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VOLUME XXXIII.]
COUNTING HOUSE CALENDAR, 1862.
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SUPEP.IOI1 COURTS.
JANUARY,
fid Monday, Chatham.
•Floyd
FEBRUARY.
1st Monday, Clark
t Lumpkin
3d Monday, Campbell
Dawson
3d Monday, Forsyth
Polk
Glascock
Merriwether
Walton
4th Monday, Baldwin
Jackson
Monroe
Paulding
Taliaferro
Walker
MARCH.
1st Vmsilay i* i v ee
1st Monday, Appling
Chattooga
Cherokee
Coweta
Columbia
Crawford
Gwinnett
Madison
Marion
Morgan
2d Monday, Butts
Barto.w
Coffee
Elbert
Fayett
Greene
Pickens
Washington
Webster
3d Monday, Cobbt
Calhoun
Hall
Hart
Heard
Macon
Newton
Talbot
Tattnal
Ware
Thursday after While
Friday after, Bulloch
4th Monday, Clinch
Putnam
Rabun
dial taliooehee
Lee
Twiggs
Wilkes
Johnson
JULY.
1st Monday. Fu.vu”
AUGUST.
1st Monday Lumpkint
2d M mdtiy, Campbell
dark
1 lawson
3d Monday, Forsyth
PolK
G lascock
Merriwether
Walton
11th Monday. Baldwin
Jackson
Monroe
Paulding
Taliaferro
Walker
Thusday after, Pierce
SEPTEMBER.
1st Monday, Appling
alt.
Cherokee
Columbia
Coweta
Crawford
Madison
Marion
Morgan
2d Monday, Butts
Bartow
Coffee
Elbert
Fayette
Greene
Gwinnett
Pickens
Washington
Webster
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Hall
Hurt
Heard
Macon
Newton
Talbot
Ware
Bulloch
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4th Monday, Clinch
Putnam
Chattahoochee
Lee
Twiggs
Wilkes
Johnson
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Rabun
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Milton Monday af- 4
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Franklin
Emanuel
Early
Fulton
Gordon
Pike
Taylor
Warren
Wilkinson
Thursd’yafter Banks
24 Monday, Hancock
Richmond
Harris
Laurens
Miller
Sumter
needav after. Melnto
OCTOBER,
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list Monday, Dooly
Emanuel
Franklin
Early
Fulton
Gilmer
Gordon
Taylor
Warren
Wilkinson
Ptke
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Richmond
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Hurris
Laurens
Miller
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Haralson
3d Monday, Glynn
Henry
Haralson
Jones
Henry
Murray
Jones
Oglethorpi
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Murray
St ewart
(Iglethorne
Union
Pulaski
Worth
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Monday Worth
Thursday ( Montgom
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after *
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1th Monday, Wayne
Decatur
Decatur
DeKalh
D< Kail,
Houston
Houston
Jasper
Jasper
Lincoln
Lincoln
Schley
Schley
Whitfield
Tattnall
Wilcox
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Wilcox
Camden
Friday after, Tc-Iftiir
Thursday after, Irwin
Camden
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Thursday after, Irwin
Charlton
Monday after Uhnrlton
MAY
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Scriven
Gilmer
Randolph
NOVEMBER.
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Scriven
Clayton
Effingham
Randolph
J efierson
'J I "
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Chatham
Jefferson
Fannin
Mitchell
Mitchell
51 nseogee
Muscogee
?d Monday, Bibb
Bibb
Burke
lturke
Quiftman
yuittinan
Spalding
Spalding
Troup
Troup
Baker
Union
4th Monday, Dade
Baker
' Terrell
Thursday after Towns
4th Monday, Dade
Terrell
Last Monday, Colquitt
JUNE.
1st Monday, Lowndes
Dougherty
2d Monday, Brooks
Clay
3d Monday, Thomas
Thursday after, McIntosh
Monday Colquitt
“ “ Liberty
Mon. after Liberty, Bryan
DECEMBER.
1st Monday, Dougherty
Lowndes
2d Monday JBrooks
Clay
3d Monday Thomas
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[From tlie Richmond Enquirer ]
Tiir EJeslrnc-lien of the Virginia. ,
Charges and specifications of charges
against Captain Josialo Tattnall, of the
Confederate States Retry.
Charge 1st.
Culpable destruction of an armed stea-
meroftbe Confederate States Navy.
Specification \st.—in tliis, that the said
Japtain Josiah Tattnall* on the lltli day
•Olay, eighteen hundred and sixty-two,
culpably, and without sufficient reason for
so doing, did destroy, by fire, the Confed
erate steamer Virginia, in Hampton Roads,
near Norfolk, Virginia.
Specification 2d.—In this, that the said
Captain Josiah Tattnall, on the said lltli ]
day of May, 1802, at Hampton Roads,
near Norfolk, Virginia, did culpably de- i
slrov the said steamer Virginia, when
with the draft to which she had been then
and there, or might have been reduced,
she could have been carried up James
liver to a place of usefulness, free from im- ;
mediate danger.
(.'large II.—Negligence.
Specification 1st.—In this, that the said
Captain Josiah Tattnall, on the said lltli
lay of May, 1562, at said Hampton Roads
did proceed to lighten the said steamer
Virginia, for tlie purpose of taking her up
die James river, retaining however her ar
mament, ordnance stores, necessary coal,
water and provisions, without first having
obtained from sources of information with
in Iris reach, to what extent the draft ol
die said steamer would be reduced by
such lightening.
Spec feat ion 2d.—In this that the said
Captain Josiah Tattnall, after having
tightened the said steamer Virginia to a
certain draft, on the said 11th day of May,
1S62, at said Hampton Roads, then and
there and before said time, neglected and
failed to ascertain, from sources of inior-
mation within his reach, the fact that_ the
said steamer, at said draft, could have
been carried about forty miles above the
mouth of James river, to Hog Island.
Charge 111.— Improvident conduct.
Specification.—In this that the said
Captain Josiah Tattnall, on or about the
Hth day of May, 11*62, when offSewell’s
point in Hampton Roads, intending to take
the said steamer Virginia up James'Riv-
er, did then and there proceed to lighten
said steamer, instead of taking liertip said
James River, and there lighten her, when
t lie necessity for so doing arose, and to I
the extent of that necessity
The statement of the parties being thus j
in possession of the Court was cleared for I
deliberation, and having maturely consid-
ered the evidence adduced, find as fol- j
lows:
That the first specification of the first
charge is not proved. j
That the second specification of the first j
charge is not proved. j
And that the accused is not guilty of the i
first charge.
That the first specification of the sec- j
ond charge is not proved.
That the second specification of the sec- j
ond charge is not proved.
And the accused is not guilty of the sec- j
ond charge.
That the specification of the third charge j
is proved.
That/the specification of the third charge j
is proved.
And that the accusad is not guilty of !
the third charge.
The Court do further find that the accu- j
sed had while in command of the V irginia, 1
and previous to the evacuation of Norfolk,
thrown down the gage of battle to the ene
my’s fleet in Hampton Roads, and that
the enemy had declined to take R up
that the day before Norfolk was evacua
ted a consultation, at the instance ot (he
Secretary of the Navy, was held In a
joint commission of navy and army officers,
as to the best disposition to be made ot the j
—that the accused was in favor of
passing Fortress Monroe, and take^ the
ship into York River, or, of runnmg down
before Savannah with her—that m this
lie was over ruled by the council, who ad
vised that she should remain on this sme
of Fortress Monroe for the protection of
Norfolk and Richmond, and that, in accor
dance with this advice, he proceeded to
regulate her movements—that after the .
evacuation of Norfolk, Westover, on James
river, became the most suitable position
for her to occupy—that while iu the act!
of lightening her for the purpose of taking
her up to that point, the pilots for the first
time declared the inability to take her up,
even though her draft should be reduced to
her minimum of eighteen feet—that by the
evacuation of Norfolk and the abandon
ment of our forts below W estover, both
banks of the James River below that point ,
were virtually given up to the enemy— ,
that the ship being thus cut off from Nor
folk and Richmond, was deprived of all
oui ward sources of supply, sa\e those o*
the most precarious and uncertain chara-;-
ter-that ber stores of provisions would
not last more than three weeks—that when
lightened she was made vulnerable to the
i attacks of the enemy, and that after having
1 been lightened there wore no available
means of bringing her down to her proper
draft and fighting trim'and that she had
but two small boats, each capable of land
ing not more than fifteen or eighteen men
j at a time, even iu smooth water.—Such
I being the facts and circumstances under
i the influence of which the “Virginia” found
j herself after the evacuation ot Norfolk, it
j was, in the opinion of the Court, only ne-
| cessary for the enemy to continue to re-
1 fuse battle, ;.s be had done since it was
! offered b Captain Tattnall early in
! April, e.i.u thenceforward to keep a strict
j watch about the “Virginia,” in order, when
■ her provisions were exhausted to make her
I his prize and the crew his prisoners.
Being thus situated, the only alterna
tive in the opinion of the court was to
! abandon and burn the ship, thenand there.
| which, in the judgment of the (^ourt, was
: deliberately and wisely done by order of
\ the accused.
! Wherefore the court do award to the
I said Captain Josiah Tattnall an honorable
! acquittal.
L. Rossean, Captain.
Frank Buchanan, Captain.
J. N. Hollins, Captain.
Robert G. Robb, Commander.
M. Mason, Comman’der.
Eben Farrand, Commander.
A. B. Fairfax, Commander.
M. F. Maury, Commander.
George Minor, Commander.
\Ym L. Maury. Lieutenant.
R. B. Pegram, Lieutenant.
ROBERT OULlJ, Judge Advocate.
The Court then adjourned until morning
at 10 o’clock. L, ROSSEAU,
Capt. and l'resident.
Robert Ould, Judge Advocate.
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIa,
TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1SG2.
[NUMBER 11.
brigade, because barest to the level
plateau. ,
And now ccmts the memmt of trial. It is hall
past YVclock. “Charge)' ings from the lips oi
the gallant General, as he leads the centre. Spring
ing to their feet with a. stout his men follow
Tlie summit of the hill Is .(Hi yards wide, and
tiiis space they d*.h amid a perfect hail
storm of shells and bails.)— Col. Sturges falls pier-
cud ttrough rhe head; btjt t!e,« is no time lor fal
tering Ou pushes the bigale, the object of the
concentrated tire of the Bed-ral army.The ground
is plowed up into long f«|roigi!s: dust envelopes
the brigade; and men ar( lilecked over by the
Hying dirt, but still they brtss on. Men fall thick-
ly, and many are laid twin death, yet amid
hoarse shouts and enconpg.ng words and flying
beliets they press forwan. - As they cross the
ridge a joyous shout of pncotiraging exultation
greets their ears. It cones from a part of
.uisteau s tioi>ps> of uaioi Virginians. AoLle
fellows! In the first chajgetney had penerratu
to 'he 3d hill, and. had all(l«s tune been lying un
der its brow-, patiently yaiing reinforcements
Among them was Col. Pow laltan Whittle, one of
our citizens and brother of I. N Whittle, Esq.,
of Macon. He was afterwaus wounded in the
I left arm.
Mingling with Wright’s ill'll these brave Yir-
\ gini.-rus shared with them all fie glory and dan-
I gers of that day. Now speedb yiie blood” hotly
■ through the veins; all fear is £»ne: Ihe immediate
1 presence of the grim monster takes away his ter-
i lor. The frequent fall of eomades plants fierce
j eagerness for revenge on eaeijeountenance. Heav-
j en sent daring sits enthronedupon the comm&n
der’s brow; and passing along the lines, he epeers
; liis men.—Permitting a short! rest, he gives the
word in tones of thunder, an) with a shout heard
far and near, his men reach
| third hill, still the only as-aii nts of that mighty
host, and the object ol thos<
Pouring into the enemy’s ran
j erof bullets, they dash forwi d across that open
j space; receiving the Federal life o. shrapnel 1, grape
he summit of the
■il aimed batterie:
shower after show-
hrapnell, grape
; but, unappalled,
eir chivalrous Gen.
h their ranks tea;
PICTURES.
1SV S. BOVKIX.
Wright's Brigade at t/i
Tuesday, July]si.
Fight of
Gen. Wright somehow, found himself subject tr
Gen. Magruder’s orders—how. he knew not. And
when iiagrnder gave him the command to charge
he remonstrated against such an ill-advised step
knowing, as he did the fluid and the slrengtli of t!ia
enemy’s position. But Magruuer was positive,
there is strong reason to believe that he actually-
had not seen the Held of battle.
In like manner the gallant Col. R. A. Smith re
monstrated in vain with Gen. Ripley when the
44th Georgia was ordered to charge a battery.
Obedience, however, is a soldier’s duty. Coi. Smith
lost Jus lift; but Gen. Wright was more fortunate
though he could not see how a single man of his
brigade was to escape alive, and expected nothing
but death himself.
Before its tirst charge, the brigade had not be
held what, for many of (hem, was destined to be
a field of death. r l aey imagined that a f vv yards
from the sumjpit of the hill was a battery which
could be taken by a short and dashing charge. So,
when Almstead gave the command to charge, and
while Wright, with flashing eye and waving sa
bre. was riding up and down the lines shout-
ing—
“Charge, Georgians! Charge!’’
oil y moveu up me mu ana t-i.„ :
ing trees, until, coming to the open space
summit, they, amid a salute of a thousand hurtling,
screaming missiles of death, beheld, in bold re
lief four terrible batteries, nearly one mile distant
crowning the summit of a hill. There, like a
gleaming picture, these batteries stood in the dis
tance. with gunners in battle array, all grouped
around their pieces, while Jong lines of suppor-
ling infantry lay behind
dreadful to encounter.
Concentrating their fire upon that handful of
troops, those forty dreadful and accurately train-
ed guns, fifteen hundred and twenty yards distant
belch forth their iron bail. The very earth trem
bles! The air is filled with leaden missiles! The
ground is torn up, and the green clover scatlered
to the four winds Hissing and screeching shells
exploded with horrible sound and scatter death
around: and scores fall to rise no more To pro
ceed is madness. So Gen. Wright orders his men
back; btn. not heeding him amid the terrible din,
most of his bri
fnrvv
and
ly follow* f.. march the 18th Louisiana, part of the
22d Ga , and the right of the 3d Ga , under Capt.
K. B.” Nisbet, who was acting as Lieut. Colonel;
and all these, after sweeping across the first hill.
canister, shell and musket ba
t those gallant troops, led by t
| eral, falter not, fear not: lliro
I murderous discharges,yet sccning deathjaud cow
ardice, and leaving fallen .co* J ... i -i
i press forward to victory or till gra
J a half had now- passed byyitid alone Wright
I brigade had foug..t the entirejFederal army: as yet
! no other troops had entered tie field to divert the
i fire of those terrible guns an! share that dreadful
| glory. At length a long linehf Confedeiate troops
in admirable older, move iu battle array up the
j sloping plateau on the enemy’s right. Brave-
I Iv and unbroken they advamfi in line and fire vol
ley after volley into the Yalkee ranks.—Among
them are Semmes’ brigade, Cibb’s brigade. Toombs
brigade, Anderson’s brigade ind Colquitt’s brigade
—Georgians all—and all aetlig with the greatest
| gallantry and valor—Arousal, now, to the highest
J pitch, Wright's msD sprang forward for a final
charge—they reach within tjrty paces of the first
| battery, too near forthe gcn| to b; so deflected
as to bear ou them. They siout and send forward
a storm of builets that drives off the battery.
Just then a brigi.de of Fedetals appear above the
brow of the hill and lets looje a murderous volley
and retires. Its place is immediately filled by an
other, which repeats the experiment; and this re-
tiring, still another appears,and thus they hold at
bay the daring Wright. Relieved from the artil
lery tire, the brigade finds, hat a short respite only
for the enemy, deploying to the rjght, attain the
head of the hollow in which the brigade was pos
ted, and fire down upon their thinned ranks
l'hoy met a gallant response and until darkness
veiled the scene, and put an end to the contest,
this single brigade, assisted by a few Yirginians,
held its position and manfully fought the enemy
And to it atone btlongs this honor, for the troops ot
! every other general were dririn from the field Late
in the day, however, a Mississippi Regiment filed
up between the third and fourth hills, having skir-
J ted the wheat field, and took position with the
j brigade, and fought during the last hour ot the
j content.
*r 1 I nruugn an uiar-mwraj ..ixernonn Crenel hi
c.i ie i Wright, untouched to the last, might have been
seen in ail ; arts of the field, in his bine woollen
suit of pants and jacket, with his felt hat turned
up at file sidy, and his long cany hair and still
longer beard waving in the breeze, enconragin°
his men and setting them an ^sample of audacious
valor.
Among the troops, it was abeantifu! sivht to see
federacy, are to be regarded as a part of
the Army of the Confederacy, and protect
ed by the Government as such ; and
whether, if any of said corps are captured
in battle or otherwise, while in due of
their duty by the enemy, this Government
will claim for them the same treatment as
prisoners of War which is now exacted for
prisoners belonging to our Provisional
Army? Are not all Corps of Bartizan
Rangers, organized by yotr authority,
emphatically’ a part of the Confederate
Army, and will they not he regarded aud
treated as such 1
I consider that it is not onhj the right
but the ditty of every loyal citizen in the
Confederate States, to resist, by all means
in his power, even to THE DEATtlif neces
sary, the attempt of the enemy in a body’,
or singly, to invade his domicile, or to cap-
Bntllr of Ihe Scroll
JoimMon's Oflicisii
3* i n«»—C3 eieer a I
Report.
Richmond, June 24, 1S62.
Gen. S. Cooper, Adjutant and
Inspector General :
Sir : Before the 30th of May, I had as
certained from trusty scouts, that Keyes’
corps was encamped on-this side of the
Chickabominy, near the Williamsburg
road. On that day Maj. Gen. 1). H. Hill
reported a strong body immediately in bis
front. On receiving this report, I deter
mined to attack him next morning; hoping
to be able to defeat Keyes’s corps complete
ly’ in its more advanced position before it
could be reinforced. Written orders were
despatched to Maj. Generals Hill, Huger,
and G. W. Smith. General Longstreet,
ture his person, or f hat of his wife, child, 1 being near my headquarters, received
ward or servant, or to take from lrirn, a- j verbal instructions. The receipt of the or-
gainst his will, any of his property ; and ; J e rs was acknowledged. General Hill,
if in making such resistance, whether arm- j supported by the division of Gen. Long
ed or not, our citizens ere captured by such street (who had the direction of operations
an invading army, have they not the right on the rtgfi'O^ai.s to advance by the Wil-
tu demand to be treated by the enemy as , Immsburg road to attack the enemy in
other prisoners of war, and will not this! front: General Huger, with his division.
Government exert all its power, it' neces- was to move down the Charles City road,
sary, to the end that its citizens are thus ; n order to attack in flank the troops who
protected and treated ? might he engaged with Hill and Long-
« 'This is a war waged against the sover- street, unless ho tound in his front force
eignty of the several Static of the Con- i enough to occupy his division. General
federacy, and against the lives, liberty, Smith was to march to the junction of the
and property of every citizen yielding al- New Bridge road and the Nine Mile, to
legiance to the States and Government 6f ! be in readiness either to fall ou Keyes's
their choice in which they reside; such a ] right flank or to cover Longstreet’s left,
war has no parallel iu the history’ of j They were to move at daybreak. Heavy j
Christian nations. and protracted rains during the afternoon |
rades behind, tliev 1 I respectfully request you to give me and night, by swelling the stream of the
An hour and j your opinions on the several points in this ! Chickabominy, increased the probability
letter in a form to be submitted to my con- j of our having to deal with no other troops
stituerits, to enlighten them in regard to than those of Keyes's. The same cause
the extent of their rights and powers as j prevented the prompt and punctual move-
viewed by this Government, and how far j ment of the troops. Those of Smith, Hill
their Government will protect them in the ; and Longstreet were in position early
exercise of those rights, which, to an in- : enough, however, to commence operations
telligent freeman i are dearer than life it- | by 8 o’clock, a. m.
se D- i Major General Longstreet, ttuwilliug to
Your early answer is respectfully re- | make a partial attack, instead of the com-
qnested.
Our troops Employed the lesidue of Ae
day in secnriDg and bearing off the cap
tured artillery, small arms, and otner pro
perty ; and in the evening quietly return
ed to their own camps. _
We took ten pieces of artillery, six thou
sand (6,000) muskets, one garrison n*g,
and four regimental colors, besides, a
large quantity of tents and camp cquip-
P a g®»
Major General Longstreet reports the
loss in his command as being about 3,000
Mai. Gen. G. W. Smith reports bis
loss at - l,28o
. Total A,283
That of the enemy is stated m their own
newspapers to have, exceeded ten t iou-
sand | an estimate which is, no doubt,
short of the truth. ..
Had Major General Huger s division
been in position and ready for action, m en
those of Smith, Longstreet and Hill mo yr
ed, I am satisfied that Keyes’ corps ou
have been destroyed, instead ot being
merely defeated * Had it gone into action
even at 4 o’clock, the victory would have
been much move complete.
Maj. Gens. Smith and Longstreet speak
in high terms of the conduct ot their supe
rior and staff' officers.
I beg leave to ask the attention of the
Government especially to the manner in_
which Brigadier Generals Whiting and R.
H. Anderson, and Cols. Jenkins and
Kemper and Hampton, exercising com-
tnauds above their grades, and Brigadier
Gen. Rhodes, are mentioned.
This, and the captured colors, will
be delivered by Major A. H. Cole, of my
staff’.
1 have been prevented, by feebleness,
from , making this report sooner, and am
still too weak to make any but a very im
perfect one.
Several hundred prisoners were ta
ken; but I have received no report ot ihe
number.
Your obedient servant,
J. E. JOHNSTON,
General.
• v
befiuti.r.l to be 10 i! but , ,j le ;,>f' antrv ami officers of the different Regiments
mingling together, old acquaintances and school
mates recognizing each olbe”, and like friends
clinging to each, seemingly aixious to die together
if die they must. I was told by an officer that
from different parts of the field he could catch the
glancing eye-beams of old friends, while old
school acquaintances, fiom vhom be had been
separated for years, would priss to his side. It
seemed as though i hose fearful circumstances de
veloped the buried friendship iff the past, and made
men cling together for mutud sympathy and sup
, . , . ' port. Aud this same officer ntrrates with pleasure
, j’L f- 9S T'IT s JI.* 138 1 A* P ride lie experienced in ^holding the gallant
ard still Phe gallant 4th Ga., led by thebrave | con j,, ct of an 0 ' M , riend atd dassmate,"whose
chivalt • Doles, leadsi the wa£ Behind I nob i e fijs „e wm visible, all ttrough the day, in
the thickest of the fight—Capt David Winn of
the Sumter Light Guards
Upon no field since the war began, has greater
valor been exhibited It reached to the sublime
(Signed)
JOHN B. CLARKE.
i
Confederate Stvtes of America,
War Department,
Richmond, July 16th, 1862. )
lion. John B. Clarice, C. S. Senate •
Sir : I have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of your letter of the 15th inst.,
hined movement which had been planned,
waited from our to hour for Gen. Huger's
division. At length, at 2 o’clock, p. m.,
he determined to attack without those
troops. He accordingly commenced his
advance at that hour, opening the engage
ment with artillery and skirmishers. By
3 o’clock it became close and heavy.
In the meantime, I had placed myself
on the left of the force employed in this
attack, with the division of Gen. Smith,
and to reply, that Bartizan Rangers arc a j t ] iat j m j K ht be on a part of the field where
part of the provisional army of the Con- j [ cou ]j observe, and be ready to meet,
lay panting Defend he sail s o _ Jf 0 f a holocaust in honor of couitry and freedom,and
the 4th Ga Lp an across an I .. secured for Gen. Wright the Confidence and com-
ond hill sped that uij aun e regi ie ^ , meii at j on 0 f his superiors. In proof the for
mer the post of honor in thef’otomac army has
been assigned to his Brigade—the defeuce of
„top until it reached the shelter of the third hil
wliere it lay until the brigade was formed for a
second charge, two hours, when it. was brought
back around the toot of the second hilL
The day was gliding away. Those powerful
guns continued to sweep the field as with a be
som of destruction Back of the before mention
ed ravine one hundred pieces of Confederate ar
tillery lie; and in sections oi tiro pieces, a few guns
are brought forward during the day »nd placed in
position to combat those four heavy batteries
But no sooner does a section open fire than the
Federal guns are concentrated upon it, and in less
time that it takes to write it, the horses are slain
ttie men killed and the guns silenced. With
each section, save one, it is a crash, and al! is over.
was tlio hatterv of Cant Grimes, oi
Drury’s Bluff; and as evideno of the latter the
following official letter from Gen. Magruder to
Gen. Wright, bears sufficient ividence:
Litlcrfrom Gen Magruderlo Gen. Wright.
Richmonl, July 6th, 1862.
Brig. Gen. Wright, Comd’g Brigade.
Dear Sir— Having been calltd to ihe command
of a distant department, wliere my immediate
presence is reqnired, I may nothave time to receive
your report, and to do justice to your gallantry,
and that of the brave Brigade which you com
mand. I beg that you will iirvard your report to
me at Richmond, care of Mjor Allen B. Magruder
federate States, subject to all the reguls
tious adopted for its government, and en
titled to the same protection as prisoners
of war. Bartizan Rangers are iu no re
spect different from troops of line, ex
cept that they are not btigaded, and are
employed oftener on detached service.
They require stricter discipline than other
troops to make them efficient, and without
u otcuor to thu*h irituds and
contemptible in the e} es of the enemy.
With reference to your enquiry as to the
protection which the Government will ex
tend to private citizens taken in hostile
acts against the enemy, it is not easy to
lay down a general rule. War, as con
ducted by civilized nations, is usually a
contest between the respective govern
ments of the belligerents, and private in
dividuals remaining quietly at home are
respected in their rights of person and pro
perty, in return for this privilege they
are expected to take no part in hostilities
unless called on by their Government.
If, however, in violation of this usage,
private citizens of Missouri should be op
pressed and maltreated by the public ene
my, they have unquestionably a right to
take arms in their own defence, and if
captured and confined by the enemy under
such circumstances, tliev are entitled, as
citizens of the Confederate States, to all
the protection which that Government
can afford, and among the measures to
which it may be needful to resort, is that
of th& lex talionis.
We shall deplore the necessity of retali
ation, as adding greatly to the miseries of
the war, without advancing its interests,
and, therefore, we will act with great cir
cumspection, and only upon facts clearly
ascertained; hut if it is our only means of
compelling the observance of the usages of
civilized warfare, we cannot hesitate to re
sort to it when the proper time arrives.
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
G EG. W. RAXDOLBH,
Secretary of War.
himself Perceiving his lieipless condition, Gen. of Gen. Mahon’s Brigade.occupied and slept on
Wrio-ht rode up amid crashing shells, and exclaim- the field of batt le, which was won from the enemy,
ed '’“This is hot work, Captain! And as all your I beg leave, through you! to acknowledge their
and
approach the sloping plateau on McClellan’s j ] las taken place between Senator Clarke, j , .
since V/riglit j Ji; SSO uri. and the Secretary of War.— ller S1
men are killed, had you not beettcr lie down and
save your lift?”
Well , General, 1 H down, not to save
my life; but because I am utterly exhausted ’ —
And this was all the use made of our artillery ex
cept late in the evening, when Gen. Jackson from
our extreme left opened a vigorous fire upon the
right wing of.the* Federals.
It was now five o’clock; and yet no other divis
ion appears upon the field.
Hour after hour has Huger’s forces been await
ing assistance. Holmes is lying in thiqdense
woods on the enemy’s left, between the Federal
army and the river, which is 2.j miles distant;
they are shelled both fiom land and water. Among
his forces is the 2d Ga Battauon under Alajoi
Ross, which for two hours submitted, without
flinching, to a tremendous shelling while, from its
immediate neighborhood, an artillery company,
a cavalry company and a N. C. regiment stampe
ded in perfect terror.
At length Magruder’s, D. H. Hill s and Long-
streets’s forces pass to ihe lcit oi Ilu
ping P
right. An hour or two has elapsed
made his first charge, and now at Magruder'p com
mand, he prepares tor a second. J’hat portion of
his brigade which had stopped under the brow of
the second hill, having returned, around the foot
of the first, to the ravine, is together with that por
tion which did not go over the first lull, led, un
observed, by way’ ot the wheat field, to tne De
pression between the first and second hills. Dolus
4th Ga. is recalled by the same way from his ad-
vanted position and the brigade is^ formed
between the first and second hills. As the. brig
ade lay upon the green sod waiting the final order,
and protected by the rising ground in trout, Co!.
Sturgis remarked to a friend:
“Captain. I have a presentiment that I shall
not survive this charge, hut I am willing to die
tor my country,”
Indeed, as tiie 3d Ga. regiment was forming in
order of battle, the patriotic expression was fre
quently heard—“Slip in,men step in._ It is but
dying for one’s country; and lam willing to do
that.”
All were, therefore, fully alive to the desperate
nature of the enterprise. Not a man expected to
see mother or home again; and yet, notwithstand
ing its previous heavy loss. 700 of the brigade,
out of the 1200 that made the first charge, thus
marched fearlessly into the jaws of death. 2,70
of these belonged to the 3d Ga regiment, which
was stat.oned on the left aud least protected
services, and to return them
thanks. .
I am, General, very truly
Your obedieif servant,
J. Bankhead Magruder. Ac., Ac-, I
But, after all. the proof ola Brigade’s gallantry I
is found in its list of easualifies; and for the Regi- |
merits of this Brigade, the following, obtained;
tram official sources, speaks lor itself concerning j
the fight of July 1st, irti”.
Killed. Wounded.
Missing.
Total.
3rd G a. 2.3 110
22
1.77
4th Ga. 15 52
8
75
22ud Ga 6 52
18
.56
; 1st Ga. 8 36
33
77
54 230
81
365
; Partisan ESnsigers aud
private
Citizen*
Captured bj tin*
ICiirmr.
Tiir Monitor nitri Gali'nn.
The Scientific American, in speaking of
my warmest ! the damage done to the above named ves
sels in the recent engagement at Drury’s
Bluff, says.
The severest blow we have yet received
on the turret was at Fort Darling. It
was irom a solid ten-inch shot fired from a
verry heavy charge of powder, from a
distance of about eight hundred yards.—
any counter movements which the ene
my’s General might make against our cen
tre or left. Owing to some peculiar condi
tion of the atmosphere, the sound of the
musketry did not reach us. I, eonsequent-
1 \, deferred giving the signal for General
Smith’s advance till about 4 o’clock, at
which time Major Jasper Whiting, of Gen.
Smith’s staff, w hom I had sent to learn tbe
state of affairs with Gen. Longstreet’s col
umn, returned, reporting that it was
pressing on with x-igot. Smith’s troops
were at once moved forward.
The principal attack was made by Maj
General Longstreet, with his own and
Major General D. H. Hill’s division—the
latter mostly in advance. Hill’s brave
troops, admirably commanded and most
gallantly led, forced their, way through the
abattis which formed the enemy’s external
defences, aud stormed their entrench
ments by a* determined and irresistible
rush. Such was the manner iD which the
enemy’s first line was carried. The oper
ation was repeated with the same gallant
ry and success as our troops pursued their
victorious career through the enem’ys suc
cessive camps and entrenchments. At
each r.ew position they encountered fresh
troops belonging to it, and reinforcements
brought ou from the rear. Thus they had
to repel repeated efforts to retake works
which they had carried, but their advance
was never successfully resisted.
Theif onward movement was only stay
ed by the coming of night. Hy nightfall
they had forced their way to the “Seven
Bines,” having driven the enemy back
more than two miles, through their own
camps, and from a series of entrenchments;
and repelled every attempt to re-capture
them with great slaughter. The skill,
vigor, and decision with which these oper
ations were conducted by Gen. Longstreet
are worthy of the highest praise. He was
worthily seconded by -Major Gen. Hill, of
whose conduct and courage he speaks in
tbe highest terms.
Mijor General Smith’s division moved
forward at four o’clock; Whiting’s three
brigades leading. Their progress was im
peded by the enemy’s skirmishers, which,
with their supports, were driven hack to
the railroad. At this point, Whiting's
own, and Bettigrew’s brigade, engaged a
superior force of the enemy. Hood’s, oy
mv order, moved on to co-operate tvith
Longstreet. General Smith was desired
to hasten up with all the troops within
reach. He brought up Hampton’s and
Hatton’s brigades in a few minutes.
The strength of the enemy’s position,
‘See Lougstreet's report.
The Yankee Colony in South Carolina.—
Brigadier General R. S. Saxton writes
to Secretary Stanton, under date of July
10, as follow:
I have the honor to report that every
thing pertaining to the special service for
which I am sent to this department is in a
favorable condition. The negroes are
working industronsly, and we have 15,000
acres of corn and cotton under cultivation.
It looks well.
The system of voluntary labor works
admirably, and the people are contented
aud liappj’. W lien the nejv crop is har
vested they Avill cease to he a burden upon
the government. By adopting a judicious
system of reward ior labor, almost any
amount can be obtained, and its proceeds
will pay the expense-
Is there no possible means of disturbing
the peaceful quiet of this Yankee colony l
Or must a handfnl of abolitionists and
runaway negroes be allowed to cultivate
the soil of Carolina in perfect securi
ty. Neats.
Danhiug Cavalry
Explain* in
.tliuinip-
The following important correspondence
It struck the turret A’eiy nearly perpemli- , ] 10 wever, enabled him to hold it until
cular with its side, making an indentation
of three and a quarter inches, but without
any visible fracture of the plates. On tbe
inside, opposite the indentation, the plates
were somewhat fractured.
The iron-clad Galena was severly han
dled in tliis fight, the fire from the batter
ies being mostly concentrated upon her
on finding that their shells were penerating
sides. I am not positive that any shot
dark.
About sunset, being struck from my
horse, severely wounded by a fragment of
a shell, I was carried from the field, and
Major Gen. G. W. Smith succeeded to the
command.
He was prevented from resuming his at
tack on the enemy’s position next morning
by tho discovery of strong entrenchments,
not seen on the previous evening. Ilisjdi-
The threats of the enemy and the procla
mation of some of their Generals as to the
treatment to be measured out to Bartizan
Rangers, and the cruelty of their conduct
in many cases towards private citizens,
render it important that the country should P assin »
passed entirely through both sides, but ( vision bivouacked, on the night of the
saw where a ten-inch shot had gone, j thirty first within musket shot of
through her port-quarter, where her pla- t i, e entrenchments which they were at-
We make the following extract of a let
ter from an officer in Bragg’s division, to a
friend in Richmond county, dated Tupe
lo, Mississippi, July 14th:
We have recently had a brilliant affair
of cavalry at Boonesville, north of this
place. Gen. Chambers commanding a
brigade of four regiments of cavalry, was
ordered to attack the YTmkee force and
drive him from Bocneville. Two of these
regiments were commanded, respective
ly, by Col. Clanton, of Montgomery, Ala
bama, and Col. Lay, a Virginian comman
ding Kentucky cavalry. At the outset
our skirmishers were hard pressed by the
enemy, and our lines was ambuscaded.
At this juncture Col. Clanton volunteered
to attack the ambuscade, and, promptly,
tbe charge was sounded, and the woods
were cleared. The charge was made by
the Alabamians in a column of fours down
a narrow lane. It was led by Col. Clan
ton, sans jteur, aud at his side rode tbe
Chaplain of his regiment, the Rev. Tel
fair Hodgson, ofVirginia.
The head of our column was instantly
shot down; but, on and away dashed the
gallant cavaliers over dying and dead,
men and horses. The ambuscade was
cleared and d ,wn under the flash of sabre
and biaze of revolver sank one hundred
bodies of the ruthless vandals. Col.
Clanton and his chaplain, who led this
brilliant charge, both miraculously esca
ped. The former had five balls through
his clothes and scabbard; and his Chap
lain, one through his haversack.
The regiment pursued the’ fugitive van
dals for several miles. Meanwhile five
hundred of the picked cavalry of the ene
my had been sent, to get to the rear of
Colonel Clanton’s regiment Fortunately,
Col. Lays regiment was posted on the road
by which they moved. On this read was
situated our hospital, and the Chaplain
had returned to that place, in the minis
trations of his office; at this moment a strag
gler informed Mr. Hodgson that the ene
my’s cavalry was at hand. He was quick
ly in saddle, and, with the enemy thun
dering at three hundred yards behind him,
he reached Col. Lay’s position. Line
was instantly formed, and as the enemy
mounted a hill a lethal volley broke their
ranks and scattered them.
This “fighting Larson” is scarcely
twenty-one years of age, and already he
has made one campaign in Western Vir
ginia, that of Rich Mountain, as a Zouave.
In the spring of last year he was a
student in the Episcopal Theological Semi
nary iu New York. He wouldn’t “stand
it,” and come home to militate and offi
ciate both in one. He has a brother, cap
tain of cavalry, in Col. Clanton’s regiment.
Bishop General Bolk can hardly be at
fault for an “assistant” militant.
Sympathy for tlic Distnsstd.—Scarcely a day
tine is two and a half inches thick with tacking, when da'kuess stayed the conflict. | passes that the saddest indications of grief are not
six inches of wood backing.
over her gun deck,
and.
had
after
gone
The skill, energy, and resolution tvith
Avhich .Maj. Gen. Smith directed the at-
how these things areVe-| ! hr0 , n g h the ' v ” od bacIdn S °, n tlie st ? r - would have secured success if it could
know officially
garded by the Administration. The ex
planation of the Secretary of War answers
this end. The enemy may as well take
boad quarter and crowded on the iron pla
ting.
Shells penetrated her side where it Avas
have been made an hour earlier.
r l’he troops of Longstreet and Hill pass-
id th
night of the 31st on the
The
rround
enemy were
note of what he says of the Lex Talionis— j of tlie thickness I have stated above, and which they had avoii.
the Law of Retaliation : ; exploded on her gun-deck, making terri- strongly reinforced from the north side of
; ble havoc among her crew. In tAA o .or the Chickabominy on the evening and
three places where her spardeck Avas struck night of the 31st- The troops engaged by
hy ricochet shot, the entire substance of Gen. Smith Avere undoubtedly from the
the deck, both wood and iron, for the dis- other side of the river,
tance of three feet and the width of the On the morning of the 1st of June, the
shell, was scooped out, leaving a clear enemy attacked the brigade of General
opening through to the space beloAv.— Ticket, Avltieh Avas supported by that of
This deck, however, is ridiculously light, General Bryor. The attack Avas vigor-
SiR : I respecTullv desire to kaoAv from being made of two-inch plank, covered ously repelled by these two brigades, the
you, Avhether the several Bartizan Corps over with two 1-4-inch iron plates. As far brunt of the action falling on Gen. Bickett.
of Rangers now organized, or that maj’be as resistance to shot is concerned, she is This was the last demonstration made by
organized in the several States of the Con- a miserable failure- the enemy.
Correspondence.
Spotsavood Hofse Richmond, (
July 15th, 1562. )
Hon. George W. Randolph,
Secretary ufi War:
witnessed upon our streets. Yesterday a lady,
upon wfiose countenance Avas depicted marks of
the siucerest sorrow, was met by Mrs. President
Dsvis whose attention she attracted aud who in
quired the cause of her grief. The story of the
unfortunate was a brief one but fall of sadness.
Her husband, a sergeant in a North Carolina com
pany, was wounded in the battle at Malvern Hill
and she h-«d come to the city in search of him; but
had failed to find him in any of tbe hospitals.
Mrs. Davis kindly invited her to the Presidential
mansion where she is now a geest, and an adver
tisement appears in our columns for the wounded
and missing husband.—Richmond Dispatch 18/A.
Gen. Howell Cobb reached his home in
Athens, Ga., one day last Aveek. The
Watchman learns that he returned sick.
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