:  'Come  down  out'er  that  hat! 
Come  down;  't  aint  no  use  to  Bay  you  aint  up  thar ;  I  see  your  legs  hangin' 
out.*  A  fancy  staff  officer  was  horrified  at  the  irreverent  reception  of  his 
nicely-twisted  moustache, as  he  heard  from  behind  innumerable  trees:  'Take 
them  mice  out'er  your  mouth;  take  'em  out;  no  use  to  say  they  aint  thar, 
see  their  tails  hangin'  out!'  Another,  sporting  immense  whiskers,  was  urged 
to  'come  out'er  that  bunch  of  bar.  I  know  you  're  in  thar;  I  see  your  ears 
a  workinV  Sometimes  a  rousing' cheer  is  heard  in  the  distance.  It  is 
explained:  'Boys,  look  out;  here  comes  Old  Stonewall,  or  an  old  hare,  ono 
or  t'  other;'  they  being  about  the  only  individuals  who  invariably  bring 
down  the  house." 

SCENE    IN   A    HOSPITAL. 

Lady  (at  the  bed-side  of  a  sick  soldier).  "  How  d'  yc  do  ?  Is  there  any- 
thing you  want?" 

Soldier  (curtly).     "  No,  I  believe  not," 

Lady.  "  Is  there  nothing  I  can  do  for  your"' 

Soldier.  "  No,  I  think  not." 

Lady.  "  Oh,  I  do  want  to  do  something  for  you.  Can't  I  wash  your 
hands  and  face  V 

Soldier.  "Well,  if  you  want  to  right  bad,  I  reckon  you  can;  but  if  you 
do,  you  will  be  the  fourteenth  lady  who  has  done  so  this  morning." 

THE  ARMY  .SIGNAL  CORPS  AT  NEW  ORLEANS — HOW  MESSAGES  ARE  COMMU- 
NICATED— NOVEL  WAY  OF  CONCEALING  DESPATCHES — CURIOUS  SIGNS: 

Though  the  signal  corps  is  a  regular  and  important  arm  of  the  military 
service,  few  persons  know  of  its  uses  and  objects.  The  following  from  the 
New  Orleans  correspondence  in  a  Northern  paper,  of  the  signal  corps  in  that 
department,  will  ,^ive  some  interesting  information  on  a  subject  of  which 
very  little  is  known  outside  its  own  members : 

''The  signal  corps  department  connected  with  this  division  of  the  army  in 
Louisiana,  is  a  well-regulated,  well-instructed,  and  most  efficient  arm  of  the 
service.  The  system  of  signalizing  now  in  use-  in  the  service,  originated 
with    .Major   Myer,  an  officer  of  the  regular  army,  and  is  probably  the  most 

, iplete  and  thorough  code  of  the  kind,  and  for  the  purpose  intended,  now 

extant  in  any  country.  By  this  method  of  signalizing,  messages  can  be 
read  through  the  telescope  at  the  distance  of  twenty  to  twenty-five  miles. 


AN    ARMY    NOTE-BOOK.  109 

Despatches  can  be  sent  in  the  sole  of  the  carrier's  boot,  in  the  hair  of  his 
head,  or  in  the  stitches  of  his  coat  or  breeches,  and  that,  too,  without  the 
scrape  of  pen  or  slip  of  paper;  indeed,  the  carrier  himself  is  as  ignorant  of 
the  code,  and  of  the  interpretation  of  the  message  he  carries,  as  the  rebels 
would  be  into  whose  hands  he  might  chance  to  fall,  or  whose  prisoner  he 
might  become.  Not  a  single  line,  or  sentence,  or  word,  could  he,  or  they, 
or  both  united,  ever  make  out.  None  can  read  or  decipher  the  messages, 
or  understand  the  signals,  but  those  familiar  with  the  code,  and  none  but 
the  most  reliable  of  commissioned  officers  (and  these,  even,  are  sworn  under 
penalty  of  death  should  they  divulge  the  secret,  cither  to  friend  or  enemy), 
are  ever  taught  it,  Another  safeguard  thrown  around  the  system  is,  that 
it  is  all  unwritten.  The  instruction  is  oral,  without  books  or  written  teach- 
ing. The  knowledge  of  the  art  cannot  be  gobbled  or  pilfered,  and  thus 
rendered  subservient  to  the  armies  of  the  enemy. 

"On  the  battle-field,  flags  arc  generally  used  in  transmitting  messages 
from  point  to  point  and  from  station  to  station,  throughout  the  whole  line, 
and  these  little  tell-tales  of  discomfort  to  the  enemy  are  looked  upon  by  the 
generals  with  feelings  of  intense  bitterness,  hence  the  extraordinary  efforts 
of  his  sharpshooters  to  pick  off  the  signal-officer  from  his  eyrie  or  keen 
lookout. 

"At  the  battle  of  Napoleonvillc,  several  officers  of  the  signal-party  had 
their  horses  shot  under  them,  and  during  the  engagement  several  others 
were  wounded.  In  dense  fogs  or  storms,  when,  flags  arc  not  available,  mes- 
sent  by  sound  of  cannon,  muskets,  drums,  or  other  noises, 
intelligent  to  the  signal-officer,  and  as  readily  distinguished  as  other  Bigna  of 
the  code;  and  besides  those  above  described,  there  may  be  other  methods  of 
mining  messagi  a  and  conveying  intelligence  of  an  enemy's  movements, 
not  here  enumerate 

"In  the  department  of  the  Gulf  there  arc  permanent  stations  f<<r  signal- 
Orleans,  Algiers;  Camp  Parapet,  and  the  Unit*  bar- 
-  below  the  city,  on  the  1.  f:  bank  of  the 
distance  from  the  old   battle-ground  of  General   Jackson,   and  where   the 
English  General   Packenham  was  killed  in  the  war  of  1 
I  lie  face  of                ;?ry  in  this  part  of  tl 

•  •■I    UpOO   the  roofs  of  houses  and   tl: 

Tl:     1  p  Parapel  i-  fifty  feet  from  the  ground, 

and  is  built  in  the  top  "fa  giant  0  mk,  and 

lire*  tly  with 

any 

•  oe  from   - 
I  pon  ■ 


1  10  GLEANINGS   FROM 

/ 

take  the  exact  line  of  the  custom-hem s<\  and  remains  there  a  permanent  fix- 
ture. Ther^  is  also  upon  this  first  stage  a  firm  seat  for  the  signal-officer, 
and  from  which  he  issues  his  orders  and  sends  or  receives  his  despatches. 
Upon  the  upper  stage  the  flag,  or  light,  or  whatever  signal  may  be  used,  is 
placed,  under  the  care  of  some  experienced  operator,  who  knows  the  Blgn 
and  motions  of  the  torch  or  the  flag  which  he  handles  in  obedience  to  the 
signal-officer  upon  the  stage  below,  but  who  does  not  know  a  single  word  of 
the  message  or  the  information  which  his  motions  and  waves  and  other 
tures  tell  out  to  the  station  at  headquarters.  The  watchmen  at  the  stations 
are  relieved  at  intervals  of  from  two  to  four  hours,  and  the  penalty  for 
neglect  of  duty  or  sleeping  on  the  post  is  as  severe  as  in  any  other  part  of 
the  service." 

OUR   CAVALRY    IN    PENNSYLVANIA. 

Our  soldiers  helped  themselves  to  fresh  horses  of  the  Dutch  farmers  in 
Pennsylvania  as  they  went  aloug.  A  correspondent  of  the  Now  York  Tri- 
bune describes  how  it  was  done  : 

"  The  performances  of  the  rebel  cavalry  are  as  shrewd  as  they  are  dash- 
ing. They  could  not  be  more  correctly  posted  if  they  had  exact  inventories 
of  every  pound  of  horse-flesh  in  the  country.  They  order  the  farmers  to 
bring  out  their  steeds  forthwith.  Nothing  less  than  true  statements  avail. 
'It  is  a  military  necessity,'  they  say,  'and  they  are  sorry  for  it;'  but  mentaj 
reservations  are  of  no  use.  '  Smith,  you  have  ten  horses,  here  are  only 
eight.'  'Jones,  where  's  the  roan  mare — I  do  n't  see  her  here.'  Miss  Mar- 
tha had  ridden  the  roan  mare  to  meeting.  They  were  sorry -to  annoy  Miss 
Martha,  but  the  roan  mare  must  have  a  chance  for  glory.  They  call  all  the 
blacksmiths  from  their  devotions,  and  irreverently  improvise  a  sort  of  horse- 
shoeing tournament.  Everywhere  there  are  scenes  of  rollicking  bravado 
mixed   with   humor.      'A   short   life   and   a   merry   one,'    Messieurs   les 

Butternuts." 

s 
A    LAUGHABLE    MISTAKE. 

A  correspondent  of  the  Chattanooga  Rebel  told  the  following  on  an 
honorable  M.  C  : 

"At  Knoxville;  my  exceedingly  good-looking  and  urbane  friend,  Hon. 
Wm.  <  i .  Swann,  was  hurrying  on  to  the  railroad  station  to  bid  adieu  to  a  lady 
friend,  who  was  on  the  eve  of  her  departure  to  a  Southern  city.  When  he 
had  n eared  the  depot,  and  at  the  moment  when  his  glance  met  that  of  the 
lady  in  question,  two  stalwart  men,  William  Murphy  and  Zeke  Grillain,  of 
Kucker's  peripatetic  'body-snatchers,'  accosted  him  : 

"  '  Well,'  said  one  of  them,  'you  can't  make  the  trip  this  time;,  we  want 
you  up  at  Colonel  Blake's,  where  they  provide  quarters  for  conscripts.' 


AN    ARMY    NOTE-BOOK.  Ill 

"  '  Ah  !'  answered  the  smiling  Congressman,  <  I  am  the  representative 
from  this  District  in  the  Confederate  States  Congress.' 

"  'You  can't  come  that  game,'  said  Gillam;  'we  have  already  sent  to  the 
camp  of  destruction  upwards  of  fifteen  bonajidy  Congressmen.'  • 

'•  '  Well,  but  I  'm  not  joking,'  said  Mr.  Swann. 

••  -  Nor  are  we,'  said  Rucker's  men.     '  You  must  march.' 

•A  distinguished  lawyer  and  a  great  railway  king  came  to  the  rescue  of 
the  Congressman.  All  without  avail — Mr.  Swann  traveled  to  headquarters, 
more  than  a  mile,  was  there  identified,  and  dismissed. 

"  He  hardly  knew  whether  to  laugh  or  swear  as  he  moved  himself  down 
the  street,  lie  would  indulge  a  sort  of  smile  now  and  then,  but  instantly 
would  clench  his  fist  and  stamp  his  foot,  when  he  reflected  on  the  disap- 
pointment to  which  he  had  been  subjected  at  the  depot,  by  the  operation  of 
that  pet  measure  of  his,  the  Conscript  Act." 

TITK    ABOLITION    OUTRAGES   ON    CATHOLIC    CHURCHES   AND    MINISTERS. 

The  New  York  Freeman's  Journal,  after  referring  to  the  outrages  commit- 
ted by  the  Yankees  upon  Catholic  churches  and  ministers,  at  Jacksonville 
Florida.  Jackson.  Mississippi,  and  Parkersburg  and  Martinsburg,  Virginia, 
recited  the  following : 

But  a  deeper  cry  of  anguish  reaches  us  from  Louisiana,  A  gentleman 
6f  New  Orleans,  a  devoted  Catholic,  writing  to  bid  us  farewell  on  the  eve 
of  his  quitting  that  city,  furnishes  us  with  the  following  facts,  which  our 
correspondent  assures  ua  cannot  be  discredited: 

"Alter  the  Hartford  and  Albatros  had  passed  Port  Hudson,  the  crew  of 
the  Hartford,  Admiral  Farragut's  flag-ship,  landed  at  Point  Coupee,  some 
twenty-five  miles  above  Baton  Rouge.  They  commenced  to  plunder  the 
place,  and  assaulted  the  Catholic  church.  The  church  is  in  the  midst  of 
the  old  parish  1.     The  monuments  there  erected  to  the  memory  of 

the  dead  were  broken  and'  defaced,  and  much  wanton  damage  oommitl 
r  Mittlebron'e  house  waa  then  visited — he  being  absent  at   another 
;i.     All  that   they  thought  oi  sufficient  value  was  carried  off,  and  the 
of  hi-    movables  broken  or  destroyed.     Next    they   broke   into   the 
church,  overthrew  the  tabernacle,  and   took  from  it  the  vessels  they  found 
there.     Tins  was  sot    enough.     The   Blessed]  ,  os  the 

ground,  while  the  called  out  For  the  Catholics  -to  corns  and  look 

at  their  God  1'     On  Liction  Veil,  <  i  'this  will  be 

a  nice  blanket  for  my  horse,  when   i  gel  01 

h  entered  complaii 
ragut.     His  r.  plj  was:  'It  ,  you  it  wa-  not  the  crew  of  I 

i.  or  you  would   ha 

i  di  for  tie'  damned  b<  ■■•  -h  rebels.' 


112  GLEANINGS    FIIOM 

"Soldiers  of  a  Massachusetts  regiment,  aboard  the  same  vessel,  were 
meantime  busying  themselves  at  another  poor  little  Catholic  chapel,  at 
Shenale,  a  short  distance  away,  also  in  charge  of  Father  Mittlebron.  Iu 
its  neighborhood  they  intercepted  the  good  priest,  and  demanded  of  him 
the  horses  he  was  driving.  As  he  refused,  thej  seized  the  horses,  ar- 
rested him,  and  finally  transported  him  to  Baton  Rouge,  where  he  was 
imprisoned  ten  days.  At  the  end  of  this  time  they  put  him  on  a  dry 
bluff  in  the  middle  of  a  crevasse,  with  two  negroes  and  a  barrel  of  pork  and 
a  barrel  of  biscuit,  telling  him  to  'wait  there  till  the  rebels  came  for  him!' 
This  little  island  was  swarming  with  alligators  and  poisonous  snakes.  Never- 
theless, after  three  days,  he  found  means  to  escape,  and  reach  his  desolated 
home." 

CITASED    BY    LADIES. 

We  were  driving  Sedgwick's  infidels  across  Banks'  Ford,  when  a  Yankee 
officer  was  seen  making  his  way  through  the  streets  of  Fredericksburg, 
where  we  had  no  troops  at  the  time,  in  order  to  gain  the  opposite  side  of 
the  river.  A  number  of  ladies,  standing  on  a  porch  at  the  time,  saw  the 
runaway,  and  cried  out  "stop  him,  stop  him  ;"  when  .Miss  PRillippa  Barbour, 
a  niece  of  Colonel  Phil.  Barbour,  of  Virginia,  with  a  number  of  other 
ladies,  gave  chase,  and  ran  the  Yankee  officer  nearly  down,  who,  convulsed 
with  laughter  at  the  sport,  and  the  idea  of  being  pursued  by  ladies,  be- 
came nearly  exhausted,  and  gave  up  on  being  hemmed  in  at  the  corner  of 
a  garden  fence !  The  ladies  took  him  prisoner,  and  locked  him  up  in  a 
room  until  our  troops  again  entered  the  city. 

LIKE   TO    HAVE    SPOKEN   TOO   LATE. 

The  Chattanooga  Rebel  related  the  following  as  having  occurred  in  that 
city  : 

As  one  of  the  hospital  wagons  was  proceeding  slowly  toward  the  grave- 
yard, the  other  day,  with  a  load  of  coffins,  the  driver  was  disturbed  in  his 
chant  (he  was  whistling  "  Dixie"  to  the  time  of  a  dead-march)  by  a  rattle 
in  his  rear.  He  turned  and  looked  iu  trepidation  upon  the  long,  narrow 
boxes.  Rap !  Bap  !  The  reins  fell  from  his  hand.  Thump !  Thump ! 
Then  a  voice  cried  out:  "  Hallo  !  ho,  there  !"  Driver  was  sorely  frightened, 
and  replied:  "  What's  the  matter  ?  Can't  you  rest  quietly  and  peaceably  T. 
What's  the  use  of  takin'  it  so  hard  for  V  "But  I  'ni  not  dead!"  returned 
the  voice,  making  a  desperate  effort,  and  wrenching  out  two  screws  from  the 
lid.  "  The  devil  you  say  !"  "No,  I'm  not,  let  me  out  of  this."  "Oh,  go 
along!  You'd  better  be  quiet,  we '11  be  there  presently."  " Be  where?" 
"  Why,  to  the  grave."  Another  prodigious  plunge,  and  three  more  screws 
out.     Lid  by  this  time  half  off,  and  one  arm  and  part  of  a  leg  protruded. 


AN    AUMY    NOTE-BOOK.  113 

"Oh,  Lord!"  roared  the  terrified  driver,  "do  n't,  they'll  lay  the  whole  of  it 
to  ine."  "Well,  let  me  out  then."  The  driver  cracked  his  whip,  the 
horses  dashed  forward,  and  away 'went  the  dead,  and  the  semi-dead,  and  the 
would  n't-be-dcad  at  all,  at  a  gallop,  the  coffin  of  the  obstreperous  corpse 
creaking,  and  rocking  to  and  fro,  and  the  voice  of  its  inmate  crying, 
"Wait  till  I  get  out  o'  here,  and  if  I  do:;  m  —  !"     At  length  the 

grave-yard  was  reached,  where  the  poor  fellow  was  relieved  by  the  workmen 
and  *sextons  present.     He  was  full  of  fight  and  swore  roundly  against  the 
"darned  rascal  that  wanted  to  bury  him,  dead  or  .'.live,"  but  on  explanation 
and  expostulation,  he  agreed  to  be  pacilied,  and  rode  back  tq  town  sit! 
Upright  in  his  own  coffin.     lie  recovered,  and  returned  to  his  command. 

ENES   ON   TIIK   RAPPAHANNOCK. 

While  the  two  armies  were  confronting  each  other  at  Fredericksburg, 
many  pleasing  incidents  occurred  between  the  pickets  stationed  alon"  the 
pahannock,  the  distance  from  each  other  being  less  than  two  hundred 
yards.     A  correspondent  wrote  thus  of  those  scenes: 

Two  of  our  privates  went  over  the  other  day,  as  I  am  informed,  and  took 
dinner  with  the  commissioned  officers  on  the  post  ;  and  two  of  the  Yankees 
came  paddling  across  the  river  while  i  was  present.  Their  great  anxiety 
is  to  obtain  tobacco;  and  a  plug  or  two  laid  on  a  small  board,  with  a  paper 
sail  stuck  in  it  to  waft  it  over  the  Rubicon,  will  invariably  bring  back 
coffee,  sugar,  or  anything  else  they  have  to  exchange.  A  paper  held  up  at 
any  time  will  bring  a  dozen  men  flying  down  to  the  river  bank,  each  with  a 
Herald,  Trtbun  r't  Weekly,  Frank  Leslie's  Illustrated,  or  some  1< 

light  of  the  newspaper  firmament,  each  anxious  for  a  barter.  Of  course  in 
these  interviews  manyvharp  and  funny  things  are  said,  but  the  best  of 
feelings  apparently  prevail,  and,  by  the  Ya;  daily,  are  sought  to  be 

vated. 

Not  Ion  of  our  men,  an  Alabama  lawyer,  cried  out  to  his  oeigh- 

pposite : 

"]  say,  Yank,  when  are  you  coming  over  again  '.•"" 

"  Look  here,  'butternut,'  'simmer  down  '  on  that  point;  we  don't  waul 
11." 

"  \\  hy,  did  n't  we  treat  you  well?"  was  the  rejoinder — "  did  n't  we  give 
jou  I 

!>ut  you  led  us  a  of  a  dance.     \V 

time  do<  -  your  music  play  in 

"BnllS  ipt  reply — "i;.  for  our  side,  and 

Bally  for  you — whoop-  vou 

after  I 


114  GLEANINGS    FROM 

"  Don't  want'er  see  jcr — Been  i  oongh  of  you  already." 

"Go  to ,"  (and  the  worsted  Yankee  mentioned  a  hot  place.) 

"  Sorry  I  can't  accommodate  you,"  said  the  Southerner;   "  but  old  Satan 

has  pent  word  to  General  Lee  that  the  place  was  so  full  of  Yankees  already 

tin  3  have  to  hang  on  by  the  window-sills,  and  he  won't  take  in  Southern 

men  no  how." 

Such  is  one  of  the  thousand  interviews  which  the  "  voice  of  the  waters," 

could  it  speak,  would  tell. of  this  strange  phase  of  the  war. 

A    MILITARY    EXECUTION. 

A  correspondent  of  the  Charleston  Courier,  writing  from  Kinston,  North 
Carolina,  thus  described  a  military  execution  : 

"The  mournful  cortege,  consisting  of  a  rude  wagon  drawn  by  a  pair  of 
mules,  a  sad-looking  prisoner,  with  his  hands  tied  behind  him,  and  a  dozen 
troopers  as  a  guard,  passed  through  the  streets,  and  soon  gathered  in  its 
train  a  motley  crowd  of  black  and  white,  who  followed  in  procession  to  the 
place  of  execution. 

"  The  name  of  the  culprit  was  Michael  Bryant,  of  the  Sixty-Third  Reg- 
iment ofxNorth  Carolina  cavalry;  his  age,  about  thirty-six;  and  his  offence, 
desertion — not,  however,  to  the  ranks  of  the  enemy.  Arrested,  he  was  duly 
tried  by  a  court-martial,  and  it  being  necessary  that  an  example  should  be 
made  to  check  a  growing  evil  in  the  army,  he  was  sentenced  to  be  '  shot  to 
death.'  It  was  not  until  the  morning  of  his  execution  that  the  poor  fellow 
became  aware  of  the  day  or  hour  that  was  to  terminate  his  careen,  but  he 
had  evidently  been  'preparing  for  the  crisis,  and  when  the  fact  was  an- 
nounced, it  fell  upon  a  heart  nerved  to  brave  death,  come  in  what  shape  it 
might.     This  composure  never  left  tyira. 

"Reaching  the  place  of  execution,  which  was  in  a  field  adjoining  the 
encampment  of  his  old  command,  the  cortege  halted  in  front  of  an  ominous- 
looking  black  coffin,  behind  whieh  was  a  stake.  The  guard  alighted,  and 
the  prisoner,  strong  and  buoyant,  as  if  he  was  the  least  among  the  actors  of 
the  drama,  also  leaped  lightly  from  the  vehicle,  and  took  his  seat  upon  the 
narrow  box  that  was  so  soon  to  enclose  him  forever.  An  officer  then 
advanced  and  bound  him  by  the  arms  firmly,  with  his  back  to  the  stake.  I 
now  had  an  opportunity  of  observing  the  prisoner  more  closely.  He  was 
clad  in  an  evcry-day  suit  of  citizens'  clothes,  with  his  pantaloons  carelessly 
tucked  in  the  top  of  his  boots,  and  as  he  sat  there,  watching  the  prepara- 
tions for  the  tragedy,  looking  upon  the  faces  of  his  old  comrades,  with 
whom  he  had  been  associated  in  camp  and  field,  alone  and  helpless,  with 
the  agony  of  death  so  .near,  and  eternity  already  opening  to  his  vision,  the 
acutcst  observer  would  have   failed  to  detect  the  faintest  indications  of 


AN    ARMY   NOTE-BOOK.  115 

tremor  on  his  person.     Stern,  strong,  calm  as  a  statue,  he  waited  until  the 
regiment,  on  foot,  was  filed  into  position  before  him. 

"After  a  lapse  of  live  or  six  minutes,  came  the  squad  of  twelve,  who  were 
to  act  as  his  executioners,  and  stood  twelve  paces  distant.  The  adjutant  of 
the  regiment  then  advanced,  and  read  the  verdict  of  the  court-martial. 
This  done,  one  of  the  guard  approached  to  tie  a  handkerchief  over  the  face 
of  the  prisoner.  Then,  for  the  first  time,  did  I  notice  anything  in  his 
bearing  whicb  scenied  to  indicate  that  he  was  not  already  totally  dead  to 
feeling.  A  glance  of  his  eyes  to  the  heavens,  as  if  he  was  invoking  Divine 
mercy,  a  barely  perceptible  change  of  countenance,  and  an  expression  of 
unutterable  sadness,  told  of  a  fearful  struggle  that  was  going  on  within.  A 
moment's  pause,  and  the  officer  in  command,  in  a  low  tone,  gave  the  order : 
ly,  aim  (twelve  rifles,  six  with  blank  cartridges,  were  bearing  on  the 
prisoner's  heart,  and  the  click  of  the  twelve  triggers  left  but  a  second 
between  life  and  death),  fir 

"  Hardly  had  the  smothered  word  issued  from  the  lips,  when  the  body  of 
the  unfortunate  man,  pierced  by  six  balls,  shrunk  convulsively  from  the 
shock,  the  head  dropped  upon  the  breast,  and  a  deep  sigh  told  of  an  ebbing 
life.  The  surgeon  of  the  regiment  now  advanced  to  feel  the  pulse,  and  at 
line  instant  the  colonel  exclaimed:  'Attention!'  Half  a  minute  had 
already  elapsed,  but  at  that  word  the  dying  man  raised  his  bandaged  head, 
and,  as  if  he  was  peering,  through  the  <larkness  to  take  a  long,  last  look  at 
the  fading  world,  slowly  turned  it  from  side  to  side;  then  dropping  it  upon 
his  breast,  it  rested  there  for  several  seconds,  while  the  n 
tors  looked  on  with  a  silence  that  was  disturbed  only'  by  the  rustling  wind. 
0  it  arose  and  fell,  and  again  and  again,  until  finally  the  short,  - 

icceeded  by  a  death-like  repose,  showed  that  the  soul  of  the 
:ter  had  returned  to  the  God  who  gave  it. 

"On  examining  the  body,  I  found  that  ouc  ball  had  entered  at  the  base 
of  tic  two  the  left,  and  three  the  right  side.     The  coffin  was  then 

opened,   the   body   enclosed,   and,   in   half  an   hour,  all   that  remained    of 
Michael  Bryant  was  six  feet  under  ground." 

B    DURING    THE   WAR." 

Tli  •  <']     ;  iioo  correspondent  of  the  Mobile   Reguter  told  the  follow 
of  a  prr 
m  : 
"I:  illy  Iri-h  lad  took  it  inf  :<  ce 

of  calic  >  for  the  (•  rm  of  'thv      v  n  daring  the  war.'     *  V  he, 

do  yc's  dd  yc's  stand  qi  for  tl 

•  or  duriu'   the  w.. 


116  GLEANINGS   FROM 

"  'Faith,  I  could,'  said  Maggie;  and  so  they  both  went  to  the  priest,  and 
were  married.  After  the  ceremony  was  concluded,  Pat  said  to  the  priest : 
'Mind  ye,  this  contract  is  but  for  three  years  or  durin'  the  war!'  'No, 
no,'  said  the  priest,  '  it  's  for  life  and  forever.'  '  Peril  a  bit/  replied  Pat, 
pulling  a  paper  from  his  pocket,  '  here  is  the  contract  between  me  and 
Maggie  yonder,  and  it  reads,  according  to  her  consent,  that  she  enlists  as 
my  wife  jist  for  three  years  or  durin'  the  war,  and  not  a  day  longer !'  And 
Pat  rushed  off  with  his  three  years'  bride,  leaving  the  priest  in  utter 
amazement." 

AN    INCIDENT    OP   THE    SIEGE   OF   TORT    HUDSON. 

The  Natchez  Courier' published  the  following: 

"At  a  charge  of  our  men  on  the  Federal  cotton  breast-works — when  they 
took,  burnt,  and  spiked  the  enemy's  guns — it  is  said  fifteecn  Confederates 
were  taken  prisoners.  The  guard  took  them  before  General  Banks,  who 
said  :  '  They  are  men  too  brave  to  be  my  prisoners ;  conduct  them  to  Gen- 
eral Gardner,  and  say  to  him,  for  humanity's  sake,  to  surrender  his  works, 
and  stop  this  effusion  of  blood.'  The  prisoners  were  accordingly  conducted 
to  General  Gardner,  who,  having  the  like  number  of  Federals  within  his 
works,  immediately  ordered  their  release,  allowed  them  to  inspect  the  whole 
of  his  fortifications,  and  then  directed  them  to  be  conducted  by  his  guard  to 
the  Federal  line,  with  this  injunction  :  'Tell  General  Banks  that  you  have 
inspected  all  of  my  defences;  you  know  their  strength;  and,  for  the  sake  of 
humanity,  request  him  to  give  up  further  contest,  and  save  the  further . 
effusion  of  blood  in  his  army." 

THE   INCORRIGIBLE    JOKERS. 

The  Yankees  are  determined  to  have  their  fun,  if  their  leaders  arc  afraid 
to  fight  On  the  1st  of  April,  1863,  between  four  thousand  and  five  thou- 
sand of  them  landed  near  Pocotaligo  (South  Carolina),  and,  with  au  air  of 
boldness  that  augured  something  terrible,  took  up.  the  line  of  march  inland. 
General  Evans,  hearing  of  the  movement,  immediately  dispatched  four  reg- 
iments to  engage  them,  and  dispute  their  passage.  On  coming  in  sight,  the 
Yankees  were  found  in  full  retreat  to  their  boats,  but  a  tall  pole  had  been 
stuck  in  the  ground  at  the  turning  point,  and  on  it  inscribed,  in  large  letters, 
"April  fool." 

dr.  warren  stone,  of  new  orleans. 

All  the  world  knows  old  Dr.  Warren  Stone.  He  is  celebrated  for  his 
great  surgical  skill,  as  well  as  for  his  greatness  of  heart,  independence  of 
character,  and  dovotion  to  the  South.  This  truly  great  man  was  Selected 
by  Brute  Butler  as  a  "  shining  mark,"  upon  which  to  cast  his  venom.     He 


AN    ARMY    NOTE-BOOR.  117 

■was  accordingly  arrested,  and  brought  into  the  presence  of  the  tyr:;nt.  The 
doctor  walked  up  to  Butler,  without  waiting  to  be  asked,  arid  said,  in  an 
abrupt,  curt  manner :  "  Here  I  am,  General,  and  I  want  to  know  what  I  am 
arrested  for."  Butler  looked  at  the  doctor  from  head  to  foot,  and  said,  con- 
temptuously :  "  I  had  you  arrested  because  you  are  a  great  rebel,  and  the 
influence  of  such  a  man  as  you  are  is  dangerous  to  the  community.  T  shall 
send  you  to  Fort  Jackson,  to  get  you  out  of  my  way."  The  old  doctor 
looked  .steadily  into  the  repulsive,  crooked  eyes  of  his  wicked  enemy,  as  he 
indignatly  replied :  "  Great  rebel,  hey  ?  You'll  send  mo  to  Fort  Jackson, 
.'  I  glory  in  being  a  great  rebel;  you  can  send  me  to  Fort  Jaekson, 
and  be.  damned."  When  about  to  be  sent  on  board  the  boat  that  was  to 
convey  him  to  the  fort,  Dr.  Stone  was  informed  that  if  he  would  pay  a 
of  five  hundred  dollars  he  could  avoid  going  down;  but  the  old  patriot 
scornfully  retorted  :  "Tell  General  Butler  that  it  seems  to  be  a  matter  of 
dollfira  with  him,  but  it  is  a  matter  of  principle  with  me,  and  I  would  not 
give  him  five  cents  !"  No  man  in  the  community  was  more  boloved  and  ad- 
mired than  Br.  Stone,  and  as  soon  as  it  became  known  to  his  friends  that 
he  could  be  relieved  on  paying  a  fine,  they  sent  the  money  to  Thief  Butler, 
and  the  noble  old  man  was  released. 

A    CANDID    WITNESS. 

A  correspondent  of  the  Milwaukie  News,  writing  from  Arkansas,  cave 
some  very  strong  testimony  as  to  the  influence  and  result  of  Yankee  med- 
dling and  effect's  on  the  condition  and  prospects  of  the  negro.     lie  said  : 

With  no  one  to  care  (or  them,  without  food,  clothes,  or  medicine,  they 
sicken  and  die  here  by  the  hundreds — freed  at  last.  Back  of  General 
Washburn's  headquarters,  but  a  short  distance,  is  a  peach-orchard,  the  little 
graves  in  rows  so  <lose  that  one  can  hardly  step  between  them.  Here,  about 
two  feet  und  -r  the  ground,  arc  over  a  thousand  dead  negroes,  ami  day  after 
fliers,  who  have  starved  to  death,  are  being  added  to  the  nameless  list. 
And   there  are  a  dozen   negro  grave-yards  in    Helena,  each   !  pidly 

filled  with  beings  who  were  once  happy  and  contented,  in  health  and  ( 
l<>r.  of  use  to  themselves  and  the  world. 

A    SOUTHERN    LADY'S     BROTHER    VURDBRED    TOR   p]  BOM 

INSULT. 

We  found  the  following  in  the  Baltimore  tn: 

"  A  ladj  dquartcrs  to  obtain  from   him  a  j 

tiding  thi 
ived  her  with  his  usual  politeness,  but  rod  I  thai  she 

the  Confi  \y,  in  th'    -  "i.  mildly 

:  thai  it  would,  perl  ,:nce 


118  GLEANINOS    FROM 

without  such  a  decoration.  'I  have  a  right,  sir,  to  consult  my  own  wishes 
as  to  what  I  shall  wear.'  'Then,  madam, '  replied  the  general,  'permit  me 
to  claim  an  equal  right  in  choosing  with  whom  I  shall  converse ;'  and  the 
dignified  lady  had  to  withdraw  from  his  presence.  Subsequently,  the  proud 
daughter  of  Secessia  returned  to  the  general's  office  without  the  offensive 
brooch,  and,  making  a  slight  apology  for  her  indecorous  conduct  on  a  for- 
mer occasion,  reiterated  her  request  for  a  pass,  which  was  promptly  filled  up 
and  handed  to  her. 

"  The  lady  proceeded  to  Suffolk,  and,  after  visiting  her  friends,  she  very 

•  injudiciously  walked  around  among  the  provost  guard  of  National  troops, 
wearing  the  brooch  above  mentioned  in  a  very  conspicuous  portion  of  her 
dress.  The  attention  of  the  soldiers  was  at  once  attracted  to  the  emblem, 
much  to  the  gratification  of  the  giddy  girl.  A  very  polite  and  gallant 
officer,  of  the  Thirteenth  New  York,  accosted  her  at  once,  and  told  her  it 
would  be  better  for  her  to  remove  the  brooch  out  of  sight,  or  it  might  cause 
•a  difficulty,  but  the  young  lady  heeded  not  the  admonition.  Passing  along, 
she  was  met  by  a  soldier,  who  told  her  she  must  not  wear  the  '  Stars  and 
Bars'  now,  as  it  was  nothing  but  an  emblem  of  weakness  and  evacuation. 
She  said  to  the  soldier  that  she  w,ould  not  remove  the  brooch  for  any  Yan- 
kee hireling;  whereupon  the  soldier  snatched  the  hated  brooch  from  the 
girl's  bosoiji,  and  removing  the  colors,  he  handed  the  golden  bauble  back  to 
its  owner.  Some  citizens  observing  the  act,  fell  upon  the  soldier,  and  were 
belaboring  him  pretty  badly,  when  he  drew  his  bayonet  from  his  scabbard, 
and  striking  one  of  the  attacking  party  several  blows,  he  foiled  him  to  the 
earth,  and  injured  him  so  badly  that  it  was  feared  he  would  not  recover. 

•  The  injured  man  was  the  silly  girl's  brother." 

4 

A   TOMBSTONE  HARANGUE. 

A  correspondent  of  the  Richmond  Examiner,  writing  from  Winchester, 
related  the  following  occurrence  during  the  time  the  Yankees  were  in  pos- 
session of  that  place : 

On  Sabbath  morning  notices  were  sent  around  to  the  pastors  of  the  dif- 
ferent churches,  to  the  purport  that  there  would  be  divine  service  that 
evening  in  the  cemetery  lot  of  the  town.  The  ministers,  supposing  it  to  be 
the  occasion  of  the  funeral  of  some  citizen,  and  not  knowing  the  Source 
from  whence  it  emanated,  read  out  the  notices  to  their  congregations.  A 
large  number  of  persons  assembled,  when,  instead  of  a  funeral  sermon,  a 
miscreant,  in  the  shape  of  an  abolition  preacher,  mounted  a  tombstone,  and 
commenced  his  discourse  in  this  strain  : 

"  My  colored  friends,  hearken  unto  me.  You  are  the  children  of  Israel, 
and  we  come  to  give  you  freedom.  You  are  oppressed,  and  we  come  to 
deliver  you  from  your  thraldom.     I  stand  in  Moses'  shoes,  and  President 


AN   ARMY   NOTE-BOOK.  119 

Lincoln  stands  in  Jesus  Christ's  shoes.     Jesus  Christ  was  a  very  good  sort 
of  a  man,  but  he  did  n't  make  the  sin  of  slavery  plain  enough." 

At  this  point  in  his  remarks  the  disciple  of  abolition  was  set  upon  by  the 
white  citizens  present,  who  threatened  to  mob  him  unless  he  took  himself 
off,  which  he  did. 

HOW   TO   OBEY   ORDERS. 

When  the  Sixteenth  Mississippi  Regiment  was  quartered  at  Corinth,  the 
guard  around  their  encampment  received  all  sorts  of  complicated  instruc- 
tions, some  of  which  were  forgotten  as  soon  as  delivered,  while  others  were 
rigidly  adhered  to  by  the  sentinels. 

On  one  occasion,  George  Wood,  of  the  Adams  Light  Guard,  was  in- 
structed by  the  corporal  of  his  relief  not  to  permit  any  private  soldier  to 
cross  the  lines,  unless  accompanied  by  a  commissioned  officer ;  nor  was  he 
to  permit  any  cakes,  candies,  fresh  pork,  fruit,  or  whisky  to  enter  the  lines, 
upon  any  pretence  whatever. 

"I  b'lieve  I  've  got  'em  all,"  said  George.  "Let  me  see  :  nary  soldier  to 
go  across  the  lines  on  his  own  hook,  that's  one;  no  cakes,  that's  two;  can- 
dies, is  three;  fresh  pork,  is  four;  fruit,  is  five;  and  whisky  makes  up  the 
half  dozen.     All  right,  corporal,  you  can  toddle." 

George  had  walked  his  beat  but  a  few  moments,  when  an  immense  porker 
came  grunting  along,  evidently  well  satisfied  with  his  prospects  of  obtaining 
a  good  breakfast  from  the  garbage  lying  about  the  camp.  lie  by-and-by 
approached  close  to  the  lines,  when  George  suddenly  shouted : 

"Halt!" 

A  significant  grunt  was  the  only  response  from  his  porcine  friend,  who 
still  came  nearer. 

"Halt!  I  say,  yelled  George,  ef  you  don't  I  '11  be  dad  blamed  ef  I  don't 
shoot." 

The  pig  steadily  advanced,  when  bang  went  George's  musket,  and  down 
dropped  the  pork<  r,  as  dead  as  a  nail. 

The  colonel,  who  was  enjoying  his  late  paper  a  few  feet  off,  started  up  at 
the  report  of  the  musket,  and  exclainn id  : 

low  dare  you,  sir,  discharge  your  musket  without  order.-!''     Call  the 
iorporal  of  the  guard." 

"Corporal  of  the  guard,  posl  No.  '•'!  The  d — 1  to  pay  here,  on  my  line!" 
fihout- 

"Arrest.  that  man,"  said  the  colonel,  aa  the  oorp  ml  i     le  hi-  appearanee. 
"Well,  that  'a  nice,"  rejoined  G  t  a  Fellow  for 

orders  is  tight  papers." 

"I  niver  gave  yeez  any  orthflH  to  do  the  like,"  said  the  corporal. 


v>0  QLBANINQS.raOll 

v  i  n'f  »  n»nli<  • ;  "  bold  on,  here.     Did  n't  you  • 

jr^r-^^sis---*-     ibj 

an  officer  PJ 

« I  did,  av  coorse !"  .  i:«M?»' 

..  U,  ».tyOT  toll  n,c  cot  .0  (el  eny  eak«  eo„,c  .nto  the  m>  - 

>•  Thrue  for  yeea  I" 

••  3<m  about  candies?" 

"  That 's  all  right !" 

"  Then  there  was  fruit?" 

«Yis!" 

«  Whisky  ?" 

"  fT/S'r  veiled  George.     «  You  do  n't  'sposc  I  was  going  to 
"  Aml-""  "*  7  V       i  vlu.n   T  knew  it  was  against  orders, 

let  that  hog  pass  my  hue  do  you,  when  I  knew  it  was    „ 
When  you  catch  me  on  post,  you  can  bet  your  hfe  I   a  *arl 

"S  »wtl  into  a  roar  of  laughter,  and  ordered  the  sentinel  to 
resume  his  duty.  The  injunction  against  admitting  fresh  pork  over  the 
lines  was  for  the  time  being  laid-  aside. 

A   CASE   OF   YANKEE   BARBARITY. 

:iSi,..ii.i....»- -fr*'': 

vested  bultolk,  a  snaip  a  j  *v,«„,<yl.  i,u  l10U^e      The  \ankees 

''/     c,c    e  t    the  wood,  and  into  the  Confederate  hnes,  .hen  she 
tempted  to  eseape  w  entering  her  limb, 

™  ■«*  "£  hi  Ih  trin  t,  r  ;  minutes,  from  b.  of  blood.    The 
mst  below  the  hip,  she  Ukm  in  i       j 

,,iMren.  frightened,  bid  Aemselves  ...  the  b^™le^      After  s,,„ 
,!„„,,  upon  the  gronnd  by  ta^*£  ""^^i^urf  him  to  take  . 
«  W  ^^^tS^STSU  be  put.  the  dead 
'  T1-'  %£  I       Ld  c  n  cd  it  into  town.     On  hi,  arrival  in  town  ho  - 


AN   ARMY   NOTE-BOOK.  121 

gruffly  told  to  take  his  wife  to  the  ^rave-yard  and  bury  her.  He  carried  her 
to  her  brother's,  John  R.  Kilby,  Esq.,  and  a  few  friends  prepared  her  for 
burial,  Mr.  Kilby  not  being  allowed  to  leave  the  house,  or  to  attend  the 
remains  of  his  sister  to  the  grave-yard. 

'•  Nor  did  the  cruelty  of  the  fiends  stop  here.  Mr.  Smith  was  denied  the 
privilege  of  going  in  search  of  his  little  children,  and  for  four  days  and 
nights  they  wandered  in  the  woods  and  among  the  soldiers,  without  any- 
thing to  eat  or  any  place  to  sleep.  The  baby  was  taken  up  by  a  colored 
woman  and  nursed,  until  some  private  in  the  Yankee  army,  with  a  little 
better  heart  than  his  associates,  took  it  on  his  horse  and  carried  it  to  town." 

:VTIIP'    SKETCH — THE    SIEGE    OF   VICKSBURG    BY    MOONLIGHT — MI.V- 
TIIE    REBEL    WORKS. 

A  Yicksburg  correspondent  of  the  Cleveland  Herald  furnished  the  fol- 
lowing description  of  the  operations  of  General  Grant  against  Vicksburg: 

"  Let  us  climb  the  parapet  and  see  the  siege  by  moonlight.     In  front  of 
us,  beyond  the  enemy's  works,  but  hidden  from  us,  lies  the  city  of  Vicks- 
burg.    Look   carefully,  and  you  can  distinguish  the  spires  of  the  court- 
house and  two  or  three  churches.     The  rebels  had  a  signal  station  on  the 
forme'r  when  we  came,  but  our  shells  made  it  too  warm  for  them,  and  they 
withdrew.     The  mortars  are  playing  to-night,  and  they  arc  well  worth  sec- 
itrg.     We  watch  a  moment,  and  in  the  direction  of  Young's  Point,  beyond 
the  city,  suddenly  up  shoots  a  flash  of  light,  and  in  a  moment  the  ponder-  • 
ous  shell,  with  its  fuse  glowing  and  sparkling,  rises  slowly  from  behind 
bluffs;  up.  up,  it  goes,  as  though  mounting  to  the   zenith,  over  it  comes 
rds  us,  down  through  its  flight  trajectory  into  the  city,  and  explodes 
with  a  shock  tb  it  jars  the  gr  »und  for  miles.     There  are  women  and  tender- 
children  where  those  shells 'fall,  but  war' is  war. 

■inch    monsters  arc  grumbling  far  way  on  the  right. 

playing — we  can  even  see  tin:  cannoneers  be- 

thcin  at  <  Our's  will  open  at  midnight;  then  there  will  be 

music  to  your  heart's  content.     Meanwhile,  let  us  go  to  the  front.     A  hun- 

dn  1  yards  to  the  right  of  where  we  now  are  we  enter  a  deep  trench,     i 

lowing  this,  as  it  winds  down  around  the  hill,  we  reach  the  opening  of  a 

or  miii".     The  air  within  is  damp  and  close,  like  that  of  a  van        I 
dies  arc  burning  dimly  at  interval-  he  ir  a  hum  of  voices  far  within 

and  ■•  ;  :  rocecd,  and  presently  meet  two  men  carrying  a  bar- 

row of  earth,  for  OC  Ifork  night  and  day.     Finally,  we  r-  MD  the 

moonlight  again,  and  emerge  into  a  w 

the  covered  way.     I  d, and  filled  v  i protect  • 

ing  party.      A  :  of  cotton  bah  I  00  tin 

enemy,  and  we  must  mount  them  to  look 
16 


12J  GLEANING    FROM 

"We  arc  now  within  sociable  distanoe  of  the  chivalry.     Those  men  lying 

on  the  ground,  ten  to  thirty  yards  from  as,  are  our  hoys,  our  advance  pick* 

but  that  gray  fellow,  with  the  bright  musket,  which  glistens     >.  a  few 

step?  beyond,  ifl  a  {reb  .'  long-haired  and  hot-blooded,  one  of  Wall's  famous 

jion — a  bull-dog  to  fight,  -are. 

••  Now  jump  down  and  enter  the  mouth  of  the  pthcr  mine,  which  leads 
towards  the  salient  of  the  enemy's  work.  Stumbling  along,  we  reach  the 
end  where  the  men  arc  diggiatg.  The  candle  burns  very  dimly — the  air  is 
almost  stifling.  Never  mind,  let  us  watch  them.  Sec  that  Blender,  bright- 
looking  fellow  Bwinging  that  pick.  Great  beaded  drops  of  perspiration 
trickle  down  his  faoej  there  is  not  a  dry  thread  in  his  coarse,  gray  shirt; 
but  no  matter,  the  pick  swings,  and  eAcb  stroke  Blices  down  six  inches  of 
the  tough  subsoil  of  Mississippi.  That  fellow  was  'Jim,'  once  a  tender- 
handed,  smooth-faced,  nice  young  man,  whose  livery-stable,  billiard  and 
bills  were  a  sore  trial  to  his  worthy  governor.  Jim  sa\  -  that  he  used 
to  wear  gloves  and  'store-clothes,'  and  that  girls  called  him  good-looking, 
but  that  's  played  out  now;  he  is  going  for  I'nclc  Sam. 

"  But  wc  return  to  the  fresh  air.  Look  over  the  parapet  again  towards 
the  turret,  where  we  saw  the  rebel  picket.  Do  you.  see  the  little  gray 
mounds  which  cover  the  hillside  so  thickly? — ten,  twenty,  thirty,  you»carf 
count  on  a  few  square  rods.  Ah,  my  friend,  this  is  sacred  ground  you  arc 
looking  upon.  There  our  boys  charged;  there  they  were  slain  in  heaps; 
but  they  pressed  on,  and  leaped  into  the  ditch.  They  climbed  the  parapet, 
and  rolled  back  into  eternity.  Others  followed  them;  their  flag  was 
planted,  and  they  sprang  over,  to  meet  their  certain  death.  An  hour 
passed,  and  one  returned;  the  rest  were  dead." 

MORALS   OP   YANKEE   OFFICERS. 

The  most  lamentable  fact  that  has  been  brought  to  my  notice  is  the  large 
number  of  officers  who  have  lately  been  tried  by  court-martial.  The  com- 
mission of  atrocious  crimes  and  all  sorts  of  disgraceful  offences  by  officers, 
high  and  low,  from  colonel  to  lieutenant,  is  of  daily  occurrence..  One 
officer  has  been  guilty  of  theft,  another  of  drunkenness,  a  third  has  proven 
himself  a  coward,  a  fourth  has  had  a  fistic  encounter  with  a  soldier,  a  fifth 
was  caught  in  the  company  of  negro  wenches,  and  so  on,  <cJ  infinitum.  A 
lieutenant  was  recently  found  in  a  miserable  log  hut,  long  after  tattoo  had 
been  sounded,  in  a  condition  of  drunken  bestiality.  A  few  cedar  logs  were 
heaped  together  in  the  fire-place,  and  the  fire  leaped  cheerily  up  the  chim- 
ney. In  the  centre  of  the  room,  a  barrel  served  as  a  table,  and  around  it, 
there  sat  the  lieutenant,  in  the  full  uniform  of  a  United  States' officer,  play- 
ing cards  with  three  blubber-lipped,  greasy  negro  wenches!  A  court-mar- 
tial was  convened,  and   the  offender  was  charged  with  violation  of  one  of 


AN    ARMY    NOTE-BOOK.  123 

the  articles  of  war,  or,  in  other  words,  with  conduct  unbecoming  an  officer. 
To  this  charge  there  was  a  single  specification,  setting  forth  the  time,  place, 
and  circumstances  of  the  alleged  offence.  The  court  sat  in  due  form.  The 
charge  was  read,  and  the  accused  plead  not  guiltj'.  The  specification  was 
recited,  and  to  this  the  accused  naively  plead  guilty!  Here,  then,  was  the 
height  of  abolition  extravagance.  (Juilty  of  keeping  company  with  ne- 
gresses,  but  not  guilty  of  conduct  unbecoming  an  oil': 

MAJOR    U.    W.    FKY's    PIOUS   PAUTTNO    COMPLIMENTS — A    DEVIL    IN    A 

STOVE-PIPE, 
from  Saturday,  the  day  of  the  surrender  of  Roanoke,  till  the  following 
Wednesday,  Major  Fry  was  confined  in  a  room  in  the  house  of  Dr.  flitters, 
on  the  island.  In  this  room  the  major  discovered  a  portion  of  a  keg  of 
fiowder,  the  private  property  of  Dr.  Rittera.  Understanding  that  he  was  to 
be  removed  on  shipboard,  the  major  took  about  twenty  pounds  of  the  pow- 
nd  rolling  it  in  a  sheet,  made  a  sort  of  cartridge,  and  rammed  it  up 
the  pipe  of  the  stove  that  stood  in  the  room.  In  the  course  of  an  hour 
after  completing  *he  job,  the  major  was  removed,  and,  his  mind  being  other- 
wise occupied,  thought  little  more  of  it.  From  some  of  our  wounded,  who 
had  been  left  at  Klizabeth  City,  we  learn  that  t^ne  rainy  day  the  Yankees, 
for  the  first  time,  built  a  fire  in  the  stove.  In  a  few  minutes  thereafter,  a 
portion  of  the  house  frantically  lifted  itself  out  of  place,  and  fifteen  or 
fWcnty  Yankees  were   lying   in  various   disreputable   attitudes   upon 

several  being  killed.     One  oi*  the  survivors  remarked,  that  he  had 
in  the  Scriptures  of  bad  spirits  in  men,  women,  and  hogs,  but   it  was 
it  time  he  ever  knew  of  a  devil  in  <t  stove-pipe. 

THE   OLD    LADY    ANI>  IK    FLAG. 

The  correspondent  of  the  Savannah  Republican  related  the  following: 
Op  the  morning  after  the  nighl  of  loth  September]  the  army  bad  on 
the  !'  with  the  enemy  pressing  upon  our  heels,  but  dared  not  si 

after  US.      Tiny  CUT*   I  Bl  d     v.  ire  sf  BJ  from  the  opposite   bank,  threatening 
every  minute  to  make  advance.     "We  happened   to  go  into  the 

little  villa  'ii,  which  is  just  on  the  south  bank,  i 

ford  where  the  arm;  .  and  in  j a  ling  by  I 

small  dwelling  we  '  tome  wtf  flag  bung  in 

'portico,  much  I  b,  and  we*  herl  lie  bold  people 

;tt    dwell':  |  rniiglit    to   SUcb    di 

compelled  oul  that  awful  sign  of  n  lady 

•unded  <>n  the  .  sad 

relieved  our  d< 

carried  in  her  hand  a  bright-ban 


1  L!  i  0LEANING8   FROM 

« 
■wanted,  and  we  answered,  water.     "  Very  well,"  said  she,  "  do  you  see  that," 

pointing  to  the  flag.     We  answered   in  the  affirmative.     "That  means  n,o 

quarter,  and  this,"  pointing  to  the  revolver,  "  is  to  Bhi    t  the  first  man  that 

into  that  yonder  cabbage-patoh."     It  is  niost  sincerely  hoped  that  the 

Yankees  will  give  us  as  little  cause  to  exercise  our  firmness  as  we  did  that 
good  Virginia  lady  the  use  of  her  small  lire-arm. 

OUTION   AT   FRANKLIN,   TENNESSEE — DETAILED    PACTS   AND    HISTORY 

OF  1\\.' 

A  correspondent  of  the  Nashville  Press,  writing  under  date  of  Franklin, 
Tennessee,  June  9,  1863,  related  the  follow] 

"  "Last  evening,  ahout  sun-down,  two  strangers  rode  into  camp,  and  called 
at  Colonel  Baird's  headquarters,  who  presented  unusual  appearances.  They 
had  on  citizens'  overcuats,  Federal  regulation  pants  and  caps.  The  caps 
were  covered  with  white  flannel  havelocks.  They  wore  side-arms,  and 
showed  high  intelligeucc.  One  claimed  to  be  a  colonel  in  the  United 
States  army,  and  called  himself  Colonel  Austin;  ihe  other  called  himself 
Major  Dnnlap,  and  both  represented  themselves  as  inspector  generals  of 
the  United  States  army.  They  represented  that  they  were  now  out  on  an 
expedition  in  this  department,  inspecting  the  outposts  and  defences,  and- 
that  dav  before  yesterday  they  had  been  overhauled  by  the  enemy,  and  lost 
their  coats  and  purses.  They  exhibited  official  papers  from  General  llosen- 
cranz,  and  also  from  the  war  department  at  Washington,  confirming  their 
rank  and  business.  These  appeared  all  right  to  Colonel  Baird,  and  at  first 
satisfied  him  of  their  honesty.  They  asked  the  colonel  to  loan  them  fifty 
dollars,  as  they  had  no  coats,  and  no  money  to  buy  them.  Colonel  Baird 
loaned  them  the  money,  and  took  Colonel  Austin's  note  for  it.  Just  at 
dark  they  started,  saying  they  were  going  to  Nashville,  and  took  that  way. 
Just  as  soon  as  their  horses'  heads  were  turned,  the  thought  of  their  beiDg 
a  struck  Colonel  'Baird,  he  says,  like  a  thunderbolt,  and  he  ordered 
Colonel  Watkins,  of  the  Sixth  Kentucky  cavalry,  who  was  standing  by,  to 
arrest  them  immediately.  But  they  were  going  at  lightning  speed.  Colonel 
Watkins  had  no  time  to  call  a  guard,  and  only  with  his  orderly  he  set  out 
on  the  chase.  He  ordered  the  orderly  to  unfiling  his  carbine,  and  if,  when 
he  (the  colonel)  halted  them,  they  showed  any  suspicious  motions,  to  fire  on 
them  without  waiting  for  an  order.  They  were  overtaken  about  one-third 
of  a  mile  from  here.  Colonel  Watkins  told  them  that  Colonel  Baird  wanted 
to  make  some  further  inquiries  of  them,  and  asked  them  to  return.  This 
they  politely  consented  to  do,  after  some  remonstrance,  on  account  of  the 
lateness  of  the  hour  and  the  distance  they  had  to  travel,  and  Colonel  Wat- 
kins led  them  to  his  tent;  where  he  placed  a  strong  guard  over.  them.  It 
was  not  until  one  of  them  attempted  to  pass  the  guard  at  the  door  that  they 


Atf   ARMY   NOTE-BOOK.  125 

even  suspected  they  were  prisoners.     Colonel  Watkins  immediately  brought 
them  to  Colonel  Baird,  under  guard.     Xhey  at  once  manifested  great  un- 

•  <ss,  and  pretended  great  indignation  at  being  thus  treated.  Colonel 
Baiid  frankly  told  them  that  he  had  his  suspicions  of  their  true  character, 
and  that  they  should,  if  loyal,  object  to  no  necessary  caution.  *  They  were 
very  hard  to  satisfy,  and  were  in  a  great  hurry  to  get  off.  Colonel  Baird 
told  them  that  they  were  under  arrest,  and  he  should  keep  them  prisoners 
until  he  was  fully  satisfied  that  they  were  what  they  purported  to  be.  lie 
immediately  telegraphed  to  General  Rosencranz,  and  received  the  answer  that 
he  knew  nothing  of  on//  such  men — that  there  were  no  such  men  in  his 
employ,  or  had   his  pass. 

"Long  before  this  dispatch  was  received,  however,  every  one  who  had  an 
opportunity  of  hearing  their  conversation  was  well  satisfied  that  they  were 

I.     Smart  as  they  were,  they  gave  frequent  and  distinct  evidence  of 
duplicity.     After  this  dispatch  came  to  hand,  which  it  did  about  tw 
o'clock  (midnight),  a  search  of  their  persons  was  ordered.     To  this  the. 
major  consented  without  opposition,  but  the  colonel  protested  against  it,  and 

I  put  his  hand  to  his  arms.  But  resistance  was  useless,  and  both  sub- 
mitted. When  the  major's  sword  was  drawn  from  the  scabbard,  there  wen.' 
found  etched  upon  it  these  words:  ' Lieutenant  W.  G.  Peter;  Confed 

rmy.'  At  this  discovery  Colonel  Baird  remarked:  '  Gentlemen,  you 
have  played  this  d — d  well.'  'Yes,'  said  Lieutenant  Peter.  famd  it  ■ 
near  being  a perfypt  succeu.'  They  then  confessed  the  whole  matter  and 
upon  further  search,  various  papers  showing  their  guilt  were  found  upon 
their  persons.  Lieutenant  Peter  was  found  to  have  on  a  rebel  cap,  secreted 
by  the  white  flannel  havelock. 

olonel  Baird  immediately  telegraphed  the  facts  to  General  Roflecrani 
and  asked  what  he  should  do,  and  in  a  short  time  received  an  order  'to  try 

d  by  a  drum-head  court-martial,  and,  if  found  guilty,  hang  tL 
diati  //.'     The  court  was  convened,  and  before  daylight  the  case  was  decided 
and  the  prisoners  informed  that  they  must  prepare  for  immediate  death  by 

Dg. 

••  At,  daylight,  men  were  detailed  to  make  a  scaffold.     The  i 

lith  Illinois,  who,  upon  the;, 
t,  admin;  ;i<  in.      Ti.  ]H,;r 

••-.  elry,  silver   cup-,  and  other 
I 

"  i  \  lOted   by  I  wild   chem 

i  in  a  v.  ry  public 
hing  within  eight    feet   of  the  ground.      A  )C^ 

A    M  ,  th(    v  I  n    in 

i.     The  ;  'vmS  a  *' 


/  ' 

12G  GLEANINGS    FROM 

Diinutes  past  nine  the  guards  conduotcil  the  prisoners  to  the  scaffold.  They 
walked  firm  and  steady,  u  ii'  unmindful  «il*  the  fearful  precipice  which 
the}'  were  approaching.  The  guards  did  them  the  honor  to  march  with 
arm-  I 

"Arrived  at  the  place  of •  execution,  they  stepped  upon  the  platform  of 

the  cart,  and  took  their  respective  places.  The  Provost  Marshal,  Captain 
aoder,  then  tied  a  linen  handkerchief  over  the  face  of  each,  and 
adjusted  tin-  ropes  They  then  asked  tin-  privilege  of  bidding  a  last  fare- 
well, which  being  granted,  they  tenderly  embraced  each  other.  This  i 
the  cart  moved  from  under  them,  and  they  hung  in  the  air.  What  a  fear- 
ful penalty  '.  They  swung  off  at  half-past  nine.  In  two  minutes  the  lieu- 
tenant ceased  to  struggle.  The  colonel  caught  hold  of  the  rope  with  both 
hands  and  raised  himself  up  at  three  minutes,  and  ceased  to  struck"  at  live 
minutes.  At  six  minutes,  J>r.  Forester,  Surgeon  Sixth  Kentucky  cavalry, 
and  !(r.  Mess.  Seventy-Eighth  Illinois  infantry,  and  myself,  who  had  been 
detailed  to  examine  the  bodies,  approached  them,  and  found  the  pulse  of 
both  full  and  strong.  At  seven  minutes,  the  colonel  Bhrugged  his  shoul- 
ders. The  pulse  of  each  continued  to  beat  seventeen  minutes,  and  at 
twenty  minutes,  all  signs  of  lii'e  had  ceased.  The  bodies  were  cut  down  at 
thirty  minutes,  and  encoffined  in  full  dro.«s.  The  colonel  was  buried  with  a 
o-old  locket  and  chain  on  his  neck.  The  locket  contained  the  portrait  and 
a  braid  of  hair  of  his  intended  wife — her  portrait  was  also  in  his  vest 
pocket — these  were  buried  with  him,  at  his  request.  Both  men  were  buried 
in  the  same  grave — companions  in  life,  misfortune  and  crime,  companions 
in  infamy,  and  now  companions  in  the  grave. 

"I  should  have  stated,  in  another  place,  that  the  prisoners  did  not  want 
their  punishment  delayed,  but  well  knowing  the  consequence  of  their  acts, 
even  before  their  trial,  asked  to  have  the  sentence,  be  it  by  hanging  or 
Bhooting,  quickly  decided  and  executed.  But  they  deprecated  tho  idea  of 
death  by  hanging,  and  asked  for  a  commutation  of  the  sentence  to  shooting. 

"The  elder  and  leader  of  these  unfortunate  men  was  Lawrence  Williams, 
of  Georgetown,  D.  C.  He  was  as  Jine-Im.king  a  man  as  I  have  ever  seen, 
about  six  feet  high,  and  perhaps  thirty  years  old-  He  was  a  son  of  Captain 
[Williams,  who  was  kilkod  at  the  battle  of  Monterey.  He  was  one  of  the 
most  intellectual  and  accomplished  men  that  I  have  ever  known.  I  have 
never  known  any  one  who  excelled  him  as  a  talker,  lie  was  a  member  of 
the  regular  army,  with  the  rank  of  captain  of  cavalry,  when  the  rebellion 
broke  Out,  and  at  that  time  was  aid-de-oamp  and  private  secretary  to  General 
"Winficld  Scott.  From  this  confidence  and  respect  shown  him  by  so  dis- 
tinguished a  man,  may  be  judged  his  education  and  accomplishments.  He 
was  a  first  cousin  of  General  Lee,  commanding  the  Confederate  army  on  the 
Eappahannock.     Soon  after  the  war  began,  he  was  frank  enough  to  inform 


AN   ARMY   ROTS-BOOK.  127 

General  £cott  that  all  lift  sympathies  were  with  the  South,  :w  his  friends 
and  interests  were  there,  and  that  he  could  not  fight  against  them.  As  he 
was  privy  to  all  of  General  Scott's  plans  for  the  campaign,  it  was  not 
thought  proper  to  turn  him  loose;  hence  he  was  lent  to  Governor's  Island, 
where  he  remained  three  months.  After  the  first  I>ull  Rua  battle,  he  was 
allowed  to  go  South,  where  he  joined  the  Confederate  army,  and  his  subse- 
quent history  T  havi  no1  been  able  to  learn  much  about.  He  was  awhile  on 
ral  Bragg's  staff  as  ehief  of  artillery,  hut  at  the  time  of  his  death 
his  inspector  general.  When  he  joined  ih^  Confederate  army  he 
altered  his  name,  and  now  signs  it  thus:  «  Lawrence  W.  Orton,  Col.  Cav. 
P.  A.  C.  S.  A..'  (Provisional  Army  Confederate  States  of  America.) 
Sometimes  ho  wrote  his  name  'Orton,'  and  sometimes  'Anton,'  according  to 
the  object  which  he  had  in  view.  This  we  loam  from  the  papers  found  on 
him.  These  facts  in  relation  to  the  personal  history  of  Colonel  Orton  I 
have  gathered   from   th<  I   himself  and   from   Colonel   Watkins,  vbo 

knows  him  well,  they  having  I  to  the  same  regiment  of  the  regular 

army — Second  cavalry.  I  Watkins,  however,  did  not 

-nizc  Colonel  Orton  until  after  he  had   made  himself  known,  and  now 
mourns  his  tragic   i  'id. 

"The  other  victim  of  this  delusive  and   reckless   daring  was  Walter  G. 

r,  a  lieutenant  in  the  rebel  army,  and  Colonel  Orton's   adjutant.      He 

was  a  tall,  handsome  young  man,  of  about  twenty-five  year.-,  thai  gave  many 

on  and  roflnement. 

••  Of  his  history,  I  have  been  unable  to  gather  any  thin-.      II.  played  hut 

Colonel  Orton  ■       •         .d,  r.  and  did  all  the  talking  and 

managing      Such  is  a  succinct  account  of  one  ->f  nter- 

icb   were  the  <  I  u]i., 

I  the  awful  trag 
"History  will  hardly  furnish  its  parallel  in  the  character  and  standing  of 
the    |  1    daring   of  the  enterprise,  and    the   • 

with  whiol  ry  and  punishment  them.     They  < 

our  c^nij',  and   went   all   through   it,  minutely  ii 
.    and  forci  s,  wi'li  a       '  uterous  insignia  upon  t; 

tho  l.oldness  of  th>  ';eir  flimsy  su' 

ful. 
"  To  the  1 .  '.  i.  :,,.  d  ilia!  ;'■ 

'•ndo.iv  u      •  thnmgl     our   lines  in   ordei  the 

'   and   in    Europe.      Bttl  poorly  matured,  thai    wl 

either  told  it,  it  w  BT,  and    I 

. 
four; 


I  tOM      , 

except  C.  I   the  ignomy  of  be;  :   fl  ey  were  ton  well  in- 

>t  to  know  that,  upon  conviction  of  being  Bpi<  -.  they  must  E 
they  expected  i;.  and  made  do  complaints. 
"Colonel  Orton,  who  1  Colonel  Watkini  he  saw  him, 

told  him  that  he  barely  escaped  hia  !  a  the  ai  made — that  he 

I  aid  on  his  pistol  to  kill  him  and  escape — that  had  it  bees  any  one 
I  ere,  he  would  have  done  so. 
"('el'  nil  Orton  delivered  his  sword  and  pistols  to  Colonel  Watkins,  ami 
told  him  to  keep  and  wear  them.     He  also  presented  him  hi  "Inch 

raloed  at  live  thousand  dollars,  and  asked  him  to  treat  it  kindjy  lbr  his 
sake. 

"  Wc  arc  all  Bad  over  this  event.     There  is  a   doom  upon   every  face. 
Although  we  are  fully  satisfied  that  the  mission  of  th< 
our  destruction,  and  that  even  they  recognized  their  punishment  just,  ac- 
cording to   tin-  accepted   rules  of  war  among  all  nations;  still,  to  see  such 
men  Buffer  such  a  penalty,  has  filled  our  garrison  with  sadnee 

JOE   I'M:      |  BALTIMORE. 

In  one  of  the  hospitals  of  Alexandria  is  due  Parsons,  of  Baltimore.     Joe 

enlisted  in  the.  First  Maryland  Regiment,  and   was  plainly  a   "rough" 

■  illy.      *    we  pa  -■  !  along  the  ball;  we  first  saw  him,  crouched  near 

an  open  window,  lustily  singing,  "I  'm  a  bold  soldier  hoy;"  and  observing 
the  broad  bandage  over  his  <  id:  u  What  's  your  name,  m\ 

low?" 

;r,"  he  answered,  "  Joe  Parsons:" 
.1  what,  is  the  matter  witfi  you  V 
'■  Blind,  sir — blind  as  a  bat." 
"  In  battle?" 
»  JTea — at  Antictam.     Both, eyes  shot  out  nt  one  clip." 

doc  was  in  the  front,  at   Antictam   Creek;  and   a    Minnie  ball  had 
ed  directly  through  his  eyes,  across  his  face,  destroyitfg  his  sight  for- 
Ile  was  hut  twenty  years  old;  but  he  was  as  happy  as  a  lark! 
"  It  is  very  dreadful/'  I  said. 

"  I  'm  very  thankful  I  'm  alive,  sir.     It  might  ha'  been  worse,  yer  sec,"  he 
continued.     And  then  he  told. us  his  story. 

"  I  was  hit,"  he  said,  and  it  knocked  me  down.  T  lay  there  all  night, 
and  next  day  the  fight  was  renewed.  1  could  stand  the  pain,  yer  sec,  but 
balls  were  flyin' al]  round,  and  I  wanted  to- get  away.  I  couldn't  seo 
nothin',  though.  So  I  waited,  and  listened;  and,  at  last,  I  heard  a  feller 
min' beyond  me.  '  Hollo!'  says  I.  '  Hello,  yourself','  says  he.  'Who 
be  yer?' says  I — '  a  rebel  V  '  You're  a  Yankee,'  says  he.  'So  I  am,' says 
1;  'what's  the   matter  with  you  i"     'My  leg's  smashed,' says  he.     'Can't 


AN    ARMY    NOTE-BOOK..  129 

yer  walk  T  '  No.'  '  Can  yer  see  ?'  '  Yes."  «  Well/  Fays  I ,  '  you  're  a  d— d 
rebel,  but  will  you  do  me  a  little  favor?'  '  I  will,'  pays  he,  '  ef  I  ken.' 
Tin;.  'Well,  ole  butternut,  I  can't  see  nothin*.     My  eyes  is  knqeked* 

out;  but  I  ken  walk.  Come  over  yere.  Let's  Lrit  oat  o' this.  You  p'int 
the  way,  an'  I  '11  tote  yer  off  the  field,  on  my  back.'  ■  Bully  for  you  I1 
he.  A.nd  so  we  managed  to  git  together.  We  shook  hands  on  it..  I  took 
a  wink  outen  his  canteen,  and  h«  got  onto  my  shoulders.  I  did  the  walkin' 
for  both,  and  he  did  the  oavigatiu'.  An'  ef  he  did  n't  make  me  carry  him 
Btraight  into  a  rebel  colonel's  tent,  a  mile  away,  I'm  a  liur  !  Ilows'ever,  the 
ael  came  up,  and  says  he, ( WHax  d' yer  come  from?  who  be  yer'/"  I 
t  »l  1  him.  If"  said  1  was  done  fer,  and  could  n"t  do  no  more  shootin';  an' 
lit  me  over  to  our  lines.  So,  after  three  days,  I  came  down  here  with 
the  wounded  boys,  where  we  're  doin*  pretty  well,  all  things  considered." 

"  But  you  will  never  see  the  light  again,  my  poor  fellow,"  I  so 
sympathetically. 

1  That 's  so,"  he  answered,  glibly;  "  but  I  can't  help  it,  you  notice.  1 
did  my  dooty — got  shot,  pr>p  in  the  eye — an'  that's  my  misfort'n,  not  my 
fault — as  the  ole  man  said  of  his  blind  boss.     But — 

'i'ma  bold  soldier  bDj,*"" 
he  continued,  cheerily  renewing  his  song;  and  we  left  him  in  his  singular 
merriment. 

A    NEW*  WAH-CRY. 

to! J  of  an  Arkansas  colonel,  stationed  at  Port  Hum 
The  <    •  irrence,  it  must  be  understood,  happened  shortly  after  the  arrival 

kausas  troops  at  that    place,  and  prior  to  the  departure  i 
Butler  from  New  Orleans,  and  also  that  his  men  had   been  fed   for  several 
on  rath(  r  y  to  their  disgi 

»nel  had  I  ,ent  out  for  drill,  and  several  carriages,  filled 

with  fair  ladies,  w<  re  pi  I  i  to  him  I 

•n  a  "war-cry,"  and,  considering  the 
lily,    nothing   could   be   better   than   "Butler   the   Beast."     ,v 
banu  d  the  outi  \,,w> 

•  :id — i'orv  ... — 

iiutler  the  Beasl  I'     '  Butler  I 

anxious 

'1   with  a 

Butler  the  B  I  "bull  t»  i 

in- 
1  the  last  thai 


L30  nT.F.ANINOS    FROM 

STONEWAU  JACH  OT   I  AVAI.RY 

<  i rn<  ral  Jackson,  who  never  wore  a  uniform^  or  any  other  mark  of  his 
grade  or  rank,  was  ■  corn-field  one  day,  and  saw  a  long,  lank-aided 

Con:  He  hallooed  to  Confederate: 

ime  out  of  that  corn-field." 
•■  i ,  i  to  bell,"  Confederate. 

•  I  '11  report  \  "  Bays  the  general. 

"Report  and  bed — d  to  you.  I  belong  to  Jackson's  loot  cavalry,  and 
he  allows  us  to  i  at  as  much  corn  as  we  want!" 

The  general  rode  on,  laughing,  while  Confederate  eontinued  pulling  eorn 
in  "feed  dackson's  foot  cavalry." 

A    NKW    INQUISITION    WITH    TI1K   OLD    H0B&0B8. 

The  New  York  World  contained  an  account,  several  columns  long,  of  the 
mode  of  conducting  operations  at  the  provost  marshal'-  office  there.  When 
g  man  was  arrested  for  supposed  disloyalty  he  was  not  allowed  to  send  forwit- 
n«  --<  -.  hut  his  "affidavit  "  was  taken  and  sent  to  Washington.  A  bell  was 
then  struck,  and  a  soldier  appeared,  who,  upon  the  "that's  all,  sir,"  of  the 
provost,  collared  the  unhappy  prisoner,  and  took, him  into  a  cell  "below" — 
which  means  under  the  building.  When  the  man  would  be  again  heard  of 
was  a  matter  of  conjecture  alone.  The  following  is  one  of  the  cases  related 
in  the  World?*  account: 

An  individual  was  brought  in  for  refusing  to  give  his  name  to  an  en- 
rolling officer. 

Provost  Marshal — "What  is  your  name,  sir?", 

own — "Well,  I  declined  to  give  my  name  there,  and  I  think  I  shall 
here." 

Provost  Marshal — "Oh,  you  think  so.  Now  I'll  tell  you  what  I  think. 
1  think  you  '11  give  it  before  you've  been  here  a  great  while." 

lie  sprung  the  bell  again. 

"Here  is  a  man  who  won't  give  his  name.  Take  him  down  and  givl 
him  number  four.     He  will  probably  give  his  name  before  many  hours." 

The  young  man,  who  was  not  ahove  twenty  years  of  age,  seemed  like  a 
person  hardly  compos.  He  was  pale-faced  and  gaunt-looking,  was  seedily 
dressed,  and  had  the  appearance  of  having  just  come  off  a  night's  debauch. 
He  was  taken  down  to  the  detective  office,  again  interrogated,  and  again  de- 
clined to  gi.vc  his. name. 

'•  Qive  him  numbt  r  four,"  said  the  officer  in  charge;  and  he  was  at  once 
seised  and  hurried  oil'  to  the  fated  locality. 

Horror  ol  horrors!  Possibly  no  place  since  the  black  hide  of  Calcutta 
or  the  prison  hulks  of  the  revolution  could  compete  with  cell  number  four 
at  police  headquarters. 


AN    AUMV    NOTK-BOOK.  I. J 

Under  the  reign  of  the  provust  marshal,  it  became  part  and  parcel  of  the 
machinery  of  the  office,  and  was  used,  as  occasion  rMJcd,  to  hold  fast  thi 
Wont  class  of  the  prisoners  arrested,  or  such  as  were  considered  the  most 
flagrant  cases. 

Ming  through  the  outer  room  of  the  detective  office  in  the  basenv 
yon  come  into  the  sitting-room— a  close,  badly-ventilated   chamber — the 
larger  hair  of  which  ia  underground.     Midway  in  the  room  at  the  right  ii 
I  mall  half  glasa  <loor,  cut  in  a  partition,  through  which  you  ent<  r  upon  a 
narrow  corridor,  racing  (bur  sun*  cells.     These  are  numbered,  beginning 
the  south  etui :  one,  two,  three,  four,  the  .latter   being  at  the  extreme  i 
as  you   enter  the  corridor,  which   is  scarcely  wide   enough   to   admit    the 
paaaage  of  a  man. 

The  sides  of  cell  number  four  are  sealed  up  with  boards  to  the  top.     It  la 
about   three  feet  wide  by  six  in  depth.      A  stationary   board  fifteen  in 

iaputOO  the  right  baud  for  a  sleeping  pallet,  and  a  three-cornered 
pine  block,  fastened  to  one  end  of  the  board,  serves  as  a  pillow — there  being 
neither  bed-clothes,  mattresses,  or  straw.     A  wal  and  dipper  in  one 

corner  complete  the  furniture  of  the  cell.  The  sides  of  the  place  are 
thickly  coated  with  whitewash,  in  the  vain  effort  to  purify  it.  Tlie  door  is 
composed  of  iron  bars  about  one  inch  in  width,  and  a  quarter  of  an  inch 
in    thickness,  arra:,  .  so  as  to  intersect  each  other  at   every  two 

and  a  half  inches.     At  the  top  ia  a  small  aperture  eight  inches  square, 
ire  place  swarms  with  vermin.     In  d  p.  hen  'the  cell 

hut,  and  the  door  and  windows  leading  to  the  oute]  apartmenta  I 
I,  the  atmosphere  was  stifling  in   its  character,  while  the  retain   ran 
the   unfortunate    victims,  who    0  her    lie   down    BOI 

•i  from  very  agony,  sometimes  imploring,  in  I  .,  letout, 

if  oidy  fur  a  few  moments,     tn  tl 

be.  d  confined  in  this  <■, ,.  two  ,,|'  tip  m  - 

:  the  ihii  I  iull  lengi 

evidencing'  Outbid  horror  and  mi-fry. 

■  ■ 
,\idual  above  alluded  to,  who  would   n 

Was  shut  and 

door 

In  lilt'  <  d  minutes  b 

I  I  will 
j 
The 


132  QUCAMIlfOS   FROM 

Lous  villain,  is  wished  no  I  te  than  u  d  within  its  walls. 

"Number  four"  is  a  Dy-wor^l  among  the  officers  and  frequenters  of  head* 
.quarters,  and  is  proniised  aaa  b  ri  of  bugbear  to  suoh  inmates  of  the  de- 
-  behave  themselves  unruly. 

One  of  the  individuals  who  had  been  arrested  for  some  criminal  offence, 
upon  reading  an  account  in  the  paper  <«t*  :i  rebel  victory,  laid  the  paper  down 
as  if  in  disgust,  and  remarked,  "  Th  it  's  the  way  with  our  boys — just  prick 
'enTand  tiny  ruu."     The  WOrdfl  n  rted  up  stairs,  and  the  order  came 

down :  •»       »  * 

"  Place  him  in  number  four.      lie  will  be  pricked  where  he  can't   n, 
The  history  of  this  awful  receptacle   for  prisoners  can   never  probably  be 
fully  told  ;  and   we  hive  only  briefly  sketched  it,  to  show  some  portion  of 
th-o   machinery  used  in   conducting  the  business  of  the  provost   marshal's 
office. 

NOVEL   BY8TKM    OF    EXCHANGE. 

A  correspondent  of  the  Savannah  RepublicaiPgpye  the  fallowing  account 
of  the  manner  in  which  an  exchange  of  newspapers  was  effected  between  the 
two  armies  in  Virginia  : 

Lieutenants  "Williamson  and  Heard,  of  the  eighth  regiment,  called  upou 
me,  and  among  other  items  of  interest,  told  me  how  they  effected  an  ex- 
change ot  papers  with  the  Yankees  at  Fredericksburg.  They  constructed 
u  little  boat,  about  two  feet  long,  loaded  her  with  tobacco  and  Richmond 
papers;  and,  taking  her  some  distance  above,  adjusted  the  sails  and  started 
her  across.  In  large  letters,  the  name-  "  Alabama — Captain  Senimes,"  were 
painted  upon  her.  As  soon  as  she  landed,  one  of  the  Yankees  proposed  to 
destroy  her,  when  a  stalwart  Irishman  stepped  foward,  and  said:  "  No,  faith 
and  be  jabers,  if  she's  the  'Alabama,'  we  '11  parole  her  and  turn  her  h> 
Loading  her  with  coffee  and  a  New  York  Herald,  he  started  her  back  to 
this  side,  which  she  safely  reached  after  a  half-hour's  sailing. 

A   YANKEE  HERO. 

Colonel  McLana,  of  the  Eighty-Second  Pennsylvania  Regiment,  who  was  * 

killed  in  the  battle  of  Cold  Harbor,  has  been  eulogized  by  the  Northern. 
papers  tor  courage  and  brilliant  daring.  From  a  general  in  the  Confederate 
States  army,  who  saw  the  colonel  on  the  field  after  his  death,  the  Kichinond 
Examiner  learns  that  he  was  loaded  down  with  armor — having  not  only  u 
breast-plate,  but  steel  harness  for  his  arms,  and  the  lower  part  of  his  body. 
The  bullet  which  gave  his  heroic  soul  its  quietus  entered  in  the  rear  of  his 
left  shoulder,  and  came  out  on  the  right  side  of  the  abdomen.  He  was,  ap- 
parently, shot  while  lying  on  the  ground. 


AN    ARMY    NOTE-EOuK.  1.;;; 

AN    INCIi>ENT    OF    TTIK    WAR. 

The  Cairo  correspondent  of  the  New  York   World  furnished  the  following 

alar  incident: 
Quito  :i  romantic  incident  was  developed  here  to-day,  and  for  the  henefit 
of  your  readers  who  delight  in  tales  of  adventure,  it  shall  be  related.    A 
woman,  named  Annie  Chirk,  arrived  from  Louisville,  ■  eeded  to  Gen- 

.  ml  Shuttle's  headquarters)  bearing  in  her  hand  a  letter  requesting  transporta- 
tion South.      According  to  her  story,  her  husband  joined  the  reb<  1  firm 
Inks,    Mississippi,    his  place  of    residence,   and    she,    bein°-    de 

ing  in  the  same  cause,  assumed  male  apparel,  and  became  a  member 
of  the  Louisiai  i  '<  ..iliy.  where  she  remained,  doin£  the  duties  of  a  t^ol- 
dier,    s-ven    month         "      iming    dissatisfied    with    her    position,    she 

1  and  joined  the  Eleventh  Ten:  Regiment,  in   which     I 

remained  seven  months.  She  was  i<i  all  the  skirmishes,  and  took  part' in 
the  I  hiloh.     While  the  army  was  encamped,  she  frequently  went 

over  to  her  husband's  regiment  to  see  him.  Upon  that  memorable  field  her 
husband  fell.  She  buried  him  with  her  own  hands,  but  her  attachment  to 
the  soldier's  life  was  not  lessened.     She  continued  with   her  comrades  until 

fight  at  Richmond,  Kentucky,  where  the  was  taken  prisoner.     Do 
all  this  trine  her  sex  was  not  discovered.     It  remained  for  a  Yankee  to  do 
that.      Soon  after  her  captufl  q(  to  the  prov.    ;  marshal  in  Louisville 

for  a  parole,  and  while  waiting,  .-1m-  ha]  pened  te  The  wily  marshal 

the   sound,  and  declared   no   man  ever  sneezed   like   that.     The 
truth    v.:-  out,  ai    I 

waited  upon  General  ,  oc. 

icks  with    the   rebel  pi  their    fare.     The 

leral  could  nol  i  adure  to  see  a  female  inbji 
menl  .. ,;,,  in  l 

which  would  1  1  by  Major  Merrill,  Provost  Marshal,  and 

he,  I  I,  would  furnish  her  with  I  ;i  to  Dixie  in  a  manner 

it  thirty  years  of 
: 

-.  ot,  who 

■ 

-.  und   py  dc  hi 
we  vill  whip  dc  tai 
» 


HIRED    A  I.\I>. 

We  have  heard  of  many  cases  of  nun   lial  soription  hiring  Sub- 

stitutes to  take  their  places  in  the  ranks;   hut  the  in-  |  orted  below  is 

uncommon  ami  noteworthy.    Th>'  young  v  ilunteer  who  hired  a  substitute 

iii!i'!  with  the  ordnaoee  vrngon,  while  he  hastened  to  take  part  in 

_'ht.  was  Seaborn  Williams,  of  '1  Alabama,  a  very  modest  ami 

:  ut  courageous  youth,  of  leas  than  -  -.  who  was  killed  in 

the  fight  near  Murfreesboro'.     The  a< ant  which  we  copy  is  from  a  letter 

from  the  ca]. tain  of  his  company,  which  formed  part  of  the  Forty-Fifth 

ama    Regiment.     Captain   A.bercrombie  wrote   thus  concerning   the' 

matter: 

••  The  day  before  the  fight,  I  Received  an  order  to  detail  a  man.  to  Btay 

with  the  ordnanoe  train,  to  bring  ap  ammunition  when  it  was  needed  to  the 

company..     I  detailed  Seaborn.     I  noticed  that  he  left  his  place  in  line  very 

reluctantly, and  went  hack  to  the  train.     KarlyTicxt  morning  I  saw  bim again, 

with  his  gun,  in  line.     I  went  up  to  him,  and  asked  him  why  he  was  there. 

He  replied,  'I  have  hired  another  man  to  stay  behind  with  til.'  wagon)  and. 

if  you  will  let  me,  I  prefer  to  he  with  the  company  in  the  fight   to-day.' 

Unwilling  to  mortify  him,  I  consented  to  his  stay. 

*  ■■:■  *  *  *  * 

"lie  was  conspicuous  for  his  almost  reckless  daring  and  coma. 
though  immediately  fronting  the  enemy's  artillery,  which  was  hut  a  few 
yards  from  us,  and  was  sweeping  lanes  through  our  ranks,  he  boldly  and 
fearlessly  pressed  Btraigbt  forward,  while  others  would  attempt  to 
home  shelter  iroin  the  intervening  trees.  His  arm  seemed  to  he  the  first  to 
plant  a  victorious  hanner  upon  the  enemy's  artillery.  But  he  was  too  con- 
spicuous a  mark  to  pass  unscathed  through  .the  shower  of  halls  and  canister 
that  tin'  enemy  was  raining  upon  us,  and  just  as  the  enemy  was  giving  way, 
u  iatal  hall  entered  his  bowels,  and  passed  through  them,  lie  fell,  hut, 
looking  up  from  the  spot  consecrated  by  a  brave  soldier's  fall,  he  saw  the 
enemy  flying  in  dismay,  and  his  comrades  in  hot  pursuit  to  avenge  his  fill." 

THE    I'UE.NCU.MAN's    I'll  KFKK  I  AC  i 

Bhorth  after  the  fall  of  Sumter,  when  it  had  become  evident  thai  ■ 
lengthy  war  was  imminent,  a  Frenchman  loft  New  Orleans,  and  started  for 
I'aris.  '-Why,"  hewasasked,  "doyou  goand  leave  a  prosperous  business  ?" 
His  reply  was:  ''Ah  ya.  Suppose  I  die  before  zee  war  ovair — I  cannot  he 
entcrre  in  l'ere  la  Chaise,  eh ?"  The  truth  of  this  was  evident:  "But," 
asked  his  interlocutor,  "don't,  you  think  you  could  be  accommodated  with 
a  grave  anywhere  else?"  Shrugging  his  shoulders,  the  Frenchman  said: 
••J  would  razzare  not  die  at  all,  zan  die  and  he  buried  anyvere  except  J  a 
Peri  la  Chaise. 


AN    AI1MV    NOTE-BOOK.  [35 

RBMABKABLI    NARHATTVK.  * 

The  Richmond  correspondent  of  the  Charleston    Merciyy,  alluding  to 

I lishop  Elliot's  proposition  for  a  moMinent  to  the  unknown  dead,  said  uthc 

topic  of  unknown  heroes  was  frequently   introduced  in   conversation,  and 

mentioned  a  number  of  those  In -rocs,  among  them  a  cavalry-man  from  Texas, 

who,  unable  to  walk    a   step,  carries  a  pair  of  crutches  on    horseback,  and 

tnem  h;is  continued  to  perform  all  the,arduou» duties  required  of  him." 

This  soldier  is  Lamar  Fontaine,  a  private  in  the  "Campbell   I'm 

:it  Virginia  cavalry.     lie  is  the  eldest  son  of  rend 

Edward  Fontaine,  an  Episcopal  Minister,  residing  star  Jackson,  Mississippi, 
who  commanded  th<j  Rurt  Rifles,  of  the   Eighteenth    Regiment   Mississippi 
Volunteers,  in  the  first  battle  of  Manassas,  and  who  is  honorably  mentii 
in  General  Beaur<  >rt  of  it.     lie  was  born  in  Washii  uity, 

Texas,  in  1841,  while  his  pareuts  resided  there,  and  was  named  after  bis 
father's  intimate  friend,  General  Mirabeau  Lamar.     Previous  to  the  pr< 
revolution,  Laronr  Fontaine  lived  in  his  native  State,  was  educated  in  Austin, 
•lemy  in  Bastrop,  and  learned  practically  the  i 
'  t'.al  dutii  h  a  Texs  and  hunter  on  the  froi  I 

of  Western  Texas,  where  he  was  unsurpassed  as  a  dexterous  rider  and  skill- 
ful marksman  sippi,  and 
rivate  in  the  first  company  organised  -for  the  defence  of  the 
ippi   Rifles,  of  Jackson,  commanded   by  Captain  Robert 
Smith,  the  heroic                       th  who  foil  .it   Mumfordsville,   Kentucky. 
reel  lent  officer  he  served                            (in  infantry  toldier, 
and  then  as  an  artillerist,  until  hi                          |  to  bis  father's  companv  in 
army  of  I                 lac.     A'  ■  ,  rely 

t,  which   passed  under  bis  feet,  bruising  on 
;i  badly.      Ii<n  was  unwilling  I  d,  and  his  father  procured 

him  a  transfer  to  Captain  iment 

lry.     T"t) 
himself  in  th  I  and  all  the  i 

from 

I  which  il 

una  sisted  .  nd 
t.  r  turnpike,  i 

■  u 

I 


ROM 

Minic  I9II  penetrated  the  back  of  his  Deck,  pa  a  near  his  spine, 

to  find  it  hen, 

hia  rit  •  ■■  have  remained  paralysed.     He  ri  sufficiently 

itaia  leavi  i  al  in   Charlottes  vj  11  everal 

-lit  with  Iii.s  company  in  performing  military  duty,  with 
lition  he  fonght  seven  battles — 
I   River  Bridge,  Warrenton  Springs,  tin-  Rappahannock  or  Wat< 
Bridge,  the  battles  of  the  29th,  80th  1  od  81st,  at  Manassas,  and  the  battle 
of  Germantown. 

W.hilc  the  enemy  were  shelling  Warrenton  Springs,  General   R.  EL  An- 
no wished  to  ascertain  what  division  of  the  army  occupied  the  north 
bank  of  the  Rappahannock,  .opposite  1  a.     Bevolunb  bring 

him  the  necessary  information,  swam  the  Rappahaqnock,  surprised  three  of 
the  enemy's  armed  pickets,  and  brought  them  across  the  river  to  the  general, 
the  erutohed  hero  a  certificate  •  nting  Ins  skill  and  gal- 

lantry,    .'•  attlo  of    Hazel  11.  inie  bad    broke  one  of   his 

crutches,  and  Qne    of  th*1  enemy's  horses,  without  a  rider,  ran  against  him 
and   broke  the  other.     In  the  second   day'.-   fight  at   Manassas,  he  had  a 
killed  under  him,  and  another  the  day  after  at  Q-ermantown.     V. 
iiing  the  enemy's  cavalry,  a  pistol-shot  penetrated,  his  cap,  graced  his 
temple,  and  k:  im  from    his  horse.      SiuCQj  he   has  been  pronounced 

incompetent  to  perform  military  duty,  on  account  ol"  his  wounds,  and  while 
acting  aa  a  volunteer  on  hospital  furloughs,  be  has  captured  six  prisoners 
without  any  assistance,  and  killed  many  of  the  enemy.  In  different  battles 
he  has  hud  six  horses  killed  under  him,  and  1  have  no  doubt  has  killed 
more  of  the  enemy  than  any  soldier  in  our  army. 

"BLEBS   DE  LORl>,    I    is   si  u  -n    VKT." 

A  private  letter  from  Winchester,  describing  the  scenes  which  occurred 
there  during  its  occupation  by  the  Federal  General,  Milroy,  related  the  fol- 
lowing incident : 

u  They  had  an  old   darkey  umhr  arrest   I  i  e  would  not  work,  and 

said  he  was  'secesh.'  They  put  him  in  the  guard-house  and  kept  him  for 
three  days  on  water.  The  fourth  day  the  officer  went,  and  said,  'Arc  you 
Beoeshyet?'  The  faithful  old  fellow,  clapping  bis  .hand-,  said,  'Bless  da 
Lord,  Mas.-a,  J  h  yet."     They  then  took  him  up  to  the  general's,  and 

put  very  large  iron  balls  to  his  legs,  and  set  him  to  splitting  wood.  Brother 
Alexander  went  by  and  saw  him.  #  It  happened  that  the  officer  who  was  guard- 
in"  him  was  the  same  who  had  searched  our  bouse,  apd  arrested  brother. 
He  was  cursing  the  poor  old  negro  dreadfully  ;  said  he  ought  to  have  a  ball 
on  his  neck  and  one  OB  both  arms.  The.  old  fellow  went  on  splitting,  saying 
all  the  time,  '  U>rd,  Maesa,  anywhere  you  can  put  it.     You  can 


AN   ARMY    WOTE-BOOK  I  17 

kill  de  body,  bul  you  can't  kill  de  soul,  and  when  da(  gets  to  heaven  it,  will 
be  seeesh  yet.'  Brother  oalled  to  the  officer,  and  said,  <  Halloa,  Grant,  is 
th  it  what  you  call  freedom  ?'  Mother  and  John  Godfrey  M.  were  standing 
on  th.e  steps,  laughing  and  talking.  Jusl  a<  the  moment,  pome,  little 
children  were  laughing  and  making  fun  of  the  Yanket  :  (iencral  Olutara 
1  by,  and  thought  mother  and  John  were  laughing  at  him  with  the 
children',  and  took  them  both  up  to  headquarters,  where  they  were  kept  for 
ral  hours.     So,  you  see  we  were  not  allowed  even  to  laugh." 

the  UBIQUITOUS  jackson!  iff,? 

A  citizen  of  Richmond  was  conversing  with  two  wound,  d  Federal  officers 
on  a  train  coming  from  the  battle-fii  Id.  when  one  of  the  latter  remarked  that 
n  was  fully  aware  of  all  the  movements  of  the  Con  fed  crates — that 
nothing  transpired  on  our  lines  of  which  he  was  not  immediately  informed. 
"Ah,"  said  the  citizen,  "perhaps,  then,  you  can  tell  me  where  Stonewall 
Jackson  is  at  present."  ''Oh,  yes,"  replied  the  Federal,  "he  is  in  the 
Valley,  and  has  I  ly  reinforced."     "Indeed,"  was  the  rejoinder ; 

"  now  what  Would  you  say  if  I  was  to  tell   you  that  Stonewall  is  now  in  the 

our  army  on  the  Chickahominy,  with  a  fair  prospect  of  gii 
McClellan  a  worse  rout  than  he  gave    Hanks  on  the  Shenandoah?"     Tl  • 
rarted  as  if  he  had  received  another  shock  from  a  bomb-shell,  and 
at  once  subsided  into  silence. 

FEMALE   PATRIOTISM. 

The  Mobile    TYibwie  related   an    instance   of  female  patriotism  which   is 

ih    Lansfbrd,    of    Cherokee    County, 
i   a  dying  condition,  with    no  hope  of  recovery.     While 

■   pairs  of  jeans  pant 
'  her  husband  that  he 
tend  the  d<  In  Such  i 

ble  mothers  of  our  racy. 

AN   ITi 
Lynchbui  .  that  in  the  infc  t 

family  bei  .  an- 

tb  him  some  for  five 

t 

■  wl.'' 

- 


win*.-  r&oM 

LAMAB   fONTAINE   OB   A   BOOUT. 
The  Mobile  Register  published  the  following  interesting  letter  from  the 
father  of  Lamar  Fontaine,  urthor  of  "All  quiet  along  the  Potomac  to- 
il igbt»" 

Lamar  is  continually  in  the  saddle,  and  cmplo)-ed  in  very  hazardous  en- 
terprises.    His  last  (bat  of  armi  was  the  most  daring  lie  has  yet  performed. 

lie  left  my  house  .May  24,  under  orders  from  Qeneral  Johnston,  to 
I ■«  ir  a  verbal  dispatch  to  General  Pemberton,  in  Vicksburg,  and  to  carry  a 
supply  of  percussion  caps  to  our  troops  in  that  besieged  city.  I  parted 
with  him,  hardly  hoping  ever  to  see  him  again  alive;  fori  knew  that  Vicks- 
burg was  closely  invested  on  all  side-.  The  enemy's  lines  of  eircumvalla- 
tion  extended  from  Snyder's  Bluff,  on  the  Yazoo,  to  Warrenton,  on  the 
Mississippi,  and  the  rivers  and  (heir  opposite  shores  are  filled  and  lined 
with  their  forces. 

He  was  well  mounted,  hut  was  burdened  with  forty  pounds  of  peronssion 
caps,  besides  his  blanket  and  crutches.  He  has  no  use  of  his  broken  [eg, 
and  cannot  walk  a  step  without)  a  crutch  ;  and  in  mounting  his  horse,  he  has 
to  lift  it  over  the  saddle  with  his  right  hand.  But  he  accomplishes  this 
operation  with  much  dexterity,  and  without  assistance.  1  loaned  him  a 
very  fine  sabre  with  a  wooden  scabbard,  to  prevent  rattling,  and  a  very 
reliable  revolver,  which  has  never  missed  fire  when  loaded  by  mc. 

The  family  were  called  together  for  prayer,  and  we  prayed  fervently  that, 
the  God  of  our  fathers  would  shield  him  from  all  danger,  and  enable  him  to 
fulfil  his  mission  to  Vicksburg  successfully,  and  give  him  a  safe  return  to  ns 
all.  I  then  exhorted  him  to  remember  that  if  it  was  the  will  of  God  for  him 
to  live  and  serve  his  country,  all  the  Yankees  owned  by  Lincoln  could  not 
kill  him;  but  if  it  was  the  divine  will  that  he  should  die,  he  would  be  in 
as  much  danger  at.  home  as  in  Vicksburg,  and  death  would  certainly  and 
him,  no  matter  where  he  might  be.     J  charged  him  to  u  I  endeav- 

ors to  kill  every  one  of  the  jackals  who  should  attempt  to  stop  his  course, 
or  come  within  the  reach  of  his  sword  or  pistol. 

lie  crossed    the  Big  Black    River    that    night,  and   the   next    day  got   bc- 

tween  their  lines  and  the  division  of  their  army  whicb  was  al  Mechanics- 
burg.  He  hid  his  horse  in  a  ravine,  and  ensconced  himself  in  a  fallen 
tree,  overlooking' the  road  during  thai  day.  Prom  his  hiding-place  he  wit- 
nessed the,  retreat  of  the  Yankees,  who  passed  him  in  considerable  haste 
ami  confusion.  After  their  columns  had  gone  by,  and  the  night  had  made 
it  safe  for  him  to  move,  he  continued  his  route  in  the  direction  of  Snyder's 
Bluff.  As  he  entered  the  telegraphio  road  from  Xazoo  City  to  Vicksburg, 
he  was  hailed  by  a  picket,  but  dashed  by  him.  A  volley  was  fired  at 
him  "by  the  Yankees.  He  escaped  unhurt,  but  a  Minie  ball  wounded  his 
horse  mortally      The   spirited   animal,  however,   carried  him  safely  to  the 


AN    ARMY    NOTE-BOOK.  139 

bank  of  the  Yazoo  River,  where  he  died,  and  left  him  afoot.  He  lost  one 
of  his  crutches  in  making  his  escape.  This  was  jerked  from  him  by  the 
limb  of  a  tree,  and  he  had  no  time  to  pick  it  up. 

With  the  assistance  of  one  crutch,  he  carried  his  baggage  and  groped 
along  the  Yazoo  until  he  providentially  discovered  a  small  log  canoe,  tied  by 
a  rope,  within  his  roach,  lie  pressed  this  into  his  service,  and  paddled 
down  the  river  until  he  met  three  Yankee  gunboats  QOtning  up  to  Yazoo 
City.  He  avoided  them  by  running  under  some  willows  overhanging  the 
water,  and  lying  concealed  until  they  passed.     Soon  afterwards  he  floated  by 

ler's  Muff,  .which  was  illuminated,  and  alive  with  Yankees  and 
participating  in  the  amusement  of  a  grand   ball  of  mixed  races.      Be  lay 
flat  in  his  canoe,  which  was  nothing  but  a   hollow  log,  and  could  hardly  be 
distinguished   from  a  piece  of  drift-wood — and   glided  safely  through    the 
■oats,  transports  and   barges  of  the  amalgamationists.     lie  reached    tli«' 
back  water  of  the  Mississippi  before  day,  and  in  the   darkness  missed  the 
t  of  the  Yazoo,  and   got  into  " Old   Kiver."     After  searching  in  vain 
tor  ft  pass  into  the  Mississippi,  day  dawned,  and  he  discovered  his  mistake, 
lie  was  forced  to  conceal  his  boat  and  himself,  and   lie  by  for  another 
tie  had  been  two  nights  without  food,  and  began  to  suffer  the  pang 
hunger. 

At  night  he  paddled  back  into  the  Yazoo,  and  descended  it  to  the  ML-- 
;,  pi,  passing  forty  or  fifty  of  the  Yankee  transports.  Only  one  man 
d   him,  ironi   the  stern  of  a  Steamboat,  and   asked    him  where   he 

plied  that   he  was  going  to  his  fishing-lines.     In   the   bend 

ksburg  lie  floated  by  the  mortar  fleet, lying  flat  in  his  canoe.    The 

■  re  in  lull  blast  bombarding  the  city.     The  next  morninir  he  tied 

a  white  handkerchief  to  his  paddle,  raised  himself  up  in  the  midst  of  oar 

•  Vicksburg,  at  i  loud   huzza  for  Jeff.   Davis  and  the 

cy,  amid  the  ur  sailors,  wh<  .Jul 

Mnn.  and  teral  Pet 

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1  III  .  &0M 

,1  an  old  I  up  him,  he  inferred  that  a  negro 

Lad  left  him  there,  and  ••  cainp  was  not  far  distant     He  ex- 

Idled  th  1 1   mounted  him,  alter  turning 

the  colt. 

ber  ridiu-T  so  as  to  avoid  tin  ition  of  thV  Yankc- 

ooantered  one  of  the  thieves,  who  was  returning  to  it  horn  a  successful 
plundering  excursion,  lie  was  loaded  with  chickens  and  a  bucket  of  honey. 
He  commenced  catechizing  Lamar  in  tnn-  \  ankee  style,  who  concluded  it 

to  satisfy  his  curiosity  by  Bending  him  where  he  could  know  all  that 
the  devil  could  teach  him.  With  a  pistol  bullet  thruugu  his  forehead,  lie 
left  him,  with  his  honey  and  poultry,  King  in  the  path,  to  excite  the  con- 
jecture s  of  Lis  fellow  thi 

He  approached  with  much  caution  the  next  settlement.  There  l;e  hired 
a  guide  for  iifty  dollars  to  pilot  him  to  Uanker.son's  Terry,  on  Big  Black 
River,  which  he  wished  to  reach,  near  that  point,  without  following  any 
road.  The  fellow  he  hired  proved  to  he  a  traitor.  When  he  got  near  the 
ferry,  Lamar  sent  him  ahead  to  ascertain  whether  any  Yankees  were  in  the 
vicinity.  The  conversation  and  manners  of  the  man  had  excited  his  sus- 
picions, and  as  soon  as  he  lcit  him,  he  concealed  himself,  but  remained 
where  he  could  watch  his  return,  lie  remained,  much  longer  than  he  ex- 
pected, but  returned  and  reported  that  the  way  was  open,  and  that  no 
Yankees  were  near* the  ferry.  Alter  paying  him,  he  took  the  precaution  to 
avoid  the  ferry,  and  to  approach  the  river  above  it,  instead  of  following  the 
guide's  directions.  By  this  he  flanked  a  force  of  the  Yankees  posted  to 
intercept  him ;  but  as  he  entered  the  road  near  the  river  bank,  one  of  them, 
who  seemed  to  be  on  the  right  of  a  long  line  of  sentinels,  suddenly  rose  up 
within  ten  feet  of  him,  aud  ordered  him  to  halt.  lie  replied  with  a  pistol 
shot,  which  killed  the  sentinel  dead,  and,  wheeling  his  horse,  galloped 
through  the  bottom,  up  the  river;  but  the  Yankees  sent  a  shower  of  balls 
after  him,  two  of  which  wounded  his  right  baud,  injuriug  four  of  his  lin- 
gers. One  grazed  his  right  leg,  cutting  two  holes  through  his  pantaloons, 
aud  another  cut  through  one  side  of  my  sword-seabbard,  spoiling-its  beauty, 
but  leaving  a  mark  which  makes  me  prize  it  more  highly,  ^eveu  bullets 
struck  the  horse,  which  reeled  under  him,  but  had  strength  and  speed  to 
bear  him  a  mile  lrom  his  pursuers  before  he  fell  and  died.  Lamar  then 
divided  his  clothes  and  arms  into  two  packages,  aud  swam  JL>ig  Black  River 
lid  not  walk  far  before  a  patriotic  lady  supplied  him  with  the 
only  horse  she  had — a  stray  one,  which  came  to  her  house  after  the  Yankees 
had  carried  off  all  the  animals  belonging  to  the.  place.  On  this  he  reached 
Raymond  at  two  o'clock  in  the  morning,  changed  his  horse  lor  a  fresh  one, 
carried  his  dispatch  to  Jackson  that  morning',  and  rejoiced  us  all  by  an 
unexpected  visit  the  same  day. 


AN    ARMY    NuTK-IJooi;.  II  [ 

BOUTKKBM   LlOIXS. 

A  correspondent  of  the   Charleston  Cowriar  writes:    The   indomil 

spirit,  patriotic  resolution,  and  heroic  self-denial  of  the  ladies  of  this  Con- 
ia  unconquerable.     Tu  Williamsburg,  they  cheered  on    our  men, 

nraged   them  by  words  arid  deeds,  implored   them  to  strike  down  the 
barbarian,  and  next  day  refused  to  let  any  federalist,  officer  or  privati 

ite  their  threshholds.  As  an  illustration:  Two  days  before  the  battle, 
the  wife  of  a  certain  hotel-keeper  gave  birth  to  a  beautiful  boy.  The  father 
and  husband  was  in  the  Confederate  service.  When  the  place  fell  into  the 
hands  of  the  Federals,  one  of  their  officers  came  to  her  house  and  demanded 
to*sce  her.  She  arose,  dressed  herself,  and  met  him  at  the  do<>r.  "  What 
do  you  wish  of  me?"  -aid  she.  "  I  want  to  bring  you  before  the  general," 
was  the  response.  "  What  for?"  "  four  husband  is  a  rebel,  and  you  have 
entertained  .rebels  and  given  them  information."  "I  understand  it,"  said 
the  heroine;  "  I  keep  a  hotel;  offices  who  defended  my  home  lodged  here  • 
I  wish  I  ifculd  inform  them  of  the  means  of  destroying  all  of  your  accn- 
horde,  and  I  would  cheerfully  do  so.  You  have  come  to  arrest  me,  but  that 
can  be  done  only  when  you  or  I,  one  or  the  other,  is  dead  ;  i  lect  your 
choice."  And  he  left  without  her  !  Speaking  of  this  incident  to 
McClellan,  Dr.  Cullea  recently  said :  "How  can  ycu  ever  expect  to  con- 
quer are  so  unconquerable?"  To  which  ' 
you;.                                 onded  by  a  despondent  .-hake  of  his  head. 

A   :       -        <>v. 
Among  the  many  acts  of  heroic  bravery,  so  widely  circulated  among  the 

flood  and  field,"  in  the  battle  of  " 
Plains,  on  th<  L,  non<  m  rves  a  passing  me- 

:   Louisiana,  a 
'  i  ict 

ilina. 
Tl,  only  four!  ra  old,  and  a  member  of 

ompany,  in  the  Han  |  ,„uorablc 

r'n  t,  whose  name  the  <•  mns 
This  little  f< 
and 

or  any  of 

Mon  there,  tl  melee 

he  v. 

Icr  by  Major  . . 


\A1  ROM 

This  so  fired   his  young   heart  thai   he  then  insisti  d,  un  going  to  his 
grand  :  i c- 1 .  that  he  should  h?  permittod  to  joinUhe 

on  Guards,  under  Captain  Gary  j  and  said  that  he  was- determined  to 
fight  die  Yankees  to  the  end  of  the  war;  and  hia  grand-mother  at  length 
yielded,  and  sent  a  big,  >w  to  take  oari  of  him.     On  the 

■I'the  memorable  battle,  Devi  n  aev<  ral  days,  but 

with  a  light  breakfast  and  a  blister  on  him  the  size  of  a 
ran  seven  miles  as  well  as  any  of  them,  and  when  in    the  mrdsl  of  the 

rest  part  of  the  fighting,  after  being  five  hours  on  foot,  shut  an  ofl 
and  advanced  upon  him,  under  a  heavy  fire,  Boms  distance  in  fironl  of  his 
company,  and  captured  a  sword  from  hia  p<  rson,  whioh  he  now  baa  in  Uis 
own  possession.     lie  killed  u  soldier,  and  took  his  gun  also,  in  another  part 
of  the  fray. 

After  the  action,  and  subsequently  t>>  the  disorderly  retreat  of  the  grand 
army,  when  once  more  upon  his  sick  pallet,  Mr.  John  Nicholson,  a  brother 
ier  who  had  more  experience,. advised  him  to  go  back. to  Richmond  to 
reeruit  his  health,  but  turning  over,  with  his  teeth  firmly  set,  he  declared 
that  he  would  never  do  that  until  the  Confederate  army  had  raptured  the 
city  of  Washington.  That  nothing  should  deprive  him  of  being  present  on 
that  occasion,  and  true  to  his  instincts,  he  is  still  lingering  in  the  field, 
awaiting  the  slow  but  certain  approaches  of  the  army  to  that  result. 

LAST    MOMENTS    OP    CAPTAIN    WISE: 

A  letter,  from  Bonaoke  [aland,  published  in  the  New  York  Herald^  gives 
the  following  report  of  a  conversation  whioh  a  Federal  officer  held  with 
Captain  0.  Jennings  Wise,  in  his  dying  moments : 

While  referring  to  the  officers,  it  may  be  interesting  to  relate  the  particu- 
lars of  an  interview  which  took  place  between  0.  Jennings  Wise  and  Ma- 
jor Kimball, of  the  Ninth  New  York  volunteers,  who,  it  will  be  remembered, 
allantly  led  the  of  that  regiment  in  the  taking  of  the  rebel  bat- 

teries. The  former,  after  his  capture  in  the  boat,  was  conveyed  to  the 
hospital  near  the  above,  where  -Major  Kimball  was  introduced  to  him  by 
\)r.  Col.-,  of  the  Wise  Legion. 

••  I  Mil  Wily  tO  See  you  under  these  circumstances,"  said  Major  Kimball, 
as  the  WOUnded  man  turned  towards  him,  his  face  betraying  the  intense 
agony  he  endured;  "  L  hope  your  injuries  are  not  fatal,  and  that  you  will 
recover." 

Wise  shook  his  head  with  an  expression  that  -bowed  his  belief  that  hLs 
days  were  numbered. 

"I  hope,  Captain  Wise,"  said  Major  Kimball,  continuing,  "that  the 
time  will  come  when  we  shall  be  re-unitcd  under  that  flag — the  Union 
colors." 


A.N   AH. MY    NOTE-BO  143 

shook  his  head  again,  and. in  a  firm,  hold  (nno,  ejaculated,  "  Never! 

never!     We  will  never  live  under  ili.it,  flag  again.     Every  man,  woman  and 

child  in  the  South  is  willing  to  pour  out  the  last  drop  of  life's  blood  before 

•11  be  go.     You  may  possibly  annihilate  us,  but  can  never  reduce  Dfl  to 

the  condition  of  a  conquered  province." 

"  Well,  Captain  Wise,"  responded  Major  Kimball,  "you  cannot  be  igno- 
rant that  the  North  is  determined  to  enforce  the  laws  and  the  Constitution 
and  have  tbe  Southern  States  acknowledge  the  supremacy  of  that  flag.    Our 
people  are  as  firm  as  yours  in  the  matter.     But  there  is  no  use  in  discuj 

■  affairs  now.     The  war,  I  hope,  will  continue  to  be  conducted  on   b<jth 
aides  in  accordance  with  the  principles  of  civilized  nations." 

replied  he  was  glad  it  had  been  so  far,  and  also  hoped  it  would  con- 
tinue 

ir  Kimball  then  offered  the  Wounded  man  any  assistance  in  his  power. 
for  which  "Wise  returned  his  thanks  very  warmly.  The  surgeons  in  atten- 
dance now  interdicted  any  further  C  mvcrsation,  owini:  to  the  weak  condi- 
tion of  their  who  lingered  on,  until  the  next  morning,  when  he 
died. 

A  correspondent  of  the  Richmond  Di  >atoh  writes: 
"When   the  steamer  arrived  at  <1urrituck,  fieneral  Wise  directed  that  the 
coffin  containing  the  remains  of  his  son  be  opened.     Then,  I  learn  from 

red  thai  wonb  cannot  describ  ,  Thn 
old  hero  bent  over  the  body  of  his  son,  on  whose  pale  face  the  full  mooa 
threw    it-   light,  kit  •  1    the  cold  brow  many  times.    ,md   exclaimed,  in   an 

taon  :  ••  <  >,  my  brave  boy,  you  have  died  fir  me — vr,u  have 
for  i 

That  powerful  old   hero  of  Eastern  Virginia,  as  famous  for  the 
impulse-  of  his  joul  as  for  his  indomnitable  bravery  and  proWi 

from   his  illness — and   nerved,  perchanee.  ronglv,  by  the 

ned,  wiil  fight  the   enemy  with  an   energy  and  | 
n  thai   will   m  ara  ly  i'  i  by  the 

fr<  i  dom  and  humanity. 
• 

"  w        ■  I.  '• 

Cincinatti  respoi 

\   re]  of  this  city,  in    a  r-  on< 

called  upon  President  Lincoln.     In  t( 
tor 

i  i 
■ 

.     th< 


Ill  low 

.Tm:   BORRO&fl    OF   WAU. 

A  correspondent  of  tiho  Columbus  I  ollowing  graphic 

ami  harrowing  account  of  what  he  saw  in  a  Richmond  hospital  after  the 

battle-  around  thai  city  : 

ii  after  we  "stacked  arm  .'  I  a  lar:.ro  ho  pital,  which 

had  j  built  for  the  e  the  wounded 

.  oh,  ray  God!  what  a  harrowi  I  of  human  suffer- 

ing!    And   it'  this  picture  be  terrible,  wl  have  been   tb<    bloody 

battle-field  on  which  the  noble  t'«!!  ■  •  and  fell!     Bere  ia  a  poor 

unfortunate,  leaning  on  his  last  arm.  looking  so  wistfully  ami  Bad,  wl 
right  arm  has  iu<t  gone,  before  the  balance  of  his  1,0  '■  Iture. 

There  lies  another,  near  him,  whose  leg  has  just  been  amputated-.     Another, 

mils  out  a  large  Minie  ball  from  liis  pocket,  and, 
to  a  ghastly  wound  in  bis  side,  tella  us  how  he  suffered,  as  he  lay,  the  long 
night  through,  without  water,  or  food,  or  gentle  words,  on  the  field*,   just 
where  he  fell.     We  pass  row  after  row  of  those  wounded  in  the  limbs;  for 
this  cl.is-  constituted,  perhaps,  four-filths  of  the  whole  number. 

But  away  over  yonder,  in   the  corner  of  a  building,  where  a  large  group 
o  illected  around  the  lowly  couch  of  the  sufferer,  is  tl  .:  of 

all.  An  intelligent  looking  man,  some  thirty-live  or  forty  years  of  age,  who 
was  wounded  in  the  abdomen  tin;  day  before,  is  dying.  His  mother,  sisters, 
wife — where  are  they?  Alas,  tiny  are,  perhaps,  at  this  moment,  praying 
for  his  safe  return.  No  familiar  face  meets  his  sinking  vision,  as  bis  earnest 
begin  to  glaze  in  death.  But  many  of  the  noble  hearted  wives  and 
daughters,  and  sisters  of  Richmond, like  angels  of  mercy,  crowd  these  halls 

itorrid  suffering,  and  they  gather  kindly  around  the  stranger's  hun 
bed,  to  wipe  away  death's  gathering  dew  .ami  with  their  gentle  mini-na- 
tion-, mitigate  the  agonies  that  crowd  his  mortal  hour.  God  Mess  the  noble 
ladies  of  Richmond.  Every  Southern  soldier — wounded  or  well — is  made 
the  beneficiary  "I'  their  unbounded  hospitality.  And  they  are  kind  and 
eentle  even  to  the  Yankee  prisoners — the  vandal  thieves  who  started  hero 
to  inaugurate  a  rule  in  Richmond  like  that  which  curses  New  Orleans. 

KKi:\    It  T.  TOUT. 

AVhilc  the    Yankt  i   officers,  captured  by  Forrest,  at    Murlrecsboro',  were 

pas  '  rings,  a  lady  of  that   village,  at    whom    they  stared 

rather   impudently,  sarcastically  remark  id  that   they  were  a  good  looking 

of  Yankees.     ^  Yes,  madam,"  responded  one  of  the  captured  officers, 

.  wc  all  wish  to  marry." 

''  "Well,  sir,"  rejoined   the  lady,  "  when  you   have  subjugated   the  South, 

or  failing  in  that,  emigrated  to  Liberia,  1  will  guarantee  each  of  you  a  robust, 

Woolly-headed  QegTO  wife." 


\kmv  Nn-rr.  bo  145 

A    Ilf.non.'   GIRL 
The   Memphis  Appro!  relates  one  of  the  most  heroic  acts  of  the  war, 
which  occurred  near  German  town,  Tennessee.     Two  Federal  soldiers  entered 
the  dwelling  of  an  old  citizen,  and  after  being  well  treated,  they  demand. 

the  old  gentleman's  money,  and  one  of  the  ruffians  sought  to  force  a 
compliance  with  their  demand  by  levelling  his  gun  at  the  head  of  the  h 
The  old  lady  interposed  herself  between  the  gun  of.  the  miscreant  and  her 
husband,  and  while  the  cow  ited  to  shunt,  a  daughter  of  the 

ile  came  from  an  adjoining  room,  and  seeing  the  situation  of  afl 
seized  a  double-barreled   shot  gun,  with  which  she  shot  the  ruffian  through 

head,  killing  him  instantly.     His  companion  fled,  while  the  inmates  of 
the  house  remained  uninjured. 

r4.NK.EE    OUTRAOES    IN    MEMPHIS,    TENNESSEE. 

Captain  Reading,  a  citizen  of  Memphis,  having  made  his  eseape 
from  that  city,  informed  the  editor  of  the  Montgomery  Advertiser,  among 
other  things,  that  <ct  of  the  Yankees  to   the  inhabitants    in    the 

vicinity  of  Memphis   was   brutal   in  the  extreme.     They  are  literally  n  • 
He   related  an  instance  of  a  holy   living   about 
mill  -    from    Memphis,    who    was    called  upon    by  B  F  Yankee   ma- 

rauders.    The  robbers  took  ;  of  the  house  and  beautiful  grounds, 

and  ordered  the  servants  to  prepare  dinner.     After  having  satisfied   ; 
appetites,  they  amused  themselves   by  disfiguring  the  grounds  and  portions 
Learning  that  the  lady's    bti  band   and   BOM  were    in   the 
rmy,  the  officer  in  command  informed  her  that  her  prop'  rty 

led  from   her  neco\. 
red   her  to  give  it  up.     This  she  refused  to  do,  when   he  called  on  two 
ol  li  bold  her,  while  a  third  took   off  the  rross.     '(  be* 

Miniature   of  a    dead   child,  which    she    hid   in    her 
This  is  a  sample  of  the  way  in  which  the  Yankees  are  run 
up  ;.  bug  .  which  will  a  1  with  it 

!    the  South. 

o: 
1:  has  comC  to  be  *]j  know 

the  old  1 
;n  how  he  eamc  to  b<  so  much   ii 
'•aid    he.  "  massa   i 
know  i-  this — massa  ?ays  nil 
it  h  of  bed  two  or  three  time?  ir,  I 

k,  for  I  knowi 
I 

iy 


146 

AN    INC1M.V. 

The  following  extract  front  letter  from  Fredericksburg,  written  by  an 
in  Gem     I  Lee's  army,  re!  i  sanl  incident  in  camp  life,  which 

do  donbt  helped  materially  to  reiii 

It  is  acknowledged  thai  the   Federals,  with  :ill  tlicir  faults,  haw 

capital  bands  in  their   ranks.      One   of  these  organizations  came  down 

to   the  river  Bide  opposite    Fredericksburg,   and  favored  our    buys   (who 

bad  gathered  in  large  numbers  to  list*  a)  with  a  variety  of  popular  pi 

in  the  best  style.     Applause  from  the  audience  on  each  side  followed.     The 

band  then  struck, up  "  Dixie,"  and  executed  it  in-  a  credible  manner.     At 

our  Boldi  np  such  :i  shout  as  made  the  welkin  rim:. 

wasjbllow   1  I  ■••  "  Yankee  Doodle,"  when  a  burst  of  applause  from  the 

Federals  followed.     Finally,  the  band  played   "Home,  Sweet    Elome,"  ■ 

ly  which  all  could  feel  and  appn  1  when  it  was  hushed,  Buoh 

a  Bhout   went  ii])  from    both   armies  as    I    doubt    has   ever    been    beard    on 

earth.     I  looked  around  me,  and  saw  t-  ars  coursing  down  many  a  furrowed 

and  battle-worn  cheek,  and  if  the  frantic  cheers  that  went  up  from  the 

Other  side  of  the  river  were  any  criterion,  our  neighboring  enemies  were  as 

much  affected. 

r 

A    HOUSEHOLD   ANGEL. 

The  editor  of  the  Knoxville  Register  relates  the  following  touching 
incident: 

A.fter  the  battle  of  Sharpsburg,  w<  ssed  ever  a  line  of  railroad  in  Cen- 
tral Georgia     The  disabled  soldiers  from  General  Lee's  armies  i   inrn- 

ing  to  tlu'ir  homes.  At  every  station,  the  wives  and  daughters  of 
fanners  came  on  the  cars  and  distributed  food  and  .wines  and  band 
among  the  sick  and  wounded.  We  shall  never  forget  how  very  like  an 
angel  was  a  pretty  little  girl  5  how  blushingly  and  modestly  she  went  to  a 
real  rude,  bearded  soldier,  who  had  carved  a  crutch  from  a  rough  plank  to 
replace  a  lost  leg;  bow  this  little  girl  asked  him  if  he  was  hungry,  and 
how  he  ate  like  a  famished  wolf.  She  asked  if  his  wound  was  painful,  and 
in  a  voice  of  soft,  mellow  acconts,  "  Can  I  do  nothing  more  for  you  ?  I  am 
so  sorry  that  yon  are  so  badly  hurt;  have  you  a  little  daughter,  and  wont 
she  cry  when  she  sees  you  ?"  The  rude  soldier's  heart  was  touched,  and 
tears  of  love  and  gratitude  tilled  his  eyes.  Be  only  answered,  "  I  have 
three  little  children.  God  -rant  that  they  may  be  such  angels  a.s  you." 
With  an  evident  effort,  hi  repressed  a  desire  to  kiss  the  fair  brow  of  tho 
pretty  little  girl.  lie  took  her  little  hand  between  both  his  own,  and  bade. 
I  .  r  ■•  _•  l-bye, '  rod  bless  you."  This  ohild  will  always  be  a  belter  woman 
because  of  th<  ■  lessonl  of  practical  god-like  charity  stamped  ineffaceably 
upon  her  youni'  In  art. 


AN    ARMY    NOTEBOOK.  1  17 

THE    LADIES    OF    FREDERICKSBURG,    VIRGINIA 

gentleman,  highly  esteemed  by  his  numerous  friends  in  tbe  array  for 
his  hospitality  and  kindness  to  the  soldiers,  for  whom  a  scat  is  alwfn  - 

11  as  for  his  numerous  other  attractive  characteristics,  not  the 
least  of  which  is  having  his  home  graced  by  three  beautiful  dfi  .  find- 

ing it  impossible  to  obtain  even  a   temporary  country, 

Ived  to  remain  in  town   during  the  bombardm  ■,  to 

;i  1  property  from  plunder.     After  the  occupied 

by  the  enemy,  he  was  seised  by  a  couple  of  soldiers  and  taken  before  th<- 
eolonel  of  one  of  the  regiments  occupying  the  town,  without  ev<  d  knowing 
barge  upon  which  he  was  arrested.     Bis  ■ 

itit'ul  and  accomplished  young  ladies  in  the  city,  hearing  of  the 
circumstance  a  moment  after  its  occurrence,  immediately  set  oat  to  rind  her 
father,  whom  -  overtook*,  and  accompanied  to  the  preience  of  the 

colonel.     "Sir.  he,  "my  father  has  been  arrested  without  a  oh 

is  innocent  of  any  crime.     I  have  come  to  ask  his  release.     Your  i 
are  m  re  than  cowards — they  are  J.  "  Madam,"  replied  he,  "you  are 

right,  they  are  fiends ;  your  father  is  at  HI  (company  you   home." 

re  they  had  returned  home,  a  party  of  drunken  soldiers,  accompa 

by  an  officer,  had  gathered  in  front  of  the  house,  apparently  with  the  inten- 

"f  offering  further   violence   or  insult,  while   the   ladies  and   children 

left  without  a  protector.     No  sooner  had  the  second  daughter  (who  is 

i  lovely  and  interesting  lady)  noticed  this,  th.-fh  she  drew  an  old  family 

-bard,  and  ;  in  the  do 

er  the  hous        In  vain  did  the  officer  |  With  8] 

11  held  her  place.     "Mad  I  he,  "you  areexoii 

f,  hjr;    I  am  only  d  that 

will  find  it  to  his  cost."     And  thus  she  remained  until  the  return  of 
father,  wl,  tot  but  i 

found  in  one  h 

.ire  in  danger  ;  will 

I  .. 

ut  if  my  I 

I 
I 
I 


11*  I08  from 

The  Fort  Penibi  rton  correspondent  of  the  Jackson  Appeal  said  of  Gen- 
\\m.  Loriog : 

leral  Loriog  is  called  "OW  Bliisard-1"  throughout  the  whole  camp, 

from  the  following  circu:  :  The  daj  before  the  enemy  came  down,  if 

mined  to  remove  a  1  i  .  from  the  right  wing  of  our  works  to 

ft.     It  was  brought  over,  but  the  mud  was  that  the  gun  stuck 

bout  twenty 8b  ps  from  the  platform  upon  which  it  had  to  be  placed. 

ral  Lioring  came  up  in  person  and  assisted  in  getting  it  out  of  its 
perilous  position:  He  urged  the  men  to  renewed  labor,  telling  them  the 
smoke  of  the  gunboats  was  not  more  than  twelve  hundred  yards  distant.  A 
desperate  attempt  was  made,  and  the  gun  was  got  into  position,  just  as  the 
boat  lit.     He  jumped  up  on  a  cotton  bale  upon  the  parapet,  took 

off  his  hat  and  waved  it,  shouting]  "Now,  boys,  give  them  *  blizzard!" 
The  conical  m  was   sped,  and   we  had   the  satisfaction  of  seeing  it 

strike  the  gunboat  in  the  bow. 

DEPARTURE  OF  OONFEJ         FEOM  NEW  ORLEANS. 

A  writer  iu  the  Jackson  Appeal  furnishes  the  subjoined  graphic  descrip- 
tion of  scenes  and  incidents  attending  the  departure  of  paroled  Confederate 
prisoners  from  New  Orleans  : 

The  day  has  risen  which,  to  all  our  city,  is  a  day  most  memorable — one 
which,  when  even  thought  of,  will  make  the  blood  oi  S  iuth<  rner — of 

every  man — bound  more  quickly — of  one  of  the  events  which  would  alone 
raise  a  barrier  between  the-North  and  South;  which  even  stirred  the 
alugglish  blood  in  the  coward  veins  of  those  of  Louisiana's  suns  who  have 
hoping  to  profit  by  and  enjoy  the  liberties  their 
noble  brethren  will  win.  Friday,  the  20th  of  February,  was  one  of  Louis- 
iana's Bweetest  days.  1  will  venture  tosaythat  the  subject  discussed  at* 
every  breakfast  table  that  day  was  the  great  event  all  had  been  looking  for- 
ward to — the  departure  of  our  paroled  prisoners.  All  were  enjoying  the 
idea  that,  though  but  for  a  Few  brief  hours,  we  should  enjoy  the  sight  of  the 
dear  grey  uniform  again  on  our  streets.  The  humblest  that  wore  it — no 
matter  how  rough  the  material — was  looked  upon  as  a  hero;  was  followed 
by  the  loving  eyes  of  all ;  was  bid  God-speed  by  the  lips  of.  the  old,  the 
young,  the  beautiful.  Nine  o'clock  came.  Our  streets  commenced  to  fill. 
At  eleven, there  was  not  a  gallery,  window,  house-top,  from  Canal  street  as 
I  r  as  the  eye  could  reach,  that  was  not  crowded.  A  little  later  the  levee, 
,i  the  river's  bank  to  the  sidewalk,  was  impassible.  The  boat;  on  which 
our  boys  were  to  leave  lay  near  the  foot  of  Canal  street.  It  was  to  leave  at 
one  o'clock.     The  deck  was  already  filling  fast  with  the  prisoners,  and  at 


AN    ARMY    HOTZ-BOOK.  1 49 

each    fresh   arrival   the  crowd   would  cheer,  wave   their  handkerchiefs  and 
little  flags. 

Suddenly  we  were  addressed  from  the  top  of  a  barrel,  by  a  little,  Sneaking 
Yankee,  who.  in  a  voice  tremulous  for  fear,  said:  "This  crowd  is  ordered  to 
disperse;  thirty  minutes  is  given  to  it."  No  move  followed.  Suddenly  a 
company  of  infantry  appeared  upon  the  scene;  marched  rapidly  through 
the  crowd  to  the  river  brink;  formed  in  a  long  line,  and  when  ordered  to 
charge,    deliberately   and    boldly  walked  forward,  h;< 

crowd  of  women  and  children,  who  moved  slowly  before   them,  most  of  the 
ladies  wnvtoig  their  handkerchiefs  over  their  shoulders,  defiantly,  in  the 
of  the  fankt  c  scamps.     As  soon  as  they  were  pressed  on  to  the  pavement, 
tl»*-  ladies,  instead  of  retreating,  coolly  flanked  the  line  of  soldiers,  and 
turned    to   their  post.       This    was    constantly  repeated.       Suddenly,  al 
thundered  three  companies  of  cavalry  and  artillery.     One   noble   woman, 
nothing  daunted,  went  farther  up  the  river,  and   our  levee,  for  the  rest  of 
Friday,  was  lined  with   the   crowd   to   Cnrrodton.     At  about  eight  in   (he 
ing,  we  heard   the  prisoners  would  not  leave  till  the  next  day.     The 
1  on  the  ippeareCT.     Many  a  husband  then  went  home,  ex- 

'  i  find  a  wife  or  child  there  for  whom  he  had  been  hunting  all  d 

many  were  disappointed.     Many  a  father  that  ni?ht  nursed  a  mother- 

and  probably  learned  to  appreciate  more  fully  the  value  of  a  wife. 

When  driven  off  the  levee,  many  ladies  got  on  the  steamer  Laurel*  HilL 

She  is  under  Fans  roL     They  were  ordered  ashore,  but  refused  to 

The  captain  then  put  out  into  she  stream.     Instead  of  Frightening 

them,  and  the  boat,  from  the  number  of  hand- 
kerchief- w.r.  though  covered  with  a  cloud.     I  never  heard 
They  were  can 
turn,  where  they  were  kept  all  day.     At  about  six  in   the  evening, 
i  brought  back  y.     Upon  I     the  wharf,  instead  of 

i  nek  up  i  Blue  Flag."    A 

;:ers  was  then  taken  on  I  nin. 

01  sit 
1  at 
four 
there  was  a  large  eroW'i 
which  tie 

and  .  ^fand  galleriis.     ]  )iere 

ther  nt  in  am. 

. 
turned   theii  •  ut(\ 


150  ■ ■    •    • 

kces  returned.     This  was  repeated  tl:  y  drove 

out.     Amoan  ;  that  ]  could  till  your 

r  with  their  recital,  and  thee  >unt  one-half.     But  one  I   mml 

mention.     It  was  that  of  an  ol  I  h   lady,  who,  when  the    Yai, 

opted  to  drive  her  at  the  point  oi'  rself  behind  a 

big  fat  darkey,  and  told  the  Fankees,  ••  ii  •  will  have 

■  it  through  your  dearest  friend  a 
They  were  insulted  that  day  in  -  I  aaw  one  .  her 

umbrella  over  a  soldier's  head.  ••  beggars  bion.     [f  tl 

was  a  concourse  of  thirty  thousand.     A  negro   girl 
'•  well,  if  1  've  got  to  be  sent  to  the  forts,  it  shall  he  for  something — hurrah 
forJefl  Davis!  hurrah  for  Beauregard!"     Just  then  a  soldier  made  a  kiud 
of  lunge   at   her,  and   over  she  rolled;  she   j  icked    herself  up,  an  1  got  otr, 
still   hurrahing.      Many  ladies   were  arrested  for  wavin 
n,(  reifully  and  generously  dig  be  next  slay. 

AFRAID   OF    FIRE. 

Colonel .  with  his  regiment,  was  being  carried  in  a  train  to  Grenada, 

Mississippi,  and,  like  a  great  many  warriors  who  have  never  drawn  their 
bartle-blade,  he  was  more  intemperate  in  the  expression  of  his  valor  than 
comported  with  a  nice  discretion  or  Che  modesty  which  accompanies  bravery, 
lie  was  like  the  Irishman  at  Donncybrook,  "spilen  for  a  light,"  and 
could  n't  get  anybody  to  tread  on  his  coat  tail.  When  the  conductor  asked 
for  his  ticket,  the  colonel  wanted  to  know  if  he  intended  it  for  an  insult, 
and  the  meek  "  no,  but,"  in  reply,  Beemcd  rather  to  disappoint  our  hero.  At 
last,  however,  a  chance  occurred.  The  journal  ofoneol  the*  cars  became 
heated  from  the  friction,  and  the  oil  and  cotton  used  to. grease  the  wheels 
look  fire  and  blazed  up,  awaking  the  colonel  from  his  nap.  lie  was  furious, 
BWOre  that  the  conductor  had  set  the  ears  on-  tire,  and  he  would  blow  his 
il — d  head  oil'  on  sight. 

The  train  stopped,  and  out  jumped  the  colonel  and  the  conductor,  fkofl 
to  lace.  ,    • 

"What  in  the  h — 1  do  you  mean,  setting  this  car  on  fire?"  exclaimed 
the  former. 

"  Why,  colonel,  you  ain't  afraid  of  that  little  lire,  are  you?"  asked  the 
conductor. 

••  y,s,  by  — ,  I  am,  and  if  you  try  it  again,  I'll  blow  your  head  off." 

"  Well,  colonel,  if  that  little  fire  scares  you,  you  had  better  «ot  go  to 
Grenada,  i  tell  you,  for  the  Vankccs  won't  let  you  stay  there  five  minutes." 

This  cured  the  colonel  of  looking  up  a  light,  and  he  is  nowjalways  ready 

to  take  a  hand  when  required,  but  don't  go  out  of  his  way  in   search  of 

» 
one. 


AN    ARMT    N'i,  |  ]  M 

% 
TTIK    DYING    SOUTIT    CAP.OT.INI  \  V 

"Next  morning  after  Ihc  battle  of  Gaines'  'dills,  as  I  was  looking  for  im- 
plitneata  with  which  to  bury  the  dead  of  my  company,  T  came  upon  a  quiet 
Bpot  where  the  ambulance  corps  had  brought  to  ■■  ther  ■  numbef  of  our  poor 
fellows,  too  desperately  wounded  to  !>•  to  the  field  hospitals  in 

the  rear.  Hire  they  mull  conveniently  be  furnished  with  water,  and  tlic 
few  other  comforts  which  their  condition  allowed  during  their  remaining 
hours.  My  Attention  was  particularly  attracted  to  one  whose  stalwart  form 
and  manly  features  made  him  ■  marked  object,  even  among  the  heroes  who 
lay  around  him.  It  was  evident  that  his  end  was  nigh,  though  his  face  was 
calm  and  his  eye  still  bti 

••Going  to  him,  1  inquired  if  he  was  much  hurt.     lie  replied  :  '  Y< 
must  soon  die,'  and  showed  me  his  wound.     A  grape-shot  had  shattered  hia 
shoulder,  and  j  enetrated  deeply  into  his  vitals.  I   the  shot  still    re- 

mained in  his  body.     Struck  with  the  resigned   expression   of  his   counte- 
nance, I  asked  him  of  his  preparation    to    meet  death.     He  told  me   that 
be  left  hoi  d  been  a  careless  sinner,  hut  since  entering  the 

the  army,  he  had  been  reading  his  Bible,  and  this  had  led  him  to  serious 
rerli  I   now,  th  he   felt  that,  though   a  great 

sinner,  he  could  trust  In  titration.      He  tad  i 

and   that  was,  the  thought  of  how  much    paifl    his  death  would  give   hia 
ra  and  his  aged  father,  whose  only  son  he  WM  '  own 

the  dying  soldier,  i  the  grief  these  loi 

at  home  would  suffer.     Still  his  i 
the  will  oT 

"  My  duty  allowed  me  but  a  few  mo;  gr  with  him,  and  with  a 

-  appropriate  to  his  situation,  I  pi  |   bade  hi 

him  to  the  bl  nt  was   i 

■rward  in  pun  and   I  never  saw  tl  nan 

But  t  t  of  him,  and  if         ■  .  [uentJy  04 

BJM  tl 

and  p«  acim   firs  mind   in  which   he  met  death,  and   wl 

■ 
"  1   would    invi    Wlittei 

i  only  rcii  an  oulj 

he  h 

* 

■ 
Tl  i 


•;n\r 

* 

run  i\ 

Line  tin  have  fun  in  them,  and  seem  td  be 
living  '•  in  Bead  the  following  V. 

1  :mi  living  luxuriously,  tl  present,  on  the  top  of  every  >le  fenoe, 

anil  :  >tuously  ou  throe  granite  biscuits  a  day,  an 

i  brandy.     A  high  private  in  the  Twenty-Second  Regiment 
to  let  me  have  one  of  bis  square  pooket-handkerchiefs  for  :i 
the  first  rainy  night,  and  i  1  on  my  conifortaUe  willow 

brush  without  thinking  how  many  poor  i  world 

who  have  I  on  hair  mattresses  and  fi  la  all  their  Uv<  -      Be- 

fore the  great  ru-h  of  Fire  Zouaves  and  the  rest  of  the  menagerie  com- 
in.  no  .  .ded  exclusively  on  a  front  stoop  in  Pennsylvania  avenue,  and 
need  to  Brnmber,  regardless  of  expense,  in  a  well-con duoted  ash  box;  but 
the  military  monopolize  all  such  accommodations  now,  and  1  give  way  for 
the  sake  of  my  country. 

I  tell  you,  my  boy,  we're  having  high  old  times  here  just  now.  and  if 
they  get  any  higher,  I  shan't  be  able  I  i  affor  I  The  city  is  '•  in 

..  r"  every  bour,  and,  as  a  veteran  in  the  Fire  Zouaves  remarked,  tl 

iugh  danger  lying  around  loose  on  Arlington  Beighta  t<»  make 

v  g  od  blood-and-thunder  fiction,  in  numorons  pages,     [f  the  vigilant 

and  well  - ■•ntinols  happen  to  *er  on  the  npper  Bids  of  the 

Potomac,  they  sing  out :  "Here  theyoome!"  and  the  whole  blessed  army 

is  snapping  oaps  in  less  than  a  minute. 

Kien  all  the  reporters  telegraph  to  their  paper-;  in  New  York  aud  Phila- 
delphia that  "  Jeti'.  J>avis  is  within  two  minutes'  walk  of  the  capitol,  with  a 
few  millions  of  men,"  and  all  the  free  States  send  six  more  regiments 
OS  to  crowd  us  a  little  inure.  1  shan't,  stand  much  more  crowding,  for 
my  fence  is  full  now,  and  there  was  six  applications  yesterday  to  rent  an 
improved  knot,  hoje.  My  landlord  says  that  if  more  than  three  chaps  Bet 
up  house-keeping  on  one  post,  he  '11  be  obliged  to  raise  the  rent. 

The  greatest  confidence  in  General  Scott  is  felt  by  all,  and  it  would  do 
you  good  to  sco  the  gay  old  hero  tuke  the  oath.  He  taker  it  after  every 
meal,  and  the  first  thing  when  begets  up  in  the  morning. 

Those  Fire  Zouaves  are  fellows  of  awful  suction,  I  tell  you.  Just  for 
greens,  I  asked  on%  of  them  what  he  came  here  for:  "Hah!"  says 
he,  shutting  one  eye.  "  We   came   here   to  strike  for  your  altars  und  your 

fircs especially  your  tires."     General  Scott  says  that  if  he  wanted  those 

ohapfl  to  break  through  the  army  of  the  foe,  he  'd  have  a  fire-bell  rung  for 
district  on  the  other  side  of  the  rebels.     He  says  that  a  half  a  million 
Of  traitors  could  not  keep  the  Fire  Zouaves  out  of  that  district  five  minutes. 
1  believe  him,  my  boy. 


AN    ARMY    NOTE-BOOK. 
FEDERAL   RULE    IN  [1ATION8    OF  AX    EYE   WITN1 

■  oral  Butler  wore  a  coat  of  mail,  which  was  clearly  discernible  on 
his  c  i  to  his  hips.     In  his  office,  two  revolvers  lay  con- 

tinually oo  h\<  desk,  which  ho  often  handled,  t<>  impress  or  intimidate. 
Until  after  the  entire  population  had  b<  en  disarmi  1.  he  o<  v.  r  appeared  00 
the  streets  except  in  •    '  nd  surroui 

troop  of  horsemen,  all  armed  to  the  I  back 

oo  the  cushion  were  as  cruel. 

havior  was   full  of  ostentation  and  bravado. 
m  t"  have  been  bred  in  a  vul  rity 

could  ini]  ler /bat  he  was  aught  but  rider, 

e'of  Butl  "Colonel"  J  rench,  whilom 

eneral  of  Louisiana,  bul 
in  New  Orlean  which  I  r  than  join  the  arm 

In  the  first  named  office   tins  man  committed  unparalleled 
Uthough  entil        I         thing  but  his  pay  as  a 
ff,  hisprofi  mi  one  to  twd  thousand   dollars  per  day. 

inks  arm  r  he  directed  i. 

were  more  tl 
■    1  1 
of  the   V  During  Bu  '  b   had  three  carrid 

11,  four  bu  He 

idence    in  The 

e    of   Mr 

iring  under  a  surfeit  of  Mr.  Sur- 

thnt  all  migl  t  ki 

I 

Mr.  J.  P 


154 

\   poor  Irish  woman,  far  advanced  in  pr<  gi 
Batler'a  innumerab  her  under  do 

oircu  to  take  the  oath.     She  was  dragged  I  general,  who 

into  one  of  hia  paroxismal  heaped  upon  her  tl.  ts,  and 

directed  ao  orderly  to  confine  her  in  a  -lark  room,  od  bread  and  water,  until 
she  divulged  the  name  of  her  reverend  adviser.  Thia  Bhe  refused  to  '1", 
and  she  Mas  probably  r< 

The  most  disgusting  and  characteristic  act  of  the  hyena1  (mora 

revolting  even  than  his  causing  the  tomb  of  General  Albert  Sydney  John- 
Bton  to  be  burst  open,  and  hia  coffin  searched  for  gold  and  Bilver,)  was  the 
affair  of  Mrs.  Phillips.  This  lady  is  the  wife  of  a  gentleman  in  Alabama, 
who  was  formerly  M.  C,  from  that    -  !  law  partner  of  the   Hon. 

Rev<  rdy  Johnson.     She,  was  standing  on  her  balcony  adjoining,  when  the 
funeral  of  a  lieutenant,  killed  whilst  marauding  near  Baton  Rougi 
along  the  street.      I  served  by  an  officer  to  smile  at  some  remark, 

she  was  forthwith  reported  to  the  commander-in-chief,  who  had  her  arr< 
and  brought  before  him  on  the  charge  of  indecently  rejoicing  at   the  Vau- 
th.     He  offered  her  the  alternative  of*the  oath  and  a  public  apology 
or  unlimited    solitary   confinement    at   Ship*  Island.      She    refused    the 
apology  and  the  perjury,  and  was  subsequently  sent  down  to  the  island. 

About  the  same  time,  a  man  named  Kellar,  who  keepa  an  old  bookstore, 
labelled  the  skull  of  a  Mexican,  which  had  been  lofl  in  pawn  by  a  medical 
student,  with  the  word  " Chicahominy,"  and  placed  it  in  his  slow  window. 
For  thia  grave  offence  he  also  was  condemned  to  Ship  Island,  and  the  gen- 
eral order  published  on  the  subject  stated  that  he  should  "  be  allowed  no 
communication,  verbal  or  othcrwi>e,  with  any  person  on  the  island,  e.\ 
with  Mrs.  Phillips/'  Kellar,  who  is  a  man  of  family,  was  induced  to  be- 
lieve this  was  the  notorious  Matilda  Phillips,  a  wealthy  courtesan,  :is  well 
known  in  New  Fork,  Huston  and  San  Francisco,  as  in  New  Orleans,  begged 
this  part  of  the  order  to  be  rescinded.  Accordingly,  another  general  order 
was  promulgated,  abrogating  "bo  much  of  general  order  No.  —  as  author- 
ized the  said  Kellar  to  hold  communication  with  Mrs.  Phillips."  Such  was 
General  Batler'a  subterfuge,  striking  at  the  good  name  of  a  virtuous  wife 
and  good  mother,  to  relieve  himself  of  the  odium  attached  to  his  unmanly 
conduot. 

"Arc  there  no  bolts  in  hcuvcii,  -:i\.    v.  h.u    .  rvc  for  the  tluiiul   . 

Another  general  or. lei-  was  published, advising  the  negroes  thai  whenever 
a  slave  reported  his  or  her  master  or  mi.- tress  lor  having  weapons  concealed 
about  their  dwellings,  and  the  weapons  were  found  as  reported,  the  slave 
should  be  liberated  directly,  and  the  owner  incarcerated.  Tin-  result  has 
been,  in  instances  without,  number,  that  tie  have  thrown  old  muskets, 


AN   ARMY   NOTE-BOOK.  1  .V> 

i  or  pistols  into  obscure  corners  with  their  own  hands,  <_riven  the  infor- 
mation, boon  freed,  and  their  innocent  masters  are  now  suffering  on  the 
dreary  Bands  of  Ship  Island,  with  ball  and  chain,  hard  labor,  and  salt-1 

The  testimony  of  a  slave  is  received  without  eommentor  objection. 
The  indignant  remonstrance  of  a  Confederate  is  cnt  slmrt  with  "Sil< 
sir!  the  oath  of  a  traitor  and  a  rebel  is  not  worth  that  of  a  loyal  black." 

HAD   ONI   OF   Tli 

\  gentleman  who  was  at  Manassas,  saw  a  negro  man,  belonging  to  an 

Alabama  officer,  march  a  Zouave  into  camp.  The  negro,  a  short,  thick-set 
fellow,  had  two  guns  on  his  shoulder,  and  drove  his  prisoner  before  him. 
The  Zouave  was  a  pert  looking  fellow,  and  wore  his  arm  in  a  sling  in  con- 
sequence of  his  wound.  As  the  negro  reached  the  company  in  which  the 
officer  was  standing,  he  handed  over  his  prize,  saying :  "Mass*,  here  one 
ab  dese  debbils  who  ben  Bhooting  At  us,  Bah." 

"  WHO  'fl    DAT  ? " 

i  called  on  Colonel  Scott,  of  flie  Louisiana  cavalry.     You  have 
often  heard  of  him  in    v  While  in  Kentucky,  his  l 

who  has  followed  him   since   th< 
and  assumed  the  garb  of  a  Federal  serg<  ant.     While  on  his  way  to  Rich- 
ly a  ventriloquist,  one  of  the  trilx  imiD,  learned  I  con- 
1   with    the  negro's    apparel       After  nightfall,  when  the   negro  was 
ing,  with  a  valise  b<  tween  his  feet,  a  d< 

kc  up ;  them  ">  mj  on. 

&*«— Who's  dal  ? 

lis  protruded  a  fool  when  the  earpet- 
aack  began  the  colloq 

—  I'm    lehabod    Smith,  of  the  '1 1 1 ir r ■ 

V'ni  rob  I  my  clotl  i 

.  aranl  '<  m  i 
n,  '1 — i!  ■ 
In  less  than  a  mil  II      Tie  n  I  in  the  fire- 

night     His  teeth  • 
•  d,  and  I 

! 
i  which  In  tli-   war.      Wlfc 

i  nor  worn  in  New  En  m  will  live  and  die  I 

1T'    I 

••iallv  in  ' 


GLEANINGS    FROM 

'<>L. 

During  the  fight  at  Ma  in  ol  a  Brooklyn  company  was  sitting 

down  by  the  sidi  of  :i  brook,  out  of  the  way  of  the  .-!; ■•:.  when  one  of  his 
men  ii  to  fill  his  canteen.     He  said:  "  Our  first  lieutenant  is  dead, 

:i  i  the  second  one  on  the  grounfl  woundi  He  replied:  "I  told  tl 

it  would  be  SO  ii'  they  staid  there,*'  an  I  1   fanning 

DISGRACEFUL. 

A  gentlejnan  at  the  Twenty-Seventh   Precint  Station  be  atten- 

tion of  the  police  to*  an  outrageous  affair,  which,  he  Baid,  had  taken  | 
at   Washington   Market.     Mr.  John  Matthews,  of  the  Fire   Zouaves,  he 
brought  with  him  from  Virginia  a  little  mula  whom  he  kept 

at  his  fish  Btand,  335  Washington  Market.     During  the  absence  of 
Matthews,  several  loafers  took  hold  oi  'he  boy,  and.  lifting  him  by  the  seat 
of  his  bn  threw  him  ou  his  head   to  test  the  hardness  of  his  skull, 

which  entertainment  resulted  in  the  poor  boy's  head  being  severely  bruised. 
The  experiment  was  repeated  until  the  boy  was  knocked  senseless.  No 
arrests  were  made,  but  the  brutes  arc  known. 

AUNT    BET8Y. 

Amongst  the   ordnance  captured  by  our  troops  at  Manassas  was  one  old 
piece,  of  very  heavy  calibre,  which  the  Lincoln  soldiers  had  dubbed  "Aunt 
ay."     This  favorite  old  gun  was  ordered  to  "  Sewcll's  Point,"  and  as  it 
Bd  along  the  streets  in  Richmond,  one  of  the  wounded    Hessians  hap- 
pened to  raise  his  head,  and  discovering  the  old  gun,  exclaimed  :  "  I  will 
be  d — d  if  they  aint  got  Aunt  Betsy,  too." 

THE    "ONE    HUNDRED"    CALIFORNIA  CAVALRY — WHAT  THEY    HAVE    I 
AND    WHAT   Till  'i    ARE   TO   DO. 

The  astonishing  feats  already  performed,  and  the  still  more  darii 
brilliant  exploits  in  store  for  the  California  cavalry,  recently  arrived  at  lies- 
ton,  are  thus  detailed  in  the  Herald,  of  that  city  : 

Our  citizens  have  done  well  to  give  the  excellent  cavalry  company  from 
California  a  fitting  welcome.  The  members  of  the  company  are  all  fine 
fellows,  (.very  inch  men,  and  are  true  l.-vcrs  of  their  country,  for  the  ser- 
vice of  which  they  have  cheerfully  left  remunerative  employment  in  Cali- 
fornia, which  is  entirely  out  of  the  draft,  and  have  buckled  ou  the  harness 
of  var.  Their  arrival  here,  and  especially  their  appearance  in  the  streets 
Boston,  have  excited  the  liveliest  curiosity  of  our  citizens,  who  hate 
been  full  of  wonder  to  know  what  the  Caliloi  uians  were  like,  how  many 
ludiaus  they  arc  in  the  habit  of  killing  before  breakfast,  and  whether  they 


AN   ARMY   SOTE-BI  157 

ave  themselves  white  men  or  aborigioeea  of  the  western  coast.     Conse- 
quently, we  have  heard  the  most  marvelous  sti  iu1   our  guests.     It 

has  been  currently  reported    in  one  place  of  popular  resort,  that  every  man 
in  the  company  could  pick  an    apple  from  the   ground    on  the    point  of  his 
sword  while  riding  at  a  full  gallop.     In  another  place,  we   heard  thai 
men  were  native  Califo  ry  expert  with  the  lasso,  and  that  they  had 

been  brought  east  expressly  to  get  Jeff.   Davis,  ]5ob   Lee  and  old  Stonewall 
JacksOQ  "  on  a  string;"  and  they  certain!  their  lassoes  with  them, 

one  ot  them  having  been  seen  by  a  member  of  the  Charlestown  surpri.se 
party. 

It  is  common  talk  that  the  men  ride  with  equal  facility  and  <:racc  on  the 
top  or  bottom  of  a  horse,  and  that  when  they  make  a  eharge  nothing  will 
hut  the  tails  of  the  horses.  We  have  heard  an  absolute  state- 
nicu',  moreover,  that  when  the  rolls  for  enlisting  the  company  were  opened 
two  hundred  thousand  men  put  their  names  down,  and  this  hundred  were 
chosen  alter  a  trial  in  a  grand  tournament,  iu  which  they  overthrew  all 
eon.;  billing  many.     Our  fellow-citizens  seem  to  be  so  well  informed 

D  tell  them  but  little  that  will  be  new  about  the  Californians. 

We  desire  to  add,  however,  on  idubi table  testimony,  that  each  of  these 
gallant  fellows  has  a  thousand  scalps,  which  he  has  taken  from  the  wildest 
Indians  of  the  mountains,  without  the  consent  of  the  owners,  and  that  their 
favorite  Bporl  is  to  ,20  bird-nesting,  mounted  upon  the  agile  mustang,  which 
climbs  a  tree  wi;h  perfect  ease  and  bad  feature  of  the  case  is 

this — they  have  been  .-0  accustomed  to  riding  horseback   that   they  cannot 
walk  has  a  horse  killed  under  him,  he  is  obliged  to  throw 

another  before  he  can  do  the  enemy  any  further  injury. 
With  this    ligh!  the  men  are  all  that  can  be  c\  civilized 

white  men  who  were  born  iu  ho.. 

A.H1  LLL. 

the  job     got  up  in  camp,  but  we  think  this  ode  will  "extri- 

Hince  the   1  n  of 

1  rival  r  anxiously 

I>. 

imui  rid  to  his  adjutant, 

hwith.     I 

ihwith,  "for. 
'. .  this  tin. 


:  ROM 
AN     .   UMPTION    STORV. 

A  Western  paper  relates  the  following  exemption  Btory: 
"  Doctor,  it'  the  lame  foot  won't  answer,  I    have   another   all-sufficient 
d — one  that  you  cannot  refuse  mo  exemption   for."     "  What  is  it?" 
aaked  the  doctor.     "Why,  the  fact  is.  doctor.  T  havi  sej  I  am 

an  idiot,"  solemnly  replied  the  applicant.  "  Ah  !"  said  the  d  r,  ■  what 
proof  have  you  of  that  ?  What  evidence  can  you  bring?"  "Proof  con- 
clusive," said  the  applicant.  "Why,  sir,  1  voted  for  Jim  Buchanan;  and 
if  that  isn't  proof  of  a  man's  bcin<r  a  d — d  idiot,  1  don't  know  how  idiocy 
could  be  proven." 

GENERAL  JOHNSTON   and  JUDY   PAXTON. 

Wc  heard  of  a  little  incident  that  may  proQt  some  of  our  Northern 
foes  if  this  paper  fail  into  their  hands,  and  they  will  take  trouble 
to  peruse  it. 

General  Joe  Johnston  was  receiving  his  friends  at  the  Lamar  House. 
He  was  surrounded  with  many  gallant  officers  who  had  called  to  pay 
their  respects,  and  conversation  was  at  flood  tide,  when  there  came  a 
smart  rap  at  the  door.  An  officer,  shining  with  stars  and  gold  lace,  opened 
the  door,  and  there  stood  a  venerable  negro  woman  with  a  coarse  sun-bonnet 
on  her  head,  and  a  cotton  umbrella  under  her  arm. 

"  Is  this  Mr.  Johnston's  room?"  asked  the  American  lady  of  African 
descent.   . 

The  glittering  officer  nodded  assent. 

"  Mister  Joe  Johnston's  room?" 

Assent  being  again  condescended,  the  swarthy  woman  said  :  "  I  want  to 
sec  him."  In  she  marched,  sans  ceremonie,  and  familiarly  tapped  the  great 
military  chieftain  on  the  shoulder.  He  turned  and  clasped  her  bony  hands 
in  his,  while  she,  for  a  moment,  silently  perused  b;s  features.  At  length 
she  spoke : 

"  Mister  Joe,  you  is  getting  old." 

What  followed ?  We  cannot  record  the  conversation,  but  we  do  know 
that  as  the  general  affectionately  held  his  nurse's  hand,  and  answered  her 
artless  inquiries,  large  tears  rolled  down  his  soldierly  cheek,  and  among  ( 
the  dashing  and  reckless  oflicers  who  witnessed  the  interview,  "  albeit,  un- 
used  to  the  melting  mood,"  there  was  not  a  dry  eye,  Wc  may  say,  in  the 
words  of  a  well  known  ethiopian  ditty,  "  the  tears  fell  down  like  rain." 

The  venerable  ncgress,  who  made  the  commander  of  the  armies  of  the 
West  cry  like  a  baby,  was  Judy,  slave  of  Dr.  Paxton,  who  had  "toted"  Joe 
in  her  arms  when  he  was  not  a  general,  and  nobody  knew  that  he 
would  be. 


AN    ARMY    NOTE- ROOK.  1     '' 

I  •        WANTED    TO    TRADE. 

A  captain  of  Munford'a  cavalry,  (Second  Virginia,)  on  picket  after  the 

battle  of  Fredericksburg,  was  accosted  by  the  Yankee  picket  opposite  to 

him,  with   the   query — -'Have  you   a  sorry  corporal   with  you?"      "No," 

ered  the  captain,  "but  what  do  you  want  with   him?"     "We  want  to 

trade  you  Burnside  for  him,"  was  the  reply. 

A    YANKEE   BRIGADIER   AND   A    VIRGINIA    MATRON. 

The  Richmond  correspondent  of  the  Memphis  Appeal  tells  the  the  fol- 
lowing good  story  oi  Stonewall  Jackson  in  the  valley: 

Yankee  brigadier,  excessively  pompua  and  conceited,  formed  much 
alter  the  model  of  the  lamented  John  Popo  of  sorrowful  memory,  was 
conading  in  the  presence  of  a  worthy  Virginia  matron,  living  not  far  from 
Martinsburg,  of  his  own  military  prowess,  and  was  bitterly  satirical  on 
Jackson's  personal  appearance.  He  said  that  in  one  of  the  battles  in  the 
valley  he  had  bom   thrown  very  near   the  general,  and  might 

easily  have  killed  i  iim  a  prisoner,  but  that  he  could  not  have 

supposed  such  arr uncouth,  clownish,  ill-bred  looking  fellow  to  be  the  much- 
lauded  hero  of  the  rebel  cause.  "  You  kill  General  Jackson,  or  make  him 
a  prisoner,"  said  the  noble  woman,  "  why,  sir,  if  you  had  suspected  for  a 
moment  that  yon  were  in  ten  steps  of  General  Jackson,  you  would  have 
put  spur.-  to  your  horse,  and  never  stopped  running  till  you  had  crossed  the 
PotOttU 

THE    MARTYR   Ml  '  W   ORLEANS. 

annual  message  to  the  people |)f  Louisiana,  said  j 
of  the  patriot  Mumford  has  placed  his  name  hi 
the  li-i  of  niartyn  leral  army  reached  Now  I  ■ 

'  f  marine-  who  hoisted  their  flag  on  the  mint. 

United   Stab  .r  had   they 

»1   in  tin  ion.     William  Y>.  Mum- 

wn  the  di  with  his  i 

t    in 
full  view  of  the  scaffold,  hi  pall  his  heroic  soul    by 

:li.     "Wit; 
of  tl 
they  offered  him  life  on  tl  that   be  would  ab 

*rt  with  ;  has 

traa  i  will  do 

«h<  n  under  d 

D 


100  f.I.F.  \N1\-C.S    FROM 

Thus  far,  Missouri  has  the  better  of  tility  for  the  real 

romance  of  war.  y,  the  fight  tl  I  with 

fiercer  earnest  than  aim  '  the 

country,  the  rough,  unhewn  ohi  the  intensity  and 

ity  of  thi  lited,  and  the  general   nature  of  the  compli 

reduced  to  a  warfare  essentially  partisan  and  frontier,  gave  to 
wild   aspect,  peculiarly  estive  of 

of  romantic  interest.     None  oi  these  Btrnck  as  more  foroibly  than 
irah  McCi  rb  j    tl  e  J<  ai 
She  Lived  in  the  interior  of  Missouri — a  litl  jirl, 

with  a  soul  as  huge  as  a  mountain,  and  a  form  as  frail  as  a  fairy's,  and  the 
courage  and  pluck  oi  a  buccaneer  into  the  bargain.  Her  father  was  an  old 
man — a  secessionist.  She  had  but  a  single  brother,  just  growing  from  boy- 
,  to  youthhood,  but  sickly  and  lamed.  The  family  had  lived  in  Kansas 
during  the  troubles  of  L 857,  when  Norah  wag  a  mere  girl  of  fourteei 
thereabouts.     But  even  then  her  bean  rid  devil-m  pirit  were 

known  far  and  wide,  and  many  were  the  stories  told  along  the  border  of  her 
Bayings  and  doings.  Among  other  charges  laid  to  her  door,  it  is  said  she 
broke  all  the  hearts  of  the  young  blcods  far  and  wide,  and  tradition  dies 
n  go  so  far  as  to  assert  that,  like  B<  b  Acres,  she  killed,  a  man  once  a 
week,  keeping  a  private  church-yard  for  the  purpose  ot  decently  burying  her 
(had.  Be  this  as  it  may,  she  was  theu,  and  is  now,  a  dashing,  fine  looking, 
liwdy  girl,  and  a  prettier  heroine  than  will  be  found  in  a  novel,  as  will  he 
seen,  if  the  good-natured  reader  has  a  mind  to  follow  us  down  to  the 
bottom  of  this  column. 

Not  long  after  the  Federals  came  into  her  neighborhood,  and  alter  they 
had  forced  her  lather  to  take  the  oath,  which  he  did  partly  be  ;ause  he  wag 
a  Very  old  man,  unable •  to  take  the  field,  and  hoped  thereby  to  save  the 
Becurity  of. his  household,  and  partly  because  he  could  not  help  himself;  not 
Long  alter  these  two  important  events  in  the  history  of  our  heroine,  a  body 
of  men  marched  up  one  evening,  whilst  she  was  on  a  visit  to  a  neigh) 
and  arrested  her  sickly,  weak  brother,  bearing  him  off  to  Leavenworth  City, 
where  he  was  lodged  in  the  military  guardhouse. 

It  was  nearly  night  before  Norah  reached  home.  "When  she  did  BO,  and 
discovered  the  outrage  which  had  beep  perpetrated,  and  the  grief  of  her  old 
father,  her  rage  knew  no  bounds.  Although  the  mists  were  falling  and  the 
night  was  closing  in  dark  and  dreary,  she  ordered  her  horse  to  be  resad- 
dled,  put  on  a  thick  sin-font,  belted  a  sash  round  her  waist,  and  sticking  a 
pair  of  ivory-handled  pistols  in  her  bosom,  started  off  after  'the  soldiers. 
The  poet  was  many  miles  distant.     But  that  she  did  not  regard.     Over  hill, 


AN    ARMY    NOTE-T:  16  L 

through  marsh,  under  cover  of  the  darkness,  she  galloped  on  (n  the  head- 
quarters of  the  enemy.  At  last  the  call  of  a  sentry  brought  her  to  a  stand, 
with  a  hoarse — 

"  Who  goes  th'eh 

"  No  matter,"  she  replied,  "I  wish  to  see  Colonel  Prince, your  command- 
ing officer,  and  instantly. 

i,i'\vliat  awed  i';  f  lie  presence  of  a  young  female  on  horseback  at  that 
late  hour,  and  perhapa  struck  b}-  her  imperious  tone  of  command,  the  Yan- 
kee guard,  without  hesitation,  conducted  her  into  the  fortifications,  and 
thence  to  the  quarters  of  the  colonel  commanding,  with  whom  ahe  was 
left  alone. 

"  Well,  madam,"  quoth   the  Yankee    officer,  with   bland  politeness,  "  to 
what  have  I  the  hunor  of  this  visit 

"  Ts  this  Colonel  Prince?"  replied  the  brave  girl,  quietly. 

"It  is;  and  yourself?" 

"  No  matter;   1  have  come  here  to  inquire  whether  you  have  a  lad  by  the 
nam''  of  McCartey,  a  pru 

M  There  is  such  a  prisoner." 

'■  May  I  ask  for  why?" 

"Certainly;    for  being   suspected  of    treasonable    connection   with    the 
y." 

"  Treasonable  connection  with  the  enemy  !     Why,  the  boy  is  sick  and 
lame.     II  les,  my  brother;  and  I  have  com  immediate 

■ 

The  Yankee  officer  opened  his  eyes;  was  sorry  he  could  not  comply  with 
the  request  of  so  w  inn  in  Ucant;  and  must  really  bog  her  to  d< 

and  leave  the  fortr< 

'•  I  demand  his  r<  l<  ase,"  cried  .--he,  in  reply. 

"That  you  cannot  have,"  returned  he  ;  "  the  boy  is  a  rebel  and  a  traitor, 
and  D  .  retire  madam,  I  shall  be  I  arrest  you  on  a  similar 

ul  I  ]  rebel  and  a  traitor,  too,  if  you   wish. 

with  inc. 
• 

muzzlo  of  it  direct  ■•  I 

will  l  f  lead  in  -an  call  a  single  s- 

tO  yen;:  , 

Th 

I 


i  r,2 

st;irt  Lier,  whoovwered,  like  ;  .  r  before  flames,  01 

her  burnii  • 

I 
It  was  too  much.     Prince  ind  it.     IK-  bade  her  lower  her 

■nal  weapon,  for  (h  raid  be  forthwith  liber 

ive  the  order  first."  •  1.  unmo1 

And  the  order  w  .  the  lad  >  wing  his  arm 

in  hers,  the  gallant  Bister  m  the  plane,  with  one  hand  grasp- 

one  of  his,  and  the  other  hold  of  h(  r  trusty  ivory-handle.     She  mow 
her  horse,  bad  '    up  behind,  and  rode  home   without 

lent,  before  midnight. 

a 

Now  that  is  a  fact  stranger  than  lie:  ion,  which  shows  what  sort  of  metal 
is  in  our  women  of  the  much  abused  and  traduoed  nineteenth  century. 

'      A    DUSKY    VOLUN1  ; 

A  c  ')•;■  -• lenl  of  the  Mobile  Advertiser,  writing  from  the  camp  of  the 

Thirty-Eighth  Alabama  Regiment,  i  the  following : 

Some  weeks  ago,  a  young  man  came  to  camp  and  proposed  to  volunteer. 
He  was  accepted,  there  being  nothing  in  bis  physical  appearance  to  indii 
the  singular  denouement  which  followed  six  weeks  afterwards.  Whil 
drill,  he  was  recognised  and  claimed  as  a  runaway  slave,  lie  enlisted  by 
the  name  of  Solomon  Vernoy;  but  afl  r  his  arrest,  owned  up  to  be  nick* 
named  Pleg,  and  being  a  runaway.  He  Bays  that  he  has  a  boss>  but  that 
"by  right/'  he  is  free.     Tie  says  that  his  mother  was  a  d<  1  [ndian, 

who  was  unlawfully  sold  into  slavery,  and  run   off  from  Kentucky.     His 
looks  do  not  indicate  the  African,  and  if  hi  >od  lawyer,  and 

his  "by  rights,"  there  will  he  a  pretty  law  suit,  sun-,'  the  master  will  have 

to  rebut  the  presumption  of  color  by  proof.      lie    must,  at  least,  admire  ihe 
'iotism  of  Vernoy,  or  Pleg,  as  the  case  may  he. 

A   BATTLE   INCIDES  P. 

A  friend  writing  from  the  army,  said:    "When  Stanford's  ha  tt  cry  on 
one  occasion  at  Brurfreesboro',  was  preparing  to  open  fire  on  the  enemy,  wc 

saw  just  in   front  of  our   pi  06   thirty  yards   distant,  a   Confederate 

soldier,  who  seemed  to  be  busy  picking  up  some  guns.  We  hallooed  and 
rmed  at  him  to  get  out  of  the  way,  hut  he  paid  no  attention  to  US,  and 
he  continued  to  pick  up  guns,  until  ho  had  some  six  or  eight  in  his  arms. 
One  of  our  men  now  went  up  to  him  to  lead  him  away,  when  it  was  dis- 
covered that  the  poor  fellow  had  been  struck  on  the  head  with  a  bullet, 
which  had  partial';  1  him.     As  hew:    led  behind  our pieces,  still 

carrying  his  guns,  he  said,  with  a  sort  of  ^uisiool  wink  :  "  You  don't  take  mo 
for  a  Yankee  prisoner,  do  you?" 


AN    An  MY    NOTE-BOOK.  163 

YANKEE    F.NOIlMITTEfl    IN    THE    WEST. 

A  disgusted  Federal  staff  officer,  writes  to  the  Philadelphia    .1/  rctury  as 

folic 

I  beliere  the  time  has  come  when  I  am  ashamed  to  acknowledge  that  I 
belong  to  the  Union  army. 

I  tell  you  the  truth   when  I  say  we  are  abo  in  a  mob  a3  ever 

walked  on  the  face  of  (he  earth.  It  is  perfectly  frightful.  If  I  lived  in 
this  country,  1  never  would  lay  down  my  anna  while  a  "Yankee"  remained 
on  the  soil.  1  do  not  blame  Southerners  for  being  secessionists,  now.  1 
could  relate  many  things  that  would  be  laughable  if  they  were  not  so  hor- 
ribly disgraceful.     For  instance,  imagine  two  privates  in  a  carriai 

;o  some  wealthy  Southern  nabob,  with  a  splendid  span  of  horses,  riding 
in  state  along  the  road  we  are  marching  over,  with  a  negro  coael, 
holding  the  reins  in  all  style  of  an  English  nobleman,  and  then  two  small 
drummer  boys  going  it  at  a  two-forty  pace  in  an  elegant  boggy,  with  I 
horse,  and  the  1  ii  rgy  loaded  with  a  strange  medly  of  household  furniture  and 
k jt<  hen  utensils,  from  an  elegant  parlor  mirror  to  a  pair  of  fire  dogs,  all  of 
which  they  "cramped"  from  some  fine  house,  which,  from  sheer  wanton  o 

n  rifled  and  destroyed.     Htu  I    such  scutes  are  constantly 

occurring  along  the  line  of  our  march.  lous  and  absurd  as  they  are 

a  boi  me  to  the   army  ol  the  Union — to  %ay  i>  com- 

mitted hy  the  toldiery  i 
ne. 

:D. 

rinc-  the  w<  i  k  of  battles  in  front  rd  w  nt 

•  forn  old  comrade  in 

J.  I.   B.  6  dry.     Previous  v>  tins 

war. 

pany;  but  Jcb.  wa 

; 

him 

• 

I 

I 

hich 

bot1 


1*'l  OLEANTV 

A 

At  1  irnt  by  -;  .  and  om  I     had 

thus  villainously  hit  ho 

with  her  on  the  bank  from  lack 

i'or  him.     Be  asked 

•'  Madam,  hai  o  yon  a  father,  broth*  re,  or  an]  a  i  " 

The  lady  was  quite  with   two  j  five  and 

ide.     Ber  i  bo  tl 

and  nine  months  invader  and  subjugator  of  Old  Abe's.     Sh<  1,  in 

soldering  ruins  of  her  b 
••  I  have  two   brothers  in  the  army;  and  if  yon  keep  on  this'  war  twelve 
-  Longer,  (pressing  the  hi  I  shall  have  two  tons  toj 

till  their  death  I     i  expect  nothing  i  i  tter  than  murder  and  arson  l'rom 
ir  tribe." 
The  commander  sloped  to  his  gun  room,  while  the  lady  sod  red 

the  departure  of  the  Queen  of  the  RT<  ■  Bonny  Blue  Fls 

A   PROVED**  .  i.\l.   ..    -CUE. 

Colonel  Stearns,  a  bold  and  dashing  part.  r  in  Tennessee,  having 

.ty  of  the  enemy,  alter   killing  and 
Wounding  a  number  who  were  pillaging  in  the  vicinity  of  Ready ville,  Ten- 
forty  miles  from  Nashville,)  learn<  i  thai  three  of  the  prowling 
sooundrels  had  just  gone  to  a  private  residence  in  the  outskirts  of  the  vil- 
A  squad  of  the  rangers  iras  put  u]  on  the  tra<  and  that  they 

had  just  forced  their  way  into  the  bi  r  of  a  young  lady.     A  i 

made  for  the  room,  revolvers  in  hand,  and  the  ruffians  had  barely  time 
to  realize  their  doom,  when  their  bodies,  pierced  by  a  dozen  bullets,  were 
bed  lifeless  on  the  floor. 

A    WAN    TKIO. 

The  Richmond  correspondent  of  the  Knoxville  Register  perpetrates  the 
following  pleasantry  at  the  expense  of  three  of  our  highest  officials: 

U  the  STankeea  knew  to  what  i  .mine  may  he  endured,  and  how 

very  liW  human  life — if  they  had  all  ident  and 

rident,  and  our  Beoretary  of  V^ar,  the  idea  of  resorting  to  famine, 

Dt  of  hostility  td  a  people   whose   leaders  are   the   very  impersona- 
tions of  hard  times,  would  never  have  been  adopted.     President  Davis  is 
the  shadow  of  a  man,  Vice-President  Stephens  is  imponderable,  and  Mr. 
Idon's  bones  rattle  when  he  descends  the  stairways  of  the  Spottswood. 
The  genii  of  famine  conduct  this  revolution. 


AN    ARMY   NOTE  BO    I  IC5 

A   TRIE   HXBOINB. 

When  General  Forrest  arrived  at  Black  Creek,  three  miles  from  Gads- 
den, Alabama,  in  hot  pursuit  of  the  vandals,  he  fi  und  his  pn 
by  a  swollen  stream  and  demolished  bridges,  -while  a  detachment  of  the 
I  b<  hind  to  dispute  his  passage  to  the  opposite  side     Ignorant 

of  the  ford,  if,  indeed,  there  was  an}-,  General  Fori*  .  k  in 

n  y  information.     At  the  first  house,  lie  made  the  inquiry 

whether  there  was  any  person  who  could  pilot  bis  command  across  the 

stream,  to  which  a  young  lady  made  re]  ly—  uo  male  person  being  present 

lie  knew  th<    ford,  aad  if  she  had  a  horse,  she   would  accompany 
direct  him.     There  being  no  time  for  cer<  renewal  Forres!  pro] 

that  she  should  gel  np  behind  him,  to  which,  with  no  maiden  coyness,  hut 
actuated  only  by  the  heroic  impulse  to  serve  her  country,  she  at  once  con- 
d.      ikr  mother,  however,  overhearing  the  suggestion,  and  sensitively 
alive  to  her  daughl  y  and  honor,  interposed  the  objecti 

child  cam  accompany  a  strange;        "  Madam,"  respectfully  uri 

the  far-famed  chieftian,  "  my  oame  is  Forrest,  and  1  will  be  responsible 

rejoined  the  good  woman,";' 
r  ith  you." 
1  behind  the  :  1  him  across  the  stream,  exp< 

to  the  whistlii  he  enemy;  nor  did  she  retire  from  L  , 

j   r  until  tlie  last  man  liad   safely  crossed,  and  the  column  seen  in  con- 
tinua  •  rapid  pursuit,  ac<  omj  ai 

5  ansom,  who  deserves  to  be  long 

Ut    INCH):  ' 
There  wore  many  incidents  in  the  battle  of  Stone's  River  that  have  not 

chai  Third    Kentucky  was  advancing 

friends  and  n< 

mutually 

mac 


t.  and,  in  dozens  of  in- 
old  feu  .  the 
hrown   away,  and   at   it                                              ,  pulling,  and 
gouging  in  rough  and  tuml                       in  a  mai  r-on 

I  '-'.tor 
ht,  when  the  Twenty-Third  Ken!  rig  them  a 

flanking  th  quite  a  Dumber  ofpri 

their  I  when  the  Ninth  I  I 

e  up  <ni  the  dou  :  inks, 

succeeded  in  <  taking  in  retui 

man v  of  the  1  As  the  late  belligerents  were  conducted  to  the  rear, 

they  appe  tten  all  thoir  late  anim  i  were  now  on 

beat  terms  imaginable,  laughing  ting  and  joking;  and  as  the 

re  well  supplied  with  whisky,  their  ci  n  teens  were  readily  hai 
about  from   one  to  the   other,  until   they  all    became  as  ji 
the  circumstances. 

OF  GENERAL  ja<  m  Oil  u  kk. 

Coming  to  a  bridge,  he  was  about  to  cross,  when  on  the  bridge  he  die- 
red  a  cannon  planted  and  trained   upon  him,  and   the  enemy  in  force 
behind.     It  was  too  late  to  retreat  precipitately.     So,  with  a  coolness  and  an 
air  that  was  characteristic   of  the  man.  Jack! 

the  piece,  said,  in  a  tone  of  authority  to  the  guard :  "Wh  a  to 

place  that  piece  tl,  move  it  and  plant  it  on  yonder  height" 

men  io  charge  moved  to  obey,  and  Stun,  wall,  buttoning  his  coat,  turned  his 

nor8<  | „  bis  staff,  and  dashed  off  at  their  head.     Too  late  the  Yan- 

1  who  their  \  i  an  1  hastily  unlimboring  the  piece,  fired 

r  him  without  effect.     A  rapid  pursuit  resulted  in  the  capture 

two  oi  his  staff,  hut   the  gallant  chief  escaped,  to  fight  them   "another 

under  more  favorable  •  uccs. 

PETER,   A    FAITHFUL   SERVANT. 

It  is  with  much  pleasure  that  we  chronicle  the  faithfulness  and  devotion 

oi  Peter,  a  servant  of  Major  Furiow,  who  was  with  the  lam 

Furlow,  in  Virginia,  in  obtaining  the  body  of  his  decea 

and  transporting  it  hum.:  under  the  must  trying,  and  to  many  persons,  in- 

mountable  difficulties.     After  of  the  death  of  Captain  Furlow, 

r  earnestly  sought  permission  to  visit  the  battle-field  in  search  of  his 

.;  this,  however,  was  denied  him,  and  it  was  aot  until  next  morning 

ten  of  the  body.     En  view  pf  the  heavy  loss  which 

the  Twelfth G  giment  had  sustained,  and  the  designed  pursuit  of  the. 

enemy,  it  was  determined  to  bury  all  who  had  yielded  up  their  lives  in  the 


AN   AK.MT    NOTE-TV  I  (17 

cause  of  liberty.     This  Peter  insisted  should  not  be  done  with  the  bod)-  of 
Captain  Furlow ;  he  besougbt  thorn  fur  permission  to  carry  it  home  to  his 
sorrow-stricken  and  bereaved  family.     For  a  time,  his  entreaties  were  unavail- 
ing; at  length,  however,  the  devotion  of  thia  humble  boy  overcame  the  rude 
-ities  of  war,  and  consent  was  given   him   to   take   charge  of  ('apt;; in 
Furlow'a  body.     After  much  difficulty,  Peter  obtained  a  wagon,  for  which 
ho  paid  twenty-three  dollars,  to  transport  the  body  to  Staunton.     It  was  now 
•mined  to  place  several  other  bodies,  among  them    Lieutenant  Turpi n, 
of  Peter;  thia  was  done,  and  with  them  all,  ho  entered  upon  his 
sad  journey,  we  ha\  e  no  doubt,  with  a  heart  comparatively  light.     At  Staun- 
he  procure  1  coffins  for  all  his  charge,  paying  for  them  with  his  money, 
and  that  of  his  deceased  young  master.     (Of  curse,  this  has  been  refunded.) 
It  is  needless  to  recount  the  numerous  an  I  tly  recurring  difficulties 

9  mournful  journey  home ;  no  one  who  has  not  traveled  under  similar 
circumstances  can  appreciate  them.     Suffice  it  to  say,  that  many  a  torn  ami 
iing  heart  is  indebted  to  this    jlave   I '•  he  melancholy,  though 

;mable  pri  watering  with  their  tears  the  graves  of  their  loved 

With  a  tearful   eye  and  quivering  lip,  Major  Furlow  acknowledj 
lebt  of  gratitude  h  Peter,  and,  in  the    depth  of  his  thankful- 

knows  not  how  to  regard  him,  henc<  forth,  as  a  slave.     We  commend 
unyielding  affection  of  the  slave 
to  th(  of  the  race,  who  are  warring  upon  us;  a  seri    i 

sidcration  of  it  would  improve  their  morals. 

A    VF.AT    OP    DARI1 

I  correspond     t  of  the  Chattanooga  Rebel  vouches  for  the  ;: 
following  n  from  official  s^v 

Two  <!■•  Murfreesboro',  First   Lieutenant  C.   0. 

alf  a 

mile  in  front  ol  dree  men  add 

with  tin  ;  by 

thou 

bim,  call 

his 


tf    FROM 
r.WALrV     P] 

N*  Importe,  the  correspondent  ofth    Mobile  R 

bion  of  a    ■  il  Van  Dora's  cavalry  *at  Spring 

Hill,  Tei 

Here  ire  are/  on  an  extensive  p.ir.i-]'-  ground,  to  see  a 
ill"  largest  body  of   cavalry  atinent. 

dust  lb  flying  in  huge  clouds  in  i  v.  rj  dii    sti  mj  and  the  tram]  isanda 

-  notice  of  the  approaob  of  the  cavalc  •  rat- 

tling along  the  stony  pike,  oarryin  eious  burthens  of  I  tning 

to  witness  the  review.     Presently,  the  column  b<  gins  to  assume  proper  shape, 
and  as  far  as  the  eyi    can  take  in  the  view,  along  bl  .  down  in 

the  valleys,  and   away  over  the  hill-toj.s,  an   unbroken    line  of  horsemen 
nt  their  '..  irds  you. 

Still  another  column  approaches,  at  the  head  of  which  is  a  well  built,  stout 
rider,  with  large,  fierce  moustache,  and  imperial  of  reddish  cast,  mounted 
upon  a  sprightly,  .sorrel  animal.  That  is  General  W.  II.  Jackson,  at  the 
head  of  his  division.  We  have  spent  half  an  hour  now  in  thi  hot  Bun  and 
choking  dust,  awaiting  the  formation  of  the  troops  for  review,  and  they  are 
now  ready  at  last.  Two  large  columns,  with  ten  thousand  horses  and  horse- 
men are  all  facing  towards  us.  That  light,  blue-eyed  youth  galloping 
towards  us  is  Lieutenant  Martin,  of  Jackson's  staff,  who  rides  up  to  General 
Van  Dorn,  and  informs  him  that  the  division  r  parade     What  a 

sight  is  now  presented  to  the  eve  !  Thousands  of  horses  formed  in  tin 
tend  as  far  as  the  observer  can  take  in  the  north  and  south,  while  on  either 
flank  you  catch  an  occasional  flash  of  the  brass  batteries  as  the  sunlight 
plays  upon  the  pieces.  At  the  head  of  each  regiment  you  observe  the  com- 
manding officer  in  his  neat  suit  of  Confederate  grey,  or  less  gaudy  jeans'. 
At  the  head  i  :"'  brigadier  and  staff 

Everything  is  ready  for  inspection — the  high-spirited  boys,  the  dancing 
hors  is,  the  gleaming  .-runs  and  glittering  sabres.  From  the  centre  in  front 
away  dashes  Van  Dorn,  the  general  commanding,  and  his  staff.  Off  they 
gp  iii  a  gallop  to  meet  the  senior  commander,  Forrest,  and  then,  aocompa- 
nied  by  him  and  his  staif  away  the  whole  party  dash  at  a  running  gallop 
he  end  of  the  column,  until  tiny  are  lost  in  the  distance]  sudden  lj  back 
again  bney  come,  as  rapidly  as  they  went,  upon  the  rear  of  the  first  column. 

The  party  now  approach  to  where  Central  Jackson,  the  other  division 
commander,  is,  and  after  the  usual  salutations,  Forrest  and  staff  ride  off,  and 
their  places  are  taken  by  -;ackson  and  staff,  who  ride  in  turn  along  the 
md  line,  only  stopping  Bn  instant  for  the  commanding  general  to  doff 
his  hat  and  salute  the  brigade  commanders;  theu  back  again  tluy  go 
around  the    rear  vl  the    column   to  the   right  flank,  where  Van  Dorn  and 


AN    ARMY    NOTK-HOOK.  160 

staff  leave  thfl  division  commander  and  resume  their  position  once  more, 
after  a  long  and  dusty  gallop,  in  the  centre,  and  about  a  hundred  yards  in 
front  of  the  entire  body. 

The  command  is  now  given  to  pass  in  review.  Wheeling  by  companies 
to  the  right,  the  eye  is  relieved  by  the  change  which  gives  us  a  side  view  of 
the  command"  as  it  now  marches  past  us,  the  band  at  the  head  of  each 
brigade,  the  stand  of  colors  and  regimental  officers  at  the  heads  of  regi- 
ments, and  the  company  officers  slightly  in  advance  of  their  companies. 
The  head  of  the  first  division  passes  the  general  fcommandin^,  and  from  the 
front,  an  officer,  followed  by  his  staff,  gallops  to  Van  Dora's  post.  He  is  a 
large  and  well  proportioned  man,  six  feet  in  height,  of  commanding  form. 
His  hair  aud  beard  are  rapidly  changing  from  black  to  grey,  as  is  his 
moustache.  He  has  a  fine,  clear  eye,  with  some  expression  fire  and,  but  his 
features  otherwise  ;irc  expressionless,  the  tout  entemJblc  giving  one  an 
of  s  bold,  daring,  defiant  man.  J I  is  conversation  is  earnest  and  his  words 
spoken  with  a  firmness  that  betokens  will,  but  it  is  instantly  perceivable 
ker  was  not  the-  recipient  of  a  college  education.  This  is 
Kriua ;\\t  r  General  Forrest,  than  whom  there  is  no  more  daring  officer  in  our 

miliar  as  a  household  word  throughout  the 
icy.     His  veteran  Tennesseeans,  who  have  pained  for  him  by  their 
hard"  blows  his  well  earned  renown,  pass  on  in  review.     The  second  brig 
approach* 

Out  turns  another  general  officer  and  staff.     This  handsome,  dashi 
fellow  sits  his  horse  with   incomparable  i_<race  and  ease,  and   displays  a  pet- 
■thnwlon,  which    is   the  soul  of  daring   chivalry.     That  :icr 

ral  Frank  ('.  Armstrong,  and  pray  notice  the  flutter  among  the  la 
in  tie  1  (1m    number  of  immaculate  white  kerchiefs  whiel 

[uisition. 
Now  pai  mental    flag   literally  torn  to   pieces  by  bullet  holes,  in 

f  whieh,  as    it  flaunts   before   him,  tie   commanding 
Thai    i-   (he   pallant  Third    A.rkatM 
won    rcn  un    from   Oak    Hill  to  Spring    Hill.      And   her  rol- 

licking, r.  head  one 

that  ring  presence   of   Whitfield,  with   hi=  ily  form,  his    ' 

I  8  Texan  and   bob! 

featui 

In  hit  man  apparently  twei  ;h  wavy 

black  hair,  black  moustache,  an  olive  complexion,  fine  ex] 
and  '.- 
the  brigade  ir: 

'  the  wounds  of  the  field  and  ills  of  tl 

What    singular    looking   custon  Texans    are,  witl 


170  GLEANINGS   FROM 

brimmed  hats,  dark  features,  shaggy  Mexican  mustangs,  and  a  lariff,  long 
enough  for  &  clothes  line,  arottnd  the  pummel  of  their  saddles.  They  are 
said  to  be  unmerciful  tu  prisoners,  but  are  a  tower  of  strength  when  there  is 
a  fight  on  hand.  When  passing  a  farm  at  full  run  on  horseback  they  lasso 
B  hog,  jerk  it  upon  their  horses,  skin  and  quarter  it  without  stopping. 

I  observed  at  headquarters,  a  pass  from  General  R.  B.* Mitchell,  the 
Yankee  commander  at  Nashville,  to  "'pass  C.  Hooper  through  the  lines 
on  all  the  pikes  and  return,  for  tm  days."  and  asked  where  the  bearer  of  it 
was.  I  was  informed  that  our  Texas  pickets  caught  him  and  sent  in  this 
pass  with  the  laconic  and  significant  message  :  "  We  have  lost  Mr.  Hooper." 

Hello  !  there  goes  Jack  Wharton,  the  famous  Texas  rangor,  at  the  head 
of  his  regiment,  for  he  is  commanding  it  in  the  absence  of  the  field  officers. 
"  Who  is  Jack  "Wharton  '/"  Who  is  n't.  he  ?  Who  in  the  command  do  n't 
know  this  jolly,  rollicking  fellow,  who  tells  an  anecdote  with  as  much  gusto 
as  he  skins  a  Yankee?  -Jackson  now  turns  from  the  head  of  his  division  as 
it  passes,  and  joins  Van  Dorn,  Forrest  and  Armstrong.  He  is  a  study,  and 
with  those  singular  dancing  eyes,  I  cannot  give  his  picture. 

"Just  look  at  that  wax  doll  in  general's  uniform,"  exclaims  an  enthu- 
tic  young  lady,  and  our  attention  is  attracted  to  young  Brigadier  General 
Cosby,  of  Kentucky, petite  in  figure,  with  wavy  black  hair  and  moustache, 
and  bright  expressive  eyes.  He  is  youthful  in  appearance,  and  looks  as 
delicate  and  refined  as  a  lady.  Is  probably  thirty-five,  though  looking  ten 
years  younger  Was  a  lieutenant  in  the  regular  United  States  army,  and 
is  known  as  a  skillful  and  daring  young  officer.  His  brigade  consists  of 
Mississippiaos,  all  of  whom  have  become  much  attached  to  their  young 
commander. 

Last  of  all,  comes  King's  Missouri  battery,  of  glorious  fame,  under  young 
( ihurchill  Clark,  of  Elkhorn,  lately  under  King  and  Johnson,  at  Spring  11  ill, 
where  his  battery  charged  the  enemy  in  advance  of  our  infantry  and  cavalry, 
and  lastly  on  the  Cumberland,  where  it  suuk  a  number  of  transports  and 
disabled  a  gunboat.  All  honor  to  its  rifled  pieces  and  gallant  officers  and 
heroic  men ! 

abe's  very  latest  joke. 

A  gentleman  called  upon  the  President,  and  solicited  a  pass  for  Rich- 
mond. "  Well,"  said  the  President,  "  I  would  be  very  happy  to  oblige  you, 
if  my  passes  were  respected;  but  the  fact  is,  sir,  I  have,  within  the  past 
two  years,  given  passes  to  two  hundred  aud  fifty  thousand  men  to  go  to 
Richmond,  and  not  one  has  got  there  yet."  The  applicant  very  quietly  and 
respectfully  withdrew  on  his  tip-toes. 


AN    Alt  MY    NOTE-BOOK.  I  ,  I 

A    VK1ILANT    SENTINEL. 

A  correspondent  of  the  Memphis  Appeal  relates  the  following 

As  a  specimen  of  .the  vigilance  exercised  by  the  soldiers,  take  the  follow- 
ing :  The  other  morning,  as  General  Joseph  E.  Johnston  approached  the 
cars,  with  the  purpose  of  getting  aboard,  en  route  for  Mobile,  his  ears  were 
saluted  by  the  gruff  word  "Halt!"  coming  from  the  stentorian  throat  of  a 
grey-coated  private,  who  demanded,  when  the  veteran  general  had  come  to 
a  stand,  what  was  his  business  "on  this  here  train  V  The  general  told  him 
he  was  going  to  Mobile.  "  Let  me  see  your  ceitificate/'  at  the  same  time 
promptly  bring  his  piece  to  an  "  arms  port."  "  Old  man,"  said  the  watch- 
ful sentinel,  "  no  one  goes  on- this  train  unless  he  has  a  surgeon's  certifi- 
cate/' At  this  crisis,  one  of  the  general's  aids  interfered,  and  explained 
to  the  soldier  who  the  ''old  man"  was,  much  to  the  amusement  of  the  latter, 
but  to  the  horror,  and  confusion  of  the  worthy  guard,  who  took  the  general's 
compliment  to  his  faithful  performance  of  duty  as  a  reprimand. 

• 

AN    INCIDENT   OF    THE    SIEGE    OF    VH'KsliURG. 

On  the  night  of  the  List  of  May,  1862,  the  Third  Missouri  infantry, 
Colonel  W.  E.  Gause   commanding,  was  ordered  to  the  fort  to  relieve  tho 
first  infantry,  which   was  moved  to  the  rear  and   again    held   in   reserve. 
The  men  spread  down  their  blankets  behind  the  stockade,  lay  down  upou 
them  and  slept  soundly   until  about  four  o'clock  A.   M.,  when  they 
awakened  by  a  furious  cannonade  from  two  or  three  of  the  enemy's  batteries 
placed  bo  as  to  cotuniand  the  fort.     They  seemed  determined  to  hatter  down 
the  stockade  and  the  little  redan  at  its  right,  in  which  we   had  two  pi 
ght  field  artillery,  for  they  continued  the  cannonade  fiercely  and  rap 
until  about  eleven  o'clock  A.  M.,  tearing  off    huge  Bplinters  from  the  si 
ade  posts,  hurling  them  in  all  directions,  breaking  arms  and  legs,  and  knock- 
ing men  senseless  all  along  the  rank-  of  the  regiment,  terribly  braising  and 
lacerating  them,  when  a  desperate  charge  was  made  on  the  fort  by  eight 

afterwards  informed  us)  of  their  best  infantry.     Al 
fifty  of  tl  atcd  the  broad,  deep  ditch  on  the  outside  of  the  r. 

which  was  "defended   by  the   right  wing  of  the  regiment,  and  a  stand   of 
their  &  lors  was  planted  on  a  slope  of  the  parapet,  within  the 

mouths  of  OUT  at  efforts  were  made  by  our  men 

U  in  vain — the  tire  was  I  q    having 

y  farther,  tor  f<  ar  of  I  aim 

r  of  the  fire  ol 
down  in  ,  and  pi 

themseWcs   until  night,   when  tl  v  unhurt 

■lie  darkm 


172  OLSAMINCHB    ROM 

The  remainder  of  the  assaulting  column  were  held  in  check,  ami  after 
a  bloody  fight,  were  finally  repuhfed. 

While  the  fifty  foemeq  before  mentioned  were  lying  in  the  outer  ditches, 
Lieutenant  11.  II.  Faulkner,  of  Company  E,  Third  Missouri  infantry,  in 
looking  over  the  parapet  in  order  to  gel  B  shot  at  them,  caught  a  glimpse  of 
one  of  them  gazing  up  at  him,  and  as  he  bent  farther  over  to  get  a  better 
view,  was  greeted  by  a  shot  from  the  fellow's  gun,  which  whistled  clo.se  by 
his  head.  He  immediately  ordered  the  Yank  to  surrender.  His  reply  was, 
"Goto.h — 11!"  'Faulkner  immediately  picked  up  a  six-pound  cannon  ball 
lying  near  him,  and  threw  it  with  all  his  force  at  the  fellow's  head,  striking 
him  full  in  the  face,  knocking  him  senseless.  He  then  ordered  the  re- 
mainder of  them  to  surrender,  which  they  refused  to  do.  He  told  them  if 
they  did  not  he  would  light  bomb-shells  and  throw  over  among  them. 
They  still  refused,  when  the  sergeant  of  the  piece  of  artillery  near  which  he 
was  standing  lighted  a  five-second  shell  for  him,  which  Faulkner  tossed  over 
among  them  by  handkand  it  exploded  just  as  it  reached  the  bottom  of  the 
ditch.  He  continued  to  toss  over  the  shells,  at  each  explosion  crying  out, 
"  d— n  you,  will  you  surrender  now  ("  until  he  had  thrown  over  all  that 
were  at  hand,  when  he  desisted.  Some  idea  may  be  formed  of  the  havoc 
they  made  among  the  stubborn  foe,  when  it  is  known  that  twenty-one  men, 
dead  and  wounded,  were  found  in  the  ditch  where  he  tossed  over  the  shells. 
The  remainder  escaped  under  cover  of  the  first  darkness,  carrying  with 
them  the  stand  of  colors  before  mentioned. 

THREE   WILD    CONFEDERATE    IRISHMEN. 

A  Northern  correspondent,  who  was  accidentally  within  our  lines  previous 
to  the  battle  of  Fredericksburg,  writes  as  follow.^ : 

Thinking  that  I  could  not  proceed  through  the  Confederate  lines  while 
they  were  advancing,  I  turned  into  the  first  tavern,  and  waited  about  an  hour 
and  a  half,  when  three  Confederates  made  their  appearance,  and  proved  to 
be  three  Irishmen,  stragglers  from  General  Early's  force,  who  had  evidently 
been  indulging  in  their  national  proclivities.  I  had  a  conversation  with 
these  three  Confederate  soldiers,  regarding  them  as  a  fair  type  of  the  lower 
order  of  the  Confederate  soldiery,  and  wishing  to  ascertain  the  sentiments  of 
that  class. 

Their  expressions  were  about  the  same  as  those  which  I  had  often  heard 
from  the  lips  of  the-  Confederate  officers^  and  only  differed  in  the  brogue  in 
which  they  were  clothed. 

"What  the  divil  are  you  fighting  us  for?  You  may  bate  us  now,  but 
you'll  nivcr  put  us  down.  By  my  sowl,  we  '11  fight  till  the  last  man  ov  us  is 
kilt,  and  thin,  be  jabers,  the  women  will  take  a  hand  at  it.  You  may  fight 
us  for  all  eternity,  and  thin  we  won't  be  whipped,  afther  all  !'' 


AN    All.MY    NuTE-BOOK.  173 

AN    ADVENTURE   IN    THE    WEST. 

Several  companies  of  the  Ninth  Mississippi  were  out  on  picket  duty  on 
the  night  of  the  battle  of  "the  bloody  crossing  of  Stone  River,"  when  a 
stout,  well  fnade  young  fellow,  named  Tom  Billon,  an  Englishman  by  birth, 
who  was  brought  up  in  Boston,  ajid  emigrated  several  years  ago  to  Yazoo, 
Mississippi,  left  his  company  to  reconnoitre  the  enemy's  position.  Private 
Dillon  was  moving  stealthily  along  across  a  field  on  the  north  side  of  the 
Nashville  road,  under  cover  of  the  darkness  of  the  night,  when  he  suddenly 
came  upon  one  of  the  enemy's  pickets — a  strapping  Indiana  hoozier  over 
six  feet. 

"DTalt!"  cried  the  Yank,  "Who  comes  there?" 

"Friend,"  responded  Dillon,  when,  just  then,  the  moon  slipped  out  for  a 
moment  from  behind  a  cloud,  discovering  to  the  hoozier  the  grey  uniform 
of  Dillon. 

"Our  friends  don't  wear  them  sort-of  clothes,"  said  the  hoozier ;  "you  are 
my  prisoner." 

"Well,  I  took  you  for  one  of  our  men,"  said  Dillon,  "as  some  of  our 
troops  are  out  this  way." 

"Which  way?"  asked  the  alarmed  hoozier. 

"  Why,  over  there,"  replied  Dillon,  poiuting  to  where  he  knew  the  enemy's 
lines  were. 

"Well,  come  on  this  way,"  said  the  Yank,  striking  off  to  the  left  in  a 
direction  nearer  to  our  lines  than  his  own.  Just  at  this  moment  several 
■hots  were  fired  and  whizzed  over  their  heads.  "Lie  down,"  cried  Dillon, 
"or  else  we'll  both  be  shot"  The  Yank  did  so,  and  Dillon,  watching  his 
opportunity,  fell  heavily  upon  him,  at  the  same  time  Striking  him  a  most 
Btqnning  blow  on  the  nose,  which  he  repeated  in  ^uick  succession,  while 
the  hoozier  cried  out  "murder"  most  lustily.  Fearing  that  the  D 
would  draw  our  men  into  danger  of  the  enemy's  pickets,  as  well  as  jeopar- 
dize his  own  saf<  iv,  Dillon  made  ■  gagof  his  forefinger,  being  now  astraddle 
of  his  fbe,  and  forced  it  across  his  mouth.  "Another  yell,"  wln'si  ■ 
Dillon  to  the  prostrate  1.  tozier,  "and  you're  a  dead  man  rathatand- 

:  iat  the  Y.mk  bit  the  finger  of  Dillon  most  severely^  be  bore  it  n 
fall/,  and  finding  that  hi.-  enemy  was  not  reinfoi  ide  him  rise,  bar- 

bia  mask  t.  and  marched  him  according  to  Hardee  into  our  tamp 
— th  .  —forward,  qnii 

oner — file    left,  double-quiok,  and   if  yo«  break   |  .eaj  ^  a 

In  the  arrival  of  ]  il  the.  pit  -  an 

adventure  by  t. 
laagfa  at  the  . 


174  \ni:  as  mou 

THK    PEIVATK    SOLDIKK. 

Under  this  head,  the  Jackson  Mississippi  Orieu  pays  t lie  following  hand- 
some tribute  to  the  private  soldier  : 

••Justice  has  never  been  done  him.  His  virtuous  merit  and  unobtrusive 
patriotism  have  never  been  justly  estimated.  We  do  not  speak  of  the 
regular  soldier,  who  makes  the  army  his  trade  for  twelve  dollars  per  month. 
"We  do  not  include  the  coward  who  skulks,  nor  the  vulgarian,  who  can  per- 
petrate acts  of  meanness;  nor  the  laggard,  who  must  be  forced  to  fiirht 
for  his  home  and  country.  These  are  not  the  subjects  of  our  comment. 
We  speak  of  the  great  body  of  citizen  soldiery  who  constitute  the  provis- 
ional army  of  the  Confederacy,  and  who,  at  the  sound  of  trumpet  and  drum, 
marched  out  with  rifle  or  musket  to  fight — to  repel  their  country's  inv.-i 
or  perish  on  that  soil  which  their  fathers  bequeathed,  with  the  glorious  boon 
of  civil  liberty.  These  are  the  gallant  men  of  whom  we  write,  and  t' 
have  saved  the  country,  these  have  made  a  breastwork  of  their  manly  bosoms 
to  shield  the  sacred  precinct  of  altar-place  and  fire-side. 

u  Among  these  private  soldiers  are  to  be  found  men  of  culture — men  of 
gentle  training — men  of  intellect — men  of  social  position — men  of  character 
at  home — men  endeared  to  a  domestic  circle  of  refinement  and  elegance — 
men  of  wealth — men  who  gave  tone  and  character  to  the  society  in  which 
they  moved,  and  men  who.  for  conscience's  sake,  have  made  a  living  sacrifice 
of  property,  home  comfort,  and  are  ready  to  add  crimson  life  to  the  holy 
offering. 

'•  Many  of  these,  if  they  would  have  surrendered  honor  and  a  sense  of 
independence,  could  have  remained  in  possession  of  all  these  elegancies  and 
oomfoi  ts.  But  they  felt  like  the  Roman,  who  said,  '  put  honor  in  one  hand 
and  death  in  the  other,  and  I  will  look  on  both  indifferently!' 

"  Without  rank,  without  title,  without  anticipated  distinction,  animated 
only  by  the  highest  and  noblest  sentiments  which  can  influence  our  common 
nature,  the  private  labors,  and  toils,  aud  marches,  and  fights;  endures 
hunger,  and  thirst,  and  fatigue;  through  watchings,  and  weariness  and 
sleepless  nights,  and  cheerless,  laborious  days,  he  holds  up  before  him  Hie 
oue  glorious  prize — 'Freedom  of  my  country;'  'Independence  and  my 
home!'  If  we  can  suppose  the  intervention  of  less  worthy  motives,  the 
officer,  and  not  the  private,  is  the  man  whose  merit  must  commingle  such 
alloy.  The  officer  may  become  renowned — the  private  never  reckons  upon 
that ;  the  officer  may  live  in  history — the  private  looks  to  no  such  record ; 
the  officer  may  attract  the  public  gaze — the  private  does  not  look  for  such 
recognition;  the  officer  has  a  salary — the  private  only  a  monthly  stipend,  the 
amount  of  which  he  has  been  accustomed  to  pay  to  some  field  laborer  on  his 
rich  domains.     The  officer  may  escape  harm  in  battle  by  reason  of  distance — ' 


AN    ARMY    NOTK-HOOK.  175 

the  private  must  face  the  storm  of  death  ;  tlie  officer  moves  on  horseback — 
the  private  on  foot;  the  officer  carrjes  'a  sword,  tho  emblem  of  authority, 
and  docs  not  fight — the  private  carries  his  musket,  and  does  all  the  fighting. 

"In  those  ranks  there  is  public  virtue  and  capacity  enough  to  construct 
;i  government,  and  administer  its  civil  and  military  oflices.  Tbe  opinion  of 
these  men  will  guide  the  historiifn,  and  fix  the  merit  of  generals  and  slates- 
men.  The  opinion  (  F  tbese  meu  will  be,  and  ought  to  be,  omnipotent  with 
tbe  people  and  Government  of  the  Confeder 

"  Heaven  bless  these  brave,  heroic  men  !  Our  heart  warms  to  them.  Our 
admiration  of  their  devotion  and  heroism  is  without  limit.  Their  devotion 
to  principle  amounts  to  moral  sublimity.  We  feel  their  sufferim:  and  share 
their  hopes,  and  desire  to  be  identified  in  our  day  and  generation  with  such 
a  host  of  spirits,  tried  and  true,  who*  bend  the  knee  to  none  but  God,  and 
render  homage  only  to  worth  and  merit."  .  • 

PRE  MINI).* 

• 

<  i moral  John  U.  Morgan  left  his  camp,  which  was  in  the  vicinity  of 
Gallatin,  Tennessee,  on  a  tour  of  observation,  and  while  absent,  th*e  unex- 
pected appearance  of  a  large  force  of  the  enemy  caused,  his  command  to 
retire  from  it  and  leave  it  in  the  enemy's  possession.  Shortly  after,  Morgan, 
who  wore  kbe  uniform  of  a  Federal  officer,  returned  to  find  his  camp  thus 
occupied,  and  himself  surrounded  by  the  Abolition  soldiery.  Nothing 
daunted,  they  not  recognizing  him,  his  uniform,  too,  deceiving  them,  he 
demanded  what  they  were  doing  there  when  the  d — d  rebels  were  fast  ad- 
vancing upon  them  from  the  quarter  in  which  he  had  approached,  and 
them  an  authoritative  oommand  to  retire  nt  once  in  an  opposite  direction. 
This  they  hastily  did,  when  Morgan  himself,  with  no -less  haste,  retired  also 
in  an  opposite  direction,  safely  reaching  his  command. 

'■  III. HE  'fl    YOUll    Ml). I 

(  tee  of  tin   ]  in  die  Southern  army  of  the  Fotonr. 

Major  General  Hood,  ol  Kentucky.     Always  accessible,  always  kind,  always 
brave,* hia  men  love  him  devotedly,  and  will  follow  him  to  the  death.     The 
ing  incident  illustrates  both  his  popularity  and  tl  of  it: 

A  soldirr  tf  the  Ninth  Georgia,  j  Gtanend  Hold's  quart 

to  him:  "  Grenentl,  will  yon  take  ■  drink  with  mi  t"    Tl 
th<>  canteen,  over  bis  should*  •  inti- 

want  a  drink, 
'here'a  your  mule!'"  •  ral  II.  thanked  him  for  his  kind  off.  r 

rr.nl    Hood,  wl 

rol   bis  risibl< 

pan  th.it  1  liiin. 


176  GLEANINGS    FROM 

YANKEE    OFFICER    KILLED    AT    VICKSBURO. 

A  ootn   pondent  of  the  Memphis  Appeal  relates  the  following  incident 
that  took  place  after  the  surrender  of  Vicksbur 

Colonel  A.  B.  Watts,  who  □  your  paper  for  his  gallant  con- 

duct at  Port  Q-ibson,  has  again  rendered  his  name  a  glorious  one.  Jnsl 
after  the  surrender  of  the  'city,  he  wen!  down  to  the  landing  to  get  a  lemon 
from  one  of  the  boats,  and  had  returned,  and  was  in  the  act  of  mounting  his 
horse,  when  a  Yankee  captain,  with  a  guard,  informed  him  that  the  horse 
belonged  to  dnole  Sam.  Colonel  Watts  informed  him  that  he  was  an 
officer,  and  was  entitled  to  his  horse  and  side-arms.  Whereupon,  Captain 
Yank  called  him  a  d — d  liar,  and  cursed  him  for  some  ffme,  and  oommenoeid 
abusing  the  women  "  Vicksburg,  and  called  them  a  d — d  set  of  out 
Colonel  Watts  then  drew  his  pistol,  and  remarked  to  the  Yankee;  that  he 
hated  to  kill  as  mean  a  dog  as  he  was,  but  his  honor  compelled  him  to  do 
80,  and  fired,  the  ball  entering  the  right  breast  and  killing  him.  The  guard 
cried  out:  "  Kill  the  rebel !"  "  Out  him  down  !"  Colonel  Watts  presented 
bis  pistol/and  said,  in  very  composed  manner:  "Proceed,  gentlemen  ;  but  I 
will  kill  four  of  you  before  you  accomplish  your  object*"  But  the  guard 
to  the  conclusion  that  he  was  too  brave  a  man  to  fool  with,  and  de- 
cided  to  let  him  pass.  Tolonel  Watts  mounted  his  horse,  and  rede  out  of 
town,  and  when  last  heard  from,  the  gallant  young  hero  had  arrived 
safely  in  Brandon,  Mississippi,  waiting  to  be  exchanged. 

A  0000  JOKE  ON  THE  CHAPLAIN — THE  "STOLEN  BUFFALO  ROBE." 

There  has  been  published  'a  humorous  letter  from  the  Reverend  T.  1>. 
Gwin,  Chaplain  of  the  First  South  Carolina  Volunteers,  calling  upon  "  the 
man  who  stole  his  buffalo  robe,"  and  "sundry  other  baggage,  to  return  the 
same,  if  he  valued  at  all  the  blessings  of  a  clear  conscience,  aud  an  improved 
>>cct  of  future  salvation.  The  following  pious  and  noble-spirited  re- 
sponse to  the  reverend  gentleman  will  show  that  the  appeal,  through  the 
Richmond  Enquirer,  has  not  been  altogether  unproductive: 

Seventeenth  Mississippi  Regiment,  Posey's  Brigade, 
Camp  near  Bunker  Hill,  Virginia,  July  16,  18 
M  v    DEAR  GrWIN  :  I  was  inexpressibly  shocked  to  learn,  from  your  letter 
in  the  Enquirer,  Of  the  4th  instant,  that  tlie  temporary  loan  of  your  "  buf- 
robe,,J  blankets,  shawl  and  pillow  should  have  given  you  such  inconve- 
nience, and  even  suspended  your  arduous  duties  in  the  field  for  a  week. 
!ia  IT  known  that  these  arlicles  belonged  to  a  chaplain,  the  sacred  pack- 

ghould  have  remained  inviolate. 
But-supposing  from  the  mark,   '/  Captain,"  that  it  belouged  to  some  poor 
officer  of  the  line,  aud  knowing  that  it  was  more  baggage  than  he  was  enti- 


AN    AI'.MV    NOTE  !'•  1  ,'  , 

tied  to  carry,  I  relieved  him  (if  it  from  motives  that  will  be  appreciate!  by 
•any  officer  of  the  line  or  the  field. 

"•i  my  arrival  at  camp,  on    the   1st  of  April,  ]    divided   the   blankets 
anion:'  my  mess,  and  in  a  sudden  fit  of  generosity,,  I   retained  the.   buffalo 
hawl  and  pillow  f'or'iuy  own  use. 

The  other  members  now  join  me  in  returning  thanks,  and  feel  that  to 
your  warm  and  gushing  heart  these  thanks  will  be  the  richest  recomyx 

We  are.  all  of  us,  exceedingly  anxious  for  you  to  change  your  fi<  Id  of 
labor  to  this  army,  where  the  duties  of  chaplains  are  much  lighter  than 
they  could  possibly  be  anywhere  else. 

Here  they  devote  themselves  to  trading  horses  and  collecting  table  deli- 
cacies,  with  a  zeal  that  eminently  entitles  them  to  the  appellation  of  Bird* 
of  Prey- 

I  am  now  patiently  waiting  for  your  coat  and  boots,  which  I  presuo 
will  send  to  cue,  in  accordance  with  the  following  injunction  : 

"it  any  man    take   away  thy  coat,   let  him    have  thy  cloak  also." — St 
Matthew,  chapter  five,  verse  forty. 

Fur  the   regulation  of  the  amount  of  1  which   a  chaplain    in   tLe 

army  should  carry,  we  refer  you  to  the  following 

"  Provide  neither  gold,  nor  silver,  nor  brass  in  your  purses. 

"  Nor  scrip  for  your  journey  ;   neither  two  toats ;   neither  shoes,  nor  yet 
slaves,  for  the   workman   is  worthy  of  his  meat." — Matthew,  chapter   ten, 
B  nine  and  ten. 

Anything  you  may  have  in  excess  of  the  above  allowance  will  be  n 
fully  received  by  n 

i  remain,  dear  Grwin,  with  sentiments  of  eternal  gratitude, 

THE  MAN  WHO  STOLE  YOCK   Bl  ROBE 

■  in,  Chaplain  First  South  Oat    'Sna    1  font* 

"  M  BE    BON  OB    <>F   THE   FLA  i  " 

i  the  "Home  Department"  oi  t!  hrleans  T.  is  ex- 

■  -1  the  following  account  of  the  efforts  thai  <lc  to  prevent  the 

in  teaching  the   young  idea  ho. 
•  1  ward.     If  an;  tnoreridii  1  contemptible  then 

the  course  of  1  ment  in  the  v 

iheir  pupils  draw  rebel  pictures  on  ;' 

.  I 

ami  I 


I.  i HuM 

principal  of  a  school  on  Car  reet,  evid 

who  poinl  1  her  ind 

visitation  and  search   fri  no  a  j  •  :.t  as 

h<  r  opinion  thai  some  of  her  papila  in  the  lower  olas  have,  by  way 

usenient,  drawn  the  political  etui  tnplained  of,  bul  call<  d  on  the 

police  officer  to  sustain  her  in  the  b  tscrtion  that  in  the  room  of  the  grudu- 
and  other  high  clasaos  of  the  school,  an  unsurpassed  lady-like  deport- 
ment had  been  evident,  and  that  nothing  political  was  (band  there. 

The  judge  remarked  that  the  authorities  felt  it  their  duty  to  end 
that  the  mind  of  the  rising  generation  Bhould  be  trained  with  proper 
feelings,  and  that  it  was  necessary  to  Bustain  t1  ing  a  fiue 

of  one  hundred  dollars  in  the  present  case.  A  short  timo  alter,  Mrs. 
Roquet,  principal  of  a  school  on  Oai  was  arraigned  on  the 

charge,  of  permitting  seditious  emblems  to  be  drawn  and  cherished  by  the 
female  pupils.  The  policeman  stated  that  the  accused  had  expressed  the 
opinion  that  the  subject  was  none  of  her  concern,  and  not  for  her  to  inter- 
fere  about. 

Judge  Hughes  then  explained  that  he  felt  convinced,  that  in  the  former 
.  he  had  been  led  into  an  error  of  judgment,  and  that  severe  punishment 
appeared  necessary.  He  adjudged  Mrs.  Loquet  to  pay  a  fine  of  two  huu- 
dred  and  fifty  dollars,  which  sum  was,  within  a  1'ew  moments,  handed  over 
to  the  receiving  clerk  by  a  gentleman,  who  thereafter  led  the  lady  out  of 
the  court  room. 

Miss  Picot,  said  to  be  the  principal  of  a  school  lor  young  ladies  on  Julia 
street,  was  then  arraigned,  accompanied  by  her  mother.     The  officer  who 
searched  the  establishment,  and   found  a  number  of  the    infantile  efforts  at 
flag  manufacturing  in  the  books  and  on  the  sheets  of  paper  belonging  to  the 
is.   i-uid  that   the  lady  had  stated  that  she  had  endeavored  to  enforce- 
the  rule  that  no  political   demonstrations,  obnoxious  to  the  Government, 
should  be  indulged  in.     The  lady  herself,  as  well  as  her  mother,  expn 
ret  at  the  fact  that  the  Beoret  artistic  efforts}  of  the  pupils  Bhould  1 
been    offensive   to  the    authorities.     The  judge   evidently  appreciated    the 
plea,  but  f'1  It  it.  necessary  to  give  proper  e  as  to  the  punishment  of 

delinquent  ladies  who  have  taken  on  themselves  the  duty  to  teach  the  young 
minds  how  to  -hoot  in  the  right  direction. 

"DIS  AM   MA88A  LINKUN's    PROCLAMATION.0 

Tl  e  negroes  who  had  deserted  from  the  military  service  in  Massachusetts 
were  ordered  to  be  arrested.  As  the  guard  were  taking  them  down  to 
the  wharf,  in  Boston,  heavily  handcuffed,  on  the  way  to  Fort  Warren,  one  of 
them  held  up  his  manacled  hands  and  exclaimed  :  '•  Die  am  Massa  Linkuu's 
proclamation'."     The  effect  can  be  better  in  an  described. 


\\    AKMV    M)Ti:  BOOK.  179 

NIGGEB    MINI  TON. 

A  Washington  letter  in  ti  ,:>   Republican  give*  a   laughable  ac- 

oount  of  the  reception  of  (he  negro  minister  from    Hayti  at  the   I' 
States  oapital,  ami  his  treatment  of  his  brother  The  following  i.s- 

bxtraoted  : 

Two  mahogany  colored  individuals,  each  with  hair  showing  a  decided  dis- 
\>>n  to  kinkine  irrived  here  in  the  capacities  of  Minister  from 

i  and  his  secretary.     Their  debut  at  the  capital  has  raided   an  eX( 

i  in  tw/i  branches  of  Washing!  whether  they,  are 

r  not.     The  Abolitionists  have  made  up.  their  minds  to  admit  them 
equality,  and  accordingly  say  they  an  not  negroes,  but  Hayti 
while  the  colored  folks  hereabouts  insist  that  they  are  veritahle  darkies.     It 

'on  will  he  decided  ;  but  the  observation 
of  the  writei  te  new  comers  are  not  negroes,  then  mulattocs 

ire  white  people. 

preseatative    E^ooper,  of  Massachusetts,  led    off  by  having  the  two 
at  his   dinner  table,  and  there  can  he  no  doubt  of  the  inten: 
of  the    Abolil  to    introduce    them    into   white    society.      Secretary 

'  to  dine  with  him  ;  but  it  is  customary  for  the 
nd  this   courtesy   to  all  representative-  of  for< 
nations  soon  after  their  first  arrival,  and   the  premier  is  no  doubt  follow 
precedent  more  willi  a  inclination. 

The  following  incident  shows  which   way  the   1!  hemselves  aro 

inclined:   A  few  di  their  arrival,  the  colored  people  held  a  meet 

and   deei'.       I       stablish  intimate  relations  with   tl  lending  their 

mill'-'  firs!,  and   then   the  common   negroes  were  to 

The  r<  lives  of  the  free  negro 

c  of  Hayti,  getting  wind  ol  •      .  sent  a  message  to  the 

.t   they  W< 

them  have  since  then  made  i,  i  b  venting  their  indignation 

at  tl  nt.     At  i  their  chut 

of    the    . 

ct    like    white    men.     ' 

■4 
■ 

:r<'cdom.  wound 

■ 
■ 


180  raoM 

WHAT   Hi"  .  BTMK   Off   TBI    ^  A.NK1 

Th<  -]  i  ■ii'.icnt  of  tli.-  (  ".  trleet  d  I  i  the  following 

incident:   \ 

The  Fi  nahip  VanHerbilt,  R  lar  Admiral  "Wilkes,  from  llavann, 

Bteamed  up  bo  Nassau,  and  sent  a  boat  ashore  with  dii  5    nkee 

ul.     The  most  ludicrous  scene  took  place  on   the  arrival  oi*  the  small 
at  one  of  the  wharves.     Tl  and  cutton  bales  around  were 

red  with  a  swarm  of  Nassau  n       i  d   tl  with- 

hisses,  jeers,  taunts  and  groans.  Blank  amazement  pictured  itself  on  the 
laces  of  the  crew,  while  the  officer  in  c  immand  was  evidently  nervous  ami 
nonplussed.  During  the  Btaj  <>f  the  boat  at  the  wharf,  the  darkies  in- 
dulged in  sucli  cynical  reflection-  :  "  Golly,  how  dcy'd  put  out  if 
do  290  was  in  Bight."  "  1  wont!  -  heard  front  I  ."  "  1 1* 
I  ap  o  Maffit  was  here,  he'd  sink  dein  in  two  minutes."  A  big  negro  on  a 
OOtton  bale,  surrounded  by  his  satellites,  gave  a  stentorian  version  of  the 
Yankee  national  air  "John  Drown  lies  a  mouldering  tin  the  grave,"  only 
lie  altered  names  and  phrases  to  suit  hie  disgust  for  the  Northern  auditors. 
lie  also  produced  "Dixie"  and  the  "Bonny  Blue  Flag."  When  the 
officer  returned,  and  the  boat  pushed  off,  cheers  were  given  for  Jeff.  Di 
and  three  tremendous  groans  for  old  Abe  Lincoln.  The  Yankees  retorted 
not  a  word.  'When  the  sun  rose  tl..-  >.  xt  day,  the  Vanderbilt  had  disap- 
peared— gone  to  Charleston,  it  is  said.  This  ebony  outbreak  in  favor  ef 
'•  Dixie"  was  entirely  spontaneous. 

A    CONTi:  \l'.'..\i>    A.\h(  I 

An  army  correspondent  must  be  responsible  lor  the  perpetration  of  the 

folloWl 

The  attempts  of  the  darkies  to  imitate  their  superiors   and  exchange  their 
Southern   "lingo"   fot  the  more  classic   language  of  tin?   North,  are  often 

amusing.     Here  is  a  case  in  point: 'Colonel has  a  negro  cook,  who 

exhibits  great  shrewdness.  On  one  occasion,  he  was  told  by  the  regimental 
quartermaster  to  clear  up  some  hay  which  was  lying  loose  around  camp. 
He  promised  to  do  it,  but  imagine  the  surprise  of  the  quartermaster,  when 
shortly  afterwards  he  saw  the  darkey  mounted  on  the  colonel's  favorite 
horse,  and  riding  him  up  and  down  near  the  brigade  band,  which  was  then 
practicing.  The  quartermaster  hailed  him,  and  pointing  to  the  hay  which 
remained  untouched,  asked  for  an  explanation.  •  Darkey  drew  himself  up 
proudly  on  his  horse,  and  giving  the  -'salute"  in  his  best  style,  said  with 
all  gravity:  "  He  fac  of  the  matter  am,  orderly,  de  hay  question  hah  bin 
bosponed.  De  kurncl  hab  required  me  for  to  excise  his  horse  mong  de 
music  to  familiarize  him  wid  de  tunes.' 


AN    AT.  MY    NOTE-BOOK.  181 

FlfillTJNCJ    A    JEW. 

A  fioldicr  in  General  James  D.  Morgan's  brigade,  writes  tlio  following 
amusing  incident,  which  hap]  ened  when  that  brigade  wa-  encamped  before 
Fapoington,  near  Corinth,  Mississippi: 

Stringent  01  bibiting  officers  or  soldiers  from  going  beyond  the 

(amp  or  color  lines,  while  in  presence  of  the  enemy,  w<  I   and  en- 

foroed.     Sentinels  were  alive  to  their  duty,  and  none  hut  a  general  or  -tr.fi' 
er  were  permitted  to  stray  hcyo-id  his  lines.     In  the  rear  of  our  hri^ade 
camp,  was  the  headquari  i  neral  I'.,  who  was  not  only  a  true  soldier, 

but  D  of  the  iir.-t  water.     His  orderly  wifl  ,,nd 

Mickey  Free."     On  the  extreme  left  of  the  brigade' Was  the 
camp  of  the  Tenth  Michigan,  Colonel  Lnm,  and  immediately  on  its  left 
flank  was  a  battery,  through   or  close  in   front  of  which  none  save   t] 
officers  named  above  were  permitted  to  pass. 

Wisliin  i  the  picket  lines,  which  was  II  ,     ition  day 

jh  the  battery,  but  Mike  was  halted. 
With  that  boldness  and  effrontery  characteristic  of  general's  orderlies,  R] 
not  only  abused  but  threatened  to  "wollop  hell's  delighta"  (as  he  cli 
cn\\\  expressed  it)  out  of  the  faithful  sentry.     Matters  were  approach  ii 

.<  when  General  J'.,  hearin  tall  swe: 

elain.  derly  of  the  sentry,  who  let  him  go  wjth  a  volley  of  onintel- 

ligible  Teutonic  oatl 

"^'ou  must  n't  quarrel  with  a  sentinel,"  said  i  ral,  adn. 

Mike  as  to  the  danger  of  such  a  practice. 

lid  n't  he  know  I  was  a  gineral'a  orderly." 
•  with  ■  •• 
th  Mike,  twisting  h  -,,;. 

'  lucl  t<»  him  an' 

■  Id  n't   our  Saviour  be  livin'  and  d 

a  |    Tiir   Wi 

.ly-Ninth  Virginia  toted  in 

•  with   tl  ;rft 

•  ■     | 
who, 

i. ad 

| 


MOKGSN     IN 

The  New  Xork  I  pin's 

attack  i'ii  the  Nashville  and  Louisville  railr 

(»;  line  railroad] pic  at  Nashvilli  liting  tho 

:  wiilf,  made  up  a  |  train/  and  Btarted  for  Lonia- 

.iii  time.     Your  correspt  !  for  a  Beat. 

The    train,  &  r t >- i - 1 1  s i _r  of  two  lea  (every  £• 

•ar  well  filled,  an  express  ear,  containing,  among  other  valuabli 
and  fifty-seven  thousand  dollars  worth  of  \  iper  money,  in  charge  of  a 
nger,  left  Nashville  at  seven  o'clock  A.  M.,  and  proceed.'  1   as  tar  as 
v  Station,  half  way,  without  molestation,  or  even  anticipation  <>f 
trouble  on  the  line.     At  Cave  City,  Conductor  Sweeney,  in  charge  of  the 
train,  learned  that  Morgan  had  indeed  captured  Lebanon  the  day  previous, 
taking  Colonel  Sanson,  Eighteenth  Kentucky,  and  six  hundred  prisoners, 
marching  toward  the  railroad,  with  the  apparent  intention  of  cut- 
ting if  somewhere  I  Elizabethtown  and  Lebanon  Junction  j  perhaps 
the  Muldrough's  Hill  trestle  works  were  to  be  destroyed.     Telegraphic  com- 
munication with  Louisville  was  yet  pel  li  ot,  an  !  the  conductor  resolved  •• 
ahead,  not  cautiously,  but  swiftly,  hoping  to  run  past  the  rebel  column  into 
Louisville  before  they  could  advance  t«»  the  road  from  Lebanon. 

Appeal'  r  instructions  by  telegraph  w  icticable, 

and  the  conductor  did  it.  He  soon  received -a  reply  to  this  effect:  "All 
right:  come  on  with  your  train;  no  robs. ;"  signed  "  Smith,"  which  is  a  name 
common  to  Louisville  operators,  John  N.  Morgan,  and  bund  eds  of  <flher 
men.  On  this  occasion,  it  was  used  by  John.  We  passed  through  the 
black  tunnel,  winding  down  over  the  great  trestle  work  at  Muldrough's 
Hill  at  fearful  it  undisturbed,  wo  picked  up.  near  Lebanon  Junc- 

tion, the  garrison  ol'  a  stockade,  who  had  been  ordered  by  General  Boyle,- 
telegraphically)  to  "burn  your  camp,  and  come  on  train  to  Louisville."     It 
perhaps,  unnecessary  to  state  that  John   Morgan  acted  as  attorney  for 
adier  General  Boyle  in  Bigning  that  dispatch.     There  were  twenty- 
eight  ol' these  soldiers,  under  command  ol  B  BeOOnd    lieutenant,  whose   name 
!  not  learn.      They  swelled    the   number  of  passengers  on    the   train   to 
two  hundred,  about  twenty-live  of  whom  were  ladies. 

rs  realized  their  situation  as  booh  as  the  firing  commenced. 
Bullets  whistled  over,  through,  under  and  beside  the  bars,  and  the  cries  and 
sh-riiks  were  terrible;  the  rebels  closing  around  the  Cars,  hallooing  and 
shooting  at  the  now  retreatii  ers.     The  unarmed  passengers  Bought 

the  floors  of  the  coaches  for  safety,  and  groveled  about  in  the  ajsles  ami 
beneath  the  Beats,  in  a  wriggling,  trembling,  seething  mass,  for  the  night 
was  offensively  warm,  and  the  musketry  firing  hot. 

Hesitating  a  moment  to  destroy  my  watoh-guard  and  Becrete  my  purse  in 


AN      \  I:  Vi  V     rfOI  :  I 

my  boots,  ns  T  had  soon  others  fVt  to  do.  T  found  when  T  cnmo  to  lie  down 
the  floor  was   more  than  occupied.     I  m  Pat  and  Bhivering 

Nashville  Jew,  who  was  mutl  hin  self  that  ho  had  "no  monish,"  nor 

"mi;.  •'."  and  reclined  upon  him  till  we  w  •   I  /  a  fero- 

cious rebel,  crouching  along  the  aisle,  gun    in  hand.  |     nted  at  us 

Baying:  "Come,  now,  Yanks,  get  out  of  this;  quick,  too."     Everybody 
out  speedily,  in  obedience  t<»  the  order,  and  firii  Thirteea  <>f  tho 

stockaders    had    already  been    captured,   one    killed,   and     three    severely 
wounded.     Three  or  four  rebel  horses  lay  dead  before  us.     I  can  only  • 
my  own  experience  during  the  succeeding  fifteen  minutes.     I  was  too  much 
harassed  to  al  other  than    private  affairs.     My  feet   touched  the 

ground,  and  1  fell  into  the  hands  of  a  bis.  dirty  looking  rebel  lieutenant, 
with  a  United  my  revolver  in  bis  hand,     lie  inquired  for  my  arms. 

ive  him  a  superior  pistol  without  a  murmcr,  though  inwardly 
cursing  tlv  fbitunesof  war.  The  pistol  did  nut  satisfy  the  insatiate  person, 
and  he  slapped  all- my  pockets  in  quick  succession   till  he  felt  my  Wi 

id. 

Iden   one,  worth  six  hundred  dollars  anywhere  south 
"I1  the  Ti                 line,  and   doubly  valuable   to  mc   fur  associations,  so  I 

ventured   to  hint,  urbanely,  that  bo  was  !e  "couldn't  and 

woul  n't   help   it — a  watch  V  ,;"      Jje 

left   me  in    charg<    of  ked    away'  to    the   next   perch, 

dot  did  I  see  him  more.     The  "youthful  guard"  opened  the  conversation 

by  inquiring  if  I  ]  did,  and                    1   it,  aud 

it     I  finally  prevailed  upon  him  I  -the  line  of  i 

with  my  haversack  on  n  r  )Ufc.  through 
the  youthful    . 

Be  anything  taken 
Lit  the  robs,  want*  .  from  Clarksville 

■ 

nd  nar- 
row1; 

I 
pummel 

I 


ping  of  tobacco,  or  "mole  I  I,  and  softly  felt  of  the  hat 

I  were.     Be  told  me  Ids  name  v  1  line  of 

the  grovi  aient."     My  hat,  for  whieh  I  had 

.  a  fabulous  pi  lie,  was  not  g  h,  so  he  oompro- 

k  a  traveling  cap  fir  im  the  haveraaok,  o;.  .  now  the 

lying  it  would  be  just  the  thing  for  ••some  of  bfa  'who 

short  of  head  gear. 

!  found  General  Morgan  in  the  centre  of  a  1  ..-  nn- 

ired  in  the  falling  dew,  while  all  around  his  men  were  examining  si 
property  by  the  light  of  fires,  lie  wore  no  insignia  of  rank,  b<  i:  _r  dr< 
in  the  common  round-about  and  pants  of  the  rebel  e  and 

little   Basil   Duke,  who  has  risen  to  the  rank  of  acting  brigadier,  flitted 
ifttlly  about,  and  seemed  to  be  I    spirit  of  the  party. 

it  div.  near  West  Poi  it,  on  the  Ohio,  the  lumber  wag*  n,  on  whieh  1 
had  taken  passage,  passed  through  tin  bea  I  of  the  Confederate  column  oa 
the  match.  We  met  several  acquaintances  of  the  previous  night,  but  were 
not  hindered. 

A    PATRIOTIC   MOTHER. 

A  poor  woman  of  Campbell  County,  Virginia,  sent  nine  sons  to  the  war 
in  ono  company  in  the  Forty-Second  Regiment,  one  of  whom  was  below  con- 
script age.     One  of  tnese  has  died  of  disease,  another  has  been  crippled  by 

ound,  but  the  remaining  seven  arc  now  "present  ior  duty."  Well,  thus 
mother  of  the  Gracchi — said  iG-racchi  being  unable  to  go  to  see  her — came 
to  see  them  the  other  day.  She  is  about  sixty  years  of  age,  hut  walked  to 
'Im'  post  where  her  boys  were' on  picket  at  the  time,  from  Guinea's  Station, 
fifteen  miles  distant,  in  an  incredibly  short  space  of  time  Do  you  wonder 
now  at,  the  performances  of  Jaokson's  foot  cavalry,  when  they  have  such 
mothers?     But  to  go  on  with  the  story:     The  accomplished  officer  now  in 

Lmand  of  the  regiment  having  mentioned  these  facts  to  General  Jones, 
it  was  decided,  first,  that  the  best  ambulance  in  the  brigade  should  convey 
her  bach  to  Guinea's,  whenever  it  should  please  hi  r  to  return;  and  seoond, 
that  she  should  dine  with  himself  and  stall".  Bearing  that  the  wife  of  one 
of  the  nine,  as  well  as  another  woman,  mother  of  three  sol  liers  in  the  same 
regiment,  had  accompanied  the  old  lady,  they,  too,  were  invited.  Dinner 
passed  oil'  very  pleasantly.  One  of  our  guests  (the  mother  of  the  three) 
i  us  that  we  soldiers  of  the  second  war  of  independence  were  much 
better  off  than  those  of  the  first,  by  telling  us  that  she  had  often  heard  her 
father,  who  was  a  revolutionary  soldier,  tell  his  boys  that  they  didn't 
know  nothing — that  he  had  often  waded  through  snow  a  loot  deep  in  his 
bare  shirt-tail ! 


A  IT   OF  EVIDl     I 

Wc  <;ive  plac  id  ask  for  it  a 

careful  perusal  from  any  in  A nior  the  notion 

that  the  Yankees  are  fighting   for .  civilization  and   the    I  contem- 

plated by  the  Constitution  of  the  '  <  )ur  friends  abroad  should 

^ive  circulation  to  tl 

Outrage*  of  the   Enemy — f?>/»>rf  oft  \mittec — !' ■  Mr.    C 

m  Alabama,  1863. 
Committee  of  Thirteen,  con 
of  th<  lution  of  thi 

n,  to  collect  and   report  j   by 

Demy  upon   tl-  -   and   property  of  our  citizens,  in    violation   of 

the   rules   of  civilised   warfare  and    i 
rt: 
"That  they  and  outr  i 

mitted  by  y  in  only  four  derecy — Alabama. 

''ina — and  that  t 
a  small  part  of  whi  our  citiz< 

J!n' 

.  prineipl 

im<  ;it  of  enlif  irit  of  wai 

vindictive  malice.  (  r  of  robbcr-1.  -  ,  ]  (,r  c. 

iich  the  i 

l(    five  million    dollars.      In   |  tfl   of 

■ 
crops ;  tlir  implcti 

h  man  an  I 
'•  i 

■ 

i 
■ 


L86  rsoM 

and  mutilab  '1  the  monuments  In  cem<  h  ties,  and  ha?e  exhumed  and  opened 
coffins,  either  to  gratify  Bordid  avarice  or  fiendish  malignity.  They  have 
mutilated  or  removed  public  and  private  libraries,  portraits  and  other  paint- 
ings, statue^  and  other  works  of  art  and  taste,  pianos  and  other  musical  in- 
struments, and  all  household  furniture.  They  have  rpbbod  many  persons  of 
relics  of  deceased  parents,  children,  or  other  relatives  <>r  friends,  which  were 
invaluable  to  them,  and  valueless  to, the  robbers,  merely  to  torture  the  souls 
of  our  citizens  and  to  satisfy  their  own  mean  and  malevolent  animosity. 
They  have  murdered  peaceful  and  unoffending  citizens,  and  have  seized 
aqd  taken  many  of  them  far  from  their  families  and  homes,  and  incarcerated 
them  in   prisons  of  the  United    8  they  have   offered   the 

choice  of  a  prison   or  an   oath  of  allcgiafice  to  the   United   I  'hey 

have  rushed  by  regiments,  battalions  x>r  companies  into  our  villages,  and 
robbed,  like  banditti,  both  men  and  women,  in  their  dwellings  and  on  the 
ts,  of  money,  watches  and  other  jewelry.  Their  soldiers  have  indulged 
their  brutal  passions  upon  women,  sometimes  in  open  day  and  in  public 
places,  with  impunity,  if  not  by  lie.  n-  of  their  officers.  They  have  not 
spared  either  age,  sex  or  calling.  Old  men,  women  and  children,  mini 
of  religion,  peaceful  artizuns,  merchants,  men  of  science  and  letters,,  tillers 
of  the  earth,  and  others  not  bearing  arms,  or  guilty  of  any  misconduct,  have 
been  made  to  suffer  as  hostages,  or.  vicarious  victims,  for  the  severe  but  de- 
fensive blows  inflicted  by  our  gallant  soldiers  upon  these  cowardly  invaders. 
Kven  those  unfortunates  whom  the  mysterious  providence  of  God  has  bereft 
of  reason,  or  of  the  faculty  of  speech,  or  the  sense  of  sight  or  hearing,  have 
not  escaped  the  demoniacal  wrath  of  our  enemies. 

"The  Committee  would  cite  examples  of  each  of  those  outrages,  and  the 
imony  by  which  they  arc  sustained,  but  it  would  swell  the  report  beyond 
limits  which  will  insure  its  publication  and  perusal,  and  as  the  wrongs 
and  injuries  done  are  not  half  told,  the  investigations  having  extended  to' 
only  a  small  part  of  four  States,  they  have  deemed  it  best,  to  postpone  a 
full  recital  to  another  session  of  Congress,  when  they  may  make  a  tinal 
report. 

"In  conclusion,  the  Committee  feel  warranted  in  saying  that  the  conduct 
of  the  war,  on  the  part  of  our  enemies,  has  not  exhibited  the  moderation, 
tie  forbearance,  the  chivalrous  courtesy,  the  magnanimity,  or  christian 
charity,  which  the  spirit  of  the  aire* demands,  and  which  the  practice  of 
civilized  nations  for  several  centuries. last  past  has  generally  illustrated.  It 
has  been  a  war  not  more  against  our  unarmed  men  than  helpless  and  inno- 
e  'tit  women  and  children.  It  has  been  prosecuted  to  destroy  not  only  our 
means  of  defence,  but  our  food  and  raiment;  not  only  to  conquer,  but  to 
exterminate.  It  has  been  a  war  not  only  against  the  bodies,  but  against  the 
spirit  of  our  people  also;  their  souls  have   been  tortured  by  all  the   base 


AX    ARMY    NOTE-BOOK.  187 

arts  of  cowardly  despotism  ;  by  subjecting  them  t<>  insults  and  humiliati 
.•is  if  the  very  slaves  of  their  enemies;  by  robbing  them  of  priceless  treas- 
ures, consecrated '  in  their  affections  by  associations  with  dead  or  absent 
kindred;  by  false  reports  to  those  within  their  lines,  and  who  were  cut  off 
from  communication  with  their  fellow-citizens  beyond  them,  of  rep< 
defeats  and  disasters  attending  Southern  arm--,  and  of  our  concessions  of  the 
if  our  cause;  by  desecrating  graves,  churches,  and  other  sacred 
places;  bj  destr  which   do  not  add  4o  means  of  hostility,  but 

1  in  peace,  and  serve  to  promote  the  common  and  "perpetual 
interests  of  mankind.  In  short,  it  Ins  been  prosecuted  as  if  with  the  fell 
purpose  of  subjugating  both  the  bodies  and  souls  of  our  people,  or  of  exas- 
perating and  exterminating  them.  Tt  has  been  a  war  against  property,  both 
public  and  private;  against  both  sexes  and  all  classes  of  society;  against 
the  political,  moral  and  religious"  sentiments  of  our  people;  against  their 
honor  ;»nd  their  public  affections;  against  whatever  has  hitherto  been  deemed 
sacred,  inoffensive  and  exempt  from  hostility  by  all  civilized  nations.  It 
has  been  conducted   so  as  to  insult  while  they  injured;  to  exhibit  towards 

;-tred.     It  has  been  waged  as  if  they  wished   l 
to  have  had  peace  with  us,  or  expected  us  never  to  hold   in    future    any 
equality  with   them.     Its   prospective   policy  has  not   been    to   restore 

.    d,  or  to  hi  iture* commerce  or  intercourse  with  us  as  indepen- 

dent or  friend  -lain  to  c/meiliatc,  and  design  to  subjugate 

or  exterminate 

A    BRILLIANT   AN  I'  VVL   ru  An<;i 

trd  of  a  very  singular  charge,  thai  oocurred  at  Plain's  store, 
below  lot  Budson,  but  we  are  ud  ;ive  correctly  the  names  of  pari 

in  the  engagement.     A  Federal  1  mnoyed  our  troops 

une  time,  when  the  commanding  Gonfedei  r  asked  an  unusual 

queri  f  our  battery — whether  he  thought  his  artil- 

■ 

ae  of  hU   •  a  high  knoll  at  n 

I  brisk  fire  upon   tl 
lb   tha  with  the  balance  of  his  own  pi 

In  a  few  D  •'  die   ten   I 

upon 
into 
Yank*  m  from  their 

'  . 
'  I  -.try 


UAHI.V     I 

V  b  of  the  Ch  rier  wrote  oi'  the  tattles  around 

follows: 
the  many  ine'  g  one  concerning  a  private  in  Colonel 

iken's   Regiment,  from  arolina.     It  appears  tliat  while 

;,;ii_r   the1  Yank  line   anxiety,  his  com  pi 

him,  and  he  found  himself  alone  in  the  vicinity  of  Williamsburg  road,  down 
which  a  Vermont  regiment   had  pa  i  the 

woods,  lie  came  upon  a  i  tan  standing  behind  a  tree,  whom  he  took  to  be  I 
friend.     He  thought  that  he,  hind  the  same  tree,  and  take 

I  at  the  Yankees  in  the  road.  Quite  carelessly,  and  with  not  the  re- 
motest suspicion  who  was  his  compai  ion,  Ik'  inquired <  "What  regiment  de> 
you  belong  to?"  "  1  belong  to  the  Fifth  Varincount,"  was  the  natal  reply. 
The  Pain  ■  of  himself  that  at  this  aun  luncement   ;  .-tuck  out 

like  a  lobster's,  and  he  began  to  feel  as  if  a  thousand  ants  were  pre< 
down  the  small  of  his  back.  The  Vermonter  was  ever  six  feet  tall,  and 
had  a  bayonet;  while  he  was  but  five  feet  six,  without  a  bayonet.  He 
reasoned,  mentally,  that  if  he  ran  Buddenly,  the  Yankee  would  shoot,  and 
yet  he  felt  prodigiously  unwilling  to  remain  where  he  was.  What  to  do  he 
did  not  know.     Directly,  the  "blue  coat"  asked  him:  "  What  regiment 

b'long   tew?"     "Wall,"  replied    the   Confederate,   (catching   at  U»e 

thought  that  he  would  pretend  Co  be  a  Yankee  also,)  "wall,  I  b'long  to  a 

regiment,  and  've  got  lost.     But  I  'in  goin'  down  here  behind 

this  tree  to  git  a  shot  at  the  rebels,  and  wheu  I  see  one,  I.'m  goin'  to  give 

him  fits,  like  all  tarnation." 

With  this  effort,  our  shrewd  Confederate  turned  on  his  heel,  walked  very 
for  a  few  rods,  but  in  less  than  >  xty  seconds  was  tearing  through  the 
woods  like  a  lunatic.     lie  brought  up,  after  traveling,  he  did  n't  no  wl 
in  the  arms  of  the  Twenty- Fi  ssippi  Regiment,  according  to  his  own 

confession,  the  worst  frightened  man  on  the  ground  that  day. 

'•DO    VOU   TAKE   QREENfeACKS ?" 

A  train  of  oars  freighted  with  Federal  prisoners  stopped  at  the  Atlanta 
in,  when  t  lie  prisoners  amused  themselves  talking  to  the  news  boys  on 
the  platform.     A  Yankee  officer  said  to  one  of  the  apple  boys:  • 
••  What  do  you  ask  for  your  appl 
••  Dollar  a  dozen." 

you  take  greenbacks  '."' 
Apple  boy  cocked  his   little  toe-head,  winked  knowingly,  and 

replied,  with  his  thumb  to  his  nos 
••  No;  but  tee  t.ik.  blue  i ■  ll\ 


AN    ARMY    NOTE-BOOK. 
Till:   CONFEDERACY    VH 

The  following  is  from  the  message  of  President  Davis  : 
Our  armies  arc  larger,  better  disciplined,  and  more  thoroughly  armed  and 
equipped  than  at  any  ]  >f  the  war.     The  energies  of  a  whole 

nation,  devoted  to  the  single  ohject  of  success  in  this  war,  have  accomplished 
marvels,  and  many  of  <»ur  trials  have,  by  a  heneficent  Providence,  been 
converted  into  The  magnitude  of  the  perils  which  we  have  en- 

countered   have   'I  the  true    qualities    and    illustrated  the  heroic 

aeterofou  .  thus  gaining  for  the   Confederacy  from  its  birth  a 

just  appreciation  from  the  other  nations  of  the  earth.  The  injuries  result- 
ing from  the  interruption  of  foreign  commerce  have  received  compensation 
by  the  d<  \  our  internal  re^onrc< ■.-.     Cannon  crown  our  fortrt 

that  were  ■  the  products  of  mines  opened  and  furnaces  built  d" 

the  war.  Our  mountain  caves  yield  much  of  the  nitre  for  the  manufacture 
of  powder,  and  promise  increase  of  product.  From  our  own  foundries  and 
laboratories,  from  our  own  armories  and  workshops,  we  derive,  in  a  great 
nieaMire,  the  warlike  materials,  the  ordnance  and  ordnance  stores,  which  are 
nded  so  profusely  in    the  numerous  and    desperate   •  that 

rapidly  succeed  each  other.     Cotton  and  woolen  fabrics,  shoes   and  ham 
in    cairicip  .-,  are  produced  in   daily  incnv 
pringing  into  existence.     Our  fields,  no  longer  whiten' 
i  not  be  exported,  are  devoted  to  the  production  of  cereals  and 
the  growth  of  stock;  formerly  purchase  1  with    the   proceeds   of  .-ntton.     In 
our  noble  and  devoted  women,  without  whose  sublime  sacrifices 
rould   have  been   impossible,  the  noise  of  the  loom  and  of 
spinning  wheel  may  be  heard  tlr  the  land.     With  hearts 

gratitude.  ..  t  us,  then,  join  in  r<'  urning  th  nd  in  bes' 

e  of  IDs  ;,  '»ra- 

Baaeifold  .  r  beloved  country. 

BSBOINE   AT    \  RG. 

the    QUI  si   by  an  officer  o. 

I 
and   on    . 

iiments  m 
'.re  of  mi 


QLKANINQS   rilOM 
THE   PUGNACIOUS    NIOOKBS. 

The  edit  it  ef  the  Richmond   2  humor,  thus 

viMiii!.  ted  himself  in  L863: 

Christendom  is  about  to  l>  i  with  ■  most  Borage,  ridiculous,  inef- 

fectual and  odoriferous  novelty.  Dispatches  announce  that  the  negro  sol- 
dier's bill  has  passed  the  Yankee  Bouse  of  Representatives  by  h  vote  of 
eighty-eight  to  fifty-four.     "  The  slaves  of  loyal  per  the  dispatch, 

'are  not  to  be  received,  and  no  recruiting  officers  arc  to  be  sent  into  the 
border  States  without  the  permission  of  their  Governors.  Mr.  Stevens  said 
three  hundred  thousand  men  would  h  rmy  in  May.     We  could  not 

raise  fifty  thousand  white  men.     Conscription  was  impossible." 

What  a  confession  is  here !  More  than  twenty  millions  of  white  people, 
educated  highly  in  common  schools,  accustomed  from  childhood  tot) 
practical  exercises  by  which  the  wits  are  supposed  to  be  sharpened  and  th< 
body  invigorated,  and  priding  themselves  upon  their  endowments,  make  war 
upon  less  than  one-third  their  number  of  semi-barbarian  Southerners,  sloth- 
ful, ignorant,  enervated,  depraved;  and  after  two  years  of  war,  such  as  no 
people  ever  waged  and  none  ever  endured,  (so  vast  in  its  magnitude  ami  so 
vehement  and  malignant  its  energy.)  the  stronger  power  is  forced,  by  the 
stern  necessity  of  constant  defeat  and  the  inherent  wickness  of  the  ei 
to  appeal  from  its  own  race  to  African  slaves  for  help.  How  shameful  the 
admission  of  weakness — how  ridiculous  the  appeal  for  aid  !  Three  hundred 
thousand  white  men,  trained  in  all  the  arts  of  modern  warfare,  throw  down 
their  arms  in  disgust  in  May,  and  their  places  are  to  be  filled  with  negroes, 
who  scarcely  know  the  muzzle  from  the  butof  a  musket,  and  who,  there  is 
every  reason  to  believe,  can  never  be  taught  the  simplest  evolutions  of  the 
line.  Could  the  absurd  folly  of  the  Abolition  crusade  be  more  glaringly 
manifest  than  in  this  preposterous  substitution  of  muscle  for  mind,  igno- 
rance for  education,  inexperience  for  training,  olumsiness  for  skill,  childish- 
for  manhood,  cowardice  for  courage,  blind  brute  force  for  patriotism 
and  reason,  Africans  for  Anglo-Saxons?  It  is  the  insanity  of  fanaticism 
whipped,  beaten,  driven  to  desperation.  It  is  the  last  frantic,  furious,  use- 
1  less  struggle  of  bad  men,  bewildered  by  the  breaking  down  of  an  unright- 
oause;  in  a  word,  it  is  the  arrant  idiocy  of  hopelessly  defeated  Bin- 
fulness.  ■    * 

Enlightened  Europe  may  turn  from  the  siokening  horrors  of  a  servile 
insurrection,  invoked  by  the  madmen  at  Washington,  to  a  phase  of  this  war, 
as  it  will  be  waged  next  summer,  which,  when  depicted  with  historical 
accuracy  and  physiological  fidelity,  can  soaroely  fail  to  relieve  its  fears  as  to 
the  future  of  the  white  race  at  the  South,  and  conduce,  in  no  small  degree, 
to  the  alleviation  of  any  epigastric  uneasiness  that  Exeter  Hall  may  expe- 
rience in  regard  to  the  corporeal  welfare  of  the  colored  brethren. 


AN    ARMY    NOTE-BOOK.  *  101 

The  fate  of  the  negro,  oF  the  white  population  at  the  South,  and  of  tho 
Northern  army  respectively,  will  be  decided  in  a  brief  contest,  which  will 
occur  about  the  middle  of  next  June,  and  which  wc  will  describe  as  gravely 
and  succinctly  as  possible.  On  the  1st  of  April,  fifty  thousand  negroes, 
who  have  been  previously  drilled  in  various  camps  of  instruction,  will  be 
<h  harked  at  Acquis  ('nek.  Pugnacious  Joseph  Hooker,  foaming  at  the 
'mouth  from  long  delay,  will  organize  them  into  brigades  and  divisions  with 
the  velocity  of  frenzied  impatience.  But  it  will  require  six  weeks  of  inces- 
sant toil  to  perform  this  simple  feat.     It  is  at  last  accomplished.     The  pon- 

are  laid  safely  and  crossed  without  opposition.     To  prevent  acci  '  . 
the  grand  colored  division  is  put  in   the  van.     Grecly,  its  comruandc 
mains    at    Acquis   Creek,  "with   a   powerful    glass,"  after    the    manner   of 
Burnside.     The  skirmishers  of  the  grand  colored  division  are  thrown  nut. 
They  deploy. 

The  voice  of  an   overseer  calling  hogs  is  heard  in  a  distant  field.     They 
on   the   reserve.     No  rebels   bcim:  visible,, they  are  again  thrown 
ward.     They  feel   for  the  enemy,  but   he   is  not  to  be  felt.     They  fire  a' 
nil,  fifty  feet  in  the  air,  and  hit  it  every  time.     The  rebels'  being  thus 
driven  to  their  earthworks,  the  grand  colored   division  advance.^  at  the  ]><i.< 
de  ch  a  Methodist  refrain,  to  storm  the  enemy's  position,  and 

to   "  carry  the   crest"  at  all  hazards.     Of  a  sudden,   the  artillery 
Hill's  command  belches  forth  a  hurricane   of  shell  and  shrapnel.     The 
a  rising  Of  wool,  as  of  quills  upon  the   fretful   porcupine,  under  the  c 
ol  dusky   brigadiers  and  sooty   major  generals;    there  is  a   f-imultaic 
effusion  of  mellifluous  perspiration  from  fifty  thousand  tarry  hides;  there  is 
ft  display  of  ivory  like   fifty  tlv.us.and    flashes  of  lightning;  fifty  thousand 
i  of  charcoal  knees  are  knocking  and  one  hundred   thousand 

Ethiopian  eyeballs  are  rolling  medly  in  th<  drunken 

and  distracted  moons  dancing  in   an  ebon  sky ;  the   grand   colored  divi 
trembles    like  a  mighty  poirr  n   an    icy  pavement ;  there  is  an  uni- 

.}   squall,  as    if  all   Africa   had  b<  !  upon  Its  .diin- ;  at  the 

a  scattering,  as  if  all  the   b!  sod  bussards  in 

tioo  had  taken  v. in  To  a  man,  the  Northern  army  li«s  i 

■ 
re  by  the  dark 

;  .  rlichm  .nd^ 

A.  1'    I  [ill  i  . 

A 
know  his 


I  TKsT   ABO 

rodent    of  the    Now  York    Herald,  writing   froi 

■ 
and  heads  ' '  mice 

tended  by  Borne  lo* 
until  the  vestiges  of  verdure  ha  ;  and  well  trained 

shrubbery  baa  vanished,  or  is  hut  u  broken  and  withered  ma 

wood.     On  one  grave  lies 
under  the  July  sun.     On  another  lie  the  turn 
Boldl  !  and  saturated  with  his  blood.  a  e-mail  ', 

bearing  the  words,  "To  the  memory  of  our  beloved  child  Mary."  lie  the 
..  .         ,  cannon  shc/t.     In   the  centre  of  the 

,  enclosed  by  an  iron  fence,  and  containing  a  half  ,d 
rails  arc  still  standing,  where  they  were  en  cted  by  mir  soldi*  rved 

to  support  the  shelter  tents  of  a  bivouacking  squad.     A' family  Bhaft  has 

i  fragments  by  a  shell,  an<l  only  the  base  remain.;,  with  a 
t-ion  of  the  inscription  thereon.     Stun,  after  atone  felt  tlic  effect  of  the 

thai  ■'•    ■     tured  upon  the  crest  of  the  hill.     Cannon  thundered,  and 
foot  and  horse  soldiers  tramped  over  tl  e  sleeping  pla<  es  of  the  dead.    ( )tlu  r 
I  were  added  to  those  who  are   resting  there,  and  many  a  wounded 
.  still  lives  to  remember  the  contest  above 

.n  vKMi.  .  JOKE. 
0 

A  little  boy,  in  , Nashville,  Tennessee,  a. vender  of  pies,  started  out  with 

his  basket,  when  he  was  accosted  by  a  Federal  on  a  hers".     A  tempting 

was  purchased,  when  the  Federal,  susp  cious  by  a  depraved  nature,  requested 

tkc  boy  tolkaste  a  piece ;  the  boy  complied,  returned  it,  and  the  Federal 

commenced   eating.     The  hoy,   understanding  ttta 

hireling,  immediately  Bang  out:  "  Don't  yon  think.  I  know'd  which  side  lud 

the  pisin  V     The  pie  was  thrown  down   hastily,  bur,  tie 

and  the  joke. 

AN    INCIDENT   OF  Tin:   OOLUJfBUS    HOllT. 

The  Memphis  Argw  tells  the  following: 

Our  esteemed  citizen.  Lem.  Farren,  of  this  county,  had  a  son  in  the  fight 
a;  Columbus,  who  was,  perhaps,  the  first  to  d  ct  his  death.1  Ills  servant 
was  with  the  company,  and,  in  the  pr  he  battle,  missed  his  master. 

Looking  lor  him,  he  found  him  cold  in  death.  The  faithful  slave  took  his 
young  master's  musket  and  cartridge  box,  fell  into* the  ranks,  and  fought  all 
.vith  unflinching  gallantry,  dealing  death  to  many  a  Lincolnite. 


AN    ARMY   NOTE-BOOK.  193 

JACKson^    LAST    api 
As  an}-  facts  connected  with  the  character  and  services  and  fall  of  Gen. 
Jackson  are  interesting,  the  following  ac.count  is  taken,  at  the  risk  of  some 
repetition,  from  a  correspondent  of  the  Richmond  Enquin 

The  wounding  of  General  Jackson  has  been  minutely  detailed  to  me  by 

Captain  Wilbourne,  of  bis  staff.     The  facts,  in  snl  re  these:  General 

Jackson,  in  company  with  a  number  of  his  own  and  a  part  of  the  staff  of 

■   pal  A.  P.  Hill,  had  ridden  beyond  the  front  line  of  the  skirmishers,  after 

the  close  of  the  fighting  on  Saturday  night,  as  was  often  the  habit  uf  the 

pal      Winn  he  had  finished  his  observations,  and  i\$  he  was  returi 
he   Was   fired   upon    through   mistake    by  BOme  of   his  own    men,  and   wafl 
Wounded  in  the  right  hand  and  on  the  left  arm.     At  the  same  time,  all  the 
if  the  party  w.rc  either  killed  orwounded — including  Captain  Boswell, 
.  ngincer — exc  I       tain  Wilbourne,  and  perhaps  one  other  pei 

The  general  at  once  said  he  was  wounded,  and  as  soon  as  possible  was  con- 
I  to  the  rear  and  his  arm  bandaged,     dust  then  the  enemy  began  an 
attack,  and  if  w..    with  difficulty  thai   ( Jcncral  Jackson  was  tool   injured  in 
being  borne  from  the  field,  as  the  firing  both  of  small  arms  and  artillery 
very  rapid,  and  the  rain  of  sheila  and  halls  fell  thick  and  fa  him. 

nger  who  carried  General  Lee  the  intelligence  of  this  severe 
misfortune,  tells  me  that  he  found  the  general  on  a  bed  of  straw,  about  four 
o'clock  in  the  morning,  and  that  when  told  of  what  1 

these:  "Thank   G    1  if  be  praise  1  that  he  is  still 

."  and  that  he  fur'  "Any  victory  is  a  dear  one  that  depri 

us  of  the  B,  even  for  a  short  time."     Upon  the  informant 

mentioning  that  he  believed  it  was  General  -1  intention  to  1 

n  Sunday,  had  he  not  have  fallen,  General  Lee  quietly 
wTh(  e  shall  be  pi  time  risin.tr.  about 

mplfl  fare  of  ham   and 
I  forth,  T  hear,  un  and  made  such  disi 

bbith  a  I  ;  our  cause,  even  though  a  Jack- 

had  fall<  i. 

Dtjotod  with  these  two  great  men  musl  Interest  the 
mention,  neral   Jackson   re- 

•  r  which  I 

icy  that  ten  Jack 

■' 

■  Willful  and 

atfci.  il   all  in  vain;  bis 

rk   w.i>  d  'r.c,  and   tl 

• 


]94  «  gli:amn«.s  from 

Of  Jackson  it  may  be  said,  what  c:  n  bo  affirmed  of  hut  few  men  that  have 

lived  in  this  great  struggle,  thai  be  has  fulfilled  ■  great  purpose  in  history, 

wrought  out  tl  "  for  which  he  was  ordained  of  Providence, and  that, 

be  has  left  no  stain  which,  living,  ho  would  wish  to  blot."     Hi* 

pie,  let  us  hope  and  believe, will  survive  him,  and  in  the  coming  fights, 

I  ickson's  Tii <  ii  Bhow  to  the  world  that  "a  dead  Jackson  Bhall  win  the 

field." 

The  Richmond  1  %  ■ 

A  few  nights  before  this  battle,  an  equally  characteristic  inoident  ocourred 
that  i>  worthy  of  record,     lie  a  issing  with  one   of  his  aids  the 

probability  and  issue  of  a  battle,  when  he  became  unusually  excited.  After 
thinking  it  over  fully,  be' paused,  and  with  deep  humility  and  reverence 
Bald  :  "My  trmt  is  in  God;"  then,  as  if  the  sound  o\'  battle  was  in  his  ear, 

he  raised  himself  to  his  tallest  stature,  and  with  flashing  eyes  and  a  face  all 
biasing  with  the  fire  of  the  conflict,  he  exclaimed,  "1  wish  they  would 
come."  Trust  in  God  and  eagerness  for  the  fray  were  two  of  the  greal 
elements  of  that  marvellous  success  that  seemed  to  follow  him  like  a  star, 
60  that  he  was  never  defeated,  or  failed  in  anything  he  ever  undertook. 

After  he  was  wounded,  he  retained  his  cheerfulness,  and  remarked  to  ■ 
friend  the  pleasurableness  of  the  sensations  in  taking  chloroform;  Btating 
that  he  was  conscious  of  everything  tint  was  done  to  him;  that  the  sawing 
of  his  bone  sounded  to  him  like  the  sweetest  music,  and  even  sensation 
was  one  of  delight. 

Conversing  with  an  aid,  he  pointed  to  his  mutilated  arm  and  said, 
'•many  people  would  regard  this  as  a  great  misfortune j  I  regard  it  as  one 
of  the  greatest  blessings  of  my  life."  Mr.  S.  remarked,  "all  things  work 
together  for  good,  to  those  that  Idve  Hod."     -  ,"  he  emphatically 

said,  "that's  it,  that's  it." 

General    Lee  wrote  him  a  beautiful  note,  so  characteristic  of  his  own 
i  rosity  and  worth. 

After  hearing  it  read,  he  said,  with  his  usual  modesty  and  reverence, 
"General  l$e  Bhould  give  the  glory  to  God."  He  always  seemed  jealous 
for  the  glory  of  his  Saviour. 

When  it  was  told  him  that  General   Stuart  led  Ids  old  Stonewall  Brigade* 
to  the  charge  with  the  watchword,  "Charge,  and  remember  Jackson,"  and 
that  inspired   by  this,  they  made  so  brilliant  and   resistless  an  onset,  lie  was 
deeply  moved,  and  said  :  "It  was  ji>st  like  them ;  it  was  just  like  them. 
They  are  a  noble  body  of  men." 

lie  had  always  desired  to  die,  if  it  were  God's  will,  on  the  Sabbath,  and 
seemed  to  greet  its  light  that  day  with  peculiar  pleasure,  saying,  with  evi- 
dent delight,  "It  is  the  Lord's  day,"  and  inquired  anxiously  what  provision 
had  been  made  for  preaching  to  the  army;  and   haviug  ascertained  that 


AX    ARMY    NOTE-BOOK.  195 

arrangements  wore  made,  lie  was  contented.  Delirium,  which  occasionally 
manifested  itself  dnririg  the  last  two  days,  prevented  some  of  the  utterances 
of  his  faith,  which  would  otherwise  have;  doubtless  been  made.  His 
thoughts'  vibrated  between  rcligjous  subjects  and  the  battle-field,  now  asking 
some  question  about  the  Bible  or  church  history,  and  then  giving  an 
— "Pass  the  infantry  to  the  front,"  " Tell  Major  Hawks  to  send  for- 
ward provisions  to  the  men,"  "Let  us  cross  over  the  river,  and  rest  under 
the  shade  of  the  trees" — until  at  last  his  gallant  spirit  gently  pa 
the  dark  river,  and  filtered  ou^  its  rest  where  the  tree  of  life  ia  blooming 
beside  the  crystal  river  in  the  better  country. 

butler's  Perquisites. 

"Three  shi]  ad  one  barque."     These  vessels  will  arrive 

•ng  Wharf.     Tbey  contain  the  immense  wealth  accumulated  by  General 

Butler    and    staff,  while  stationed  at  New  Orleans,  which  is  estimated  at 

dollars.     There  arc  tw<  nil  of  diamonds, 

I  of  childrens'  silver  mugs,  one  cradle,  full  of  ladii  hair-pins, 

two    bandboxes    of  pit  hod   of    mosaic   brooches,    two 

ta    of  altar  ornamoi  |    Over 

watches,   twenty  one   strawbeiry  boxes  of  gold  rite  a   from   ladies 

( while  walking  in    the  TO  augar    boxes  of  silver  door  plates  and 

knobs,  an  :  full  of  decanter  1 

and  silver  ever-pointed  penci  one  for  eaob  of  the 

i  church   i  hack,  five  poodles,  biz 

stallions,  and  various   other   articles  too   numerous   to  mention.     Colonel 
French,  on  his  return,  will  briifg  the  remainder  of  the  lot. 

ar.xr.RAE  t:  it. 

nccdotc  is  told  of  General  Hardee,  which  sh<>ws,  in  a  very  am 
kind  of  ma!  ;'  which  an  army  of  v 

fori;,  the 

; 

ex's  ]jf,.. 

I  t 

1  said  in 


GLEANINGS   FROM 


tAL    STr  '  '.OITS. 


Th(  some  incidents  cot,-  the     dlant 

:.il  Stuart,  from  which  ••  lie  follow '■: 

l.i  aving  <  'Id  Church, 

bed,  and  the  column  came  to  a  stand  at   I  Milk,  on 

Pamnnkey.     There  they  destroyed  the  three  tr  lying  in 

river,  the  fourth  having  «'rift«'l  down  the  On  our 

die  Yankees  were  heard  Bhouting  r:  "Didn't  I  tell  you  so," 

nne.    "  Old  Jackson  is  after  as."     "H  us,  sure/' said  another; 

and  his  voice  ed  by  a  volley.     The  i  rd  a  vast 

quantity  o  to  our  men;  hut  the  three  were 

fired,  and  long  after,  trie  lurid  flames  len  lighting  ir    tl  ning 

eky.     Th<  sh  of  our  men  to  this*] 

A  few  moments'  b<  aeoftheren  gade  dragoons  had  ridden  hastily 

thri  ugh  the  place. 

"What's  the  matter?"  was  asked.    "Hell's  after  the  only  reply, 

as  the  bold  dragoons  added  fresh  spu  ■     ;  lace  of  sal 

Another  incident — one  of  a  true  Virginia  heroine — is  still  more  into  i 
ing.     Within  a  few  hundred  yards  of  the  -  cavalry  camp  stands  the 

residence  of  the  accomplish  .  ing  a  Yankee  ap- 

ohing  her  house,  she  demanded  his  inst  mt  surrender,  telling  him  he 
Burrouuded  by  rebel  cavalry,  and  all  le  vain.     Though   fully 

accoutred,  and  armed  with  no  le.-s  than  lour  pistols,  the  gallant  son  of  .Mar.; 
•it  oi  all  weapons,  ami  very  ma  '•  y    ari endered  to  the  youug 
heroine,  who  unceremoniously  inarched  him  into  her  house,  and  held  him 
there  iu  durance  vile  until  the  arrival  of  Stuart's  troopers,  when  he 
handed  over  with  all  honors,  the  lady  blushing,  and  gallant,  dusty  horsemen 
bing. 
At  another  time,  this  same  heroic  dam  some  twenty-five  Federal 

cavalrymen  dashing  along  the  road   towards  her  n  a  she  in- 

formed them,  much  to  their  surprise,  that  they  were  entirely  surrounded 
by  rebel  horse,  that  the  roads  and  woods  were  full  of  them,  and  all  avenues 
of  escape  hermetrically  sealed.  Receiving  this  gratuitous  and  pleasing 
information  with  woeful  countenance,  the  gallant  Yanki  i  ed  a  white 
flag,  trotted  meekly  and  modestly  along  the  road,  when,  falling  in  with  a 
party  of  our  men,  surrendered  with  good  grace,  delivered  up  their  arms, 
and  were  conducted  to  the  rear. 

It  is  narrated  that  when  the  Federal  cavalry  broke  and  ran  from  their 
camps,  uji  in  the  apj  earance  of  the  second  squadron  chargiig  down- the  road 
upon  them,  the  chase  that  ensued  was  into  and  rapid.     While 

galloping  down  the  roads,  "full  tilt,"  amid  clouds  of  dust,  and  under  a 
cloudless  sky,  ladies  would  rush  to  the  doors,  wave  handkerchiefs,  and  shout 


AN   ARMY    NOTK-r.f(.K.  107 

with  laughter  and  delight,  but  their  constant  cheers  were  soon  drowned  in 
the  earth-shaking  noise  of  squadrons  thundering  along  the  road,  and  the 
j;ir  and  jingle  and  rush  of  flying  artillery  dashing  forward  with  ten-1 
teams.  Bui  one  hearty  old  dame,  standing  at  her  gate,  with  waving  ker- 
chief, insisted  on  being  heard,  as  she  repeatedly  Bhoufcd,  at  the  top  of  her 
voice:  "Hurrah,  my  I>ixi"  boysl  i  told  'em  you'd  come,  boys]  Hurry! 
hurry  down  the  road  after  'cm!     They  're  only  half  a  mile  I  base 

'<  in  away,  my  brjwe  Dixie  hoys!  I've  want<  1  to  get  rid  of  the  hlue  var- 
mints a  long  while.  Hurrah  for  our  cavalry!*  "Quick,  lads,  quick  1" 
shouted  an  old  farmer,  with  stentorian  lun^s  and  with  much  gesticulation, 
"quick,  or  they. '11  the  rascals!     Cut 'cm  down,  and  spare  none  of 

relsl"     In  fact,  the  race  of  two  or  three  miles  was  more 
1  ke   .  '  MCic  than  aught  else.     Trams  would  .stand  at  the  Wl 

or  plough — ii'  :    -1  cd  to  the  fence  and  perched  thereon,  grinned 

laugl  '  r  of  bursting  their  eyeballs  or  dislocating  jawa — 

lied  open  aod  out  rushed  the  inmates,  cheering — yet  onward 
I  the  jingling  horsemen,  amid  clouds  of  dust  and  joar3  of  laughter,  until 
naught  could  be  seen  of  their  progress  but  clouds  of  dust  rising  over  the 
green  landscape. 

SERJEANT  BUCKLER'S  LAST  SCOUT. 

The  daring  exp;  John  Micklcr  on  the  islands  of  our  coast 

are  familiar  to  all  South  Catoliniai  I  so  well  known  that  he 

brother  ii  t(  rr<>r  an  Yan- 

kee  mar..:  :,t   William   A  the  youngest  brother  of 

"iicklrr.  and  went  •  in  the   Ham]  n,  a  pri- 

\    '  mpany  15.  ,ina 

Oavall  constant  attentiou 

in  c  immander  of  scouts  for 
than  fulfilled  tl 
immandii 

1 

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198  QLZAl  ROM 

an  ill  ml  Privates  Miller 

and  Willingham,  Company  K,  Bro  iks'  L'roop — all  picked  men,  and,  with  a. 
■ingle  exception,  from  the  troops  composing  the  Hampton  1.  airy. 

In  addition  to  the  men  from  his  own  regiment,  ho  had  with  him  a  party  of 

t- n  men  from  the  First  North  Carolina  cavalry,  under Hanly,  and 

three  volunteers  from  the  Prince  William's  cavalry.     Ilavi:  1  for 

the  ntghj  in  the  neighborhood  of  Deep  River,  and  waiting  the  next  morning 
for  his  men  to  assemble,  he  learned  that  a  ]  arty  of  ten  Yankee  cavalry,  un- 
der a  lieutenant,  was  making  its  w  Is  Wolf  River  Shoals.     Corporal 
Mick.hr   had  already  been  detached   with  a  party  of  men  to  scout  the  road 
in  another  din  otion,  after  some  of  the  em  i  id  to  be  prowling  about 
Upon  hearing  this  information,  Sergeant  Mickicr  immediately  sent   Hanly, 
with  his  North  Carolinians,  to  pursue  them,  while  he  pushed  on  to  cut  them 
off  from  the  ford.     lJanly  soon  came  up  with  the   enemy,  and  gallantly 
charged   them,  driving  them  before  him  and  oapturing  a  prisoner.     The 
chase  was  kept  up  for  about  two  miles,  when  llanly's  men,  their  horses  not 
being  able  to  keep  up,  became  so  scattered,  that  but  two  or  three  remained 
with  him.     The  Yankee  lieutenant  seeing  this,  rallied  his  men  on   the  crest 
ofahiilinan  open  field   and   returned   the   lire  of  the  North   Carolinians. 
cant  Miekler,  who  had  heard  the  firing  when  Hanly  first  charged,  had 
come  at  a  break-neck  speed  for  two  miles,  and  now  appeared  on  the  BC 
So  rapid  had  been  his  speed  that  only  Sergeant  Henderson  and  Hogan  had 
kept  up  with  him.     He  rode  up  to  Hanly,  and  asked  why  he.  did  not  charge 
them.     The  reply  was  that  his  men  had  got  bo  scattered   in  the  pursuit  that 
lie  had  not  been  able  to  get  them  together  for  a  charge.     Sergeant  Miekler 
then   immediately  ordered  a  charge,  and  followed  by  Sergeant  Henderson, 
Hanly  and  Hogan,  dashed  upon  the  enemy.     Regardless  of  the  balls  whioh 
whizzed  around   their  heads,  they  held   their  lire   till    they  got  within   fifty 
yards,  when  they  opened  with    their  revolvers,  and  the  Yankees  broke  and 
iled.     Over  the  hill,  across  the  fields,  they  were  followed  by  their  dauntless 
pursuers  till  their  flight  was  partially  arrested  in  attempting  to  pass  thr< 
;i  gatej  and  Sergeant   Mickler's  party  came   up  with  them.      The  fight   now 
became  hand  to  hand,  lour  against  nine.      It  was  desperate,  but  short;    One 
of  the  Yankees  was  wounded  in  two  places,  and   four  others  were  unhorsed 
and  taken  prisoners.     The  lieutenant,  with  his  remaining  three  men,  escaped 
through  the  gate,  and  continued  their  rapid  flight  across  the  fields.     They 
were  closely  pursued  by  Mickicr  and   his   men,  and  at   last  jammed  in  the 
.Miner  of  a  fence  they  could  not  jump,  they  yielded  thcuiselvcl  prisoners  to 
a  loe  they  could  not  elude. 

Sergeant  Miekler  now  received  information  that  a  party  of  forty-six  of 
the  enemy's  cavalry  were  on  the  way  from  JJrentsville  to  Manassas  Junction. 
He  determined  to  atttick  them,  and   sent  off  the  prisoners  under  a  guard, 


AN    ARMY   NOTE-HOOK.  1P!I 

keeping  •with  him  seventeen  men.  He  laid  fin  ambuscade  on  the  road  be- 
tweeo  Broad  Kun  and  Manassas,  and  awaited  their  approach.  Sparks, 
Hanly,  Hennepin  and  Doolin  wore  kept  mounted, with  orders  to  charge  the 
rear  of  the  enemy's  column  as  they  came  out  of  the  ambuscade,  and  secure 
all  loose  horses.  The  remainder  of  the  party  were  dismounted  and  secreted 
in  the  woods  along  the  road.  The  Yank<  •  a  came  on  with  drawn  sabers,  on 
the  lookout  for  Mickler  and  his  men.  "When  they  got  in  the  ambuscade, 
one  of  them, noticing  the  tracks,  remarked,  "Some  d — d  rebels  have  been 
along  here."  Another  replied,  "  No,  our  boys  passed  here."  Scarcely  had 
he  spoke,  when  the  Bignal  gUo  was  fired  from  the  rear,  and  a  rattling  volley 
answered  along  the  whole  column.  A  sreue  of  indescribable  confusion 
ensued.  The  cries  and  groans  of  wounded  men,  clinging  in  terror  to  their 
madly  rearing  and  plunging  horses,  the  faint  moans  of  the  dying,  as  they 
•were  trampled  undi  r  the  hoofs  of  their  own  chargers,  and  the  wild,  fearful 
rush  to  escape  from  this  scene  of  death  and  horror  may  be  better  imagined 
than  described. 

The  mounted  men,  -without  waiting  for  the  column  to  pass,  charged  im- 
petuously on  the  enemy,  and  engaged  in  a  desperate  hand  to  hand  conflict 
with  three  times  their  number.,  Hanly's  horse  was  shot  dead  under  him. 
Hennegan'fl  charger  fell  with  him  in  the  road,  and  instantly  several  Yankee 
dragoons  and  horses  had  fallen  over  him.  He  extricated  himself  from  the 
Struggling  mass,  and  crawling  up  the  steep  bank,  began  coolly  firing  with 
hifl  revolver  at  the  Yankees  as  they  stumbled  over  the  fallen  men  and 
horses.     Doolin  captured  and  brought  irks  followed  a 

\  t'aptaiu  and  ordered  him  to  surrender.     The  reply  was:  "I  surren- 

der, sir,  but  I  can  't  hold  my  horse."     At  the  same  moment  another  of 
the  enemy  cried  out  :  "  <  a;  tain,  why  do  n't  you  shoot  the  d — d  rebel  ?"  and, 
taming  in   bis  s.iddic,  fired   his  revolver.     The  ball   passed  through  the 
of  Sparks,  piercing  his  right   lung.     Surrounded    by  enemies,  not  a 

nfully  and  danger 
haps    mortally,  his  situation  was  critical.     But   his  and  com 

him  for  a  moment.     Wl    i  '  n  into  tl 

de  about  a  hut  I  I  the  ground, 

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00  GLEANINGS    PROM 

enemy  and  drive  thorn  headlong  before  them.  For  a  mile  ami  a  half  was 
the  pursuit  kept  up  down  the  road  toward   Dumfries,  Mickler  with- 

drew to  secure  his  prisoners.     The  enemy  lost  in  this  affair  two  killed  on 

the  spot,  eight  wounded  and  five  taken  prisoners;  a  loss  almost  equal  to  the 
entire  number  of  their  assailants.  Bparka  was  so  severely  wounded  that  it 
was  impossible  to  remove  him  on  hoi  and  as  it  was  reported  that  a 

very  heavy  force  was  moving  up  from  Dumfries,  it  was  important  that 
Stickler's  party  slmuld  lose  no  time  in  carrying  off"  their  prisoners.  They 
sent  to  a  neighboring  house  for  a  carriage  to  convey  Sparks,  and  a  young 
lady  immediately  came,  like  a  ministering  angel,  to  proffer  her  services.  So 
they  left  him  to  her  tender  care,  and  as  she  bent  weeping  over  him,  wiping 
the  bloody  foam  from  his  lips,  he  smiled,  raised  his  head  from  her  lap,  and 
waving  his  hand  feebly  to  his  comrades,  said:  "  Go  on,  boys,  don't  wait  lor 
me." 

INCIDENT   AT   THE   BATTLES   ON   THE   RAPPAHANNOCK.. 

"  There  is  a  young  Georgia  soldier,  who,  durintr  the  first  two  years  of  the 
war,  fought  all  through  the  Virginia  battles,  except  the  first  Manassas,  and 
had  never  been  touched  by  Yankee  ball  or  shell  until  the  great  light  on  the 
llappahannock.  There  he  was  wounded  very  severely  in  the  face,  and  also 
in  the  hand  by  Minis  balls.  Walking  off  the  field,  covered  with  blood 
and  very  faint,  though  still  keeping  his  loaded  gun  in  the  uninjured  hand, 
he  saw  a  Yankee  marching  off  three  of  our  boys,  unarmed,  as  prisoners. 
The  Yankee  called  out  to  the  wounded  soldier,  being  quite  near  him,  to 
surrender;  instead  of  which  he  instantly  raised  his  gun  ami  shot  the 
Yankee  dead,  thus  savin;:  himself  and  releasing  the  three  prisoners.  The 
name  of  the  young  soldier  is  Jesse  J.  Morris,  a  private  in  General  John- 
ston's fine  company,  the  Thomson  Guards,  Company  F,  Tenth  Georgia 
regiment,     lie  is  one  of  four  brothers  now  in  the  service. 

THE   WAY   TIIEY   FIGHT. 

A  person  who  was  in  the  battle  of  Lexington,  Missouri,  relates  the  fol- 
lowing: 

I  saw  one  case  that  shows  the  Confederate  style  of  lighting.  An  old 
Texan,  dressed  in  buckskin  and  armed  with  a  long  rifle,  used  to  go  up  to 
the  works  every  morning  about  seven  o'clock,  carrying  his  dinner  in  a  tin 
pail.  Taking  a  good  position,  he  oanged  away  at  the  Federals  till  noon  ; 
then  an  hour,  ate  his  dinner,  after  which  he  resumed  operations  till  six  P. 
M.,  when  he  returned  home  to  supper  and  a  night's  sleep.  The  next  day, 
a  little  before  seven,  saw  him,  dinner  and  rifle  in  hand,  trudging  up  street 
to  begin  again  his  regular  day's  work.  And  in  this  style  he  continued  till 
the  surrender. 


AN   ARMY    NOTE-ROOK.  201 


HEROISM. 


The  New  Orleans    True    Delta,  In  its  account  of  the  exploit  of  the  Ma- 
ui act  of  chivalrous  1  by  two  seamen,  while 
plmt  and  shell  were  falling  thickly  upon  t1  icti  d      rves  to.be  held 
in  ev                        mbranoe : 

The  Richmond  now  took  the  Vincennes  in  tow,  and  the  Water  Witch 
grappled  the  Preble,  A\  the  time  keeping  up  a  heavy  fire  on  the  ram,  but 
without  striking  her  except  once,  and  then  knocking  down  the  renin h 
chimney  over  the  vent  of  the  other  one.     This  choked  up  the  outlet  for  the 
smoke,   and   as  they  were   yet  burnin  tar,  sulphur  and   tallow,   the 

asphyxiati  it  arose  from  it  rushed  down  and  spread  throughout  the 

suffocate  every  one  in  a  few  minutes.     Nothing  was  to 
>ne  except  for  some  one  to  go  on  deck  and  cut  away  the  wreck,  while 
th<  t  hips,  less  than  a  quarter  of  a  mile  distant,  were  raining  their  balls  all 
around  them. 

! z i n tr  an   oxe,    Mr.  Hardy  rushed   up   the   companion-way,  nor  could 
Lieutenant  Warlcy,  who  had  not  d;s<  ,e  accident,  hold  him  back. 

Austin  saw  him  go  up,  and  knowing  that  he  could  not  stand  alone  on  the 
arch  llowed  him  up.     There,  on  the  unguarded  top,  Hardy  cut 

away  the  fallen  chimney  and  its  guys  with  the  axe,  while  Austin,  bracing 
his  feet  firmly  apart,  held   hi  All  the  while  the  balls  and  shells 

•  and  around  >  vent  was  opened,  and  the  sul- 

phurous smoke  rushed  out,  jo  low  were  g  itting  suffocated. 

WILLIAMSBURG. 

ton    T.  Manning.  ippi  General   Longstrcet,  dis- 

ished  bin  it  a  number  of  ts,  among 

rippi.     During  the  the  charge,  h« 

rds  in  advance  in  at  1     was  leading,  and 

b  limb  of  thrown  on  While 

in  thi  i),  a  Yan!  •  and  called  on  him  to  surrei. 

irncd  the  fire, 
the  ball   i  body.     Manning  then   fired 

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lines,      i  r  of  the  i  tiCcs 

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202  OLEANINQ8   FROM 


A     I 

On  the  outer  picket  lines  of  our  advanced  post,  near  Suffolk,  Lieutenant 
Colonel  Richard  Ninon,  commanding  the  Ninety-ninth  New  York  Volun- 
tas the  officer  in  charge  of  the  pickets,  who,  by  mutual  agreement, 
have  decided  not  to  fire  upon  each  other. 

Being  within   pistol   shot  of  each  other,  the   outposts   converse  freely 
together,  and  the  following  CO)  on  took  place: 

Union  Picket— ''Hallo,  Rehl" 
Rebel  Pic&et — "How  are  you,  yank':" 
Union  Picket — "I  say,  Reb,  can't  you  come  over  and  give   me  a  secesh 


paper 


Rebel  Picket — ''No!  Our  officers  don't  allow  it.  They  arc  very  strict 
now." 

Union  Picket — "That's  all  in  my  eye;  our  officers  let  us  do  as  we  please." 

Hereupon,  the  rebel  picket  studied  a  moment,  and  asked  the  Union 
picket  whether  he  meant  what  he  Baid  about  his  officers.  The  Union 
soldier  replied  in  the,  affirmative,  when  the  rebel  archly  replied:  "If  your 
officers  let  you  do  as  you  please,  why  don't  you  <jo  home?" 

The  interesting  Union  picket  was  Colonel  Nixon,  who  is  considerable  of 
a  wag,  but  a  most  courageous  and  accomplished  soldier,  and  this  poser  of 
the  butternut  completely  silenced  him. 

HALTING    m/nVEKN    TWO    OPINIONS. 

A  Yankee  "bold  soldier"  having  crept  up  behind  a  tree,  rather  close  to 
our  works  at  Cold  Harbor,  was  discovered  by  our  boys,  who  brought  some 
dozen  dangerous  looking  muzzles  to  bear  on  him,  and  ordered  him  to  "come 
in."  Yank  hesitated;  bang,  bang;  the  dirt  and  bark  of  the  tree  was 
knocked  about  his  ears.  He  saw  he  was  "in  a  fight,"  and  so  concluded  to 
come  in,  for  which  purpose  he  laid  down  his  gun.  Seeing  his  object,  his 
Y'ankcc  brethren  began  to  fire  on  him.  This  changed  his  mind,  and  lie 
started  back  to  them;  whereupon  a  whole  "posse"  of  rebels  let  fly  at  him. 
Y'ank  quickly  came  to  a  halt,  perhaps  to  weigh  the  chances,  both  sides 
hallooing  for  him  to  come  to  them.  Wisely  deciding  the  rehels  were  the 
most  dangerous  marksmen,  he  turned  and  started  for  them  at  something  a 
little  above  a  double  quick.  The  whole  Yankee  line  fired  on  him;  but 
despite  of  seventy-five  yards  of  open  field,  and  three  tumbles  which  he  took 
in  the  race,  he  reached  our  lines  in  safety,  with  an  almost  breathless, 
"Jerus'lem  John!  how  yure  fellows  shoot!"  He  said  he  had  been  a  .sea- 
man until  recently,  and  gave  his  name  as  Sinbad  the  bailor.  Doubtlea 
advent  into  the  rebel  lines  will  compare  favorably  with  some,  of  the  adven-' 
turcs  of  the  hero  of  the  Arabian  Nights. 


AN    ARMY    NOTF-F.OoK. 


FAITHFUL   SLAVES. 

A  private  letter  from  the  army  said : 

Alielc  is  quite  well,  an  i  be  remembered  to  each  and  every  one  afc 

home.  During  my  sojourn  in  Maryland,  he  was  often  separated  from  me 
for  several  days,  and  often  bad  my  horse,  and  could  have  ridden  into  the 
y's  line  without  the  slightest  difficulty,  still  be  was  always  on  hand 
when  wanted,  and  seems  devoted  to  me.  I  now  consider  him  thoroughly 
tried  and  faithful. 

One  of  the  most  touching  things. I  have  seen   since   my  connection   with 
tbe  army,  was  tbc    devotion   of  major   White's  servant,  an  old    negro   ho 
brought  from  home  with  him.     Tbe  major  was  shot  at  a  battery  which  wo 
charged,  and   from  which  we  were  obliged,  from   want  of  support,  to  fall 
Tbe  news  bad  not  reached  the   old  man,  and  the  next  morning  be 
rode  down  to  the  lines  where  we  were,  to  bring  tbe  Major's  breakfast,  and 
when  he  learned  tbat  the  major  was  dead,  be  sat  down  and  wept  like  a  child. 
r  recovering  himself,  he  begged  to  he   allowed   to  go  to  the  enemy's 
-    and   try  to  recover  his  master's  body,  and  when   refused    bis   grief 
seemed  to  increase   ten-fold.     All   day  he   watched  and   waited,  hoping 
Borne  means  to  get  tbe  body;  and  when  1  insisted  that  be   should  go  to  the 
rear,  the  old  man   left   very  reluctantly  ;  me  to   use  every  meat 

recover  his  master's  remains:  this,  about  nightfall,  I  succeeded  in  doing,  by 
which   he   was   much   relieved.     The   next  morning   he  saddled  his  b 
packed  all  of  his  master's  baggage  upon   him,  and  started  off  on  his  h 
ward  journey  of  nearly  a  thousand  mii  instance  of  greater  devotion 

I  never  saw. 

A    FAITH J  OL   ] 

A  soldier  fi  '  sttle-ficld  of  Richmond,  has  wing 

the  fidelity  of  the  .Southern   I 
record  : 
In  tin-  fight   <Jf  ]  '  "ar   Richmond,  a  negro  man   named   Nathan, 

•  Williau 

J  ;inkec   c  LI 

I 
with  a  which 

ral   Hill  tho 

■ 
Lieutenant.  William  m  as  fait! 


20-4  GLF  ROM 

LADIES   AND   CHILDREN    IN    BATTLX. 

A  correspondent  of  (ho  Charlesl   a  (  describing  erne  of  the  battles 

around  Richmond,  relates  the  Poll 

During  the  battle  several  1.  .  I  ohildren  had  a  narrow  escape  from 

death.  They  were  in  a  house  near  the  position  at  which  the  enemy  were  at 
one  time  aligned,  and  as  the  latter  retr<  at<  d  our  troops  followed.  Lieuten- 
ant Moultrie  Dwight,  the  Assistant  Inspector-General  of  General  Kershaw, 
hearing  Btrange  voices  within  the  pren  I  thinking  they  might  come 

from  the  enemy,  drew  his  revolver  and  tried  to  open  the  door.  It  was 
locked.  He  demanded  to  be  let  in.  The  bolt  was  withdrawn  from  two 
doors  and  two  female  heads,  disordered  and  frigh  seped  out 

11  Any  Yankees  iu  here  ?"  said  Dwight.     "  I  in  here — 

I  declare  I  never  wa  id  in  my  life,"  was  the  reply.     N  Let  me  in — I 

want  to  see  for  myself,"  and  Dwi  I  in  all  the  closets,  and  under  tho 

bed.  Under  the  latter  lie  found  some  babies,  but  no  enemy  was  discovered, 
and  begging  pardon  for  his  intrusion  he  backed  out.  The  next  morning  he 
went  to  the  house  again,  and  found  that  the  occupants,  consisting  of  four 
ladies  and  seven  or  eight  children,  had  barely  escaped  with  tlteir  lives. 
Seven  balls  had  gone  through  and  tin  ,  er  forty  had  struck 

it  in  various  places,  the  top  of  the  chimney  lind  been  knocked  •  ff  by  a  shell, 
and  various  other  injuries  inflicted  Upon  the  premises.  Nothing  but  the 
presence  of  mind  of  the  inmates  iu  lying  flat  on  the  floor  prevented'them 
from  being  wounded  or  killed. 

THE    FLAG    OF   Till:    TENTH    ALABAMA. 

Lieutenant-Colonel  J.  E.  Shelby,  in  an  elegant  letter  to  Governor  Watts. 

committed  the  battle  torn  flag  of  the  Tenth  Alabama  Regiment  to  the  care 
of  the  State  of  Alabama.  The  I  Jovernor  replied  with  an  enthusiastic,  fervid 
letter,  characteristic  of  the  man,  and  accepted  the  honored  flag,  in  behalf  of 
the  State,  "as  an  emblem  of  virtue,  valor  and  renown."  In  his  letter  he 
speaks  as  follows:  ' 

This  is  the  flag,  which,  at  the  battle  of  Chanccllorsvillc,  was  grasped  by 
the  dying  hand  of  Jain  of  him  who,  when  shell  and  shot  fell  thick 

as  hail,  said:  "The  flag  of  the  Tenth  Alabama  has  never  yet  been  lowered 
in  the  face  of  the  loo;  and  while  I  have  the  strength  of  arm  to  keep  it  up- 
lilted,  it  never  shall  be."  And  he  broke  not  his  word.  "When  the  staff 
was  severed  by  a  hostile  shell,  be  grasped  the  broken  pieces,  with  both 
hands,  still  kept  its  folds,  in  haughty  defiance,  unfurled,  until  his  body, 
pierced  to  death,  refused  str<  his  heroic  arms.     Well  may  you  say, 

the  stars  of  such  a  flag  ''are  fixed  with  unfading  light,  in  the  historic  recol- 
lections" of  our  country's  noblest  battles. 


AN    ARMY    NOTE-BOOK.  205 


A    NUT    FOR   YANKEES. 


We  yesterday  received  a  note  from  an  old  patriot,  seventy-six  years  of 
aire,  residing  in  Tallahassee,  Florida,  who  after  referring  to  our  account  of 
the  u  Etonian  Matron,"  in  this  city,  who  hade  her  two  Bona  defend  Virginia 
against  the  Northern  invaders,  and  die  hei'ore  they  should  disgrace  them- 
j,  relates  an  incident  of  actual  occurrence,  in  the  South,  which  we  give 
in  nearly  his  own  words:  Two  boys,  under  seventeen  years  of  <>f  a 

wealthy  cotton  planter  on  Lake  Jackson,  near  Tallahassee,  contracted  the 
war  fever  and  volunteered  to  go  to  Pensacola.,  When  equipped  for  the 
march,  and  having  taken  leave  of  father,  mother  and  sisters,  they  came  to 
part  with  their  old  nurse — overwhelmed  with  tears,  she  addressed  them 
thus:  "Now,  young  masters,  stop  this  weeping;  go  and  fight  for  your 
country  like  men,  and  mind,  don't  disgrace  me." 

Here  is  a  dare  matron  worthy  of  Yankee  consideration.  The  father  of 
these  noble  hoy*  is  a  native  of  North  Carolina,  and  of  one  of  her  most  dis- 
tinguished families. —  Charleston  Courier. 

RECOL1  WALL  JACKSON. 

The  "Life  of  General  Thos.  J.J  .        j  or  John  Esten  Cooke, 

abounds  in  anecdotes  of  the  great  hero,  which  show  glimpses  of  the  inner 
man  which  no  dissertation  on  his  character  could  convey  to  the  public. 
"  Mystery,  mystery  is  the   secret  of  success,"  was  an  expre-  I  by 

very  often,  and  the  people  can  never  he   tired  reading  even  the 
slightest  unveil  .whom   they  almost  worshipped. 

We  make  several  extracts  from  the  work  before  us: 

•    AT    KERN8TOWK. 

At  Kernstown,  when  a  portion  of  his  Un  lie  ovcr- 

•  emy,  amid  a 
in  of  bulli  i  hand  firmly  0 

shoulder,  said,  in   his  brief,  The 

rally  •  ;,   to 

with  the  inexorable  band  upon  tl  I  r,  the  ral  ucd 

PARTING    WITH    1 

to 


anil  men  were  drawn  up  ]i  in  line  of  battle,  and   their  commander 

appeared  in   front,  as  1  be/ore  v  hen  about  to  give 

the  order  for  a  oba  But  now  no  enthusia  'icers 

awaited  him.     All  knew  for  whit  pui  and   the  sorrow  which 

filled   every  heart  betra;  '  in  the  deep  silence   which  greeted  Ids' 

.  it  a  sound  along  the  line,  not  a  hand  raised  in 
murmur  even  going  to  show  that  t'  itain. 

The  bronzed  faces  were  full  of  the  deep  st  deje  ■  ion,  and  the  stern  fighters 

of  the  old  brigade  were  like  children  about  a  rated  from  their  lather. 

Jackson  approached,  and,  mastering  ion  by  an  effort,  said  in  the 

short,  abrupt  tones  with  which  all  were  bo  familiar: 

"I  am  nut  here  to  make  a  speech,  but  sim  ly  farewell.     I  first  met 

you  at  Harper's  Ferry  in  the  coinmenceiucii.  of  this  war,  and  I  cannot  take 
leave  of  you  without  giving  expression  to  my  admiration  of  your  conduct 
from  that  day  to  this — whether  on  the  march,  the  bivouac,  the  tented  field, 
or  on  the  bloody  plains  of  Manassas,  where  yon  gained  the  well-deserved 
reputation  of  having  decided  the  fate  of  the  battle.     Throughout  the  1. 

;it  of  country  over  which  you  have  marched,  by  your  respect  for  the 
right-  and  property  of  citizens,  you  have  shown  that  you  were  soldiers,  not 
only  to  defend,  but  able  and  willing  both  to  defend  and  protect.  You  have 
alrcadv  -lined  a  brilliant  and  deservedly  high  reputation  throughout  the 
army  of  the  whole  Confederacy,  and  1  trust,  in  the  future,  by  your  deeds  on 
the  held,  and  by  the  assistance  of  the  same  kind  Providence  who  has  here- 
tofore favored  our  cause,  you  will  gain  more  victories  and  add  additional 
lustre  to  the  reputation  you  now  enjoy.     You  have  already  gained  a  proud 

ition  in  the  future  history  of  tins  our  second  war  for  independence.     I 
shall  look  with  great  anxiety  to  your  future    movements,  and  I  trust  when- 
ever 1  shall  hear  of  the  First  Brigade  on  the  field  of  battle  it  will  be  of 
nobler  deeds  achieved  and  higher  reputation  won  !'' 

Having  uttered  tie  nt,  and  hi 

1  slowly  along  the  line,  as  though  he  wished  thus  to  bid  farewell  in- 
dividually to  every  old  familiar  face,  so  often  seen  in  the  heat  of  battle,  and 
BO  dear  to  him.  The  thoughts  which  crowded  upon  him  seemed  more  than 
he  could  bear — he  could  not  leave  them  with  such  formal  words  only — and 
that  iron  lip  which  had  never  trembled  in  the  hour  of  deadliest  peril  no.v 
(piivcred.  Mastered  by  an  uncontrollable  impulse,  the  great  soldier  rose  in 
his  stirrups,  threw  the  reins  on  the  neck  of  his  horse  wdth  an  emphasid 
which  scut  a  thrill  through  every  heart,  and,  extending  his  arm,  added  in 
tones  of  i ; 

"In  the  army  of  the  Shenandoah,  you  were  the  first  brigade!  In  tho 
army  of  the  Potomac  you  were  the  first  brigade  !  In  the  second  corpus  of 
the  army  you  arc  the  first  brigade  !     You  are  the  first  brigade  in  the  a  flee- 


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tions  of  your  general;  and  T  hope  by  your  future  deeds  and  bearing  you 

will  be  banded  down  to  posterity  as  the  first  brigade  in  this  our  second  war 

N  pendence.     I 

As  the  last  won'  in  their  cars,  and  Jackson  turned  to  leave  them, 

the  long   pent   up   feeling  burst   forth.     Three    prolonged    and    deafening 

a  rolled  along  the  line  of  the  old  brigade;  and  no  sooner  had  they  died 

away  than   they  were  renewed,  and  again  renewed.     The  calm  face  of  the 

great  leader  flusl    d   as  he  listened  to  that  sound,  but  he  did  not  speak. 

Waving    his   hand   in   token  of  farewell,    he    galloped    away,  and    the    old 

de,  deprived  ol   its  beloved  chief,  returned  slowly  and  sorrowfully  to 

camp. 

A   riCTURE  OF  Tir:  LDER. 

lie  wore  an  old  sun-burned  coat,  of  grey  cloth,  originally  a  very  plain 
ore,  and  now  almost  out  at  elbows.  To  call  it  sun-burned^  however,  is 
scarcely  to  convey  an  adequate  idea  of  the  extent  of  its  discoloration.  It 
had  that  dingy  hue,  the  result  of  exposure  to  rai  now  and  scorching 

sunshine,  which    is  so  unmistakable.     It  was  plain   that  the  general   had 
weary  form  Upon  the  bare  ground,  and  slept  in  the  old 
:  and  it  seemed  to  Lave  brought  away  with  it  no  little  of  the  dust  of  the 
Valli  '  ed  to  v,-ear  such  a  garb;  but 

the  men  of  the  old  Stonewall  B  their  brave  comrades  of  the 

all  the  holi- 
;niforms  and   I  rarriors  in  the  world.     The  remainder  of 

•!orcd  as  the  coat;  be  wore  cavalry 

v  an   old  i 
irned  it  quite  yellow,  i  !   it 

•  ailed  i" 
•iiin  in  the  air  in  order  to  lo  k  under  the  rim.      Hfs  horse  was  not 

■tcI,  gaunt  and  grin 

i  bullet,  in  thi 

will 

■ 
■ 


208  GLEANINGS   FROM 

him;  and,  when,  one  day,  a  little  girl  was  standing  at  his  knee,  looking  up 
from  her  clustering  curls  at  the  kindly  general,  whose  hand  was  caressing 
her  hair,  he  found  a  Letter  use  for  the  fim  gold  braid  around  the  cap.  He 
called  for  a  pair  of  scissors,  ripped  it  off,  and  joining  the  ends,  placed  it 
like  a  coronet  upon  her  head,  with  smiles  and  evident  admiration  of  the 
pretty  picture  thus  presented. 

Another  little  girl,  in  one  of  the  hospil  ihlo  houses  of  that  region,  told  the 
present  writer,  that  when  she  ex;  o  a  gentl  wish   to  kiss 

General  Jackson,  and  the  gentleman  repeated  her  words,  the  general  blush- 
ed very  much  and  turned  away  with  a  slight  laugh  as  if  he  was  confused. 

These  are  trifles,  let  us  agree,  .  at  is  it  not  a  pleasant  spec- 

tacle to  see  tli  Idier  amid  these  kindly,  simple  scenes — to  watch  the 

stern  and  indomitable  leader,  whose  soul  has  never  shrunk  in  the  hour  of 
deadliest  peril,  passing  happy  moments  in  the  society  of  laughing  children? 

At  the  first  battle  of  Manassas,  while  Jw  und  was  being  dressed, 

some  one  said,  "  Here  comes  the  President."  He  threw  aside  the  surgeons, 
rose  suddenly  to  his  feet,  and  whirling  his  old  cap  around  his  head,  cried, 
with  the  tire  of  battle  in  his  eye,  "Hurrah  lor  the  President!  Give  mc 
ten  thousand  men  and  I'll  be  in  Washington  to-night  1" 

It  was  the  same  man  who  blushed  when  a  child  expressed  a  wish  to  kiss 
him. 

HIS    RECOLLECTION    OF    THE    STONEWALL   BRIGADE. 

During  the  ride  to  Guinea's  (after  his  wounds)  he  had  maintained  his 
serene  and  cheerful  bearing,  and  talked  much  in  reference  to  the  battle  of; 
Saturday.  He  spoke  of  the  gallant  bearing  of  General  llhodes,  and  said 
that  his  commission  as  major-general  ought  to  date  from  that  day,  and  of 
the  grand  charge  of  the  old  Stonewall  Hrigade  in  the  battle  of  Sunday, 
which  he  had  heard  of.     He  asked  after  all  his  officers,  and  said  : 

"  The  men  who  live  through  this  war  will  be  proud  to  say, '  I  was  one  of 
the  Stonewall  JJrigadc  !'  to  their  children." 

With   that  grand  modesty  which  ever  characterized  him,  he  hastened, 
however,  to  guard  litis  declaration  even  from  the  appearance  of  egotism,  and 
earnestly  declared  that  the  name  of  "  Stonewall  "  did  not  belong  to  him — 
'  that  it  was  the  name  given  to  his  old  brigade,  and  their  property  alone. 

THE   LAST   SCENE   OF   ALL — HIS   DEATH. 

On  Thursday  evening  all  pain  had  ceased;  but  a  mortal  prostration  came 
on,  from  which  he  never  recovered.     He  still  conversed  feebly,  and  said: 

"  I  consider  these  wound.-  a  blessing;  they  were  given  me  for  some  good 
and  wise  purpose,  and  I  would  not  part  with  them  if  I  could." 


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From  this  time  ho  continued  to  sink,  and,  on  Sunday  morning  it  wis 
obvious  that  he  could  only  lire  a  few  hours  longer.  His  mind  was  still 
clear,  however,  and  he  asked  Major  Pendleton,  his  adjutant-general,  "who 
was  preaching  at  headquarters  on  that  day?"  .Mrs.  Jackson  was  with  him 
daring  his  last  moments,  and  conversed  with  him  fully  and  freely.  She 
informed  him  that  he  was  about  to  die,  and  his  reply  was  : 

"  Y^y  good,  very  good ,  it  is  ail  right." 

He  then  sent  messages  to  all  his  friend-,  the  generals  and  others,  and 
murmured  in  a  low  voice  his  wish  to  be  buried  in  "  Lexington,. in  the  Valley 
of  Virginia." 

His  mind  then  began  to  wander,  and  that  delirium  which  seizes  upon  the 
most  powerful  minds,  the  vigorous  brains,  at  the  mysterious  moment  when 
the  last  sands  fall  from  the  glass,  began  to  effect  him.     lie  gave  ordei 
the  commissary  of  his  corps,  the  Burgeons  and  the  commanders.     Among 
the    last    words   which    escaped    his    lips   were,  "  A   P.   Hill,  prepare  for 

D  I" 

After  this  he  speedily  sank,  and  at  (ifteen  minutes  past  three  in  the  even- 
ing, he  tranquilly  expired. 

JACKSON   AND   LEE. 

These  two  men  had  now  met  (at  Cold  Harbor)  for  the  first  time  in  the 

war;  had  seen  each  other  at  work ;  and  there  sprung  up  at   once   between 

the  two  eminent  soldiers  that  profound  respect,  confidence  and  regard,  which 

thenceforth  know  no  diminution,  no  shadow  of  turning.     Jackson   said  of 

■  He  is  a  phenomenon.     I  would  follow  him  blindfolded." 

The   regret  of  General   Lee  at  this  deplorable  event  (the  woundin. 
was  indeed  poignant.     The  soul  of  the   great  commander 
moved  to  its  depths,  and  he  who   had  BO  long  learned  I  !  emotion 

could  not.  control  his  anguish.     "  Jackson  will  not,  he  cannot  die  I 
cral  Lee  cxclaiyicd  in  a  broken  voice,  waving  every  one  from  "him  with  his 
hand,  "  he  cannot  die!" 

an  board. 

Tn  one  of  our  Southern  cities,  a  new  commandant  fa 

m,  a1  the  '  .  one 

ons  in  the  town,  with  the  following  awful  I 
"  '  '   Wilkin-  mdei  of 

I  iffl" 

Mi-  r  of 

.ct — /am  i  Meatk  Qood  a 


210  OLlANINdS  FROM 


GENERAL  D.  II.  niLL  A  WIT. 

A  friend  from  the  army  gives  us  the  following  jeu  (F esprit  of  that  Chris- 
tian ami  hero  General  1>.  11.  Hill: 

'  "  Since  the  late  order  promulgated  by  General  11.  E.  Lee.  allowing  brief 
furloughs  to  two  enlisted  men,  and  one  commissioned  officer  from  each  corn- 
pany  in  the  service,  a  captain  in  the  Twenty-Eighth  Georgia  Regiment  made 
application  for  one  of  these  leaves  for  a  member  of  his  company,  then  in  the 
rcgimpntal  band.  .The  document  went  '  approved  and  respectfully  forward- 
ed '  through  the  offices  of  colonel,  brigauicr-general,  etc.,  to  General  Hill, 
who  most  unmercifully  left  the  applicant  without  hope  by  the  final  endorse- 
ment thereon  :  '  Shooters  furlougliul  before  footers  P  '* 

This  will  explain  why  General  Hill  is  said  to  have  no  ear  for  music. 

GENERAL   STEPHEN    D.    LEE. 

As  an'  evidence  of  the  fact  that, the  flummery  of  gold  lace,  and  fancy 
equipments  and  trappings  which  is  so  often  admired  upon  the  persons  of 
lieutenants,  surgeons,  etc.,  do  not  appear  to  be  more  popular  with  the  lead- 
ing spirits  at  Yicksburg,  than  they  arc  with  Stonewall  Jackson  and  other 
fighting  men  of  the  army  of  the  Potomac,  the  Brandon  Mississippi  Repub- 
lican gives  the  following  extract  from  a  letter  of  a  correspondent: 

A  few  days  since,  while  General  Stephen  i).  Lee  was  examining  the 
"Whkwortlv  guns,  in  front  of  General  Smith's  headquarters,  a  sentinel  stepped 
up  and  ordered  him  off.  Lee  said  nothing,  but  continued  his  examinations. 
The  sentinel,  with  much  vehemence,  then  said  :  "  I  order  you  to  leave  here, 
sir,  and  not  touch  those  guns  again !''  Lee  then  left,  and  proceeded  to 
enter  Generai  Smith's  headquarters,  when  the  sentinel  continued,  "you 
can't" pass  in  there."  "  Why,"  said  Lee?  "  Because  none  but  commis-. 
sioned  officers  can  go  in  there,"  said  the  sentinel.  "  I  am  an  officer," 
said  Lee  modestly,  as  lie  slipped  out  of  the  view  of  the  faithful  sentinel. 
So  plain  is  General  Lee  in  his  appearance  and  manners,  that  a  stranger 
would  never  take  him  for  an  officer. 

AN   INCH)!: XT. 

v  A  touching  romance  in  real  life  is  afforded  by  the  deaths  of  Captain 
Chalmers  Glenn,  of  Rockingham  County,  North  Carolina,  and  his  faithful 
servant,  Mat.  Reared  together  from  childhood,  Mat  had  shared  in  all  the 
boyish  pranks  and  frolics  of^  his  master,  and,  in  .later  life,  had  been  his 
constant  attendant  and  faithful  servant.  On  the  morning  of  the  battle  of 
inesboro,  Captain  Glenn  called  Mat  to  him  and  said:  "Mat,  I  will  be 
killed  in  this  battle  ;  sec  me  buried;  then,  go  home,  and  be  to  your  mistress 


AN    ARMY   NOTE-BOOK.  2  1  L 

ami  ni}'  children  all  you  have  ever  been  to  me."  From  behind  a  rook  tin: 
faithful  fellow  watched  all  day  the  form  of  his  beloved  master,  as  the  tide 
of  battle  ebbed  and  flowed  over  that  eventful  field.  At  last  ho  missed  him, 
and,  rushing  forward,  found  the  prediction  too  truly  verified — life  \\;i-> 
already  extinct. 

Assisted  by  two  members  of  his  company,  a  grave  was  dug  with  bayonets, 
and  soon  the  cold  and  silent  earth  held  all  that  was  dearest  in  life  to  'Mat. 
Slowly  and  sadly  he  turned  his  face  homeward,  and  there  delivered  all  the 
messages  and  valuables  with  which  hi  :  had  entrusted  him.     From 

that  time  it  seemed  as  if  his  mission  on  earth  was  accomplished.  Though 
constantly  attending  his  master's  children,  and  promptly  obedient  to  the 
Blightest  word  of  his  mistress,  he  visibly  declined.  Finally  he  was  taken 
sick,  and,  despite  the  best  medical  attention  and  the  kindest  nursing,  ho 
died  February  4,  1863.  What  a  striking  instance  of  the  power  of  affection 
in  the  negro  heart,  and  the  strength  and  beauty  of  the  tie  between  a  kind 
master  and  a  faithful  servant!  Peace  to  Mat's  ashes!  May  the  unholy 
tread  of  a  "negro  worshipper"  never  pollute  the  last  resting-place  of 
gallant  master  or  his  faithlul  self. 

won't  some  one  kiss  me  for  my  mother? 

Two  or  three  incidents  in  connection  with  the  battles  around  Kinston 
and  Goldsboro,  North  Carolina,  are  not  unworthy  of  a  place  in  this  record: 
The  first  of  these  concerns  a  noble  young  officer  named  Captain  Geo.  W. 
Bernard,  from  North  Carolina.  Brave,  courteous,  intelligent,  chivalrous 
and  refined,  he  united  in  a  rare  degree  the  attributes  of  the  perfect  gentle- 
man and  the  good  soloier.  While  at  Goldsboro,  where  he  was  attached  t" 
the  ordnance  service,  he  heard  of  the  advance  of  the-  enemy  on  I 
and  at  once  determined  to  link  his  fortunes  with  the  brave  defenders  of  the 
i  volunteer,  render  whatever  aid  lay  in  his  power.  Before 
leaving  for^he -field,  he  oall<  1  on  a  number  of  his  lady  friends  to  bid  them 

'he  i  arting  hour,  he  sadly  took  their  hands,  an 
a  shadow  rest'  d  on  his  face,  as  if  the  angel  of  deatb  had  already  left  it  there. 

(d-bye,  lad 
one  /.•/.•>■>■  me  for  my  •  Strange  as 

plyil  dn,  I'll    '  be  fair  inn 

of  her  lit  s  n]  "ii  his  • 

promptly  join 
at  i  folds!*  ro      During  I 

ill!      j 

•   1    nrfill'  r 


212  •  GLEANINGS   FROM 

But  it  was  ;i  fatal  moment.-  The  fragment  of  a  shell  or  grapeshot  struck 
him  in  the  log  and  he  fell  mangled  an  I  bleeding  to  the  ground.  His  com- 
-  carried  him  to  the  hospital,  and  there  the  Burgeons  declared  it  impos- 
to  save  the  limb.  His  thoughts  were  still  of  his  love — his  wife. 
"  Oh  !  <Jod  !"  was  his  reply,  "is  it  possible  that  1  fliust  carry  home  to  her 
hut  a  remnant  of  my  former  self?"  l'our  fellow  !  Er<  n  then,  the  sand^  of 
lite  were  ebbing  in  the  glass,  and  the  scroll  of  his  destiny  being  scaled.  The 
operation  was  performed,  bat  the^shock  was  too  great  for  the  enfeebled 
system  to  bear,  and  the  next  morning  he  was  a  corpse. 

••  Dropping  t!w  flesh-ro^e  with  a  smile,  bo  gently  did  he  pa 
Gently  as  spirits  of  the  Bowel's  fn  m  oul  the  new  mown  grass. 
His  labors  done,  his  r<  ,  he  only  looketh'back 

To  sec  the  ble.-<ing.-i.flow  for  those  who  follow  in  his  track." 

The  second  incident  is  of  a  different  character,  but  it  as  aptly  illustrates 
the  spirit  of  men  "whose  souls  flash  out  naked  as  swords  unsheathed  for 
fiery  fate :" 

At  the  battle  of  Kinston,  while  the  Ilolcombe  Legion  were  hotly  engaged, 
one  Thomas  Adams,  of  Newberry,  S.  C .,  a  private  in  the  company  of  Captain 
B.  V).  McCreary,  was  wounded  in  the  arm.  Refusing  to  leave  the  field,  he 
continued  so  fight  on,  and  was  again  struck  in  the  leg.  Still  disdaining  to 
go  to  the  rear,  he  was  a  third  time  shot,  now  in  the  side;  but  he  clung  to 
his  musket  as.  he  fell,  and  when  urged  to  remove  from  danger  and  receive 
the  attention  of  the  surgeon,  his  heroic  reply  was-,  "  No !  I  will  never  leave 
my  command  behind  me!  Load  my  nun  for  me,  and  I'll  fight  as  long  as  I 
have  to  live."  And  in  spite  of  persuasions  and  inducements  to  the  contrary, 
there  the  brave  fellow  remained,  and,  wounded  as  he  was,  performed  his 
gallant  part  to  the  last  in  that  tragedy  of  war.  His  captain  said  after- 
wards that  he  himself  loaded  his  musket  for  him,  and  stood  by,  while  he 
raised  himself  up,  and  taking  aim  as  deliberately  and  coolly  as  if  sighting  at 
a  turkey,  he  brought  an  Abolitionist  to. the  ground  at  every  fire. 

"When  the  Legion  fell  back,  the  boys  did  not  forget  to  bring  their  wound- 
ed comrade  with  them,  and  he  is  now.  home,  recovering  from  his  wounds. 

PUSH   THEM   TO  TUE   SLAUGHTER  PEN. 

One  of  the  Yankee  officers  captured  near  Louisa  Court  House,  Ya.,  says 
the  men  in  Grant's  army  declare,  that  when  their  officers  were  urging  them 
forward  to  the  assault  of  General  .Lee's  breastworks,  a  ragged  rebel  mounted 
the  works  and  called  out:  "That's  right,  officers,  push  them  up  to  the 
slaughter  pen!  We  will  take  care  of  them."  That  when  the  men  refused 
to  move  forward  any  longer,  the  rebels  shot  down  the  officers  because  they 
could  not  rally  their  men. 


AN    ARMY    NOT B  BOOK.  2  13 

NATIONAL   STATISTICS — ENORMOl  S    HOUSES. 

The  public  debt  of  the  United  States  ill  1862,  according  to  the  report  of  the 
of  the  Treasury,  was  $1,122,000,000  j  this  amount  in  -^l  "  green- 
backs" would,  if  spread  out,  cover  1,0  17  square  acres,  or  :rc  miles. 
J}'  laid  end  to  end  they  would  reach  12  times  around 
the  earth.  Allowing  the  ea  to  amount  to?'  per  day,  they 
would  make,  if  laid  end  to  end.  288  5-6  mill  -,  or  about  a  locomo- 
tive would  run  in  a  day.  Allowing  the  liera  to  average,  in 
height  5|  fe<  t,  they  would  reach,  if  lying  head  to  foot,  7-32}  miles;  stand- 
ing heels  and  toes  touching,  would  reach  104  miles.  Allowing  the 
arms  and  artillery  of  the  700,000  to  average  twelve  pounds  to  each 
man,  they  would,  if  made  into  railroad  iron,  make  21  J  miles  of  railroad 
iron.  Allowing  the  clothing  of  the  soldiers  to  average  12  yards  to  each 
man,  it  would  mak<  yards,  or  1.772  S-ll  miles.  In  two  years, 
allowing  three  suits  to  each  man,  it  would  make  enough  cloth  to  reach 
around  the  earth. 

BRUTE  SUTLER. 

A  refugee  from  New  Orleans  furnishes  the   following  incidents.     They 

should  not  be  permitted  to  pass  into  oblivion,  as  the  future  historian  of  this 

contest  might  find  them  useful  in  illustrating  a  character  already  infamous 

lent  in  modern  tin 

Escapii  g  from  New  Orleans,  I  reached  a  plantation  upon  the  Mississippi, 

in  the  vicinity  of  Baton  Rouge.     Whilst  receiving  the  hospitalitiel  of  my 

friend,  the  planter,  the  parish  priest  of  Baton  Rouge  came  in,  who  inform- 

'  he  was  on  his  way  from   New  <  -    he 

"  for  the  ;  permit  fr 

le  him  to  bring  out  food  — for  the 

that  But- 
ler had    |  food  tO   have    t;  :  the 
they  are  our  i                tnd  my  pui 
■ 

in   our  national   trouble-,  and   V, 
rly  1  e  o  in  reply, 

thai  ,u],l 

I'd    «liil. 
,r,  my  pi: 


214  GLEANINGS   FROM 


HOW    LINCOLN    RECRUITS    niS    ARMV. 

A  gentleman  from  Norfolk,  gives  the  following  account  to  the  Christian 
Observer  of  a  proceeding  which  was  doubtless  regarded  by  the  enemy  as  a 
cute  "  Yankee  trick  :" 

There  are,  in  the  city  of  Norfolk,  four  churches,  known  as  the  African 
churches,  which  are  used  exclusively  by  the  colored  people  for  public 
worship.  One  of  these  has  a  bell,  and  is  known  as  the  "  Bell  Church."  A 
notice  was  circulated  among  the  colored  population,  by  order  of  the  provost . 
marshal,  that  on  the  following  Sabbath  something  would  be  communicated 
in  the  Bell  Church  in  which  they  were  interested.  Their  curiosity  being 
thus  appealed  to,  the  ringing  of  the  bell  drew  an  immense  crowd.  The 
house  was  filled.  Many  who  could  not  get  in  stood  around  the  doors  and 
windows  with  listening  ears.  At  an  appointed  signal  a  military  manoeuvre 
was  exdeuted.  and  they  found  themselves  surrounded  by  three  hundred 
soldiers,  with  fixed  bayonets.  Resistance  was  useless — escape  impossible. 
All  who  were  neither  too  young  nor  too  old  for  military  service  were  hurried 
away.  No  time  was  given  for  farewells  or  for  making  any  preparations.  In 
their  Sunday  clothes  they  were  marched  on  board  the  vgssels  that  were  in 
readiness  to  carry  them  to  the  North  to  swell  the  armies  designed  for  the 
subjugation  of  the  South. 

ANECDOTE  OF  GENERAL  SHERMAN. 

The  St.  Louis  Republican  relates  the  following  anecdote  on  General 
Sherman  : 

Backwith,  the  commissary  on  Sherman's  staff,  went,  into  the  general's  tent 
a  few  days  since,  and  accosted  him  thus  :  "  General,  we  must  make  another 
contract  for  beef,  we  have  not  enough  to  last  two  months."  "  Have  you 
enough   to   last   for   two  •  months  ?"    inquired   the   general.     "Yes,   sir." 

"  Well,  in  less  than  two  months  the  army  will  be  in ,  or  in  Atlanta ; 

if  it  goes  to  the  former  place,  we  shall  need  no  beef;  if  it  goes  to  the 
latter,  we  shall  find  enough;  so  make  no  more  contracts,  Backwith." 

THE   RTGIIT   SORT   OF   SPIRIT. 

Lowry's  gallant  brigade  is  composed  of  the  Sixteenth,  Forty-Third,  and 
Forty-Fifth  Alabama  Regiments,  and  the  Thirty-Second  and  Forty-Fifth 
Mississippi  consolidated,  and  is  attached  to  Cleburne's  Division.  The  noble 
men  of  this  brigade,. when  re-enlisting,  declared:  "We'll  fight,  nf  the 
Government  will  give  us  meat  and  bread — if  they  cannot  do  this,  on  bread 
aloye;  with  shoes,  if  we  can  obtain  them — if  not,  barefooted.*' 


AN   ARMY    NOTE-EOOK.  21S 

AN    INCIDENT    OF   THE   CAMPAIGN   ON    THE    SOUTII-SIDE. 

We  have  had  related  to  us  an  incident  from  the  South-side,  which  shows 
at  the  same  time  the  fidelity  of  the  slave  to  his  Southern  master  and  the 
cruelty  of  his  would-be  Yankee  brother.  For  many  years  the  Petersburg 
llailroad  Company  has  had  in  its  employ,  at  Port  "Walthall  Junction,  a 
most  worthy  and  trusty  old  negro  man  named  Columbus.  "When  one  of 
<fur  artillery  companies  moved  up  from  Petersburg,  this  faithful  old  slave 
volunteered  his  services  to  them,  "to  wait  on  his  young  massas,"  and  when 
the  battle  came  off,  the  old  negro  might  be  seen  making  bis  way  over  the 
battle-field,  where  the  shot  and  shell  flew  thickest,  administering  water  to 
our  wounded  soldiers.  This  conduct  commended  tbe  old  negro  to  our 
soldiers,  and  when  they  moved  off,  they  carried  him  with  them  to  Drewry's 
PJuff.  Soon  after  arriving  there,  the  poor  old  slave  discovered  that  he  had 
left  behind  him  a  stocking  full  of  silver,  which  he  had  been  for  several 
y<  ars  Baying  op  from  his  small  earnings,  and  started  back  to  get  it,  assuring 
our  soldiers,  who  were  trying  to  dissuade  him  from  going  back,  "  never 
mind,  massas;  I'll  soon  be  back  to  jine  you."  The  brave,  honest  old 
negro  could  not  bear  the  idea  of  losing  his  money,  and  returned  back,  but 
on  approaching  the  place,  the  Yankees  caught  him  and  hung  him  from  the 
limb  of  a  tree.  His  body  was  discovered  suspended  from  a  tree,  the  victim 
of  Yankee  malignity. 

THE    CREOLES    OF    LOUISIANA. 

A  Massachusetts  chaplain,  Rev.  Mr.  Hcpworfh,  writes  of  the  Louisiana 
Crcob  -  : 

Just  beyond  Carrollton  is  an   immense  and  magnificent  estate,  owned  by 
one  of  these  Creoles.     His  annual  yield  of  sugar  is  fifteen   hundred  hogs- 
heads.    He  might  have  taken  tbe  oath  of  allegiance  and.  thus  saved  his 
but  he  would  not.     The  work  of  depredation  commenced  ;  but  he 
bore  it  without  a  murmur. 

First  we  took  his  wagons,  harness  and  mules;  be  said  nothing*,  but 
scowled  most  awfully.     Next  we  emptied   his  Btables  of  I  ..dry 

1   not  have  even  a  pony  left,  and  was  compelled   to   tit 
along  on  foot  ;  still  nothing  v. 

Next  we  took  his  entire  crop,  ground  it  in  bis  own  sngar  b oust  hii 

barn1.- fur  the  mo!  eads  for  tbe  I  tbe 

head  of  each  "U.  S." — no!  a  murmur.     Then  came  his  I  i.urt- 

•  I 
come  within   our   camp   lines.     '1 

stili  I  in  the  mi  ,ing 

that  he  had  eight  insfc  ad  oJ  '■  n 


21G  GLEANINGS   FtlOM 


JOHN    ROBINSON. 

"Sumter,"  the  Nassau  correspondent  of  the  Charleston  Courier,  writing 
from  Nassau,  thus  alludes  to  this  faithful  servant  of.  the  lamented  Major 
John  B.  Gallic:  % 

I  had  fin  interview  with  an  old  negro,  belonging  to  Captain  Carlin's 
boat,  and  I  think  it  due  to  his  fidelity  and  honesty  that  I  should  notice  him 
here.  He  is  about' fifty  ye/rs  of  age,  and  a  native  of  Savannah.  His  mastdr 
was  Major  John  B.  Gallie,  of  Georgia,  who  was  killed  at  the  attack  upon 
Fort  McAllister.  John  was  captured  while  attempting  to  run  the  blockade. 
He  was  taken  to  Fort;  LaFayette  in  irons,  and  confined  there  eight  months. 
Upon  his  release,  every  attempt  was  made  by  the  Yankee  officials,  to  induce 
him  to  enter  their  service.  He  was  offered  one  hundred  dollars  per  month, 
to  act  as  pilot  on  one  of  the  gun-boats  designed  for  operations  on  Savannah 
and  Charleston.  Fearing  he  might  be  impressed  into  the  service,  he  pre- 
tended that  his  age  and  infirmities  prevented  him  from  going  to  sea  again, 
lie  remained  in  New  York  some  time,  but  was  proof  against  the  bribes  of 
the  enemies  of  his  native  land.  Watching  an  opportunity,  he  secretly  pro- 
cured passage  for  Nassau,  and  lie  is  here  now,  and  about  to  leave  for  home, 
going  back  joyfully  to  his  mistress  and  his  "bondage."  lie  alluded  to  his 
dead  master  with  emotion.  "He  never  spoke  a  crossword  to  me  for  twenty 
years,"  said  John.  He'is  constant  in  his  love  for  the  South;  is  willing  to 
die  in  her  service;  thinks  the  New  York  "colored  people"  a  poor  miserable 
set,  and  the  Yauke.es  "nothing  like  our  folks."  It  is  but  justice  to  faithful 
John  Bobinson  that  his  name  should  be  placed  among  those  who  have  Buf- 
fered for  the  South.  Though  he  is  aiupng  the  humblest  of  her  children, 
let  him  be^ honored  for  his  constancy. 

ANECDOTE   OF   WENDELL   PHILLIPS: 

Mr.  Train,  in  a  speech  in  Music  Hall,  Boston,  speaking  of  "Wendell 
Phillips,  said: 

That  distinguished  Abolitionist  went  to  Charleston,  S.  C,  once,  before 
he  was  very  well  known,  and  put  up  at  a  hotel.  He  had  breakfast  served 
in  his  room,  and  was  waited  upon  by  a  slave.  He  embraced  the  opportunity 
to  represent  to  the  negro,  in  a  very  pathetic  way,  that  he  was  5  man  and  a 
brother,  and  more  than  that,  an  Abolitionist.  The  negro  seemed  more 
anxious  about  the  breakfast  than  he  was  about  his  relations  and  the  condi- 
tion of  his  soul,  and  finally,  in  despair,  Mr.  Phillips  ordered  him  to  go  away, 
saying  that  he  couldn't  bear  to  be  waited  on  by  a  slave.  "Excuse  me, 
massa,"  said  the  negro,  "must  stay  here,  'cause  I  am  responsible  for  the 
silver  ware." 


AN    ARMY   NOTE-BOOK.  217 


SCENES    ON   THE    MISSISSIPPI. 

On    the    25th  of    March,    1863,   several    gun-boats — the    best    in    the 
Yankee  fleet — attempted  to  pass  our  batteries  at  Yicksburg.     Unlike  the 
Queen  of  the  West  and  the   Indianola,  they  came  down  the  river  in   the 
broad  light  of  the  rising  sun,  bravely  defying  our  guns  and«  challenging 
their  power.     As  the  first  and  larger  boat  approached  our  upper  battery, 
an  officer  came  out  on  top,  and  with  a  spirit  that  was  more  rash\thau  wise, 
waved  his  hat  at  our  gunners  and  shouted:    "Shoot,  you.    d — d   rebels. 
Shoot,  d — d  you,  you  can't  hurt  us."     Our  boys  did  shoot.     They  petit  a 
couple  of  hundred  and  sixty  pound  balls  crashing  against  and  through  the 
sides  of  the  Yankee  iron-clad  in  a  manm  <r  that  made  her  reel  and  tremble 
like  a  wind-shaken  reed.     It  is   needless  to  add  that  the  Yankee  bravado 
disappeared  from  the  top  of  his  boat  and  was  not  seen  again.     This  was  the 
opening  of  the  grand  and  exciting  scene.     As  the  boats  advanced,  battery 
after  battery  of  huge  size  guns  opened  upon  them.     Our  gunners  fired  with 
the  greatest  precision.     Nearly  every  ball  took  effect.     The  steam-pipes  of 
the  boats  were  soon  cut,  and  the  boats  were  enveloped  in  clouds  of  vapor. 
The  boats  were  now*floating  along  in  a  helpless  condition,  and  our  batteries, 
cheered  by  their  success,  and  by  the  shouts  of  the  soldiers  and  citizens  who 
were  looking  on  from  the  hills  above,  continued  to  hurl  their  huge  missives 
against  the  devoted  boats  with  increased  energy.     A  shell  burstcd  in  the 
larger  boat,  killing  all  around,  and  bursting  the. sides  of  the  boat  below  the 
water  line.     She  reeled,  plunged,  and  almost  instantly  sunk,  carrying  all  her 
crew  to  the  bottom  with   her,  except  a  few  who  escaped  in  yawls  and  on 
cotton  bales  and  detached  portions  of  the  wreck.     The  other  boat  drii      ! 
<ii   in  a  helpless,  wrecked  condition,  and  was  pulled  on  a  Band-bar  by  the 
Albatros.     Thousands  of  our  soldiers  were  collected  on  the  hills  overlooking 
the  river,  and.  as  the  wrecked  Yankees  floated    by   on  cotton   bales   and 
pieces  of  the  wreck,  they  would  shout  to  them:  "  ;:rc,  are  you 

taking  a  load  of  cotton  to  New  Orleans'.''     Can't  you  land  and  take  on  a  few 
ngers?     If  tl,  ;>  for  sale,  thj  od  a  market  as  you  can 

find.     Oot  anything  to  sell  besides    cotton?     Can  you  take  on  any  more 
htf"  and  a  hundred  other  rude  expr  bit!  the  Yankees  main- 

tain! I  y.     They  wer 

up  i  their  way  to  our  line-, 

ported  that  there  v  hundred  w  of  the  I 

• 

\\T  ACT; 

In  the  heavy  assault  made  by  the  i  ncmy  on  Law's  B 
on  th  .  ituU 


218  GLEANINGS   FROM 

,  denly  discovered  that  the  rntm  were  almost- out  of  ammunition,  so  continuous 
and  rapid  had  been  their  fire.  To  have  started  from  the  trenches  for  am- 
munition at  that  time,  amid  the  shower  of  shot  and  shell  that  was  raining 
upon  the  field  in  our  rear,  would  have  been  almost  certain  death;  and 
besides,  having  just  taken  position  at  that  point  of  the  line,  we  unfortunately 
had  no  ordnance  near.  Such  a  scene  was  never  witnessed;  for  a  soldier 
without  ammunition  in  the  hour  of  battle  is  like  a  ship  without  a  rudder, 
or  a  sinner  leaving  the  world  without  a  hope  of  Christ.  Old  soldiers  gazed 
upon  each  other  with  looks  of  earnest  solicitude,  of  blank  astonishment  and 
solemn  inquiry;  their  lips  quivered — they  could  not  speak — and  their 
cheeks  were  blanched.  Bat  it  was  not  with  fear.  Having  begged  from 
their  neighbors  and  fired  the  last/  cartridge,  they  coolly  fixed  their  bayonets, 
unanimously  resolved,  "let's  give  them  bayonets,  boys,"  and  with  the 
calmness  of  despair,  prepared  to  die  to  a  man  in  their  tracks,  rather  than 
yield  their  position.  Tell  me,  ye  shades  of  Marathon  and  Thermopylas! 
can  such  men  as  these  be  conquered?  The  spirits  of  the  patriot  dead  on 
every  field  returns  the  answer,  never! 

Heaven  always  succors  such  courage  and  devotion;  and  so  it  was  with 
these  brave  men.  At  the  critical  moment,  when  all  seemed  lost,  the  gallant 
Captain  Leigh  11.  Terrill,  brigade  adjutant-general,  was  seen  coining  at  a 
double-quick  through  the  storm  of  balls  in  our  rear,  with  a  hundred  pound 
box  of  cartridges  on  his  head.  Divining,  with  his  accustomed  foresight, 
the  emergency  that  would  arise,  with  characteristic  prudence  and  prompt- 
ness, he  hurried  off  during  the  first  assault  of  the  enemy,  and  obtained  a 
box  of  ammunition  from  Wofford's  brigade,  which  was  a  quarter  of  a  mile 
in  bur  rear,  supporting  us,  and  returned  with  it,  at  the  imminent  peril  of 
his  life,  just  in  time  to  prevent  disastrous  consequences.  The  troops  seized 
on  the  cartridges  like  famished  men  upon  bread;  loud,  wild,  defiant  shouts, 
coupled  with  the  clang  of  a  thousand  rifles,  rose  along  the  line;  in  a  trice 
the  solid  columns  of  the  focmen  were  shattered  into  flying  or  falling  frag- 
ments, and  victory  was  ours. 

Laws'  "Brigade,  on  this  occasion,  killed  and  wounded  fully  two  thousand 
of  the  enemy,  with  the  astonishingly  small  loss  on  their  side  of  two  men 
killed  and  six  slightly  wounded. 

AN    ARMY   WEDDING.  • 

. 

There  are  very  few  soldiers  who  have  been  in  the  Western  army,  who 
will  not  recognize  in  the  following  picture  a  great  similarity  to- many  army 
weddings  which  he  has  seen.  The  marriage  took  place  at  Bull's  Gap, 
Tennessee:  .  • 

An  Alabama  soldier,  who  to  name  would  be  too  personal,  but  who  is 
uglier  than  the  renowned  Suggs — in  fact,  so  far  diseased  with  the  chronic 


AN 'ARMY   NOTE-BOOK.  210 

V 

big  ugly  as  to  have  failed  procuring  a  furlough  from  Brigadier-General 
3  iaw  solely  on  that  ground — wooed  and  won  a  buxom  Tennessee  maid  of 
doubtful  age.  "Whilst  "Special"  was  out  that  day  with  his  gun,  on  a  por- 
cine scout,  for  the  purpose  of  reinforcing  his  haversack,  he  was  interrupted 
in  his  reconnoissance  by  a  husky  voice  emitting  from  a  ten  by  fifteen  pen, 
inviting  him  to  halt.  Entering  the  low  door,  he  found  a  wedding  was  on 
the  tapis,  en  route  tq  a  happy  termination.  A  mirthful  Texan — not  neces- 
sary to- name — had  a  copy  of  the  Army  Regulations  in  his  hand,  and  his 
throat  was  decorated  with  a  piece  of  white  bandage,  such  as  ;  .-  oui« 

army  doctors,  all  ready  to  tie  the  hymonial  knot  so  tight  that  it  could  not 
be  undone  by  the  teeth.  The  bridegroom  Btood  largely  over  six  honest 
feet  in  his  socks,  was  as  hairy  as  Esau,  and  pale,  slim  and  lank.  His 
jacket  and  pants  represented  each  of  the  contending  parties  at  war.  I  lis 
shoes  were  much.the  worst  for  wear,  and  his  toes  sticking  out  of  the  gaping 
rents  thereof,  reminded  one  of  the  many  little  heads  of  pelicans  you  observe 
protruding  from  the  nest  which  forms  a  part  of  the  coat  of  arms  of 
Louisiana.  The  exact  color  of  his  suit  could  not  be  given.  "Where  the 
buttons  had  been  lost  off  in  the  wear  and  tear  of  war,  an  unique  substitute, 
in  the  shape  of  persimmon  seed,  was  used.  The  bride  had  essayed  to  wash 
<•  AlabamV  clothes,  while  he  modestly  concealed  his  nudity  behind  a  brush 
heap,  awaiting  there  until  they  wore  dried. 

Tbc  bride  was  enrobed  in  a  clean  but  faded  dress.  Her  necklace  was  * 
composed  of  a  string  of  chincjuapins,  her  brow  was  environed  by  a  wreath 
of  faded  bonnet  flowers,  and  her  wavy  red  hair  was  tucked  up  behind  in  the 
old-fashioned  way.  .She.  wore  a  stout  pair  of  number  nine  brogans,  and  her 
stockings  and  gloves  were  made  of  rabbit  skin — fur 'side  next  to  the  skin. 
On  her  fingers  were  discerned  several  gutta  pcrcha  and  bone  ri 
at  various  times,  from  her  lover.  She  wore  no  hoops,  for  nature  had  given 
her  such  a  form  as  to  make  crinoline  of  no  use  to  her. 

All  being  re.vly,  the  "Texas  Parson"  pmceexlcd  to  his  duty,  with  becom- 
cial"  acted  the  part  of  water  fur  both  bride  ami  groom. 
;ii"  book  aforementioned,  the  quondam  parson  com  tin 
and  the  twain  closed  Up.     "Hand  to  your  partner!1'  and  the  couple 
handed.     "Atten-rion-to  o-f-<  I  we  all  attenfioned     Then  the  fol- 

lowing was   read   aloud:  '*  I'>y  order   of  our   din  stive   G  neral,   Era 

:.  I  hereby  solemnly  pronounce  you  man  and  wife,  i 
war,  and  you  shall  cleave  onl  >  es  until  the  war  is  i  then 

r  a  famil;  iblic  land  in    i 

farmer  r< isidence  of  the  bridegroom,  arid  you  ami  each  of  you  will 
mul^i;  be  earth." 

'!  b  tad  up  witb 

iracd  ou:  the  whi'  ihc 


GLEANINGS   FROM 

/ 


stoic  indifference  manifested  by  the  married  parties  on  the  picket  line  at 
Bull's  Gap. 

On  our  falling  back  from  tlie.gap,  wo  observed  the  happy  couple  peram- 
bulating with  the  column  through  the  mud  and  snow,  wearing  an  air  of 
perfect  indifference  to  observation  cr  remade  from  the  soldiery.  Should 
this  soldier,  who  captured,  "the  Maid  of  the  Gap/'  obtain  a  furlough  for 
the  purpose  of  locating  in  Pike,  will  not  our  friends  of  the  Mail,  oblige  them 
with  an  introduction  to  our  gallant  Governor  Watts? 

INCIDENT    OF   THE    ENGAGEMENT   ON   TIIE    OOSTANAULA. 

In  the  Fifty-fifth  North  Carol;'  \ient  there  is   a  private  named 

Early,  who  exhibited  a  degree  of  courage  unequalled  during  this  war. 
When  the  enemy  had  thrown  their  men  behind  the  redoubt  in  which  Cor- 
bett's  battery  was  placed,  this  man  stood  up  in  the  pits,  with  his  body  half 
exposed  and  opened  a  rapid  firing  on  the  enemy,  almost  preventing  them 
from  sharpshooting;  for  no  sooner  would  a  Yankee  raise  his  bead  above  the 
redoubt  tban  a  ball  would  enter  his  brain,  and  he  would  fall  dead  across 
the  work.  In  this  manner  Early  had  killed  six,  when  I  had  occasion  to  go 
up  to  the  point  whereVhe  was  stationed,  and  was  very  much  amused  at  his 
manner.  "Get  up  there,"  he  would  exclaim  to  the  Yankees,  "get  up  and 
show  your  heata;  why  the  d — 1  don't  you  take  a  shot  at  me?  Now  just 
'  raise  up  for  a  second/'  and  whenever  a  Yankee  was  found  bold  enough  to 
accept  his  challenge,  a  bullet  through  his  head  was  the  reward  he  received. 

'  AFFECTING   INCIDENT. 

During  one  of  the  series  of  engagements  which  have  came  off  at  the  front, 
says  the  Atlanta  Confederacy,  as  a  body  of  our  cavalry  was  being  hotly 
pursued  by  the  enemy's  infantry  and  artillery,  a  cannon  ball  came  whizzing 
just  over  the  head  of  one  our  boys,  and  passed  between  the  legs  of  a  brave 
fellow  of  the  infantry,  who  was  just  in  the  rear  of  the  cavalry,  and  in  the 
act  of  stepping  across  a  branch.  Both  legs  of  his  pants  were  almost  toru 
off,  but -no  damage  was  done  to  the  soldier,  further  thau  the  loss  of  a  finger, 
lie  stood  perfectly  amazed  at  his  almost  miraculous  escape.  While  standing 
thus,  the  young  cavalryman,  near  Avhosc  head  the  ball  had  passed — and,  by 
the  way,  as  brave  a  boy  as  ever  bestrode  a  horse,  or  chased  a  Yankee  hyena 
to  his  lair — rode  up  and  remarked:  "That  is  the  answer  to  a  pious  mother's 
prayers."  The  soldiw  was  touched  to  the  heart,-  and  bursting  into  tears, 
said,  yes,  he  had  a  pious,  good  mother.  He  i'clt  that  in  answer  to  her 
prayers  he  had  escaped,  almost  unharmed,  from  the  deadly  missile. 

A  mother's  prayer  is  a  safer  shield  for  her  boy  than  bomb-proui' 
fortifications. 


AN   ARMY  NOTE-EOOX..  221 

THE   NE   PLUS    rLTRA   OF   YANKEE    IMPUDENCE. 

Shortly  after  the  taking  of  the  town  of  Plymouth,  N.  C,  one  of  the  Yankee 
chaplains  came  up  to  General  Ilokc,  and  in  the  blandest  manner  said  to 
him:  "General,  I  hope  I  shall  be  allowed  to  retain  this  client  of  theological 
works  presented  to  me  by  my  friends'  from  the  North,"  pointing  as  he  spoke 
to  an  open  chest  containing  books. 

"Certainly,  sir,"  replied  General  Hoke,  "the  private  property  of  the 
Federal  officers  shall,  in  all  cases, be  left  to  them.  You  scein  to  have  a  very 
handsome- collection,"  added  he,  carelessly  taking  up  a  volume  of  Scott's 
Family  Bible,  and  opening  it,  On  the  fly  leaf,  to  his  surprise,  he  read  the 
name  of  Mr.  Josiah  Collins.  Laying  it  down  without  remark,  he  picked  up 
a  London  edition  of  Butler's  works,  and  read  inscribed  on  the  first  page 
"  Charles  Pettigrew." 

Turning  to  the  chaplain  who  still  stood  beside  him  he  exclaimed:  "How 
dare  you,  you  infamous  scoundrel,  wearing  the  livery  of  Christ  as  you  do, 
attempt  to  palm  off  such  a  trick  with  me,  and  tell  me  these  books  were  pre- 
sented to  you  by  your  friends  in  the  North  when  they  were  stolen  from 
Southern  gentlemen  V 

"  Oh,  general,  they  were,  as  I  said,  presented  to  me  by  my  friends  from 
the  North,  though  it  is  true  they  obtained  them  in  Carolina." 

The  officer  who  rclaced  this  incident  to  us  had  it  from  cme  of  General 
i's  aids,  who  was  present,  and  himself  saw  the  books.     The  last  seen  of 
chaplain  he  was  trudging  on  foot  with  the  rest  of  the  Plymouth  pi: 
«rs,  minus  his  "  theological  library/* 

When  the  war  broke  out  be  was  District  Attorney  fur  Choctaw  District, 
|  i,  and  when  the  Yalabusha  iafics  wore  organized,  was  elected  cap- 
tain.   When  Lhe   Fifteenth   1  i  was  organized,  he  was  elected  lieu- 
it-eolonel  of  that  regiment.      At  the  battle  of  Wild  Cat,  lie  Bhowed 
r   and   cooln                  commanded  the  Fifteenth  ;  ;ii  at 
the  •                      bio  battle  of  Fishing  Cr<                                      ipon   that 

the  admiration  of  every 
on  his  men.      At  one  time,  i, 

firing  int  iment,  he  rata  I  rode  to  the  'r 

ill  about  .  when  tl 

i  bis 
clothi  i    with   i 

Ion,  Perrj 


"_"_-!  GLEANINGS    FROM 

Ridge   find  Resaoa,  where  he   showed  himself  worthy  of  the  position  ho 
occupies.     He  has  been  wounded  three  times,  but  is  still  in  the  field. 

seigel's  equestrianism. 

When  Seigel  was  in  Winchester,  he  took  possession  of  Mrs.  Hollings- 
worth's  house,  forcing  the  family  to  huddle  in  two  rooms.  His  tent  was 
just  at  the  door,  his  officers  quartered  in  the  house,  and  his  guards,  some  of 
them  black,  were  all  around  him.  He  imagined  himself  a  superior  eques- 
trian. He  would  frequently  boast  to  young  Mrs.  Hollingsworth  (who  rs 
quite  a  smart  and  very  talkative  woman)  of  his  horsemanship.  -One  day, 
when  he  had  requested  her  to  come  to  the  door  lo  see  him  ride,  some  one 
prompted  her  to  tell  him  he  rode  like  Ashby. 

She  looked  with  impressive  amusement  at  his  springing,  wriggling  move- 
ments in  the  saddle,  his  arms  lashing  his  sides,  and  his  legs  pressed  tight  to 
his  steed.  As  he  drew  near  her,  he  said  :  "  Veil,  Mishes  Holinsvort,  vat 
you  tinks  of  my  riding  ?" 

'(  Why,  general,  I  thought  it  was  Ashby,"  she  archly  replied. 

"  Yah,  shust  so,  shust  so.  Dey  often  tells  me  I  rides  like  Ashby,  and  dat 
I  looks  shust  like  him." 

"  But,  general,"  rejoined  Mrs.  Hollingsworth,  "Ashby  would  leap  that 
fence  like  a  deer,  and  all  his  cavalry  would  follow." 

"Mcin  Got,  Mishes  Holinsvort;  vy,  dat  fence  is  five  foot  high!"  ex- 
claimed Seigel. 

"  Well,  general,  that  is  nothing;  all  our  men  can  do  that." 

"  Goot  gracious!  Veil,  veil ;  Ashby  vas  a  great  man.  You  ton't  say  he 
tinks  noting  to  shump  dat  fence?  Veil,  veil!"  And  ho  rode  off,  manifest- 
ing no  disposition,  however,  to' emulate  Ashby 's  feat  of  leaping  a  five-barred 
fence. 

pillow's  conscripts. 

The  Richmond  correspondent  of  the  Knoxville  Register,  tells  of  the  per- 
formances of  conscripts  at  the  battle  of  Murfreesboro,  as  communicated  by 
officers  to  members  of  Congress.  It  seems  that  General  Pillow  had  brought 
to  Murfreesboro,  on  the  day  before  the  battle,  two  regiments  of  conscripts. 
They  were  the  subjects  of  jeers  and  ridicule  among  their  veteran  comrades 
in  arms.  They  bore  jibes  and  jests  with  becoming  fortitude.  The  battle 
began.  A  charge  was  ordered,  and  away  went  the  conscripts,  and  when  far 
in  advance  of  the  "old  continentals,"  they  would  look  back,  and,  under  a 
Btorm  of  grape  and  canister,  cry  out,  "Come  on,  boys — here's  your  con- 
scripts!" The  Yankees  fled  and  the  battery  was  taken,  upon  observing 
which,  Leon  Trousdale  remarked,  that  "there  is  nothing  in  a  battle;  it 
consists  in  a  succession  of  big  scares."  One  of  the  "biggest  scares"  from 
which  the  Yankees  suffered  at  Murfreesboro,  was  caused  by  the  mad 
charge  of  Pillow's  conscripts. 


AN    ARMY    NOTE-BOOK.  2"2l't 

1 

A  warrior's  death. 

It  was  evident  to  the  physicians  that  death  was  settling  its  clammy  seal 
upon  the  hrave,  open  brow  of  the  general,  and  they  told  him  so;- asked  if 
he  had  any  last  messages  to.  give.  The  general,  with  a  mind  perfectly  clear 
apd  poss*csscd,  then  made  disposition  of  his  staff  and  personal  effects.  To 
Mrs.  General  II.  E.  Lee,  lie  directed  that  his  golden  spurs  he  triven  as  a 
dying  memento  of  his  love  and  esteem  of  her  husband.  To  the  staff  officers 
he  gave  his  horses.  So  particular  was  he  in  small  things,  even  in  the  dying 
hour,  that  he  emphatically  exhibited  and  illustrated  the  ruling  passion  strong 
in  death.  To  one  of  his  staff,  who  was  a  heavy  built  ma.n,  he  said:  "  You' 
had  better  take  the  large  horse;-  he  will  carry  you  better."  Other  memen- 
toes he  disposed  of  in  a  similar  manner.  To  his-young  son,  he  left  his 
glorious  sword. 

His  worldly  matters  closed,  the  eternal  interest  of  his  soul  engaged  his 
mind.  Turning  to  the  Rev.  Mr.  Pcterkin,  of  the  Episcopal  Church,  and 
of  which  he  was  an  exemplary  member,  he  asked  him  to  sing  the  hymn 
commencing : 

"  Rock  of  ages  cleft  for  me, 
Let  me  hide  myself  in  thee." 

He  joined  in  with  all  the  voice  his  strength  would  permit.  He  then 
joined  in  prayer  with  the  minister.  To  the  doctor  he  again  said:  "I  am 
going  fast  now;  lam  resigned;  God's  will  be  done."  Thus  died  General 
J.  E.  B.Stuart. 

A    GALLANT    SERGEANT. 

Among  the  Confederate  prisoners  who  reached  Richmond  by  a  truce  boat, 
there  was  a  color  sergeant  of  a  North  Carolina  regiment,  who  deserves  to 
have  his  name  printed  in  all  the  papers  of  the  Confi  deraey,  and  to  receive 
the  special  compliments  of  the  President  and  of  our  whole  people.  He  was 
shot  down  on  the  bloody  field  of  Gettysburg,  where  he  was  subseque: 
picked  up  as  a  prisoner.  As  he  fell,  he  resolved  that  the  Yankees  should 
not  have  the  colors  which  he  had  borne  so  proudly  and  so  Ion  trip- 

ping them  From  the  staff  he  hid  them  in  lifs  bosom.     Watchi 
tunity,  he  Subsequently  sowed  them    beneath    the  lining  of  his  jacket,  and 
Las  worn  them  ever  since,  and  wore  th<  m  home. 

worthy  of  HIS  eatiieu. 

Robert  Lee,  youngest  son  of  the  general,  after  serving  ^fourteen  months 
I  rivate  in  the  Rockbridgi   A: .  tl<  ry,  ac  opted  a  place  on  his  I 
staff.     "When  his  brother  was  taken  prisoner,  hi  I  him  a  pluco 

on  his  staff.     "Thank   \  Robert,  "but  I  have  no  ta:' 

quarters."      And  he  went  back  to  the  artillery. 


22-1  GLEANINGS    FROM 

I 

1IOW   GENERAL  rOLK'GOT   INTO   A;N   INDIANA   REGIMENT. 

Colonel  Frecinantle,  an  English  officer,  who  has  returned  home  from  the 

•  - 
Confederate  service,  relates  the  following  story,  which  he  says  was  told  him 

by  General  Polk  himself: 

Well,  sir,  it  was  at  the  battle  of  Perryville,  late  in  the  evening— in  fact 
it  was  almost  dark — when  Lindawn's  battery  came  into  action.  Shortly 
after  the  arrival,  I  observed  a  body  of  men,  whom  I  thought  to,  be  Con- 
federates, standing  at  an  angle  to  this  brigade,  and  firing  obliquely  at  the 
newly  arrived  troops.  I  said,  "Dear  me,  this  is  very  sad,  and  must  be 
stopped,"  so  I  turned  round,  and  could  find  none  of  my  young  men;  so  I 
determined  to  ride  myself  and  settle  the  matter.  Having  cantered  up  to 
the  colonel  of  the  reg'rmcnt  that  was  filing,  I  asked  him,  in  angry  tones, 
what  he  meant  by  shooting  his  own  friends. 

lie  answered,  with  surprise,  "I  don't  think  there  can  be  any  mistake 
about  it;  am  sure  they  are  the  enemy."  "Enemy,"  I  said,  "why  I  have 
only  just   left   them   myself.     Cease  firing,  sir!     What   is  your   name?" 

"  My  name  is  Colonel ,  of  the Indiana;  I  pray,  sir,  who  are 

you?"  Then  I  saw,  to  my  astonishment,  that  I  was  in  the  rear  of  a  regi. 
ment  of  Yankees.  Well,  I  saw  there  was  no  hope  but  to  brazen  it  out;  my 
dark  blouse,  and  the  increasing  obscurity,  befriended  me;  so  I  approached 
quite  close  to  him,  shook  my  first  in  his  lace,  saying:  "I'll  show  you  who 
lam,  sir!  Cease  firing,  sir,  at  once!"  I  then  turned  my  horse  and  can- 
tered slowly  down  the  line,  shouting  in  an  authoritative  manner  to  tho 
Yankees  to  cease  firing;  at  the  same  time  I' experienced  a  disagreeable  sen- 
sation, like  screwing  up  my  back,  and  calculating  how  many  bullets  would 
be  between  my  shoulders  every  minute.  I  was  afraid  to  increase  my  pace 
until  I  got  to  a.  small  copse,  when  I  put  the  spurs  in  and  galloped  back  to 
my  men.  I  went  up  to  the  nearest  colonel,  aud  said,  "Colonel,  I  have  re- 
connoitcred  those  fellows  pretty  closely,  and  there  is  no  mistake  who  they 
are;  you  may  go  at  them."  And  I  assure  you,  sir,  that  the  slaughter  of 
the  Indiana  regiment  was  the  greatest  I  have  seen  this  war. 

A   HERO   AND   HIS    MOTHER. 

Lieutenant  B.  8.  Itusscl,  of  the  Sixteenth  Alabama,  was  among  the  slain 
at  Murfreesboro,  and  fell  in  the  early  part  of  the  action.  When  stricken 
•down,  he  felt  the  wound  to  be  mortal,  and  at  once  gave  his  sword  to  a  com- 
rade, saying:  "Take  this  to  my  wife,  and  tell  her  I  died  bravely."  The 
colonel  of  his  regiment  saw  that  the  wish  of  the 'patriot  was  complied  with, 
and  in  reply  to  the  letter,  the  widow,  true,  like  all  Southern  women,  to  the 
highest  impulses  of  a  noble  patriotism,  said :  "  I  mourn  the  death  of  my 
"  husband,  but  my  greatest  regret  is,  that  none  of  his  sons  are  old  enough  to 
take  his  place  to  battle  for  our  liberties'." 


AN    ARMY    NOTE-BOOK.  226 


EXCITINO    PARTIZAN    ADVENTURE. 

The  gallant  Ashby,  whilst  falling  back  before  the  -enemy,  •who  pursued 
him  along  the  Valley  Turnpike,  alighted  to  aid  a  few  men  in  destroying  the 
bridge  across  the  Shenandoah.  The  last  caisson  of  his  artillery  had  thun- 
dered' by,  and  the  Yankee  cavalry  pursued  so  closely  that  a  number  had 
crossed  the  bridge  before  it  could  be  destroyed.  Springing  upon  his  noble 
grey  charger,  Ashby  sped  along  the  turnpike,  followed  by  eight  of  the 
enemy.  His  pistols  were  unfortunately  empty,  and  he  had  no  resource  but 
flight.  The  chase  continued  for  nearly  two  miles,  the  Yankees  firing  at 
him  as  they  ran.  As*  he  neared  a  place  of  safety,  two  of  the  Yankees,  who 
had  outstripped  the  rest,  were  nearly  abreast  of  him,  when  one  of  them  was 
shot  by  some  of  his  men,  and  the  other  was  killed  by  Ashby  with  his  sabre. 

J  Hiring  the  latter  part  of  the  chase,  a  shot,  fired  by  a  long  range  gun  at  a 
distailCe  of  nearly  half  a  mile,  struck  his  horse  in  the  side.  The  faithful 
animal  continued,  with  unabated  speed,  and  saved  his  rider,  but  the  wound 
was  mortal.  He  was  led  along  the  line  of  a  regiment  under  arms.  Our  in- 
formant says  he  never  imagined  so  magnificent  and  spirited  an.  animal. 
He  was  white  as  snow,  except  where  his  side  and  legs  were  stained  with  his 
own  blood.  His  mane  and  tail  were  long  and  flowing,  his  eye  and  action 
evinced  distinctly  the  rage  with  which  he  regarded  the  injury  he  had  re- 
ceived. He  trod  the  earth  with  the  graudeur  of  a  wounded  lion,  and  every 
soldier  looked  upon  him  with  sympathy  and  admiration.  He  had  saved  his 
master  at  the  cost  of  his  own  life.  He  almost  seemed  conscious  of  his 
achievement,  and  on,ly  to  regret  death  because  his  own  injuries  were  not 
_:cd.  Our  informant  says  he  is  aware  it  may  be  coasidercd  extravagant 
tn  attribute  such  intelligence  to  an  animal,  but  really  it  ma*le  the  same  im- 
pression upon  all  that  beheld  him. 

AN    INCIDENT. 

In   the  battle  near  3'etcrsburg,  vo  who   had   run  away 

from  Alabama  some  time  ago,  recognized  his  "young  master,''  and  throwing 
down  his  musket,  rushed  to  the  young  mail  and  threw  his  arms  around  his 
neck,  :;t  the  same  ti  ming:  "Yon  aihw'i  hurt   my  young  masb 

,Iu>t  a(  this  time  H  cuflec,  not  so  mercifully  -red  at  the  Alabamiah, 

but  the  ball,  i;  hitting  the  object  t  in  the  body 

of  the  repentant  slave,  who  threw  bis  B  tiofl  aroui  ttog 

a/'  inflictiri  re  wound  upon  him.     Master  and  slave  came  safely 

off  the  field  together.     The  v.  perly  attei 

.  thus  did   ■  minute  of  i  . .  e  bun  6 

over!  ny  of  hi  color  on  the  30th  of  July,  184 

29 


TO    V.\M.  CHASERS  01  REAL   ESTATE. 

General  Bradley  Johnson,  during  the  invasion  i  land,  in   L8 

I   himseli  I   in   what  wis  one     bis   own  hi 

which   hi  umlt  r  the  coi  •  months 

nt  fur  the   Dew  owner.  had  occupied 

i».     The   reply  was,   "about   fourteen    months."     "Well,''  said   Bradley, 
"this  house  belongs   to  me,  and  unless  you  immediately  pay  mc  the  back 
ite  of  one  hundred  <1< ■! iars  per  month,  there  will  be  a  littlo 
difficulty    between    us"."     The   di  i    occupant    stirred    round,    and 

pretty  soon  raised  the  amount,  which  was  paid  over.     Upon  being  asked  if 
he  desired  a  receipt,  he  replied  that  it  was  nut   necessary. 

"  W  ill,"  said  Johnson,"]  will  give  you  twenty  minutes  to  move  your 
things  out  of  my  house,  for  I  am  not  going  to  rent  it  again.  I  intend  to 
burn  it."     And  burnt  it  was. 


mvIOIIT   SHERWOOD. 

s 

One  day,  in  making  his  usual  visitations,  the  Rev.  Dr.  McCabe  called  in 
at  the  Maryland  Hospital,  Richmond,  and  in  making  his  rounds,  was 
attracied  to  the  bed  of  a  young  and  delicate  boy,  Buffering  from  the  effects 
of  protracted  lever.  The  little  fellow  had  seen  only  fourteen  summers,  and 
his  thin,  pale  face  bore  marks  of  d  t  suffering.     The  following 

occurred,  as  reported  by  the  Chaplain: 

"  I  low  old  are  you,  my  son?"  said  the  reverend  gentleman. 

lll  was  fourteen  my  last  birthday." 

"Why  that  is  very  young  to  be  in  the  army?"  i 

"  Ves,  sir;  but  I  thought  it  my  duty." 

"Where  are  you  from?" 

"Mississippi,  sir." 

"What  is  your  name?" 

"  Dwight  Sherwood." 

"Why,  that  is  a  Northern  aamc." 

"  Fes,  sir;  my  lather  was  a  Northern  man,  but  he  has  lived  in  the  South 
for  many  years,  and  is  a  good  Southern  man." 

"And  your  mother,  where  is  she?" 

His  little  thin  lip  quivered,  as  he  said,  with  an  effort  to  suppress 
emotion,  "  She  is  dead!"  , 

"Well,  my  son,  you  arc  very  young,  and  -you  are  very 'sick.  You  arc 
not  able  to  endure  the  fatigues  of  a  campaign,  and  if  you  get  better,  you 
had  better  return  home,  hadn't  you?" 


AN    ARM'.  »0K.  227 

\ 

The  boy  turned  his  out  eye  npon  hia  interrogator)  and  finally, 

but  modestly  replied,  as  o  Blight  Hush  pass*  d  01  er  his  pule,  express 
"not  until  the  war  u  ov<  r."  ' 

'•Why,  what  can  you  do,  yiiu  are  so  young,  and  ho  "delicate?" 
'•I   am  ■  marker,  sir,  and  I  hope  soon  to  be  up,  an  i  in  the  field   again. 
I  think  it  my  duty." 

"Well,  you  ought  to  try  and  be  a  good  hoy,  to  avoid  everything  that  is 
wrong;  and  you  ought  to  pray  to  Qpd  licart,  and  to.  keep 

you  from  falling  ini 

"I  do  sir."  said  the   little  fellow,  his  eyes  half  concealing  itself  beneath 
the  long,  soft  lash.  •"My  mother  taughl  me  to  pray.     1  have  kept  00 

ad  have  had  no  difficulty  with  any  one  but  once,  and  1  did  not 
that  one." 
The  reverend  gentleman  then  held  farther  conversation  with  the  brave 
little  fellow,  and  promised  to  see  him  again. 

He  tells  us  that   he  could  not  help  contrasting  th  heroic,  but 

ravery,  with  that  of  so  many  who  are  seeking  to  obtain  substil 
in  this  the  day  and  hour  of  our  necessitous  straggle. 

If  — more   children — arc  willing  to  bare  their  bosoms  to  the 

murderous  and   vindictive  enemy,  should  not  the  cheek  of  the  recn 
redd  .■line,  and  that  of  the  patriotic   men  who   have  bou 

ward  to  re-enlistment  for  the  war  glow  with   honest  pride,  as  they  see  such 
>  and  dare   in    the  hour  of  peril    and  thai 

.•  ivc  from  her  bosom  patriotic  nourishment,  on  which  trail 
and  recn  ants  would  have  sickened  and  died  in  their  infancy. 

A   1  '  STBD    7!Y    LA 

A  1  of 'the  Macon  relates  the  following  inoideat  : 

ing  of  the  1st  of  1  rumored    that   Uu 

in    Irwin  county,  about  ten  miles  from  the  ' 

tiim.     What  are  we  to  the 

moment   I 
They  mad.  tin  ir  mod 
dicr  who 

x.       An 

"|u'i  ssly 

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him  :  <ke  a  seat 


228  GLEANINGS    FROM 

and  prayed,  but  all  to  no  purpose ;  to  town  they  carried  him  and  put  him 
in  jail,  instructing  the  jailor  to  keep  him  until  called  for  by  the  enrolling 
officer. 

BACKING    A    YANKEE. 

The  Saulsbury  (N.  C)  Watchman,  tells  the  following,  which  demonstrates 
that  all  ingenuity  is  not  of  Yankee  origin,  and  "  Hardee's  Tactics"  not  com- 
plete in  military  ord 

Captain  Osborne,  of  Iredell,  North  Carolina,  was  wounded  in  the  battle 
of  the  31st  of  May,  near  Richmoud,  while  leading  his  company  in  a 
charge  on  the  enemy's  batteries.  His  wound  disabl#d  him,  and  he  fell 
upon  the  field,  where  he  remained  for  some  time.  Fearing  the.  enemy 
might  bayonet  him,  he  drew  his  revolver  and  kept  a  sharp  look-out  as  the 
fight  progressed.  After  a  while  he  saw  a  strong  athletic  man  coming 
toward  the  place  he  was  lying,  and  discovered  him  to  be  a  Yankee,  lie 
coolly  awaited  his  approach.  As  soon  as  he  came  within  certain  range  of 
his  pistol,  the  captain  hailed  him  and  ordered  him  to  surrender.  The 
Yankee  took  a  momentary  glance,  and  seeing  the  captain's  pistol  was  bear- 
ing upon  him  with  a  steady  and  deadly  aim,  he  instantly  dropped  his  rifle. 
"Throw  away  your  knife,"  said  the  captain.  It  was  done.  "Now  back 
yourself  up  to  me,"  was  the  next  command.  "Squat  down  so  that  I  can 
get  upon  .  your  back."  The  Yankee  was  eompliant;  and  the  captain,  with 
his  pistol  still  bearing  upon  the  trembling  prisoner,  crawled  upon  him,  and 
ordered  him  to  march  into  the  Confederate  camp.  The  rider  and  the 
ridden  safely  arrived  at  the   captain's   headquarters. 

NEGRO   PATRIOTISM. 

A  gentleman  visiting  his  plantation  on  Edisto  Island,  asked  his  colored 
overseer:  "George,  what  do  you  intend  to  do  when  the  Yankees  come?" 
and  was  answered:  "Massa  William,  we  have  burried  de  Cotton,  and  when 
de  Yankees'  come,  bress  God!  we  burn  de  buildings."  Such  a  people  may 
be  driven  from  their  homes  and  their  lands  devastated,  but  to  subjugate 
them  is  an  impossibility. 

A    .TEST   FOR   THE    TIMES. 

The  war  has  not  subdued  all  the  spirit  of  fun  yet.  The  Knoxville 
(Tennessee)  Register  tells  a  joke  connected  with  the  present  requisition 
for  conscripts,  as  follows  : 

Some  days  ago  Major  Ruckcr  was  in  conversation  with  a  fair,  fat,  and 
forty  buxom  widow  of  an  adjoining  county,  when,  by  accident,  she  men- 
tioned the  age  of  one  of  her  admirers,  stating  that  he  was  not  quite  thirty- 


AN   ARMY    NOTE  BOOK.  220 

nine.  The  major  made  a  menial  note  of  the  fact  and  soon  departeds  He 
went  straightway  in  pursuit  of  this  juvenile  admirer  of  the  attractive 
widow,  whom  he  had  before  learned,  was  a  little  more  than  forty  years  of 
age.  When  he  arrested  Mr.  Johnson,  Rucker  told  him  that  life  regretted 
to  inform  him,  that  he  was  under  the  painful  necessity  of  conscripting  him. 
"  I  have  learned,"  said  Rucker,  "  from  widow that  you  are  only  thirty- 
nine.  She  says  that  you  told  her  so,  and  I  feel  it  my  -duty  to  take  you 
down  to  Colonel  Blake." 

"Oh  !  ah  !  yes,"  said  Mr.  Johnson,  "  in  fact  sir,  to  tell  you  the  truth,  sir, 

I  did  lie   just  a  little  to  widow  .     1  wanted — yes,    I  wanted  to  get 

married — you  understand,  don't  you,  major?" 

"  I  don't  understand  anything  about  it,"  said  Eucker,  "  you  must  go 
with  me." 

Mr.  Johnson's  knees  smote  one  another,  and  in  tremulous  accents  he 
besought  Major  Rucker  to  permit  him  to  send  for  the  old  family  Bible. 
This  was  agreed  to.  In  the  meantime  Rucker  and  his  new  levy  proceeded 
to  Colonel  Blake's  headquarters.  By  the  time  they  reached  Knoxville, 
Rucker  became  satisfied  that  his  follower  was  not  less  than  three  score 
years  and  ten.  The  widower's  hair  dye  was  washed  away,  his  false  teeth 
had  been  removed,  his  form  was  bent  by  the  immense  pressure  of  mental 
anxiety. 

Colonel  Blake  wished  to  know  why  this  antediluvian  lrad  been  brought 
•to  him;  but  so  complete  bad  been  the-mctamorphis  of  the  gay  widower, 
that  even  Rucker  blushed  when  he  looked  upon  him. 

The  family  Bible  came,  and  there  it  was,  written  in  the  faded  scrawl  of 
Mr.  Johnson's  grandmother : 

"Silus  Johrrsing,  born  in  Bunkuta  Nawth  Caliny,  Anny  Dominny  1783.." 

S    THE    BATTES-FIBLD. 

A  correspondent  of  the  Richmond  Sentinel  writes: 
The  12th  of  May,  1864,  will  be  ever  memorable  and  ever  remembered, 
as  the  day  of  one  of  the  most  bloody  and  which  have 

ever  marl  war,  or  added  fresh  horrors  .to  this  most  cruel 

com 

Before  daylight  we  were  moved  up  to  the  supp<  rl  of  Haves' and  Stafford's 
Brigades  in  the  works,  and  ige  of  mornii 

the  darkness  of  a  damp  and  dri;  .  when,  after  the  three 

bichweknewtobe  the  pi  a  charge,  and  a  bi 

md  niortill  thai 

direction  pouring  out  of  the  works  it 
had  th<  re  broken  ■  trated  mas 


GLEANINGS   FROM 

through  tlic  gap,  and  moving  on  the  flank  with  great  celerity,  were  swiftly 
driving  all  before  them  in  panic  and  confusion. 

Instantly  Pcgram's  and  Gordon's  Brigades  were  formed  a  few  hundred 
yards  to  the  rear  of,  and  at  right  angles  to,  the  line  of  work's.  All  saw 
that  a  crisis  was  -upon  us.  If  we  failed,  the  consequence  would  be  disastrous 
in  the  extreme. 

In  this  exigency  General  Lee  rode  forward  in  front  of  our  line,  his 
position  being  opposite  at  the  time  to  the  colors  of  the  Forty-ninth  Regi- 
ment, of  Pcgram's  Brigade,  and  only  a  few  yards  from  where  your  corres- 
pondent stood.  Not  a  word  did  he  say,  but  simply  took  off  his  hat,  and  as 
he  sat  on  his  charger,  I  never  saw  a  man  look  so  noble,  or  a  spectacle  so 
impressive.  • 

At  this  interesting  moment  our  gallant  Gordon,  spurrin  g  his  foaming 
charter  to  the  front,  seized  the  reins  of  General  Lee's  horse,  and  turning 
him  around,  said,  "  General,  these  are  Virginians  !  These  men  have  never 
failed  !  They  never  will !  Will  you,  boys  V  Loud  cries  of  "  No  !"  V  no !" 
"  General  Lee,  to  the  rear."  "  Go  back  !"  "  General  Lee  to  the  rear  !" 
burst  from  along  the  lines ;  and  as  one  led  the  general's  horse  to  the  rear, 
General  Gordon  gave  the  command,  "Forward,  charge!"  And  with  a 
shout  and  yell  the  brigades  dashed  on,  through  bog  and  swamp,  and  briars 
and  undergrowth,  to  the  breastworks.  The  enemy  struck  with  dismay  start 
to  flee,  but  we  are  upon  them  like  a  storm,  and  their  first  line  of  battle 
withers  before  our  impetuous  onset  and  the  cool  marksmanship  of  our  men. 
"  Hurrah  !  the  works  are  ours,!"  But  we  stop  not.  Some  of  the  enemy, 
more  obstinate  thttn  the  rest,  show  fight  with  bayonets, *but  it  is  soon  over  ; 
and  dashing  over  the  first  line  we  pursue  to  the  second.  Here  we  encounter 
'  another  Yankee  line  of  battle,  but  our  onset  is  not  stayed.  They  stand 
their  ground  until  our  scattered  but  still  advancing  line,  gets  within  ten 
steps,  and  then,  without  having  fired,  turned  to  run.  Few,  however,  escape, 
and  ordering  those  who  remain  to  surrender  and  go  to'the  rear,  a  portion  of 
the  brigade,  the  Sixty-first  and  Forty-ninth  Virginia  Regiments,  dash  on 
and  form  our  line  more  than  one  hundred  yards  in  advance  of  our  outside 
entrenchments. 

SCENES   AT   A   FLAG   OF   TRUCE. 

"  Key,"  a  correspondent  of  the  Richmond  Diqpatek,  writing  from  the 
trenches,  near  Petersburg,  gives  the  following  amusing  account : 

On  Monday  a  truce  was  granted  the  Yankees  for  the  purpose  of  burying 

their  dead,  who  were  lying  just  in  front  of  our  works  in  heaps;  and  already 

'  the  fumes  from  their  black  and  swollen  corpses  were  rendering  our  position 

almost   "untenable,"  more  so  by  far  than  aould  their  artillery  and  Minic 

muskets.     Accordingly  o.\  4  A.  M.;  firing  along  the  lines  was  suspended, 


AN   ARMY   NOTE-BOOK.  ,  231 

and  operations  begun.  Curiosity  caused  the  men  on  both  sides  to  cluster 
•  n  tlieir  respective  sides  of  the  flag,  and  officers  ami  men  who  had  so  long 
oftposcd  each  other  at  more  respectful  distances,  were  brought  face  to  faco 
and  side  by  side  in' front  of  the  yawning  chasm,  which  hud  proved  fatal  to  a 
few  of  our  noble  boys.  This  crater  now  is  the  resting-place  of  a  large 
number  of  Yankees — blacks  and  whites — and  is,  to  all  appearances,  nearly 
as  before  the  explosion,  having  been  filled  up  and  levelled.  The  Yankees 
who  were  killed  within  our  lines,  or  rather  to  the  rear  of  our  lines,  are  buried 
together  in  a  ravine,  and  their  graves  occupy  a  very  considerable  space  of 
ground.  Their  total  number  of  killed,  black  and  white,  will  foot  up  be- 
tween seven  hundred  and  eight  hundred.  After  carefully  examining  with 
a  sick  heart  this  upheaved  funeral  pyre  of  our  brave  boys,  I  crossed  to  the 
front,  and  though  1  have  seen  many  of  our  battle-fields,  never  did  I  witness 
such  a  horrible  sickening  Bight.  From  the  top  of  our  works,  for  a  veny 
considerable  distance,  lay  the  swollen,  black  and  putrid,  masses  of  who  were 
but  a  few  hours  before  Union-  soldiers.  In  many  places  the  bodies  were 
lying  across  each  other,  uegro»and  white  barely  distinguishable  save  by 
their  uniforms  and  hair.  In  one  place  I  noticed  the  unmistakable  wool 
attached  to  one  rotting  corpse  resting  across  .another  wearing  a  captain's 
uniform,  who  had  owned  a  large  sandy  beard.  The  flag,  as  is.  the  custom, 
planted  midway  between  the  opposing  lines,  and  officers  of  all  grades, 
and  men,  walked  ffeely  about  on  their  respective  sides;  and  we  were  glad 
to  see  that  many  of  our  officers  refused  to  encourage  that  impudent  commu- 
nicative trait  which  the  Yankees  endeavored  as  usual  to  display.  I  noticed 
particularly  one  Yankee  major  who  exerted  himself  especially  to  become 
most  familiar  with  an  artillery  major  of  our  army.  Byway  of  initiating 
himself  into  the  good  graces  of  our  rebel  major,  and  provingihat  he  wi 
to  be  most  friendly,  the  Yankee  drew  froni  under  his  coat  a  bottle  marked 
nac,"  at  the  same  time  tapping  his  new  acquaintance  familiarly  on  the 
shoulder,,  when  the  following  dialogue  ensued  :  t 

Yankee  M"j>>r. — "  T  say,  major,  here  is  something  'extray ;'    I  guess  we 
can  take  a  friendly  nip.'' 

Rt  bel  Ma   >r. — "  1  am  obliged  to  you,  sir,  but  I  can  not  take  a  friendly 
nip  with  you." 

Yankee. — "Oh,  pshaw,  major,  |   a  -urc  you 

its  prinx;  good.1' 

Rebel. — "  1  do  QOl  doubt  it  in  I  but  I  do  not  Wish  to  drink  with 

you,  sir." 

.,.  now,  maj-r.  I  gttdSfl  if  you  and  me  had  tl 
of  this  war,  we  ooul  ind  have  the  thing  all  right,  with  the 

dice." 


232  GLEANINGS   FROM 

RehcJ. — "I  should  not  be  satisfied,  sir,  to  rest  the  fate  of  thc.Confederacy 
upon  the  chance  of  the  dice.  I  prefer  the  mode  of  settlement  you  have 
seen  fit  to  adopt — that  of  fighting  it  out." 

Yankee. — "I  guess,  major,  you  fellows  went  en  the  principle  of  not 
shooting  a  white  man  when  you  could  kill  a  'nigger,'  hey  !" 

Rebel. — "You  are  much  mistaken — we  all  must  try  when  we  get  the 
blacks  and  whites  together 'to  kill  the  whites  and  catch  the  negroes." 

Yankee — "  Well,  now,  I  hold  that  a  white  man  is  better  than  a  nigger." 

Rebel. — "  So  do  we,  sir;  but  it  depends  altogether  upon  who  this  u-1i!t<: 
man  is.     Though  it  seems  that  you  regard  them  all  alike." 

Yankee. — (Changing  the  subject) — "  Major,  I  guess  some  of  your  friends 
would  like  a  '  nip  ;'  won't  you  ask  them  up." 

Rebel. — "  Thank  you,  major,  if  I  see  any  one  hunting  for  liquor,  I'll 
send  him  up,"  and  touching  his  cap  respectfully,  our  rebel  mixed  in  with 
the  crowd.  I  noticed  a  regular  speciineu  of  a  New  York  upstart  striding 
about  over  the  fields  with  a  stage  stride,  hands  rammed  down  in  the  pockets 
of  his  loose  sack.  His  uniform  denoted  the'  surgeon.  Stepping  to  a  coarse- 
looking  major  in  blue,  he  balled  out,  "  Ah,  P.elcher,  my  boy,  how  cL'ye  do  V 
His  manner  was  so  New  Yorky  and  disgusting,  that  I  did  not  think  it  at  all 
probable  anything  good  could  emanate  from  his  brainless  skull ;  so  I  moved 
up.  Near  the  flag  stood  a  particularly  interesting  group,  evidently  "  done 
up"  for  inspection.  I  asked  who  these  animals  were,  and  ascertained  that 
the  one  on  the  left,  a  little,  stiff,  dried,  up  man,  in  a  large  blue  sack,  with 
straggling  hair,  about  the  color  of  a  rotten  rope,  and  eyes  about  the  color 
of  a  spoilt  oyster,  was  General  White,  the  same  who  surrendered  Harper's 
Ferry  to  us  on  a  certain  occasion — .so  the  Yankees  told  me.  To  his  right, 
stood  looking  as  though  it  was  the  occasion  of  one  of  his  famous  matinee 
entertainments,  the  former  dancing  master,  now  General  Ferrero.  His 
fondness  for  dress  has  not  forsaken  him,  for  he  looked  as  nice  as  a  frizzly 
headed  Bowery  boy.  The  time  is  not  far  distant,  I  hope,  when  he  may  be 
called  upon  to  "trip  it  on  the  light  fantastic  toe"  to  the  rear,  to  the  music 
of  our  guns. 

Next  to  him  stood  a  tall,  lean,  cadaverous  man,  who  resembled  an  ostenta- 
tious tombstone,  set  up  by  some  afflicted  wife  six  weeks  before  her  second 
marriage,  in  memory  of  her  departed  first.  He  wore*  his  whiskers  "  a  la 
militaire,"  out  close,  as  was  his  hair.  His  eyes  were  of  that  peculiar  color 
which  it  is  impossible  to  describe.  But  I  once  saw  a  valuable  dog  which 
was  being  practiced  on  by  an  optician  for  a  disease  called  the  "  hooks." 
His  eyes  closely  resembled  those  of  this  General  Pottcr.#  They  were  truly 
the  meanest,  most  sneaking  eyes  I  have  ever  seen ;  and  a  mouth  which 
resembled  an  opening  to  a  sepulchre,  were  the  only  features  worthy  of  note. 


AN    ARMY    NOTEBOOK.  233 

How  proud  it  made  rue  Tool  to  turn  ray  head  towards  our  works,  on  the 
frank,  open  countenances  of  our  own  Hills,  Johnson,  Mahone,  and  Saunders, 
so  plaiuly  dressed,  that  it  would  have  been  impossible  to  have  recognized 
them  but  ior  their  bearings. 

GENERAL   LEE's    BILL    OF    PARE. 

In  General  Lee's  tent  meat  is  eaten  but  twice  a  week,  the  general  not 
allowing  it  oftener,  because  he  believes  indulgence  in  meat  to  be  criminal  in 
the  present  straitened  condition  of  the  country.  His  ordinary  dinner  con- 
tests of  a  head  of  cabbage  boiled  in  salt  water,  and  a  piece  of  corn  br 
In  this  connection,  rather  a  comic  story  is  told.  Having  invited  a  number 
of  gentlemen  to  dine  with  him,  General  Lee,  in  a  fit  of  extravagance, 
ordered  a  sumptuous  repast  of  cabbage  and  middling.  The  dinner  was 
served,  and  behold,  a  great  pile  of  cabbage  and  a  bit  of  middling. about 
four  inches  long  and  two  inches  across.  The  guests,  with  commendable 
politeness,  unanimously  declined  middling,  and  it  remained  in  the  dish  un- 
touched. Next  day,  General  Lee  remembering  the  delicate  tidbit  which 
had  been  so  providentially  preserved,  ordered  his  servant  to  bring  "  that 
middling."     The  man  hesitated,  scratched  his  head,  and  finally  owned  up. 

fac  is,  Masse  Robert,  dat  ar  middlin'  was  horrid  middlin' ;  we. all  didn't, 
hab  nary  spec;  and  I  done  paid  it  back   to   dc  man  whar  J  got  it,  from." 

ral  Lee  heaved  a  sigh  of  deepest  disappointment,  and   pitched  into  Ins 

A   REBVL   LIEUTENANT    AND    HIS    BROTHER, 

The  following  sketch,  of  an  incident  of  the  field  of  Gettysburg,  is  from 
the  Harper's  Weekly,  of  January  30th,  186 

Late  one  afternoon,  too  late  for  the  cars,/i  train  of  ambulances  arrived  at 
the  Ledge  of  the  Commission  with  over  one  hundred  wounded  rebels  to  bo 

I  for  during  the  night.  Many  of  them  were  but  slightly  injured,  but 
of  the  number,  a  lieutenant,  was  so  weak  and  faint  that  it  seemed  Impossible 
to  do  anything  to  restore  him.  In  appearance  he  seemed  a  mere  boy,  with  a 
clear  innocent  face,  bright  blue  c\c^,  and  hair  that  any  New  England  girl 
•  worn  with  pride1.  One  of  the  nurses  I  k  him  in  charge;  but 
he  wanted  nothing;  he  had  not  been  willing  U)  eat  for  days, 
said.  Finally,  however,  he  was  induced  to  take  a  little  gruel,  which  he 
keenly  relished;  so  much  so,  that  for  hours  afterward  he  talked  of  his 
r,"  thanking  1  For  their 

kind.  it    all   the   while  h<  r,  and    at    tnidnigb 

i  imc;    and  from  thai  time  he  thoi  nlyoi  the 

before   he  wa 
ang  tin  m  now  a  .-iii.  in 

ll  in  it.     "  Lord,   i 


234  GLEANINGS  .FROM 

then;  then  song?  without  word? — a  sort  of  low  intoning — rippled  from  his 
pale  lips.     His  father  was  a  Lutheran  Clergyman  in   South  Carolina,  and 

the  lessons  of  his  child!  ood  were  floating  hack  upon  him  in  the  dark  hours 
thv<  oeh  which  lie  was  going  down  into  a  deeper  shadow. 

All  the  dav  following  the  nurses  watched  him,  sometimes  fighting  his 
hattlcs  over,  often  singing  his  Lutheran  chants,  till  suddenly,  at  the  tent 
door,  close -to  which  he  lay,  appeared  a  rehel  soldier,*  just  arrived  with 
other  prisoners.  He  started  when  he  saw  the  lieutenant,  and,  hurriedly 
kneeling  by  him,  called  him  by  name ;  but  the  ears  were  deaf  then  to  the  call 
of  love.  Then,  rising,  he  told  the  attendants  that  the  lieutenant's  brother 
was  wounded  and  a  prisoner  not  far  away;  upon  which  some  of  the  party 
started  after  him,  returning  not  long  after,  carrying  him  in  their  arms.  But 
he  too  was  a  stranger  to  Henry— r for  so  the  lieutenant  was  called;  and  the 
comer  lay  down  at  his  side  on  the  straw,  and  there  remained  for  the  rest  of 
the  day,  the  little  group  gathered  around  watching  and  listening  to  the 
strong,  clear  voice  singing,  "Lord,  have  mercy  on  me!"  The.  Lord, 
looking  down,  hud  mercy.  The  day  had  faded  and  the  night  came  on; 'but 
with  the  sunset  the  troubled  heart  grew  still,  and  the  stars,  opening  their 
soft  eyes,  saw  only  a  pale  face  with  the  death  dews  on  it  in  the  midst  of  the 
group;  A  rude  coffin  was  obtained,  and  the  body  placed  in  it ;  but  all 
night  long  the  .wounded  brother  lay  close  against  it,  as  if  unwilling  to  be 
separated  even  from  the  ashes  of  him  whose  feet  had  pattered  right  beside 
his  own  all  the  way  up  from  childhood  to  the  borders  of  that  river  which 
all  must  cross  some  solemn  day.  Eut  in  the  morning  duty  called — the 
prisoners  must  march  ;  and  with  tears  on  his  face,  the  bereaved  one  went 
away  with  his  comrades,  leaving  Henry  to  be  buried  by  those  who  had  so 
tenderly  cared  for  him  while  living  ;  first,  however,  thanking  them  all  for 
what  they  had  done,  and  giving  them  all  he  had,  to  show  his  gratitude, 
namely,  a  palmetto  ornament  from  the  dead  brother's  cap  and  a  button  from 
his  coat.  That  same  morning  Henry  was  laid  away  to  his  long  sleep,  a 
surgeon  of  the  commission  reading.the  burial  service,  and  a  delegate  writing 
his  name  on  the  little  head-board  of  his  narrow  bed  :  "  Lieutenant  Rauch, 
Fourteenth  Regiment,  South  Carolina  Volunteers." 

CHARLEY   MILLER — THE   YOUNG   WARRIOR. 

The  subject  oi'#this  sketch  i3  a  boy  not  fifteen  years  of  age,  a  native* of 
Louisville,  Kentucky,  small  in  stature  for  his  age,  slight  and  delicate  in 
appearance,  gentle,  unassuming  in  manners,  modest — we  might  say,  timid 
as  a  young  girl — and  with  all,  one  of  the  most  gallant  soldiers  in  the  army. 

"Without  the  consent  of  his  parents,  he  left  a  home  of  luxury  on  the 
opening  of  the  war  and  joined  General  Morgan's  command.  While  on  a 
raid   into  Kentucky,  he  was  thrown  from  his  horse,  and  being  severely 


AN   ARMY    SOTE-BOOK.  ■  Z35 

injured  was  loft  ia  the  enemy'-  lin  ,:.  ">'•  h  sn  able  he  returned  to  li I s  h 
in  Louisville  and  there  remained  until  fully  recovered.  His  parents  used 
every  effort  to  dissuade  hira  from  his  purpose  of  returning  to  the  army,  but 
of  no  avail.  General  Bragg  had* commenced  liis  retreat  from  Kentucky. 
Our  hero  mounted  his  horse  at  dead  of  night,  and  without,  bidding  adieu, 
took  up  his  course  for  our  lines, 'which  he  entered  at  1!  irdstown.  He  im 
diately  joined  the  Fourth  Tennessee  Regiment.  His  gentle,  unassuming 
manners  soon  foun  1  their  way  to  the  heart  of  hi 

his  mess,  and  would  hive  relieved  him  of  many  of  the  hardships  incidental 
to  the  cavalry  service.     But  this  would  not  do  for  Charley^      1 1  -  iys 

at  his  post,  always  ready  for  his  share  of  duly,  and  ever  the  first 

.  ilunteer  for  any  dangerous  or  desperate  enterprise.      During  Brae 
retreat,  WTiarton's  Brigade,  of  which  his  regiment  was  a  part,  covered 
rear  of  the  army,  and  never  had  cavalry  such  arduous  duty  to  perform.     In 
the  daily  encounters  with  the  enemy,  Charley  was  always  on  hand,  and 
gained  the   encomiums  of  all.      After   General   Bragg  had  taken   up  his 
position  at  Murfrcesboro,  General  Wharton,- while  picketing  in  the  fi 
being  desirous  of  forming  a  scout  company,  called  for  details  from  his  com- 
mand of  a  select  number  of  tried,,  brave,  and  skillful  men — .: 
the  ;  licr  volunteered  and  was  selected.     This  life  seemed  to  please 

him.     Ever  on  the  alert,  hovering aroun  1  the  enemy 

lessee  and  Kentucky,  capturing  couriers,  cutting  off  pickets,  etc.  I 
quently  being  the  hearer  of  reports  to  Wharton,  he  at  last  attracted  i 
general's  and  was  taken  On  his  s  a   naontln  hi 

been  the   bed-fellow  and  mess-mate  of  his  general.     During  that   time  he 
has  always  been  on  duty  and  has  d<>:;     hi     p     ;        ilantly  and  nobly.      In 
he  always  seen  rid  there,  wnerevcr  bullets  are 

thickest.     At  the  sound  of  the  bugle,  the  dull  !h 

the  war  chill,  "  the  little  G 
Yankee  has  fallen  by  his  hand. 

During  "Wheeler's  last  raid  through  Middle  Tennessee,  (Jha 
of  the  fir  iville,  which,  after  a  slight  ski'm 

rendered  with  its  ■ 
line  of  pri  ■  tod  with  in  front,  a 

|  ed  from  the  ranks  and  j  him  with 

>r.  f 

This  boy,  foi 
<if  men,  a41  manner  of  vice  and  |  the  wril 

•  cly 
venture  tl 

ie  of  chan 

and 


.236  GLEANINGS    FROM  / 

seldom  speaks  unless  addressed.  ITe  lias  nevertheless  a  good  education, 
and  is  .possessed  of  a  fine  intellect.  A  strong  mental  attachment  exists 
cen  General  Wharton  and  Charley.  The  boy  is  now,  1863,  en-route  to 
the  Trans-Mississippi  Department  with  that  general.  They  would  not  be 
separated.  *  '  Z. 

A   LADY   IN   THE   YANKEE   LINES. 

A  Indy  writing  from  Cleaveland,  Tennessee,  to  the  Atlanta  Register,  thus 
speaks  of  the  treatment  of  he?  sex  in  the  Yankee  lines  : 

We  think  the  gifted  pen  of  Sir  Walter  Scott  would  fail  to  portray  the 
proceedings  of  these  vandal  hordes.  Allow  me,  sister  Georgiana,  to  tell  you 
that  you  will  never  know  what  constitutes  the  Yankee  army,  until  you  see 
the  path  of  desolation  and  destruction  carved  by  their  ruthless  hands,  and 
feel  the  wants  of  the  comforts  of  life,  even  the  essential  necessaries  of  life, 
deprived  of  your  wardrobes  and  reduced  to  half  rations.  I  have  seen  and 
felt  the  want  of  all.  I  have  seen  six  or  eight  Yankees  enter  the  house, 
demand  the  keys,  and  before  they  could  be  produced  burst  the  door  (of  a 
locked  room)  down,  search  every  trunk,  drawer  and  box,  and  if  you  inquire 
what  they  are  in  quest  of,  they  tell  you  contraband  property,  and  continue 
to  search  every  little  nook  about  the  room.  On  one  occasion  an  officer  was 
engaged  in  this  daring  bravery,  when  he  seized  a  box  four  inches  Equare, 
containing  a  set  of  jewelry.  A  young  lady  standing  by,  looking  on  in  disgust, 
gently  touched  the  arm  of  the  miscreant  officer,  saying,  "Captain,  do  you 
think  that  little  box  contains-a  cavalry  horso  or  saddle  ?"  His  reply  was 
no!  and  he  dropped  the  jewels,  and  retired  from  the  room  ashamed  of  his 
cowardice,  in  stooping  to  such  a  petty  action.  I  might  relate  many  such 
trying  incidents,  but  I  will  desist,  at  least  for  the  present. 

A   NIGHT   IN   CHARLESTON. 

We  find  in  the  Corith.Ul  ULtgazine  the  following  graphic  account  of  a 
night  in  Charleston,  at  the  time  when  the  bombardment  was  still  a  novelty 
to  our  people  : 

On  the  21st  August,  at  half-past  2  A.  M.,  I  was  lying  on  my  bed  in  the 
Charleston  Hotel,  unable  to  sleep  from  the  excessive  heat,  and  listening  to 
the  monotonous  sound  of  the  cannunade  kept  up  on  the  enemy's  position 
from  the  batteries  on  James'  Island.  Restless  and  weary  of  the  night,  I 
had  lighted  a  candle  in  defiance  of  the  musquitoes,  and  sought  to  pass  away 
the  time  with  a  volume  of  "  Les  Miscrables."  It  happened  to  be  the  one 
containing  the  accouut  of  the  battle  of  Waterloo,  and  while  deeply  inter- 
ested in  the  description  of  the  rushing  squadrons  of  cuirassiers,  I  was 
startled  by  a  noise  that,  from  connection  with  my  reading,  resembled  the 
whirl  of  a  phantom  brigade  of  cavalry,  galloping  in  mid  air. 


AN   ARMY   NOTE-BOOK.  237 

My  first  feeling  was  flint  of  utter  astonishment.;  but  a  crash,  succcdedby 
a  deafening  explosion  in  the  very  street  on  which  my  apartment  was  situate,' 
brought  nic  with  a  bound  into  the  centre  of  the  room.  Looking  from  the 
window,  I  saw  fire  and  smoke* issuing  from  a  house  in  which  were  stowed 
the  drugs  of  the  Medical  Purveyor.  A  watchman  was  running  frantically 
down  the  street,  and,  when  he  reached  the  corner  just  below  me,  commenced 
striking  with  his  statf  against  the  curb — a  signal  of  alarm  practiced  anions 
the  Charleston  police.  At  first  I  thought  a  meteor  had  fallen;  but  another 
awful  rush  and  whirl  right  over  the  hotel,  and  another  explosion  beyond, 
settled  any  doubts  I  might  have  had — the  city  was  being  shelled.  People 
arc  not  given  to  laughing  under  such  circumstances,  but  I  will  defy  any  one 
who  witnessed  what  1  witnessed  on  leaving  my  room,  not  to  have  given  way 
to  mirth  in  moderation. 

The  hotel  was  crowded  with  spectators,  who  had  been  attracted  to  the 
city  by  the  sale  of  some  blockade  cargoes,  and  the  corridors  were  filled  with 
these  terrified  gentlemen,  running  about  in  the  scantiest  costumes  and  in 
the  wildest  alarm  One  perspiring  individual,  of  portly  dimensions,  was 
trotting  to  and  fro,  with  one  boot  on  and  the  other  in  his  hand,  and  this. 
was  nearly  all  the  dress  he  had  to  boast  of. 

In  his  excitement  and  terror  he  had  forgotten  the  number  of  his  room 
from  which  he  had  hastened  at  the  first  alarm,  and  his  distress  was  ludicrous 
hold.  Another,  in  a  seini-state  of  nudity,  with  a  portion  of  his  gar- 
ments on  his  arm,  barked  the  shins  oi  ^rery  one  in  his  way  to  drag  an 
uious  trunk  to  the  staircase.  On  reaching. the  hall  I  found  a  moth- 
crowd,  some  of  whom  with  the  biggest  words,  were  cursing  the  Federal 
commanders.  Whirr!  came  another  shell  over  the  roof,  and  down  on  their 
faces  went  every  man  of  them,  into  tobacco  juice  and  sc_-ir  end-,  and 
clattering  among  the  spittoons.     1  need  n  -lass  of  tu 

from   whom    the  Confederacy  hopes  nothing;    on  the  cmfrary,  by    t!' 
..  practiced  on  suffering  have  made  th 

d.     If  a  shell  could  have  fallen  in  their  midsl   and  exterminated  the 
whole  race  of  hucl.  would  have  been  of  great  benefit  to  rath, 

population  was  now  aroused,  the  streets  filled  with  womVn  and  children 
making  fur  the  upper' part  of  the  city,  where  tl  I    find-  0OH 

.    Tin'  voluni  hi  out  their  engines,  ami  pari 

of  the  citizen  l  zed  rapidly  and  qui  in  real:: 

to  ^i-.  e  where  reqm 

']'!:■  that  reach  •  ,  nc 

;  ,  and  at  it  tie 
lions  shoi  n  the 

;  quaint  ii 

I 


GLEAM  NOS   FROM 

down  to  the  battery  promenade,  meeting  <'ii,my  way  sick  and   bedridden 

le,  carried  from  their  homes  on  mattresses,  and  mothers  with  infants  in 

their  arms,  running  they  knew  not  whither*     Reaching  the  promenade,   T 

towards  the  Federal  position,  and  presently,  beyond  James' 

ad,  across  the  marsh  that  separate.-  it  from  Morris'  Island,  came  a  flash, 

then  a  dull  report,  and  after  an  interval  of  a  >me  seconds  a  frightful  rushing 

sound  above  me  told  the  path  that  the  shell  had  taken.     Its  flight  mast  have 

been  five  miles. 

A   GENERAL   "  SOLD." 

There  are  a  great  many  amusing  things  occurring  in  camp  daily  which  ar"c 
lost  for. the  want  id'  some  one  to  take  them  down.     General   Fitz  Lee  c 
ing  a  soldier  whom  he   found  drunk,  with  one  boot  off,  no  hat,  and  half  a 
jacket,  he  asked  him  whose  command  aged  to. 

Soldier. — ■"  (Hie) — Hope's  brigade,  (hie)  by  golly." 

"What  Hope  is  that,"  said  the  general. 

Soldier. — "  (Hie),  Hope  (hie),  this  durncd  war  will  play  out  (hie)." 

The  general  went  along  a  little  farther,  and  met  another  with  a  major's 
uniform  on.  lie  asked  him  what  command  he  belonged  to,  the  soldier  said, 
the  Sixth  Virginia  Cavalry. 

General. — "  You're  not  a  major?" 

Soldier,—*1  No,  sir." 

Gfeneral. — "  Arc  you  a  commissioned  officer  ?" 
ii  r.—«  No,  sir." 

General. — "Are  you  a  sergeant?" 

Soldier.— "No;  sir." 

ral. — "  Are  you  a  private?" 

Soldier.—"  No  sir." 

'<     leral — (Very  wrothly.)     "  What  the  devil  are  you  then  ?" 

Soldier. — "I'm  a  conscript,  sir,"  drawling  his  words  out  as  bespoke. 

The  general  soon  left  town. 

DECIDEDLY   COOL. 

When  Wright's  Georgia  Regiment  was  drawn  up  in  line  of  battle  to  go 
into  its  first  fight  in  North  Carolina,  Wright,  in  passing  in  front  of  his 
Hegimeut,  observed  a  tall,  giant  fellow,  with  a  violin  case  strapped  to  his 
back.  Wright  asked  him  "what  he  was  going  to  do  with  his  fiddle?" 
The  rude  soldier  had  never  heard  of  Mirabeau's  dying  exclamation,  but  he 
almost  quoted  it,  when  he  said  he  wanted  to  "  die  to  the  sound  of  Betsy," 
this  being  the  term  of  endearment  which  he  applied  to  his  violin." 

Alter  the  fight  wad  over,  the  fiddling  soldier  did  not  answer  at  roll-call. 
He  was  found  with  a  broken  leg  at  the  foot  of  a  tree,  to  which  he  had 
crawled,  quietly  sawing  the  strings  of  "Betsy." 


AN    Alt  MY   NOTE-BOOK.  L'.']9 


AN    INCIDENT    OF   GENERAL    LONGSTREET. 

During  tlic  Mexican  campaign,  Dientenant-General  Longstreet  was  in 
command  of  a  company  oi  regulars,  and  whil<  i  Dgaged  in  one  of  the  battles 
which  marked  that  Btruggle,  observed  a  Mexican  taking  deliberate  aim  at 
him  from  behind  the  corner  of  a  house.  The  ball  whistled  by  without 
injury.  Longstreet  himself  had  a  musket,  and  on  the  re-appearance  of  the 
Mexican,  both  fired  almost  simultaneously,  and  without  effect.  The  "moral* 
now  recalled  to  mind  a  recommendation  of  his  uncle,  Judge  Longdtreet  the 
author  of  the  famous  "Georgia  Scenes,"  which  was,  "  Use  buckshot  in' 
close  quarters;''  and  taking  from  his  cartridge-hox  a  bullet,  he  deliberately 
seated  himself  on  the  ground,  and,  with  the  aid  of  a  rock  and  his  pocket 
knife,  cut  the  ball  into  slugs  and  re-loaded.  The  Mexican  made  his  third 
appearance.  The  cool  officer  drew  sight,  fired,  and  the  Mexican  fell.  We 
do  not  remember  to  have  seen  this  incident  in  print,  but  it  is  so  character- 
istic of  that  gallant  lieutenant-general,  who  has  occupied  a  prominent  place 
in  the  affections  of  our  people  during  the  present  war,  that  we  commit  the 
waif  to  the  broad  sea  of  public  circulation.  Since  that  time,  probably  a 
volumn  of  incidents,  co^ially  characteristic  of  the  indifference  of  General 
Longstreet  under  fire,  might  be  collected- 

mi;   REBEL   CAPTAIN. 

In  an  engagement  of  Wilcox's  Division,  near  Hanover  Junction,  Virginia, 
CaptainNbrwo  ml  Adjutant-General  to  Brigadier-General  Thou 

became  a  prisoner  to  the  Yankee  .  in  attempting  to  go  to  our  line  of 
skirmishers,  after  dark,  he  walked  up  to  the  Yankee  line  instead,  and 
much  to  his  surprise,  found  himseli  in  the  bands  of  the  Philistines,  lie 
was  immediately  marched  up  to  Brigadier-*  ifclcr,and  by  him  found 

to  be  a  hard  case,  and  turned  him  over  to  Major  General  Warren*  com- 
mand  the  South-side  forth  Anna*  Biver. 

At:  lor  an  hour  and  a  half,  adapting  circuitous  and  cunning 

irpose  of  eliciting  information  re.-]  ir  forces 

.   the  Yankee   genual  di  iptairi  was  marching  off.   he 

I  ;  ng : 

"  G(  oeral,  is  there  any  other  information  which  !  can  have  the  pleasure 

. 
ol  impud 
in. 

■ 

as 


240  CLEANINGS    FROM 

the  prisoners  were  passing  a  train  of  wagons,  the  captain  managed  to  put 
tuC  train  between  himself  and  the  guard;  and  biking  advantage  of  the 
darkness  quietly  crept  under  a  wagon  until  the  guard  had  passed;  then 
jumped  into  the  woods  and  cautiously  worked  his  way  through  the  Yankee 
army.  At  onetime  he  walked  straight  through  a  brigade  of  Yankees  lying 
in  the  road  asleep;  at  another  he  crawled  on  his  hands  and  knees  across  an 
open  field  full  of  Yankee  wagons.  Having  nearly  escaped,  he  came  suddenly 
upon  a  picket  of  two  Yankees. 

They  were  sitting  carelessly  at  their  post,  and  the  captain  walked  boldly 
up  to  them,  saying  in  a  short  angry  tone  : 

;'  "Why  are  you  sitting  on  your  post,  sir  ?  Get  up,  and  hold  that  gun  in 
a  proper  position  !  If  I  catch  you  standing  guard  in  that  position  again,  I 
shall  report  you." 

"Colonel,  I  beg  your  pardon,"  said  the  trembling  Yankee.     "I  didn't 
think  it  was  any  harm  to  sit  down,  sir — I  wasn't  going  to  sleep." 
.   "  Very  well  sir.     Where  arc  the  next  posts  ?" 

"  Bight  down  there,  and  there,"  pointiug  to  the  nearest  pickets. 

The  Captain  passed  quickly*on,  and' of  course,  did  not  test  the  vigilance 
of  the  next  pickets.  lie  arrived  safely  within  our  lines  the  next  day, 
having  marched  for  ten  or  twelve  hours  continuously,  and  forded  a  river  up 
to  his  neck  in  depth.  He  was  able  to  give  General  Lee  more  information 
than  he  could  afford  to  General  Warren. 

LINCOLN    UPON   THE   BATTLE-FIELD — MORE    OF   PRESIDENTIAL   JOKES. 

A  Northern  paper  says  :  We  sec  that  the  papers  are  referring  to  the  fact, 
that  Lincoln  ordered  a  comic  song  to  be  sung  upon  the  battle-field.  We 
have  known  the  facts  about  the  transaction  for  some  time,  but  have  re- 
frained from  speaking  of  them.  As  the  newspapers  are  now  stating  s,ome 
of  the'  facts,  we  will  give  the  whole : 

Soon  after  one  of  the.  most  desperate  and  sanguinary  battles,  Mr.  Lincoln  - 
\isitcd  the  commanding-general  and  the  army.  While  on  his  visit,  the 
ennimanding-general,  with  his  staff,  took  him  over  the  field  in  a  carriage, 
and  explained  to  him  the  plan  of  the  battle,  and  the  particular  place  where 
the  fight  was  most  fierce.  At  one  point  the  commanding-general  said, 
"here,  on  this  side  of  the  road,  five  hundred  of  our  brave  fellows  were 
killed,  and  just  on  the  other  side  of  the  road  four  hundred  more  were  slain, 
and  right  on  the  other  side  of  the  wall  five  hundred  rebels  were  destroyed. 
Wre  have  buried  them  where  they  fell." 

"  I  declare,"  said  the  President,  "this  is  getting  gloomy.  Let  us  drive 
away."  After  driving  a  few  rods,  the  President  said,  "  This  makes  a  fellow 
feci  gloomy."  "  Jack,"  speaking  to  a  companion,-  "  can't  you  give  us 
something  to  cheer  us  up?     Give  us  a  song,  and  give  us  a  lively  one." 


AN   ARMY    NOTE-BOOK.  241 

Thereupon  Jack  struck  up  as  loud  as  he  could  bawl  a  comic  negro  song, 
which  he  continued  to  sing  while  they  were'  riding  off  from  the  battle- 
ground, and  till  they  approached  a  regiment  drawn  up,  when  the  command- 
ing-general said,  "  Mr.  President,  wouldn't  it  be  well  for  jour  friend  to 
cease  his  song  till  we  pass  this  regiment?  The  poor  fellows  have  lost  more 
than  half  their  numbers.  They  are  feeling  very  badly,  and  I  should  be 
afraid  of  the  effect  that  it  may  have  on  them."  The  President  then  asked 
his  companion  to  stop  his  singing  till  they  got  by  that  regiment. 

We  know  that  the  story  is  incredible,  that  it  is  impossible  that  a  man 
who  could  be  elected  President  of  the  United  States  could  so  conduct 
himself  over  the  fresh  made  graves  of  the  heroic  dead.  When  this  story 
was  told  us,  we  said  that  it  was  incredible — impossible;  but»the  story  is  told 
on  such  authority  that  we  know  it  to  be  true.  We  tell  the  story  that  the 
people  may  have  some  idea  of  this  man  Abraham  Lincoln,  who  is  acandiate 
for  four  years  more  of  such  rule.  If  any  Republican  holds  up  his  hands 
in  horror  and  says  this  story  can't  be  true,  we  say  we  sympathize  with  him 
from  the  bottom  of  our  soul;  the  story  can't  be  true  Of  any  man  fit  for 
any  office  of  trust,  or  even  for  decent  society;  but  the  story  is  every  whit 
true  of  Abraham  Lincoln,  incredible  and  impossible  as  as  it  may  seem. 

STONEWALL   JACKSON. 

A  chaplain  in  the  army  has  recently  narrated  to  us  an  incident,  which 
strikingly  illustrates  the  unassuming  character  of  (icneral  Jackson,  and  as 
everything  connected  with  that  illustrious  and  lamented  hero  is  read  with 
interest  by  our  soldiers  and  by  all  our  people,  we  take  pleasure  in  giving  it 
to  our  readers : 

Immediately  before  the  battle  of  Chanccllorsvillc,  said  the  <  haplain,  while  * 
the  enemy  were  making  a  feint  of  crossing  the  Rappahannock,  near 
Hamilton's  Crossing,  I  was  with  my  regiment  in  that  neighborhood. 
Having  heard  that  there  was  a  fine  battery  on  the  hill  near  the  Hamilton 
House,  I  thought  I  would  go  up  and  sec  it.  On  reaching  the  battery  I 
found  an  officer  standing  there,  with  a  cap  drawn  over  his  forehead  and  an 
nil  cloth  over  his  shoulders.  I  took  him  for  the  captain  of  the  battery  and 
addressed  him  as  such.  "  Wha<  do  yon  think  the  enemy  aregoin_ 
said  I,  "  will  they  attack  us  from  that  quart*  r  '.'" 

"  No,"  replied  the  officer,  "  I  think  not  ;  they  tried  that  at  the  battle  of 
Fredericksburg,  and  probably  got  enough  of  it  nt  tint  ti: 

After  furthei  stion,  the  officer  isked  me  to  what   regiment    1 

belonged.     I  told  him  1  was  chaplain  of  the .     "And  to  what  church 

"The    1  ii,"  said    1.      "  Well,"  said  be,  "I'm 

;i  Presbyterian  myself.     Let  us  sit  down  hi:  Ik  awhile 

down  <e  of  the  gun-,  and  'In  gate  his  views  of  the  dul 


242  GLEANINGS    FROM 

and  responsibilities  of  a  chaplain,  the  kind  of  men  they  should  be,  and  the 
vast  opportunities  of  usefulness  their  position  afforded  them.  I 'was  much 
struck  with  his  conversation,  though  he  showed  an  unusual  interest  in  the 
religious  welfare  of  the  soldiers,  and  set  him  down  as  a  remarkably  pious 
man. 

When  the  conversation  had  proceeded  in  this  strain  for  some  time,  the 
officer  arose,  looked  steadfastly  across  the  river,  and  then  turning  to  me 
<aid,  "you  had  better  move  away  from  here  now,  I  think  I  shall  have  this 
gun  fired  directly." 

In  a  few  minutes  bang  Went  the  gun,  and  away  sped  the  shot,  ploughing 
through  the  enemy's  ranks. 

As  I  moved  off,  one  of  my  acquaintances  accosted  me  and  said:  "Well, 
chaplain,  what  was  the  general  saying."  "  General,"  said  I,  "  I  have  not 
seen  any  general."  "  Why,  yes  you  have,"  said  he.  "you've  been  sitting 
down  there  talking  ever  so  long  with  General  Jackson." 

Imagine  my  surprise  when  I  found  that  the  unassuming,  unpretending 
man  I  had  been  talking  with,  was  the  great  hero  of  the  war,  whose  name 
was  on  everybody's  lips. 

This  little  incident  is  strikingly  illustrative  of  the  character  of  Jackson. 
It  shows,  notwithstanding  his  great  achievements  and  world-wide  fame, 
that  his  success  had  not  puffed  him  up,  that  he  assumed  none  of  the  airs 
of  a  superior,  but  was  ready  to  enter  into  friendly  conversation  with  any 
one  who  might  fall  in  his  way. 

It  shows,  too,  how  his  religion  was  always  uppermost  in  his  mind.  Here 
he  was  at  that  moment  confronting  the  threatening  enemy,  on  the  eve  of 
hurling  the  missiles  of  death  amongst  them,  and  yet  deliberately  sitting 
down  with  a  chaplain,  to  talk  with  him  as  to  his  duties  and  seizing  the 
opportunity  in  that  Way  to  promote  the  spiritual  welfare  of  the  soldiers. 
Noble  man  !  Such  incidents  arc.  a  eulogy  louder  than  any  words,  however 
gifted  or  eloquent,  could  speak. 

.  THE  DUTCHMAN  AND  STONEWALL  JACKSON. 

The  following  amusing  story  of  the  experience  of  a  German  sutler  in  the 
Yankee  army  is  told  by  one  of  our  surgeons  who  was  left  in  charge  of  our 
wounded  at  Gettysburg,  Pennsylvania,  last  summer.  It  seems  that  the 
surgeon,  in  passing  through  Hagerstown,  Maryland,  overheard  a  conversa- 
tion which  took  place  on  the  street  between  the  sutler  and  a  friend  of  his, 
which  was  as  follows  : 

{friend. — "  Halloo  !  Broom,  I  thought  you  were  down  in  Dixie,  sutlering." 

Broom. — "  Well  you  zhist  take  one  drink  o'  lager  beer  mit  me  and  I 
tells  you." 

They  both  drink,  and  Broom  continues : 


AN   ARMY    NOTE-BOOK.  243 

You  sec  dc  times  git  dull  here  about  Haters  town,  und  T  tinks  I  gacs  mit 
the  army  und  sutler.  Veil,  I  zhist  takes  me  mine  Bhpring  vagon  und  mine 
negro  boy,  Ike,  und  gits  mc  some  goots  und  gacs  me  to  Villiamstown. 
Und  dare  is  dc  covalrce  und  de  infondrec  und  de  ardilleree  ;  und  de  bond 
plays  Yonkce  doodles,  und  Sbtar  Shpongled  Bonner  und  Hail  Golumby; 
und  dc  Sbtars  und  Shtripes  float  mit  de  tops  ov  de  houses  mit  de  vind — und 
I  tinks  mc  dos  all  is  right. 

Und  den  falls  me  in  mit  de  rear  ov  de  army  und  gaes  mc  to  Martinstown  ; 
und  dare  pells  me  mine  grackers  und  mine  sardines  und  mine  lager  beer, 
und  gits  me  dc  creeu  backs  mit  mine  pocket,  und  I  tinks  mc  dos  is  good. 
Und  den  falls  me  in  mit  de  army  aguin  und  goes  me  mitter  Zhcneral  Banks 
to  Vinchester. 

Veil  dare  at  Vinchester  sells  me  mine  sardines  und  mine  grackers  und 
mine  segars  und  mine  lager  beer  und  all  mine  goots,  und  gits  me  dc  crcen- 
backs  mit  mine  pocket;  und  I  tinks  me  dos  is  all  so  good. 

Un  den  gaes  me  to  Mr.  Taylor,  of  de  Taylor  House,  und  tells  mc  dcr 
Mr.  Taylor,  now  you  zhust  keep  de  shpring  vagon  und  de  negro  boy,  Ike, 
und  I  gaes  me  to  Baltimore,  und  buys  me  new  goots — und  den 
mc  to  Baltimore,  und  buys  me  heap  o'  new  goots — four  five  dollar 
tousand  vort — und  comes  me  back  to  Vinchester  und  gits  me  one  house 
close  by  de  Taylor  House,  so  you  can  see  him  as  you  comes  mit  de 
Taylor  House  dis  way;  und  puts  me  de  nice  fly  paper  on  the  vail,  und  i 
mc  mine  goots  in  mine  house;  und  runs  me  two  sthicks  mit  de  door  out 
for  trow  de  calico  agross  zhust  for  tract  de  tcntion. 

I'nd  von  day  coom  von  nagro  boy  und  looked  bim  mine  vinder  in  und 
say,   "Oli!  vot  party  goots!     Vot  heap  purty  .  I      \  i.-h   I  had  some 

deem  goots.     Never  mind,  Sbtonevall  Zhackson  coom  here  some  dese  & 
den  gits  mc  some  deem  goots!"     "Und  1  say!    Vot  you  know  bout  it? 
Sbtonevall  Zhackson  not  can  com  here;  dey  be  too  many  beoples  ?" 

Und  von  day  coom  von  Yankee  covalrec  und  shtcal  mc  mine  goots;  und 
den  gaes  me  to  dcr  Zheneral  Banks,  und  tells  me  dcr  Zheneral  ea  von 
Yankee  covalrce  shtcal  mc  mine  goots  j  und  de  Zheneral  Bay,  "I  makes 
dat  Yankee  covalrce  bring  back  d< 

I  i.'l   de  next  day  coom  d.  and  pat  me  mil  on 

Ton  counter,  und  another  Yankee  covalree  shtcal  ma  mil  from  dc 

o  1  have  not  so  mocfa  goots  as  before. 

I'nd   von    day  coom    \  vench  und  price  mc   d> 

>t£  be  too  high.     Nevermind;  ShtonevaU  '/.), 
pome  ;  nothing."     Und  I  eay,  •'  D 

the  nagro  vench. 

y  be  too  man; 
de  ladies,  und  price  me   I    . 


244  GLEANINGS   FROM 

"  Dese  goots  be  too  high.  Never  mind ;  Shtonevall  Zhackson  coom  here 
some  dese  days  j  he  git  dese  goots."  Und  I  say,  "  Vot  you  know  bout  it  ? 
Shtonevall  Zhackson  he  not  can  coom  here  ;  dey  be  too  many  beoples." 

Und  von  day  shtand  me  in  mine  door  und  looked  me  de  shtreet  up,  und 
sees  me  von  Yankee  covalree  coom  down  the  shtreet,  fast  as  he  can  coom — 
in  mit  one  shoe  and  out  mit  one  shoe,  und  his  hair  shtick  shraight  out  mit 
de  vind.  Und  I  say,  "  Helloe !  mine  friend,  for  vot  you  run  so  fast?" 
und  the  Yankee  covalree  say,  "  I  no  shtop  talk  me  you.  Shtonevall 
Zhackson  coom,"  und  den  hears  me  de  big  gun  go  loose,  und  I  tinks  me  dis 
be  von  skearmish  in  de  suburps  of  de  town,  and  dis  be  von  immoralize 
Yankee  covalree  run  away. 

Und  den  looks  me  de  shtreet  up  and  sees  me  de  sutler  vagon  coom ;  and 
zhust  behind  the  sutler  vagon  de  ardilleree ;  and  de  ardillercc  run  in  mit 
the  sutler  vagon,  and  brake  de  sutler  vagon,  and  dare  lays  de  grackers,  and 
sardines,  and  segars,  and  needles,  and  pins,  and  calicoes  and  lager  beer,  all 
in  von  grond  heap  in  de  shtreet,  and  zhust  behind  de  ardillery  coom  de 
infontree;  and  zhust  behind  the  infontree  de  covalree;  and  zhust  behind 
de  covalree  de  gray-backs  !  Mine  vader !  dos  gray-backs  !  and  zhust  behind 
de  gray-backs  coom  von  Shtonefence  Zhonson  init  von  big  tin  horn,  and 
blows,  "  Who's  been  here  since  I've  been  gone  ! — who's  been  here  since 
I've  been  gone?"  and  me  no  shtay  for  tell  him  " who's  been  here  since 
I've  been  gone  !"     I  gooms  avay  mit  dishgoost. 

The  old  fellow  had  became  so  much  excited  that  he  used  the  words 
"  Shtonefence  Zhonson,"  for  "  Stonewall  Jackson." 

HOW   A    MAN    FEELS   IN   BATTLE. 

There  can  be  nothing  more  puzzling  than  the  analysis  of  one's  feelings 
on  the  battle-field.  You  cannot  describe  them  satisfactorily  to  yourself  or 
others.  To  march  steadily  up  to  the  mouths  of  a  hundred  cannon  while 
they  pour  out  fire  and  smoke,  and  shot  and  shell,  in  a  storm  that  mows  the 
men  like  grass,  is  horrible  beyond  description — appalling.  It  is  absurd  to 
say  a  man  can  do  it  without  fear.  During  Hancock's  charge  at  Fredericks- 
burg, for  a. long  distance  the  slope  was  swept  b}r  such  a  hurricane  of  death 
that  we  thought  every  step  would  be  our  last,  and  I  am  willing  to  say,  for 
one,  that  I  was  pretty  badly  scared.  Whatever  may  be  said  about  "getting 
used  to  it,"  old  soldiers  secretly  dread  a  battle  equally  with  the  new  ones. 
But  the  most  difficult  thing  to  stand  up  under  the  suspense  while  wait- 
ing, as  we  waited  in  Fredericksburg,  drawn  up  in  line  of  battle  op  the  edge 
of  the  field,  watching  the  columns  file  past  us  and  disappear  in  a  cloud  of 
smoke,  where  horses  and  men  and  colors  go  down  in  confusion,  where  all 
sounds  are  lost  in  the  screaming  shells,  the  cracking  of  musketry,  the 
thunder  of  artillery,  and  knowing  our  own  turn  comes  next,  expecting  each 


AN    ARMY    NOTE-BOOK.  245 

moment  the  word  "Forward."  It  brings  a  strange  kind  rjf  relief  when 
"Forward"  comes.  You  move  mechanically  with  the  rest.  Once  fairly  in 
for  it,  your  sensibilities  are  strangely  blunted,  you  care  comparatively 
nothing  about  the  sights  that  shocked  you  at  first;  men  torn  to  pieces  by 
cannon  shot  becomes  a  matter  of  course.  At  such  a  time,  there  conies  a 
'  latent  sustenance  from  within  us,  or  above  us,  which  no  man  anticipates 
who  has  not  been  in  such  a  place  before,  and  which  must  men  pass  through 
life  without  knowing  anything  about.  What  is  it?  Where  does  it  come 
from? 

A   COLORED   SCENE   ON    THE   ROAD   TO    WASHINGTON. 

While  the  New  York  Seventy-first  were  at  the  Junction,  between  An- 
napolis and  Washington,  a  very  dilapidated  darkey,  whose  garments  were 
of  all  imaginable  hues  and  a  perfect  labyrinth  of  rags,  had  come  into  camp 
to  sell  a  few  eggs;  while  he  was  there  another  ebony  hued  individual  came 
in,  vastly  important  in  his  demeanor,  attired  in  clean  checked  shirt,  blue 
jacket  and  jean  pants,  witb  cowhide  shoes  and  felt  bat,  and  in  every  respect 
a  Turveydrop  in  deportment. 

"Stan'  back,  you  free  nigger,"  said  the  last  comer;  "de  gemman  don't 
want  nuffin  out  ob  dat  baskit;  wby  don't  you  poor  free  niggers  work  and 
do  suffin — (aside) — lazy  debbils,  ain't  wuff  der  salt." 

Soldier — "Are  you  a  slave?" 

Dcsrkey  (with  a  broad  grin) — "Yaas,  boss,  ain't  nufiin  else!  Never  seed 
a  free  nig  wid  sich  closes  as  dem  on,  yah,  yah!" — and  he  jerked  back  the 
lappel  of  his  blue  jacket  a  hi  Unsworth.  "I  b'longs  to  Missus,  ober  on  dc 
ridge  dar^    Make  plenty  money  now  'mong  de  BOger  mans." 

Soldier — "  But  you  have  to  give  the  money  to  your  mistress,  don't  you?" 

Darkey — "Urn-mi  me!  Missus  nuflin  to  do  wid  dat  money  boss!  I 
ain't  gwinc  to  keep  hens  an'  have  urn  lay  eggs  for  Missus.  Missus  don't 
Want  'cm.      Vab-h!  you  only  jnkin'  wid  nigger  DOW." 

Free  Nigger  (with  a  dolorous  whim  -     ise  i<le  Gub'ner  gone  dead, 

an'  left  me  free  nigger;  dat  my  fault,  eh?" 

Slave  (with  dignity) — "Don't  talk  back,  man;  go 'wayj  g'longand 
dem  tingfl  ob  your'n — I  knows  you're  hm 

A    BTUNNER. 

A  gentleman    of  this  city,  who  has  a  r.  I  iding  in  Louisiana,  not 
far  distant  from  New  Oriel  Uy  which  con- 
tains ;m  incident    tbaf  will    I  I                 that  a  1  fttcfa   of  Yan- 
and  a  party  of  English  officers,  chai  copy  adjoining  boxes  at 
unt  in  the  »  K  -e.  nt  I  itj      .'.  ,'\  and  pi 
i  of  the  Englishmen,  caused  the  fans  ,-eus- 


246  GLEANINGS    FROM 

sion,  which  they  thought  -would  be  particularly  offensive  to  the  sons  of 
Great  Britain,  so  the  "rebellion"  and  "foreign  intervention,"  were  expa- 
tiated upon  at  great  length.  The  Yankees  were  excessively  garrulous,  as 
most  Yankees  generally  arc,  and  time  and  again,  was  it  asserted,  that  the 
rebels  would  be  immediately  "squelched,"  and  should  England  dare  to 
interfere,  she  would  be  whipped  "out  of  her  boots."  The  Yankees  got 
through  with  their  refreshments  first,  hut  desiring  to  see  the  effect  of  their 
bombast  oh  the  gallant  Britons,  awaited  the  approach  of  the  latter  to  the 
office  where  settlements  are  usually  made,  when  they  got  up,  and  proceeded 
to  array  themselves  by  the  side  of  the  British  officers.  Here  the  remark 
about  whipping  England  was  again  repeated,  and  in  such  a  tone  that  the 
officers  could  not  avoid  noticing  the  braggarts.  One  of  them  instantly  re- 
joined, "We  Have  hoard  your  remarks;  we  desire  to  enter  into  no  discus- 
sion of  the  subject,  but  have  a  single  question  to  ask,  that  is,  do  you 
remember  the  affair  of  the  Trent?"  This  was  a  stunner;  not  a  Yankee 
made  any  reply,  but  all  hanging  their  heads  in  shame,  left  the  building 
more  rapidly  than  they  entered.     They  had  forgot,  all  about  the  Trent. 

*    DEATH    OF    REVEREND    ISAAC   LEWIS. 

Any  one  who,  in  the  last  forty  years,  has  been  acquainted  at  Knoxville, 
Tennessee,  will  recollect  a  modest,  quiet,  inoffensive  gentleman,  venerable 
for  his  age,  his  piety  and  his  sterling  worth  ;  one  who,  from  his  long  resi- 
dence there,  had  become  one  of  its  fixtures,  a  citizen  of  such  unpretending 
simplicity  of  character — so  urbane — so  cordial — so  hospitable — so  amiable 
— so  full  of  public  spirit  and  patriotism  as  to  have  secured  the  esteem  and 
respect  of  all  who  knew  him,  and  of  strangers,  too,  who  could  appreciate 
character  and  private  worth.  Such  was  Reverend  Isaac  Lewis,  one  of  the 
oldest  citizens  of  Knoxville,  and  for  many  years  a  Minister  of  the  Metho- 
dist Episcopal  Church  in  that  city — a  profession  he  only  relinquished  when 
disease  prevented  its  longer  exercise.  Of  late  years,  ho  seldom  preached, 
but  when  he  did  go  into  the  sacred  desk,  all  may  remember  the  extreme 
reverence  of  his  manner,  the  great  earnestness  of  his  exhortations,  and  the 
powerful  and  impressive  pathos  of  his  prayer. 

In  politics  he  was  always  a  Democrat  of  the  States  Rights  school — a  strict 
constructionist,  and  of  course  an  opponent  of  any  administration  which 
would  elevate  the  Central  over  the  State  Government.  He  was  the  early 
supporter  of  General  Jackson,  aud  of  Mr.  Polk,  who,  when  in  Knoxville, 
was  always  his  guest.  Of  such  polities  Me.  Lewis  of  course  became,  after 
the  Presidential  election  of  I860,  an  early  and  decided  advocate  of  seces- 
sion, and  of  our  present  revolution.  In  this  cause,  though  decided  and 
earnest,  he  retained  the  good  will  and  regard  of  the  decent  part  of  the 
Union  element  by  which  be  was  surrounded.     It  is  believed  that  with  two 


AN   ARMY    NOTE-BOOK.  247 

exceptions  he  died  without  a  pergonal  enemy.  With  all  others,  political 
rancor  had  given  place  to  that  instinct  of  human  nature  which  allows  to  a 
venerahle  old  age  au  amnesty  to  past  political  antipathies,  and  even  soothes 
the  passage  to  the  grave  by  the  exercise  of  the  pleasant  charities  of  life  to 
the  sick  patriot  and  the  dying  Christian.  Such  was  the  case  of  Mr.  Lewis, 
the  evening  before  he  died  the  privacy  of  his  quiet  bedroom  was  inva-l-  d 
by  the  rude  knock  of  the  Yankee  soldiery  at  his  door*  One  of  them, 
when  the  door  was  opened,  inquired  "  if  that  damned  old  rebel  spy  was 
not  dead  yet — the  house  is  wanted  for  a  hospital."  He  was  told  to  come 
and  see  for  himself.  He  entered,  and  nothing  awed  by  the  presence  of 
Mrs.  Lewis  and  her  daughters  standing  in  tears  around  the  bed,  he  rudely 
came  forward  and  felt  the  extremities  of  the  dying  man,  and  for  three  fa 
remained  by  his  bed-side,  impatient  to  see  him  draw  his  last  breath.  Death 
soon  came  to  relieve  him  from  this  unwelcome  intrusion.  In  words  scarcely 
audible  to  his  indignant  and  deeply  bereaved  family,  he  calmly  whispered, 
"  Be  still— say  nothing  to  him — I  will  soon  be  beyond  their  power  and 
their  malice — where  the  wicked  cease  from  troubling — and  the  weary  at 
So  died  another  martyr  to  the  Southern  cau-e. 
For  three  months  he  had  suffered  from  Yankee  tyrranny  and  insolence. 
The  city  where  his  long  life  had  bgcn  spent  was  under  a  siege,  in  want  of 
fuel  and  subsistence.  His  sons  were  in  the  camp  or  the  field,  and  his  wife 
and  daughters  soon  to  be  turned  out  of  homj  upon  the  cold  charitii 
strangers  and  enemies.     Under  these  influences  he  sickened — under   ;' 

es  he  died.     It  is  scarpcly  to  be  believed,  that  under  the 
uiac   instigation  of  personal  hate  and  political  rancor,  an  enemy   could 
continue  so  implacable  and  revengeful.     If  so, 

"Be  • :    Wiih  all  your  thunder  1m, Its. 

[Khoxvifle  and  Atlanta  Regi 

I  TV. 

Wc  take  pleasure  in  recording  the  subjoined  instance  of  love  and  fidelity 
i"  ■  the  fifth   of  the   kind  in  th<  mHy 

connexion.     The    faithful    and    attached    fellow  is   the    slave    of   Captain 
Francis  Marion    Dwi  inian  by  birt1. 

|  risoners  at  Vi. 

I 

U  :   I  wrote  you   M   hurriedly  that    I 

the   addition    of   another    black    I  ■  ]r   faUlj;-, 

k  from  Franl 
rly,  on  bis  «  j  station  from 
heart.     He  was  taken  to  General  jnT 


248  GLEANINGS    FROM 

inducements  to  slay  with  the  Yankees.  lie  says  they  offered  him  a  hun- 
dred dollars  a  month  and  a  gun  to  shoot  his  master.  He  indignantly  re- 
jected the  proposal,  saying:  ,;Wha'  sort  a  nigger  you  tek  me  to  be — go 
shoot  my  mossa,  T  lub — I  tell  you,  if  I  git  way,  I  won't  stay  wid  you  for  a 
tousand  dollars  a  day."  He  said:  "  Missis — I  nebber  cus  white  man  befo', 
but  I  cus  'em  den."  He  was  kept  at  General  L.fs  headquarters  all  day, 
and  at  night  he  ntade  his  escape,  and  went  to  Lieutenant  Suttles,  of  Frank's 
Company,  who  was  left  badly  wounded  at  Vicksburg.  Lieutenant  S.  passed 
Patrick  as  his  own  servant,  and  as  wounded  men  were  allowed  to  carry  out 
their  servants,  he  brought  Patrick  out  with  him.  Even  after  he  got  home, 
Patrick  seemed  scared.  Poor  fellow,  he  was  wise  for  once.  He  told  his 
captors — "  You'll  feed  me  wid  soft  corn  now,  den  bum  bye  you'll  choke 
me  wid  de  cob;"  whereupon,  he  says,  they  called  him  "a  bad,  sassy 
nigger." 

TWO    SMART    DOGS. 

During  General  Birney's  recent  raid  in  Florida,  a  bright  little  girl  was 
found  alone  at  one  house,  her  parents  having  skedaddled.  She  was  rather 
non-committal,  for  she  did  not  know  whether  the  troops  were  Union  or 
Rebel. 

Two  fine  dogs  made  their  appearance  while  a  conversation  was  being  held 
with  the  child,  and  she  informed'one  of  her  questioners  that  their  names 
were  Gillmore  and  Beauregard. 

"Which  is  the  best  dog?"  asked  a  bystander. 

"  I  don't  know,"  said  she,  "  they  are  both  mighty  smart  dogs;  but  they'll 
either  of  'cm  suck  eggs  if  you  don't  watch  'em." 

The  troops  left  without  ascertaining  whether  the  family  of  which  the  girl' 
was  so  hopeful  a  scion,  was  Union  or  Bebel. — \Yanhee  paper. 

A   GLORIOUS    HEARTED    GIRL. 

The  Flortdian  and  Journal  says  : 

Upon  the  arrival  of  the  troops  at  Madison,  sent  to  reinforce  our  army  in 
East  Florida,  the  ladies  attended  at  the  depot  with  provisions  and  refresh, 
merits  for  the  defenders  of  their  homes  and  country.  Among  the  brave, 
was,  in  one  of  the  Georgia  regiments,  a  soldier  boy,  whose  bare  feet  were 
bleeding  from  the  exposure  and  fatigue  of  the  march.  One  of  the  young 
ladies  present,  moved  by  the  noble  impulses  of  her  sex,  took  the  shoes  off 
of  her  own  feet,  made  the  suffering  hero  put  them  on,  and  walked  home 
herself  barefooted.  Boys,  do  you  hear  that?  Will  you  let  this  glorious 
girl  be  insulted  and  wronged  by  Yankee  ruffians  ?  Never  !  Wherever 
Southern  soldiers  arc  suffering  and  bleeding  for  their  country's  freedom,  let 
this  incident  be  told  for  a  memorial  of  Lou.  Taylor,  of  Madison  County, 
Florida. 


The  Subscriber  (formerly  the  Proprietor  of  the  Mills 
House)  takes  this  occasion  to  thank  his  friends  and  the 
public  generally  for  the  liberal  patronage  which  they  have 
hitherto  bestowed  on  him.  It  will  always  be  his  endea- 
vor to  deserve   a  continuance  of  their  favors. 

This  House,  situated  within  three  minutes'  walk  of  the 
State  House,  and  immediately  in  the  centre  of  the  busi- 
ness portion  of  the  city,  is  large  and  commodious;  and 
its  accommodations,  in  point  of  cleanliness,  comfort  and 
luxury,  whether  of  bed  or  board,  are  all  that  befits  a 
Confederate  Hotel  of  the  very  highest  class. 

A  Livery  Stable  is  also  attached  to  the  Establishment. 

Carriages  and  Omnibuses  are  always  in  attendance  at 
each    Depot    to  convey    pi  n    to    this  well  provided 

home,     to    which    the    Subscriber    cordially    invites    that 
public  and  those  friends  to  whom  he  already  owes  so  much. 

T.  S.  NICKERSON. 


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AND 

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IN 

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Shoes,  Sheetings,  Yarns,  Soda,  &c.,  &c. 

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Main  Street,  between  Washington  and  Plain  Streets, 

A   FEW   DOORS   NORTH   OF   THE    MARKET. 

t 

Cars  will  be  dispatched  to  the  Army  of  Northern  Virginia  every  Wednesday. 
To  Charleston  and  the  Coast,  on  the  1st,  10th  and  20th. 
To  the  Army  of  Tennessee,  on  the  1st,  10th  and  20th. 

M.  LaBORDE,  Chairman. 

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and  that  molasses  jugs  and  bottles  be  excluded  from  the  boxes. 


g0  F,  $M@MBQ)W, 

No.  180    RICHARDSON   STREET, 

COLUMBIA,  S.   C, 

-       MANUFACTURER    OF 

AND   SOLDIERS'   CLOTHING. 

Keeps  constantly  on  hand 

A  VARIETY   OF  CASSMERES   FOR   CITIZENS'  WEAR, 

AND 

Confederate  Gray  Cloth  for  Uniforms. 
ALSO,  AN  ASSORTMENT  OF  DRY  GOODS. 

ohaelestotstobeT~ 

UNDER    SOUTHERN    STATES    HOTEL, 
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Every  variety  of 

DRESS  GOODS,  WHITE  GOODS, 

HOSIERY,  GLOVES,  DOMESTICS, 
Black  and  Grey  Cloths  for  Ladies'  Cloaks, 

.     PINS,  NEEDLES,  BUTTONS,  4C. 

BLOCKADE    GOODS    BOUGHT    AND    SOLD. 

C.  C.  DRAKE. 


manufacturers,  Importers  &  Dealers  in 

SOAP,    CANDLES,    TALLOW, 
TALLOW  OIL,  NEAT'S-FOOT   OIL, 

And  all  Articles  used  in  the 

Manufacture  of  Soap  and  Candles, 

(ESTABLISHED,   1820.) 

Works  and  Office,  Orangeburg  C.  M.,  South  Carolina. 
Branch,  No.  6  Badcliffe  St.,  Charleston,  S.  0. 

C.  WHITTEMORE,  L.  B.  WHITTEMORE,  JAS.  S.  RHODES. 


.  WALKER  &  CO., 

AUCTION 

AND 


Real  Estate,  Bonds,  Megroes.  &c.j  Brokers, 

No.  S65  Broad  Street, 

AUGUSTA,    GA. 
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BUSINESS  ENTEUSTED  TO   US. 

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Doughty,  Bbali.  A  Co.,  Auguita,  Ga.  A.  S.  Johnston,  Charleston,  S.  C. 

Fleming  A  Robinson,  Augusta,  Ga.  Mathiesen,  O'Hara  A  Co.,  Charleston,  S.C. 

Cox  A  Hnx,  Atlanta,  Ga.  Wm.  B.  Jones  &  Co.,  Richmond,  Va. 

Whitaker  A  Turner,  Atlanta,  Ga.  Goodwin  A  Robbins,  Selma,  Ala. 

J.  H.  Porter,  Atlanta,  Gi.  Baker,  Lawlbr  A  Co.,  Mobile,  Ala. 


TOWNSEND  &  NORTH, 

Publishers  and  Booksellers, 
162  Richardson   Street,  Columbia,  S.  ( . 

Keep  constantly  on  hand  a  large  and  well  selected  Stock  of 

RELIGIOUS,  MEDICAL,  MISCELLANEOUS  AND  SCHOOL  BOOKS, 

GAP,  LETTER  AND  NOTE  PIPER, 

ENVELOPES,   INK,   PENS,   FANCY   ARTICLES,   &c„  &c. 

TERMS    ALWAYS     MODERATE. 
Orders  from  abroad  executed  with  dispatch. 

SUNDAY  SCHOOLS  FURNISHED  WITH  READING  &  TEXT  BOOKS. 

TEEMS     CASH. 

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CHARLESTON,  S.  C. 


FRASER,  TRENHOLM  &  CO., 

No.  10  Rumford  Place, 

LIVERPOOL. 


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CORNER  OF  BROAD  AND  CAMPBELL  STREETS, 

AUGUSTA,  GA. 

Regular  Weekly  Sales  of  Bonds,  Stocks,  and 

other  Securities  on  Wednesday  of 

each  week. 

October,  1864. 
LEVI  M.  CHURCHILL.  J.  R.  W.  JOHNSTON. 


nmr  hcici©; 

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333    Broad    Street, 
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CONSIGNMENTS   THEY   MAY   BE   FAVORED   WITH. 

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The  above  Mills,  situated  on  the  Saluda  River,  two  miles  from  Columbia, 
contain  10,000  Cotton  Spindles,  four  full  sets  of  Woolen  Machinery, 
and  eighty  Looms.  With  these  abundant  facilities,  the  Proprietors  are 
manufacturing 

TWILLED  AND  UNTWILLED  GOODS, 

Cotton  Yarn, 

Osnaburgs, 

Duck, 

Woolen  Cloths, 

Of  different  varieties,  including 

FLANNEL;  TWINE  AND  ROPE, 

Of  all  sizes,  and  other  articles  in  general  demand.     Orders  promptly  filled. 

L.  I).  CHILDS  &  CO. 

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MANUFACTURES 

liIEiUtt  firitiTiriiEli  Ox  ALL  MZEI, 

IRON  AND  BRASS  CASTINGS 

MADE   XO    ORDER    AND   WITH    DISPATCH. 

PORTABLE  GRIST  MILLS  OF  ALL  SIZES. 

ALSO. 

TOE  CELEBRATED  SCOTCH  BARK  MILL  MADE  TO  ORDER. 

TERMS. ---Cash  on  delivery  at  the  Depot  in  Columbia. 

8&~  A  list  of  prices  sent  to  any  one  wishing  it.  Also,  all  questions  in 
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IMPORTERS    OF 

FOREIGN  DRY  GOODS  AND  GROCERIES, 
mmil  COMMISSION  MERCHANTS, 

|g        Have  on  hand  a  large  Stock  of 

STANDARD  AND  FANCY  GROCERIES, 

LIQUORS  AND  DRY  GOODS. 

t&-  Orders   and   Consignments   are  respectfully  solicited. 

SILCOX,  BROTHER  &  CO., 

Columbia,  S.  C. 


WHOLESALE  AND    RETAIL  DRUGGIST, 

COLUMBIA,    S.    o. 

On  hand  at  all  times  a  large  and  varied  Stock  of 

Druggists'  Articles   of  every  Description, 

Goods  continually  arriving  through  the  Blockade,  enable  him  to  offer 
one  of  the 

largest  and  Best  Assortment  of  Goods 

IN  THE  CONFEDERACY. 

JOHN    INGALLS, 

MAIN  STREET,  COLUMBIA. 


ANK  NOTE  ENGRAVERS 

3F»3Et.XX<a""X"3H:K.S* 

COLUMBIA,    S.    O., 

>p  leave  to  call  the  attention  of  Bankers  and  others 
to  their  extensive  stock  of 

MM  IITji  iOTJlM, 

igrnettes,     I^atlie     Work, 
C2oinl>inatioii     Dies, 

Bond,    l^anlc     Note     and 

Commercial  Papers,  Sec 


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►HILIP  WIWEIHAN  &  €0., 
DRUGGISTS  AND  APOTHECARIES, 

f  COLUMBIA,  S.   0.  ^ 

(Formerly  Xo.  29  llayne  Street,  Charleston,  8.  C.) 

vim  Nassau  and  Bermuda  all  the  Maple  articles  in  their  line,  to  which 

ey   invite  the  attention  of  Druggists  and  Physician!*.     Having  vipited  Europe,   and  made 

enta   for   the  importation  of    Puro    Articles,    direct    from  the   !  «,  they 

h<ro  at  the  They  n  iving  and  have  usually 

Opium,  Nitrate  Silver,  Rlue  Vitriol, 

psra  sails.  Acetic  Acid,  Turkey  Cum  Arabic, 

uipli.  Morphine,         Knot  Squills  Dovers  Powders. 

Rlrachiiu?  Powders,  Terra  Japonica, 

relate  ol  Leid,         Sulph.  Ojiiniuc.  Ri  (,arb.  soda, 

lycyrine,  \q.  Ammonia,  Rad  Valerian, 

annin,  CaitharMes,  Sulphur, 

lum,  s,tl.  soda.  Indigo, 

Fine' Quality  Teas. 

•nmn  being  m  practical  Apothecary  gives  his  special  attention  to  the  Pre- 
ripnon  Department      Orderi  from  the  oxuntry  filled  with  cmre  mod  dirj  • 


GENERAL  COMMISSION  MERCHANT. 


JAMES  C.  CIBBES 

COLUMBIA,    S.   C. 
Goods  of  all  kind  Received  and  Sold  on  Commissloi 

LARGE  STOCKS  OF 

EMHIH  MB  DOMESTIC  GOOOi 

ALWAYS  ON  HAND. 

Liberal  advances   made  on  Consignmenl 

TERMS    LIBERAL. 


W.  M.  MARTIN.  J.   C.  MARTIN.  J.  H.  WILSO] 


W.  M.  &  J.  C.  MARTIN  &  C 

COLUMBIA,     S.     O., 

Office  for  the  Purchase  and  Sale  of 
BONDS,   SPECIE, 

AND  FOREIGN  EXCHNGI 

And  for  the  negotiation  of  business  generallj 

Prompt   sittoiilioii   j>fil<l   to    ordcn 
from   abroad. 

IV.  M.  &  J.  0.  MARTIN  &  CO.