The War.
Our summary this morning is made up from the latest Northern and Southern journals which have been received. The reader will find much that is interesting, as well as some amusing Manichaeanism gathered from Yankee sources:
The Occupation of Fredericksburg — Burial of the dead.--the Railroad — lemons, --c.
We copy from a New York paper its Fredericksburg correspondence of April 23d. The idea of ‘"lemons, gathered fresh from the tree,"’ will give the reader an idea of the entire letter:The wounded are progressing affirmably and promise to resume their duties soon, Brigade Surgeon Pauch, by his tact and foresight, has secured the friendship of every resident in Falmouth, and in daily offered the use of most commodious and beautifully situated residences for hospitals. The sick and wounded have all been removed from the church, where they were first placed, to several fine houses in the village, and are provided with ice, lemons gathered fresh from the tress, and innumerable other little luxuries, which go so far towards alleviating hospital experience.
The dead have all been interred in the Revolutionary burying-ground — a spot where their relatives may well leave them to rest.
Gen. King has established his headquarters at the house of Mr. Phillips, in the immediate vicinity of the headquarters of General McDowell, who occupied the residence of Mr. Lacy, Aid to Gen. Smith, of the of the rebel army.
The flotilla succeeded in clearing the Rappahannock of obstructions, and reached Fredericksburg on Saturday.
Work has commenced on the Aquia Creek and Fredericksburg Railroad, which will soon be in running order. The railroad bridge over the Rappahannock will of course be immediately rebuilt. Gen. McDowell is indefatigable in pushing forward the erection of bridges and establishment of supply depots, devoting much of his time required for rest of the personal supervision of the work, and often passing the entire day with but a single meal.
Mr. Paine civil and topographical engineer, attached to Gen. McDowell's staff, is busily engaged in preparing a map for the use of the General, giving the locality of every stream and cross-road, together with an outline of the face of the country. Mush valuable information relative to the course and condition of the roads south of us has been obtained from contrabands and residents of Fredericksburg.
An immense amount of flour remains in Fredericksburg, and over a thousand bushels of corn are now at the mills, being ground for the use of the troops. The cotton factory in Falmouth continues to run as usual, and a small store supplies the soldiers with a ready means of disposing of their money, fabulous prices being asked for the most trifling articles.
Contrabands are flocking in by scores, many of them possessing valuable information.--From them I learn that the rebels had a regiment of mounted negroes, armed with sabres, at Manassas, and that the regiment is still in service in the vicinity of Gordonsville.
The reports of barbarities perpetrated upon our dead at Bull Run have not been exaggerated. The rebels dug up the remains of our soldiers, and made spurs of their jawbone, putting up their skeletons into every conceivable form, and sending the trinkets home to their friends.
The rebel army is reported as being greatly demoralized by the recent Union victories, the news of which the rebel authorities valuably endeavor to suppress.
The rebels quartered in Fredericksburg last week moved off towards Gordonsville, and it is believed are encamped but a short distance from this place.
Texas.
The Charleston Mercury holds the following language in respect to Texas and the Confederacy:‘ Now that the enemy is struggling for the control of the Mississippi river, the great State of Texas may be, for a time at least, out off from communication with her sister States, and forced to depend upon her own resources in men and material for her own defence. But there is probably no one State that can better afford to take care of herself.--She has a voting population of about 65,000, and a fighting population of at least 100,000. With a Mexican, Indian, and coast frontier of great extent to protect, she has yet no troops, other than her own sons, within her borders, thought the gallant Texans have shed lustre upon the fame of their State on every battle-field of the war. We are informed, on good authority, that Texas has now in the field forty-four fall regiments of infantry, cavalry, and artillery. Of these seventeen are enlisted for the war, and ten more are about to do like wise. These regiments, numbering in the aggregate over forty thousand men, have all been raised without recourse to draft. With a population so hardy, patriotic, and brave, with her teeming soil and her boundless resources in provisions of every kind, there can be no doubt that Texas will give a good account of herself while the rest of the Confederacy is struggling in the grip of the great Yankee anaconda.
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Fort Macon.
Speaking of the fall of Fort Macon, the Wilmington Journal says:‘ The fall of Fort Macon being regarded simply as a matter of time, may add a little to the rather depressed feelings abroad, and but little, for it would seem as though little effort was made to succor it. Perhaps its position rendered that impossible, and after the fall of Newborn, it possessed no value sufficient to warrant any great sacrifices being made to relieve it. The garrison and the arms and munitions of war is the great and real loss. The real pity is that it was not evacuated at once on the fall of Newborn, as we think it could have been.
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Georgia in the battle of Shiloh.
The Augusta Constitutionalist's special army correspondent writes from Corinth, April 18th, as follows:‘ They went to the battle-field full of life and hope; they there remained with honored names, but cold in death.
Although the death of our departed comrades is to be deplored in the hour of private grief, we have reason to rejoice that their blood was not spilt in vain, and the conflict in which their lives were lost is but one of a glorious series, which, with the help of God, will attend our arms in beating back the invaders of our country's soil. I am happy to state that the friends whose loss we now mourn, were among the bravest of the brave, amid the smoke and carnage of that sanguinary and desperate struggle. They were ever Valliant in defence of our country's flag, under whose victorious folds they so bravely fought and so nobly died.
In that battle, Georgia had a few chosen sons, (the Washington Artillery, from Augusta, They felt that the honor of their good old State, as well as the fate of several millions of people, were dependent upon their valor an success. Let impartial history record how they maintained the one, and, I trust In God, preserved the other. These men, in all probability, will not live in the written history of this great struggle. Let the Washington Artillery remember to the last hour the names of Lieut. J. J. Jacobus and private Roesel, who gave their lives as a free-will offering upon the altar of our invaded country.
Looking back upon Europe through the twilight of history, I can see the luxurious North quailing before the giant steps of the energetic South. To those Northern hirelings I am beware I when by your treachery, you have started the avalanche of Southern power and of Southern bravery!
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Lincoln's visit to the French ship-of-war Gassendi.
The following time-serving article is from the Washington Chronicle, of the 27th:‘ For the first time since the organization of our Government, the national capital is visited by a French vessel of war; and for the first time in our history has a President of the United States stepped on foreign soil.
This interesting ceremony took place at the navy-yard. In honor of the distinguished visitors, all the steamers and other vessels were gaily decorated with flags, the Marine Guard and Marine Band appeared in full uniform, whilst the latter performed admirably several national airs.
At the appointed hour, President Lincoln, accompanied by his accomplished lady and her sister, Mrs. Edwards, arrived in their carriage, which at once continued through the principal gateway and along the thoroughfare to the wharf. They were soon followed by the honorable Secretary of State, with Mr. F. W. Seward, assistant Secretary, and his lady.
The French Minister was also in prompt attendance, and the party were received in handsome style by Captain Dahlgren, the gallant and scientific commander of our great naval station.
President Lincoln alighted from his carriage, but his wife and Mrs. Edwards remained seated during the entire ceremony.
Admiral Reynard, of the French navy, wholly unaware of this contemplated visit, happened to arrive here from New York about noon. He immediately availed himself of the opportunity of expressing his high regard for our glorious country and its distinguished and patriotic representatives.
The French vessel was placed in the best possible condition. Her officers all appeared in full uniform; the seaman in blue jackets and pants. The American flag floated proudly from the main — the highest point of honor — whilst other beautiful flags rendered the scene exceedingly interesting. All her yards were quickly manned, and as the President of the United States reached the side of the vessel he was cordially and appropriately received by Admiral Re ard, under a salute of twenty-one guns, which was immediately responded to from the Navy-Yard battery, the music of the band following in patriotic strains. On board the vessel the President, Hon, William H. Seward, Secretary of State, the Assistant Secretary and lady, were all welcomed by the distinguished Minister of France, the Admiral, and Captain Gautier.
In every respect this grand reception ceremony was rendered equal to the honors paid their own Emperor of France.
After an exceedingly pleasant conversation, the visitors, about to withdraw, were again saluted by the vessel, and again the loud-mouthed cannon of our navy-yard responded.
The President and his company, then in the Commodore's fine cutter, were rowed around the new iron-clad target now being constructed, and which was viewed with interest. The party then returned to the city, all apparently highly pleased.
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A Hint about Europe.
The Washington Chronicles of April 27, has the following singular paragraph:The war in this country will undoubtedly effect the destiny of Europe in many respects. Apart from the political consequences which have so frequently disturbed the monarchists is the revolution in maritime warfare, including coast and border defences. England, having been rescued from the complication she was so anxious to accept, of being a party to our struggle, is now suffering a kind of universal ague-fit lest France may surpass her in the construction of iron-clad steamers and great guns carrying immense annihilating projectiles. Louis Napoleon, always reticent, yet ever wide awake, is preparing for the future with characteristic assiduity and energy. His agents are now in the United States, gathering all the available information on this subject; and it is stated in the New York papers that one of the objects of M. Mercier's visit to Richmond was to obtain the plans of the Merrimac. It would be a singular sequel if our contest for the supremacy of the American Constitution should have planted the seeds of republicanism in England, and have enabled France to avenge Waterloo and St. Helena in her cherished designs upon her British neighbor.
From Yorktown.
The following peculiar letter we copy from the New York Times, of the 28th April:‘ Camp Winfield Scott,
Near Yorktown, Va., April 24, 1862.
Day and night the rebels continue to work on their entrenchments with the utmost vigor, and without suffering any serious molestation from our guns. Their miserable flag, which flaunted in proud defiance over a parapet on the day of our arrival, is less conspicuous to-day. The infantry and cavalry that our fire forced to precipitately retreat to the extreme rear of their works, are now assembled with additional numbers in the position which they previously occupied. Above the earthworks prancing steeds and active men, which two weeks ago cautiously avoided the least exposed situations, indicate a boldness engendered solely by our own philanthropic forbearance. Numerous rifle-site, of sufficient depth to conceal from view the marksmen within, have been recently formed by the enemy, who have taken special care to remove the excavated earth, so that the ground at a safe distance may not have the appearance of an unbroken surface. The sound of the tattoo at night, and of the reveille at morn, is wafted to us from the rebel camps, and occasionally throughout the day dusty shouts and cheers emanating from the same quarter can be distinctly heard. The progress our own army has made in its preparations to annihilate the stronghold before it, including the entrenchments, ride-pits, and other barriers that have lately sprung up to increase the strength of that stronghold — to bring to a plebeian level the lofty arrogance that marks the bearing of rebellion leaders — to change the seeming exultant spirit of rebellion followers that vents itself in loud huzzas, to a real sentiment of feeling that cries equally loud for clemency, your correspondent at present is denied the privilege of transmitting. The exigency of the occasion requires that the strictest silence should be observed upon all subjects connected with the movements of the army. It is not unreasonable to suppose that these movements are important; consequently the impatience of the public to be informed of their nature and extent may become doubly enhanced, but it is to be hoped that every patriot will admit that the injunction placed upon correspondence by the Government is wise and opportune. As a fair exchange, the journalists here respectfully submit that their letters be allowed to pass through the mails without detention. If this course be adopted, a latter, when published, will be its own monitor, and the public will be served with the latest unprohibited news.
In referring to the movements of the army, it may not be a breach of confidence to state that, under the careful guidance of its able leader, all the preparations essential to meet and conquer a large opposing force have been made. When the siege is once commenced, it is presumed that facilities will be extended to furnish the public with particulars and events as they occur.
Within the past three days an exchange of two or three shots, at intervals, has become quite a common affair. At night we are not unfrequently awakened by the whiz and explosion of a rebel shell, which, passing over or through a wood, increases the reverberation, and gives one the impression that it was rather familiar, especially for the lateness of the hour. These outbursts of the enemy, however, are now getting to be generally regarded as a common nuisance, instead of a common danger, and the boys are often heard calling upon the corporal of the guard to put under arrest the missile that falls within a few yards of their feet. Last week a daring, but reckless act, was successfully accomplished by a private in the 17th New York regiment, who, upon observing a shell strike quite near him, sprang forward with a pail of water and extinguished the ignited fuse. A sensation, if not a complete surprise, was given to a party of bathers the other day, by the descent of a 32-pounder in their very midst. After a brief consultation it was decided not to leave the pool until their ablutions had been performed. In the morning it is the usual practice of a regiment returning from picket duty to bring to their camp as trophies two or three shot or unexploded shells, which the enemy had volunteered to distribute among them the preceding night. a large variety of these projectiles have found their way to many of the brigade or division head-quarters, where they attract considerable attention. It is a singular fact, not lightly to be commented upon, that so few casualties have occurred among our men during all the irregular and promiscuous firing of the enemy. It is true that dozens of their shells do not explode, but even in that case they are liable to have the same effect as a round shot; and bursting and falling as they do, above, among, and on every side of our regimental picket guard, it is almost inconceivable how they escape injury.
Another drenching rain has made the roads so fearfully deep with mire that passage across them is next to an impossibility.
Various absurd rumors, such as ‘"the enemy evacuating Yorktown,"’ ‘"the fail of Richmond,"’ ‘"the capture of rebel Generals,"’ and other rumors of similar import, have been current to-day, but will probably be superceded before sundown by some starting fiction of tremendous magnitude.
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"Department of the Rappahannock."
Another arrival puts us in possession of other New York and Washington newspapers. From one of the former we copy the following:Washington, Sunday, April 27.
From a report received to-day, there is little doubt that the information communicated to the rebels in an editorial in Friday's issue of the Herald is being acted upon. The report alluded to is to the effect that a strong rebel force is concentrating, probably from Richmond and Yorktown, at a point about six miles south of Fredericksburg, for the purpose of disputing McDowell's advance across the Rappahannock.
The former report that the rebels have a force of 40,000 men at Gordonsville is still adhered to. This force will be increased by the arrival of the column under the flying rebel Jackson.
One of the Times correspondents, ‘"C. H. W.,"’ writes from the army now resting before. Fredericksburg, under date of the 25th inst., that two of our gunboats, in passing up the Rappahannock river that afternoon, were fired into from a rebel battery at Urbana, near the mouth of the river. They returned the fire and drove the rebels from their works. The rebel shots did no damage.
The same correspondent, writing from Falmouth, says:
‘ Three Union men from the other side of the river came to Gen. King's headquarters this afternoon, asking protection for their property. They are two brothers, named Morrison; the other man's name is Armstrong. They report that the rebels are carrying off all the Union men and laying waste their property. These men escaped by hiding in the woods two days and two nights. Of the Morrison family, there are eight, brothers and brothers in-law, and their families are now left without a male about the house. They report that the rebel pickets come into Fredericksburg every night, and that a wealthy man named Lacey, of Fredericksburg, who paid us a visit the other day, immediately on his return to the city dispatched a courier to the rebel army with the information he had gathered."
’ Another report is that the rebels were in force on Friday last at Jerrold's Mills, some fifteen miles from Fredericksburg, to the number of fourteen thousand. This is probably a portion, if not the whole, of the force alluded to in the first part of this dispatch, as being within six miles of Fredericksburg.
The Illinois troops in the Federal army.
The Chicago Tribune says:‘ The volunteer regiments of Illinois, embracing at first some 70,000 names, have sustained a loss of at least 10,000 in killed or disabled since recruiting was stopped. Adjutant-General Fuller, in his report to Gov. Yates last December, showed that while very few of our regiments had a maximum number, many more fell below the minimum, and that the average of all would not, at that time, exceed $80 men to a regiment. Since December the Illinois volunteers have seen their hardest service, at Pittsburg Landing, Fort Donelson, Pea Ridge, &c; and their previous deficiencies not having been made up, (under an order of the War Department to cause recruiting.) it now becomes a serious question what shall be done. There are regiments now up the Tennessee who are unable to muster more than 800 effective mon. We believe there are very few Illinois regiments in Halleck's column stronger than 700 men.--If it be not the policy of the General Government to permit these to be filled up — as there are thousands at home ready to fill them — our own State administration will have no alternative but to consolidate the fragments. The casualties among officers have more than kept pace with the depletion of the ranks, and it will be comparatively easy, therefore, to bring the regiments together, and at the same time make suitable rewards for valor by the promotion of line officers. We do not know that the State officers have decided upon anything as yet; but this is the condition of the things which they are to consider. The same may be said of Indiana, and, indeed, of all the States of the Northwest, whose troops have borne the shock of battle together."
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Intercourse of the British at Nassau with the Confederate States.
[From the Nassau Guardian] A great deal of curiosity has been expressed of late as to the extent of the commercial relations of Nassau with the Confederate States of America. To gratify this very general desire, we have carefully examined the official records of the Customs, and are enabled to present subjoined a complete list of all the arrivals from the Confederate ports since the commencement of the Federal blockade.It is not with the view of expatiating on the effectiveness of the latter measure that we have compiled this table, but to show to our merchants the importance of the trade that has recently grown up, and which, if properly fostered, may attain much wider proportions. The majority of the vessels mentioned below have again run the blockade into Confederate ports, but of these we need not present a record.
It is a notable circumstance that the arrivals from the Southern States are far more numerous than those from the North, with which our intercourse is free and unrestrained:
1861
June 7, schr. Parker, Smith, Fernandina, naval stores.
June 18, schr. W. H. Northrop, Silliman, Wilmington, lumber.
Aug. 7, schr. W. H. Northrop, Silliman, Wilmington, lumber.
Aug. 13, schr. Victoria, Certain, Wilmington, rice.
Sept. 4, schr. Mary Adeline, Carlin, Charleston, rice.
Sept. 9, schr. Hampton, Gladding, Savannah, rice.
Sept. 19, schr. Atkinson, Fitzinger, Georgetown, rice.
Sept. 20, schr. Victoria, Vincent, Beaufort, S. C., rice.
Oct. 2, schr. Carrie Sanford, Haggett, Wilmington, lumber.
Oct. 8, schr. Mary Louisa, Bettilini, Jacksonville, naval stores.
Oct. 12, schr British Empire, Parsons, Jacksonville, lumber.
Oct. 15, schr. J. W. Anderson, Black, Savannah, naval stores.
Oct. 15, schr. Adeline, Smith, Savannah, naval stores.
Nov. 4, schr. Lucy R. Waring, Smith, Savannah, naval stores.
Nov. 6, schr. John R. Wilder, Gardener, Savannah, rice.
Nov. 7, schr. H. F. Willing, Gill, Savannah, rice.
Nov. 7, schr. Gen. Ripley, Phillipe, Charleston, rice.
Nov. 8, sloop Mary, Baker, Savannah, rice.
Nov. 10, schr. Garibaldi, Bettilini, Jacksonville, naval stores.
Dec. 5, schr. Prince of Wales, Adair, Charleston, cotton.
Dec. 6, sloop Belle, Moore, Charleston, rice.
Dec. 7, steamship Elia Warley, Swasey, Charleston, cotton.
Dec. 10, steamship Theodora, Lockwood, Charleston, cotton.
1862
Jan. 16, schooner Garibaldi, Bettilini, Jacksonville, naval stores.
Jan. 18, steamship Kate, Lockwood, charleston, cotton.
Jan. 20, schooner Col. McRae, Perry, Georgetown, S. C, naval stores.
Jan. 29, schooner Arrow, Dennis, St. Johns, Fla., naval stores.
Feb. 6, schooner Alert, Howe, Charleston, cotton.
Feb. 8, schooner Louise, Byers, Charleston, rice and cotton.
Feb. 10, schooner Courier, Davis, Charleston, cotton.
Feb. 12, steamship Nelly, Moore, Charleston, cotton.
Feb. 13, schooner Sue, Smith, Charleston, naval stores.
Feb. 16, steamship Kate, Lockwood, Charleston, cotton.
Feb. 24, steamship Cecile, Peck, Charleston, cotton.
March 3, schooner Chase, Allen, Charleston, lumber.
March 3, steamship Elia Warley, Swasey, Charleston, cotton.
March 4, schooner Sir Robert Peel, Guage, Charleston, naval stores,
March 8, steamship Cecile, Peck, Charleston, cotton.
March 10, schooner Zaidee, Adair, Charleston, cotton and tobacco.
March 11, schooner British Empire, Parsons, Jacksonville, naval stores.
March 11, steamship Kate, Carlin, Charleston, cotton.
March 12, schooner Kate, Sabiston, Charleston, cotton and lumber.
March 17, schooner Laura, Ferklenberg, Charleston, cotton and lumber.
March 17, schooner Carrie Sanford, Haggett, St. Johns, Fla., naval stores.
March 17, sloop Coquette, Moore, Charleston, cotton.
March 22, schooner Argyle, Davis, Charleston, cotton and naval stores.
March 27, schr. Victoria, Fowler, St. Johns, Fla., naval stores.
March 27, schr. Annie Deans, Morse, Fernandina, naval stores.
March 27th, steamship Nashville, Gooding, Georgetown, S. C., ballast.
April 2, schr. Pride, Davis, Georgetown, S. C., cotton.
April 5, steamship Economist, Burdge, Charleston, cotton.
April 5, schr. Rutherford, Green, Charleston, cotton.
April 7, schr. Sarah Russell, Charleston, cotton.
April 7, schr. Acorn, Habenicht, Charleston, cotton.
April 8, schr. Louisa, Tulle, Charleston, cotton.
April 8, schr. Chase, Habenicht, Charleston, cotton.
April 9, schr. Elizabeth Rumley, Charleston, cotton.
April 10, steamship Cecile, Carling, Charleston, cotton.
Total, 58, of which 85 since 1st January.
Reinforcements wanted on the South Carolina coast.
A correspondent of a Northern paper, writing from Hilton Head, April 21st, says:‘ It looks now as though the moral calm were destined to a long continuance. However eager we may be to possess Savannah, and Charleston and Fort Sumter, it must be contested that we lack the needful power to insure these triumphs. The great mistake committed by Gen. Sherman, of scattering his force amongst the unimportant islands and towns of the coast, and permitting the enemy to fortify and concentrate before he acted, is bearing fruit which his successor is compelled to gather. To concentrate these troops now is to pursue a policy which must dissatisfy the country, encourage the rebels, and expose the Union inhabitants to intolerable hardships. I has been done to some extent under the pressure of necessity, and the consequences are instant and fearful. We know how it worked at Jacksonville; how every Union family that could followed the troops when withdrawn, sacrificing the most of their property to rebel vengeance; and how those that could not leave suffered in consequence all the outrages that could be inflicted by semi savages, inflamed by their own vindictive passion, beyond the control of reason, pity, or fear. A general withdrawal of troops from points now occupied cannot be made except in the face of a necessity for defending the base of operations itself against attack.
But reinforcements have been promised by the Government? Yes; but we know how uncertain are such promises. The Government has always been charged with absorbing every possible regiment into the force in Eastern Virginia; and now that force in Eastern Virginia; and now that that force is in motion, it is hardly likely that any draft will be made upon it for us. The troops in the West have their hands full, so long as our Generals manage to meet the enemy with only equal, or more often inferior numbers to their own. So it seems as though General Hunter's chance for help is poor. If he is made to wait till Halleck has utterly destroyed the army of Beauregard and Polk, and McClellan has annihilated that of Joe Johnston, he will wait perforce till the war is over.
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What is said of the Texas Rangers.
A correspondent of the New Orleans Delta (April 18) gives the following graphic description of the part which the Texas Rangers took in the great battle of Shiloh:I will promise by stating that on the 4th and 5th of April the regiment was stationed beyond Monterey, to the left and north of Owl Creek, which skirted the enemy's encampments on the right. On the 4th they scouted unceasingly, and sixty rangers led by Col Wharton, chased for several miles, and came near capturing, a hundred Federal dragoons who were sent out to reconnoiter.
On Saturday they scouted by regiment the flankers, who were just in advance main body, having crossed to the Owl Creek, and approached the camp, fell into an ambuscade prepared for the reception of the . Fortunately "nobody was though such of us as were in front of some hasty riding from that ‘"feats of noble horsemanship have' watched the world,"’ and heart music of Minnie balls in unpleasant as they hurtled overhead.
On Saturday night the regiment heavily in the swamps, and about clock Sunday morning heard win that made the ‘"welkin ring"’ the der to ‘"forward over the bridge of into Federal camps."’
They mounted in hot haste, and to engage in the great battle of Shiloh
By nine o'clock they were in the the tents which a proud and insole lately occupied, and from that Monday night, nay, until Tuesday and even after that, this gallant numbering at any time over four and fifty men, rendered in a variety and upon different parts of the of the most valuable character, the part of which I saw and was engaged.
They made several desperate cha frequently dismounted to skirmish shot-guns and six-shooters — their but in their hands terrible weapon
To illustrate what was required of what they accomplished, I will or three incidents of that part of the which they were directly engaged, are selected from among many other character.
At one time the enemy occupy heavy force of artillery and infantry wooded hill which our troops in front. For the purpose of the enemy, whilst our infantry the attack, the Rangers were ordered lop down a ravine which skirted the hill, and then to form in an the enemy's left and charge his
A way they went, halter skelter, and stumps, across the raving and old field, where they formed in the they could, under a heavy fire, with fearful speed to the top of the charging their guns and six-shooter stance of ten to twenty steps against of Yankees who were concealed and trees and a high fence which In fact, many of them crossed and penetrated into the very enemy. After the Rangers had fell back under a withering stormed intending to form and charge again fore they could do this our infantry the diversion, had stormed the their wild shouts proclaimed to enemy had stampeded. Here alone the lost in killed and wounded nearly by their number, including the gallant Terry, (mortally wounded, and since youngest brother of the lamented who raised and first commander He had just joined the in his eager, ardent zeal to defend try's soil and to avenge his brother ly fate, he rushed coolly, but imp to the thickest of the fray, and heart's best blood to sanctify a had enlisted his warmest devotion.
Here, also, Col. Wharton was Woris had two horses shot under him, never left the field until Tuesday
Again, the same (Sunday) ever the companies dismounted to skirt alone and unsupported, they charter superior body of the enemy, drover their battery and the woods in had sought shelter, and pressed this that they fled in the wildcat confusing reserves, losing, it is estimated, number.
Once more, one of our batteries, by a large force of the enemy, was on the right by a Louisiana regiment Ringers were ordered to support left. They quickly dismounted it is double-quicked it to the thick plunging in, literally met ‘"face to face,"’ and every shot-gun shooter discharged by them in that a messenger of death that doubles a wall of stricken ones to arise front Northern household
It was here that Gen. Beauregard mon report) seized the flag of the regiment, and charged with the very thickest of the fire. The sk the Rangers and the charge of that enabled the artillery to get out of and probably saved the battery.
On Sunday night the Rangers held of the enemy's camps near the river remained there until they were co evacuate it under a shower of short from the gunboats.
On Monday night, also, they held the enemy's camps, and found the rear guard of the whole army rem night mounted or with bridle in h
On Tuesday morning, after the bi were engaged in destroying such of tired tents and stores as we had to remove, and also in protecting the army, and during the afternoon day performed one of these dashing feats that have made their reputation world wide.
Several companies, under command Major, Thomas Harrison, discovered body of Federal cavalry, supported ment of infantry. The Rangers hundred in number, with forty men commands of Forrest and Wire Ads ed on one side of an old field, and genuine Texas war whoop, dashed against the enemy's columns. The did not await the onset, but fled, and charged right through their regiment infantry, delivering their fire right and half pistol shot distance, killing hundred of the enemy and capturing odd prisoners, whom they sent into der a guard of their own men.
It would be invidious to mention where all did well, and I will only Our gallant Colonel, John A. proved himself to be the ‘"right right place."’ and one ‘"gritty"’ Tom Harrison, of Waco, shoed h a soldier from his ‘"boot soles up"’
Unfortunately our Lieut. Colonel Walker, was disabled by a wound the Woodsonville fight, and could participate in the battle of Shiloh.
In fact, sirs, the Texas Rangers two days of the battle, were constant fire from shot and shell, and did as gallant soldiers, their great that the country was so densely out up with ravines that no fair given them to ‘"spread themselves"’ could, and have done, if the battle been located in the beautiful and of their beloved Texas.
Before the battle in picketing and and affording valuable information, ing the battle performing every soldier, and after the battle in prove rear of the army, the Texas Ranger fresh laurels, and sustained to the tent their wall earned, well deserved nation as brave, dashing, chivalrous men--and you may rest assured the occasion presents itself, that ‘"bearded like the pard,"’ will maintain country's right, ‘"even at the month."’
They lost many noble spirits two days of that terrible battle; but for those who have fallen are the solemn, heaven-born thought, man.
‘"Died in vain on his country's war Or within the shadow of her share"’
