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a disregard of popular rights* this can j Reese, hip;
never be done. But let our authori ! back;
ties act justly aud uprightly, and they
can still rely upon tiro people to do
what is right.
We protest, finally, against the idea
which may have obtained in certain
quarters, that we aro a backwoods
people over here, who know nothing
of our rights, and that tvo will submit
to any thing that comes along. Our
patriotism will make us go great
lengths in submission to anything for
the good of our cause. But there is
a hound beyond which we cannot bo
expected to submit. There is a point
beyond which we will resist—wc mean,
of course, legally and peacoably.
Putnam Volunteers.
We publish the subjoined note, and
list of casualties, although ' it is a de
parture from our usual rule of requir
ing a responsible name before publish
ing any article. We presume the list
is correct, aud that he who wrote it,
failed to sigu any other name than
‘Putnam Volunteers,’through thought
lessness. As it ib, neither w e nor the
public would know whom to blame,
should a wrong report have been im
posed upon us. Wo suppose, .how
ever, as already stated, that the re
port below is correct :
Hanover Junction, Va., )
May 22nd, 1804. j
Mr. Countryman :—At the earnest
solicitation of the few representatives
now of the company, I send you a
list of the casualties of Company ‘F,’
44th Ga.—by publishing which, you
will relievo the anxiety of many, and
greatly oblige the
Pi;TN A M VoL U N T EE US.
Casualties of Company ‘F,’ 44th Regt.
Ga. Vuls., during the battles of the,
Wilderness, and Spotsylvania C. II.
Va.
Killed,: 1st Lt. David A. Lawrence-
Privates C. M. Lawrence, Isaac Car-
dell, and Marion Spivey.
Seriously Wounded: Private, N. C.
Harrison, left leg amputated.
Severely Wounded: Private T, J.
Moore, left leg.
SUgHtiy Wounded.: (’aptain J B'
Privates Jasper Dee.se,
W H. Fuller, hand; D. L-
Hitchcock, hard; and L. I. B. Stan
ford, arm.
Captured: Lt. A. H. Wright. Ser
geants E. F. Elliot, aud John M.
Dennis. Corporals James Cox, J.
K. Batchelor, and James M. Strick
land. Privates Walter B. Ward, R.
H. G. Paschal, Jefferson R. Roby,
Greene M. Hawkins, John J. West,
Simeon Cox, and Charles S. Mooncy-
ham.
“The Spirit of Military Institutions,
by Marshal Marmont, Duko of
Ragusa. Translated from the last
. Paris Edition (1859) aud augmented
by Biographical, Historical, Topo
graphical, and Military Notes ; with
a New Version of General Jomini’s
Celebrated Thirty-fifth Chapter, of
Part i, of Treatise on Grand Milita
ry Operations. By Frank Sclial-
ler,Colonel 22(1 Regiment Mississippi
Infantry, Confederate Army. Col
umbia, S. C.; Evans and Cogswell,
1864.”
The above is tho title of a work
published by Messers Evans & Cogs
well, of Columbia, S. C. It is gotten
out on good white paper, and clear
type, altogether surprising one that
such neat typograpical execution can
be found in the Confederate States.
Every soldier and, especially every of-
fieri-, should own tho work. The vol
ume is neatly bound in paper covers.
Price $5, One third off to the trade.
We return oar thanks to the publish
ers for. a copy of this interesting and
desirable work.
Attention is called to the curd of
Dr. R. B. Nisbct, in this number of
Tho Countryman.
Attoution is called to a notice of
Messers Burke & Boykin’s new pub
lications, to be found in our advertis
ing columns.
Grant’s Army.—There has boon
much speculation as to the strength of
Grant’s army, some putting his num
bers as high as 200,000 men. We
have never believed it exceeded 120,-
000. and think it more probable that
110,000, of all arms, would more than
cover the aggregate. The Richmond
Dispatch estimates the number at 92,
000 muskets, and 60,000 artillery and
cav.llry The latter is evidently a.
miftako, as no army of 92,000 infant
ry would have such a large proportion
of other arms. The Northern papers
speak of but four crops—Hancock’s,
Sedgwick’s, VVarrons’b.and Burnside’s.
These probably average about twenty •
three thousand, each, or 92,000 men-
Giving them 4,000 artillery and 16,
000 cavalry, which is a liberal pro
portion, it would swell Grant’s whole
force to 111,000 men.
Of this number, says the Lynch
burg Republican, not less than 60,000
were lost in the lato battles, including
the killed, wounded and missing. We
think tho number greater, as tho strag
glers are doubtless enormous; but put
ting it at that figure, Grant’s army
would be reduced to 51,000 offeetivc
men. Add to this number Augur’s
garrison of 12,000 men from the
trenches at Washington, with which
Grant was reinforced after the battle
of thursday, and it would make his ar
my 63,000 strong of all arms, or 45,
000 muskets.
As another mode of estimating the
numbers of this army, remarks the
Carlotfesville Chronicle, we may state
that Burnside’s and Sodgwick’s corps
contain each throe divisions. We pre
sume that Hancock’s and-Warren's
contain the same number—making in
all tvvelvo divisions, exclusive of Au
gur. What is the strongth of a divis
ion ? We do not know, but we ob
serve in. a Wilmington despatch to
the Now York Times, dated the 12th,
and giviug au account of thfltuesday’s
battle, the following: ‘General Rob
inson’s division, after losing both its
general odicers, and about 2,5 00 rami,
had no general to command if, and it
was broken up and distributed among
other divisions of tho Fifth corps.’
Thus it appears that the loss of 2,500
men so reduced this division that it
had to be broken up’ If one half of
it was destroyed, it consisted before of
5,000 men. If wo average tho divis
ions at 6,000 men, we would arrive at
72,000 infantry, which, added to 27,
000 cavalry and artillery, gives us 99,
000 men, and with Augur 111,000.
It is pretty certain, therefore, that if
Grant could not get to Richmond with
110, 000 men, fresh and full of fight,
ho will hardly get there with halfthat
number, bleeding at, every pore.—Pc
tern burg Express.'’
Quarter of A mile of Printing
Presses.—“The number of priutiug
presses now in operation, or ready for
use in the 'I reasury building in Wash
ington, is so large, that it placed in a
line, they would extend a quarter of
a mile/’