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VOLUME XLIV. } ^ »|W————^T—W—■— ■ ]•. M. OB ME & SON, EDITORS and proprietors. STEPHEN F. MILLER, ASSOCIATE EDITOR. Terms after first of .nine, 1863. Subscription, per annum, in advance, $ 4 00 TRANSIENT ADVERTISIXG. v i 50 per square of ter. lines for tlnrfirst, aU .] 75 cents for each subsequent insertion. Tributes of Respect, Resolutions by So cieties. Obituaries, <fce., exceeding' sir Hues, be charged as transient advertising. LEIiAL ADVERTISING. 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( ONF EDERATE T AxT Baldwin County. 49th Tax District. i LL PERSONS, residents of Baldwin county, or doing business therein, who belong to ei ther of the classes mentioned below, are. hereby notified that I shall opqn my Registry Books on the loth of August, (inst.) to register as required bv the Confederate Tax law, passed April 24th, Lfi;!. and to receive the specific tax and such oth er taxes as are now due. Those who fail to register and pay, will be charg ed a double specilic tax, and the like^um for eve ry thirty days of such failure. ' Office next door to Milledgeville Post Office— open from 8 o’clock A. M., to 2, P. M., for one week, beginning August Kith. J. C. WHITAKER, Tax Collector 49th District. SUIUEUTS OF TAXATION. Apothecaries. Bankers, Brewers, Brokers, Butch er';. Bakers, Bowling Alleys, Billiard Rooms, Com mission Merchants and Commission Brokers, Cat tle Brokers, Circus, Confectioners, Dentists, Dis tillers, Distillers of fruit t* ninety days or less, Hotels. Inns, Taverns, Eating houses, Jugglers and Exhibiters of Shows. Lawyers, Livery stable keepers. Pawnbrokers, Pedlars, Physicians. Pho tographers. Retail dealers, Retail dealers in liquor, Surgeons, I heatres, Tobacconists, Wholesale deal ers "Wholesale dealer in liquors. Milledgeville, August 4, 1862 _ 34 2t LIGHT i—j—LIGHT! LIGHT! J UST RECEIVED, a few boxes Extra WAX O ANI3Ij33S. WM. II. SCOTT. Milledgeville, August 11,1803 33 3t MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1863. NUMBER 37. Address of the President to the Sol diers of the Confederate States. After more than two years of a warfare scarcely equalled in the nutnber<-magni- tude and fcaifnl carnage of its battles ; a warfare in which your qoqrage and forti tude have illustrated yonr country, and at traded not only gratitude at home,but ad miration abroad ; your enemies continue a struggle in which our final triumph must he inevitable. Unduly elated wflh their recent successes, they imagine that tem porary reverses can quell your spirit or shake your determination, ari(J. they are now gathering heavy masses for a general invasion in the vain hope that by despe rate effort success may at length be reached. You know too well, my countrymen, what they mean by success. Their malig nant rage aims at nothing less than the extirmination of yourselves, yonr wives and children. They seek to destroy what j they cannot plunder. They propose as the spoils of victory, that your homes shall be partitioned among the wretches whose atro cious cruelties have stamped infamy on their Government. They design to incito servile insurrection and light the fires of incendiarism whenever they reach your your homes, and they debauch the inferi- or race, hitherto docile and contented, by promising indulgence of the vilest passions as the price of treachery. Conscious of their inability to prevail by legitimato warfare; not daring to make peace lest {hey should be hurled from their seats of power, the men who now rule in Washing ton refuse even to confer on the suf^ect of putting an end to outrages which disgrace our age, or listen to a suggestion for con ducting the war according to the usages of civilization, Fellow-citizetis, no other alternative is left you hut victory or subjugation, slavery and the utter ruin of yourselves, your fam ilies and your country. The victory is within your reach. You need but stretch forth your hands to grasp it. For this, arid- all that is necessary is that those who are called to the field hy every motivo that can move the human heart, should prompt ly repair to the post of duty, and stand by their comrades now in front of the foe, and thus so strengthen the armies of the Con federacy as to insure success. The men From the. Chronicle & Sentinel. JL Complete and Interesting Account of the Pennsylvania Campaign, Aumy of Northern Virginia, I August 12, 1SG3. J M it. Editor:—In compliance with my promise, I will now, as I have a day of leisure, essay to give you an account of our Pennsylvania campaign. The, ]\Inrch. On the 24th of June, our division—Ma jor General Ilodes’—marched from Green castle, Penn., whero I last wrote you, to Chamborsburg. Here we saw the old camps of the Pennsylvania “Melish.” but the militia had lied and we took the town. We marched through in perfect order; not a man allowed to leave his place in ranks; our colors flying and our bands playing Southern airs. Chavibersburg, Pa.— Ids Inhabitants—The March io other tenons. Cliarnbersburg is a beautiful place of some four thousand inhabitants. The doors of the stores were all closed. Every win dow, however, of dwellings and porticoes and cross streets, were filled with women and men; yos, I say men, because they had on the habiliments of the sterner sex; but they are not such, as dwell South of the Potomac—or at least, I cannot yet think that there are any such in our land of heroes. If I thought that we had men who would he willing to stay fit home and see a hostile army marching through their own territory, I should be willing to have some of our people “sent, across tho lines.” Our boys would ask the strong healthy fol lows why they were not in the army fight ing for their flag and the glorious nigger that they love so much. The women, gen erally, looked very sourly at us. Some, however, told us that they sympathised with us. We found very few who wanted tho war to go on; that whole country through which our army passed was com pletely conquered. When, at any time, our men went out from camp to get inilk, butter, chickens, or any thing they wanted to eat, the citizeus would give it quickly; showing signs of great, fear. Some of the citizens had left their homes and gone farther North—for now absent from (heir post would, if pres- kheir health we presume. After stopping at ent in the field, suffice to create numerical equality between our f orces and that of tho invaders—and when, with any approach to such equality, have we failed to be vie- 'we had been represented to he. I conver- torious? I believe but few of those abseni sed with some intelligent men who said a place a few days, the people would get over .their fright when they had found out that we were not savages or demons as t < ITY TAX NOTICE.—My hooks are now open ' for the collection of the City Taxes, assessed hv the Council for the present year. Office under the Milledgeville Hotel. “JAMES C. SHEA, Clerk. Milledgeville, July 28, 1863 tf Colton Cards, Coffee & Sole Leather. 1 / U jt PAIR WHITTMORE’S Cotton Cards, A UU number 10. 500 lbs. COULEE. 500 lbs. SOLE LEATHER. Just received and for sale by J. GANS & CO- Milledgerille, April 14, 1863 15 tf 1ST ot.ice. OtTicE Ga. Relief & Hospital Ass.ocia’i*, l Augusta, Ga., June23d. 1863. 5 V MESSENGER of the Georgia Relief &- Hos pital Association will leave Atlanta on or near tl. loth of each mouth for Mississippi, and will take charge of all boxes and packages intended tor the Georgia troops in that State, and will cany them to some safe point near the army and deposit them, and notify the owners, or deliver them to the owners, if practicable, tree of charge. 1 lie boxes and packages must be marked with the names of the owners, their company and regiment, and to the care of the Georgia Relief and Hospital Association. Atlanta, Ga. The Association will not be responsible for any box containing perish able articles, £uch as green vegetables. Ac. Box 's and packages will be deposited at the W ayside Home, Atlanta, Ga. \V.‘ 11. POTTER, Gcn’l. Superint dt. - Newspapers of this State will please copy daiij 'hirin'*' the first week oteach month, and send bRIs Vj this office. W. if. POl 1ER. Gen 1 8up t. July 7, 1863 27 istwem S PECIAL NOTICE.—The undersigned haying removed from Milledgeville, desiics and in tends to close up his business matters of that place as speedily as possible. All persons indebt ed are «otitied that my notes and accounts are in the hands of J. A Breedlove and P. H Lawler, •who nre authorized to collect and make settle- merits. if not arranged at an early day, settle ments will be enforced by law. A. C. VAIL, Agent. August 19,1862 tf STATE TAX—-180*3. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,? Mim.embvim.e, Aug. 18, 1863. j \A/TIEKEA8. the 734th and 735th sec- VY tions of the Code, it is made the. duty of the Comptroller General to examine and ad* to gether the Digests of Taxable property of the •State, returned by the various Tax Receivers and Collectors of the State to the Comptroller Gener al’s Office; and bv Acts, assented to, December 13th and 15th. 1862, the Governor and Comptroller General are further authorized and required to as sess such a rate of taxation for 1863 sis shall .raise the net amount of one MH.UON FIVE HUNDRED AXII FORTY-TWO THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED dollars. In obedience to the requirements of the Code, the Comptroller General has footed up and added together the Digests : and further to carry out the requirements of the Acts of the 13th and 15th Dec., ] 8ti2. it is . ,. . ORDERED That the rate ot taxation shall be SEVENTEEN cents ON T11E ONE HUN DRED DOLLARS on the property returned, and double thafcainount on default property, that being the per cent, necessary to raise the amount requir ed, upon the Digests, as returned. JOSEPH E. BROWN, * Governor. PETERSON TilWEATT, Comptroller General _^ugust 18,1863 _ _ * 33 4t WE arc authorized to announce 'Major WM. T. W. NAPlER as a candidate to represent the county c, ‘ Baldwin in the Representative branch of tho General Assembly. 31 tde are actuated by unwillingness to serve their country ; but that many have found it difficult to resist the temptation of a vis it to their homes and the loved ones from whom they have been so long separated ; that others have left for temporary atten tion to their affairs with the intention of returning, and then have shrunk from the consequences of their violation ot tluty ; • that others agoiti have left their post from i mere restlessness and desire ot change, j each quieting tho npbraidfrngs o{ his con- j science by persuading himself that his in- j dividual service could have no influence on j the general result. These and other causes, (although far less disgraceful than the desire to avoid danger, to escape from the sacrifices re quired by patriotism) are, nevertheless, grievous faults, and^ace the cause of our beloved country, and everything we bold dear, in imminent peril. 1 repeat that the men who now owe duty to their country, who have been called out and have not yet reported for duty, or who have ab sented themselves from their posts, are sufficient in number to secure us victory in the struggles now impending. I call on you, then, my countrymen, to hasten to your camps, in obedience to the dictates of honor and of duty, and sum mon those who have absented themselves without leave, or who have remained ab sent beyond t*be period allowed by their furloughs, to repair without delay to then- respective commands, and do hereby de clare that I grant a general pardon and amnesty to all officers and men within the Confederacy, now absent without leave, who shall, with the least possible delay, I return to their proper posts of duty, but do I excuse willbe received for any delay be jyond twenty days after the'first pubhea- ! tion of this proclamation in Lie State in ! which the absentee may be at the date o( j I the publication. This amnesty, and par ; ! don shall extend to all who have been ac- j i cused, or who have been convicted and are j i undergoing sentence for absence without • leave, or desertion, excepting only those who have been twice convicted of deser tion. Finally, I conjure you, my country-wo men—the wives, mothers, sisters and daughters of theOonfederacy—to use their all-powerful influence in aid of this call to add one crnwtting sacrifice to those which their patriotism has so freely and constant ly offered on their country’s altar, and to take care that none who owe service in the field shall be sheltered at Lome from the disgrace of having deserted their duty to ** them families, to their country, and to their God, Given under my hand and the fecal of the Confederate States, at Richmond, this 1st day of Au gust, in the year of our Lord, one thousanS eighfr hundred and sixty three. JEFFERSON DAVIS By the President : J. P. Benjamin. Sec’y of State. . . v -* '-n* i ni Milledgeville, August 4. 1863 Exemption of Postmasters.—Gov. Mil- ton, of Florida, lately addressed a letter to the Secretary of War on the subject of tho exemption of Postmasters from conscrip tion, and received the following reply : “In reply, I have the honor to state that the Act of Exemption in favor ot Postmas _ ters, relieved from conscription only those who were appointed hy the I lesident and confirmed by the Senate. 1 he I ostmas ters whose nomination are required to be made to the Senate, are those whose sala ries amount to $1,000 per annum, and none others are exempt by law.” that they were anxious for the war to close; that they had no idea that the South would ever be conquered. They were willing to acknowledge the independence of the South. We remained at Cliarnbersburg until the morning of the 2Gth. Wa then inarched to Shippcnsburg, nine miles. This is ano ther town of some four thousand inhabi tants. Carlisle—its Institutions—the Commence ment exercises broken up. Wc marched from Shippensbnrg to Car lisle, the distance twenty miles, on tho 27th. (Inr cavalry—Gen. Jenken’s—had passed through the town tho day before. The inhabitants were expecting us* We marched with colors streaming and hands playing. The citizens seemed anxious to get a glimpse at us as we went to our re spective camps. Our division camped in and around the town. Our brigade camp ed within the campus of Dickerson Col lege. feome of tho brigades were placed in tho cantonments so lately occupied by tho “blue coaled gentry’ who had depart ed for Harrisburg. Carlisle is a very handsome city of five or six thousand inhabitants. It is famous for its institutions of learning. Dickerson College is a very old institution; many sol diers who were in our corps met with those with whom they had spent pleasant days while at this place. This is tho Alma Ma ter of many a Southern gentleman;*many a noble Confederate soldier received his tuition at old Dickerson. The college buildings are three large stone edifices of huge proportions. The-commencement was just about to come off when the grave old Dr. Johnson, tho President, was informed that we were coming. Two days of the examination had already passed. _ But how perplexing to the seniors to think that they would not ho permitted to deliver their addresses!. Oh, cruel Confederates. Why molest these peaceable debonair g-utleuien? Ero we reached the town, the exercises closed. Students and professors left im- "!■ promptu. We fared finely while in Car- i lisle. Our Assistant Quartermasters were well supplied in their departments while here. The Cumberland Valley—the Spoils obtain ed—opinions of the inhabitants. A word as to the Cumberland Valley. I think I never saw a more beautiful coun try in my life. From Williamsport, Md., to Carlisle, Pa., there is, seemingly, a con wheat field. And such fields of timothy and clover! I assure you it was quite a treat to our poor hide-bound hor ses to take a trip to the rich fields of Cum berland Valley. This valley is about twenty miles wide, excellently watered and highly cultivated. 'Flie towns aro never so far apart that when one is discovered ahead you canuot look back and see tho last. We got a large number of horses, cows, sheep, wagons, harness, saddles, bridles, boots, shoes, hats, &c. f &c.; and when I say a “large number” I mean it. Our Quartermasters seized sugar, coffee, drugs, syrups and whiskey, of course, as this belongs especially to their depart ments. A “little calicoe” for their own use, with a few ladies’ and baby shoes— “essentials,” of course for the army. But, without doubt, really army sup plies, to the amount of millions of dollars, were secured while our army was in Penn sylvania. While in Carlisle we frequently heard 'the expression, “I wish that this war would close so that you ones pecu liar Dutch expression, “could go home.” Some of tho boastful and bullying Yan kees would say to us occasionally, “not one of Lee’s army will ever recross the Pos tomac only as prisoners of war.” But we will to another field;' one long to be remembered and never forgotten. The advance on Gettysburg—Position of the various Divisions. Tuesday morning, the 30th June, we marched from Carlisle on the Baltimore turnpike to Heidelberg. Wednesday morn ing, July 1st, we marched out of camp at 4 o’clock, A. M. The morning was bright and beautiful. The day, already marked in the calendar of the Confederate States, was to be the commencement day of the greatest battle of the war. Maj Gen. Johnson’s Division, which had been near Carlisle, bad marched back down the valley toward Cbambcrsburg. as i Gen. Rodcs’ division had marched towards Gettysburg. Maj. Geu. Early’s division, which had been down as far as York, had turned back towards Gettysburg. Thus was our corps—Lt. Gen. Ewell’s—dispos ed.' Gen. Rodes coming down from tho North on the Washington turnpike, Geu. Early moving.up from York ou the East and Gen. Johnson giving back down the valley. Lt. Geu. A. P. Hill’s corps had crossed the mountain, or a part of it at least, had, and was moving on the west and north west of the town. Lt. Gen. Longstreet’s corps was on the march across the moun tain from the valley. Thus was our army situated that morning; rather too much scattered. Battle of Gettysburg—First day. We had arrived within five or six miles of Gettysburg, when the boom of cannon was heard. It was not long ere cou riers could he seen hurrying past the col umn as we were marchiug. Wagons, Quartermasters and cavalry were seen haltad by the road side, or hurrying to the rear* of the glorious “foot cavalry,” as Jackson’s corps used to be called. The cry is soon heard, “fight ahead men, the cavalry, Quarteimasters doctors are going to the rear.” The roar of cannon is more constant. Onward we inarched with a quick step. “Close up” runs along the line. The lame and halt soon waut passes to go to the rear. “Forward men,” “forward !” General Hill has reached the van guard of “The Army of the Potomac,” now trans ferred to the interior of Pennsylvania, and is driving it back towards Gettysburg.— We hurry ou, and soon we are drawn up in line upon the high hills north of the town. In a few minutes, General Robt. E. Rodes, that excellent officer . and patri otic gentleman has his division in proper line to advance. Lt. Gen. Ewell, “old Dick,” as the boys call him, is riding a- Yound to look out the proper position for the division of his corps, and watching the movements of the enemy. Our lines are. formed and our artillery placed in posi tion. Our brigade is moved forward and occupies a position between the Washing ton and Baltimore pikes. We are now in an open field. The town is in full view in front or South of us. Here we are permitted to halt and rest for a short time. We have been marching very fast for at least twelve miles; the day is exceedingly hot, hut the enemy can be seen darkening every hill and vale iii our front, and it is no time now to talk about fatigue. Let us, while wc are halted, look around and see where wo are, and by what we are surrounded. To our right, on a range of high hills, we see the enemy strongly posted. In four or live lilies, we see those who so lately had stood upon the banks of the Rappahanuock river and defiantly asked us over. Now they are in the inte rior of one of their largest States contest iug with us the passage into one of their towns. Hill is now pressing the enemy hack. Blit strong reinforcements are being sent forward to those heights to check his ad vance. He has driven the enemy back some three or four miles. Geu. Iverson’s brigade, of our division, is now put in to assist him, He has to strike the enemy where he is best prepared to receive the shock. Gen. Iverson has a hard time. The reinforcements are pushed in to meet him, and he is forced back with groat loss. But he shows to the eeemy that every inch' of grohud will be hotly contested. The enemy is advancing ou the line of our right. Gen. Daniels’ brigade of our division is now moved up to check the Federal ad vance. Gen. Daniels’ brigade of btave North Carolina troops for the first time come into battle array. For the first time they are ordered forward to meet tho ene- left, the field as far as you can see, is filled with the armed legions of the enemy. Down the Harrisburg pike, «Early is ad vancing. Gen, Gordon scuds up a courier stating that in a few minutes he will be in line. Gem. Gordon commands a brigade of Georgians too. Two Georgia brigades are here thrown together, On our right we have no support. * We are almost iso lated. Everything is now ready for ns to advance. The Twelfth Georgia on the left, the Fourth Georgia on the left centre, the Forty Fourth Georgia ou the right cen tre, and the Tweuty-First Georgia on the right. Our sharp shooters are detached and thrown out in front of the line to be. occupied by Gen. Gordon’s brigade. Gen. Doles is now ready “Forward,” and we move. “Fix bayo nets,” and the steel immediately glistens Over a fence and through an open piece of wood and wo are in a beautiful field. A line of Yankee sharp shooters are deploy ed in front of the enemy’s lino of battle. We iuo.ve forward over a fence, aud the enemy immediately fired upon us. We hear the command, “charge,” and with a yell and a hound wc rush to meet our foe and force him back until lie reaches the rising ground near the town where he has the advantage of us in position, and a bat tery ready to deal death to everything that comes before it. We do not halt, however, but re-echo the yell that now bursts from the forests on our left, where Gordon has reached the enemy, and charge the line and sweep the field. Soon but few blue coats can he seen in our front, ex cept those that lie bleeding and mangled. We actually cleared the field. For tho time, we thiuK our day’s work is ended ; that we have but to pursue the flying file. We arc now pressing forward towards the town, the battery still playing upon us. The cry, “by the right flank,” is shouted. Looking on our right, just across the turnpike upon which the right of our regiment rests, we see floating out in the sulpburious gale that comes sweeping down from those heights where we were not long since gazing, the old stars and stripes close to ns. We were flanked. Soon, ve ry soon, our line has changed front aud is up to the pike. Our regiment, the Forty-fourth Georgia, is, as stated above, resting upon the Balti more turnpike, the Twenty-First Georgia is upon tho opposite side, but not up to our line. The column of Federals has passed by us until the flag is just opposite tQ the right of our regiment. We are not more than forty yards apart. Two plank fences between us. As Soon as we open firo upon this flanking party, the line is halted and faced to us and a most murder ous volley of musketry poured into out ranks. We reply with equal vigor. The line is so close to ours tiiat a Federal officer, mounted, Hiod at me with his pistol. In stantly he is pierced wiih many ballsi and lie and his horse fall together. Our line is all up. At this time tfie battery ou our flank is raking our line with grape, canis- and shrapnel. Our front is met by a gall ing fire of musketry. Notwithstanding this, all along our line you see the boys taking deliberate aim, and every shot brings Us man. Soon the order “charge” is given, and we leap the fence and rush into the field where the hated foe is post ed. The Federals give way and fly, in wild dismay,or throw down their arms aud yield themselves prisoners. Many, to save themselves, lie flat down upon the ground, as if dead until we have passed over them. Scarcely half a dozen of all the line that flanked us reached the town. Nearly ev ery man was killed wounded or captured. Was there ever such success! We now advance on toward the hill we left some tirno since, though not long, as all that I have described was performed in less time than I have been writing it. Soon the enemy discovering our movements, slowly hut sullenly retired toward the towu. But our men are exhausted, and can run no farther. The enemy retire to the town. Gen. Early’s troops advance from the east, and push the beaten foe through and be yond to the wooded hill. We marched up to York street and are halted. Gen. Early’s command is east and southeast of us in line. Our line resting the left on Gen. Early’s right, extends through Gettysburg along York street some distance out to the north west and west , our right resting upon Gen. A. 1’. Hill’s left. Gen. Johnson not yet up. Thus we arc posted at sundown ou this memorable day. We have met the enemy lour or five miles out from the towu, and nrj Nobly they advance! They drive| driven him back tQ and throl1ffll it . We the Yankee hirelings before them. I he enemy falls back. But they rally. Fresh troops have moved up to their assistance. Again they press our lino. Now comes the tug. Volley after volley poured into our ranks. Ono of our most gallant offi cers, Brig. Gen. Ransom, now advances with his command. His. too, is a brigade of North Garoliuians. Up they go; Ran som leading them. About half bent for ward on his horse with his hat in his hand. A noble looking fellow. The brigade is up to the fence. Now they open fire. The bluo coats waver, reel and fall back. “For ward,”- is shouted, and the brave North Carolinians charge over-the fence and up to the enemy’s reformed lines. For some distance the foe has been driven across the hill; but now he has reformed upon the massed troops upon the heights. Our line is now forced to stand. A brigade of. gab lant Alabamians, Gen. Rodes’ old brig adc, now commanded by ’Col. Oueal, ad vances. Forward they move with a. cheer, but they are forced to move back. They are soon, however, reformed and agaiu have darkeded tire hills and vales with the slain of his ranks. We have met three corps of the Federal army and whipped them from every part of the field. We have taken from seven to eight thousand prisoners. We have wrenched the stars and stripes from the hands of their defend ers, aud hawe them now “uuion down,” iu the hands of the victors. We have taken the town which the boastful and confident Unionists had said that morning to the citizens would not be again occupied by Confederates. We have greatly demoral ized that part of the Federal army that had up to that time reached Gettysburg. The Night After the Battle. Wc are now quiet. Our lines are form ed and our skirmishers arc in front. The sable curtain is drawn over the scene, and we are left to meditate upon fthat the day brought forth. The pale sickly rays of the moou’q, mellow light, glimmers thro’ the sulpburious haze which has settled over the vast field of carnage. We might let the field remain with its glories we ready to move forward. But the time has j have described ; but justice to the noble come for us to forsake the hill to our right and look to our left. ? Here the Federals are forming in double columns. The ever vigilant Rodes, and the keen eyed Doles have discovered it. The order has already como for us to move to the left, We cross (lie Baltimore pike and face the enemy. We halt a minute for every thing to be properly arranged. Ou our dead demauds that we should recapitulate, and revisit the vales and hills we have passed. A Tribute to the Noble Dead. The gallant Lt. Col. Wynn, of the Fourth Georgia, fell pierced through the- head, while leading his regiment in tho valiant charge across the field. Brave soldier! Thou art gone! . But thy deeds will live after thee! When we are free— when we are Independent—thy name will belauded. In this death we have lost a noble champion, a»noble gentleman. Colonel. Sam. P. Lumpkin, noble leader of the glorious old Forty-Fourth Georgia, was shot down while cheering on his regi ment to meet the line that flanked us. We have lost his services, but we hope lie will yet live to see the rich fruits of Southern Independence. Though he has lost one leg, and is now suffering the pain conse quent therefrom, we trust he will yet walk proudly in a country for which he has suffered so much, and he happy in tiie consciousness that he has sacrificed this much for the good of the world. His whole regiment loved him and had the utmost confidence in hun. A gallant hero and a noble gentleman. We cannot men tion all of'those who acted a noble part in the conflict. There is one, however, Sergi. W. H. Copelan, of the Greene county Vol unteers. whom I must notice. lie was a noble soldier. He was pressing forward, when the fatal raissle pierced his breast. As a soldier, he was kind and affectionate to all his comrades. The true Christian character visibly marked all his actions. He has always displayed the same cool and heroic spirit. After he received the fatal wournRho spoke but a few words to a relative who was near and caught his fare well. “Tell all my relatives aud friends good bye, and tell them how I died.” He is gone to a better world. We sympathize with his widow mother. Bravery Displayed by Doles’ Brigade. Thus Doles’ brigade fought over two -fields during the. day. The pioneers of the brigade buried three hundred and ninety of the enemy taken from the ground over which we marched. How many Federals were wounded we cannot say. Not less than one thousand we know ; and Ge% Doles* officer commanding guard, was le- Ceipted for tliree thousand prisoners. Our brigade numbered about twelve hundred men. Our whole loss in the fight did wt exceed one hundred and lilty in killed and wounded; we lost no prisoners. Was ever so gallant or a more glorious fight! Gen. Rodes’ and Gen. Ewell’s reports will sub stantiate what I here state. Gen. Ewell complimented, very highly. Gen, Doles’ brigade. I am proud that I belong to it, and am not ashamed that I belong to the Forty-Fourth Georgia Regiment. The Battle on the Second day. A short nap on the stone pavement in the street, and it is day. Quiet is every thing. Not a sound, except the the of the pickets, is heard Ten o’clock and all is still quiet. But soon the hoarse mutterings of the cannon begins ; and for hours the very heavens seem to be shaking with the roar. A mo ments calm and the ratlle of musketry be gins. The yells of our men can easily ho distinguished from that of the Federals. W itli alternate success the contending hosts charge each the other. Finally our vete rans cahy the enemy’s works ou the east of the range of hills. But for want of sufficient force as support the lino advanced no farther. Night now sets in, and for a time closes the scene. Wc have been holding our position, we occupied when wo reached the town, all the day. But a short time after dark we are ordered to move by tho right flank out to the west of the hills. We take a position facing the heights and prepare to advance. Gen. Ramseur’s brigade on the right, Col. O’neal’s next and Gen. Doles ou the left. Gen. Daniel’s supporting Gen. Early who has been fighting on the east or left. We advance up to the enemy’s pickets and they open fire upon our skirmishers. Soon a raking fire of grape and canister opened upon us. Steadily we advance. Not a thing can be seen in our front but the dark frowning hill and the blaze of the cannon, and the Hash of the musket. We move our lines until w% get our proper po sition. We then halted and soon all was quiet. The enemy could he heard moving his guns and digging intrenchments. Wo sleep a short time and it is again day. The Battle on the Thief. Day. The sun rises and with a bloody hue gleams above the frowning hill in our front, and reveals to us the position of the ene my. Gen. Longstreet has taken his position on the right of Gen. Hill. Tho sharp crack of the pickets rifle is all that is heard, until about one o’clock, when an awful cannonading begins. Two hundred and fifty or three hundred cannons incessantly roar for two mortal long hours. The air is filled iu every direction with hissing, screaming and shrieking missiles. Our liue is quite near to that of the enemy. So ne.-.r, that frequently shots and shells from our own batteries fall in our line. We are between two fires. Soon the whole hill where the Federals are posted is enveloped in smoke. Our shells and shots are playing havoc with the enemy— many of their batteries are forsaken. Now there is a quiet for a moment. Part of Gen. Hill’s command also advances. Part of Gen. Longstreet’s advance. Oar brig ades that have advanced have driven the enemy back at great cost. Gen. Johnson has taken part -A the heights on the east ; Gen. Longstreet. has taken some oil our right, and so has Gen. llill taken one part of the enemy’s line. Night comes and closes the sad drama. During the night our lines are moved to the heights back of the town or those which we took the first day. The Fourth Day. Here we reffiain in line of battle all the. next day. But the beaten foe dare not ad vance, as be has not forgotttn the sad les son taught him the first day. The Fifth. Day—Our lietnat. On the morning of the fifth day, wo be* gau to move hack towards Hagerstown, Md. Gen. Lee moves Iris whole force cau tiously advancing and covering well his rear. We moved hack leisurely till we reached a good camping ground near Ha gerstown. Movement of the Federals. Meade had begun to leave Gettyshu'g as soon or sooner than Lee. He thought