PERKINS LIBRARY I'ukc I nivrrsitj Kare books COLLECTION )4l Cj_; \ MARGINALIA OR, GLEANINGS FROM AN ARMY NOTE-BOOK. BY "PEKSONNE," AIUiY CORRESPONDENT OF THE CHARLESTON COURIER. ( OLUMBIA, 8 C: \M POW1 I <>4. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, By F. G. DeFOXTAINE, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Confederate States, for the District of South Carolina. INTRODUCTION. The object of the present work is three-fold — to perpetuate the memory of the outrages of an infamous foe — to exhibit the virtues of the Southern people, and to preserve to posterity a selection of Sketches and Incidents illustrative of the different phases of the Southern war. Compiled as they arc from various sources, it is unnecessary to apologize' for the fact that some of the anecdotes herein presented have been published before ; but for the first time they are now given to the world in an aggregated form. It is believed that they will entertain and instruct the reader of the present generation ; yet, if no other purpose is served, they may supply the future historian with " facts stranger than Gction," and, t6 our children and children's children, exhibit the lights and shadows of the times in which thrir fathers lived. The incidents of " Marginalia " are characteristic of every class of persons on both sides — Presidents and People — Generals and Privates — Soldiers individually and collectively — self-sacrificing civilians — noble hearted wo- men, brave boyf , impulsive children and devoted slaves. The highest moral integrity, and the lowest human depravity, are blended in their exhibition with the humorous, religious and heroic; and the compiler deems it no fault, if, in the miscellaneous arrangement of his subjects, the thoughts of his readers trip suddenly " From grave to gay — from lively to severe." TO HON. GEORGE A. TRENHOLM, SECRETAKY OF THE TREASURY OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES, ■ THIS VOLUME OF INCIDENTS ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION, Js dedicated a* to one who, in bis own person, nobly represents the highest type of Southern character. INDEX. Page. The Two Causes 1 Tbo Two Races 1 Mr. Seward to Lord Lyons 3 The Persistency of Hate 3 The Piety of the Confederates 3 Hemes 4 General Lee 5 Liberty's There Yet *. 6 Didn't Wish to Expose his Hear <> Portrait of Stonewall Jackson 7 A Yankee Opinion of Southern Woman's Hate 8 Worthy of Their Sires 8 The Agonies of th.- Battle-field 9 Shoulder Straps do not Stake an Officer.. !• "Stonewall" administers the Sacraaient 9 The Mountaineers of Virginia 10 A Noble Slave 11 Federal and Confederate Generals 12 Turks and Yankees 12 A Pillaging Expedition 12 Pen Portrait of Gen. John Morgan 13 The Battle-field 14 Gallant Exploit 15 Fidelity of our Negroes 16 A Good Caution 17 Hurrah for tie- I >.■ » 1 1 17 Running a Fal Lady: 17 Issuing his Rations 17 Barbarous Federal Generals 18 Waifs from a Clamp Diary 19 Negro Dignity' 20 An Incident of the Battle, of Fredericks- burg 20 Yankee Reverenoe for General Lee 21 The Spirit of our Homes 21 The True Spirit 22 litj of our Blares 23 A Southern Florence Nightingale 2.> An Apt Reply i i A Noble f'omp imenl 21 I D id his Wife 2., ':■ Bident Davis and his Chil- dren 27 The Sport of our Soldiers A Nob|e Boy 29 29 ,",ii ■nwchr 31 Our ' \ i onthful Hero Ghiii Mine Eyes for Two Hours" 45 Samson aifd Gen. Popo 46 Stuart's Cavalry 46 Bnby Patriotism 47 Col. Ashby 17 English Tribute to Southern Soldiery 48 They W n't Hun 49 A Yankee Hero 49 Gen. Jenkins' ParolingJProccss _ 50 \ Beautiful Document 50 Vandalism in East Tenn 51 Weak in bis Religion 51 Brutal Treatment of Confederates 51 A Confirmed Lunatic 52 Fighting Joe Hooker at Chancellorsville. 62 A Peeress of "Molly Stark" 53 A True Girl '. 54 gro vs. Yankees 54 I on a Dark Subject 55 Borg 56 Death of a Brave Man 56 Interest ing Soene 57 All Quiet on the Ogeechee 57 The Si ar. 5S Id A Iventure An Independent North I arolinian 59 Incidents of Oak Hill 59 Grai e Robbers Romance and Reality 60 Sharply Shot S3 " The Shtone Man" 62 Morg Telegraph Operator Yankee C, ) [ncidenl 64 ... 86 II . i ' . Vioktburg— Bill of I an .. Life Amonr; th«' Picket.- ' -■ 69 Benj. F. Batter ting 7n 190 Well Put 191 The Cutest Above the Graves 192 Juvenile Joke ,192 Incident of the Columbus Fight 192 Jackson's Last Hours Bu tier's Perquisites 196 Gen. Hardee and the Arkansian 8 tuart's Exploits 196 .i Incident of the Battles on the Rappa- I; 200 -in 201 .■ the Battle of Williamsburg., A Poser ■ I ween Two ei and < bildren in Battle Uabama A V Parting with the Stonewall I The Hero among Children 207 Pag*. Recollection of the Stonewall Brigade. ...208 The Last Scene of All 208 Jackson and Lee 209 Could'ut Get Board 209 Gen. D. II. Hill 210 Sti phen D. Lee 210 An Incident 210 Won't Some One Kiss me for my Mother.211 Push them to the Slaughter Pen 212 National Statistics 213 Brute Butler 213 How Lincoln Recruits his Armies 2! I Anecdote of Gen. Sherman 214 The Right Sort of Spirit 214 Incident of the Campaigu on the South- Side 215 The Creoles of Louisiana 215 John Robinson 216 Wendell Phillips , 216 Scenes on the Mississippi 217 A GallantAct 217 An Army Wedding 218 Incident pf the Battle of Oostanaula 220 Affecting Incident 220 The Ne Plus Ultra of Yankee Impudence. 221 Gen. E. C. Walthall 221 Seigel's Equestrianism 222 Pillow's Conscripts 222 A Warrior's Death 223 A Gallant Sergeant 223 Worthy of his Father 223 How Gen. Polk Got into an Indiana Ke- giment and His Mother 221 Exciting Partisan Adventure 225 An Incident 225 Interesting to Yankee Purchasers of Beal Estate 226 Dwight Sherwood Arrested by Ladies 227 Backing a 5 in o Patriotism it for the Times 228 field 229 230 (.'.ii i Fare 233 A Rebel Lieutenant apd his Broth ■ v Miller -The Young Warrior 234 iy in the Yankee Lines A Nighl in Charleston An Ii The Rebel I Lincoln upon the Battle-field — More of Pr< ridential Jokes D 2) 1 ' ■ 2 ! 1 ;. u n MARGIN-ALIA; OR, GLEANINGS FROM AN ARMY NOTE-BOOK THE TWO CAUSES. "Let it be remarked," says the London Index, u that while all other nations have written thci* own histories, the brief history of the Confederates, already so full of imperishable glory, has been written for them by their euemies, or at best by lukewarm neutrals. AboVe all has the Confederate nation distinguished itself from its adversaries by modesty and truth, those noblest ornaments of human nature. A heartfelt, unostentatious piety has been the source whence their army and people have drawn their inspirations of duty, of honor, and of consolation. The North has produced no such man as Stonewall Jackson; and to Davis, Lee, and Longstreet, it can oppose only an Abe Lincoln, a Hooker, and a Pope. While on one side of the Potomac internal peace has never been disturbed, freedom of speech and of the press has never been impaired, and the rights of the citizens have remained sacred, though the body politic was straining in an agony of des- perate self-defence ; on the other side of that stream, though no enemy's foot has yet trod the soil, a military despotism maintains itself bv a reign of terror. Surely these are palpable facts which might weigh against unsupported slanders, whether clothed in the meretricious charms of fiction, or uttered by blasphemers of the Beecher and Cheever school " THE TWO RACES. In the year 1*34, M. Michael Chevalier, the distinguished political economist of France, was sent to the United y M Thiers, than Minister of the Interior, on the Bpscial mission of inspecting the public works of the country. Hut. extending his sojourn and cnla; of hit observations, he BpenJ two year- in visiting 1 parts of the then Union, and studying the characteristics of its • ion-, and the working of its political machinery. His i ns and imprei 1 2 GLEANINGS FROM were communicated to the Journal det Dibats, in a Becies oT letters, which ■were deemed of sufficient value to justify their transfer, subsequently, from the columns of that pap< r to a book. As the book is not of easy access, we make from one of his letters, written at Charleston, May 28, 1834, the fol- lowing extract, showing the difference which he then discovered as existing between the two great people now at war: "The Southerner of pure race is frank, hearty, open, cordial in his man* . noble in his sentiments, elevated in his notions; he is a worthy endant of the English gentleman. Surrounded, from infancy, by hiJB slaves, who relieve him from all personal exertion, he is rather indisposed i i activity, and is even Indolent. He is generous and profuse. * * * * To him "the practice of hospitality is at once a duty, a pleasure, and a happi- ness. Like the Eastern patriarchs, or Homer's heroes, he spits an ox to regale the guest whom Providence 'sends him and an old friend recommends to his attention; and fo moisten this solid repast, he offers Madeira — of which he is as proud as of his horses — that has been twice to the East Indies, and has been ripening full twenty years. He loves the institutions of his country, yet he shows with pride his family plate, the arms on which, half effaced by time, attest, his descent from the first colonists, and prove that his ancestors were of a good family in England* When his mind has been cultivated by study, and a tour in Europe has polished his manners and refined his imagination, there is no place in the world in which he would not appear to advantage, no destiny too high for him to reach; he is one of those whom a man ,i3 glad to have as a companion and desires as a friend. Ardent ami warm hearted, he is of the block from which great orators are made. He is better able to command men than to conquer nature and subdue the soil. When he has a certain degree of the spirit of method, and 1 will not say will (for he has enough of that), but of that active perseverance so common at the North, he has all the qualities needful to form a great statesman. "The Yankee, on the contrary, is reserved, cautious, distrustful; his manners are without grace, cold, and often unprepossessing; he is narrow in his ideas, but practical ; and possessing' the idea of the proper, he never rises to the grand. He has nothing chivalric about him, and yet he i3 adventurous, and loves a roving life. His imagination is active and original, producing, however, not poetry, but drollery. The Yankee is the laborious ant; he is industrious and sober, frugal, and on the sterile soil of New England, niggardly. * * * lie is crafty, sly, always calculating, boast- ing even of the tricks which he plays upon the careless or trusting buyer, because he looks upon them as marks of his superior sagacity, and well provided with mental reservations to lull his conscience. He is little given to hospitality, or rather he displays it only on rare occasions, and then he AN ARMY NOTE-BOOK. 3 does so on a great scale. He is a ready speaker and a close reasoncr, but not a brilliant orator. For a statesman, he wants that greatness of mind and soul which enables a man to enter into and love another's nature, and leads him naturally to consult his neighbor's good, in consulting his own. He is individualism incarnate. But if he is not a great statesman, he is an able administrator, an unrivalled man of business. If he is m>t suited to com- mand men, he has no equal in acting upon things, in combining, arranging, and giving them value." MR. SEWARD TO LORD LYONS. " My lord, I can touch a bell on my right hand and order the arrest of a citizen in Ohio. I can touch the bell again, and order the imprisonment of a citizen in New York; and no power on earth but that of the President can release them. Can the Queen <♦{ England/ in her dominions, do as murh?" the 1'ersistency of hate. Just twenty years ago, in the Federal Congress, Mr. Dcjlct, of Alabama, asked Mr. Adams, of Massachusetts, whether he understood him to say, "that in God's good. time the abolition of slavery would come, and let it come." 31 r. Adams nodded assent, and said with great earnestness, " Let it come." Mr. JDellet. — " Yes, let it come. No matter what the consequen let it come, said the gentleman. Let it come, though women and children should be slain, though blood should flow like water, though the Union itself be destroyed, though Government shall be broken up. No matter though five millions of the people of the South perish." Mr. ADJLlfeS. — " Five hundred millions, let it come." THE PIETY OF THE CONFKDEIIA A Baltimore correspondent, writing to the London Indexj says : " But before 1 close, [ must tell you of the beautiful humility ami heroio which seemed to pervade tin' heart! of all the Confederates I saw. I have never seen a siron- religious sentimt tii mi ■_■- aerally prevalent as I find them. < >f twenty men with whom I ooovened one rifteinoto, tei n were profenors of religion, and tl nth said In- was a man ■ ■I' pray< r, and looked to God m liu pn lector. A plain, no let boy naid : ' Jn all my Lot with tie w Yankees, I 1 them alio . .ik about what twenty mill- ion! of nirn 'in dn, and what hundreds of million- cm do, and what their powerful navy can do; but they ieulution 4 GLEANINGS FROM altogether j but, sir, the Lord is our trust, and He will be our defence.' The Rev. was with me daring a part of my tour. Il<- was i on one occasion to lead in pltyer, in a barn fillol with wounded, deaf SharpsburL r . Alter a season of most solemn and affecting devotion, a young man called the reverend gentlemen to his side, and said : ' ] am dying, sir; but I am not afraid to die, for I hope to go to heaven. Nor am I sorry that I have been slain in battle, fur 1 would willingly sacrifice a dozen lives, if I had them, ior such a cause as we are fighting lor.' "Time and again I heard the one hnndred and twenty-fourth Psalm quoted : ' If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, when men rose up against usj then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us. Blessed be the Lord, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth. Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.' "They are not given to vaunting themselves; there is nothing at all of the spirit of bravado about them ; and so far from manifesting a ferocious disposition, they very frankly confess they are tired of the war; but at the same time they are animated by a determined resolution that, God helping them, they will never be subjugated. When one of them was asked if he did not fear that the prodigious armies now organizing against them would utterly overwhelm them, he replied that, ' With God above, and General Lee at their head, they feared nothing that man could do.' History, sir, furnishes no legends more touching and glorious than are exhibited in the sacrifices and endurance of the Southern people. Such a people merit the admiration of the world, and deserve to achieve their independence." IIEROES. Heroes more often die unknown than known. Battles are won through deeds of valor that Sal Eddin might envy, and the doers thereof are seldom named. Much praise is lavished on brave generals individually; the pri- vate obtains his collectively, and collective praise is of no more value to tho individual soldier than the collective prosperity of a nation is to the" starv- ing workman out of employ. Pillow was brave at Belmont. Pillow always is brave; but there were many hundreds just as brave as Pillow on that field whose names will never be heard in connection with it. Among them was one Dr. Brooks, originally froifl Illinois, but, at Belmont, a member of Colonel Tappan's regiment. When our forces were beaten in the early part of the action, the greater number obtained shelter beneath the jutting bank that there skirts the river's side. On that bank, for some ten minutes stood' Brooks returning the volleys of the enemy from his solitary rifle. Federal bullets were whistling a sort of orchestral version of Temps' " Kill, kill," duet around him, but Brooks continued unhurt and unmoved. Finally, a AX ARMY NOTE-BOOK. 5 shell dropped near hiin, exploded, and shattered his skull. On that hank ho lingered, unattended and unoared for, till found hy Dr. Creiirhton, a Mcmphian surgeon, from Thursday, the day of battle, till the following Saturday, and then died. How long would a genera] have been left thus unattended after a display of such heroism ? Now this would seem hard, yet there is good reason for it. All eyes are on a general, the movements of all depend upon iiim, and, in some eases, the safety of all." Cases of individual bravery and prowess in such an army as ours become so nume- rous that they are regarded as a matter of course; and in lueb a stru^o-le, the reward the brave soldier should seek is the knowledge of duty done, and the patriotic pride of feeling that his country'^ freedom is due to him and such as he. In the same battle a Mississippian gave singular evidence of possessing that sang fro! <1 which has been so long the peculiar characteristic of the French zouave. He was out of percussion caps; an old-fashioned shell happening to land near him, he cut off a fuse that waa attached to it, and continued touching off his gun with it from his left hand, pointing the instrument with his right alone. He, too, was killed, cut in two by a ball from one of our own guns which the enemy took in, the early part of the day. The tenacity of Southern courage was finely exemplified in the case of young Lieutenant Walker. When his captain was shot down, he assumed the command, and with flashing eye, and lip quivering with anxiety "to do something," led his men toward the foe, as eagerly as though life, wealth, and bliss were only to be found in their bristling lines. He, too, was killed, shot down in the very fever of his glorious excitement. ISut even when on the ground, he strove to be leader still, and complete exhaustion alone, con- quered him. One man, striving to relieve a wounded comrade, approached the river's edge to obtain a bucket of water, amid a very hail-storm of bul- lets. He filled the bucket, turned from the river, received a .Minie ball through his brave and tender heart, and fell forward — dead. It may be doubted whether greater individual bravery was ever displayed than that which turned the surprise of Belmont into a glorious victory. Enough to fill a volume might bfl gathered from the eiperieneea of a single regiment. • You cannol imagine a plainer or more unostentatious looking man than the Commander-in-Chief of the Confederate armies — Gteneral Lee. Take a human form, ten inches in height, its well knit together, full in it- proportions, and ye! without superfluity. Add to it a well sh;i].cd, squarely built head, with a front whoi ked with energy and geliui, ■ pair of keen, -brown in the parlor, 6 ] ftOM hut Mack in the field — that sc< • * a glance; a handsomely si i.W nerelsj a mouth indicative of an iron will, and i countenance whose natural expres- Bion is one of gentlei — and benei rthel i. month and 1 part ni' the bos with a heavy growth of ah rt, grey hair ; invest the whole figure with grace, and an ui of strength, purpose and tionj lei it speak to you in i voice whose tones of politeness never vary, whether uttered to the highest or the low< -t in rank, and yon bai lull and complete a description as I sen give of the distinguished man wb.o, at tlii— moment, holds in the hollow of his hand the destiny of his oountry. The genera] is as unostentatious and BDasauming in dress as be u in man* Oolonel's coat (thrt-< .-tars without the wreath), S good deal faded, bine pantaloons, high top boots, bine cloth talma, and a high felt hat. without adornment, save a small cord around the crown. "LIBERTY 'S THESE YET." Captain McFarland, describing some of the scenes of the first battle of Manassas, relates the following: " Meanwhile our reinforcements were pouring by, and pressing with enthusiastic cheers to the battle-field- On the other hand, many of OUt wounded were borne past us to the rear. One poor fellow was shot through the left oheek \ as he came past me he smiled, and muttered with difficulty, ' Boys, they 've Bpoiled my beauty.' lie could say no more, hut an expres- sion of acute pain flitted across his lace, and shaking his clenched fist in the direction of tl passed on. Another came by, shot intbe breast. Hi- clothing had 1h.ii stripped from over his ghastly wound, and at every breath the warm life-blood gushed Groin his bosom. 1 rode up to him. as, leaning on two companions, he stopped fpr a moment to rest, ' My poor fel- low,' said I. '1 am sorry to see you thus.' ' STes, yes,' was his reply. 'They've done for me now, hut my father* i there yet! our army'* there yet! ow oattse it there yet ! ' and, raising himself from the arms of his compan- ions, his pale face lighting up like a sunbeam, he oried, with an enthusiasm I shall ni -.'and Uberty't there yet!' But this spasmodic exertion was too much for him; a purple flood poured IVom his wound, and he swooned away. I was enthusiastic before, but I felt then as if I could have ridden singly and alone upon a regiment, regardless of all but my country's cause." did'nt wish to expose ms rear. When Prince Napoleon visited our army at Manassas, his supper the fin t night was a half-picked bone — provisions beis ee, and the fibre of our generals so scanty, that nothing hetter could bo provided irom the AN ARMY NOTE-HOOK. 7 • vicinity. The next day he rode over the battle-field, but turned very sick at the sicrht and odor that met his 3 *' luently, he reviewed our troops. While riding down the line, he express ire to pass hack in the rear. Lieutenant Colonel* Skinner, ol the First. Virginia Regiment, who was by the side of the Prince, for the moment was placed in a dilemma, but recovering himself quickly, a flush mantled his ragged face, Bfl lie replied in French : " Your royal highness, we would gladly take you to tli" rear, but the fact is, the linen of the men is in rather an exposed condition. It being a part of the person which we never expect to show to the enemy, our men think rags there of but little consequence." PORTRAIT OF "STONEWALt" JACKSON. Imagine a man about five feet ten inches high, rather thick set, full '. bread, stalwart shoulders, and. indeed, the whole physique indicating what is commonly called a ''well made" man. He is the picture of health, yet there appeals no redundancy, of flesh. His face is slightly bronzed, from the constant exposure of his campaigns. It was said of 1 ir that if he had not been a conqueror, he would have excelled all his contemporary - as a boxer or athlete; and so I should say of Jackson, he would be a dangerous antagonist at fisticuff. His appearance at first im- a with the idea of trreat powers of endurance, strength, and i tieity of i'r.mi . 'i he I (pression of his fac rather than dimini the general effect. There you see self-command, perseverance, indomitable will, that seems neither to know nor think of any earthly obstacle; and all this without the ' admixture of vanity, assumption, pride, fool-hardiness, or aOythil the kind. ■ a disposition to assert its prel asions, but froiu the , conviction of his relative position, which seta the vexed i test— e peculiarity, I would remark, of g minds. It is only the little and the frivolous vho art btrnding be world. His far- mage in tli. higl . and Ins phrenological developments indicate a nd activity. - broad and prominent, the ; ital and sincipital 1 well balanced: eyes of mildness, energy, and 001 :md nose both long and well formed. Hi A slightly braid. 1 on t! I tie' col'... irk of a major ral. of our n • wall. To military fame which tfa the UflNGfi fROM simplicity of b child, the straight-forwardness of a Western farmer. Last Sunday he irae dressed aa sbove, ami oommon a horse as one could find in a summer day. It is said he is a fatalist, aa Napoleon was, and has no fear that he can be killed before his time OODies. Hf is as calm in the midst of a hurricane of bullets as he was in t ho pew of his church at Lexington, when he was pro- fessor of thr institute, lie appears to be a man of almost superhuman endurance. Neither heat nor cold makes the slightest impression upon him. lie cares nothing for good quarters and dainty fare. Wrapped in his blanket, he throws himself down on the ground anywhere, and sleeps as soundly as though he were in a palace. He lives as the soldiers live, and endures all the fatigue and all the suffering that they endure. His vig- ilance is something marvellous. He never seems to sleep, and lets nothing pass without his personal scrutiny. He can neither, be caught napping nor whipped when he is wide awake. The rapidity of his marches is something portentous: He is heard of by the enemy at one point, and before they can make up their minds to follow him, he is off at another. His men have little ba'_"_ r a'-e, and he moves, as nearly as he can, without encumbrance, lie keeps so constantly in motion that he. never has a sick list, and no need of hospitals. In these habits, and a will as determined as that of Julius Csesar, are read the secret of his great success. His men adore him, because he requires them to do nothing which he does not do himself, because he constantly leads them to victory, and because they see he is a great soldier. A YANKEE OPINION OF A SOUTHERN WOMAN'S HATE. Rev. Dr. Storrs, in his anniversary address at the exercises of the Hol- yokc Seminary, Massachusetts, said that a returned prisoner lately re- marked' that while at the South he could easily endure the taunts of the men he had never before realized -what and how terrible was the stinging hate of woman — so intense, bitter, and beyond all belief; and he had come back with one additional mercy for which to thank God — that the devil was not a woman. WORTHY OP THEIR SIRES. On which side of the present conflict is the blood of the old Revolution of 1776 r* On the side of the South, many of the very names which adorn the pages of our revolutionary history are now conspicuous in the contest. In the "allaut and accomplished General Lee, we have a son of Light- Horse Harrj Lee, on whom Washington so confidently relied during the •whole of the war of the Revolution. In the late General Garnett, the ^blood of the brave Mercer, who fell at Trenton, by the side of Washington, AN ARMY NOTE-BOOK. 9 coursed its rich stream. (ieneral Magrudcr, who commanded at Bethel, bears by descent the revolutionary name of Bankhead. Major Randolph, who so effectually manoeuvred the howitzers on that occasion, is a grandson of Jefferson, the immortal author of the Declaration of Independence; and Captain Brown, who commanded one of the batteries under Randolph, is a grandson of a gallant soldier, who carried to the grave a bullet from the field of Guilford. General Johnston is the son of an officer who served under Lee in his legions. Floyd is of revolutionary stock, descended from the Prestons and Lewises. Governor Winston, in the field with his regi- ment from Alabama, is a grandson of Patrick Henry; and Hampton, of South Carolina, with his splendid legion, equipped at his personal expense, is a grandson of Wade Hampton, of revolutionary fame. THE AGONIES OF THE BATTLE-FIELD. A writer relating the scenes he saw at the first battle of Manassas, says: "In a little clump of second-growth pines, a number of wounded had crawled for shelter. Many of our men were busy doing them offices of kindness and humanity. There was one New York zouave who appeared to be dying; his jaws were working, and he seemed to be in great agony. I poured some water down his throat, which revived him. Fixing his eyes upon me, with a look of fierce hatred, he muttered : ' You d — d rebel, if I had a musket I would blow out your infernal soul.' Another pale youth was lying in the wet undergrowth, shivering in the rain, and in the cold of approaching death, lie was looking wistfully towards a 1 warm blanket spread across my saddle, and said, in his halting, shivering breath: ' I 'in so cold.' I spread the blanket over him, and left him to that end of his wretchedness which could not be fur distant.", SHOULDER-STRAl>S DO NOT MAKE AN OFFICER. During one of the campaigns in Virginia, an altercation took place between an officer and one of his privates, who was in evcrv wav, socially and intellectually, his superior. In the course of (ho conversation, the rdinate made some irritating remark, when the officer exclaimed : "If you repeat that again, I will lay down my rank and fight you." "Lay down your rank." was the indignant response ; "that wont make you a thinan \ oowardlj V.iiik.. would fight with straps on his shoulders, but it takes b gentleman to fight for eleven dollars a month." "STONEWALL" ADMINISTERS TIIK BAGBAJfXNT. On the morning of a battle near H Perryj after a sennon 03 of his CI 3tonewall Jackson, who, by the way. was an Elder in the byterian Church, administered tie saeraflfc hureh members in •J 10 OLEANINGS FK< M hlfl armv. He invited all Christians (o ].avt ii ijiate in this ci Mtiony. A ISaptist, the Btraightest of his beet, thoroughly imbued with the idea of close communion, was seen to hesitate, hut the occasion, ami the man who presided, overcame his scruples, ami thus it has happened that the prospect of a fight and the eloquence of Jaokson made a Baptist forget that baptism is the door into the Church. In all Jackson's army, an oath is rarely uttered! A religious enthusiasm |ferrades it. which makes every man a hero. Conscious of the justice of our cause, and imhued with the strongest convictions "i" patriotism, his men are irresistible: In this incident we have an explanation of General dackson's invincibility, and we are thus enabled to understand why his men are all heroes, and why they endure, without a murmur, the severest hardships to which any troops have been subjected during the war. When peace is restored, it will be honor enough for any man to say, " I belonged to the army of Stonewall Jackson." THE MOUNTAINEERS OF VIRGINIA. In an appeal to the people, published by Colonel Imboden, commanding the Confederate forces in the neighborhood of Staunton, this officer relates some characteristic anecdotes of the patriotism, hardihood, and simplicity of the mountaineers of Virginia. "On a certain occasion," says Colonel Imboden, "I halted, near sunset, by a log cabin in one of the wildest gorges on the Dry Fork of Cheat. An aged mother and several daughters were the only members of the family at home. The lather had been in Camp Chase over a year, on a charge of being a rebel ; an only son is a soldier in one of my companies. I asked for corn to feed over three hundred horses. The old lady said they only had a little, raised by herself and daughters, but I was welcome to it if I needed it. I took half she had, and paid her for it, when she seemed to doubt the propriety of receiving money from a Southern soldier, as she thought it a duty to give us what we wanted. Her son's company was not along, and she did not see him. The eldest daughter said : f Colonel, tell brother we are all well, and doing well. We expect our papa will soon bo released from Camp Chase and come home. Tell him to be contented in the army, and write to us if he can. If we had known you were coming we would have had his winter clothes ready to send to him, but we will have no other chance when you leave. Tell him we have made enough corn to do us, and have plenty of meat. We have caught five large bears in a pen, and salted them down for winter. The Yankee sheriff came with five soldiers along to collect the taxes, and wanted to take the mare, but I had sold the bear skins for money enough to pay him, and I hope it is the last time I will ever have to pay Yankee taxes.' I thought, as I rode away into the wilderness, that the strippling soldier — but seventeen years of age — AN ARMY NOTEBOOK. 11 whose home I had just left, would hereafter, in the eyes of a just and impartial posterity, have a prouder claim to honor than the son of any heartless speculator, though he inherited millions of his father's ill-got t tii gains." The Colonel refers, in another place, to an old mountaineer, seventy-five years of age, wh" has ••killed more Yankees than any man in the- command nine the war began." He hunts them as he does large game, and rarely tails to bring down his man at two hundred yards with a long old rifle. He got two shots last week, and says at the second shot " the Yankee behaved mighty curious ;■ he put his hand to his side at the crack of the gun, and laid down on the horse's neck, like he was sick, and then fell off." Such was the old man's simple account of the fate of one of the invading Bcoundrels. A NOBLE SLAVE. The following incident is related by an eye-witness — one of upwards of fifty who arc cognizant of the facts. Such instances of genuine loyalty have their parallel nowhere so frequently as in the pages of Southern his- tory, and give a flat contradiction to all the partial and puritanical state- ments ever made by Mrs. Stowe and her tribe of worshipping abolitionists ; " The night before the attack of the abolitionists on Secessionvillc, (June 10, 1802,) Daniel, a servant of Lieutenant Bellinger, of Lamar's Artillery, had taken his Blaster's sword and pistol to a house about one hundred yards in rear of the fort to clean them, and haying fallen asleep, • lid not awaken until the alarm of the assault was given, just at daylight. Suddenly, remembering that his master was without his weapons, he seized them and tnshed to the fort through the hot fire with which the em who had flanked the work -weeping down the men in the rear. Daniel attempted to enter at the usual place of entrance, but teeing that it irae certain death to proceed further in that direction — three of our men, who, like himself, had slept out of the works* were killed at his side — he tried another place. But th< itorm of projectiles shut him out there, rmined, however, to do bis duty, he rushed across the line of fire, ami fell, mortally wounded, pierced by three balls. But, faithful even unto th, he entn ated the men near him to carry the sword and pistol for him to hu • that it v. r w.i- killed. • Mj iW, ' they kill- 1 him 1 no | sword.' And, forgetting tin f his own wounds, he upbraided himself for hit which he believed 1 loath. - the fight ml Bellinger, 1 Daniel's . to where he lay, and the faithful fellow, upon hearing his name called, raised his languid eyes, ^nd exclaimed : ' Al 12 GLEANINGS ntOM told rae you were dead, but, thank God. if 1 'in to die this day. that it's mc and not vmi.' and. taking the pistol from his bosom, he gare it to the lieu- tenant. Baying: ' I tried to carry your sword to you, but they shot mo. and when 1 fell it dropped, and 1 'm afraid it 'a lost.' ' Come, Daniel,' raid his master, 'don't trouble yourself about that now. we '11 take you to thi and he 11 BOOn make you all right.' Daniel, however, expressed no hopes of ■ry. and lamented that he could not see his master's children hefore he died. • Tell them at home,' he raid, 'that 1 promise)) to take care of you, and that I tried to do so to the last of my life.' "lie lingered several days, and died. The last words he c\. being, ' Duncan and Normie will he sorry when they hear 1 'm dead.' Those were the names of his master's children." FEDERAL AND CONFEDERATE GENERALS. In reading the reports of the battles in Mexico, and remembering the positions now occupied by the various officers, some curious coincidences are found. Thus, Magruder gives special credit to Sumner, and Joseph E. Johnston is warm in his commendations of Heno. After the battle of Churubusco, Major Loring reports to his immediate superior, Earl Van Dorn : " The rifle's were accompanied throughout by the distinguished young Lieutenants, Beauregard, Smith, and McClellan, the two latter in command of a portion of the engineer corps. All, I am happy to say, bore themselves with the greatest gallantry." At Ohnrnbnsoo, McClellan was under the immediate command of Lieu- tenant Gr. W. Smith, subsequently street commissioner in New York, and now one of the generals in the Confederate service. TURKS AND YANKEES. A historian of the Saracen conquerors says: " It was, moreover, a common injunction to spare as much as possible the countries they invaded. 'De- stroy not palm trees,' says Ahabeker to Yesuf, 'nor burn any field of corn; cut down no fruit trees, do no mischief to cuttle, only such as ye kill to eat.' " Compare these Turks of more than a thousand years ago, in the very mid-' night of the ages, with the Yankees of this day, who organized expeditions for the express purpose of doing what the most savage and barbarous people of the world would not permit. A riLLAOINQ EXPEDITION. The St. Louis I)< mocrat contains the following account of the movements of a cavalry brigade under Colonel Cornyn, of the Federal army: AN ARMY NOTE-BOOK. 13 "This brigade left Corinth, Mississippi, on one of the last days of May, 'for the purpose of making a path of desolation through a section of country not heretofore traveled by our forces.' It was the intention (to quote more of the select language of the narrator) to 'play the devil generally,' and to leave on the minds of non-combatant people 'a vivid impression as to what war really is.' The brigade was five nights in the saddle, and in that brief space their abolition eulogist claims that, among other acts of signal ven- geance, they burned seven cotton factories (all private property), costing an average of two hundred thousand dollars each, the largest of these contain* in:; three hundred looms, being valued at one million dollars, and employ- ing hundreds of men, women, and children, The stock of manufactured goods on hand is described to have been more valuable than the buildings and machinery. Steam flouring-mills, steam saw-mills, private dwellings, yellow, waving wheat-fields just ready for the sickle, were alike destroyed in the wantonness of vengeance. Speaking of the immense amount of forage committed to the flames, the jubilant narrator says: 'Immense is not the word — language cannot describe the scene — the smoke rising from burning- corn cribs in every direction, and for many miles on each side of our path.' Great numbers of slaves were brought away, but this was a matter of course." A PEN PORTRAIT OF GENERAL JACK MORGAN. The following sketch of this redoubtable chief, though somewhat florid of the most graphic that has been given to the public : "Morgan is precisely six feet in stature; his limbs arc faultlessly sym- metrical, and his action is the very poetry of motion. His hair is auburn bis eyes blue, his forehead high and broad; his face wears the flush of hale health, and is radiant with the light of thought. Mis hands and feet are small, and in his locomotion there is a remarkable elasticity and trrace. His brow is of an eminently mental mould. Decision flashes from his eye* and his lip indicates a firmness beyond the reach of embarrassment. His address captivates everybody — 'the girls all love him. and the boys all ;■ by him.' lie is, in the broadest and most comprehensive sense of the terms, a gentleman lar, a soldier, and a Morgan. Wary, intrepid., circui ml bold, he is endowed with the rare capacity of Belf-p ;n the very jaw- of peri) — he can think, and deliberately d- cide what it will behest to do, however great tie danger. 11 ;• oeptiv< :'. olties are preeminently fine. Intuitively he comprehends in a twinkling all mai of riddles, whether they come in the form of a 'weak ini the em ui_\ .' or iii the more ' questionable shape ' ( ,i Hi- predominating cl His bo iii'i' 10 OLKANI.V.s FBOM Till: KIUKLITY OF uoes. The fid- thus far. 1i:l> been as much a subject of gratification t i us as of surprise to the enemy. It has b en though! that . slave would gladly avail himself of an opportunity to regain his free- dom, but the i v • been disappoint* d, \ characteristic Inoident is related by ■ respectable gentleman whj) livi q Fairfax Oourt-House and Alexandria. II owner of ah old man and two younger men. Having confi- ■ in their faithfulness, and the honi sty of the Federals, he left them on his plantation. The latter, however, visited the premises, and ask< 'I the old man if he did uol wan! his freedom. The old fellow told him no; that lie wa- living near the line, and if he desired it. could have obtained bis liberty any time within the lasl twenty years, Bimply by crossing over. As he was old and infirm', they left him, but carried oil the two boys. General Tyler, for it v, 1 them if they did not want their freedom. '■ Oh, yes," said one of them. "Would you fight for us?" "Yes, sir, and I would Bhoot my old muster the very first man." This gave the officer ■ confidence in the artful hut faithful respondent. So they put him in uni- form, mounted him on horseback, and treated him with other mark-; of He, however, had not wavered in the slightest degree in his fidelity,) and was taking observations of the various points. After having possi himself of all the ry information, he started off before day, one morning, and came to this place. His master carried him to General Bon- ham, who obtained from him very valuable information, as be had not only i lined the location of the Federal batteries, but the number and cali- bre of their guns. The other boy remained in Alexandria. Another incident, equally characterisac, is recorded of a free negro — a ndant of the slaves manumitted by-Oeneral Washington — who owns and occupies a far f one hundred and fifty acres in Fairfax County, near Mount Vernon. This man has offered twenty-eight acres of his farm, to be sold, that the procee Is might be used in the defence of Virginia, and he is willing to fight himself. This reminds us of still another incident, though it has but slight appli- d to the subject. A gang of slaves were, rolling a cargo of bomb-shells on a small steamer, for transportation to 'a fort. One of the darkies, not understanding their use, exclaimed, "Q-orra mighty! what de white folks gwine to do wid deso big balls?" " Why, you fool nigga," replied a know- ihg-looking comrade, " dem is Davis pills, to work de Vankecs out ob Fort ens." AN ARMY NOTE-BOOK. • 17 A GOOD CAUTION. At one time there was ;i fear that the President, for some cause, would attempt to depr egard of his command. Wigfall, of Texas, a bold, dashing, independent, plain-spoken man, referring to the subject on one occasion, in the presence of Davis, rem irke I : " Mr. President, don't touch him. Whenever a man becomes so popular that the men of the country name their race-horses and steamboats, andthe women name their babies after him, don't touch him, let him alone!" Ill URAII FOR THE DEVIL. While the Yankees were occupying Canton. Mississippi, a little boy, five years of a ng by a bevy of soldiers, shouted, "Hurrah for Jeff. Davis." '-Hurrah for the devil," was the indignant response. "That's right," said the little fellow; "you hurrah for your captain, and I'll hurrah for mine." RUNNING A FAT LADY. During one of the raids of the Federals in North Carolina, they entered the house of a venerable lady, and deliberately proceeded to hew and hack her elegant furniture. She remonstrated against this vandalism, when the brutes drove her out of the house, and, at the point of the bayonet, com- pelled her to donble-qnick around the premises, amid ,thcir gibes and laughter, until the ; tan fell, exhausted. A fact which adds to the barbarity of th nt is, that the lady was so portly as for several years ¥ • e been an invalid. The wretches, when they left, had thcaudaci: say that "the exercise would do her good." rma his rations. After thi ■? Boonsboro* in Maryland, when our army fell back, one of our pic) ikee, and order. -d la soften.' P the Confi lerate suddenly mounted the Yankee, and made him a pri for camp. He did not know exactly course to traveled in the direction of Shar] the end of th . • neral Evans, of South Carolina, and •■ Wh ib -re? ' was the inqni "W:ili. I. '.nt l reckon he '- . we '11 git inthin' I Dothin' f;ir thn the reply where have you ] - ■ ul.KANIN'-.S IROM "Ben J v.l.v. -.\. Ve ben lost) and as (bribe livin' ;>art. I jest concluded I '■! turn commissary, and press pervisiooa to keep me and the Yank, so i marched bim but we 've ben two of th , Gineralj i bone. JTer haven't ■ drop eorjul' i Portnnatelj the general bad; and, considerably mollified by i Btrong i»ull at t li . • Bask, die Confederate resumed bis journey! : ai. • 1 1 : N" I : U A I , ■: . — J \\ I ORS. Tne North, even — we mean the h >t. conservative portion of the peo- ple — aro p U ( to shame at the infamy and atrocities of some of her military tyrants. The Philadelphia Evening Journal has an article on "Barbarous Federal Generals," in whicb it speaks out thus boldly: "Whatever may be the final result of the present sanguinary war — whether the seceded States become subjugated or independent — the future impartial historian will pronounce the judgment of posterity against a few names that have figured conspicuously in the I '• d< ral service. •■One of those worthies is Ken. Butler, who commenced hid military Bethel, and ended it at New Orleans, where he played such fantastic trioks against humanity that the administration was compelled to remove him. and appoint a man whose instincts are not so brutal-»-who, in oompafison, is a gentleman — we mean General Banks. Another one is Turchin, of Illinois, a colonel who was tried by court-martial for permitting and encouraging his men to arson, murder, plunder, and rapi — mho was condemned and ordered to be dismissed in dishonor from the service, which ace was approved by General Bnell and promulgated, but who was immediately promoted from his colonelcy to a brigadier-generalship by .Mr. Lincoln, and is now in service under General Roseorapz. "Another is an adventurer from the land of the blue-noses, named McNiel, who in cold blood ordered ten innocent non-combatanttj to be shut, becatise thej resided in the neighborhood of one who had been abdu from his borne by a guerilla band. The flimsy pretext for this barbarity was, that it was done in retaliation for his murder, but his Bubsequ£n1 return, sale and sound, destroyed the last prop upon which such an infamous, wholesale murder was sought to be justified. 1 1' the heart-rending agony of the ten widows, and the wailing of their orphaned children, do not lvach hi.- conscience, then he will suffer all the more in hell, where there are / saints in comparison to bim. ■• Another name i> that of Milroy, a canting, Methodistical preacher, who has embraced the opportunity of civil war to wreak the petty vengeance and malice of his narrow soul upon the unfortunate, heart-broken, and impoverished women and children of Virginia. His conduct in West Vir- AN ARMY NOTE- HOOK. 19 ginia was bad enough, but his ferocity in the valley around Winchester is shocking. Bui a short-time since he ordered a family out of the lines, and would not permit them to take their clothing with them. Jt is said that even their crinoline was denied them, although they had treated our troops in the must kindly manner. Be moved into the mansion immediately, and. appropriated it for bis headquarters, together. with the spoons, pianos, &c, and, in j^tit of generosity, presented one of the pianos to a female who was residing in one of the camps thereabouts. This family, although it was Well known to have sheltered and succored our BQldierS when the fate of war had thrown them captive in the neighborhood, was thus cruelly and unnecessarily thrown helpless upon the world, to gratify the lust of pillage of this general. " Aii.'tln r n nne is that of Steinwehr, whose complicity in the shocking of the burning of New Market will be remembered. It was proven that those who were trying to escape from the burning houses were driven back into the flames with the sabres of ferocious soldiers. Can the mind of man contemplate a greater scene of horror than was presented by frantic citizens, driven from their homes by the torch of the incendiary, shrieking and terror stricken? How they must have cried for mercy; bow their piercing shriek- must have risen above the roar of the crackling flames, cuveloping their own homstcads. But these did not pierce the heart of this general. No; nor were any of his accomplices punished for this deed of infamy and horror. "These incarnate fiends, without having any military ability whatever, have driven the people into hostility, when they might have hern secured as friends. This article will aed into b disparagement of our army and it« officers; but let us tell those who would do so, that nothing dispar- -o much, either at home or abroad, as the neglect to seek out and punish such offenders. The administration cannol plead ignorano The acts of Butler, M i 1 Milroy were brought to their protest of the enemy, while those of Turohin and Steinwehr brought forward in tic evidence before the court-martial. ln< I and promoted by the administration, wh tenant Edgerbj tic Democratic ticket in '» Hampshire, and Lieutenant Van 13 uren for permitting hii h' n-i i insure promotion — rob, murder, and destroy; to incur dia- ry and inhumanity, or vote tie vw ix I loridians," n] ckoHtujf to a small I r be came across. 20 QLEAJIIM In the fi-ht ligo, South Carolina^ one of our aharpt - hod a fiddle strapped to hi< back. 1 found him li:iril nt work, trying to get id, With tlic d — d Yankees for making Mm lose hu 1 oir. man, wit! in death; But Yankees, true to country, will till they die, and then — '.'■ *tiU. NEQRO DION! n Private Gibbs, of Charleston, was captured and sent to Hilton Head, :nics to show their feeling of hostility to us, and to dis- play some evidence of it. At one place, a beautiful girl ran down the b1 of an elegant mansion, and, standing on the tefrac< in front, waved a min- iature United States flag in the face of our troops. Behind her, applauding her act, Wat grouped a party of ladies, all richly and fashionably attired, nging 1" a family of some not-. The troops pasted by qui- ilt to the flushed beauty as she flaunted her flag in their At that moment General Lee rode up. His noble far,., and quiet, reproving look met hot 1 the waving tie.' wa^ lowen 1 lor a moment she looked at him. and then, throwing down the miniature ha: Dted audibly, as the clasped her white ha' her: - < Hi ! 1 wish be M The flair v, ] up, but with ham]- Mill held tightly together, and i sad, thoughtful fa n< back to thi .No further attempt to sb^w Onion sentiment wn THE SPIRIT or 01 B Hum \ few instances il "Mr. J I fourteen old in the w.v 12 ilOM "General Jos ph Grab m, of Lincoln County, North Carolina, has left a name renowned la history ae b Revolutionary hero. 3U mantle has fallen upon hie d Hi- youn mot Win. A. Graham, baa fire bow in the army. Hia Bistor, the youngest daughter of General Graham, and wife of .the Rev. I'r. Robert II. Morrison, has two Bona and four sons-in-law in I ■ the latter being 'BetfcaL' Hill and ' Stonewall ' Jackson •• Th" Shnlet family, originally from Orangeburg District, Boata Caro- lina, exhibit a representation of fifty-one names in the Confederate service. • sriing family have in Confederate service Bixty-three representa- tives, all hailing fopm South Carolina. "In Cleveland G i at ■ N irth Carolina, Mrs. Ham rick, a widow, haa but a children, all suns, six of whom she has devoted to the Southern She would devote the seventh, and her all, hut that he is a small too young for the army. At aha first call of her country, this noble mother urged hi r Bona to the field. With 3u■ [ant son of Henry Grinnell ous and noble-hearted merchant ol New Fork, who bath | - now, the unflinching and daunt.. South, and who I tb.' Lincoln Government in tin . . of a bold and manly opinion in our behalf, and in tie manifestation of the m ,Pa] aid Sir .John and nia daughter returned to England, and - fter his impanied I ,1,,. : - of that ministra- tion nl wound* r. ( >n her return • Grinnell mi t her in I where thi all the luxui i,irh the princely wealth of I ben could so well afford them. Colonel 24 GLEANINGS FROM , of Virginia] had often met Miae Mnsgiave in New York, and whilst passing down the street in Richmond, suddenly and unexpectedly wearingfhat bland and joyous Bmile and expression of recognition which iitaparta Buch a beautiful benevol nee to her oonntenanpe. •• Mfei • iitl — : ; " I W.i D have expected t<> B66 an angel from heaven! Pray, Miss Musgrave, how came you hen II, ■• jtorj •• Id, with most unaffi r leaving York." saidvlie, "1 returned to England, and went with Florence i tin gale to the Crimea. On my return home 1 married Mr. Grrinnell, and pn the breaking out of the war in America, my husband avowed his rminatfon to link his fortunes with the South; and I aceompanied him. lie soon raised a company— fitted them out at an expense to himself of fifteen thousand dollars — preferred that some one of more experience should lie captain, taking for himself a lieutenancy — aud he has gone to fight for the South, and 1 am here in one of the hospitals of Richmond, a" the best 1 can for the wounded and dying soldiers of the Confed- eracy." And she passed on — if not an angel from heaven, certainly an angel of earth — the Florence Nightingale of America! AN APT REPLY. "When the streets of Montgomery were crowded with soldiery, and in- spiriting martial music stirred all hearts, a lady chanced to pass along one of the principal thoroughfares, when a volunteer, who probably i'elt the "one touch of nature which makes the whole world kin," very politely saluted her by raising his hat, and remark i n g : " Farewell, my good lady; 1 'm "oing off to fight for you;" to which she instantly and very composedly repUecl: "And I intend remaining here to pray for you, sir." There was something in this reply so apropos — so womanly — that there" was a general raising of hats anion- the group, who doubtless felt that a warm and truly POttS heart heat in the bfcsom of the fair creature who had pledged her- self to invoke the benediction of Heaven upon them. The following noble compliment, nobly won, was conferred on a private in his army by fjeneral Beauregard, Mr. Jones is a native of Fairfax County, but a resident t)f Warrenton, Virginia, and his town, county, and State will do well to he proud of the young hero, who has won such uncom- ,,„,,, honors. The order which follows was read at the head-of every regiment in Beauregard's whole army. All praise to the general who thus honors merit, even in the ranks: an army note-book. 25 '•Headquarters Army op tiik Mississippi, Corinth, MissiSjUfMj April 12, 1.862. "[GFXERAL ORDERS No. 14.] "The Commander of the forces desires to call the special attention of the army to the intrepid behavior of Private Eicon Jones, Company K, Seven- teenth Regiment Virginia Volunteers, while on detached service in the signal corps, dnring the bombardment of the upper or Rucker's Battery at Madrid Rend; when the signal-flag, having been twice shot from his hand, was, nevertheless, promptly recovered by him, and his messages accurately transmitted without interruptions. " Preferring the post of danger and of duty to the relief proffered by his commanding officer, Private Jones remained at his perilous position for six days and nights, affording an example of patriotic devotion and personal valor eminently worthy of the emulation of his young couutrymeh-in-arms. "By command of General Beauregard. F. H. JORDAN, Assistant AdjiUa't //." FEMALE HEROISM. Two of the late Judge Clopton's daughters had a servant hired at Fortress Monroe, and could not get her by Bending. Thev made one of their ser- vants row them to the fort in a boat; they were armed with revolvers, and demanded admittance; the sentinel refused; they insisted, and were. told that they would be fired upon ; they said fire, then, and drew their revolvers and entered the fort. They told the officers that they had heard that the Hampton 1 not throw up sand-hanks, but that it should be done, if the ladies had to do it; that they would head a company of I to do it. The officers said, if th nens of the ladies, they did not know what the men of Hampton wonld OLD ABE AND III v. | it. Russell, of the London '/'■ irnisheol the following concerning the eupants of the White J •• I. hubbub and phiz-drinks a; than now Mr. Russell to the aristocrati the White House. Th* servant who took ti QVit< d. ,rv. ' par- ticularly inqui 'ion in life; ami wha i,: to be ' and ters dinin .x. e d, I GLEANINGS FROM i that it would 1 to no iudig- . and informed me that i was about to participate in a prandial enjoy- ment of no ordinary character. Mr. Jeams having been thus conciliated, •om. ••Mr.-. Lincoln was-alreadj 81 is of the middl '.:, of a plom.pi aerating to the embonpoint natural to her years; her features arc plain, her nose and mouth of the ordi- I her manners and appearance homely; stiffened, however, hy the consciousness that her position requires her to be something more than plain Mrs. Lincoln, the wife of the Illinois lawyer. She is profuse in the use of the word 'sir,' in every instance, which is now almost an American- ism confined to certain classes, although it \ so common in England. '.all not attempt to describe, though it was very gorgeous and She handled a fan with much energy, displaying a round, well-proportioned arm, and was adorned with some simple jewelry. Mrs. • in struck me as being desirous of making herself agreeable." The portrait of the host is thus given in another chapter: " Soon afterwards there entered, with a shambling, irregular, almost . a tall, lank, lean man, considerably over six feet in height, with stooping shoulders, long, pendulous arms, terminating in hands of ordinary dimensions, which, however, were far exceeded in proportion by his feet. He wt 1 in an ill-fitting, wrinkled suit of black, which one in mind of an undertaker's uniform at a funeral 3 round his neck a rope* of black silk was knotted in a large bulb, with flying ends projecting beyond the collar oi his coat; his turned-down shirt-collar disclosed a sinewy, muscular, yellow neck, and above that, nestling in a great ma black hair, bristling and compact, like a rulf of mourning pins, rose the strange, quaint lace and head, covered with its thatch of wild republican hair, of Lincoln. The impression produced by the size of his extremities, and by the flapping and wide-projecting ears, may be removed by the trance of kindliness, sagacity, and the awkward bonhomie of his face; the mouth is absolutely prodigious; the lips, straggling, and extending almost from one line of black heard to the other, are only kept in order by two deep furrows l'rom the nostril to the chin; the nose itself — a prominent organ — st. nels out from the face, with an inquiring, anxious air, as though it were sniffling some good thing in the wind; the eyes, dark and deeply set, are penetrating, but lull of an expression which almost amounts to tenderness; and above them projects the shaggy brow, running into the small, bard frontal space, the development oi v, liieh can scarcely be estimated accuratelji owing to the irregular locks of thick hair carelessly brushed across it.'' / AN ARMY NOTE-BOOK. 27 A PORTRAIT OF PRESIDENT DAVIS AND HIS CHILDREN. A correspondent of the Charleston Courier, writiug under date June 17, 1861, describes as follows: "The parlors of the President, at the Spottswbod Hotel, this evening have been the locale of a pleasant interchange of courtesies between himself and the members of the Virginia Convention. On the first day of their session, the body passed a resolution instructing the Chairman bo address Mr. Davis, and ascertain when it would be convenient to receive them. He responds], naming the evening, upon which a resolution was passed that the members should pay their respects in a body. They accordingly assembled at i o'clock, and, headed by the venerable Ex-President John Tyler, and Hon. John Janney, the President of the Convention, proceeded arm in arm from the Capitol to the hotel. Arriving here, the door of the private entrance was thrown open, and the procession ascended to the Presidential pai where were present the Chief Magistrate; Hon. Robert Toombs, Seer of State; Hon. Mr. Mallory, Secretary of the Navy; Hon. Mr. Meinmi; Secretary of the Treasury; and Mr. Win. M. Browne, Assistant Seen of State. As the gentlemen severally advanced, they were introduced by Mr. Ewbank, the Secretary of the Convention, and in ten minutes the apartments were filled by a hundred or more of the 'solid men' of Virginia, each one happy in. that happiest of all reflections, that he was looking his very 1 " The President always looks well, but never, to my mind, is he bo much in his element as when the cefltre of an admiring throng; throwing out brilliant scintillations of thought with which his fertile mind is so pregnant This was especially the case this evening. Not only was each ■man met with a kind and different greeting from that received by his neighbor, but, after the formalities of the introduction were over, the free- dom with which he moved hither and thither, dropping a complimenl one, calling up some reminiscence of to another, touching gently anon t!ic « vrnts of the time to a third, relating a brief but appropt aneci L making himself eminently a fail to pro luce upon the mind n the im| a who sj ir» the the forum or the fi Coml with the caution of the giving full scope to puts more into ts, with less r h eflbrt, tl >uld to. Yon J ■ yet involuntarily d 28 GLEANINGS FROM Boon forget that you arc talking with the President of the Southern Tnion, and remember only the man. Such is President Davis in the parlor. What nan, and soldier, the world already k^ "/Moving around in the crowd were two microscopic Danrises — Maggie and Jeff., Jr. — as handsome and brilliant a pair of household i - ever heart. Maggie is what the ladies would call 'a perfect She has large, brown, ex; long lashes, whioh, but for natural vivacity, would give her an almost pensive cast of countenance; round, rosy cheeks; a' sweet little nose and mouth; a dimpled chin; i fine growth of black hair, dipped short on the heck, and a clear, rosy complex- ion. Add to these charms a tiny form, pretty enough to belong to a divinity, and you have a pen-and-ink portrait of a diminutive specimen of humanity who would make a jewel of a picture in any kind of setting, whether she belonged to a President 'or any other man.' "The other Davis — young Jeff. — is a chubby, broad-shouldered, gray* . big-headed, brown-haired chap, five years old, fat, fair, and fresh as a rosebud; but beyond these points, he is a boy like any other. "The father seems proud of both these bantlings; and as they edged through the crowd and took a place by his side once or twice, though engaged in conversation with a number of gentlemen around him, he still found time to bestow upon them the smiles and caresses of affection." THE SPIRIT OP OUR SOLDIERS. The full story of moral heroism, personal sacrifice, and gallant deeds writ- ten in blued during this war, can never be transferred to history. We can only preserve such instances as occasionally find their record in the columns of the pn "A mother had proposed to hire a substitute. The son replied : 'No, I say now that I will never leave my flag in the hour of peril. Come weal, come woe, I will always be found fighting under the Confederate flag until liberty and peace are restored, and the Southern Confederacy is acknowl- edged by the civilized world. If you have any money to spare to lure a substitute, you had better do it; though, if you hire five hundred it will have no effect towards bringing mo home, for I intend seeing this war out, if I live. "A mere youth, who belonged to the cavalry, rode by a poor, weary, and forsaken soldier, and observing that lie Wis barefooted and the blood run- ning from his feet, immediately jerked off his boots, .and, throwing them to him, said : 'Take them, I have a horse and you are a-foot ;' and rode off before a reply could be made. The result was. the poor little fellow took pneumonia and died.' - ' AN ARMY NOTE- BOOK. 29 A Northern paper contains the following: "A rebel major, -who was wounded and taken prisoner, said, after one of onr surge"ons had dressed his wounds : 'Gentlemen, I did not expect such kind treatment at your hands; but I tell you, in all candor, you never MM capture Richmond, unless you do it over the dead and wounded bodies of fifty thousand men. We have' resolved it; we shall endeavor to perform it.' This sentiment is shared by all the prisoners we have captured." ' "During one of the adventurous raids of General John Morgan in Ken- tucky, a shell struck a Sergeant McDaniel on the leg, crushing and man- gling it so terribly that he died a few hours after. As the. general rode by him, he called out: 'How are you, general;' and as the general turned around* he said: 'Don't mind me, I am past cure;' and calling to some com- rades who were near, said: ' Here are some few cartridges — you will need them.' These were about the last words spoken by the poor fellow. Another poor fellow, who was shot through the intestines, as the surgeon approached him, said : 'Doctor, don't mind me; my wound is fatal; goto those whom you can assist.' " A NOBLE BOY. A friend from Holly Springs related to us the following incident, which < ■■.■furred in Jackson, Tennessee. Little Bennie Malone, a boy about ten years of age, and son of Dr. B. J. Malone, of Jackson, resented manfully an insult offered his mother, by one of the infamous Yankees quartered there by striking him a severe blow on the head, with a rock. Standing by a squad of Yankees on t)\< Ik, he heard one of them use sonic insult- ing language about his mother, ai -he passed them, when ho said: "Sir. she is my mother;" to which the chivalrio Yankee replied: "I don't care a d — n if she is." At this moment the little fellow let fly a rock, which ight the accursed Eankee to the ground, whence he was carried to his quarters. "When last heard from ho wad oonaiderod to be in :i precarious fion. and fears were entertained that he might recover. Little Bennie ted and carried before the military authorities, but on a hearing of ti • was released. A Fl.\';i i I, ORDKAL. a God in heaven, have I stated exactly what this nine- teenth century has allowed. Isolated from all their friends, thus arc they left to the yengeanoe of this Government. The charge of treasonable cor- respondence cannot he sustained. No letter has ever been written to any Confederate leader; nor can proof be found to sustain this arrest. They are entirety ignorant into whose hands they have fallen, and arc as much guarded as if they were the veriest convicts on record." THE BRIGADIER GENERAL ADOLPH VON STEIN WEIIR. Among the many aspirants for infamy in the Yankee army, there is no officer of rank so little known to the Southern public as the Brigadier Steinwehr, who, in his late order to his understrapper, Steadman, exhibits a enM-blooded impudence which is truly Gothif. lie is a genuine Yankee fee, fau, fum general, who proffers the hospitalities of his tent to Virginia gentlemen with the condition annexed of shooting or hanging one of his From a gentlemen, whom chance threw much in the way of this truculent general long before he was the imposing brigadier that he nov we have obtained some interesting particulars of his life in America, which we propose to lay before our i Brigadier Steinwehr is, as his name implies, a German, and hails from the little principality of Saxe Gotha. His family have been respectable; and an uncle of his is now a General of that picayune Government. 8( wehr, the Yankee general, first made his appearance in the old United in the character of a draughtsman, in the hvdro^rajdiical bureau, under Professor Bache, ami. ry up , and their oondnet gave rise to a y mdal. As the details would I- ;.p ears polite, we ■ then over in siiem with maotionifl intimacy. Madam left Mobile the divorced wife of a dishonored I iwehr beat ompany, mark* !. for life, with th liin. nr Yan- • STork at able ■ 32 GLEAKINGS FROM the enchanted ground, the inner circle of the elite. German barons W< drag in tin- market; a Japanese Tommy was worth barons at that time. < )ur Yankee fledgeling general left the metropolii in disgust, and turned up in Albany, New York, litre barons were Bearoe, and as the Baron Steinwehr had i V • 1 1 the knife and boots of Americans, and ethers, be droped a peg or two, and tried the scientific and injured ihnooenoe caper. In Albany. 1 • •.ited himself to the \'an Koti-clhvrs, Ten Kycks, Townsends, Bayards, and others, as a German noble, who, suffering from his 1 »ve of liberty, his contempt of rank. ,y.c. and being an outcast from the land of his lathers, deprived him of his vast possessions, was forced to fall back upon his acquirements for a living. He met with a great deal of sym- pathy and encouragement, lie made a great noise; he was to write a book; ! i drawing: make a physical geography, Ac; in short, he "got into and all went swimmingly with him for a time. But it was not long before he displayed qualities which did not increase his popularity. He obtained endorsements on bills which he forgot to honor; borrowed books aud other articles of value, and pawned them; borrowed small change which he never repaid, and at last — "breathe it not in Gath" — be was sus- pected of stealing what he could not borrow, lie cheated at cards, and was tabooed in Albany. For this same trick he had been kicked by the less re- fined inhabitants of New York. City. Albany refused him, and he was obliged to leave his drawing pupils untaught, and his projected physical geography unfinished. A penniless rowdy, he returned to New York City about the time "Honest Abe" made the discovery that seventy-five thousand Yankee volunteers could not sqUftloh "the rebellion." He saw in the disorders and ■ ssities of the tames an opportunity for a position; and a brewer, named Bpeyer, upon whom he had been sponging, saw an opportunity of getting rid of a heavy encumbrance. Speyer, who ruled a large portion of the r-sclling and drinking community, set himself to work, and raised a iment for Steinwehr; and the latter, having lived in Albany, knew the modes of doing business there, and had little difficulty in obtaining the com- mission of colonel. How he rose to his present position can be briefly told. Not deficient in pluck or impudence, he stood while others ran; he worked while others loafed, and is now a brigadier general. The styling himself A. Steinwehr, is an attempt to Anglicise his name — the " Baron Adolpb vmi Steinwehr" being played out, Should he, at any time, fall into the hands of our troops, the following description will ser.ve to identify him: In height, he is about five feet four inches, compactly made, but rather sbort- leg^ed, broad shoulders, quick in his manner — in all'ectation of the French style; bald head, what hair there is left being sandy; bluish-grey eyes; nose aquiline, and slightly flattened by a blow; mouth large, but well AN ARMY NOTEBOOK. 33 formed; chin prominent; moustache Bandy, sprinkled with gray, and a frightful gash on the left cheek, from the eye to the goatee — a touvemr of Mobile. OUR OLD MEN. A gentleman, who has been traveling through the country, relates the following: Riding up to a house, he called for a drink of water, and in- quired of the lady who sent it to him, if there were any young men who wished to volunteer. He was told that she thought there was. During the conversation, the old man came limping to the door, and heard the inquiry for volunteers, when the old lady remarked: " Why, old man, you can go;" and, turning to the recruiting officer, she said: " ILo can't get about much, to be sure, but then, he can sit in a fort and touch off cannon." At the time South ('arolina seceded, a venerable citizen of that State was residing in Galveston, Texas, and, there being a prospect of her coercion, expressed his determination to return and volunteer. His extreme age was suggest) '1 to him, by an affectionate grand-daughter, as a reason why he should remain at home. " Why, grand-pa, suppose you went, what good could you do?" "What good!" replied the old sire, with spirit; "why, I could stand by and say, hurrah, boys!" A YOUTHFUL IIEUO. Among the many youthful heroes who fell, dying or wounded, at the bat- tle of Williamsburg, was John Tyler Wall r, the same who at' received the approbation of General Evan.- lor his heroic conduct. Young Waller (fourteen years of age) belonged to the gallant "Home Guard," of Lynchburg, Virginia, Captain Otey, whose company was in the. thickest of the fight during the entire pi riod of the action. When met by hie lather, who was deeply distressed, he remarked : "IhtJier, T/cll dt fend- ing my dear moth* r't grave." God grant him recovery from his wounds. \TKAL A T.T.I MB HDNSI .TOIlNSTuN. AiShiloh, the brave and heroic Sidney Johnston directed the First Mis- i bo a Ivai I . and then riding to where an Arkan barrel of a musket in his hand, and cried <.ut: "Von Ark , can and led a chai which i! k in dismay, but not until one of th< it ad am '1 bullets had struck thi man upon the field, and he who saori: Van But a few mon - wound, the let of the Southern . frith Yankee wounded, groaning pitifully. Tun , the GLEANINGS rUOM ouly one of his staff with him, he said : "Co back and mitigate the sufier- I those poor, miserable devils." The Burgi on declined, upon ground that hi.- proper position \ I to Johnston. But the general re] . • and hia Burgeon left him to attend to of the enemy's wounded. A few momenta afterwards, Gen- eral Johnston received a Bevere wound in the thigh, from the hemorrhage of which he died. Sad bis surgeon hem present, the wound might have the hemorrhage stopped, and his life saved. As it was, he i the fact of his wound, continued to lead forward his successful columns, and finally perished, the victim of his own magnanimous, heroic nature. GENERAL RBTTIGREW. lie received a disabling wound through the lungs, and as he was being carried off the field, he inquired of his attendants, "How goes the battle?" The reply was, "Against us." "Then," said the gallant Pettigrew, "lay me down, and go and fight." He was laid down, and was made a prisoner. BRECKINRIDGE AT EATON ROUGE. A correspondent of the Mobile Tribune, writing from Grenada, says: •• Honor to whom honor is due," and it is but right that the fact should be recorded, that the Kentuekians won the most glory in the Baton Kouge battle. They distinguished themselves for gallantry, as they had done at Shiloh, under the same loved leaded Breckinridge, too, acted with the intrepidity of a Marlborough. At one critical period, when the fall of General Clarke was, apparently, about to throw the army into a panic, he rode quickly forward, and eloquently exclaimed : "Come, my brave boys, and follow me — I will lead you on to victory!" The next moment, a whole phalanx of bayonets was rushing like an avalanche upon the foe, and the victory W8S ours!" Ml.N Wliosi; NABOBS SHOULD never die. When Brigadier General Garland, of Virginia, fell, mortally wounded, on the bloody field of Sharpsburg. his aid rode up to the dying hero, with the inquiry : "Are you hurt, general?'' "Ye-," he answered, "I am dying — go tell the senior colonel of this brigade to assume the command." But not among generals alone do we find ever-memorable illustrations of all that is ennobling, and all that is divine in human impulses and charac- ter. The armies of the South furnish from among the common soldiery instances of heroism, and of an inextinguishable love of glory, which no $ AN ARMY NOTE-BOOK. 35 recorded example of human greatness transcends in ennobling characteris- tics. When Sergeant S pi thaler, of the "Swiss Rifles/' fell, mortally wounded, on the battle-field of Perryvillc. his thigh crushed and torn by a cannon- shot, Colonel Tyler, his commanding officer, went to him, saying: "Let me have you removed to the rear." ">"o!" said the expiring hero, "let me die on the battle-field." His name should never be stricken from the rollfrof his company, and whenever it is called, let some war-worn comrade answer, as was dom one who fell thus in the old war for Independence — let some old vet. ran answer: "Dead on the field." * colonel Colquitt's gallantry at jackson. Lieutenant Hutchinson, in command of the color company (Uarris County, Georgia), of the Forty-Sixth Georgia Volunteers, In the battle of Jaokaon, thus alludes to the gallantry of Colonel Colquitt, in a private letter: "Perhaps no man ever behaved with more coolness and bravery on the field of battle, than did Colonel Colquitt. He was with us, side by side* during the action of three hours, and when tme asked, 'where he was!" ' There he sits,' was the reply, 'on his horse, the balls whizzing around him, and cutting the leaves over his head.' At one time, I heard his voice above the noise of musketry, shouting, ' Stand firm, meal Remember pern an Georgians J imt us /all together 1 " The whole brigade arc pleased with his bearing, and none more than the Forty-Sixth Georgia, who would not exchange him." H"W A BRAVE MAN CAN DIE — COLONBL ROBERT A. SMITH. GtafiaAx HoaprrAx Bio. 1. RiOHMOifD, Febmary I I. 1 My Dl \k SlE: At your request, T willingly furnish you with the follow- in? narrative of the last houn of the Doble and devoted Colonel Robert \. Smith, who commanded and bravely led the Forty-Fourth Georgia Volun- on the bloody field of Ellig »n's Mill, Dear the city. 1 fully a with you, that th< P that Christian gentleman, polite and aocotn- plished soldier, and intrepid Warrior, should find a permanent phu rar. lo- n«l Snsith had l,ewn." AN AUMY NOTE-BOOK. o7 I took hiui under each arm, and assisted him from bis horse. When I had led him to a log, he sat down, and very .soon began to vomit. I held his head some time; he was very sick. Alter he became easy, I entreated him to return to camp, or go to some house, assuring him that he was not able to proceed further. "No," said he, "1 will go on." I assisted hiui to and upon his horse, and again we moved forward. About day-light, we reached the Mechaniosville road, and halted. Again I assisted him from his horse. lie could scarcely stand when he was on his Very soon he was vomiting again, and, while holding his head, I found he had an ague. I told him that he was doing great injustice to himself to :i; but he persisted, and said that he was determined to go. I knew that it WW to urge him further, since he was determined to go. ■me half or three-quarters of an hour, we marched on until We were within half a mile or' the ChickaKoaainy, where we iuclined to the right of the road, under cover of a hill, and in a beautiful grove of majes- tic oaks, we were hall id, and ordered to "stack arms" and rest. Soo*n the troops of our ((ioneral Kipley's) brigade were all down resting. I went to Colonel Smith, and asked him how he felt. " Very poorly," he replied. I then asked him if he wished anything. After he had a bed fixed of leaves, with a blanket spread over them, he laid down, and said to me: " "Captain, you will be detached this evening, as skirmishers — your com- pany, with three oth " Well,'' I replied, "I will do the best I can." "Yes, I know you will discharge your duty; I hope you will come out il." 1 then left him. I knew from his flushed chocks that the fever I ng upon him. '• Poor l io a he !:■ - |h epiag b p, ju^t upon the eve of a terribh and in full view oi I - beHreoched in g I in hum r i < 1 e , telling her how he lias fbu»ht to win his country".- freedom. Well, niv pleasant-looking fellow-soldier, 1 hops all your fond dreams maybe real- ized. But here is the betrothed lover; see that placid oonntenaneej how calm He wots not that the confln •• r at hand. !!<■ B as he trusts in his GoUj yet he aski ta spend ■ little sacra time with the idol of his heart. But hear, the order is going round to u b« ready," and soon we start. Pray excuse this digression. A deeping army, just before agreat battle! Oh! who would survive the conflict? I went to my e lonel, and Baw that he was already up, and prepario the Geld. 1 was ordered to take my eompany and report to General 11 ill for orders. Soon J was o If. After the skirmishers had made the reeonnois- sance ordered, and gotten possession of the bridge over the Chiokahominy, the brigade orossed, and 1 Baw Colonel Smith, as he rode along ahead of his ment Soon thereafter I saw him assisted from his horse, a gentleman actually faking him in his arms, as he would a little child. Having drawn his sword, ami formed his line of battle, lie Bpoke a oheering word or two to his men, when General Hill ordered the whole line forward, to char battery. ; hat noble man and gallant soldier, Colonel Smith, as* he dismounts his horse, and marches off on foot, telling his men to follow him. Onward, and yet onward he goes! Though weak and faint from physical debility, and Buffering with scorohing fever and aching pais, ye1 bo strong in devo- tion to bis country's cause, that, even when he was not able to mount his horse without assistance, he could gallantly lead his devuted regiment over a wide space of ground in double-quick time, and under a perfect storm of shot and shell. My company being ordered on the Hank of the brigade by the general commanding, i did not see the colonel when he was wounded; but from others, who saw him, I learned that he most bravely rushed on until. he fell, pierced hv t! had- Then, ai'tcr he had fallen, to those who went to assist aim, he would cry-aloud: "Charge, men, charge If Deal Colonel Smith, he is gonej but never was a truer patriot, a braver soldier, or humbler Christian carried upon a litter from the battle field. As you are advised, he died a lew days alter he was wounded. His death, no doubt, was caused by his. extreme physical debility at the time he went into the action of the 20th day of June, thus showing his self-sacrificing devotion to his country. He knew that his whole regiment loved him; he knew it had confidence in him, and he knew that it would fight under him" better than any other living man And as he was devoted to his mcn ; and AN ARMY NOTE-BOOK. 39 wished their reputation to be Sustained, and wished them to succeed in the great conflict in which they were about to engage, he willingly sacri6ced his life. He is gone; but be was a good man. He has fallen, but to rise again. He is dead, yet he still lives — yes, lives in (he hearts of his coun- trymen. But with the men of his regiment be lives in Christian example and noble actions. By his men he will ever be remembered. MODEL SPEECHES BY OUR GENERALS. On reaching Fairfax, President Davis v I with deafening shouts of welcome, and the rejoicing soldiers were importunate for a speech from the gblden-tongued orator. Their desire was gratified by these pointed, stirring, and eloquent words J " Soldiers : Generals Beauregard and Johnston are here, the orators of the day. They speak from the mouths of cannon, of muskets, and of rifles; and when they -peak, the country listens. I will keep silence." While on his way to Jackson, Tennessee,- to take command of the Con- federate H neral Bragg made the following brief, pithy, and sensible h at Meridian, ppi : "Fellow Citizens: In deference to your repeated calls, I appear, only to .nd he seen, and to tender you my thanks for your kindn. " This is a time for acts, riot words. Experience has taught me. too, that every man should stick to his trade. In many efforts, I believe I never made but one successful speech, and that was in a few words, when I courted my wife — the result then being due less to any merit either in the speech or the speaker, than to an unfortunate habit with young ladii deciding more from impulse than n ison, b- which, as in n.v case, tie v ire be unfortunate. lender well, then, my f"llow-citizens, this piece .vice: never call on an old soldier for speeches; and, if yon will par- don me the liberty. I will add m vr Bend. politicians to emnmand your' time our cause will prosper." 1 1 Jos Johnstln, while in Mobile, was serenade.] at the reside ■ of General MeCall, with whom i journing, by quite a niob of ' Lilians. They called (or him, loud and long. Finally he appeared, w! thr. e loud shouts r< plii : Man istas i- nol Charleston " Thr f| 'I'm whiol do one i • n that bl inder our tie -, ;],. in w< ;. m,.,.-' v. • " and reti; , a t hedio stop to answer. 40 ANINGS FROM OUTRi UBS. As one of the latest, but by do means ■■ . we take fie fol- lowing from the Staunton (Virginia) Spt 'tator, referring I of some emissaries <>i Mr. and Mrs. General Mill family of Mr. Lloyd Lo ■ ,n. whose only offence was the oba itment of a day of special prayer: M One of them stepped up and demanded all the keys bel the premises. Mrs. Logan refused I up. But in the meantime had taken possession of every room, from the basement tt the attic, in- chiding the chambers of her daughters. One of her daughters, Who had just left her chamber, and had witness 1 what they wore doing, ran down ;i'h' by side with the lieutenant^ and had Bhot every barrel of his pistol, when the latter, observing this, turned on him with a fresh \ and, putting the muzzle close to him. exclaimed : "Now, I have you, y 0U ,] — ,1 rebel." Sehoolbred, with great coolm as, threw his empty pistol :,t bim, and. with great ^ < ■ < > ■ 1 fortunej struck the pistol pointed at him, and knocked it nut of the hand of the rankee. He then drew another pistol and Bhot tlie Yankee, who, rolling off his horse, cried out: "I am wounded : [ jive up." T1IF, LONE 8ENTIN1 !.. Iu the General Assembly of the Pin sbyterian Church, held in Columbia, i Carolina, one of the members, Colonel Preston, of Virginia, in speak- ing on the death of Jackson, related the following: At the battle of Manas- is, the victory was decided in our favor by the ■ ration of the armies of Johnston and Beauregard. Johnston's army, leaving their camps, with the foe in front of them, Buddenlj crossed the mountains, and, by bia forced marches, first gained lor Jackson's troops the name of fool cavalry. Jackson that night ordered out his usual pickets, but the ..llicer of the guard came 1 to bim and told him that tin' soldiers were all asleep, completely exhausted, and asked whether he should arouse them. 'No,' replied the general, 'let the nun sleep, 1 will watch the camps;' and silently he rode around thai sleeping best, the only sentinel, until day broke in the ca.it." A TOUCHING [JNOIDENT. On receipt of the news id' General A. 11. (iladden's wound, at Columbia, South Carolina, Nancy, a slave of his (who, for faithful conduct to his wile in her last ilkiess, to heT infant, .Mary, and to himself, in an attack of cholera in New Orleans, had received some privileges,) jel out to join her master at Corinth, with the necessary documents from the headquarters of Governor Pickens. Hearing at. Huntsville information of the place being occupied by the enemy, she, with others, had to come by Mobile, fondly hoping to be permitted again to nurse the wounded soldier and patriot. AN ARMY NOTE BOOK. 43 But, alas! his spirit had fled, and the sad news that reached her deeply affected her. Being thus far South, and having i boo in .\ew Orleans, and learning that Lieutenant Gladden, his nephew, was wounded also, Bhe i permission to pass on to attend him and si e her son, which was granted, and she left for New Orleans. Oh! ye ol the North, if jour souls could appreciate the relations of master and servant in the South, you would appreciate such affection as this. But you arc dead to such a sentiment, and must be left to your idol — the almighty dollar — your measure of sentiment, religion, justice, and right. YANKEE CRUELTY — FORTY-THREE NEGROES DROWI One of the most atrocious incidents of the whole war, has- been re' ( by a gentiem*n who obtained the facts from Captain James G. White, of King William County, Virginia, who for the accuracy of the - meat Winn the Yankees made their raid to Aylett'- risited the plane of Dr. Gregg, living in the neighborhood, and took from their com- fortable homes forty-three negroes, who were hurried off to York River, and placed on board a vessel bound northward. Along with these negroes, as a nor, was a gentleman named Lee, a resident and highly respectable citisea of King William, who has since b< • i. and allowed to return to his bora . He States that when the vessel arrived in Chesapeake I the small pox made its appearance among the negroes, that disease having to some extent among the same family before they were dr. from their homes in King William. The captain of the Yankee \ were greatly alarmed at the appearance of thi on board and very soon determined to rid the vessel of the presence of the Degroes. Vv ithout attempting to make the shore, and not consid. rjng for an ins! the inhumanity of the cruel deed, the wh ,, thrown into every one lei h by drownin one, perh die cruel i,y those win. profesi to be their ear: - and wannest sym] YAM'AUsM IN . II. The following extract from ■ letter n i sired fr b ■ but in keeping with the eon duet of the en battling : * * "I ;dcs destroying every pound Ufd milk ■ hardly Thi an( j D mi the mud , tOf>]| I 14 GLiAimi chopped his piano and nieb'dcon to pieces, and oven carried off his robes. be church the "TM f robbed a " Ltb ftm? children of her cow and : . her la-t pound oi' bieal from her, and rel leav* any for her children j and even took off a cake tint was cooking, Baying they intend. 1 to starve .nit. Ladies' wardrobi \ king torn I . and thing like jewelrj prisoner taken had ti: welry. Fenci -. and shrubbery were wantonly • that a fiendish malignity oonld ]'ut I will not shock you further with the r< cital oi' these cruel wroi ni Berdon, and the lieutenant colonel is Edge, the well-known pyrotechnist (who used to soil large quantities oi his fireworks to the South). The calcium lights are to be used to discover rebel camps on dark nights. Edge is making a tremen- AN ARMY NOTE-ROOK. 45 dons quantity of novel projectiles. One of his inventions is an incendiary shell, to be fire 1 from a mortar weighing only twenty pounds. It can he thrown half a mile, and when it bursts it forma a ball of fire two inch' (lianfeter, which can only be extinguished by immersion in water. Wit these shells the "sharpshooters" expect to set fire to the entire Southern Confederacy. SS 'EM FOR MB." Blunt, of the Twentieth Tennessee, and now of General Stuart's staff, tolls a story of a little girl he met during a recent tour in East Tennessee. The little maiden was vexed with a party of gentlemen who were teasing her, when Blunt walked up. ''Look here," she said, "you look like a i' man — cuss 'cm for me, wont you V TIIE LAST MUD STORY OUT. We have some tough stories of ''Virginia mud." but tho following lot from a letter written by a Federal soldier from Stafford Court- N bo I Northern paper, beats all the mud stories extant: Vs an illustration of muddy traveling, I may relate a story of a march, which came from one of the officers on Colonel Slocum's staff. As he rode to the top of an eminence, on the way down, he says: 'I saw a driver astride of a team, in a distant mud-hoie, jerkfl at the single line with which he drove his four mules, and waving his hat furiously above his head. At fir>t 1 thought he was trying to ur^e his team over >n saw that it made no progress forward, while the driver con- tinued his exertions, and the thought of deserting hi- saddle appeared 1 his head. 1 reached the spot, but the hand and head of thi' driv tw him throw his hat rds me with a eoi heard him give three cheers fox the American Union, and the mud " I k. T urchin, 01 ' said tt hie troops: •• I shut mine eyee for one hour." <»n being hour was hot long < It "1 ll 'hen lot I "Tie thin wives and D hands a' ■ 46 oom 1 of all their wearing apparel tzcept what they had on — in a word, fcted, and i ••. I in, that i and brutal Beldiery towards less and alarmed population. This is an everlasting • '.'- oan never be : from the page of history. «I am responsible for thes< Is. 1 have no mop occurred, just than 1 hai enoe. 1 know similar win n we o icupied Bowling I tacky, and the matter was hushed np, to sa lit of our army, hop- ing it would occur, no' more; but this 'leni led to have its proper efl and it is no longeT endurable." In republishing the above, the St. Louis Republican says: "We could hardly give credence to the a iy, but are told that it i d worse than this correspondent relates. The conduct of some of the worst a licentious and brutal soldiery could inflict upon - Willi, u; so vile, indeed, that an officer of the army, who regards the honor Of his cloth, has determined to lay the matter before the &0T« ernment." Bubeequently, Turchin was tried by court-martial, convicted, and cashiered for his barbarities, and received from Lincoln a brigadier general's commis- sion, in token of his Gracious Majesty's approval of his conduct 1 SAMSON AND GENERA! POPE, A ehapl lin, reading the Bible to the sick soldiers in one of the hospitals, hit upon the story of Samson and the incident of his slaying thousands of Philistines with the jaw-bone of an ass, when he was suddenly interrupted I., b wounded man, apparently asleep, with the inquiry: "Who told that '.'" "It is from the Bible/' solemnly responded the chaplain. "Well, hang me if 1 didn't think it was a despatch signed 'John Pope, Major General commanding.' " STUAUT's i'AVAI.KV. A party of five hundred of our men, who had been captured at various times, were on the route to Berkeley, Virginia, and having been "double- quioked' 1 for two miles ormon .sat down to rest by the road-side. While in this situation, one of the Federal ambulances, with a pair of frightened horses, ran away, and came lumbering down the turnpike. As quick as thought, one of our men jumped to his feet, and exclaimed: "Boys, here's Stuart's cavalry coming, hurrah!" In the words of the narrator, "such a skedaddling, kickiug 114) of heels, anu scattering through the woods, as im- mediately took place, you never saw in your life. We had two regiments, one of cavalry and the other of infantry, guarding us, aud for live or ten AN ARMY NOTfc-BOOK. 47 minute? the majority of them were out of Bight." 3ome twenty or thirty knowing ones, taking advantage of the excib ment, made their a the confusion. It was as much a^ B man's life was wort!) bo SBy "Stuart" again until they reached their destination. BABY PATRIOTISM. Soon after the occupation of Memphis by the Federals, a party of the soldiers were walking on the principal street, when a little three year-old rascal, supposing them to he Confederates, left the side of his mother, rao in anion- them, and, in the most Cordial manner, shouted at the top of hit lungs: "Howdy, soldier! howdy, soldier! hoVrdy, soldier!" shaking Lands with half a dozen of them, who seemed delighted at such a w&rm'demoi; tif >n of sympathy — the first 'they had ne t with since landing on the bluff But while in the midst of this hand-shaking, he suddenly screamed out : ••.\.>\v go Bboot de Yankees — shoot 'em all dead — kill de Yankees;"' ami it was amusing to witness the change that came over their smiling faces. Hands dropped, curses were mattered, and, aa they "resumed their walk, a hearty laugh followed from the crowd ol 10 had wit net enc. A lady and child were srossing to Edgefield, Tennessee, in ■ boat with some Federals, when tic little patriot shouted for Jeff. Davis. "Madam," said the Federal, "do you teach yenr children that';" •• Y< - replied, bravely; "al*0 to bate yOU from their eradesto tl: <;., home, you wooden-nutmeg manufacturers: the spirit of the South is invincible, the rebel flowers thrive hen trampled upon. "Out of the mouth- babes and pit." LON1 Ei A8H91 . ■•M.MA RANG] A Northern writer tlr; | tribute to one of the nobfost her' • vert di< d on the battle-field: "Ashby has displa; nius in the management of his men, which nder. He prot cti d the n tn at of Jack- admirably^ 1 1 and alwaj through these mountains and fi .. in the hunt of the fox and deer, and has often i,im- nioriL' the still eh Virgiuiai i. Whil | , will throw 1 tl,. .1- will dr^p t a man ot I 48 * GLEAN 1N< quiet demeanor, a silent man, wh !. and is held in the fabulous regard by his men and inferior o He i- a Christian, and B man Hi- appearance is not striking. He ifl of small stature, but a :tli with those for whom he is sti y are the elements Of an almost womanly nature and of a hero combined, that it is not until his sabre is waving abuve his head, his clear, thrilling voice ri out, "Follow mel" and bis eye flashes with a battle-light^ that th. conies as it were transformed to a giant, and performs the deeds that have bjfl name famous throughout the land. AN ENGLISH TIUBUTE TO SOI . SOLDIERY. Mr. Lawley, the correspondent of the Londdn Timet, pays the following compliment to Southern troops: "In the shelter of the dense woods about Culpcpcr, in wonderful spirits, with physique ineffably improved since the bloody day at Sharpsbnrg, are clustered the tatterdemalion regiments of the South. It is a strange thing to look at these men, so ragged, slovenly. s, without a superfluous ounce of flesh Upon their bones, with wild, matted hair, in mendieants' and to think, when the battle-flag goes to the front, how they can and do fight. 'There is only one attitude in which 1 never should be ashamed of your Boeing my men, and that is. when they are fighting.' These were Gc'n- eral Lee's words to me the first time 1 ever saw him; they have been con- firmed by every other distinguished officer in the Confederacy. Ther triumphs of daring which these poor, ragged men have attempted, and mpted successfully, in this war, which have never been attempted by > Sybarite opponents. Again and again they have stormed batteries, formidably* defended, at the point of the bayonet; nothing of the kind has ever been attempted by the Federals. Again and again has General Stuart's cavalry surprised Federal camps at eightj no Confederate camp has beeo surprised since the cniiiiuencenient of the war. One or two regi- ments of these tattered nun will stand linn, though attacked by overwhelm- Cumbers of the enemy, and will constantly, under such circumstances, successfully hold their ground." A Federal officer, writing after the battle of Chancellorsville, adds the following praise from an enemy: "Their artillery horses are poor, starved frames of beasts, tied on to their carriages and caissons with odds and ends of rope and strips of raw hide. Their supply and ammunition trains look like a congregation of all the Crippled California emigrant trains that ever escaped off the desert out of the clutches of the rampaging Comanche Indians. The men are ill-dressed, ill-equipped, and ill-provided — a set of ragamuilins that a man is ashamed to AN ARMY NOTEBOOK. 49 be seen among, even when he is a prisoner, and can't help it. And yet they have beaten us fairly, beaten us all to pii ten us so easily that we are objects of contempt, even to their commonest private soldiers, with no shirts to hang out of the holes of their pantaloons, and cartridge-boxes tied round their waists with strands of rope." "THEY WONT BUN!" A Mobile physician, just returned from the North, *was one day in a rail- road car, in which were a number of Lincolnite soldiers, who were discuss- ing matters connected with their service. One of them exclaimed : ""Win- is it that our boys can't be brought to charge the ^outharncrs ? Can you tell me. sir?" turning to our friend, the Alobilian, whose incog, was val- uable to him, and who disclaimed any opinion on the subject, saying that he was a doctor, and knew nothing of the matter. "Whereupon a comrade of the soldier spoke up, and said: "I'll tell you the reason our boys wont charge — they know the Southerners wont run'.'" A .YANKEE HERO. During General Longstreet's investment of Suffolk, and on the day that Colonel Connolly's Fifty-Fifth Kcgiment North Carolina troops reinforced the rifle-pits in such splendid style, an incident occurred ludicrously illus- trative of Yankee chivalry, and which — though there was an awful fire from the enemy's artillery at that time — produced a shout of laughter in that, gallant regiment. A Yankee regiment was sent out, under cover of tbeir artil- lery, to prevent Connally from reinforcing the pits. The colonel of this :ient advanced it through a partially cleared ground, where there was once a dwelling-hous* , A solitary chimney stood where the house had been. Behind this chimney the heroic colonel "took his stand," while his regiment moved forward. They had cry far, however, before the fifty-fifth opened on them, causing them to waver and halt. The redoubt- able colonel stuck his head out ir in behind the chimney, and ch< them on. Another volley, I What arc ymi running for, you COWirdly" (whiz went I bullet by his heal, which im- ; .iz. and another duck of the . j. "I> — n you, go back. What >u — running for?" (T words we veen alien of the h. med from behind the chimnej Batitwaf"M ii behind that ch ' at doubl I roars of laughter front our boys. ;>0 ETKIN8 1 P LR0LQN3 I While General Jenkins was in Hagerstown, he exhibited many traits which it is to be hoped are char ol the man. An i n *-i < K-n t will illustrate. About i ne aant and five men, wearing the uniform df Union soldiers, crept out of some of th< town, where they had been hidden, wad delivered themselves op. When they made their appearance before General Jenkins, the following conversation occurred : //,. •' Halloo! who are you, and where ili'l you come from?" Lieutenant. "We belong to the Union army, or did belong to it, but don't wish to fighl any longer against our Southern brethren] bo, when our 1 behind, and to day we come out to be paroled." Jenkins. "What did you say about 'Southern brethren!' Bj God, if I thought I had a twenty-fifth cousin who was as white-livered as you arc, I would kill him, and set him up in my barn-yard to make Bheep own their lambs. I'll show you how I parole such pukes as you are. You are too d — d miserable to be paroled in military style." So saying, he ordered a detail of six men and a sergeant — "good, lusty fellows, with thick hoots" — who parole 1 the recreant Federals' in the west border of the town, where the paroling]'! sed, and the detail and crowd came back, highly pleased with Jenkins' mode of paroling cowards. A BEAUTIFUL DOOtJMENTl Admiral Goldsborough, in command of the Yankee frigate Minnesota, issued the following notice, which was published in tin- Norfolk (Yirgiuia) / Hi'. a : "Flag Ship Minnesota, Norfolk Earbob, duly 30. "William W.Lamb, Wbuldrfrt Mayor, ami tin Rebels generally of Norfolk^ Virginia: v Whereas it is reported to me that ahem twenty-five thousand infernal blackguard rebels an' making their way from Richmond, through Suffolk, to drive out the soldiers of Abraham Lincoln, and cut the throats of the Union men of Norfolk-. Therefore, take notioe, thai on the first appearance of the first d — d r< idrel within these Lines, I'll blow you and your city to h — . "('fell this to your women.) -Yours, GrOLDSBOROOGff, Admiral, dc." Th iir.-t idea that will probably occur to our readers, after its perusal, is, that the above publication is spurious. Jjfo decent man euuld well suppose otherwise. But there is no spuriousness in the case. It is a genuine docu- AN ARMY NOTE-BOOK. 51 ment, from the pen of "Admiral, &c, Groldsboroughf," and as such we pub- lish it. u ;i striking record of the times. There is DO doubt tli.it GroldsbOTOUgh was drunk when he penned the infamous production. But this is bo palliation of liis offence. We are not surprised at such a beastly exhibition by a Lincoln admiral, because we expect nothing better from mail a source. Bat what will bo thought in Europe of a naval commander who could, under any conceivable circum- stances, degrade himself, his profession, and his country, by such a vulgar, filthy, blackguard production. ABOLITION VANDALISM IN EAST TENNESSEE. A reliable gentleman, from East Tennessee, writing from Shelbyville, gives an account of one achievement of East. Tennessee tories : "A party oi leans went to the house of s good Southern lady, Mrs. Cheslej Williams, living in Eaglevilfe, Williamson County. Ten- e, with the avowed intention of every thing they could put their roguish hands on. The first place they entered was her smoke-house, and 1 ':, r monstrated with them for taxing her ment, they knocked her down, beat her, and finally choked her until she could not speak. I saw her eight or nine days after it occurred, and she was then unable to move. She is now a cripple for life." " WEAK IN HIS HI the battle of Kins ton, when the shells were exploding around the ry of artillery, a chaplain asked ode of the soldiers, sitting on his r he was supported by Divine Providence. The soldi&r replied: Ninth New BRUTAL TREATMENT <>F OONFXD The exchanged officers and privates, I hundred in number, who have arrived by flair of truce boat from Old Point, all speak in the D unqn mi of the inhuman treatment to which they were aubj< by the Federal guard at Can I Columbus, Ohio There ws tinetinn B ' . but all were alik 1 to lothing, ral T. .1 Churchi Arkansas Posl ■ by the ill manm . - though : who : >-n Virgin- al th h lie Mabama, GLEANINGS FROM who fought nobly on the Peninsula '< ill i another plati of mint" Of the truth of this incident there can he no doubt, as the author is well known in Baltimore. A Tun; GIRL. A correspondent of the Atlanta Confederacy writes: "A most touching incident occurred a( the cars when we readied Wytho- ville. They were crowded with wounded soldiers returnuig'to their homes from Richmond. A young lady, on our arrival at the aforesaid place, of elegant manners, and of bright, philanthropic face, appeared in the ears, bearing in one hand a large basket, filled with pies and other refreshments, and in the other bandages and lint, for the wounded, accompanied by a young clergyman, with two large buckets lull of butter-milk. As sbe passed along, she inquired of each soldier if she could administer in any way to their relief. They were perfectly overcome by her kindness, and asked her who she was. She replied: 'Never mind my name; the only compensation 1 ask is the consciousness of having relieved the sufferings of the soldiers who have hern fighting the battles of my country.' With one voice they exclaimed : 'God bless the good Samaritan;' and many an eye was hedimmed with tears as she passed through the ears on her errand of mercy." BQUTH CAROLINA NEGRO VI'.Rsi s YANK The Huntsville Confederate has the following: " When at Atlanta, recently, we were struck with the excellent face and polite manners of an old negro man, who acted as a porter for us. As we dropped a douceur into hifl hand, we could not hut compliment him. 'Ah.' said he, with evident pride, 'Master, I'm a South CarTma nigger. You ' catch me standin' about de streets, but, when you see me on de street, I 'm on some business.' ^y acknowledgment to him that South Carolina and Virginia negroes were the politest -we had ever seen, induced him to draw nearer to us, and in a m08t confidential and confident tone, he said : • Master, don't you think we South Car'lina niggers could whip de Yank. We do." AN ARMY (TOTE- BOOK. 55 LIGHT ON A DARK SUBJECT. The New York Vanity Fair has an excelli at hit at the " intelligent con- trabands," who figure so largely in the correspondence of the press from the v;ui' if war, and at the verdancy of editor! an-! readers who helicve one -won! in twenty spoken by the colored individuals in question. Here is f Vanity Fair's squib : "You b'long to de army, Mars'r?" asked the Intelligent Contraband, uneasily. u Yes. That is — T am — yes; T am with the army, sir," replied the Trib- une correspondent; "and I would like. sir. to ask you a few questions. Where is Beauregard, at Corinth or Richmond f" In' Contraband. " Yi.-. Mars'r." Tribune Correspondent. " Where, at Richmond f" Int. Con. "Yfe, Mars'r." Trib. C<>r. "And how many men has he?" Int. Con. "Niggers, Mars'r?" Trib. Cor. • Idiers." Jut. Cm. "'];< ut sixty hundred t'ousand, 1 'spi Trib. Cor. "Whatl Are you sure? Are n't you mistaken ?" . Mars'r." Trib. Cor. " Well, when did he arrive here?" Jht. ('<>?). " Oh, two, trei . lour munts ago." Trib. Cor. " Fou mean week'--, don't youT' hi. Co* Mars'r." I'rih. Cur. " Do you think the rebels will evacuate lliehmond?" Int. Con. "<)!.. v,v. M..r-'r; dey '11 fitc like de debhil !" Trib. Cor. "You don't understand mc, sir. I mean, will th< Int. Con. "Yis, Mars'r; dey alien runs away." Trib. it if Met'lellan had attacked the city three ireekj i I have killed them all, couldn't b< //<■' M.ir-'r ; lie killed 'em all. . . r a At tl, - poia the mind of th- iir •ntrahand ft . med illuminated by tie u. and :, ' kin', Th' i It ot druu,. ness. To which tie ntrahand rei lied : 56 GLEANINGS FROM " Now. Mars'r, dnt's jes* wat I want," '• Whose Blave were you?" asked the correspondent, after a pause. Int. Oon. " Mars'r Davis's. Trib. Cor. "What, fyti. Davis T Int. Con, '• Vis, Mars'r." Trib. Cor. "And lie treated you with great brutality, no doubt '.'" Jut. Con. "Tifl, Marair, treat me fus' rate." Trib. Cor. u But you want your freedom, don't you?" Jut. Con. "Oh, yis, Mars'r." Trib. Cor. " How would you like to go North ?" Int. Cor. « Putty cold Norf, ain't it?" Trib. Cor. « Oh, no. Ever been North ?" Int. Con. "Yis, Mars'r." 2Vi&. Cor. « To what place ?" 2»*. Cbn. "To Floridcr, Mars'r." 2VtJ. Cor. "Florida?" 7/tf. Con. " Yis, Mars'r." ZW&. Cor. "Why, did Jeff. Davis ever live in Florida?" Jut. Con. " Oh, yis, Mars'r; he lib dar some forty, fifty year, I 'spec's." The evidently untrustworthy nature of the replies of this man and brother began to strike the correspondent at about this juncture, and he shut up his note-book and retired. SLAVES AT VIC%SBT3RG. After the surrender, General McPhcrson, the general who superintended the departure of our men from the city, was willing that all the negroes who chose might accompany their masters. It was nothing but right, he said, that freemen, as he contended they were, should make their own elec- tion to go from or remain in the city; but in this determination he was overruled, and only the servants of the officers were allowed to go out, if they chose. Colonel Watkins' negro man was offered every inducement by the Yankees to remain with them. Finally, on being promised, if he would remain, a plantation on the Mississippi, after the war was over, should be given him, he replied, as any other negro would have done: "Of what use would a plantation here be to me without negroes to work it?" So he accompanied his master out of the city. DEATH OF A BRAVE MAN. A gentleman, just from Isle of Wight County, gives the following particular! of Lieutenant Ganibrill's death. They stamp him one of the bravest men this war has produced. Lieutenant Gambrill was overhauled near Barham's Cross-Boads, Isle of Wight County, Virginia, by twenty-one AN ARMY NOTE-BOOK. f)7 of the enemy, who immediately demanded a surrender. lie instantly re- plied: "I never have surrendered, and never intend to," at the same time drawing his revolvers and emptying the barrels of each before he fell. Seven of the enemy were killed and two wounded in the brief space of four minutes, wben the lieutenant fell, mortally wounded. The survivors then repaired to the house of Mis. Ely, in the immediate vicinity, and told her that a particular friend of hers was lying dead in tbe mud, a short distance off. Upon asking his name, and being told that it , was Lieutenant Gam- brill, Mrs. Ely replied, "That she would bury him, if it cost her life." "You ought to." rejoined the Yankee, "for a braver man never lived," and they then related to Mrs. Ely the particulars of his death, and how despe- rately he defended himself. A lieutenant who commanded the gang, said to lily, that he t:i tught, at one time, Gambrill would have killed him, but added that, had he done so, it would have consoled bis friends to know that he met death at the hands of as brave a man as ever breathed. True to her | Ely procure I a cart, and calling upon a couple of ladies in the neighborhood, secure'! the body, washed it, ami with her own hands, . by her lady friends, gave the body of Lieutenant Gam- brill sepulture. INTERESTING SCENE. An army correspondent of a Northern paper says that the following scene took place in the army of tbe Potomac not long since. A chaplain wan a horse, and without much ceremony took one belonging to a Virginia farmer, but his possession of the property was very brief, as the following convt hows: The chaplain rode into the presence of his superior officer, ami was asked where he got that horse? The chaplain says: " D on the road there." The officer remarked : " You had better take him back - haplaia Bays : •• V, , n earth, an ass from hi o ride in !t' which our volunb ade : •■At the Richmond) 'Varieties,' Mm'lle Boisverl was singing the touching song of 'Home, Sweet Home/ when the attention of a portion of the an- diem traefced by the frequent sobs of a Mississippi volunteer, as fine a specimen of manhood as one w6uld wish to gaze upon. The soldier was dunking of his home and the loved ones a thousand miles away, and became entirely oblivious of the hundreds gazing upon him. At the conclusion of the song, he vociferously called out an encore, offering five dollars it' the lady would sing it over again. The pretty cantatrice came forward, and Bang in its place the c Marseillaise,' with her usual lire. The Mississippian, with a yell of triumph, raised himself to his full height, exclaiming: 'I was a child just now, but now I am a man. Hurrah for Jeff. Davis and the Southern Confederacy J*" A BOLD ADVEN! I BE. The Washington Chronicle gives the following particulars of a bold adventure hit upon by a number of our brave officers, while being conveyed, on board of a steamboat, to Fort Delaware, having been refused exchs It is decidedly good, and shows what a few fearless and daring spirts may do: "The steamer Maple Leaf, Captain Win. II. Deal, left Old Point for Fort Delaware, having on board ninety Confederates, all commissioned officers, who, it was understood, were not to be exchanged for the present. Every- thing went on quietly until the steamer was just beyond Cape Henry light, when the prisoners gradually approached the guard, only twelve in number, and Buddenly disarmed them, placing them and the officers and crew under close arrest, and would not permit them to see in what direction the vessel was Bteaming. "After proceeding about forty-live miles beyond Cape Henry, the steamer was run in near the Virginia shoro, where all but twenty-six landed in the yawl-boats of the Leaf, They piloted the steamer themselves, and attended to the fire-room and engine. It is said that the muskets of the guard were without .and unloaded, and each man was seized by full r of the Confederates, thus rendering resistance useless. "During their possession of the boat, they refrained from doing any dam- age to the steamer, and treated the officers and crew with civility. The ringleaders of the party were a son of Semmes, of the Alabama, and a man named McGowan, of Texas. "The entire party were mostly from the extreme Southern States, were all dressed in new and handsome uniforms, and seemed to be in possession AN ARMY NOTE-ROOK. 59 of a considerable amount of money. As soon as the party had effected a landing* Captain Deal resumed the command of the steamer, when she put back immediately, to report to General l>ix." AN INDEPENDENT NORTH OABOLINIAN. The following incident is related of Mr. Xichol Hunter, Clerk of the Court, and one of the sturdy citizens of Kinston : When the Yankee army halted, he was carried before General Foster, who mot him thus : "Well, sir, what arc you here for?'' " That is precisely what I came here to find out, sir." "Who are your" "I am Clerk of the County Court." "What are your predilections?" "Intensely Southern, sir, and I thank God for it." "You are very bold and frank in your expressions; have a care how you talk to me, sir." "I am not bolder or more frankly spoken than every man with Southern 1 in his veins, and I do not hesitate to tell the truth anywhere." " You can go, sir." Efe went. INTERESTING [NCXDENTS IN THE OAK HILL VICTORY. Mr. John A. Quarles, a young man of Arkansas, who had boon prevented by illness from joining a company which went to Missouri from Ins neigh- borhood, left home as soon as he became well enough, with a view of joining McCulloch'a army. He arrived just in lime to take part in the great b and fought as an independent volunteer in the hottest part of the field. Be and another young Arkansian, A. McNeill, w< re taken prisoners in thebi I their gun and all their money stolen from them, and they them- ■ neray in front of the ranks, and finally I placed in the front of Siegel's battery, that they might be killed by their own friends. During the tcrriM.' storm of balls thai came rushing from our I of mind n that they should fall u round, as though killed, [t was not md they }• fight nndi the fi. ndi \ to the gi no ou • BOM pelf, and paw with her own eyes Beveral coffins opcn< I, and the 1m »tl io>= that she saw the body of a lady who died aboul four" months before; that she saw wh< : lur fingers had been cut off; and she also .■ body of a little ohi about two or She ;: that the} had opened all the vaults hut one. ROMANCE AND REALITY OF Till: WAB. The Holly springs correspondent of the St. Louis Democrat narrates rienoe of a cotton-buyer among the Mississippi guerrillas, as iws : •• The experience of a Mr. Cones, who was ' gobbh - now yclept, near LaGrange, was n lieved by Borne flash* - "i humor, which may be an apology for the very emphatic language which was used by the actors. "Cones, in company with two or three other buyers, had bought some cotton out at Moscow, twelve miles from LaGrange, -just before our army marched from the latter place ) and as General Quinby's division had just, removed from there, they thought the sooner they got the cotton into La- Grange the better j consequently, four of them, besides the drivers of the teams, Started out after it. Cone- was thr only one of the four who was not armed, and was not on horseback, he riding in one of the wagons. They succeeded in getting the cotton, and hurried back, until they (•aim- in Bight of the Union pickets at LaGrange, and then Cone's three friends, thinking the teams were out of danger, left him and rode on into town. '"(inly two or three minutes after they had left, and as the wagons went down into a hollow, out of sight of the piCkot-guard, five guerrillas da out ol tin woods, and were alongside in an instant. ' Halt!' livery one of the teams halted, as though they had run against a Btone wall. The next in-taut tin' muzzle of a revolver was at the ear ol' every one of them, Cones included, who was riding on the cotton. •••An- you armed V asked the guerrilla who held his pistol at I car. '"No, sir.' " ' Then get down and unhitch them mules, ami turn 'em d — d quick !' " It was done in the time speoifii d. "Guerrilla. ' Have you a matoh? T want to touch ofFthis cotton.' "Cones. 'No, sir. I am glad to say 1 haven't' "Guerrilla. f Then get on that mule, quick 1' "In an instant Cones was mounted on what he says was ' a wouderful sharp-backed nude.' iving the mule a terrific slash with the wagon whip). ' Now, d — n you, lick them mules up; make 'em go; give 'em thunder!' AN ARMY ROTS-BOOK. 01 "And away they went, at a pace which to Cones, on his razor-back, he thought must split him in two before many miles, three guerrillas behind lashing the mule at every jump. Five miles or more they went at this rate, and not another word had been spoken by any one, when they turned out of the main road into an old and unfrequented path, that wound it- zigzags through one of the densely wooded creek bottoms. ' Halt!' said the guer- rilla, and he who gave the command commenced hurriedly to relieve him* self of some of his accoutrements, as though he was about to go to work in good earnest at some devilish deed. The place was lonely, and fittin sueh murderous intents, and Cones felt a cold sort of chill run down the lull length of even his long li "G\ the cork of his canteen). 'You look like a pi I feller. Let 's take a drink ; and for fear you might think it 's pizen, rink first.' ' And suiting (he action to his words, he placed the canteen to his lips, and turned his I sition of one martfing astronomical lions. After a long pull, he passed the canteen Qm r. -. who thought it ' might n't be piz< a,' and imbibed. Now, lick up them mules; give 'em thunder; hurry up.' \ nd each injunction he . n the rear of the flying mules with his whip. ''They bivouacki I in a thicket that night, but early next mornio tlv ir jeorney . M 3 of that i into a rude-looking camp, which turned out to be the neal of Rich- d and his guerilla Pillow. I mom< r a num- d : " Well, sir, I ll pai . had :ii'. ain't a g -oh' that d— 1 ;rn- -d if I h - poon writfen. and. mu lie was t< 62 MM capture, and who 1 -way sulky because the colonel would not shoot ' that J — d cotton-buyer,' instead of paroling him. was unarmed, and began to ha\ apprehensions of what illow, when the guerilla said: ' ( >ld feller, let's take, a drink.' Cones' heart felt lighter immediat a." ►TKR BHAKPLY SHOT. Pen rsburg Expr< rei llowing : •• A gentleman informs us of the death of one of McCl •i the Peninsula, under circumstances which possess interest sufficient public. Several ofour men, it B •" killed while going to a Bpring near by, but by whom no one oould imagine. It w mined to stop this inhuman game, if . even at the cost of killing the hireling himself, who was thus, in cold blood, butchering our nun. Su a sharp lookout was kept for this sharpshooter, and the next time ■ed, the smoke of his rifle revealed the locality of his pit. That night :i pit was dug by tl I liers, commanding the position of the Yankee sharp ad arrangements made to get rid of the annoying r this purpose a young Kentuckian was placed in our pit, with a trusty ritle, and provisions enough tn last him until the next night. N morning, man was dispatched, as usual, with two buokets, to go to the Bpring. He had proceeded about one or two hundred yards, when the Vankec marksman elevated himself, and, placing his rifle to his shoulder, about to pull trigger, but the Kentuckian was lob quick for him, for he pulled his trigger first, and simultaneously therewith the Yankee fell. Upon repairing to the spot, which the Kentuokian did immediately, he dis- covered a rifle-pit, and a sturdy Yankee in it, in the last agonies of expiring nature. The pit was provided with a cushioned chair, pipes and tobacco, liquor, and provisions. But the rifle which had been used was really :i valuable prize. It was of most Buperb manufacture, and supplied with the latest invention, an improved telesoopio Bight upon its end. The pit had a dug at night, and its occupant had Keen provisioned at night; so hut for a sharp lo the Bmoke of his '-run, there is n > saying how long this Xankee vandal would have enjoyed the luxury of killing Southern men. without even a chance of losing his own worthless life. We aro .'ratified to know that, he at last met with so righteous a fate." '•nit; shtoni man !". "When there were flyilg rumors that Jackson had captured two thousand of the enemy, and was pushing Pope "to the wall," the departments were silent upon the subject, and no one could <^-{ a (due to the facts. The Yan- kees realized the truth of a trite observation, made by one of our prisoners, AN ARMY NOTE-BOOK. He immediately placed her in a cab and drove away, but not to the Beast's qaurters. He directed the cab out of the city, and through the line of sen- . and further on still, until beyond the reach of the tyrant's out; Tli'' act of the heroine had made a hero of the witness. He told her that he considered her act justifiable and noble, and that in a moment he had mined that slie ah mid Dot be sacrificed to Butl< r'a vengeance, and had ed the expedient by .which he had rescued her. Tic continued to • her on her journey through the country, until they arrived in the Southern lin< a at Camp Moore, when he delivered himself up to the Cou-' federate authorities, to be dealt with as a prisoner or otherwise." ;;er of a female volunteer. Among the registered enemies of the United States Government who ■ been pent across the lines from New Orleans, there was one in Jack- Mississippi, a lady whose adventures place her in the ranks of the Molbj Pitchers of the present revolution. At the breaking Out <>f the war, Mrs Laura .7. Williams was a resident of Arkansas. Like most of tli<- a of the South, her whole soul was enlisted in the struggle for inde- pendence. Her husband was a Northern man by birth and education, and man. After Arkansas seceded from the Union, he went to aecticut, he said, to see his relatioi^ and settle up some business, sirs. Williams suspce*'d his purpose, and finally she received information that he had joined the fankei army. The Jackson Mi \ ,,f her story : SI' 1 herself in a Confederate uniform, and adopting the name <»f r Henry Iknford," she proceeded to Texas, where she raised and an independent company, and went to Virginia with it enaut. She was in the bail Bbnrg, and seven] skirmishes: but finally, her sex having b i red by tin surgeon.of the regiment — is Volunteers, to which the company had been attach) 1 — After remaining the: • time, she h, and WSJ in the | 3hiloh, where she displa 1. but. ol i she did not make herself k' .irn. In WSS wounded in the head, and w the r rass him. >\r 1 while - was OS] I with ■ .r uniform . and ' appoarar r,G LNINGB FROM before General Butler in a Southern homespun dress. She refused to take the oath — told him she gloried In b i — had fought side by ride with Southern men for Southern rights, and if she ever lr . would do it again. .Butler di acorrigible sho . hi- had ever met with. By ord< r of the I was placed in con- finement, when' she remained three months. Some tin. she ■ ' 1 for carrying on "contt no I correspondence," and kept in a dungeon fourteen days, on bread and wati r, at the • xpiration of which time Bhe was placed in the State Prison, a langerous enemy. I!«r husband, it so happened, was a lieutenant in the Thirteenth Connecticut Regiment, and on duty ac guard in the city. He accidentally found hei and asked if she wanted to Bee him. She senl him word she n< rer wa ■• him so long as he wore the Yankee uniform. But he forced himself upon lnr, tried to persuade her to take the oath, and get I release, when he £uid he would resign, and take her to his relatione tecticut. She indignantly spurned his pn he left her to her fate. When ral Bank.- a-surued command, he released a great many prisoners, but kept her in confinement until the 17th of May, 1863, when she was sent .across the lines to Meadesville, with the registered enemies. HOTEL DE VICKSBURQ. The Chicago Tribune published the following bill of fare, found in one of the camps at Vicksburg. It was Burmounted by an engraving of a mule's head, behind which was a hand brandishing what mi bi en a Bowie, or a carving knife. The Tribune thought it a melancholy burlesque. The mosl melancholy thing about it was. the reflection whicb it must have sug- gested to a thoughtful Yankee — if there be such an animal — on the pros- pect of conquering the men who could live and jest on Buch I HOTEL DE YK'K- BILL bf i'auk roit July, 1863; Soup — Mule pie. .,/ — Mule bacon with poke greens; mule ham canvassed. Roast — Mule sirloin; mule rump stuilcd with rice. Vegetabletr— -Peas and rice. Entrees — Mule head stuffed, a la mock ; mule beef jerked, a la Mexicanaj mule ears fricasseed, a lagetchj mule side stewed,' new style, hair on; mule liver hashed. Dishes — Mule salad; mule hoof soused; mule brains, a la omelette; mule kidney stuffed with peas; mule tripe fried in pea-meal batter; mule tongue cold, a la Bray. AN ARMY NOTE-BOOK. 67 Jetties — Mule foot. Pastry — Pea-meal pudding) blackberry sauce; cottonwood-berry pies; China-berry tarts. Dessert — White-oak acorns; beech nuts; blackberry-leaf tea; genuine Conf Liquors — Mississippi water, vintage of 1 ins, superior, •?•'!; lime-stone Water, late importation, very fine, S2 To; spring water, Vicksburg brand. Meals at all hours. Gentlemen to wait upon themselves. Any inatten- tion on the part of servants will be promptly reported at the office. JEFF. I 'AVIS & CO., Proprietors. Card. — The proprietors of the justly celebrated Hotel de Vicksburg, having enlargi d and refitted the same, are now prepared to accommodate all who may favor them with a call. Parties arriving by the river, or by Grant's inland route, will find Grape, Canister & Co/s carriages at the landing, or any depot on the line of entrenchments. Buck, Ball & Co. take charge of all b No effort will be spared to make the visit of all as interesting as possible. A HELLISH OUTRAGE BY YANKEES. By a letter from Wetzel County, Virginia, we learned the particulars of a revolting outi aitted by 8ome Yankee fiends upon the person of the wife of Mr. L. S. Hall, member of the State Legislature from Wet- zel, and one of the first advocates of secession in his section. Mr-. Hall had her clothing tied over her head, and in that condition the street of ^eif Markotville, her husband's place of nee. 1\< • that an which death is preferable was r ii The Yankee hell-bounds afterwards burned down Mr. Hall's out-houses, and ransacked his house. When our an ion : . -in try of the ' I not do and who, standing in a -all mat a-^ tie 'in makiii th at a tall, | ,j n rcast, ex f ter tear that th h — 1 on breastwor.. 63 GLEANINGS FROM This so completely "took her down," that she has n't made an ugly face since. LIFE AMONG THE PICKETS." "One of the Garrison," in a diary of the daily progress of the siege of Vickstrarg, recorded the following as among the incidents of the 21st of June : The brass band of the First llcgimcnt Mississippi Light Artillery per- formed to-night some soul-stirring :iirs at the breastworks on General Baldwin's line. Contrary to the expectation of many, the enemy did not lire upon the musicians — thus proving good the saying that ".Music hath charms to soothe the savage," &c. They prized the music, but said the serenade would not be complete without " Yankee Doodle." They were told that Yankee Doodle did not circulate in "Grant's Bull-Pen," as they classically dubbed Vicksburg. Captain Sublett, of the Forty-Sixth Missis- sippi, was our spokesman. He went outside the lines, and chatted for some time with the pickets of the Fourth Iowa. The latter seemed anxious to know how we intended celebrating the 4th of July, and what we were to have for dinner. Sublett enumerated a mouth-watering catalogue of lux- uries, such as oysters, duck, roast mutton, t very existence. I must decline your invitation to become a candidate to be voted for by ballot for a seat in a Congress which knows no law, except the higher law, and are every day enacting unconstitutional measures, thereby disgracing the capital of the country. Xo, gentlemen, I will leave this position to some one who is more anxious to act the traitor, and have his name written high upon the page of infamy, than one who has ever borne within his bosom the true motto of his mother State — "Down with the tyrant." I am, gentlemen, very respectfully, Your obedient, humble servant, BOBERT BUTT. "like a postage stamp/' In the capitol square, in Richmond, a drunken soldier accosted the Pres- ident: "Are you Mr. Davis?" "I am," was the stern reply. "Are you the President of the Confederate States?" "I am." " Well, I thought you looked like a postage stamp." could n't talk. After the capture of Winchester, Lieutenant General Ewell and Major General Early went to Fort Jackson, one of the enemy's strougholds, to rai.-e the Confederate flag which had just been made by the young ladies of Winchester, from two "Stars and Stripes" which formerly floated there. As they came down from the hill, they met the party of young ladies who had made the flag, who, as the generals passed, gave "three cheers for General Ewell." He replied: "Thank you, ladies, now call on General Early for a speech." "Speech from General Early," was the cry from the party. He stopped, raised his hat, and said: "Ladies, T never could muster courage to addren one ladjf, much lesa such a crowd as this," and passed on, amid much laughter from the fair workers. BELLING A COI.uxeL. The Point Coupee Ei ho tells the following story : " There is an inate spirit of reckless devilment among our 'soldier boys,' that u oft< a atuiu ngljf illustrated, and not anfrequently at the expense of th.> officer*, of winch t lie following ia a prtfttv fair sample. But we will let the victim, Colonel C , tell it his own way, hi iish for a joke, even at his own expense : 10 74 GLEANINGS FROM - "'Shortly after reaching Port Hudson,' says the colonel, 'I selected my encampment, and established my headquarters on the road leading to Clin- ton. One of the boys, for the want of better employment, executed a very neat signboard, in large letters, 'Headquarters — th Regiment, Arkansas Volunteers, R. II. C tt, commanding,' and nailed it to a tree, facing the road. My attention was first called by seeing people stop in passing to read it, and I ordered it to be taken down. Missing it a day or two after- wards, I supposed my order had been observed, and thought no more of the matter, until rather unpleasantly reminded of it. I was sitting one evening, in front of my tent, in company with some brother officers, when a lean, lank specimen of the country gentleman rode up, dismounted, and, hitching his 'critter/ approached the crowd, and inquired : " ' Is any of you gentlemen Colonel C tt ?' " ' That is my name, sir.' " ' Well, colonel, I came in to see if you was ready to pay for them chickens?' " ' Chickens ! I presume you are mistaken, sir.' " ' Nary time, colonel, and you '11 save trouble if you '11 pay up.' " ' But, my friend, I never bought any chickens from you.' % "'Well, I didn't say you howjht 'em, colonel, but you can't say you did n't git 'em.' " ' But I do say that I did n't get them ! Never saw you in my — ' " ' Easy, colonel, easy. I '11 leave it to these gentlemen. Aint this your signboard ?' hauling it from the breast of his overcoat. " ' Admitted, sir; what then V " l Aint this your name on it?' " < Well, what then V " ' Well, just this : last night, when me and my old woman went to bed, there was thirty-two hens, besides the old rooster, in the hen-house, and when we got up this morning (and then it was nigh sun-up, for we waited for the old rooster to crow for day), there was nary darned chicken on the place, but this here signboard was stuck up on the hen-house door; and as it 's got your name on it, why, it stands to reason you tuck the chickens.' " Amid a perfect roar of laughter from my companions, I ' paid up.' . The old fellow, counted his money, and handed me the confounded signboard as my ' receipt.' Mounting his horse, he started off, but turning in his saddle, he drawled out : "'Good-by, colonel. When you come again, leave the old rooster and the scttin' hens, and don't forget your siyn ." " AN ARMY NOTEBOOK. 75 AN INCIDENT. The following incident is related to have occurred at the battle of Shiloh : " It appears that our commanding generals were short of battle-flags, and sonic of the brigades were compelled to dispense with this necessary appen- dage. As all the brigades and divisions were placed in battle array with their battle-flags, with the exception of General lluggles', he rode up to the general on whose staff he was, and asked the reason why he had none. Just at that moment a rainbow appeared, and the general, pointing to it with his sword, exclaimed: ' Behold my battle- flag !' " A RUSE DE GUERRE. 1 luring the fight at Manassas, Lieutenant Turnbull was ordered to take his company and scout in a certain quarter. He set out on this perilous duty with twenty-eight men, the strength of Company A at that time. After advancing some distance, the little party came to a fence, and was about to cross over, when suddenly about one hundred Yankees sprang to their feet on the other side, cocked their pieces, and leveled them at the scouts — one with fixed bayonet was aiming at the lieutenant, within a few feet of his breast. "Hold on," said he, pushing aside the presented musket at the same time, "don't shoot your friends; will you shoot a fellow, without giving him a chance? Who are you'/" Just at this crisis one of Lieuten- ant T .'s party came up to the fence, a short distance off, and discovered the enemy, and, without being dismayed, exclaimed : " Lieutenant, here 's lots of the rascals right here now." The lieutenant, seizing the opportunity, said: " Well, boys, you had as well- surrender — our whole brigade is just back here!" Ten laid down their anus, and delivered themselves up pris- oners of war, whilst the others skedaddled for dear life. MOItAT, VKUSUS HRUTE FOIU E. Tt is a significant fact, illustrated in various episodes of the war, that the bullies and blackguards are invariably the greatest cowards, and the first to^ run in battle. On the contrary, the m le '. retiring men, with no appa- of character, from whom little or nothing has been expected, are the belt fighters. Why it is that the " shoulder-hitters," "1 "wharf-fats," and men of desperate renown, who have lived amid - excitement and personal adventure all their lives, thus prove recreant to their reputation for r< ckless daring, we cannot explain ; but it is emphat- ically true thai the gentli men of the land, those who con- . to the bosom of their families, their pi nr trades, and even to idle and enervating pui >wn the I .oral courage, ami the - ir 1 for personal safi 76 GLEANINGS FROM 9 Tn proof of this singular fact, we may mention a circumstance that oc- curred on Roanoke [aland, in the fight that preceded its capture. There were two men who went from the same town, and were in the same'eom- One was celebrated as the "game-cock of nty" — a huge, muscular hulk of a fellow, who could out-jump, out-walk, and out-whip everybody in the neighborhood — a terror to all men smaller than himself; the hero of countless fights (in tl. of which he had the honor of los- ing one ear and a portion of his n 131 by m I, and a dare-devil generally of the first water. The other was a quiet little man, an humble book-keeper in a store, and occasionally the manipulator of a yard .-tick. Everybody wai his friend, and he was regarded as a harmless, modest, innocent individual, who would not hurt a chicken. Well, war-time cam<>. and the call was made for volunteers. The little man promptly went forward and registered his enlistment, but the bully held off, until popular pressure became so strong that he could not resist. In the course of events, their company was ordered to Roanoke Island, and the battle soon after occurred. The reflective character of the two men now stood out in bold relief. The "game-cock," at the very lirst discharge of the big guns, commenced to vomit violently; the clerk, too small to work the heavy artillery, was ap- pointed to fill the station of the powder monkey, and did his work as if it was. so much sport, passing fearlessly front the magazine to the men amid the lire, raising his hat in salutation to the shells, and Binging and Bhoutlng in high glee. Very soon a shell burst in the works, not far from the bully, and, to use the language of our narrator, '• a frightender man you never seen. He acted like a man with the delirium tremens, and screaming: 'Oh, Lord! oh, murder! I 'm killed, I 'm killed — let me get away, let me go,' started in a bee line for the ' rat-hole,' from which nothing but main force could have brought, him out till the end of the action." The little man, however, stood bravely to his post throughout the fight, won golden opinions front the company, proved himself as gallant a soldier. as the best, and is now lieutenant of his company, while the miserable, craven-hearted wretch of a " game-cock " is living at home in disgrace, with all the manhood that he ever had cowed out of him. All T.CTING INCIDENT. Frederick Llubbard, of the New Orleans Washington Artillery, and Henry Hubbard, of the First Minnesota Infantry, brothers, were both wounded at Manassas, fighting on opposite sides; and after the battle met, i'or the first time in seven years, iu a stable, where they and nine other wounded men were laid. The artillery-man, being the less wounded of the AN ARMY NOTE-BOOK. 77 two, was found ministering to his brother. The case excited so much interest, thai a surgeon at once dressed the Yankee's wounds, and had him removed to his own hospital. • YANKEE TESTIMONY. Willingly or unwillingly, the Yankees are giving expressive and signifi- cant testimony against their own themes and pretensions, and in favor of the South. The following account of the horrible condition of the slaves in Nashville is from the charge to the grand jury, by Judge Brien, on the Act for the Punishment of Slaves : " We of the city of Nashville are absolutely cursed with the presence of a iie^m population which we find it impossible to control. Nashville is made tic general ren fezvous for all the runaway negroes in this and some of the adjoining States. They thrust themselves into the houses of our citizens, and defy the owners to ou*t them. They pilfer, they steal, they scruple at nothing; they respect nobody; they regard no law, human or divine. •• of them are engaged iMJiOSpitals, hut they are so numerous that this haps only a fractional part. They promenade our streets; they crowd our sidewalks ; they thread our alleys; they fill our houses, cellars, garrets. They are too lazy to work; too ignorant to distinguish between liberty and license; too shameless to respect common decency, and too degraded to ob- • the ordinary rules of morality. The men are thieves and burglars, the women prostitutes and vagrants. There is scarcely a stable, a hog-pen, or a hen-roost that does nit hear the impress of a long heel and hollowlcss >. These negroes are a curse to the army, a cancer . a blight upon honesty, morality, and decency, and a leech upon the Government." THE CLIMA3 of VANDAL FIENDI8H1 Mississippi has been reserved for the capping of the climax to Yankee ility. N d with burrin t-.nn- houses, and plantations, their barbaric instincts found rent in the perpetra- tion of an act at which humanity revolts. The Monl Kit? contained the following: "Two gentlemen fn>in Canton. i ns, and relet ly what foil we cone ,, n ,l heartless brutality of which the incarn I guilty dun: I war : ir«. M K. Fort lity, and supposed to be *roi was visiting tin- hi x miles f of her v. 78 ULKAMNOS FROM the oountry for the purpose of hiding lier money, wont, with a gang of De- grees; to the house, at two o'clock in the morning, took her out of bed, and whipped her until six o'clock — four hoars — to make her till where her money could he found. She had do money, and, of coarse, could not satisfy the savages. The wretched lady died under the torture of the lash." . SOMETHING EICH. Bimon Cameron, late Secretary of War of the United States, was singu- larly exercised about the body of his deceased brother, Colonel Cameron, of the New York Volunteers, killed at the battle of Manassas. Actuate 1 by a silly pride about addressing General Johnston on the subject, in the latter's proper official capacity, he resorted to every device to secure his object. A flag of truce came to our pickets, and sent in the following note to Colonel J. E. B. Stuart, of the cavalry, commanding at Fairfax. Court- House ; "War Department, July 30, 1861. "To whom if may Concern: The bearers, Messrs. Gormon, of Baltimore, Applegate, and Sterling, visit Richmond forihe single purpose of obtaining the remains of the late Colonel Cameron. All United States troops will show them the utmost courtesy and protection going and returning. "SIMON CAMFUOX, Secretary of War." Colonel Stuart returned the communication with the following endorse- ment : " Headquarters Fairfax C. II., August 2, 1861. "The within communication has been sent me, but being addressed 'To whom it may concern,' is returned, for the reason that its object does not concern me, nor any one else, that I am aware of, in the ('on federate States of America. J. E. B. STUART, "Colonel Fvr&t Cavalry, Commanding" The gentlemen were also informed that General Johnston, when properly addressed on the subject, would give any aid in his power for the recovery of Colonel C's remains. HOW OLD SMITH ESCAPED. "Old Smith," an old German drummer in the Sixteenth Mississippi Regiment, was notorious for straggling On the march. Whether advancing or retreating, he was always in the rear. In General Jackson's great retreat from the valley of the Shenandoah, after whipping Banks, old Smith got some miles behind, and while sitting on the roadside, solitary and alone, resting and eating his beef and biscuit, he observed a full regiment of Yankee cavalry approaching. He jumped AN ARMY NOTE-BOOK. 70 out into the woods, and as the Yankees came near, he thundered away on his drum, beating the long roll with a terrible vim. [The long roll is the signal c»f an enemy at hand, and to form line of battle.] His trick was suc- cessful, for the Yankees, supposing, of course, that there was an infantry regiment lying in the thicket, faced about and skedaddled in the regular Bull Run style. Old Smith, replacing his drum 00 his shoulder, came out into the road again, with his beef and biscuit in one hand and drumsticks in the other, and resumed his march with his usual equanimity. HAD A REPUTATION. Among other incidents of the battle of Murfrcesboro', we heard of one in which a soldier observed a rabbit lopping across the field under a heavy fire. " l!un, cotton-tail," he said; "if I had n't got a reputation to sustain, I 'd travel, too !" TAKING THE OATH. A very shrewd, sensible man, in Maury County, Tennessee, who had been a strong Union man until the Yankees got there, but who, after that, became equally as strong a Southern man, went to Columbia one day, and Wta brought before General Negley. "Well," said the general, "Mr. B., you must take the oath before going home." . " Very well," said B., "just have it boxed up, general, and I '11 take it out." " Oh," said General Negley, "you don't understand me; you must take the oath to support the Government of the Unit b. m "Why, general," said friend B., "I have a wife and several children, and it is as much as I can do to support them. I am a poor man, and I can't think of supporting the whole United States; that's rather too much." By this time Negley became rather impatient. " Here," said he, hand- ing 1>. the printed oath, " read it for yourself." u I can't road." "Well, then," said Negley, turning to the Provost Marshal, "give him a pass anyhow; he h c." And thus h< me without taking the oath. The Yankee general that time. We give this incid< i laon prisoners. TIIK ' AND THJ A Nod ti of January 18, If Since the ls( of January, tho chihjfon "f I'™ 1 :iTO bavin • me of it. They an Fn », with do one ( half SO ui r.AMNiis ntOM clothed, and worse fed. God only knows what will become of the poor creatures. "Colonel ^lssey, post commandant, is a true gentleman, and vfell liked. Prompt. courteous, and like, he is a gjood man for the position. Every day negroes are eomiog into the damp with their little bundles, claiming protection and food. Thursday afternoon the following actual event took place : "J. B. Pillow, brother of the rebel general, who has a beautiful planta- tion a fevf miles from Helena, and who was worth half a million of dollars previous to the war, came into camp, through the lines, with one hundred and eighty-three negroes, of both sexes and of all ages. At the head of his servants, who followed in single tile, he walked to the colonel's headquarters, where the following conversation took place : " ' Good morning, sir.' " ' Good morning, sir.' " ' Where is the commandant of the post ?' " l Before you, sir/ " ' Well, colonel, here is my small charge, in the shape of free American citizens of African descent, which I deliver over to you. Here is a correct list of their names, ages, sexes, and occupations. Please send them on to the President, with my compliments, and say to him that if he wishes any- thin" 1 else under my roof, on my grounds, or in my pockets, all he has to do is to ask and receive.' " f Mr. Pillow, I cannot "receive these people; I have no food for them — have nothing for them to do — have not food enough for our soldiers, hardly.' " ' And I cannot use them. I had bacon to keep them, but it has been stolen. I had corn, but it has been gobbled. Now, I have nothing for them to eat ; and as Lincoln has turned this army into a nigger boarding- house, you will please seat this people at your table.' " < But I have no such power.' " 'Then give them work. If you fail to manage them, I will teach you. The art can bo learned in about thirty years.' " ' I have nothing for them to do.' "'Nor have I. You will not see them starve, I hope. I am a loyal man — have been a prosperous one, but can no longer care for these people. You have surely some use for them. Nearly all trades are here represented among the men. The women you can find use for somewhere.' " ' Well, I can't take them.' " ' My God, what will they live on? Can you sell me corn and bacon? They will starve unless you do.'. u ' No, I cannot.' AN ARMY NOTE-BOOK. 81 " ' And you cannot keep them ?' "'No.' " • Well, God only knows what will become of them.' "At the head of his ol>l servants he left, and the free people followed him crying, and wondering what next would come in their behalf. The poor creatures come into camp, steal provisions, &c., are kicked and cuffed .tbout by all hands, and are* at times most unmercifully pounded by some sol- dier who will not stand their 'sass.' The only idea ninety-five of every hun- dred of slaves have of freedom is, ease, freedom from labor, theft, and lust." CAMP ANECDOTE. A correspondent of the Kutaw Whig and Observer wrote thus from Fredericksburg: " A young, stout, hale, hearty man in a South Carolina regiment, went to General Lee for the purpose of getting a furlough, when the following amusing incident took place: "General Lee: 'Sir, do you knew the position of a soldier?' • "Soldier (saluting the general). ' I do, sir.' m "General Le< . % A^ume the position of a soldier. I want to see if you can execute two or three orders as I give them.' // Lee (viewing him closely, and scrutinizing his position,) said : ' About face, forward, march !' and never. said halt." TOO GOOD TO BE LOST. A countryman was in the town of Lumpkin, and some one asked him how he liked the war news. lie replied: " Very well." "Are you ready y" he was asked. " Yes," he replied. "Are you not afraid?" "No. If I should see a Yankee, with his gun leveled and looking right at me, I would draw out my pocket-book, and ask him what he would take for his gUO, and right there the fight would end." : N. While resting on the roadside, a citizen came ridincr down the' line, afford - . butt lor the remarks which were mercilessly thrown out fn side. As he rode through the n tie fellow — flat on hi- bark in a fen c 1 corner — noticed an enormous white beaver tl i the citi;- head, and called out, very peremptorily : "Come down OUt of that hat, sir; • try to hide ; I know j ■."' The luckli spurred up, but, a lew ] by the following i 11 52 GLEANINGS FROM on, one soldier called to another across the road : "Bill, that fellow is like a ship." "What for?" asks Bill. " 'Cause the rigging cost more than the hull." This was more than human nature could stand, and the citizen put whip and spur to work. Nor did he pause until Kershaw's brigade was far in the distance behind him. WANTED TO BE "TOOK." Referring to the fact that many of the Federal soldiers are seeking cap- tivity for the purpose of securing a parole, the Kentucky Statesman relates the following, as having occurred in the vicinity of Lexington : " A Confederate soldier, exhausted, laid down by the roadside to rest, and falling asleep, was left some distance behind the army. When he awoke, he found a Yankee soldier sitting by his* side fanning off the flies, and patiently waiting to be taken prisoner. Of course he was accommodated." BOY HEROES. While the "musrjuito fleet" of Commodore Hollins was on the Missis- sippi, an attempt was made to dislodge the enemy from Point Pleasant, near 'Island No. 10. After firing several rounds, the enemy retired, without re- plying. Just at this moment several persons, supposed to be women, came out on the balconies of the houses and the bank, waving white flags. The * captain of the Pontchartrain ordered her to approach the shore, which she, did cautiously. When within about forty yards of the shore, the supposed women, with other Federals, commenced a very brisk fire on the boat with their muskets, killing one and wounding two others. The one killed was a boy of fourteen years, known on the boat as powder-boy. He deserves to be written down a hero. While strong and stalwart men were seeking a hiding-place under the bomb-proof shelter, this brave,, manly boy, stood to his post till pierced by the fatal ball. He had hardly fallen, when little Johnny lleeder, of about the same age, stepped up to the captain, amidst a shower of bullets, and spoke with heroic firmness: "Captain, I will be your powder-boy now." We scarcely know which most to admire. Both were brave, and gave striking evidence of the folly of our enemies in supposing they can subjugate us. The Nashville was saved from the enemy at Beaufort by two young lads, the sons of Captains Pegram and Sinclair. On hearing that the Yankees were about to invade the town of Newborn, they "drummed up" a crew, ran the blockade, and arrived safely in another Southern port. Two half-grown lads were out hunting in the neighborhood of Ncwbern, and were discovered and accosted by a Yankee lieutenant. One of the boys wore 'the letters " N. C" on his cap, which attracted the Yankee'.' attention, and ho inquired of the boy what they meant. The boy AN ARMY NOTE-BOOK. 83 replied, "North Carolina," whereupon the lieutenant ordered him to re- move them. This the boy declined doing, when lie was again ordered to take them off, and again refused to do so. The lieutenant then remarked that he would take them off himself; and was in th.c act of dismounting from his horse to do so, when the boy winked to his .comrade, who took his meaning, and in a moment the guns of both the boys were leveled at the, head of the Yankee officer, and he was commanded to surrender. Seeing the utter hopelessness of his case, and perfectly astounded at the spirit displayed by the boys, the Yankee gave up his pistol, and on being ordered to dismount, did so. The boys then secured him, and again plac- ing him on his horse, conducted him to Kiuston, where he was safely lodged in jail. The Columbia (South Carolina) Guardian says : "Dr. Patterson, who has just returned from llichmond, has left at our office a musket carried by a noble and gallant boy from Georgia, Garvin Wightman. The gun bears upon it the evidence of hot work, the stock having no less than five bullet marks, four of them apparently from grape- shot, and the other evidently from a Minie ball. In a note to Dr. Patter- son, the youth says: 'This was shot in my hand while retreating from a .battery that we had taken, but could not hold. It was struck with grape shot and ball; take care of it for me, as I captured it at the battle of Wil- liamsburg from a Yankee. It has killed five, and done service in the bat- tles of Williamsburg and Richmond. ' "Dr. Patterson states that Garvin is only about fifteen or sixteen years of age, and was at first detailed to guard the requisition stores, but finding .that this duty would prevent him from participating in the battles, he joined a North Carolina regiment, and went into action. Hifl father and family, we are informed, are Charlestonianfl. asides the scars on the gun, Garvin received sundry other favors from the Yankees. Two balls passed through his cap, and his clothing has .sundry bullet holes. In his ease, too, we have another of those remarkable occur- renees showing a special Providence. In his left breast pocket, or between his vest and his shirt, he carried his Sabbath-Sohool hymn-book rolled up. 11 entered this book, and penetrated through the outer folds, lodging in the centre, thus unquestionably saving bis life. The book with the ball is in the possi ssion of i ; r. Patterson." FEDERAL ATROCITIES IN BALTIMORE. The following letter, from a neutral source, tells a story tliat would re it qo4 i by a thousand Bimilar i both in Baltimore an - t GLEANINGS l'lto.M Quebec, October 4, 1S61. To the Editor of the Morning Chronicle: Sir: The horrors practiced by the Lincoln Government upon the people, of that once beautiful and refined city, Baltimore, have earned for it the name of the Warsaw of America. At this moment the most honored and talented men of Maryland are pining in the fortress cells of that city, deprived of the commonest requisites of the hum/Jest condition* of life, made tu endure nauseating circumstances that the meanest fekm,*is fret from; seven and eight gentlemen forced into a cell, without bedding, blankets, water to wash, or changes of linen from week's end to week's end ; and, with a refinement of cruelty and mental torture, unknown in any civilized country in the world, cut off from all intercourse or knowledge of their families or of the outor world. Men alone are not the only victims of the wicked and accursed tyranny, but even ladies of rank are similarly situated, their crimes being receiving letters from absent husbands and fathers, or Wearing red and white ribbons or dresses, or having given charity to the widow or orphan of some one who died in the Southern army. Against the men no charges are made, and the only warrant upon which they are held is, that their names are inscribed by Mr. Lincoln or Mr. Seward upon a list in the hands of a convicted mur- derer and burglar. The experience of one week in Baltimore, and the hor- rors inflicted upon the unhappy people of that fated city, would appear to any man used to the actions of a regular government — even of the greatest European despotism — an exaggeration, did not the papers in the service of the- tyrannous fanatics, who despotically wield the government of the land, themselves foreshadow the gross iniquity, and call upon the gaping and frightened crowd to fall down and worship the bloody idol they have set up before them. The prime executioner and minister to the vengeance of Lincoln and Seward is of the most abhorrent stamp, and has inaugurated their reign of terror in Baltimore only as such a wretch could conceive it. This man is a pardoned convict, named Berrett, who, after receiving sentence of death for murder and burglary, and having been known to have committed six assas- sinations, was released from prison, and made a jailor, but was dismissed for misconduct; he was the captain of a. murderous crew, called the "Blood- Tubs/' and when all honest men shrank from him, President Lincoln and his minion, Seward, sought and employed him as the minister of their ven- geance. This ruffian has daily interviews with the President, and returns from Washington with a fresh list of proscribed victims. Berrct has chosen the tools and habits of his old trade of burglar to do the work of his employers. , AN ARMY NOTEBOOK.. 85 The universal terror and abject subserviency of the Northern States to the dictates of their oppressor, lias been shared by Maryland, and it lias, therefore, been deemed more prudent to make the domiciliary visits in the dead of the night. Berrett takes with him several escaped thieves, his former " pals," and, accompanied by a file of soldiers, g tea forth after mid- night to do the bidding of the "best and freest Government in the world," by breaking into the houses of their victims, dragging them from their beds, and thrusting them, handcuffed, into the cells of Fortress Mc Henry. General Howard, an old gentleman, the candidate for governor,. aud his son, Mr. F. Howard, were taken from their beds and from the sides of their vivos between one aud two o'clock in the morning by berrett and a file of soldiers, who wound* d with their bayonets Mr. F. Howard's little son, six - old, and so ill-treated Mrs. Howard that she died on the Sunday fol- lowing. . Mr. Lincoln thought "she was served too well, and declared tjiat the wives and brats of traitors deserved to be threaded upon red-hot jack- chains." To the suffering children and wives of his victims he replies to their request to be permitted to see their parents with a refusal couched in obscene and brutal language, or with some filthy jest, that could not be put upon paper. rrett, upon Seward's order, broke into the mansion of a lady of rank, whose husband is in Europe, and with his file of soldiers pulled her from her bed, without permitting her to dress, or even putting on her shoes; the fellow forced her to go with him from the attic to the cellar in her night- gown, whilst he tore up the carpet, forced the doors, and cut to pieces the ■s, brocaded chairs, sofas, &c., and turned out every trunk and drawer, leaving the beautiful residence a total wreck. No reason has been icd for this outrage, except that his patron, the President, willed it. On the following night, the house of a venerable gentleman was forcibly entered, and every bed cut to pieces; his throe daughb rs were pulled out of their beds, and subjected to brutal indelicacies the heart sickens at. The following morning the colonel of these honorable and gal] lers of their count: Wilson, wis taken int. various rol rty having been found in his shop in Brooklyn, New York. The house of I 1 no connection with politic;-, bed' for arms; of c found, but a quantity of wine was, and •land oft table ami :>iy carried it off. ward has throw:: rid them, and thn i Mr. from thi ■ 1 in at Mr. ' 8G GLEANINGS FROM bing hltu of all the money he had with him. Lincoln, when told of the yenng ladies' grief, and that their dresses were wet with tears, ridiculed 'u\ and made filthy aud obscene jokes at their expense. .Mr. Wallis, President of the Senate, a man of refined miud, elegantly educated, who held his large fort une as a trust for every good and benevolent purpose, whose eloquence and high talent vied with his goodness and his virtues, has been consigned to a narrow cell, with six other gentlemen, without the commonest conven- ience that the poorest beggar can command for the wants of nature — torn from his wife aud family while suffering from severe sickness, without a change of linen, and robbed of all his money. Mr. Ross Winans, nearly eighty years of age, was taken from his splendid mansion in the middle of the night, and, for a second time, consigned to a cell. This time his crime was giving food, daily, to twenty-five hundred poor people. His last release from prison cost him fifty thousand dollars bribe. Mrs. Davis, a lady of large fortune, had fed nearly one thousand poor daily. Mr. Seward commanded her to desist from doing so; she refused, and published his command and her letter of refusal. The paper that pub- lished it has been suppressed, the materials of the office carried off, and the editor imprisoned. SUPPLIES AND INFORMATION FOR TIIE REBELS. "A Yankee upstart, belonging to Milroy's command, when in the Valley of Virginia, summoned an aged citizen to appear before him, to furnish some information. When duly arraigned, the Yankee began : " ' Do you know of any one who has furnished supplies to the rebels?' " Old Man. ' I believe I do.' "Yank. 'Who was it?' "Answer. l General Panks.' ''Yank. ' Sergeant, take him to the guard-house. Wait a while. Now, old white-headed rebel, mind whose presence you are in, and answer cor- • rectly. Do you know any one who has been passing through our lines and back again to the rebels, carrying information ?' "Ans. ' Yes, sir, I do.' " Yank. ' Who was it ?' "Ans. 'General J. E. B. Stuart.' " Yank. ' Sergeant, take him to the guard-house.' " NOT A STRAGGLER. On the morning after the great battle of Manassas Plains, Sergeant , of Company A, Sixteenth Mississippi Regiment, being barefooted, straggled off from his command, traversing the battle-field iu pursuit of a pair of shoes, which some frightened Yankee might have thrown away in his flight. AN ARMY NOTE-BOOK. 87 After looking for ;i long time in vain, he at test saw a' pretty good pair on the pedal extremities of a dead Yankee. He sat down at the, feet of the •lead Yankee, pulled off his shoes, and put them on his own feet. Admir- ing the fit, and complimenting himself upon this addition to his marching abilities, he arose, and, with knapsack on his back and gun in hand, was about starting to overtake his regimmit, when he observed coming towards him a small squadron of cavalry, all of whom, as it was drizzling rain, were wrapped in their large rubber oil-cloth overcoats. It will be remembered that the cavalry are frequently assigned to the duty of picking up the stragglers, and hence there is no good feeling between the infantry and cav- alry. As they approached Sergeant , the foremost one asked : " What are you doing here, sir, away from your command ?" "That 's none of your business, by G — d," answered the sergeant. " You arc a straggler, sir, and deserve the severest punishment." "It 's a d — d lie, sir; I am not, a straggler; I only left my regiment a few minutes ago to hunt me a pair of shoes. I went all through .the fight yesterday, and that 's more than you can say; for where were you yesterday when General Stuart wanted your d — d cavalry to charge the Yaukees after we put 'em to running ? You were lying back in the pine thickets, and could n't be found; but to-day, when there 's no danger, you can come out and charge other men with straggling, d — n you." The cavalry-man, instead of getting mad, seemed to enjoy this raking over from the plucky little sergeant, and, as he rode on, laughed heartily at it. As the squadron was filing nearly past the sergeant, one of them inquired : " Po you know who you were talking to?" " Yes, to a cowardly Virginia cavalry-man/' " No, sir; that 's G-cncral Lee." "7/-0-'; — mhati** And his mouth expanded from a pucker to its most astonishing dimensions. "General Lee, did you s;i; '• \n d hie Jtafff" "Y iz-t-K-z-on to grind. I 'm a gorner!" With th ; s exclamation the sergeant palled nff his hat, and, readjusts oyer his disl nded eyes, Btru le-quick on th< r his l "Tin 1 prisoners, y, were remarkably impudent Uy il Seers. One of tl ral For- \ 88 GLEANINGS FROM rest demanded a surrender, and the Yankee negotiators were trying to get the best terms possible, Forrest appeared suddenly to get very mad; swore he would wait no longer, that he would rather kill the whole of them than not; ordered his couriers immediately to direct the commanders of the separate batteries to place them on separate points or hills ; and or- dered four separate regiments to be formed immediately at particular points in line of battle; and that the couriers absolutely dashed off as though they were going to have the orders executed. And as they dashed off, Forrest 'told them his signal gun would be fired in ten minutes — when, in fact, he said, the rascal had but two little cannon, and not more than a half regiment of men alb told. That Forrest was nothing but a damned swindler." THE TlOUS SLAVE. A letter from the South Carolina coast contains the following character- . istic anecdote: " I happened to notice, one morning not long since, on the wharf of our island, a very old negro oysterman -drawing out his boat on the shore, in order to dip the water out that had collected during the night, preparatory to going out among the oyster-banks. A regular soldier was assisting him, partly for amusement, and partly to hear him talk. "The oysterman was indeed an interesting specimen of humanity. He was bent and stiffened by age, his head was as white as cotton, while as happy a smile played upon his shriveled countenance as ever wreathed the face of beauty, and his deep-set black eyes beamed with kindness and hu- mility. His boat was a very old canoe, full of holes all along the sides, and I asked him if he was not afraid to venture out on the water in such a , thing. He said he was not; that the old boat and old man knew each other, • they had worked together for many years; that he did, not know which would give out first, but- that one thing was certain, we all had to die at some time, and there was no way to get away from death wheu he came; that his Master above could take care of his old servant as wejl in the old boat as on the land; that that kind Master had permitted him to live some eighty- six years, had given hinivfood, drink, and clothing all that time, to prepare for death, and if he were not prepared and ready to die now, he would be the greatest sinner in'the world. He concluded by telling us. that we were all' slaves — slaves to sin, to our passions and appetites — and that death alone could make us perfectly free and happy in the Paradise of God. How far superior, thought we, is the simple and child-like faith of this honest fcld negfo to all the day-dreams of philosophers, that have constructed their systems apart from the sublime philosophy of the Redeemer of mankind. This sable eon of Africa was fully imbued with the glorious faith and doc- AN ARMY NOTE-BOOK. 89 brines of St. ■ Paul, that made Felix tremble, and almost persuaded King Agrippa to be a Christian." YANKEE RAID-MAKERS IN TOWN'. Thirteen Yankees, including one Lieutenant, named Marsh, all belonging to an Illinois regiment, and attached to a raid-making party, arrived at the Libby prison, from Tunstall's Station, where they wore taken by a portion of General Wise's command. Sundry other members of the detachment were brought in, by citizens and sojdiers, who picked them up straggling on the roads, hatless, horseless, and hungry. One ludicrously appointed indi- vidual, having seen the spires of the city from afar off, and being anxious to get shelter and something to eat, directed his steps thither; and, meeting a gentleman on the road, addressed him : •■ 'Ere you keeps mit der Lippy brison?" "What?" said the gentleman, reining his steed, and looking curiously at the woe-begone excursionist. "I vants to go to brison — umph, yaw!" "What do you want to go therefor?" asked the gen^cman, seeing at once that he was one of the strayed-off raid party, but wishing to chat awhile with the poor devil. " I bes so sick as der belle von dis var— - und I kom you gleb meinself up — yaw." ' " Where did you come from?" inquired the' gentleman. " Vrom Yankeeland, mit a tam officer, for to break into der railroad und shpile die passengers. Vcre 's der brison?" Finding the tired and hungry Dutchman in a hurry to get along, the gen- tleman directed him to keep the road, and he would soon reach the object of his wishes. Into town the fellow came, and. overcome by heat and fat i at down in front of the telegraph office and went to sleep, where be was soon observed, and his character being ascertained, he was put in "der brison" — the only Yankee (and he a I'utclnnan) who has yet "entered Richmond" on his own book. The party captured were sent down for exchange, with others, by fla ■ truce, making rather a short stay. MILRoy IN WIN' B \ IK' IMA. The reign of this officer rivalled in brutality and robbery thai of Butler in New Orleans. A private letter says: "'i : Is full of hospitals. They have Taylor's Hotel, V<>rk House, Union Hotel, and when I left, were turnii g th< ■ A th< r fa take hospitals of them. The soldiers have been camped aboul in town all winter, and such B 'lirly plaO< hurch op: DO GLEANINGS FROM taken for a stable, and we had the horses quartered all around us. The typhoid lever has at last become so bad that it has grown to an epidemic, and ■ there is scarcely a family in town but have two Qr mere, and in some cases the whole family is down, and dependent upon their neighbors for help. All the servants have gone, and the people have been worked and worried to death. * ■ * * * * "The Yankees will not allow the people to buy anything without taking the oath, and we would rather starve than do that. We could get nothing either one way or the other, and just had to live on bread, , and sometimes had butter. They would not even allow us to buy a bone of meat to make soup for the sick. When the Confederates came towards Winchester, the Yankees or;co surrounded with six hundred of their men about fifty of ours, and did not kill one — all escaped. Old Milroy was ripping mad, swore ter- ribly, called the officer who had command, and said: "Why is it that six hundred Yankees having one hundred rebels surrounded, let them all escape ? " The officer said : " All I can say is, the rebels fought with daring bravery, and the Yankees like cowards." They put the officer under arrest for forty days. Milroy never goes out. He had his wife and four or five children — ugly little red-headed things — with him. They had Mrs. Logan's fine house. Y r ou heard, I suppose, they sent Mrs. Logan and family over the lines. They took possession of the house and everything in it. Instead of coming up the Valley to fight the men, they stopped in Winchester and fou< r ht women and children. The women were, firm and faithful; never would give up one step. When Milroy's wife first came, she had one little trunk, and when she left she had five, very large ones — carried off every- thing she could lay her hands on. They say they will not leave a negro in town when they leave." ADMIRABLE RETORT. A lady went to General Milroy and asked for a pass to go over the lines. He said : "I will give you a pass to hell." She told him she did not know his lines extended that far; she had often heard it, but now had it from his own lips. A BRAVE NEGRO. In the battle of Belmont, Lieutenant Shelton, of the Thirteenth Arkansas Regiment, and his servant Jack were in the fight'. Both Jack and his mas- ter were wounded, but not till they had made most heroicefforts to drive back the insolent invaders. Finally, after Jack had fired at the enemy twenty-seven times, he fell, seriously wounded in the arm. Jack's son was upon the field and loaded the rifle for his father, and shot at the enemy three AN ARMY NOTE-BOOK. 9i times after he was upon the ground. Jack's son hid behind a tree, and when the enemy retreated they took him to Cairo and refused to lei him return. Jack was taken from the field in great pain, and brought to the Overton Hospital, where he bore his sufferings with great fortitude, till death relieved him of his pain.- GENERAL RANDOLPH "BLOCKADED.." One afternoon our estimable Secretary of War, General George W. Ran- dolph, visited the lines below Richmond, and after spending an agreeable hour or two at General Lee's headquarters, started for the city. He pro- ceeded without interruption until he reached the picket's post on the "Nine Mile Road," where he found several citizens who were returning from a visit to tbe camp. They had been stopped by the sentinel, who informed them that he had orders to allow no one to pass in or out of the lines who did not give, the countersign. General Randolph informed the picket that he was the Secretary of War, and that the orders he had received could not apply to him. The soldier replied that he did not know whether he ■was Secretary of War or not — a Yankee spy might say the same thine* but be that as it may, his orders were to allow no one to pass who could not give the countersign, and, having a ball and two buckshot in his musket, he would enforce the observance of his orders by all comers and goers. Here was a "fix" for a party of gentlemen, with night coming on, and a heavy drizzle of rain descending. The officer of the day was called, but he could do nothing, as the adjutant of the post had neglected to obtain the countersign from headquarters. At length somebody rode to headquar- ters, about a mile distant, and returned with the countersign. The Secre- tary and other camp visitors were then released, and went on their way rejoicing, though previously, it is said, in a very bad humor, believing that the sentinel had exceeded his duty. A somewhat similar incident is related of Napoleon. He tried to pass one of his sentinels, but the Old Guard told him he could not pass without the countersign, if he were the "Little Corporal" himself — meaning Napo- leon. The sentinel was rewarded by Napoleon for his fidelity to his tl by the decoration of the Legion of Honor. GENERAL STUART AND Tin; Mil On a scouting expedition to Massaponax Church, General Stuart rode ■] bo a mill around which the enemy had just been encamped, to see what information ho could obtain. The old miller looked at bin closely, and paid, " Seems like [ 's Been .you afore." "Yes," said the General, " ] . recollect, on a scout a few d M v nam* u Btuart." The old fellow seemed mucfa phase! "Gen ; ,H 112 GLEANINGS FROM i around here last night and this morning. They said you had been a bothering them a long- time with your cavalry, but that now they were going to get w your rear and cut you off, and the first thing they knowed youdrapped right in behind them. 3 la! ha! ha! Give it to 'cm, General." JACKSON AFTER THE MAIN CIIANCE. After .Jackson took Harper's Ferry, he had a conversation with Colonel Ford, (a Federal officer,) who detailed the following incident: "While we were in conversation," says Colonel Ford, "an orderly rode rapidly across the bridge, and said to General Jackson: 'lam ordered by General McLaws th report to you that General McClcllan is within six miles, with an immense army.' Jackson took no notice of the orderly, apparently, and continued his conversation ; but when the orderly had turned away, Jackson called after him, with the question: 'Has McClcllan any baggage train or drove of cattle?' The reply was, that he had. Jackson remarked that he could whip any army that was followed by a drove "of cattle, alluding to the hun- gry condition of his men." "WHISKY AND TURPENTINE. The dhattanooga Rchel told the following: One of the Yankee prisoners here asked a guard if he knew "where a feller could get a drink of whisky ? " "Well* no," said the ragged custodian, "but, stranger, ycr kin git a first- rate artikle of turpentine round the corner, and I reckon that won't, pizin your blue, stomach ! " "What does he say, Bill?" said another prisoner. "Why he wanted I should drink abcout a gill of turpentine; feller warnt tu burn us coutj wish to h — 1 I was ter hum!" NORTHERN TESTIMONY CONCERNING A NORTHERN PRISON: An Ohio paper published the following: "It must not be forgotten that there have been from six to seven hun- dred political prisoners at Camp Chase at a time, and although seven hun- dred have been discharged without trial, there* are yet there some four hundred. One or two hundred of these have arrived from Kentucky and Western Virginia. Tdicse men arc taken from their homes, some from their beds at night, some from their houses in daytime, and a great many of them are picked up in their fields at work, and never suffered to see their families before being spirited off to Ohio and incarcerated in this celebrated ]>astilc, which will soon be as famous as Olmutz itself. " Our Ohioans are put into the same prison with these men from other States, and from them we have learned Mine facts, which the people of AN ARMY NOTE-BOOK. 93 Ohio ought to know. Many of these men have been kept in this prison for over one year, a great many for five, six, seven, and eight months, without even seeing outside, or being allowed to communicate personally with any one, not even wife, child, father, mother, or stranger. " They are furnished with nothing but a single blanket, even these cold nights, unless they are able to purchase additional comforts with money they may be able to command. Many are poor men, and unable to pur- chase; they were not permitted to bring along a change of clothing, and many had on, when seized, nothing but summer wear, and that has become filthy, worn out, and scarcely hangs upon their backs. " They have no bedding, and are, therefore, compelled to sleep on the bare boards. They have not enough wood furnished to keep fireS up all night, and hence the suffering is intensified by the cold weather. If they attempt, after night, to walk out in the yard to take off the chills of the dreary night, they are instantly threatened to be shot by the guards, as ordered by those in command. • " Dr. Allen, of Columbia County, Ohio, said he laid on a bare board until his hips were black and blue. The wood furnished them is four feet long, and they are compelled,* each mess, to chop it up for themsclves fc and, the provisions being furnished raw, they have to cook for themselves. Recol- lect, always, that these are political prisoners, against whom no one appears as accuser, and no trial is permitted. "The prison has become filthy — awfully so — and the rats are in droves. If the prisoners attempt to kill one of the rats, they arc forbidden, and threat-. ened with being shot instantly. Recollect, always, as wc have said above these are political prisoners, against whom some malicious negro- worshipper has created a suspicion of disloyalty, but whose name is kept a secret, and henoq there ran be no trial. "The place is perfectly alive with lice, and no chance ia given to escape the living vermin. A dead man, one of the prisoners, was carried out to the dead-yard, and laid there over night, and when visited in the men by other prisoners, who heard there was a dead man there, they found the hair on his head stiff with lice and nits — the lice creeping into hi greal numbers, sad, as he lay with his mouth open, the lire were thick, crawling in and ou( - I ith. "Two of the pi I int.. a scuflle in trying their . and finally into a fight, as wz .], and several other persona rui bed t<> part them, when t!. From the lookout fired on them, lulling an old i by the name of Jon nia, and tlic ball grazing the skull fell, and as killed ;hcr* "I tie' ball« pa ■ i thi ird at the bend of a sick mo i' 94 QLXANINOS FROM pital. and only escaped him by a few inches. The two men engaged in the scuffle were, not hurt. "We might go further, but God knows this is enough for once. It is enough to m;.ke one's blood run cold to think of it. " Now, if any one doubts this — if tin; authorities at camp or at the State- House doubt it — if the Legislature, when it meets, will raise a committee, we promise to name the witnesses, who, if sent for, will, under oath, prove all thi< and as much more, some of which is too indecent to print iu a newspa- per for the public eye." "STTJ.NG BY A BUNG." "Hermes," the correspondent of the Charleston (South Carolina!) Met- cury, related the following incident : "At Sharpsburg, General Lee, meeting one of the many stragglers, in- quired : ' Where are you going, sir ?' " ' Going to the rear.' • " ' What are you going to the rear for V "'Well, I've been stung by a bumj, and I 'm what they call demoral- ized.' " This was enough. General Lee had n't the heart to say more to an in- nocent who had been ' stung by a bung' — meaning, probably, that he had been stunned by a bomb — and the soldier departed on his way." DEATH ON THE BATTLE-FIELD. A correspondent of the Due West Telescope stated that a Christian soldier was pierced by a Minie ball in the left breast, during the first charge of our troops at Perry ville ; and in reply to a friend who proffered him assistance, said : " No, I die. Tell my parents I die happy. On, on to victory. Jesus is with me, and can give me all the help I need." A gasp, a shud- der, and all was over — all of this world's pain and sorrow. MAJOR A. M. LEA AND HIS SON. N One of the most affecting incidents of the brilliant and successful recap- ture of Galveston by the forces, under Major General Magrudcr, was the meeting between Major Lea, of our army, with his eldest and fondly-loved son, who was first lieutenant of the Harriet Lane. Nearly two years ago, the father,- then residing in Texas, had written repeatedly to the son, then on the coast of China, suggesting the principles that should determine his course in the then approaching struggle between, the North and the South 'of the United States, and saying that he could not dictate to one so long ob- ligated to act on his own judgment; and that, decide as he might, such w;is his confidence in his high consciousness, he would continue to regard him AN AHMY NOTE-BOOK. 95 •with the respect of a gentleman and the affection of a father; but that, if he should elect the side of the enemy, they would probably never meet on earth, unless perchance they should meet in battle. / The father has served nearly eighteen months eastward of the Ml sippi, and, through unsolicited orders, arrived at Eouston, en route for San Antonio, when, hearing of the intended attack on the Harriet Lane, aboard of which he had heard was his son, also placed there simply in the order of Providence, he solicited permission to join the expedition, in expectation of nursing or burying his son, whose courage wag obliged to expose him fatally to the equal daring of our Texas boys. During the fight, Major Lea was ordered by the general to keep a lookout from a house-top for all move- ments in the bay. As soon as daylight enabled him to see that the Lane had been captured, by permission of the general, who knew nothing of the expected meeting, he hastened aboard, when he was not surprised to find his son mortally wounded. Wading through blood, amidst the dying and the dead, he reached the youth, pale anl exhausted. " Edward, 't is your father." "I know you, father, but cannot move," he said, faintly. "Are you mortally wounded?" "Badly, but hope not fatally." "Do you suffer pain?" "Cannot speak." he whispered. A stimulant was given him. w came you here, father t" When answered, a gleam of surprise and gratification passed over his fine face. Tie then expended nearly his last words in, making arrangements for his wounded comrades. His father knelt and blessed him, and hastened ashore for a litter, and returned just after life had fled. When told by the surgeon that he had bat a few minutes to live, and ■sked to express his v. isbi 9, he answered^ confidingly : " My father is here," and spoke not again. He was borne in procession to the grave frpm the headquarters of General Magruder, in company with his captain, and tin v buried together, with appropriate military honors, in the presence of many officers of both armies, and many generous citizens all of whom heir deep sympathy with th< lemo r the Episcopal ( hurch for the burial of the dead, and then a I thi^ brief add; My friendi nan ha i time to rejoi< wlv n w< (hat • to believe, whilst I our rights wit! that those we m< cf in battle maj I - oar own. We have !;■ re buried two brave and 1 ; 90 GLEANINGS FROM TIETY IN A GENERAL. The chaplain of the Fifth Kentucky Regiment writes of Kirby Smith : " Before going into the battle at Richmond, Kentucky, he spent a season alone in his tent in prayer. "When the battle was over, he returned to his tent, and gave thanks to God for the victory. When at Lexington, Ken- tucky, the minister at the Episcopal Church refused to officiate on thanks- giving uay, and General Smith arose, read a chapter, led in prayer, and finished the services. In the Kentucky campaign, General Smith was the only general who succeeded in his part of the programme." OUR RAGGED BOYS. At the battle of Murfrcesboro', the Yankees captured a young rebel, who wore a gunny-bag with a hole in it for a shirt. "Could n't your Govern- ment afford to give you a shirt?" said his captor. " Shirt, the d — 1," aajd he of the gunny-bag, ''do you expect a man to have a thousand shirts?" WITHOUT SADDLE OR SPUR. The following "joke" is told of an army surgeon, who got on a little " bender" while his command was passing through Mobile : Surgeon was dressing a wound at the battle of Murfreesboro' — soldier came by on a Yankee's back, actually riding him to the rear. " Doctor," cried the lucky Confederate, from his novel perch, " if I had them spurs you went to bed in at Mobile, I 'd give this feller hail Columby. Get up, here, you whey-faced Yankee son-of-a-gun," and he drove his heels into the sides of his jaded " animal," and pushed on, amid the roars of laughter from the surgc6n and his corps of assistants. THE JOHN BROWN RAID — AN IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE. Mr. Sumner was reelected to the United States Senate by the Legislature of Massachusetts. Mr. Swans, member of the Senate of that State, al- though a Republican, would not,' it seems, vote for Mr. Sumner, and gave the following reasons for refusing : " I come now, Mr. President, to what is known in history as the John Brown raid. This expedition was planned and fitted out in Boston, and its expenses defrayed by subscription. The day he started for Harper's Ferry on his deed of murder, he dined in room No. 4,. Parker House, in company with some of the most ardent and zealous supporters of Mr. Sumner, and for this reason I allude to it. The Republican party now disown the act, they call him a monomaniac, an insane man ; but when the telegraphic wires, with lightning speed, brought the news of his death to New England, so de- praved at that time was the public sentiment here, that the village church- # AN ARMY NOTE-BOOK. 97 bells tolled out his funeral knell, and the ministers of Got], with a few lion- . orable exceptions, prayed in their pulpits that the spirit of the 'departed saint ' might rest in peace. This act, Mr President, was the deathblow to the peace of the Union. Witho it it, Virginia would not have seceded, and God grant the names of the persons who were engaged in this transaction shall leave a record of them for history. "Another deed of murder, Mr. President, and I will not detain you longer. When Anthony Burns, the fugitive slave, was confined in the Court-House in this city, a meeting was held at Faueuil Hall, to consider the subject. Theodore Parker and the Rev. Thomas W. Eiiggiosoo were there. Mr. Parker, in concluding an eloquent speech alluded to the fact that a slave was confined in the Court-House, and exclaimed, in substance: 'Why stand we here idle? To the rescue!' A rush was made for the Court-House. and at the door stood a poor laboring man, a Mr. Patchelder, a night-watch. His wife and two children were sleeping at home, possibly dreaming of him as he was toiling for their daily bread. • The crowd de- manded admittance; he refused, and was immediately assassinated on the Who killed him the world never knew. These men, Mr. President, were the confidential friends and supporters of Mr. Sumner, and for this reason I have alluded to the subject." LACONIC Kites (a member of the Legislature, and Confederate District Attorney for West Tennessee) returned to his home in Memphis, and gave some sort of parole, by which he protects himself and property. He writes to a friend outside of the lines as folio? "Dear Vance: Come in and save your property. Vance answei '■/>ir L'.-f's: Come out and save your character. \ A A BT/ioi>v CHARGE ON A STOVE-PIPE. Having had a special but temporary object in view in taking p Munson's Hill, in \ irginia, it was do( deemed necessary I that Put lest the V light h.ir.i--v the tr ■r artifice i on the II, with ii- tuni' . . ii" black cylinder ian. An aeronaut 9 I his car and a-cmd to rder to ascertain the nature of the work which our forces had thrown up, an In the eves ul the ingenuou Pi 98 GLEANINGS FROM • • immense size, and several regiments were ordered to capture the gun and dislodge the Confederates. Bight gallantly did the Yankee aoldiera rush to the charge. But their fears being silenced by the retreat of our troops, in the absence of danger, their desire for plunder was inflamed, and before they had gone half- way up the hill, they scattered in different directions in quest of booty. The ma- rauders mistook the columns they belonged to, and on their way to the main body they met, and in their excess of valor, fell upon each other. The battle raged fiercely for some minutes, for Yankees are the very people to fight Yankees. Obstinately did each contend for the victory, and before the blunder was discovered, eight Lincolnites lay low in death, and forty more were pierced with bullets. They captured the stove-pipe. A GOOD THING FROM BRAGG. A correspondent wrote : "A soldier who had been favored by fortune faith the extraordinary good luck of having obtained a leave of absence to visit North Carolina, tele- graphed General Bragg, commanding the army of Tennessee, that he had ■ been married a week, and desired an extension of his furlough. Mis wish was seconded by friends of the general, with but little hope, it is true, of succeeding in the darling wish of the darling husband. In the course of the day, the loving swain was delighted with the following electric response : . " ' Your leave is extended for thirty daj^s. I refer you to Deuteronomy, twentieth chapter and seventh verse, and twenty-fourth chapter and filth verse.' "The Bible was instantly called into requisition, and, upon reference, the following quotations were developed :■ " 'And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife and hath not taken her? Let him go and return unto his house, lest he die iji the battle and another man take her.' — Deuteronomy, twentieth chapter and seventh verse. " The second reference disclosed : " 'When a man hath taken a new wife, he shaM not go out to tear, neither- shall he be charged with any business : but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he has taken.' — Deuteronomy, twenty-fourth chapter and filth verse." A NOVEL INTERVIEW. As one of Wharton's scouts was riding leisurely along near Lavergne, he espied an enemy approaching about sixty yards down the lane. "Who goes there?" he challenged. " Wilder's scout," was roughly returned. "Who AN ARMY NOTE-BOOK. 09 there?" Wharton's scout: "Surrender or die." "Never surrender; come on!" But Wharton's scout did not "come on." The truth is, he said, t hat his antagonist was loaded down with six-shooters, and "he wai • never good at the d — d things." There was a pause. Both parties eyed each other. "Can't we coinnromi-e this thing?" erics Yankee. "No; surrenderor I'll shoot you." "Shoot and be d — d. Never surrender; come on." Pause. Then Wharton's scout exclaimed : " I '11 tell you what I '11 do." " What?" " (live me the road, and I '11 let you off." "Done." The Yankee turned aside, and our man slowly passed, head erect, as fierce as a Hon. "Good by." "Good by." And the two rode their ways. Wharton's scout considered it a pretty good "get off," when it is taken into account that the ground was far into the Yankee lines. He said he was n't particular about a fight, and only wanted to save Southern honor. GENERAL TOOMBS AND A LAZY SOLDIER. Quite an amusing scene occurred mar Warrenton, Virginia. General Toombs ordered the "fatigue" to "tote" rails and fill up a bad place in the road, when one soldier said he could not tote a rail; whereupon the general dismounted, and told the fellow if he would hold his horse he would do it. 'The man held the horse, and the general shouldered the rail and carried it 1 threw it across the hole which he had ordered filled. The soldier was a large, strapping fellow, and the rebuke the general gave him caused after peal of laughter, while the man looked as if he would have liked to have been in the hole, covered from Bight by the rails he "could not THE TK5ERS. A good story was "towld" of the gallant Captain Atkins, of Wheat's ccle- 1 battalion. Atkins, who is well known as the "Wild Irishman," being SIX feet two inches in height, and of the ('barley O'Mallcy school, was formerly of the British Legion in the army of Italy, where, meeting Colonel Wheat, he 1" came so attached to him, that he afterwards came over to this try to join him. It was Captain Atkins who led Wl ttalion at r the noble Wheat fell wounded, leading the celebrated f of the Louisiana I - li a bare shillalah. In the battle in which lorious Wheal fell, Atk; ling the roll of bis company the . but one | ..i,,^ il a man but m Howivcr, 1 immediately pi tton the only onanimi . the chip of 'old / i. h. 100 GLEANINGS FROM did splendidly.' Pid n't they, says T. 'They did,' scz he. 'and desarve pro- motion. 1 Well, then, says I, they Ve got it, for ivory mother's son of 'em iave been put on the staff of Colonel Wheat in heaven, and the only man left was unanimously elected a lieutenant this morning. Wi' that the gen- eral orders nie to Richmond to fill up me company with conscripts; so, calling me lieutenant, I gave him strict orders as to the discipline to be ob.-arved in me absence, and left him in charge of the company until me return." CONFEDERATE FANATICS. The captured Yankee officers at Richmond seemed to have a high respect for our infantry* One of th*em remarked that the cavalry-men were not as well built oor as courageous as their cavalry; but the infantry were too des- perate lor than. " For," said he, "when the ragged infantry come upon a battery, it is no use to try to hold it. They are j^oir.g to have it, and if Napoleon's men were behind it, they could not stop them. They, are crazy about batteries." LOVERS VERSUS SUBSTITUTES. We knew a young lady who was engaged to be married to one who was in the army. He suddenly returned home. " Why have you left the army?" she inquired of him. "I have found a substitute," he replied. " Well, sir, I can follow your example, and find a substitute too. Good morning." ■ And she left him in the middle of the room, a disgraced lover, because a disgraced soldier. TOBY TRIES HIS GUN. Toby is a high private in- the first regiment of the Mississippi army.' His company is armed with the breech-loading Maynard rifle, "warranted to shoot twelve times a minute, and to carry a ball effectively sixteen hundred yards." Men who fought at Monterey and Bucna Vista call the new-fangled thing a "pop-gun." To test its efficacy, Toby's captain told the men " they must try their guns." In obedience to the command, Toby procured the necessary munitions of war, and started with his "pop-gun" for the woods. Saw a squirrel up a high tree — took aim — fired. Effects of shot immediate and wonderful. Tree effectually topped, and nothing' of the squirrel to be found, except two broken hairs. " Pop-gun " rose in value — equal to a four-pounder. But Toby would n't shoot towards any more trees — afraid of being arrested for cutting down other people's timber. Walked a mile and a quarter to get sight of a hill. By aid of a small telescope, saw hill in distance ; saw a large rock on hill; put in a big load; shut both eyes — fired. A« soon as breath returned, opened eyes; could sec, just could, but could n't tear; at least could n't distinguish any sounds; thought Niagara had broke AN ARMY NOTK-EOOK. ' 101 loose, or all out-doors gone to drum-beating. Determined to sec if shot hit. Borrowed horse, and started towards hill. After traveling two days a#d nights, reached place; saw setting sun shining through the hill. Knew right away that was where the shot hit. Went closer — stumbled over rocky fragments scattered for half a mile in line of bullet. Came to hole — knew the bullet hit there, because saw lead on the cdircs — walked in, walked through; saw teamster on the other side "indulging in profane lan- guage;" in fact, •• cussin' considerable," because lightning had killed his team. Looked as finder directed — saw six dead oxen in line with hole through ■ the mountain ; knew that was the bullet's work, but did n't say so to angry teamster, [thought best to be leaving; in consequence, didn't explore path of bullet any further; therefore, don't know where it stopped; don't know whether it Stopped at. all; in fact, rather think it did n't. .Mounted horse;, rode back through the hole made by bullet; but never told captain a word about it ; to tell the truth, was a little afraid he 'd think it*& hoax. " It is a right big story, boys," said Toby, in conclusion, " but it's true, sure as shooting. Nothing to do with Maynard rifle but load her up, turn her north, and pull the trigger; if twenty of them don't clear out all Yaukee- dom. then I 'm a liar, that's all." SCATIIINt; SATIRE. The following mild (?) and philosophic' views of Yankee nature, exhibited in their adulations of the Beast, is from the columns of the Richmond Examiner : "To the well-regulated mind, the beastly practices of beasts excite no disagreeable emotion; and it is said that the scientiflc intellect fipd world of enjoyment in the contemplation of the disgusting utility of the t order of creatures. Surely, the feast of the vulture upon carrion is not reprehensible, and occasions in the beholder no special wonder, and any anim ' for gratifying his peculi..' the tiger that lap* bjood, and the beetle that gorges excrement, arc but I Yankees of the animal kingdom, accommodating the. wants of nature; and illy to impute to them improper motives in partaking of their cening repatto. It followi that our fe< : i in it her by rage nor Man miaation to interp a them ai • iral ■ • find t.">. oalmne m of m ,ons of p. 102 GLEANINGS FROM '• The foregoing reflection-; are naturally enough, by the account in Yankee newspapers, of Butler's triumphant progression from New York, to Washington, and back again to Boston. A great hue and cry has beta raised at the South because the spawn of Northern cities saw fit to prostrate themselves before this new Haynau — this modern Verres — returned from his conquests — this Beast emerging from hjs cave filled with dead men's bones. Why this outcry ? Wherefore assail the Brute, clotted with gore, or the chimpanzees that danced and chatted. at his coming, and beslobbered him with praise? What had this hog-hyena done contrary to his instincts, that we should so berate him and his worshippers? He had hung Mum- ford. That was true -Yankee courage. lie had issued a hellish order against the ladies of New Orleans. That was unaffected Yankee gallantry. He had' put the mayor and hundreds of others into dungeons. That was the Yankee conception of the proper method of administering the laws of ' the best Government the world ever saw.' He had banished from the city more than twenty thousand people, who refused to perjure themselves by taking the oath of allegiance to the United States. That was the Yankee idea of justice. He drove those people off without a change ol clothing, and with only fifty dollars in money. That was the Yankee idea of human- ity. He confiscated property by millions. That was Yankee honesty, lie supplied the rebels in Texas with munitions of war, and pocketed the pro- ceeds of the cotton received in exchange. That was a smart Yankee trick. His troops were whipped af Baton Rouge while he was in New Orleans. He was never under fire, and never smelt gunpowder, except at Hatteras, when the long-range guns of his fleet opened upon a mud fort which had no ordnance that could reach him two miles off, and on the strength of this he issued an address as pompous as Satan's speech to his legions in the bottomless pit. That was making material for Yankee history. After in- flicting innumerable tortures upon an innocent and unarmed' people — after outraging the sensibilities of civilized humanity by his brutal treatment of women and children — after placing bayonets in the hands of slaves — after peculations the most prodigious, and lies the most infamous, he returns, reeking with crime, to his own people, and they receive him with acclama- tions of joy, in a manner that befits him and becomete themselves. Nothing is out of keeping; his whole career and its rewards are strictly artistic in conception and in execution. " He was a thief. A sword that he had stolen from a woman — the niece of the brave Twiggs — was presented to him as a reward of valor. He had vio luted the laws of God and man. The law-makers of the United States voted him thanks, and the preachers of the Yankee gospel of blood came to him and worshipped him. lie had broken into the sales and strong boxes of merchants. The Now York Chamber of Commerce gave him a dinner. AN ARMY NOTE-BOOK. 103 TTc had insulted woraon. Things in female attire lavished harlot smiles upon him. He' was a murderer. And s nation of assassins have deified him. He is the representative man of a people lost to all shame, to all hu- manity, to all justice, all honor, all virtue, all manhood. Cowards by nature, thieves upon principle, and assassins at heart, it would be marvelous indeed if the people of the North refused to render homage to Benjamin Sutler, the beastliest, bloodiest poltroon and pick-pocket the world ever saw." A NOBLE REPLY. A Yankee pii^oner told General N. G. Evans, at Leesburg, that the-South could not triumph in this war, unless they were prepared to "wade knee deep in Norther;; blood." The general replied: "Sir, we shall go breast Jeep, if necessary; only leave our arms free to cut down our enemies." ANECDOTE OF STONKWAI.L. The Richm ml correspondent of the Charleston Mercury ;:'vos the follow- ing an" idote of Stonewall Jackson, the niyht after the battle of Fredericks- burg : "On Sunday night, a friend of Old Stonewall, invited to share his tent, turned in about eleven, and wrapped up snugly in the blankets. At one o'clock Jackson entered, and just as he was, bran new uniform, boots, spurs, and all, pitched into the pallet, was snoring in fifteen minutes, and in fil more had robbed his friend of all the blankets. After a hard struggle, this friend managed to gel hack enough cover to keep him from freezing — the night was very cold — and slept, as he supposed, "five minutes. He was aroused by Jackson, wli himself of every particle of raiment, opened th . and went forth in puris naturalibtu. He called for his old negro man — tin' same who knows when a battle is off by the fervor of his rs— and made him d him two large buckets of water, which had been standing in the ft air. This done, he returned to the tent, rubbed himself dry with a lonned his new uniform, and went OUl J then jusl hall ; and told him t LID AT&0< the Willi 104 GLEANINGS FROM case, which makes the hlood run cold. The daughter of one of the most prominent citizens (whose name has been given) was seized, disrobed, and then whipped by these worse than savages. Her alleged offence was the utterance of some "rebel" sentiment that offended the miscreants. Such are the scenes which have been inaugurated since the victories of the Sogth near llichmond. • This is their revenge for a fair defeat in an open field. A WESTERN RANGER AND I1IS REVENGE. During the political canvass of 1860, there appeared a champion of the Douglas Democrats in Tennessee, an athletic, hair-brained, go-ahead indi- vidual, of ready address and bright mind, who made much repute as a rough-and-tumble occasional elector and orator. When hard knocks and sore bones were to be given and received, he was usually chosen as the best butt and representative. "When an. appointment could be filled by none of the regular speakers, he was sure to be sent as a proxy for the absentee. Especially at the night mass, or the sudden impromptu gathering, was this Old Zach of the Douglas men peculiarly felicitous and at home. He knew everybody-^-hc was good at local hits — he had the issues all at his fin ends. Comely, sanguineous, and good-humored— a big, manly voice, and a clear, honest eye — he put many an older and abler speaker to the right about before the canvass closed. Add that he was one of the first soldiers, most zealous partisans, and most efficient organizers when the war began, and • none, who have had much acquaintance with Tennessee, will mistake the portrait tc be other than the redoubtable politician and dauntless guerrilla chief — Dick McCann. As a captain in Rains' regiment for the first ycar ; and leader of an inde- pendent band during half of the second, and afterwards major of cavalry, McCann has immortalized himself locally. He is the John Morgan of .Middle Tennessee. Familiar with every highway, path, and by-way, he moves invisib'ly, and strikes always where least expected. Some of the most daring exploits have been done by him. His operations have been limited, because his command has been small, but not less useful or bril- liant. Always up and doing — always ready, ambitious, and spirited — always full of animal life and vim — always quick-witted, shrewd, and courageous — he has illustrated to a nicety the dashing traits which ever made him a darling with the mob, and has reenacted his political career over the same field, as a military campaigner and soldier. Such is Dick McCann. Many months ago — immediately succeeding a superb raid of his up to the very breastworks of Nashville — he was outlawed by a Federal proclamation. Under this (one of the bloodiest documents of the war) " his premises, out- houses, fences, and crops, and all things pertaining to the same " (as read AN ARMY NOTE-BOOK. 105 the order), were " remanded to the proper authorities, to be destroyed hy fire." The order was ohcyed to the letter. A regiment (the Thirty-Second Illinois, Colonel Moore) inarched out to the place, and deliberately executed each detail, leaving a once fair farm a heap of charring ruins. McCann wrote to Rosecranz: "Hum and be d — d; but if I don't give you and your officers who do so h — 1, my name 'a not Dick McCann." His boast has not been idle. For months, cold and wet, early and late, he has been seen in his saddle, flying, with his little hattalion of picked men, from point to point, and many a Yankee has paid the bitter penalty of his com- mander's folly. Some time since, however, Major Dick performed the crowning act. (lathering his clan, he left Unionville, thirteen miles out of Shelbyvillo, at sunset. He pushed, by roads best known to himself, to the left of Mur- freesboro', until he reached Antioch. This is a depot nine miles out of Nashville, on the Chattanooga railroad. Here he waited for dawn, and the out train of cars. Doth came in season — the one loaded with mist and rain, the other with a regiment of Federal troops. From a copse Borne distance off, .McCann and his party fired two rouud volleys. J. 1 he engineer was killed; several blue-coats rolled down the embankment; the whistle blew shrilly and long, and, after much confusion, the cars stopped. Too late! too late ! McCann and his one hundred riding men were off, off to the woods, where letHhem follow that dare. The cars went no further than Lavergne that day. One of MeCann's nun slipped thither in disguise, and spent the night. He reported th< ualtics at forty-two killed and sixty-seven wounded. "REBEIi"-I01 The Chattanooga (Tennessi i Rebel perpetrated the followin Pat dreamed that the immortal spirit of Stonewall Jackson knocked at the gal - of Paradise. " ' Wh i omea there?' inquired the good St. P< " 'Jackson,' was the reply. " 'What Jack wall !' '• • ( kmu in ; bully for you.' " " 'i pie who ; • about bi their la>t drop of b I irtionlar ab< ul the I '•'! ;il attendant oi ,• but officer who run- at the ti; 1 1 inc. is men NOT DRl NK. A correspondent of the Richmond Dispatch, speaking of General Jack- son, related tlie following: "He is said to be, under ordinary circumstances, inclined to take 'cat and before and during the battles around Richmond, he took I regular slumber. One evening, as he was riding with a single companion! he was observed to be asleep, and to be nodding. His companion wondered) but did not wake him. 1'rescntly they ; ass< d a man lying on the road-side. who cried out: ' Hellow, where did that man get his liquor?' This woke Jackson, who said : ' Well, 1 think I M better keep awake qom GENERAL EWELL STRUCK IN THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG. During the battle of Gettysburg, General Ewell, reining in his horse, and calling one of his aids to him, said: "] have been struck, assist me to alight." Having helped him from his hur-c. the aid inquired whore the general had been hit. "Here," said General Ewell, pointing to his wooden leg; " I '11 trouble you to hand me my other leg." The fractured artificial limb having been removed, and a fresh one jiut on in its ])lace, the brave old general remounted his horse, and again rodi the front. % A 001 NOIL <>F WAR. "Dixie," of the Jackson Appeal, told the following: "Here is a good story of Old Stonewall, for the accuracy of which 1 do not vouch, though it came to me directly from the camp. The night after the battle, a council of war was held l>y General Lee, to which all his gen- erals of distinction were invited. General Jackson slept throughout the proceedings, and upon being awaked and asked for his opinion, curtly said: 'Drive 'em in the river, drive 'em in the river.' " HOW I > 1 1 > HE DIB? A doting father, as he was riding into Savannah from the country, after the tirst battle of Manassas, was met by a mes enger, who reported to him the sad news of the death of a favorite sun. " How and where did he di was the instant interrogatory. ''.Under Beauregard, at Manassas, fighting against odds two to one," was the reply. "And lunv went the day?" was immediately ejaculated. " The enemy were routed and put to llight," was the response. " Thank God !" said the lather; "I am satisfied, then; I give up my boy." AN ARMY VOTE-BOOK. 10? WILLIS P. MAXfiUM. One of the most interesting incidents of the first battle of Manassas was related of Willie P. Maogum, Jr., son of ex-Senator Bfangam, of North Carolina. The tan was attach mel Fisher's regi- ment, and owed" the preservation of hia life to a copy of the Bible pre- Bented to him by his sister. Ete bad the good honk in his left bi coat pocket. It w\ - ruck by a ball near the edge, But the hook ohan the direction of the bullet, and it glanced off, inflict in re hut not dangerous flesh wound. The hook was saturated with blood, but the ad- vice written on a fly-leaf by the sister who gave it, was perfectly legible. It read thus: "To my brother. He will read a portion of this blessed Word every day, and remember hia sister." GKNl ELAL 101 JOHNSTON TURN- BHOXMAKBB. officer, while riding by the quarters of the general one day, with a sad- dle on hia hack, inquired of a person standing by if he knew where to direct him to a shoemaker. "There is one," was the waggish answer, pointing at the same time to Johnston, who was in citizens' clothes. Onward strode tie interrogator, until he reached the general. He then threw down the ;'\ at the general, with his hands in bis pockets, the word of command : "That saddle must be ready in one hour, sir." He then turned to depart. "Hold!' - said Johnston. "What did you "I said, have that saddle ready in an hour," responded Captain a know who I am V ■ Y< ■<; you are a shoemaker, and I want you to hurry up, too." "I am General Johnston, sir," shouted r. In another moment the saddle \vn- picked up, and the in in retreat. " If ated the general; "who I >ld you I w i officer, sir — I do n't know his name." Then leave the 1 return in an hour, precisely." He heard, and he obeyed. In one hour ' aded, and in 1 -ion. " N nr country m I have endeavored to ob h ia the min who D •;■ 1 1 n Tb } lir . • followin n of soldiers' wit : •• [( : of at, hilai I 108 GLEANINGS FROM "A 'cavalry-man' cornea, rejoicing in immense top-boots, for which, in fond pride, he had invested fully forty dollars of pay; at once the cry from an hundred voices follows him along the line : ' Come up out'er them boots; come out; too soon to go into winter quarters. I know you're in thar; 1 Bee your arms stickin' out.' A bmnpkin rides by in an uncom- monly big hat, and is frightened at the shout: 'Come down out'er that hat! Come down; 't aint no use to Bay you aint up thar ; I see your legs hangin' out.* A fancy staff officer was horrified at the irreverent reception of his nicely-twisted moustache, as he heard from behind innumerable trees: 'Take them mice out'er your mouth; take 'em out; no use to say they aint thar, see their tails hangin' out!' Another, sporting immense whiskers, was urged to 'come out'er that bunch of bar. I know you 're in thar; I see your ears a workinV Sometimes a rousing' cheer is heard in the distance. It is explained: 'Boys, look out; here comes Old Stonewall, or an old hare, ono or t' other;' they being about the only individuals who invariably bring down the house." SCENE IN A HOSPITAL. Lady (at the bed-side of a sick soldier). " How d' yc do ? Is there any- thing you want?" Soldier (curtly). " No, I believe not," Lady. " Is there nothing I can do for your"' Soldier. " No, I think not." Lady. " Oh, I do want to do something for you. Can't I wash your hands and face V Soldier. "Well, if you want to right bad, I reckon you can; but if you do, you will be the fourteenth lady who has done so this morning." THE ARMY .SIGNAL CORPS AT NEW ORLEANS — HOW MESSAGES ARE COMMU- NICATED— NOVEL WAY OF CONCEALING DESPATCHES — CURIOUS SIGNS: Though the signal corps is a regular and important arm of the military service, few persons know of its uses and objects. The following from the New Orleans correspondence in a Northern paper, of the signal corps in that department, will ,^ive some interesting information on a subject of which very little is known outside its own members : ''The signal corps department connected with this division of the army in Louisiana, is a well-regulated, well-instructed, and most efficient arm of the service. The system of signalizing now in use- in the service, originated with .Major Myer, an officer of the regular army, and is probably the most , iplete and thorough code of the kind, and for the purpose intended, now extant in any country. By this method of signalizing, messages can be read through the telescope at the distance of twenty to twenty-five miles. AN ARMY NOTE-BOOK. 109 Despatches can be sent in the sole of the carrier's boot, in the hair of his head, or in the stitches of his coat or breeches, and that, too, without the scrape of pen or slip of paper; indeed, the carrier himself is as ignorant of the code, and of the interpretation of the message he carries, as the rebels would be into whose hands he might chance to fall, or whose prisoner he might become. Not a single line, or sentence, or word, could he, or they, or both united, ever make out. None can read or decipher the messages, or understand the signals, but those familiar with the code, and none but the most reliable of commissioned officers (and these, even, are sworn under penalty of death should they divulge the secret, cither to friend or enemy), are ever taught it, Another safeguard thrown around the system is, that it is all unwritten. The instruction is oral, without books or written teach- ing. The knowledge of the art cannot be gobbled or pilfered, and thus rendered subservient to the armies of the enemy. "On the battle-field, flags arc generally used in transmitting messages from point to point and from station to station, throughout the whole line, and these little tell-tales of discomfort to the enemy are looked upon by the generals with feelings of intense bitterness, hence the extraordinary efforts of his sharpshooters to pick off the signal-officer from his eyrie or keen lookout. "At the battle of Napoleonvillc, several officers of the signal-party had their horses shot under them, and during the engagement several others were wounded. In dense fogs or storms, when, flags arc not available, mes- sent by sound of cannon, muskets, drums, or other noises, intelligent to the signal-officer, and as readily distinguished as other Bigna of the code; and besides those above described, there may be other methods of mining messagi a and conveying intelligence of an enemy's movements, not here enumerate "In the department of the Gulf there arc permanent stations f<ut you led us a of a dance. \V time do< - your music play in "BnllS ipt reply — "i;. for our side, and Bally for you — whoop- vou after I 114 GLEANINGS FROM " Don't want'er see jcr — Been i oongh of you already." "Go to ," (and the worsted Yankee mentioned a hot place.) " Sorry I can't accommodate you," said the Southerner; " but old Satan has pent word to General Lee that the place was so full of Yankees already tin 3 have to hang on by the window-sills, and he won't take in Southern men no how." Such is one of the thousand interviews which the " voice of the waters," could it speak, would tell. of this strange phase of the war. A MILITARY EXECUTION. A correspondent of the Charleston Courier, writing from Kinston, North Carolina, thus described a military execution : "The mournful cortege, consisting of a rude wagon drawn by a pair of mules, a sad-looking prisoner, with his hands tied behind him, and a dozen troopers as a guard, passed through the streets, and soon gathered in its train a motley crowd of black and white, who followed in procession to the place of execution. " The name of the culprit was Michael Bryant, of the Sixty-Third Reg- iment of x North Carolina cavalry; his age, about thirty-six; and his offence, desertion — not, however, to the ranks of the enemy. Arrested, he was duly tried by a court-martial, and it being necessary that an example should be made to check a growing evil in the army, he was sentenced to be ' shot to death.' It was not until the morning of his execution that the poor fellow became aware of the day or hour that was to terminate his careen, but he had evidently been 'preparing for the crisis, and when the fact was an- nounced, it fell upon a heart nerved to brave death, come in what shape it might. This composure never left tyira. "Reaching the place of execution, which was in a field adjoining the encampment of his old command, the cortege halted in front of an ominous- looking black coffin, behind whieh was a stake. The guard alighted, and the prisoner, strong and buoyant, as if he was the least among the actors of the drama, also leaped lightly from the vehicle, and took his seat upon the narrow box that was so soon to enclose him forever. An officer then advanced and bound him by the arms firmly, with his back to the stake. I now had an opportunity of observing the prisoner more closely. He was clad in an evcry-day suit of citizens' clothes, with his pantaloons carelessly tucked in the top of his boots, and as he sat there, watching the prepara- tions for the tragedy, looking upon the faces of his old comrades, with whom he had been associated in camp and field, alone and helpless, with the agony of death so .near, and eternity already opening to his vision, the acutcst observer would have failed to detect the faintest indications of AN ARMY NOTE-BOOK. 115 tremor on his person. Stern, strong, calm as a statue, he waited until the regiment, on foot, was filed into position before him. "After a lapse of live or six minutes, came the squad of twelve, who were to act as his executioners, and stood twelve paces distant. The adjutant of the regiment then advanced, and read the verdict of the court-martial. This done, one of the guard approached to tie a handkerchief over the face of the prisoner. Then, for the first time, did I notice anything in his bearing whicb scenied to indicate that he was not already totally dead to feeling. A glance of his eyes to the heavens, as if he was invoking Divine mercy, a barely perceptible change of countenance, and an expression of unutterable sadness, told of a fearful struggle that was going on within. A moment's pause, and the officer in command, in a low tone, gave the order : ly, aim (twelve rifles, six with blank cartridges, were bearing on the prisoner's heart, and the click of the twelve triggers left but a second between life and death), fir " Hardly had the smothered word issued from the lips, when the body of the unfortunate man, pierced by six balls, shrunk convulsively from the shock, the head dropped upon the breast, and a deep sigh told of an ebbing life. The surgeon of the regiment now advanced to feel the pulse, and at line instant the colonel exclaimed: 'Attention!' Half a minute had already elapsed, but at that word the dying man raised his bandaged head, and, as if he was peering, through the for the (• rm of 'thv v n daring the war.' * V he, do yc's dd yc's stand qi for tl • or duriu' the w.. 116 GLEANINGS FROM " 'Faith, I could,' said Maggie; and so they both went to the priest, and were married. After the ceremony was concluded, Pat said to the priest : 'Mind ye, this contract is but for three years or durin' the war!' 'No, no,' said the priest, ' it 's for life and forever.' ' Peril a bit/ replied Pat, pulling a paper from his pocket, ' here is the contract between me and Maggie yonder, and it reads, according to her consent, that she enlists as my wife jist for three years or durin' the war, and not a day longer !' And Pat rushed off with his three years' bride, leaving the priest in utter amazement." AN INCIDENT OP THE SIEGE OF TORT HUDSON. The Natchez Courier' published the following: "At a charge of our men on the Federal cotton breast-works — when they took, burnt, and spiked the enemy's guns — it is said fifteecn Confederates were taken prisoners. The guard took them before General Banks, who said : ' They are men too brave to be my prisoners ; conduct them to Gen- eral Gardner, and say to him, for humanity's sake, to surrender his works, and stop this effusion of blood.' The prisoners were accordingly conducted to General Gardner, who, having the like number of Federals within his works, immediately ordered their release, allowed them to inspect the whole of his fortifications, and then directed them to be conducted by his guard to the Federal line, with this injunction : 'Tell General Banks that you have inspected all of my defences; you know their strength; and, for the sake of humanity, request him to give up further contest, and save the further . effusion of blood in his army." THE INCORRIGIBLE JOKERS. The Yankees are determined to have their fun, if their leaders arc afraid to fight On the 1st of April, 1863, between four thousand and five thou- sand of them landed near Pocotaligo (South Carolina), and, with au air of boldness that augured something terrible, took up. the line of march inland. General Evans, hearing of the movement, immediately dispatched four reg- iments to engage them, and dispute their passage. On coming in sight, the Yankees were found in full retreat to their boats, but a tall pole had been stuck in the ground at the turning point, and on it inscribed, in large letters, "April fool." dr. warren stone, of new orleans. All the world knows old Dr. Warren Stone. He is celebrated for his great surgical skill, as well as for his greatness of heart, independence of character, and dovotion to the South. This truly great man was Selected by Brute Butler as a " shining mark," upon which to cast his venom. He AN ARMY NOTE-BOOR. 117 ■was accordingly arrested, and brought into the presence of the tyr:;nt. The doctor walked up to Butler, without waiting to be asked, arid said, in an abrupt, curt manner : " Here I am, General, and I want to know what I am arrested for." Butler looked at the doctor from head to foot, and said, con- temptuously : " I had you arrested because you are a great rebel, and the influence of such a man as you are is dangerous to the community. T shall send you to Fort Jackson, to get you out of my way." The old doctor looked .steadily into the repulsive, crooked eyes of his wicked enemy, as he indignatly replied : " Great rebel, hey ? You'll send mo to Fort Jackson, .' I glory in being a great rebel; you can send me to Fort Jaekson, and be. damned." When about to be sent on board the boat that was to convey him to the fort, Dr. Stone was informed that if he would pay a of five hundred dollars he could avoid going down; but the old patriot scornfully retorted : "Tell General Butler that it seems to be a matter of dollfira with him, but it is a matter of principle with me, and I would not give him five cents !" No man in the community was more boloved and ad- mired than Br. Stone, and as soon as it became known to his friends that he could be relieved on paying a fine, they sent the money to Thief Butler, and the noble old man was released. A CANDID WITNESS. A correspondent of the Milwaukie News, writing from Arkansas, cave some very strong testimony as to the influence and result of Yankee med- dling and effect's on the condition and prospects of the negro. lie said : With no one to care (or them, without food, clothes, or medicine, they sicken and die here by the hundreds — freed at last. Back of General Washburn's headquarters, but a short distance, is a peach-orchard, the little graves in rows so r. of use to themselves and the world. A SOUTHERN LADY'S BROTHER VURDBRED TOR p] BOM INSULT. We found the following in the Baltimore tn: " A ladj dquartcrs to obtain from him a j tiding thi ived her with his usual politeness, but rod I thai she the Confi \y, in th' - "i. mildly : thai it would, perl , :nce 118 GLEANINOS FROM without such a decoration. 'I have a right, sir, to consult my own wishes as to what I shall wear.' 'Then, madam, ' replied the general, 'permit me to claim an equal right in choosing with whom I shall converse ;' and the dignified lady had to withdraw from his presence. Subsequently, the proud daughter of Secessia returned to the general's office without the offensive brooch, and, making a slight apology for her indecorous conduct on a for- mer occasion, reiterated her request for a pass, which was promptly filled up and handed to her. " The lady proceeded to Suffolk, and, after visiting her friends, she very • injudiciously walked around among the provost guard of National troops, wearing the brooch above mentioned in a very conspicuous portion of her dress. The attention of the soldiers was at once attracted to the emblem, much to the gratification of the giddy girl. A very polite and gallant officer, of the Thirteenth New York, accosted her at once, and told her it would be better for her to remove the brooch out of sight, or it might cause •a difficulty, but the young lady heeded not the admonition. Passing along, she was met by a soldier, who told her she must not wear the ' Stars and Bars' now, as it was nothing but an emblem of weakness and evacuation. She said to the soldier that she w,ould not remove the brooch for any Yan- kee hireling; whereupon the soldier snatched the hated brooch from the girl's bosoiji, and removing the colors, he handed the golden bauble back to its owner. Some citizens observing the act, fell upon the soldier, and were belaboring him pretty badly, when he drew his bayonet from his scabbard, and striking one of the attacking party several blows, he foiled him to the earth, and injured him so badly that it was feared he would not recover. • The injured man was the silly girl's brother." 4 A TOMBSTONE HARANGUE. A correspondent of the Richmond Examiner, writing from Winchester, related the following occurrence during the time the Yankees were in pos- session of that place : On Sabbath morning notices were sent around to the pastors of the dif- ferent churches, to the purport that there would be divine service that evening in the cemetery lot of the town. The ministers, supposing it to be the occasion of the funeral of some citizen, and not knowing the Source from whence it emanated, read out the notices to their congregations. A large number of persons assembled, when, instead of a funeral sermon, a miscreant, in the shape of an abolition preacher, mounted a tombstone, and commenced his discourse in this strain : " My colored friends, hearken unto me. You are the children of Israel, and we come to give you freedom. You are oppressed, and we come to deliver you from your thraldom. I stand in Moses' shoes, and President AN ARMY NOTE-BOOK. 119 Lincoln stands in Jesus Christ's shoes. Jesus Christ was a very good sort of a man, but he did n't make the sin of slavery plain enough." At this point in his remarks the disciple of abolition was set upon by the white citizens present, who threatened to mob him unless he took himself off, which he did. HOW TO OBEY ORDERS. When the Sixteenth Mississippi Regiment was quartered at Corinth, the guard around their encampment received all sorts of complicated instruc- tions, some of which were forgotten as soon as delivered, while others were rigidly adhered to by the sentinels. On one occasion, George Wood, of the Adams Light Guard, was in- structed by the corporal of his relief not to permit any private soldier to cross the lines, unless accompanied by a commissioned officer ; nor was he to permit any cakes, candies, fresh pork, fruit, or whisky to enter the lines, upon any pretence whatever. "I b'lieve I 've got 'em all," said George. "Let me see : nary soldier to go across the lines on his own hook, that's one; no cakes, that's two; can- dies, is three; fresh pork, is four; fruit, is five; and whisky makes up the half dozen. All right, corporal, you can toddle." George had walked his beat but a few moments, when an immense porker came grunting along, evidently well satisfied with his prospects of obtaining a good breakfast from the garbage lying about the camp. lie by-and-by approached close to the lines, when George suddenly shouted : "Halt!" A significant grunt was the only response from his porcine friend, who still came nearer. "Halt! I say, yelled George, ef you don't I '11 be dad blamed ef I don't shoot." The pig steadily advanced, when bang went George's musket, and down dropped the pork< r, as dead as a nail. The colonel, who was enjoying his late paper a few feet off, started up at the report of the musket, and exclainn id : low dare you, sir, discharge your musket without order.-!'' Call the iorporal of the guard." "Corporal of the guard, posl No. '•'! The d — 1 to pay here, on my line!" fihout- "Arrest. that man," said the colonel, aa the oorp ml i le hi- appearanee. "Well, that 'a nice," rejoined G t a Fellow for orders is tight papers." "I niver gave yeez any orthflH to do the like," said the corporal. v>0 QLBANINQS.raOll v i n'f » n»nli< • ; " bold on, here. Did n't you • jr^r-^^sis---*- ibj an officer P J « I did, av coorse !" . i:« M ?»' .. U, ». tyOT toll n,c cot .0 (el eny eak« eo„,c .nto the m> - >• Thrue for yeea I" •• 3