epted; that much more time to offer up prayers to God for myself and dearly beloved wife and children — all to meet in heaven.
"My dear brother Lewis, I know how this will affect you. You know all about my business. * * * I wish my beloved son, Cyrus, if he is spared through this dreadful-war, to manage my business, with your assistance — as dutiful a son as ever lived, and I must say so for all my sons and daughters.
I now leave you, Cyrus, Thomas, Charles, Rufus, David, Christopher, Lockhart, Egbert, Margaret, Mary and Elizabeth; leave you with your Christian mother.
God be your stay and support, trusting in God and preparing to meet me in Heaven. "David S. Creigh."
The next morning, a little after sunrise, he was brought out under guard, put into a wagon, and conveyed up a little vale to a spot about a quarter of a mile north of the house, and in full view of it.--There, upon a tree, close by a fountain known as the "big spring, " was this most infamous deed of de
. Frisby, landsman, killed; C. Shepherd, killed; and eight wounded.
Fort Gaines, August 5.--The following are the casualties at this post up to 12 o'clock, noon:
Pelham Cadets, Company A--Wounded: H. Hamilton, slightly.
Company B--Killed: J. L. Williams, Wounded: W. McVoy, slightly.
First Alabama Battalion of Artillery--Wounded: J. Adams, severely.
Culpeper's Artillery — Wounded: A. J. Ostvon, slightly.
Twenty-first Alabama, Company G--Killed: P. T. Stout.
Lockhart's Battalion, Company H--Wounded: T. J. Johnston, slightly.
Company I--Wounded: J. Scarborough, slightly;--Pierce, slightly.
Marines, Company--.Killed: R. Lewis.
Recapitulation — Killed, 3; wounded slightly, 6; severely 1.
Total casualties, 10.
The capacity of Fort Morgan for Resistance.
The Advertiser, speaking of the chances for Fort Morgan holding out, says:
Farragut may mean to open the batteries of his twenty ships on Fort Morgan and attempt to reduce it by
