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allude to these things in a spirit of
gratitutc, net of vanity. The time has
passed away for that. I have arrived
at the age when the passions are mel
lowed, and the imagination ceases to
day will fill me with grateful memories,
and I will bear its recollections with me
to the final resting place to which in
the course of nature, I am rapidly
tending. With a Virginia heart,
tender all Virginians my gratitude and
affection.
which, however, I can give no account,
having seen nothing but telegraphic
reports from tf at region. The day
after the 5th of duly battle, I was met
by the gallant McCulloch—Ben Mc-
»>e firery and irregular—an age of quiet Culloch—you all know him. [Cheers '!
and enjoyment; and the scenes of this That galant soldier had marched fA,
gal ant soldier had matched for
two days and nights. He knew the
enemy was after me. He was fifteen
hours too late, but it was not his fault.
I have been mortified, my fellow-citi
zens of Virginia, to see it published in
your papers that that gallant officer
W. L. Norman, one of the color guards,
of DeKalb county, were the first to
plant it upon the captured batter}’.—
Eli W. Hoyle of the Atlanta Confeder
ate Volunteers, was the first to mount
the battery.
There is another incident'which de
serves public mention, and which
shows of what kind of stuff the Geot-
gia boys are ma le. Win. DcJarnett,
of the Rome Light Guards, having
been slightly wounded and left behind,
concealed himself in the bushes. The
quence of his wound. As the negro
reached the company in which the offi
cer was standing, he handed over his
prize, saying, "‘Massa, here is one of
dese devils who been shooting at us,
sir!”— Richmond Examiner.
and myself had a difficulty after the I Second Rhode Island Regiment passed
Affairs in Missouri—Speech of Gov.
Jackson.
Gov. Jackson, of Missouri, was in
Richmond on the 25th ult., for what
purpose we do not know, hut suppose
that it was to obtain assistance from
the Confederate Government to enable
him to drive the Lincolnites from his
State. Whiie there, the citizens called
upon him for a speech. It contains
much interesting and reliable inlorma-
tion in reference to aflairs in Missouri.
He said:
Aly friends oj Virginia and of the
Southern Confederacy, who have as
sembled here to-night, I greet you with
the warmth of an overflowing heart.—
Had not similar scenes on my way to
this place, in demonstration of the in
terest of the Southern people in the
cause in which 1 am engaged, accus
tomed me to them, this kind icception
might have taken me by surprise. I
take it, however, as no compliment to
myself personally. I think I under
stand very well this demonstration and
all other welcomes that have greeted
me on my way hither. It is but the
expression of the profound earnestness
of Southern men in the glorious cause
in which we are all engaged, to which
my energies are pledged, and in which
my life, fortune and honor is forever en
listed. [Applause.]
I doubt not you want to hear some
thing of Missouri. [Voices, “Yes; tell
us about ?’’] The troubles you have-
had here, the difficulties you have sur
mounted, Missouri has felt and encoun
tered to a far greater extent. The
people of Missouri are more divided
than the people of Virginia. The in
sidious influences of the enemy have
for years been brought to bear on her
in the effort to surround the South with
a “wall of fire,” occupying as she does
the position on the left ll ink of the
Southern States. On account of the
geographical situation of Virginia and
Missouri, it is apparent to the mind of
all that these States must he the great
battle-fields upon which this war is to
he waged, if Mr. Lincoln shall think
proper to continue i*. I had hoped,
however, and 1 still have some hope,
that after the terrible defeat and dread
ful slaughter which his minions met
with at Manassas the other day, he will
look at the thing properly amt Le gov
erned by reason instead of fanaticism,
and cease this war before the sun goes
down to-morrow night, ll he has been
laboring under the delusion that he
could conquer the Southern people, the
battle which was fought the other day
at Manassas Junction ought to be sat
isfactory evidence to him that such a
thing is utterly impossible. He ought
to know that history presents no case
where such a people as the Southern
States contain, with such resources to
hack them, with such interests a; stake,
with such courage to nerve their arms
and such principles to inspire their
hearts, ever were conquered. And all
who, like Lincoln, attempt the hazard
ous experiment, will learn Irom the
book of bloody disaster that they never
can be conquered. [Continued cheer
ing, and cries of “Never!” “never!”]
1 sympathize deeply with the people
of Virginia, as well as you do with lire
people of Missouri. As I before re
marked, the geographical position of
the two States makes them the battle
grounds by necessary consequence.—
We are placed in the Iront ranks ; we
occupy the outposts. If tlu-se are taken
it cannot be expected the citadel will
bng hold out. Hence, I have every
where, from the time I entered the
State of Arkansas until I reached this
place, invoked my tellow-citizens to
rally to the rescue ; if they did not wan'
to see their own homes in flames, theit
own firesides desolated, they must
march forthwith, either to Virginia or
Missouri, meet the invader face to face,
and drive him Irom the soil, or d : e in
the noble endeavor. [Cheers ]
I know you desire to hear something
specially about Missouri. Well, we
have had some little skirmishing there;
we have no taste for standing off and
looking on, and when we get close to
the enemy, we ate hound to make him
smell our powder. We had a little
skirmish at Booneville, where I had hut
six Lundred men, and half ot them un
equipped—the enemy having twenty
seven hundred well-drilled soldiers.—
Although it was unwise to make any
stand against such overwhelming odds,
my men could not icsist the opportu
nity of taking a shot or two before re
treating. We lost three men and they
lost nine. We continued on the re
treat ten days or two weeks, with ene
mies all around me, with forces sent to
intercept my road, communications
with friends cut off, and reinforcements j
could not reach me in large bodies ;
my friends came to me in squads ol
fives, tens, fifties and hundreds. 1
knew they would come, and 1 awaited
them. At length 1 had a sufficient force
to make a stand. On the 5th of July
the enemy appeared, numbering twen
ty-five hundred men, under command
JfCol. Seigel. We routed them, diove
them fourteen miles, and from every
position they took, and the last we
heard of them they were still running.
' [Laughter and cheers.] It was done
exclusively by Missouri troops.
Another battle we had a day or two
afteiwaids, and I think it is the great
est fight of the war, although upon a
small scale. Col. Cook had raised a
regiment of 800 men, mostly Dutch.
These he quartered in two large barns.
Two of my Captains, Hall and Stone,
with tl.eir companies, consisting ot
180 men, went to these barns before
daylight an 11 slaughtered the enemy
like hogs, killing 230 of them, putting
the rest to flight, and getting every
cun the scamps had. [Cheers.] 1 here
has been some Uni* skirmishinc
noith side of
battle. My friends, if I had the pow
er, and desired to make a man who
should stand as the representative of
manhood, and combine within himself
all that is excellent in human character,
I know not the model I would sooner
take than the gallant, noble, brave Mc
Culloch. [Cheers.] With eight thou
sand men he came to our assistance,
with troops from Texas, Arkansas, and
Louisiana. One regiment from this
■atter State was the first and best I ev
er saw. They came all the way on
toot, they came to fight and not to re
treat. In addition to this force he
brought to my aid his high military
genius, his resistless energy and brave
«nd fearless heart. [Cheers.] Gen.
Pclk has ordered to my assistance thir
teen thousand men, and they are now
on their way to the battle-field.—
[Cheers.]
1 shall return as soon as the cars can
take me to the State of Missouri. I
shall go to the field, and there I shall
remain until the invader is driven from
our soil, or we are conquered. [Cheers.]
1 do not expect the latter to take place.
Such men as we have can never be
conquered, [cheers,] because they are
fighting for that which is dearer than
life itself—their rights. [Cheers.] I
have left behind me wife, children,
home, eve.ything that is dear to man.
My men are in the same condition.—
We would be worse than cowards if
we gave up the contest with anything
less than life. [Loud cheers.]
In the great battle lately lought—
ilie battle of Davis, Beauregard and
Johnston—our men exhibited a fore
taste ot what Lincoln’s menials may
expect in every contest that is to fol
low. Any set of raw troops who can,
with nothing but bowie-knives, charge
upon the bayonets of regulars, as our
men did in the late battle, can never be
whipped. There is no instance upon
record where raw recruits were known
to make such hold, daring, slashing
charges right up to the mouths of can
non, manned by veterans, and take
them, as our men did on that occasion.
Nor was an army with such equipments
and appointments, as the enemy pos
sessed, ever before known to leave all
their munitions in the hands of a force
so numerically inferior as ours. Let
every man in the Southern States be of
good cheer. With all the divisions of
my people and all the difficulties and
embarrassments that have been thrown
around me by the combined efforts of
tiaitors and fee, I have never for one
moment doubted what is to he the final
result. [Applause.] All we have to
do, my friends of the Southern States,
is to rise at once and overpower the
enemy. Their troops have been nine
ty-days troops; their time is about ex
piring. You may take my word for it,
very few of those men who have tested
the strength of Southern steel will be
anxious to re-enlist. [Cheers.] Then
say, before they re-organize their
by, without seeing him, but Col. Slo
cum, who commanded the Regiment
and who came on behind it, discovered
him in the bushes. Attempting to
draw his pistol, he said, “your life, you
rebel.” For some reason he could not
get out his pistol easily, and seeing
DeJarnett level his musket at him, he
cried out, “don’t shoot.” But the
Georgian did shoot and killed him too.
He then took to his heels through the
thicket, and the Regiment sent a show
er of bullets after him, but to no effect.
I saw Slocum's grave yesterday in a
little cabbage garden by ihff road side
not far fro n the battle field, and also
found there Maj. Ballou, of the same
Regiment, who had his leg shot off.
But 1 must stop ; for if I were to go
on to tell all the gallant acts of our
boys, my supply of paper would soon
be exhausted. All the officers in both
Regiments and every man in the ranks
did their whole duty. Maj. Cooper is
the only field officer in the Eighth, and
Col. James F. Cooper, the only one in
the Seventh who escaped injury. Co).
Gardner who had his leg broken by a
Minnie ball, is now at a farm house
near this place and doing very well.—
Maj. Dunwoody, of the Seventh, re
ceived a slight wound in the shoulder,
while his hoise received four shots
without being killed.
I send herewith a list of the casual
ties in the Eighth Georgia Regiment
There were only about 530 men in the
Regiment when it went into action,
owing to sickness and other causes,
and yet 32 were killed, 151 wounded,
and 11 are missing—194 in all, more
than one out of every three. In the
Oglethorpe Light Infantry, Col. Bar
tow’s old company, only 16 men out of
87 escaped without a wound or mark
of some kind either upon their bodies
or their clothing. P. W. A.
CASUALTIES IK THE 8tH GEORGIA (1ST INDE
PENDENT) REGIMENT.
shattered army, let us strike, and strike
home. [Cheers.] I claim to have no
superior military capacity, but to my
mind the quick and decisive blow is
the one we should make in Virginia
and Missouri, and drive the invader
from our soil. I advise every man in
the Southern States, that can raise an
arm in defence of his home and rights,
to go to Virginia or Missouri. What
is life to me or to the twenty-five thou
sand soldieis left behind me ? Every
thing that makes life at all valuable,
ceases to exist unless we can be with
those near and true to us, unless we
aie able to maintain our rights, vindi
cate our honor, and establish our inde
pendence. “Give me liberty or give
me death,” is my motto in this contest.
[Prolonged applause.]
Killed—Col. F. S. Bartow, Adjutant, Jno
L. Branch.
Wounded Severely—Lieut. Col. W. M.
Gardner.
Rome Light Guards.
Killed—J II Clark. J T Duncan, D C
Hargrove, C B Norton, G T Stovall.
\\ ounded Dangerously—J 11 Anderson,
M D McOsker, J T Howard, J A Stevenson.
Wounded Slightly—Cap). E J Magruder,
G L Aycock. A J Bearden, J T Shackelford,
K D Dejarnetle, J D Jones, A It Johnson.
Missing—Corporal J J Black, W A Bar
ron, J It Payne, M A Itoss.
Oglethorpe Light Infantry.
Killed—W H Crane, G M Butler, J A
Ferrell, B Morrcl, Thos Purse, Jr.
Wounded Dangerously—Belvin, G Car
otin, 11 Estelle, L Lippman, S McDonald.
Wounded Severely—R Q Baker, F B
Bevel, E Davis, B Dunnivon, John Flem
ing, Girardeau, It J Godfrey, C C
Hardwick, Jas Hunter, Ivey, J II
King, — Lents, J Tinsley.
\\ ounded Slightly—Sergeant W Shell-
man, It H Cole, M Franklyn, L Grayhill.
J L Martin, J Montgomery, II Itasur, M
Uaina.
Missing—Corporal S W Brandi, I, East-
mead, T Homes.
Macon Guards.
Killed—W Allen, Leonidas Lamar, Wm
M Jones.
Wounded Severely—W B Ainsworth,
Wm Garey, A McKinna, 11 1 Peters, G
McLeod, Charles Gamble, E J Collins.
Wounded Slightly—W F Blue, W M
Bearden, T It Christian, W C M Dunson,
Jas M Goff, M A Malsby, W Poe, W D
Wood, C P Wilcox,
Missing—It I. Gray, S B Bulkley.
Echols Guards, (From Meriwether.)
Killed—Capt C W Howard, W II C
Gadley.
Wounded Severely—Corporal J P Atkin
son. It Kppinger, I, S Adams.
Wounded Slightly—Sergeant B K Tuck
er, L P Blount, A H Freeman, E Glenn, J
E Porch, S A Casser, S F Culpepper.
Missing—Frank Ward.
Muter Rifles, (From Floyd.)
Incidents of the Battle—iasualliea in
the Sth Georgia Beglment.
Extract from the correspondence of
the Savannah Republican:
Manassas, July 25.
There are some additional facts
touching the death of the lamented
Bartow, and the part which the 7th and
8th Georgia Regiments performed in
the great battle of the 2lst. f which I
have obtained from eye-witnesses, and
which cannot fail to interest your read
ers. Col. Bartow fell when he was
leading the Seventh in a charge upon
Riekett’s battery, not Sherman’s.—
Lieut. \V. I*. Mood, of the Atlanta
Confederate Guards, J. F. Linsey, of
the Cobh county Confederate Guards,
J. L. Dobbs, of the same company,
and a Virginian picked him up and
bore him off to the rear. His last
word, uttered when they started off
with him, as repeated tome, were:
“Boys, they have killed me, but never
give it up.” They carried him off 75
or 100 yards Irom where he fell, and
laid him down ; but the bullets fell so
thick about him, that they removed
him further down the hill, where they
procured some water. He drank a lit
tle, and then seemed to try to speak,
but was not able. They then applied
the canteen to his lips a second time
hut he was unconscious and could not
swallow the water. Laying him back,
lie died almost instantly, and without 3
struggle. They took off his gloves and
placed them and a cartridge box under
his head for a p How. He did not live
mere than twenty minutes after he fell
When I first saw him, about 10
o’clock i hat night, his face wore a smile
of victorious satisfaction that led me for
a moment to doubt the reality of his
death. Hearing of his fall, Gen. John
ston sent a detachment to bring his
body to headquarters, which was done,
and on the following day, by order of
President Davis, his remains were taken
to Richmond to Mrs. Bartow. His
sword, which had been previously bro
ken by a ball, was saved, and yester
day 1 succeeded in getting his belt.
After Col. Bartow’s fall, Lieut. Pax
ton of Virginia, asked leave, the color-
Killed—Frank Lathrop (color guard), T
S Mobley, L Warborough.
Wounded Severely—Sergeant O B Eve,
Corporal T J Hills, Corporal J M Berry, M
Fiuduburke, W King, N S Fain, Jordan
Reese, W \V Ware.
Wounded Slightly—Corporal B F Price,
A J Bobo, Ewing Eason, John Mintcn, T
Sparks, W P Trout.
.Mania Greys.
Killed—Sergeant J S George, A M Orr,
R B Hamilton.
Wounded Severely—M C H ilsey, Lisut.
B M Smith, Wm Brooka, G C Elliott, Isaac
Frank, J M Holtzclaw, J 0 Martin, E H
Gueat, G H Hammond.
Wounded Slightly—J F Gramling, J W
Johnson, T C McGuire, J A Adair, Z Davis,
A F Henderson, Thomas Norwood, D M
Croft, J Yatborougb, B M Watkins.
Missing—Corporal T A Hammond, Geo
Baker, W C Humphries, S Gacel, L Reick,
J Kershaw, E H Gramhng.
Pulaski Volunteers'.
Killed—J W Caruthers, Alevey Goodson,
John Lowry, J A Scarborough,
Severely WoundeJ—Thos Boatwright, J
E Floyd, J Howell, A R Coley, W N Bow
en, W J Raines, M SanJers, J Smith, M
Ward.
Slightly Wounded—Capt. T D L Ryan,
Sergeant D H Mason, Abrain McLelland,
J V Cowen.
Flayd Infantry.
Killed—F Madiey, W Chastain, A Ilar-
shaw, A Warnock, Sergeant G G Martin.
Wounded Severely—Capt. J F Cooper,
M Burns, J Dunn, Win llidle, Corporal O
M Porter, Thos WrighU
Wounded Slightly—Thos Allen, J Had
en, J Holbrook, J Padget, S Morrow, Geo.
Somers.
Stephens Light Guards, (From Greene.)
Killed—Aug Daniel, Jsa Palmorc, T S
Howell, Jas llarper. Geo Heard.
Wounded Severely Cain, A W
Broom, W U Copeland, D Moore, JT Lew
is, T Merrett, G W Baity, T W Collins.
Wounded Slightlv—J P McCall. J Brew
er, I Christopher. J Daniel, G Dobbs.
Missing—John Calvin, Jerry O'Brian.
Oglethorpe Rifles.
None killed.
Wounded Severely—Jesse Walton, F A
Hart, J R Brooks, J K Ramsey, J L Wright,
L C Langston, E Lunceford, U F Lester, E
T Martin, T D Gillam.
Wounded Slightly—A S Pittard, T R
Maxey, A T Bright well, T M Christian, M
D L Reid, A S Williams.
gun a- ... - , bearer being wounded, to carry the flag.
Had One of Them.—A gentleman
who was at Manassas on Tuesday
morning, 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 shoul
der, and drove his prisoner before him
The Zouave was a pert looking te.low
and wore his arm in a sling in conse
The Eighth Georgia Regiment in the
Battle at Stone Bridge.
The fallowing graphic description ol
scenes on the battle-field, and the gal
lant conduct of the Eighth Georgia
Regiment, was written fot the Dispcdch
by a gentleman who participated in the
fierce conflict of the 21st of July:
Eighth Georgia regiment.
On Thursday, the 18th inst., about
2 P. M., this Regiment left Winches
ter for Manassas, under command of
Lieut. Colonel Montgomery Gardner.
Colonel Bartow had been acting Brig
adier General of a Brigade, consisting
of the 7th, Sth, 9th, and 11th Georgia
Regiments, and a battalion of Ken
tuckians.
The Sth marched 27 miles over the
mountains, lording the Slienan lcah, to
Piedmont on the Manassas Gap Rail
road, arriving there about 12 M., Fri
day. The march was fatiguing in the
extreme. After a delay of a few hours
they left for Manassas on the cars, and
a slow, tedious ride brought them to
this point late Saturday morning.—
They marched three and a half miles
to camp in the woods, without tents,
and without food. Earl} next morn
ing they were ordered to the fight,
where they arrived after a circuitous,
wearisome, and at times double-quick
tramp of between ten and twelve
miles.
Breathless, tired, faint and footsore,
the gallant teliows were eager for the
affray.
They were first ordered to support
Pendleton’s Virginia Battery, which
they did amid a furious storm ol grape
Irom the enemy’s. Inactive as they
were compelled to be under this fire,
they stood cool and unflnrried.
They were finally ordered to charge
Sherman’s Battery. To do this it was
necessary to cross an intervening hol
low, covered by the enemy’s fire, and
establish themselves in a thicket flank
ing the enemy’s battery. They charg
ed in a manner that elicited the praise
of Gen. Johnston.
Gaining the thicket, they opened up
on the enemy. The history of warfare
probably affords no instance of more
desperate fighting t! an took place now.
From time sides a fierce, concentrated,
murderous, unceasing volley poured in
upon this devoted and heroic “six
hundred” Georgians. The enemy ap
peared upon the hill by the thousand.
Between six and ten regiments were
visible. It was a hell of bullet-rain
in that fatal grove. The ranks were
cut down as grain by a sc}the.—
Whole platoons melted away as if by-
magic. Cool, unflinching and stubborn,
each man tought with gallantry, and
a stern determination to win or die.—
Not one faltered. Col. Bartow’s horse
was shot under him. Adjutant Branch
fell, mortally wounded. Lieut. Col.
Gardner dropped with a shattered leg.
The officers moved from rank to rank,
from man to man, cheering and en
couraging the brave fellows. Some
of them took the muskets of the dead
and began coolly firing at the enemy.*
It was an appalling hour. The shot
whistled and tore through trees and
hones. The ground became literally
paved with the fallen. Yet the remnant
stood composed and ut quailing, care
fully loading, steadily aiming, unerring
ly firing, and then quietly looking to
see the effect of their shots. Mere
hoys fought like veterans—unexcited,
save with that stern “white heat,”
flameless exhilcration, that battle gives
to brave spirits.
After eight or ten rounds the regi
ment appeared annihilated. The or
der was reluctantly given to cease fir
ing and retire. The stubborn fellows
gave no heed. It was repeated. Still
no obedience. The battle spirit was
up. Again it was given. Three vol
leys had been fired afUr the first com
mand. At length they retired, walk
ing and fighting. Owing to the den
sity of the growth, a part ol the regi
ment were separated from the colors.-—
The other part formed in an open field
behind the thicket. The retreat con
tinued over ground alt* ruately wood
and field. At every open spot they
would reform, pour a volley into the
pursuing enemy and again retire.
From the accounts of the enemy who
stopped to give water to the wounded
and rifle the dead, it seen.s that the
8th cut to pieces the 6th Massachusetts,
half demolished the Rhode Islanders,
and made deadly havoc among the
Regulars.
But a horrible mistake occurred at
this point. Their own Inends taking
them for the enemy, poured a fatal fire
upon their mutilated ranks.
At length they withdiew from the
fight. "Their final rally was with some
sixty men of the six hundred they took
in. Balaklava tells no more heroic
tale than this: “Into the valley of death
marched the six hundred.’’
As they retired, they, passed Geo.
Beauregard. He drew aside, fronted,
raised his hat, and said, “ I salute the
8th Georgia with nt} hat off.”
01 all the companies ol the regiment,
the Oglethorpe Light Infantry suffered
most. They were on the extreme
right nearest the enemy, and thus were
more exposed. Composed of the first
young gentlemen of Savannah, their
terrible loss will throw a gloom over
their whole city.
An organization of five or six years’
standing, they were the lavorite corps
of Savannah. Colonel Bartow had
long been Captain and was idolized
by them, while lie had a band of sons
in them. It is supposed that his deep
grief at the mutilation of his hoys caus
ed him to expose his life more reck
lessly than was necessary. L’e wish
ed to die with them, if he could not
take them back home.
They fought u ith heroic desperation
All young, all unmarried, all gentle
men, there was not one of the killed
who was not an ornament to his com
munity and ircighted with biilliaut
promise.
In sending them to Virginia, Savan
nah sent her best to represent her, and
their loss proves how well they stood
up, how well that city was represented
upon a field where all were brave.
This company was the first one to
ofler its services to President Davis,
under the Confederate act authorizing
him to receive independent companies,
and had the honor of being the first re
ceived. They left home in disobe
dience to the orders of their Governor,
and brought away their arms in de
fiance of his authority, so eager were
they to go where our country needed
her best soldiers.
They were one of the two compa
res that took Fort Pulaski. When
there was a riot expected in Savannah,
early in the year, they were called out
to quell if, with another corps.
Their whole history is one of hero
ism. First to seek peril, they have
proved in their sad fate how nobly they
can endure it.
They will inevitably make their mark
during the continuance of this holy
war. They have enlisted for the whole
war, and not one will turn back who
can go forward, until it is ended, or
they are completely annihila ed.
After the gallant 8th had retired with
but a fragment, Col. Bartow, by Gen
Beauregard’s order, brought up the 7th
Georgia, exclaiming, in leply to Col.
Gartrell, of the 7th, who asked him
where they should go—“Give me your
flip, and I will tell yon.”
Leading them to their stand amid a
terrific fire, he posted the regiment
fronting the enemy, and exclaimed in
those eloquent tones so full of high
feeling that his Inends ever expected
from him—“Gen. Beauregard says you
must hold this position, and, Georgians,
1 appeal to you to hold it.”
Regardless of life, gallantly riding
amid the hottest fire, cheering the men,
inspiring them with his fervent courage,
he was shot in the heart, and fell from
his horse. They picked him up.—
With both hands clasped over his
breast, he raised his head and with a
God-like effort, his eye glittering in
its last gleanj with a blazing light, he
said, with a last heroic flash of his lofty
spirit, “They have killed me, but, boys,
never give up the field,”—emphasiz
ing the “never” in his peculiar and
stirring manner, that all who know
him will so feelingly recall.
Thus perished as noble a soul as
ever breathed. He will long live in
remembrance. lie met the fate he
most wished—the martyred patriot’s
grave. He was a pure patriot, an able
statesman, a brilliant lawyer, a chiral-
ric soldier, a spotless gentleman. His
imperious scorn of littleness was one
of his leading characteristics. His
lofty patriotism will consign his name
to an immortal page in this country’s
history.
Important Disclosure—Gen. Scott’s
Acknowledgements.
The follow is a portion of the debate
that took place in the United States
Congress on the 24th ult. It shows
that Scott fought the battle of Manas
sas, (if his own words can he ctedited,)
under the urgent pressure of Mr. Lin
coln:
Mr. Richardson—I repeat that Gen.
Scott had been forced to fight this bat
tle. I will tell him what occurred yes
terday morning. My colleagues (Lo
gan and Washburn) and myself, were
present with the President, Secretary of
War, and General Scott. In the
course of our conversation, General
Scott remarked: “I am the biggest
coward in the world.” I rose from my
seat. “Stay,” said General Scott, “I
will prove it. I have fought the battle
against my judgment, and I think the
President ought to remove me to day
for doing it. As God is my judge,’’
he added after an interval sinlence, “I
did all in my power to make the army
efficient, and I deserve removal be
cause I did not stand up when I could
and did not.”
I stand here to vindicate General
Scott. I atn indebted to the gentle
man from Missouri for the compliment
he paid me. I desire to say for my
self that I am here, the last of a gener
ation, my father and grandfather having
fallen beneath the flag ot their country.
I, too, have fought under its tolds, at
home and abroad, and God willing,
there will I stand till the end of iny
life, defending it against all foes.
Mr. Washburn.—As my colleague
has referred to Gen. Scott’s remarks,
lie might also allude to what the Pres
ident said.
Mr. Richardson.—I will do so.—
“Your conversation implies,” said the
President to Gen. Scott, “that I forced
you to battle.” To which Gen. Scott
replied: “I have never served under
a President who has been kinder to
me than you have been.” But Gen.
Scott did not relieve the President from
tLe fact of the latter having forced him
to fight the battle. General Scott thus
paid a compliment to the President
personally. I desire to say of the Pres
ident that 1 have known him Irom boy
hood. If you let him alone, he is an
honest man. [Laughter.] But I am
afraid he has not firmness enough to
stand up against the politicians around
him.
From the Baltimore South, July 24th.
A View of Affairs after (he Battle
Private intelligence from Washing
ton, altogether discredits the idea that
any portion of the Federal forces have
been able to make a stand at Centre-
viile, or at any point beyond Fairfax
Court House. The best opinion
seems to be that, except stragglers who
have been unable to make gold their
escape, and are hiding in the w iods to
avoid capture, there are no Federal
troops outside of the Alexandria line.-,
which are not extended more than four
or five miles from that city. Mcst of
the regiments are within the entrench
ments on Arlington Heights. The con
dition of those who remain in Wash
ington is deplorable in the extreme—
many of them hatless, coatless, shoe
less, and in some instances without
pantaloons—mostly unarmed, having
flung away everything in their flight—
standing, limping, lying or sitting upon
the corners of the streets, or the stoops
of houses; and appealing to the charity
of passengers for means to buy food
and tobacco. Much blame is attached
to theit officers lor not making greater
efforts to collect these disorganized
wrecks of the “Grand army,’’ but the
the difficulty in many cases is that the
officers are among the missing.
Army officers of capacity and intel
ligence do not hesitate to pronounce
the present army demoralized beyond
the pos.-ibilitv of successful re-organi
zation, and express the conviction
that the attempt to supply its place
with another will prove an utter failure.
The rank and file of the new army,
they say, will be worse than that of the
old one, which comprised nearly all
the uniformed volunteer corps of the
Northern cities, and was consequently
of the best material, so far as intelli
gence and some previous knowledge
of tactics went, that the country could
afford—and as for the officers, they
ask, how does the Government expect
to find better? To fill the new regi
ments with the same class of incapa-
blcs, who received commissions before
is to incur the certainty of similar de
feat, while, the Government proposes
to appoint none hut educated military
men to position in in its new arm}, it
will have to wait for a few years until
West Point furnishes them; tor, at
present, there is not a sufficient number
of such in the country to officer prop
erly an army of 100.000 men. The
old at my was but 12,000 or IS,000
strong, and many ol its best officers
are now in the Confederate ranks—
those who were tried in the late battle
were the best the Government had—
and the result is seen. Such, at least
is the talk in miltary circles.
A very bitter feeling against the Se
cessionists is said to exist in Washing
ton, which has been inflamed In- the
accounts which luive'Jieen^lissimaina-
ted in regard to barbarities alleged to
have been committed by tiie Confeder
ate troops. To such an extent has
this feeling arisen, especia'ly among
the Federal soldiers, that apprehensions
were felt that the few Confederate
prisoners who were in the city would
be massacred. A violent assault was
yesterday made by a mob upon a partv
of four prisoners, who were brought
into the city under an escort of sol
diers, and after a hearing before Gen.
Mansfield, were being taken to the old
Capitol building, which is now used as
a guard house. The crowd threatened
to hang them anil attempted to take
them from the hands of soldeirs. “In
front of Willard’s” says this morning’s
Republican, “the excitement was very
great: one gentleman (sic) pushed his
way through the crowd, and dealt one
of the prisoners a blow, nearly knock
ing him down; at other places on the
rout there was great trouble in get-
ing them through the crowd.’’ In like
manner, a Dr. Belt, a citizen of Prince
George’s county, Md., who was arrest
ed for uttering “seditious language,’’
only escaped being lynched by the
mob through the active interference of
some U. S. cavalry, who charged upon
the crowd with drawn sabres.
killed the few wounded Confederate QATTTHT?I>V l)tvvniT
prisoners who were there. oUllillljftdl JjAiN A Tilt.
A leter from a gentleman in high
position in Washington, to a friend in
this city, after characterizing the de
feat of the Federal army as a complete
route,says that Mr.Russell of the London
Times, gives the following account of
the engagement: He says that the
Confederate torces completely deceived
the Federal Generals. They had
thrown up works at Centreville which
they never intended to use, and as-soon
as the army arrived, they would re
treat, leaving baggage and provisions
&c., to indicate a hasty retreat. This
course was pursupd up to Bull Run,
when masked batteries without number
played npon the Federals right, left,
and centre. If a battery was taken,
another opened upon its flank, and the
captured battery was soon re-taken by
the Confederates. The fight continu
ed thus for nine hours, when the Con
federate forces charged upon the left
wing of the Federalists, and the whole
were routed. Mr. Russell says that
the loss in killed, wounded, and pris
oners on the Federal side, must be at
least 12,000. He calls if a disastrous
defeat.
The same writer says that at the
muster of the Fire Zouaves last night,
only 103 answered to their names.—
The 69th brought home 256 out of
1.000, and the 71st 329 out of 1,100.
Col. Gorman, of the Minneso'a Regi
ment, says that the Federal forces ac
tually engaged were 40,000, with heavy
reserves at Centreville.
It is positively stated that the army-
moved not only against the advice but
the wish of Gen. Scott. The writer
adds: “It is acknowledged that the
defeat must have a most damaging ef
fect in Europe, as those Governments
were only waiting to see the result be
tween the centre of the army and the
main divisions oi the Confederates.”
James A. Sledge,
Anderson XV. Ueese,
Editors.
ATHENS, GEORGIA.
WEDNESDAY Morninc., aic.rsT r
From tno Mobile Advertiser A Register.
Interesting from Pensacola.
Pensacola, July 26.—Three of our
enterprising “ boys” this afternoon
made a trip to Santa Rosa Island, car
rying with them a particular hungry
dog. It was a “ ct r ot low degree,’’
his mission being too dangerous to risk
a dog of value. At a sate distance
from the fort the animal was properly
equipped and turned loose to find its
way to the Yankee settlement.
The dog’s equipment consisted of a
bottle securely attached to his neck,
the pottle carefully loaded with the
Mobile Advertiser and Register’s spe
cial telegraphic account of the battle
of Manassas, aedresse^d to Col. Harvey-
Brown, of Fort Pickens.
'I he last seen of the canine messen
ger, after he was dismissed with a
kick, he was putting out for Pickens
over the sandhills at 2:40 lick, evident
ly bent on sampling Yankee salt ra
tions at supper time.
If Col. Brown was not deterred from
opening it by fears of an infernal ma
chine, he probably derived immense
satisfaction from “discussing the con
tents ot that bottle.”
say?
Beyond additional lists of the killed
and wounded, and Munchausen like
stories of the feats of valor performed
Yesterday morningthe neighborhood
of the President Street Depot presented
a scene rarefy witnessed in Baltimore.
A short time ago regiment after regi
ment of troops would arrive, hut they
were hurriedly pushed forward for the
defence of Washington; but the scene
of yesterday was nearly four thousand
jaded worn out soldiers going home,
hut waiting impatiently for the means
of transportation. Hundreds of them
lay stretched upon the sidewalks, wrap
ped in sleep, and mayhap dreaming of
those who anxiously awaited their re
turn. So great was the anxiety to get
off, that the Rhode Island First Regi
ment ran up Pratt Street to meet the
cars that were to convey them north
ward. The feeling seemed to be gen
eral that they had had enough of the
war and its privations, and ii.timated
but little disposition to go again so far
from the Capitol to defend it. Mar y
ol them complained that only freight
Molition Congressmen in Battle.—
A correspondent of the New York
Daily Times has the following:
“Congress adjourned Friday until
Monday, expressly to allow the mem
bers to see the show. Neither Con
gress nor the Union wish to see anoth
er such a sight. At the grand stam
pede civilians were awtully scared, and
I think several of them were taken pris
oners. I witnessed some terrific feats
ot running among them. Many lost
their carriages, and for aught I know-
are skulking about the woods now.—
One very fat Congressman offered an
artilleryman $20 for a horse ; but after
he had the horse, he found it so hard
to mount that he turned pale all over.
He John Gilpined along, near my legs,
until his horse threw him, when his
agony was fearful. Three ol us boost
ed him up, and he cut again as though
the d—1 was after him. The M. C.
will never go to the wars again.”
The Pious and Extmplary Zouave.—
Says the Wilmington Journal:
One of Ellsworth’s Zouaves had
been assured that he should dine this
week in Richmond. Before he had a
chance to pull trigger, a ball tumbled
him over and he was taken to Rich
mond sure enough. “Well,” said he,
“here I am in Richmond!” “But,”
added this pious and exemplary man,
in his poetical style, “How the h—11
am I to dine with a hall in my belly ?”
by indivieuals during the battle, the
Washington papers of this morning
contain absolutely nothing in regard to
the present and future plans of the
Administration, they are ominously
silent. As an illustration of the means
which are used to inflame the popular
passions, and create a new war fever
at the North, we may quote the state
ment of the official paper, The Repub
lican, that the Confederates, in the
late battle, used balls coated with a
substance “supposed to he ot a pois
onous nature,” of which large numbers
were found. lit like manner the As
sociated Press lends itself to the same
infamous purpose, by giving currency
to the story ot a Zouave about the cru
el ties practised upon his comrades—
who he ptetented to have seen tied
to trees, as the Indians used to se:vc
their captives, and tortured with bayo
nets in lieu of arrows.
A deception of a different kind and
a less revolting nature is that attempted
to be practised on the people in regard
to the Federal loss in the battle. It
having been found that the capture of
Sherman’s Battery, on account of the
prestige which has always attached, in
this country, to that particular arm of
the service, was having a peculiarly
depressing effect, six pieces of artille
ry, which had not been in the battle at
all, were produced and are now ex
hibited on Capitol Hill as Sherman’s
guns,to satisfy the people that they have
not been taken. It is impossible for
such a paitiy piece of deception to
countervail the current statement of
every correspondent who witnessed the
battle, or has been at an} pains to as
certain the tacts, that the guns were
among the first that fell into the hands
of the enemy. In addition to theforc-
g oln g, gleaned chiefly from private hut
altogether reliable sources, we subjoin
the following;
An officer of the army who arrived
from Wasaington at half past 4 o’clock
this afternoon, states that not less than
1,000 wounded were brought into the
various hospitals in Washington to day.
He further states that during the re
treat from Bull Run, a rumor having
gained currency that all the Fire Zou
aves taken by the Confederates were
put t£ death, a party of Zouaves broke
into the hospital at Centreville, ami
cars were provided for them, and
The Rash for Home.
The Baltimore Sun, of July 27th
so great was the objection of numbers
that they climbed to the tops of the
cars, where they said, the heat of the
sun would not be so intolerable as the
fetid atraospheie within. As the train
moved off the band played “Home
again from a foreign shore.” Through
out the whole day the trains were pass
ing towa d Philadelphia.
A Riddled Flag.
A gentleman who has just returned
from Manassas, informs us that he saw
the colors of the Seventh Georgia Re
giment the day after the great battle.
He says the flag had fourteen bullet
holes through it, and that the flag staff
had been struck in lour diflerent pltces.
The immortal Bartow was leading the
regiment with this flag in his hands
at the lime he fell, the color hearer
having been wounded. A Virginian,
who had been separated from his re
giment, asked permission to bear the
flag, which was granted, and with his
own hands, assisted by one of the color
guard, he planted it upon Sherman’s
Battery, (commanded by Ricketts.)—
The Virginian insists that it was the
first Confederate flag that waved over
the famous battery. Other regiments
came up at the same time, howjver,
and are equally entitled to prrticipate
in Die honors of taking the Battery.
The Rattle of Manassas.
Almost our entire availablespa^e is
up to the accounts of the grt-a- „„ |f|0
•2lst of July. On the outside will b e f oun( j
very interesting accounts of the tVi'.la r/it lL .
Federal army, taken from their mu,
pors ; which certainly are not t-sagf-md
and which surpasses the lli^h: of the |i„ s .
sians after the battle of Borodino.
We hoped to give a fall ari l detailed ac
count, but the battle extended over so l.ir,.,,
a tract of country, and the incidents croud-
ed into one day’s engagement aie so mi -
tnerous, that we despair of obtaining such
an account for several weeks.
From all that we have read from different
sources. Northern and Southern, one fact is
prominently exhibited, to-v.ii: Our army
was smaller in numbers titan the I’, deni',
and Its equipment in arms and oilier accou
trements much, much inferior. And that
tho brilliant victory was won alono by the
superior valor and endurance of our men.
The spoils cl the field display a complete
ness of equipment never perhaps attained
before. All of their small arms had a mncii
greater range than curs—cf the latest im
provements ; they bad splendid rifled can
non, with such long range that It re .pur. .1
telescopes to enable them to take sight, ami
were mounted on wheels with tires a loo
wide, drawn by large horses, splendidly
caparisoned ; and even their canteens were
arranged in a most ingenious manner, hav
ing small filterers, which enabled them m
have pure, clear water, while our brave inert
drank water half-mud, and sometimes could
not get even that, hut wore seen, while a
leaden bail was fulling around them, stoop
ing and picking blackberries to allay their
thirst. Truly may we exclaim, when we
read how this splendid army was put to
such a disgracelul ffiglil by ournic;,, “.Some
trust in chariots and some in horses, hut tv?
will remember the name of the Lord c.;
God.”
The spoils taken npon the field ilisp
another fact also. A gentleman high in
position in Richmond, writes to his Friends
in this plane, that an examination of the
trunks and otliei baggage which fell
our hands, exhibit a fiendish malignant)
and hellishness of purpose never before
known among civilized beings. Among
other things, they had a large number ol
band-cufTs ! We suppose their lotention
was to march Southern Ireemen manurin'
into Washington city, to grace their tri
umphal return.
Another fact is disclosed, w Inch should
make humanity weep. Females—w w ill
not call them women—accompanied this
"grand army.’’ to witness the carnage el
the battle-field, as a holiday amusement,
just as the women of Spain, in the darker
ages, went to a bull-fight. These Jezebels
brought with them splendid dresses fur the
purpose of participating in a grand hall at
Richmond after the fight. What caret they
though the ground should he paved with
the dead and dying, from Manassa to lli.-i:-
■notid, so they could flaunt their finery m
the faces of their conquered Southern lis
ters. Senator Wilson of .Massaehuntts*
and a number of other members of Dong-ess
were sitting down to a splendid dinner at
Centreville, drinking iced champagne ar.J
bolding high carnival generally with these
females, as a pleasant mode ol passing ;h«
lime until their troops could batter down
the little obstructions at Manassas so they
could resume their journey to Kiclunond.
when the fearlul cry was heard Irom the tir
ing Federals, “The Secessionists are upon
us !” and that dinner parly was suuJenl)
terminated. One of the Jezebels, in en
deavoring to get in a carriage, tell a=-
broke her leg. Who pities her ?
What were the women of the Soutli I
ing at that time ? They were assemble-: it
churches and other public places. make':'
clothes for our men and preparing bandago
and lint for the wounded. No women fol
lowed our army to gloat over the ag >r:ie*
of a wounded enemy ; but when the tne::
who came to make slaves of us were car-
ried to Richmond, their wounded were ten
derly cared fur.
There are many interesting facts wlm-a
wo are compelled to defer unlit next utt'l.
How the News was Received at Phil-
.adclphia.
Forney’s Press tells us how the news of
the terrible defeat ol the Federals at Manas
sas was teceived in that city:
The streets were speedily filled with hun
dreds of nervous, pallid citizens, who spoke
in low fitful language of the probable effect
of the repulse upon the prolongation of the
• the courage of our soldiery, and the
inhuman exulta'ion of the rebels. Had an
epidemic swept over the city, or desola lion
entered into its houses, or each man felt in
his heart the fabled death, or anything of
individual or personal misfortune occurred,
lucre might have been some cheerfulness
to light up tho anxious faces. In this case
however, it was an imperrlllcd nation,
which implied to every Philadelphian an
imperilled home and a disgraced people.
The brightness of the sky seemed sud
denly overcast: the quick pulses of the
morning beat slowly and sadly; there was
sorrow in every household, and the '.errot*
of war came home to our once happy peo
ple in all their ignominy and accuteness.
We heard of a number of cases where
weak and aged citizens fell half lifeless at
the first intimation, and many were taken
to their beds under circumstances of almost
hopeless recovery.
The Georgia Troopers.
This fine Cavalry company art- no»
encamped at the fair grounds, nnJ - ir0
being drilled daily. They have a> in
structor Lieut. Church, late of the '
S. Dragoons—in whose hands they fa
making rapid progress.
We understand they are in nmlnl*
few more horses. Persons haring an )
to dispose of will do well to bring tV.rc
in.
We publish below the list ol oil:
We will publish a list of the comp'.'
next week.
W. G. Delony, Captain.
J. R. Lyle, 1st Lieiitenan*-
T. C. Williams, 2d do ,
J. E. Ritch, 3d do I
John A. Wimpy, 1st S,.: i: '
J. C. Rutherford,
D. E. Smith, _
M. Simmons,
E. D. Cowen,
VV. I). Simmons,
S. T. Whelchel,
Willie Church,
2d do
3d do
4th do
1st Corpo
o,| da
3d do
4th do
Rags! Pay lour Debts •»
Clean cottofl and linen tags. ( n0
will be received at ibis office lural. J -
due, under ten dollars.
If this is not an easy way
debts, we do not knew what «•
Southern Cullivafor-
The August number rer
<roo«l matter.