The Weekly Telegraph (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 49, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 19, 1862 Page: 2 of 2
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m, trawling ageat toi Central and Northern
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fg- W publish to-day, Baanregard'a oHclal report
af th. tattle of J£anas«s. to tlw exclusion of i grat
TKtstr of matter we ahoold otherwise h«ve pnb-
llid d, bell«*tEg this report to be the most Inter* V
lor 5i«tier with which we can fill osr columns.
CITY COUNCIL
The City Council, determined to carry oat a
ayittem of thorough drainage and repairs or the
street* of the city, and alio determined to re-es-
tablish the fioanc&l character of the city, has as-
sessed a tax of one-half of one per cent, for the
jfea? 1£62. Heretofore the taxes hare not yielded
a revenue sufficient for the purpose, and the con-
sequence has been, that oar streets have been
sadly neglected,tfocr bridges are going to rain,
^and the public improvements of the city, since
the abolition of the wharfage tax,have been almost
entirely discontinued.
We belive.the course taken by the City Council
was the only one that was left, and while taxa*
tiea may seen to bea/ heavily upon os, jet,
teat property owners generally confess l bat heavy
taxes, and no de£ts, are much better than light
taxes and an accumulation of bonds, by means of
vfeieh, property has to pay three dollars for every
one dollar's worth of benefit received.
In view of the large Increase in onr population
caused by the war, and especially of the large num-
ber of soldier* that must be either stationed here or
constantly passing through, It will be seen that the
' utmost attention must bejpald io the hygiene of the
city. It is Indeed a matter of the most pressing impor-
tance that the city should be thoroughly cleansed at
■ once,before the warm weather sets in,and thatevery
obstruction to the drainage of every foot of the sur-
face of the city should be-now removed.
If this matser is deferred till hot weather sets in
nothing can be done. The experience of 1S9 will, we
presume, always prevent the movement of the soil
of our streets in midsummer again. Street improve-
ments that yacr continued nn' & the epidemic broke
out ii August, and three hundred of our citizens died
in consequence. U
But how. In this nastier, to get the benefit of the
taxes, which wis not be generally collected tin int
the summer, has been the question, and after mature
deliberation, the Council jus determined to issue
Warrants on the Treasurer, receivable for taxes, in
denominations of one, three, fHfc end ten dollars, to
the amount of VGQCG, and p«y them out to the labor-
ers on the streets and other creditors of the city.
The city taxes tor this yesr will amount to about
&5,CtiO. These warrants will, undoubtedly, be used
for change notes in business transactions between our
people. They will not, however, go Into the country,
nor via their circulation be above $10,600. As last
as they are paid in *ortaxes or dues to the city, they
will be cancelled and retired. They will be Issued by
the Mayor and Secretary and registered by the Chair-
man of the Finance Committee. Three safer men
oould not be fcund, for Use people have the utmost
confidence in their integrity.
These warrant! and not ahinnlas ters, though It is
to he hoped they will take the place to a certain ex-
tent of the stuff now flooding our city. They afford
patriotic citlaeus an opportunity to help tbe city in a
very important matter. They are a very safe 1st tie,
"* the taxes are bound to be paid, and if the taxes
V are not paid in these warrants, the warrant* them-
§*ive will draw the first money that comes in.
THB SICK. SOLDUBS.
The sick soldiers in tbe hospital in this city are
i HOTOIu L .
'tills!**-
\ made the means of saving val-
f Wt trust these benevolent ladies will
r good work.
f§*j* e would like to largest t the people of
Houston tilt their city It somewhat well noted for
rboipteQsy.fts^tbatu opportanity is aow
presented In which the; ought even to oat do
| Mttsnselres In thU natter.
When the Bmcb City Oosrds were soffering <o
aaeh hx Virginia, the people there opened their
door*, took the men in ud naraed them u their
ow children. C*n we not do the same ?
i not is .11 probability be the mean, of
taring fee ilre, of men who an on own brethren,
here in arms for oar defense* If they were takes
wbes ate*, or at lea, t .hen eonr&lescent to the
SOBCI of the people ud eared for a> sick men
ahsald be ?
We sicipiy drop dais hint, feeing rare that bat a
hint will be wanted to accomplish the object de<
TEX A* I> THE WAK.
aniele she other tUf la reply to as nn-
by the jatchmoad correspond-
! Mertuij regardlne the nnmber
I onr State has hi the war. We pot the snot-
a*. at at 33,000. £1do then we have been advised
I secrre. that onr estimate w« uulef the
The troops on the boot, at Austin, ts being
10 nglmenti o( Infantry, 17 regiments
r, 1 battallo. of arUllery, 7 companies of
SJadependent companies of ar-
itJJiO men, and the majority oi
the war. Tbe whole amount
•don to far&fch. has been
lave only been entered a? a re-
r^ordlngly tarnished for active
double the number she has
& en for, and tfc "officer iroca Texav who
>ur people ware backward In furnithlag
convicted of outrageous slander on tbe
of our people. Considerably more than
f onr voting population U in the active
The other two-thirds; will go when they are.
mrriA.
The new Militia Law bciue about to come Into oper-
ation, we offer a few remarks suggestive of prompt
action and the necessity of making the militia an
efficient arm for active service whenever It shall be
catted tidob.
No right rthlnkiDg man will be disposed to criticize
the militia law, nor to call into question the wisdom
of onr legislators. It is the law, and appeals to the
heart of every patriot; this should be sufficient to
satisfy every reasonable man. Is he a patriot who in
times like these would cavil,because forsootn.the law
does not meet his peculiar ideas ? Is be a patriot
who would stand aloof, and wlthold his services,
simply because there may chanc* to be a hole through
which he may escape Its requirements? Any man
who draws back from active co-operatioo, or in any
manuer attempts to frustrate the operation of the
mliltla law. Is guilty of weaken ng the arm of his
country to resist the tyrant, and of his State to drive
back the Invader. Such a msn lacks but the oppor-
tunity to follow In Arnold's footsteps. A lukewarm
citizen will destroy the usefulness of many good men
and true.
It is a duty every man owes to his country, In the
hour of danger, to gird on hi3 armor and prepare
himself to oppose the enemy. A bale, hearty man, of
■M) to 50 years, as a general rule, makes a good mliltla
soldier; woat he lacks In physical strength Is more
than made up In his maturer judgment and steadier
habits.
The patriot will not take advantage of the law
that exempts him from military duty on account of
age. When blessed with health and strer.glh, it is
sufficient for him to know that his country requires
his services; and; if needs be, he mounts the
breach, and manfully confronts the foe. Is he a
patriot, who does not take interest in this struggle
to qualify himself for military duty ; nor spare to
his employees a few hours weekly, from the desk*
counter, or work-shop, for this purpose'/ What
has been the result of the meeting held in Hous-
ton a few weeks ego, to take into consideration
this very question of military duty t How many
men did that effort add to the C. S. A.; how many
to the only volunteer company in the city ? Has
the chivalry of Houston died out 7 If old ^rris
is to continue, worthy the position claimed for her,
in regard to the number of her sons now in the
field, let us have evidence of it, by the prompt,
willing and united action of those that are left be-
hind. Other Counties will emulate her noble ex-
ample; and Texians will not be caught, unprepared,
when the thunder of the enemy's ennnon announces
thefattempt of the invaders to desecrate Texas
soil.
There are many considerations which demand
our earnest attention, if the militia is to be of any
practical utility in our struggle for independence.
The most important perhaps are competent officers,
and a fair proficienoy of the troops in company
and battalion drill. It will generally, if not al-
ways be found that, the success of troops in the
hour of trial will be in proportion to the skill of
the officers, and the discipline of their commands.
It may be accepted * s an undeniable truth that
without these requisites, the militia will be little
better than an armed rabble. No competent officer
would risk his reputation, and far less the lives of
his men,by bringing into action in a fair fight an
undisciplined force, against disciplined troops.
There is nothing risked in affirming that, one hun-
dred disciplined men, will hold their ground
against five hundred who are not. Some may ques-
tion this assertion. They think they can fight well
ennugh on "their own hook," and scout the idea
of'discipline. This is a great'error, and keeps
many stout hearts, and strong arms from the ranks.
The greatest/General that ever lived, could never
have covered himself and the "old French Guard1'
with his glory, if his officers had beon incompe-
tent orhis army nndisciplined.
A corresponpeot of the •'Telegraph'"—T. l>. A. W.
thus wr ites in September last:
"'Texians. perhaps, as a people, have not their supe-
riors If their equals, upon the globe, in pcibt of no-
bl* daring and chivalrous deeds; ^ach man reckons
within himself a host and lesder—"'that on* can chase
a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight." 8elf-
reiiant. bold, determined : of all peonle, toey stand
most in need ot efficient drill and dicipliue, and with
th« force toat Texas can bring upon the field, com-
posed of such mat#rial, properly officered and dici-
plined, she could hold the minions that Lincoln could
end against us at bay. If not diive them from our
soil."
The necessity of electing competent officers is a self-
evident truth. Is Is every militiaman's duty to make
it his personal business to raise such only to com-
mand. It is not the.actof the patriot to accept an-
offlce of such vast importance, unless he feels him
self equal to the ta*k; and far leas, if an ihcompetent
aspirent to military dignity uses artifice to gain his
election, we require a test of the fitness of every ap-
plicant we elect to the lowest office in the gift of the
peop^. It is of less Importance to examine the mlir
tarycepabity of tbe officers, into whose hands we
entrust In no small degree, not only our live-, but our
success In th Is war. One false step, or one bungling
movement on the battle field may rob brave men of
the victory, and lacrifice the lives of many a hero in
tbecanks. Let us have officers, who, knowicg their
duty, will perform It—men who know more of mili-
tary affiairs theu those they are to Instruct. In a
reasonable time, our State troops. In conjunction
with the Confederate, will be In a position to bid de-
fiance to any force that our enemies dare to send
against us at any point.
tbe battle of luaivassas.
REPORT OF GENERAL BEAUREGARD.
Hcsdquartkbs 1st Uoeps Army ok the Potomac, t
Maxaksas. August 26, 1661. \
General:
*******
Th* War Department bavin* been Informed by me.
by telegraph, on the 17rh of July, of the movement of
Gen. McDowell—Geo. Johnston was Immediate]; or-
dered to torm a junction of his Armv Corps with
mine, Htiould the movement in his judgment be
deemed advisable. Geo. Holmes was also directed to
pnsh forward with two regiments, a battery, and one
company of cavalry.
In view of these propositions, approaching rein-
forcements modifying my p| n of operation*, so far as
to determine on attacking the enemy at Centrev'.lie
as soon as I should hear oi the near approach oi the
two reinforcing columns, I stmt one of my aid*.Col.
t-hi&holai. of South Carolina, to meet and communi-
cate mv tdans to Gen. John>fon, and my wi>h that
one portion of his force should march by the wav
oy A'die. and take the enemy on hiaright flank and In
reverse at Centrevllle. Difficulties, however, of ar.
insuperable character in connection with means of
transportation, and the marching condition of his
troops, made this impracticable, an^ It was deter-
mined our forces should be united within the lines of
Bull Bun, and thence advance to the attack of th**
enemy.
Gen. Johnston arrived here about noon on tbe 20th
July, and being my senior in rank, he necessarily as-
sumed command of all tbe forces of :he Confederate
States then concentrating at this point. Made ac-
quainted with my plan of operations and dispositions
to meer the enemy—hexave them his entire approval
and generously directed their execution under my
command.
In consequence of tbe untoward detention, how-
ever, of some (5,000) live thousand of Gen. John-
ston's Army Corps, resulting from the inadequate
companies were engaged, and Into which he also
threw 'tve 2d A fierce and destructive
conflict now ensued—the fire was withering on both
sides, while the enemy swept our short thin lines
with their numerous artl!l *ry, which acco'diug to
their official reports, at this time con>lsted of at least
ten rl lie guns and tour howitzer^. Koran hour did
these >tout hearted n en of the blended command of
Bee. Evans and Barlow, breast an unintermittlng
battle storm, animated snr-'y by something more
than the ordinary courage of even the bravest men
under hre; It must have been, indeed, tbe inspira-
tion of the caut-e and consciousness «d the great stake
at bsue, which thus nerved and animated one and
all, to stau'l una wed and unshr inking in such r-xtrem
lty. Two Federal brigades of Heitzelman's Division"
were, now brought into action, led by Kickett's
superb light, battery of six 10-pouudei riile gnus,
wk ich, -posted on an enlmlnence "to the right of
the Sucftey Roarf. opened fire on lmbod'-ns bat-
tery—about this time Increased by two ride nieces
of the Washington Artillery, under Lteut. Richard-
son, and already the mark of two batteries, which
divided their fire with Imboden, nnd two guns, un-
der Lieu la. David-on and Lett witch, ot Latham's
battery, posted as .before mentioned.
At this rime, confronting the enemy, we had but.
Evans's eleven companies and two guns. Bee's and
Bartow's four regiments, the two eompanies 11th
Mississippi, urder Lieut. Col. Llddell, and the six
nieces und r Imboden and Richardson. Tbe enemy
had two divisions of tour strong brigades, including
seventeen companies of regular Infantry, cavalry and
artillery, four companies of marines, and twenty
pieces of artillery.* Against this odds, scarcely credi-
ble cur advance position was still fora while maintain-
ed, and the enemy's ranks constantly broken and
shattered under the scorching fire of onr men: hut
rresh regiments of Federalists came upon the field,
Sherman's and Keys'* brigades of Tylers division,
as is stated «n their reports, numbering over 6000 bav-
onets, which had found a passage across the run
about 8C0 yards above the Stone Bridge, threat-
ened our right.
Heavy losses had now been sustained on our side.
.. r r*. —«-- - both in numbers aod in the personal worth of the
and hliperfet means of importation for .0^roai y ,ain Tne 8th Georgia Eeslment had snrtered heav-
troops at the disposition of the Manassa.-Gap Kill- hei.ic exoo-«ed *«fit toot an.! maintain#*! Its nosi-
Toad, it became necessary on tbe morning of the 21st, t !'/• D*lup Sxp®5eaa.Jiit toofc and maintained Its post
before daylight, to modify the plan accepted to suit
the contirgencv of an Immediate attack on our lines
by the main force of the enemy, then plainly at
hand.
The enemy's fotces. reported by their best Informed
journals to be 55,0C0 strong, I had learned from relia-
ble sources, on the night of the 20th. were being con-
centrated in and around Centrevllle, and along tbe
Warrington Turnpike road to Bull Ron. near which
our respective pickets were in immediate proximity.
This fact, with the conviction that, after his signal
discomfiture on the 18th of July, before Blackburn's
Ford—the centre of my lines—be would not renew
the attack In that quarter. Induced me at once to look
for an attempt on my left Hank, resting on the Stone
Bridge, which was bnt weakly guarded by men, as
well as but slightly provided with artificial defensive
appliances and artillery.
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HO.Hi: MANUFACTURE.
"The importance of the Hew Orleans and
will be realized in an
■ it to considered that Tuai i*
capable ot poiaulat, witii her prcaent population
two million, at barrel, f Bear per annum, and she
can have a half a million of It in market every year
from aow wLoat before the lit of Aagiiet. Our
whea* kmc is in the Diddle of May. Let tmt
the Central road be completed a hondred miles
rorther, and the Kew Orlean, oonnecticn made, and
we will feed the city of New Orleam and «everal
more ritiea qu3 u large, with the beat flour in the
wwid. Suppose half a million of barrel, only paw
*"«* thia road, at CI per barrel, the revenue of the
road from thi tooree atone wfll be •580,000.
io* A friend ha* presented u «Hti one of the
relic, of old time,, a North Carolina State ihin-
plaeter, dated 177g. It vaa for one Spanidi milled
dollar. It a*> death to eooaterfeil it, and It bore
for a motto, Liberty and cote the reward af a rir
mow reel,lance. It waa printed on er Inferior
bron paper, aad theipecimen before as eeidentl,
•as new much used for earrrocy or It would
hare beca worn oat.
Hocrron, Feb. .—The report prevailing ia
Hoajton this mjrnioj, of the takinf of San Loaii
I'laad Is as tuas 1 a ml,take. There wai ,oae
flriaj about nine mile* down tbe Island yesterday
ereaisf, which proved to be a schooner c leaning
Ks faas. This is tbe cause of the report.
Mf 111 oar article se Friday regarding the War
Tax, We were mada to say by a printer', blunder,
that merchants would have to make np their scheti
alas of saasts fern* 1st of Oetober. 1MB. It should
have been lit at October. 18(1. Mistake* will some-
times occur, but UU I* f«cut!*r(y£anB05!jift, because
it to llable to mislead tbe reader.
Oct. Van Porn', Bret general order aaoounces
the following staff offlc*.'*: Hp J. If. L. Csbell, Chief
<taamrma ter, MaJ. A. M. Haskell, inspector Sen.:
M J. 2. n. Kerworth. Chief of Subsistence; Capt. *
S. K. Beail, A. 4.8 ; iurjBon 3. D. Gaeosam. Medi-
cs! Slrector, and Ut Lieut, a gsntvsn, Atcbie-Camp.
«r* w* ackaowleda* tear dollars for tbe Bosplta
load from Hiss Collins wo r.6, of Casey, Matagorda
County, being proceeds of sale of a pair ol blankets
sant with the contribution of fl«,i'., schncwiedge l
We learn that Mr. 3. Geiselman, one of the meet en-
terprlsing of our citizens, aod possessed of ample
means to Insure success, has gone Into the tanning
business near this city. He will run his tannery by
steam power, and expects to put It In operation in a
week or two. He la now getting his buildings, vats,
etc , ready, and expects to be able to tan ten thous-
and bides per year. He will make sole leather, upper
leather and harness leather. •
Mr. Frank F*bJ. another enterprising Houston
merchant, has closed out bis business, and is now
putting up a soap and candle factory. Intending to go
into the business on a scale commensurate with the
demand. He will be able to furnlih candles equal to
the best star candles, and soap of the best quality, at
prices which will render the Importatlan of thoee
articlesunnecessa y when the blockade it> raised.
Dr. W, H. Eliot, druggist of this cltv, besides put-
ting up tbe best adapted medicines to the diseases of
thia climate: medicines which came Into almost uni-
versal use, even against tbe patent medicines of the
North, and wbtch are now the only medicines Inquired
f r In many disease?, has fitted up machinery, etc.,
for tbe manufacture of prlntei'a Ink, of which he has
furr Uhed us some of most excellent quality.
There are now two largo flouring mills, besides
several corn mlfs In the city. These flouring mills
turn out flour unsurpassed by any ever t rought here.
They are owned respectively by Robt. Lcckart and
John Kennedy.
There are two excellent iron and brass foundries,
at which steam eng'nes and machinery of all kinds U
turned out at short notice. Alex. McUoweo. Esq.,
owns one anl Stanley, Cushman k Johnson the
other.
Without numerating all the other branches of do*
mestic industry, we will only add that there are four
of the best printing offices in the State now con-
stantly running here, two having been added re-
cently, to-wit: those of the Galveston News and the
Galveston Civilian. The latter is at thia time en:
gaged in printing about two hundred and fifty thou-
sand treasury warranta for the State, and from the
well known taste of the proprietor we feel sure that
something elegant willi)® turned out for the public
use. The News we are informed is doing a large
amount of work, and of course in its usual good
style. The printing business alone gifea employ-
ment to about forty men in this city. Our own office
supports eleven families besides several employees
who have no families, embracing in all between fifty
and sixty persons.
We hear of other establishments for tbe manufac-
ture of various articles of common use now " on the
stocks," and hope their permanent establishment
will ere long succeed. We must have home manu-
factures to Secnre home independence. Let the
capitalists of onr eity show their accustomed fore-
sight by taking the lead in them.
view-of these palpable milllarv conditions, by
half-past four a. M. on the 21st ot" July, I had prepared
and dispatched orders, directing the whole of the
Confederate forces within the Jines of Bull Ruu. In-
cluding the brigades and resimepts of Gen. .Johnston,
which had arrived at that time, to be held in readi-
ness to march at a moment's notice.
At that hour tb* following was the disposition of
oar force.-/.
Swell's .Brigade, constituted as on the 18fh of July
remained In position at Union Mills Ford, its lelt ex-
tending along Bull Run In tbe direction ot McLean's
Ford, and supported by Holmes' Brigade, 2d Tennes-
see and 1st Arkansas regiments a short distance to the
rear—that Is, at and near Camp Wiafall.
D. R. Jones' Brigade—from .Swell's left, in front of
McLean's Ford, and along the stream to Longstreet's
position—it was unchanged in organization, and was
supported by Early's Brigade—also unchanged-
placed behind a tblcket of young pines, a short dis-
tance in the rear of McLean's tord.
Longstreet^BripaJeheld Its former ground at B'ack-
Bj*W* acknowledge lha receipt ofseventy-
1 doBsrs, the proceeds of Tibl«aai risen by
" i «f Loekhart, for th* benefit of
^ 0
Heirv was a ftnaH, open Fort, aounUng
JbftDotistaon Is In a more comtnand-
inf JfctltiOD. and la believed to be inpregnable.
efficjeot deputy
~ for Sheriff
in** i. r. Irta&am, the efici,
•bmrSf af Santa Monty, is a candidal
Mr. Jas. Burks of this city,
of umbrella china trees, of size suit*,
for sal* at hi* book iters. Persons
tree will do well to pur-
i'nnch oa the Federals.
Tbe following from the London Punch Is as ilch as
anything ever printed la that paper. The Federal
United Slates furnishes Punch a splendid target for
his wit:
T7*e American Exhibition.—Mr. Punch begs to say
that, in the event of the Federals declining to send
contributions to the Exhibition, the tpace now ap-
pr«priaud to such articles will be supplied through
tbe exertions of gentiemen connected with onr naval
and military service, and t hat .among the lnvolantaiy
contributions from the North wili be the following
article-:
1. The Falls of Niagara. (American portion,) by the
kind p'Siuiahlon of the Canadian anthorltle?, and to
be returned when done w>th.
2. The Amerlctn Fagle.—Tbe Interesting artmal
whl be provided with a lar#e supply of its natural
food, namely, Ban^um, to be obtained from tbe offices
of the New York papem.
3. 3everai bottle*of Hail Columbia,.
4. Cu'lfK-i assortment of Stumps, on which patri-
otic oi atory ha.-i been delivered, tor ?ome vears, with
the bat pv consequences now before tbe world-
4. tfever<d platform*, forming a further portion of
the Mump n; cbioer.v.
# The WKUt ffo**;.—Name of "Lincoln"' on the
bra«s plate.
7. Tne coat In wblrh Mr. James Gordon Bennett,
editor of fhe New YoTk Herald, was whipped by
Kl-aaer P.Growky.
S The coat In which Mr. James Gordon Bennett,
editor cfihe New York Herald, was ccwblded by
PhLn*aa X. Bsaier.
9. The coat in which Mr. James Gordon Bennett,
editor of the New Toi k Herald, waa thraihed fcy Ebe-
nez r V. W hopple.
10. A collection of nineteen whips which Mr.
Jamei Gordon Bennett, editor of the New York
Herald, was at various times flogged by nineteen
slandered citizens.
U. The boots with which Mr. James Gordon Ben-
nett, editor of the New York Herald, was kicked by
Epaminondas J. Buffer.
12. Six pairs of highlows. and five pairs of shoes,
with which eleven other slandered citizens havp, at
various times, annotated the editorial labors of Mr.
Jamea Gordon Bennett, editor of the New York
Herald.
12. Remains of the brandy smaoh in whieh Mr.
Seward pledged bimeelf to insult England on the
earliest opportunity, and the glasses from whieh bis
sixteen previous brandy smashes had been imbibed
by that statesman.
14. Flags of the Southern Confederacy, captured
by the armies of the North. (Promised conditionally
only, in tbe event of such flags being discoverable.)
15. The Declaration of Independence. To be
reverently preserved, aod returned to th* North
when a statesman, worthy to fill the place of George
lYsahington. shall demand it.
16. Specimens of Jerusalem snakes, ringtailed
roarers, regular opossums, and other purioaities of
American natural history.
17. A b'hoy. It will be interesting to compare
this animal with hia superior, but a member of the j
genns, the gorilla.
IS Specimens of American editorial writings.
(Disinfecting fluid will be found in the same case,
and labelled " Common sense.") J
19. Secret treaty for the partition of Englandjpe-
tween tho Enperor of Russia, Mr. Seward, sn<r the
Slag of the Cannibal Islands.
20. Mr. Brigbam Young, the latest ally of the
North, and model of his seraglio.
21. The original book of Mormon, as about the
only original work which America hag produced
•ince Knickerbocker's History.
„ . . 4th,
Harper's 5 h, Allen's 2d, the 27th, Lieut. Col. EchollN.
and the 33d, Cumming's Virginia regiments, 2,011
strong, which were posted behind the skirting pines,
to tbe rear of Blackburn's and Mitchell's Ford, and in
the rear of this support was, also, Barkadale's 13th
regiment Mississippi Volunteers, which had lately
arrived from Lynchturg.
Along the edge of a pine thicket. In rear of. and
e iuisdltant from McLean's and Blackbnru'a Ford?,
ready to support either position, I bad also placed all
of Bee's ana Bartow's brigades that had arrived,
namely, two comnanies of the llth Missis*ippi, Lieut.
Col. Llddell; the 3d Mississippi. Col. Faulkner, and 'he
—Alabama, with the 7tb and 8th (Jeor?ia regiments,
Col. Gartreil and Lieut. Col. Gardner—in all 2732 bay-
onets.
Bonham's Brigade, as before, held Mitchell'* Fcrd
its right near longstreet's left, its left extending in
the direction of Cocke's right. It waa organized as at
the end of the ISth of July, with Jackson's Brigade, as
before sahi.ss a support.
Cocke's Brigade, increased by seven companies of
the 8th, Hucton's three companies of the 49th, Smith ?s
Virginia regiments, two compan es of cavalrv. and a
battery under Fogers of four 6-pounders. occupied the
line In front and rear of Bull Kun. extending from the
direction of Bontianvs leil and guarding Island, Ball's
and Lewis's Ford?, to the right of .Evans's dem!-Bris-
ade near the Stone Bridge, also under Gen. Cocke's
command.
The latter held the Stone Bridge : and its left covered
a farm ford, about one mile above the bridge."
Stuart's cavalry, fome three hundred men of the
army of the Shenandoah, guarded the level eronnd
extending in rear from Bonbam's left to Cock A
right.
Two companies of Radford's cavalry were held in
reserve a short distance n rear ot Mitchell's Ford, his
left extending In the direction of Stuart's right.
Col. Pendleton's reserve battery of eight pieces was
temporarily placed In rear of Bonham's extreme left.
Major Walton's reserve battery of five guns was In
position on McLean's farm. In a piece of woods In rear
of Bee's right.
Hamptons Legion of six companies ot lnfantrv, six
hundred strong, having arrived that morning by the
cars from Richmond, was subsequently, as soon as H.
arrived, ordered forward to a position In Immediate
vicinity of the Lewla^iou^e, as a support for any troops
engaged In that quarter.
The effective fo-ce of ail arms of the army of tbe
Potomac on that ever tful morning. Including tbe gar-
rison of Camp Pickens, did not exceed 21,K33and29
guns.
Tbe army of the Shenandoah, ready for action on
tbe field, may be aet at 6000 men and aikguns.*
The brigade of Gen. Holmes mustered about 12&J
bayonets, six gnus and a company of cavalry about 90
strnne.
Informed at 5 at 5:30 a. by Coi. Evans, that
the enemy had deployed some twelve hundred
ment with several pieces of artillery in hit imme-
diate front, I at once ordered him, as aiso6en.
Cocke, if attacked, to maintain their position to
the last extremity.
In my opinion the most effective method of re
lieving that flank was by a rapid, determined at-
tack with my right wing and centre on the enemy's
flank and rear at Centreville, with due precau*
tions against the advance of his reserves from the
direction of Washington. By such a movement I
confidently [expected to achieve a eomplete vic-
tory for my country by 12 M.
These new dispositions were submitted to Gen.
Johnston, who fully approved them, and the or-
ders for their immediate execution were at once
istned.
Brig. Gen. E well was directed to begin the
movement, to be followed and supported succes-
sively by Gens. D. R. Jones, Longstreet and Bon-
ham respectively, supported their several appoint-
ed reserves.
The cavalry under Stnart a id Bradford were to
be held-in hand, subject to the future orders and
ready lor emnioyment as might be required by the
exigencief of the battle.
About 8:30 a. m.. Gen. Johnson and myself
transferred our headquaters to a central posi-
tion about half a mile in rear of Mitchell's Ford,
whence we might watch the course of events.
Previously, as early as 5:30,the Federalists in.
front of Evans's position—Stone Bridge—had
opened with a large 30.poander Parrot rifle gun,
and thirty minutea later, with a moderate, appa-
rently tentative, fire from a battery of rifle pieces,
directed first in front at Evans's, and then in tbe
direction of Cocke's posiion, but without draw-
ing a return fire and diseovery of our positions,
chiefly because in that quarter we had nothing
but eight 6*pounder pieces , which could not reach
the distant enemy.
As the Federalists had advanced withfan ex-
tended line of skirmishers in front of Evans, that
officer promptly threw forward the two flank com-
panies of the 4th 8outh Corolins regiment and one
company of Wheal's Louisiana bat-alion, deploy-
ed ae skirmishers, to cover his imall front. An
occasional scattering fire resulted, and thus the
two armies in that quarter remained for more than
an hour.^while the main body of the enemy was
marching its dubious way through the Big Forest
to take our forces in flank and rear.
By 8:20 a. *., Co!. Evans having become satis-
fied of the counterfeit character of the movement
on his front, and persuaded of an attempt to turn
his left flank, .decided to change his position to
meet the enemy, and tor this purpose immediately
put in motion to his left and rear six companies
of Sloan's 4th Sooth Carolina regiment. Wheat's
Louisiana battalion, five companies, and two 6-
pounders of Latham's battery, leaving four com-
panj^s of Sloan's regiment under cover as the
asle, immediate defence of the Stone Bridge, bnt
giving information to Gen. Coske of fchis change
of position and the reasons that impelled it.
Following a road leading by Old Pittsylvania
(Carter) Mansion, Col. Evans formed in line of
battle some four bundre 1 yards in rear—as he ad-
vanced-^-of that house, bis guns toithe front and
in position.properly supported, to its immediate
right. Finding, however, that the enemy d id not
appear on that road, which was a branch of the
one leading by Sndley's Springs Ford to Brents-
ville and Dumfries, he turned abruptly to the left,
and, marching across the fields for three-quarters
of a mile—about 9:30a. x —took apositlon in line
of battle ; his left, Sloan's companies,nesting on
the main Brentsville road In a shallow ravine, the
Louisiana Battalion to the right, in advance some
two hundred yards, a rectangular copse of wood
separating them. One piece of his artillery,
planted on an eminence some seven hnndred
yards to the rear of Wheat's battalion, and the
other on a ridge near and in rear of Sloato's posi-
tion, commanding a reach of the road jaat in front
of thi lineof battle. In this order he awaited the
coming of the masses of tue enemy now drawing
near.
In the meantime, about 7 o'clock a. m., Jack-
son's Brigade, with Imboden's, and five pieces of
Walton's battery, had been sent to take up a posi-
tion along^Bull Run to guard the interval between
Coeke's rightand Bonham's left; with orders to sup-
port either in case of need—the character and
topographical features of the ground having been
shown to Gen. Jackson by Capt. D. B. Harris, of
the Engineers of this Army Corps.
So much of Bee's and Bartow's Brigades, now
united, as hkd arrived—some 2800 muskets—had
also been sent forward to the support of the posi-
tion of tbe Stone Bridge.
Tbe enemy, beginning his detour form the turn-
pike at a point nearly half way between 8tone
Bridge and Centreville, had pursued a tortuous,
narrow trace of rarely used road, through a dense
wood, the greater part of his way until near the
Sudley road. A division underOol. Ilnnter, of the
Federal regular army, of two strong brigades, was
in the advance, followed immediately by another
division under Cel. Ueintselman, of three brigades
and seven companies of regular cavalry
and twenty-four pieces of artillery—eighteen of
which were rifle guns. This column, as it crossed
Bull Run, numbered over 16,000 men of all arms,
by their own accounts.
Barnside's Brigade—which here, as at Fairfax
Court House, led the advance—at about 9:4 >, a. v.,
debonched from a wood in sight of Evans's posi-
tion, some 500 yards distant from Wheat's Battal-
ion.
He immediately threw forward his skirmishers
in force, and they became engaged with Wheat's
command and theC ponnder gun under Lieut. Left-
wich.
The Federalists atonre advanced, as they report
officially, the 2d Rhode Island Begiment of volun-
teersiwith its vaunted battery of six 13-pounder
rifle guns. Sloan's companies were then brought
into action, having pnahsd forward through the
woods. The enemy, soon galled and staggered by the
fire, and pressed by the determined valor with which
Wheat handled his battery until he waa ]<>sperate-
Iv wounded, hastened up tbree ether regiments of
the brigade and two Dahlgren howitzers, making
in all quite 3500 bayonets and eight pieces of ar-
tillery opposed to less than 300 men and two fi
pounder guns.
Despite this odds, this intrepid command of but
eleven weak companies, maintained its front to the
enemy fcr quite an hour, and until Gen. Bee came
to their aid with his command. The heroic Bee,
with a soldier's eye and recognition of the sltua
tion.ba* previously disposed his command with
skill—Imboden's battery having been admirably
placed between tbe two brigades Under shelter be-
hind the undulations of a hill about 150 yards
north ef the now famous Henry house, and very
near where he subsequently fell mortally wounded,
to tbe great misfortune of bis country, but after
deeds of deliberate and ever memorable courage.
Meanwhile, the enemy had pushed forward a
battalion of eiffht 'ompanies of regular infantry
and one of their best batteries of six pieces (four
rifled),"supported by four companies of marines,
to increase the desperate odds against which Evans
and his men had maintained their stand with an
almost matchless tenacity.
Gen- Bee, now finding Evans solely pressed un-
der the crushing weight of the ma^es of the enemy,
at the call of Col .Evans, thraftfnrward his whole
force to his aid across a small stream—Young's
Branch aod Valley—and engaged the Fedrralists
with impetuosity: Imboden'a Battery at the time
I playing from his wel i chosen position with bril*
I liant effect with spherical rase, the enemy having
first onened on him from a rifled battery, probably
Griffin's with elongated cylindrical shells, whieh
flew a few feet over the heads of our men and ex-
ploded in the crest of tbe hill immediately In re*r.
As Bee advanced under a severe fire, he glared
the 7ih and 3th Georgia Rf giments, anr'er tbe «.hiv-
alrous Bartow, at about 11a. St. in a wood of sec-
ond growth pines to the right and front of. and near-
ly perpendltu'ar to Evans s line of bettir,, tbe tth Al-
abama to the left of them, along the fence connect-
1 g the portion of the U^oriria regiments w'.th the
rectangular corpse In which 8'oan a Sruth Carolina
the field, as fresh troops were thrown forward In the death ^f Gen. Barnarl K. Be*, the Confed,
there to outfUnk us; and some three guns of a bat- erm y has sustained an irreparable lo*s, fo-- with sn>\-ir.
terv.inan attempt to obtain a position,apparently
tn enfilade our batteries, were thrown so clos& to
the 331 regiment, Jackson's Brigade. thatthat,re?-
iment, springing forward, seized them, but with
severe loss, and was subsequently driven back by
an overpowering force of Federal musketry.
Now. full i£ o'clock, p. m., I gave the order for
the right of my line, except my reserves, to advance
to recover the plateau. It was done with uncom-
mon resolution and vigor, and at the same time
Jackson's Brigade pierced the enemy's center with
the determination of veterans, and the spirit of norarllv >5t<ui',r'rad T v
men who fight for a sacred cause; but it suffered ; which we were gen
pers nal bravery nrd cooln^* he pot-sensed the quail- !
j tips of an accomplished ?old:er anil an able, reliable
j commander.
t Ct :s. B Hnw ami Fisher, and Lieut.. Col. Johnson, of i
' Hampton's Legion. i:i the tearless command of their i
| men,'4ave earnt.st ol great usefulness* to the service
f had th*> been *■ pare.3 to complete a caret r *n hrll- •
j Panth I'-egnn. Be.-ides tVe tiidd officer* already men- I
iioned as navlme ber-n wound -d wmle in tbi' iallaui •
\ discharge of their duties, many others ah*> received !
j severe wounds atter equally honorable and dlstin- i
; guighed conduct, whether 1n leading th<*ir merit i- •
ward or In rallying ^hem when overpowered or :f*m- j
"ie largely superior furce to j
opposed.
Friday evening last, Mr. Kimber'y. tn the First
Branch of the Baltimore Cltj Council, Introduced a re-
action requesting the Board cf School Commission-
ers recently elected to institute an Inquiry, and. if
posetble, discover whether any of tbe teachers In the
public schools have expressed sjmpathy with the
southern rebellion, and, if any are found, to remove
them at the expiration of the time for wh'chthey have
been employed -Baltimore pajmr.
* That Is when the battle begun—Hmlth's Brigade
and fisher's North Carolina ium« up later aod made
total of army of Shenandoah engaged o'all arms At34.
Hill's Virginia rog'ment, MO. alto arrived, but was
ported reserve to th* right-
t Tbe«e were wb*t Col. Kvans saw of Gen. fcchenk's
Brigade of Gen. Tyler* Division, and two other heavy
brigade* In all over 9000 men and 13 pieces of artille-
ry-Car Utile's and Ay ree's batteries. That Is, 900 men
and two ft-ponnders confronted by 9000 men and 13
pfece* of artillery, mostly rifled
tlon. to a lire from the enemy, already posted within
a hundred yards of their front and right, sheltered by
fences and othercover.lt was at this time that
Lieut. Col. Gardner was sevcrelv wounded, a* al>o
several other valuable officers : the Adjutant of the
reciment, Lieut. Branch, was killed, and the horse of
the regretted Bartow war, shot under him. The 4th
Alabaira also suffered severely :rom the deadly tire
of the thousands ot" mnskets which they so dauntless-
ly fronted under the immediate leadership of Bee
himself. Its brave Colonel, H. J. Jones, was danger-
ously wounded,and many gallant officers fell, slain, or
horsdu combat.
Now, however, with the surging mass of over four-
teen thousand Federal infantry pressing on their
front, and under the incesAint Jire of at least twentv
pieces ot artillery, wirh the fresh brigades of Sher-
man and Keys approaching, the latttr already in
musket range—our lines gave back, but under orders
faom Gen. Bee.
The enemy maintaining their fire, pressed their
swelling masses onward as onr shattered battalions
retired; the slaughter fora moment was deplorable,
and has tilled many a Southern home-with life-long
sorrow.
Cnder this Inexorable stress, the retreat continued,
until arrested by tlieenergv and resolution of Gen. Bee
supported by Bartow and Evans, just in the rear of
the Bohlnson house, and Hampton's Legion, which
had been alreadyadvanced.and was In position near It
Imboden'* Battery, which had been handled with
r. ars^-d skill, but whose men were almost exhausted
and the two pieces of Walton's battery, under Lieut!
Richardson, being threatened by the enemy's infan-
try on the left and front, were also obliged to tall
back—Imboden. leaving a disabled piece on the
ground, retired until he met Jackson's brigade
while Richardson joined the main bod v of hi> bat-
tery near the Lewis house.
As our infantry retired rrom tne extreme front, the
two 6-pounders of Latham's Bafterv, before men-
tioned, fell back with excellent judgment to suitable
positions in the Tear, when an effective lire was main-
tained upon the still advancing lines of the Federal-
ists, with damaging effect, until their ammunition
was near'y exhausted, when they, too. were with-
drawn in the near presence ot the enemy, and re-
joined their Captain.
From the poibt previously indicated, where Gen.
Johnston and myself had established our headquar-
ters, we heard tt eweontinuons roll of musketrv. and
the sustained din of tbe artlllerv, which announced
the serious outburst of the battle on onr left tlank, and
we anxiously, but confidently, awaited similar sounds
of conflict from our frort st Centreville,.resulting
from tbe prescribed attack in that <jnarter bv our
right wirg.
At half-past 10 a. m., however, this expectation was
dissipated from Brig. Gen. KweU informing tne, to my
profound disappointment, that ray orders for his ad-
vance had miscarried; but fat. in consequence of a
communication from Gen. D. R. Jones, be had Just
thrown his brigade across the stream'ut Union Miils.
But, in my Judgment, it was row too iateforthe
effective execution of the contemplated movement,
which must have required quite three hours lor tl e
troops to get into position for the attack. Therefore,
It became immediately necessary to depend on new
combinations and other dispositions stilted to the
now pressing exigency. The movement of the right
and center, already begun by Jones and Longstreet,
, was at once countermanded with the sanction ofGen.
Johnston, and we arranged to meet the enemy on the
field upon which he had chosen to give ns battle.
Lr.der these circumstances, cur reserves not already
in movement were Immediately ordered uptosur-
port onr left tl an k, namely, nolmes's two resiments
andrhattery of artillery, und^r Capt. Lindsey Walker,
ot six guns, and Earley s Brigade. Two retriments
Irom Bonham's Brigade, vith Kemper's four ti-ponrd-
ers, were also ca'Ied for, and, with the sanction of
taen. Johnston, Gens. Eweli, Jones, (D. R., Long-
street and Bonham were directed to make a demon-
stration to the seventl fronts to retain and engross
the enemy's reserves and forces on their flank, and at
and around Centreville. Previously onr respective
Chiefs of Staff, Major Rhetr. aud Col. Jordan, bad been
lett at my head-quarters to hasten up and *ive direc-
tions to any troops that might arrive at Manassas.
Ihcse orders having bfen duly dispatched by staff
officers at 11:30 a. m., Gen. Johnston and myself set
out for the immediate Held of action, which wo
reached in rear of the Robinson and widuw Henry's
houses, at about 12 sr., aod just, as the commasds of
Bee, Bartow and Evans had taken shelter In a wooded
ravine behind the former, stouily held at tbe time by
Hampton and his Legion, which had made a stand
there alter havlnar previously Veil as far forward as
the turnpike, where Lieut. Col. Johnsou, an officer of
ciliiant promise, wa killed, and other severe losses?
were sustained.
Betore our arrival upon the ecene. tier Jackson had
moved forward with his brigade ot five Virginia regi-
ments, from his position in reserve, and had Judi-
ciously taken post below tbe brim of the plateau,
nearly east of the Henry bouse, and to the left of the
ravine and woods occupied by ibe mingled remains of
Bee s, Bartow s and Evans's command, with Im-
boden s battery, and two of 8areford's pieces placed
so as to play upon tho on-com1 rur enemy, supported
in the immediate rear by Col. J. L. Feston and Lient.
Col. Echolls's regiments, on the tight by Harper**,
and on the left, by Allen's and Cummines's regiment.
As soon as Get.. Johi*s?on and myself reached the
held, we were occupied with the reorganization of the
heroic troops, whose previous stand, with scarce a
parallel, has nothing more valiant in all the pages of
history, and who-ie losses fitly tell whv, at length,
their lines bad lost, their cohesion. It was now that
tten. Johnston impressively and gallantly charged to
the front with the colors of the fourth Alabama regi-
ment by his side, all tbe fi^kl officers of the regiment
having been previously disabled. Shortly afterward**
I placed S- R. Gist. Adjntant and Inspector General
oi South Carolina, a volunteer Ald-de-Camp ofGen.
Bee, In command cf this regiment, and who led it
again to the front as became its previous hehavior
and remained with it for the rest ot the day.
As soon as we had thus rallied and disposed our
forces, I urged Gen. Johnston to leave the immediate
conduct of the held to me, while he, repairing to
Poit'co— tbe Lewis house—should urtre reinforce-
ments forward. At first he was unwilling, botr<-
mlnded that cne of us must do so, and that, properly.
It ww his place, he reluctantly but fortunatelv com-
plied ; fortunately, because from that position,"bv his
energv and sagacity, bis keen perception and anticipa-
tion of my needs, he so directed the reserves as to in-
sure the success of the day.
As Gen. .lohusf n departed for Portico, Coi. Bartow
reported to me with the remains of the Seventh Geor-
gia volunteers—GaTtrell's—which I ordered him to
post on the left of Jackson's line, in the edae of the
belt of pines bordering the south-eastern rim of the
pia'eau. on which the battle was now to rage so lone
and so fiercely.
Coi. W . bmitta'a battaiiou of the tSth Virginia
Volunteers, having aiso come up by my orders I
piaced it on the left of Gartrell's as my extreme left
atihetime. Repairing then to the right. I pla ed
Hampton's Legion, which bad suffered greatly, on
that flank somewhat to the rear of Harpei's regiment
and also the seven companies of the sth (Elueton's)
\irglnia regiment, which, detached trom Cocke's
brigade by my orders and those of Gen. Johnston,
had opportunely reached the ground. These, with
Harper's regiment, constituted a reserve, to protect
our tiffhf fl«nk frcm an advance oftheenemv from
the quarter of the Stone Br'dge, and served as a sup-
port for the *i e of battle, which was formed on the
rieht by Bee's and Evans's commands, in the center
four regiments of Jackson'* brigade, with Tmboden's
lour six-pour.ders. Walton's five guns, ^two rifled)
two guns {one piece rifled) ot Stanard'sand twobix-
Sounders of Rogers's batteries, the latter under Lieut,
[eaton; and on tbe left by Gartrell's reduced ranks
at.dCoT. Sudth's|battaIion, subsequently reir forced t v
Faulkner's Second Mississippi Regiment, and bv an-
other regiment of the army ot Shenandoah, "just
arrived upon the field, the jsixth (Fisher's) North
Carolina Confronting the enemy at this time, my
forces numbered, at mo-.t, not more thau 6500 Infan-
try and artil'erists, with bnt thirteen pieces of ar-
tillery and two companies (Carter's and Hoge's) of
3tuart's cavalry.
Ihe enemy's force now bearing holly and confi-
dently down on our position, regiment after tegi-
ment of tbe bestequipped men that ever took the
field—according to tn«lr own official history of the
day—was formed of Cols. Hunter's and Heintselman's
divisions Col. therman's and Key eft's brigades of
Tyler's division. And cf the formidable batierie* of
Ricketta, Giifiln and Arnold, regulars, and Stcc nd
Rhode Island and two Dahlgron howitzers—a force of
over 20.000 infantry, seven companies of regnJar
cavalry, and twenty-four pieces of Improved artillery.
At the same time, perilous, heavy reserves of in-
fantry and artillery hung io the distance around the
(Stone Bridge, Mitchell's. Blackburn'-, and Union
Mills Fords, visibly rfady to fall upon us at any
moment; and 1 was alro assured of the existence of
other heavy corps, at aid around Centrevllle and
elsewhere, within convenient supporting distances.'
Fu ly conscious of this portentous disparity of
force, as I posted the lines for t>he encounter, I sought
to tntu*e into tbe hearts of my officers ana men tbe
confidence and determined spirit of realataoce to this
wicked invasion of the homes of a free people, which
I felt. I informed them that reinforcements would
rapidly come to their support, 'and that w% must, at
all uazards, bold our posis until reinforced. I rer
minded them that we fouaht for our homes our fire-
sides, and tor the independence ot our ccuntry. I
urged them to tbe resoiution-ef victory or death on
that field. These sentiments were loudly, eagerly
cheered, wheresoever: proclaimed^ and I then felt
assured of tbe unconquerable spirit of that armv.
which would ecabie us to wrench vfctor'y from the
host then threaU-Ung us with destruction.
«?nVJny?*^Dtryl«.15fPld r*«Hly have sacrificed
U3> life and those of all tbe bra,re men around me, to
save your honor, and to maintain your independence
from the degrading yoke which those ruthless in-
vaders had come to impose and render perpetual,
and tbe day s issue has assured me that such emo-
Uons must also have animated ail under my com-
In tbe meantime, the enemy had seized upon tbe
plate iu on which Robinson's and the Henry houses
are situate..—the position first occupied In the morn-
ing by (ten. B<e, before advancing to the support of
£th?Z!i ii • B?Uery 01" s1x Suna. the pride
F*'rler^(l u' object of their unstinted expen-
d'tureiu outfit, and the equally powerful Regular
LightBatteiy of Griffin, were brought iorwanfard
P f.CK ?w immediate action, after haMng Conjointly
with the batteries mentioned, played from tormer
positlot a with desiructive effect upon eur forward
b ttail«ns.
Tl.e topographical features of the p'ateau now be-
come the stage of the contending armies, must be
described m outline.
A glance at the map will show that it is enclosed
on three sides by small watercourses, which empty
into Bull Run within a few yards of each other
half a mile to the south or Stone Bridge. Rising to'
an elevation of quite one hundred feet above the
level of Bull Run at the bridge, it falls off on three
sides to the level of the enclosing streams infgen-
tle slopes,but which are furrowed by ravines of
irregular direction ani length, and studded with
clamps and patches of young pines and oaks.
The general direction of the crest of the plateau is
oblique to the course of Bull Run In that quarter
and to the Brentsville and turnpike roads which
interetect each other at right angles. Immediately
surrounding the two houses, before mentioned, are
small open fields of irregular outline, not exceed-
ing fifty seres in extent, The houses occupied at
the time, tbe one by th« Widow Henry and the
other by the free negro Robinson, are small wood-
en bnildiogs, the latter densely embowered in trees
and environed by a doable row of fences on two
sides. Aronnd tbe eastern and southern brow of
the plateau, an almost unbroken fringe of second-
growth pines, gave excellent shelter for our marks-
men, who availed themselves of it with the most
satisfactory skill. To the west,adjoining the fields,
a broad belt of oaks extends directly serosa the
erest on both sides of the Sudley Road, in which,
during the battle, reeiments of both armies met
and contended for the mastery.
From the open ground of this plateau the view
embraces a wide expanse of woods, and gently
undulating, open country of broad grass and grain
fields In all directions, including the scene of
Evans'sand Bee's recent encounter with the enemy
some 1210 yards to the northward.
In reply to the play of theenem* s batteries our
own artillcy had not been either idle or unskiil-
full. The ground occupied by our guns, on a level
with that held i*y the batteries of the enemy, was
an open space of limited extent, behind a low un-
dulation, just at the eastern verse of the plateau,
some 500 or 600 yards from the Henry house. Here,
as before said, thirteen pieces, mostly 0 pounders,
were maintained in action- The several batteries
of Imboden, Stanard. Pendl. ton, (Rockbridge Ar-
tillfry), and Alburtis's. of the army of the Shenan-
doah, and five gunj of Walton's, and Heaton's sec
tion of Rogers's bat'ery, of the Armv of the Poto-
mac, alternating to some extent with each other,
aod taking pari as needed . all from the outset
displaying that marvellous capacity of our people,
as artiileriats. which has made them, it would ap-
pear. at once the terror and the admiration of the
enemy.
As wai soon apparent, the Federalists had uffered
severely from our artillery, and from the fire of
our matketry on the right, and especiai'y from the
left Bank, piaced under cover, within whose gall-
ing range they had been advanced. And we are
told in their official reports, how regiment aftrr
regiment thrown forward to dislodge as, was bro-
ken, never to recover Its entire organization on
that field.
In the meantime, also, two companies of Stuart's
cavalry (Carter's and Hoge's), mai'e a da.ihing
charge down Ihe Brentsville and Sudley Road up-
on the Fire Zouaves—then the enemy's right on
the plateau—which added to the disorder wrought
by the musketry on that flank. But still, the
press of the enemy was heavy in that quarter of
seriously. With equal spir it the other parts of
the line made the onset, and the Federal lines
were broken and swept back at all points from the
open ground of the plateau. Rallying soon, how-
ever, as they were strongly reinforced by fresh
regiments, the Federalists returned, and by weight
of numbers pressed our lines back, recovered^their
ground and guns, and renewed the offensive.
By this time, between half-past 2 and three o'clock
p. m., our reinforcements pushed forwatd. and di-
rected by Gen. Johnston to the required quarter,
were at hand just as I had orde red forw rd, to a sec-
ond eff'ert, for the recovery of tbe disputed plateau,
the whole line,Including my reserve, which at this
crisis of the battle. I felt called upon to lead in per
son. This attack was general, and was shared in by
every regiment.then In the field, including the 6th,
Fisuer's North "Carolina reglm^ut, which had Just
come up and taken position on the Immediate left of
the 4&th Virginia regiment. The whole oppn ground
was again swept clear of the enemy, and the piateau
around tbe Henry and Robinson houses remained
finally in our possession, with tbe greater part of the
Ricket'sand Gr.ffln batteries, and a fldg ot U*alst
Michigan Resiment.raptured by the 27th
Regiment, (Lient.Col. jKcholIs.") of Jackson-s
This p irt of the day was rich with deeds of Inc^jNff.
al coolness aud dauntless cenduct. as well atOwell
«lirecf ed. embodied resolution and bravery, but
fraught with the loss to the country of lives ot Ines-
timabie preciou*negs «r. this Jurcture. The brave
Bee was mortally wounded at the head of the 4th Al-
abama and seme Mlssbtsippians, in tho open field
near the Henry h«u^e: nd a few yards distant the
ptomising life of Bartow, whi'e leading the 7th
tieorgia Regiment, was quenched in blood. Col F. J.
Thomas, acting Chief of Ordnance, of Gen. Johnston's
staff, after gallant conduct and most efficient service,
was also slain. Col. Fisher, 6 h North Carolina Reg-
iment. likewise fell, afti?r soldierly behavior at the
head of bis regiment, with ranks greatly thinned.
Wither's 18th Regiment, of Cocke's Brigade, bad
come up in time to follow this charge, and in con-
Junction with Uampton's Legion, captured several
rifled pieces, which may have fallen previously in
possession of some of our troops; but it so, bad been
recovered by the enemy. 1 hese pieces were turned,
andfeffectively served on distant masses of the ene-
my, by the hands of some of our officers.
While the enemy had thus been driven back on'our
right, ^entirelv across 1be turnpike ana beyond
Young's Branch.on our left the woods yet swarmed
with them, when our reinforcements opportunely
arrived In quick succession, and took position 5u that
portion of the field. Kershaw's 2d and Cash's bth
South Carolina Regiments, which had arrived soon
after Withers'-, were led through the oaks just ea>t
ofthe Sudley-Brentsville road, brushing some of fhe
nermy before them, and taking an advantageous posi-
tion along and west of that road, opened with much
skill and effect on bodies of the enemy thai had bten
rallhed under cover of a strong Federal brigade, posted
on a platem in the southwest angle, formed by inrer-
secnlon of the turnpike with the Sudley Brentsvi le
road!. Among the troops thus engaged \\ t re the Fed-
al regular Infantry.
At the same time Kemper's battery, passing north-
ward by the Sudlev-Brentville road, uw.k position on
the open space—under orders ot" Col. Kwrshaw—near
wh-ere an enemy's battery ha<l been captured, and
wa^opened wiln effective results upon the Federal
righrt, then the mark also ol" Kershaw's and Cash's
regftnents.
Weston's 2Sth Regiment, of Cocke's Brigade, had
by t.hat time entered the same body of oaks, and en-
countered some Michigan troops, capturing their
brigade commander, Cv*. Wilcox.
A notber important acc ession to our forces had a!s*>
occurred about the same time. 3 o'clock, p. m. Brig.
Gen. 15. K. Smith, with i-om? seventeen hundred in-
fantry ot Klzey's Brisrade , of the army of ihe Shenan-
doah, and Berkham's {buttery, came upon the field
from Camp Manassas, w'n ere they had arrived by rail-
road at noon. Directed In person by Gen. Johnston
to tbe left, then o much endangered, on reaching a
position in rear of the oai woods, sonth ot the Hen-
ry house, auo Immediately east of tbe Sudley road,
Oen. Smith was oisaMed hy a severe wound, .nnd hi^
valuable services were lost at that critical Juncture.
But the command devolved upon a meritorious offi-
cer of experience—Co!. Kizey—who led bisinfantry at
once somewhat further to the left, !n the direction of
the Chinnlionse, across the road, through the o*ks
skirting the west tide of tbe road, and around which
he sent the battery under Lieut. Beckham. This offi-
cer took a most favorable position near that house
whence, viith a clear view of the Federal right and
center, tilling the epeo fields to tbe west of tne
Brentsvilfce-Sudley road, and gently doping south-
ward, he opened fire with his battery upon them
with deadly and damaging effect.
Col. Early, who, by some mtscbance. did not re-
ceive orders until 2 o'clock, which had been sent hioi
at noon, came on the ground immediately after Elxey,
with Kemper's 7th Virginia. Hav's 7th Louis! .na, and
Barksdale's 13th Mississippi Regiments. This brigade,
by tbe personal direction ol Gen. Johnston, was
marched by the Holkham house, across the fiekis to
the. left, entirely around the woods throneh which
Elzey had passed, and under a tevere fire, into a po-
sition in line of battle near Chinn's house, out-flank-
ing the enemy's Tight.
At this time, about 3:30 p. jf., the enemy,driven
back on their left and centre, and brushed from
the woods bordering the Sudley road, south and
weitof the Henry house, had formed a line of
battle of truly formidable proportions, of crescent
outline, reaching on their left, from vicinity of
Pittsylvania, (the old Carter Mansion) by Mat-
thew's and in rear of Dogan's, across the turnpike
near to Chinn's house. The woods and fields
were filled with their masses of infantry and their
carefully preserved cavalry. It was a truly mag-
nificent, though redoubtable spectacle, as they
threw forward in fine style, on the broad gentle
slopes of the ridge occupied by their main lines,
a cloud of skirmishers, preparatory for another
attack.
Cat as Early formed his lice, and Beckham's
pieces played upon the right of the eaemy, Elxey's
brigade. Gibbon's '0th Virginia, Lieut. Col. Stu-
art's 1st ija-yland, 'and Vaughn's 3d Tennessee
regiments, and Cash's 8th and Kershaw's 2d
South Carolina, Wither's 18th and Preston's 28th
Virginia'advanced in an irregular line, almost
simultaneously, with great spirit from their sev-
eral positions, upon the front and flanks of the
enemy' in their quarter of the field. At the same
time, too, Early resolutely assailed their right
flank and rear. Under this combined attack the
enemy was soon forced, first over the narrow
plateau in the southern angle, made by the two
roads so often mentioned, into a patch of woods
on its western slope, thence back over Young's
Branch smd the turnpike, into the fields of the
Bogan farm, and rearward into extreme disorder,
in all available directions toward Bull Run. The
rout had now become general and complete.
About the time that Elzey and Early were en
tering into action, a column of the enemy,
Keyes's brigade of Tyler's division, made its way
across the turnpike between Bull Run and the
Robinson house, under cover of a wo id and brow
of the ridges, apparently to turn my right, but
was easily repulaed by a few shots from Latham's
battery, now united and placed in position by
Capt. D. B. Harris, of the Virginia Engineers,
whose services during the day became his charac-
ter as an able, cool and skillful officer : and from
Alburtis's battery, opportunely ordered by Gen.
Jackson, to a position to the right of latham, on a
hill commanding the line of approach of the ene-
my. nnd supported by portions of regiments col-
lected together by the staff officers ofGen. John-
ston and my self.
Early's brigade meanwhile joined the 19th Vir-
ginia regiment, Lieut. Col. Strange, ot Cocke'a
brigade,pursuaed the panic stricken, fugitive en-
emy. Stuart, with his cavalry, and Beckham, had
also taken up the pursuit along the road by which
the enemy ha d come upon the field that morning',
but soon, encumbered by prisoners who thronged
bis way, the farmer was unable to attack the mass
of the fast fleei'ng, frantic Federalists. Withers'*
R.J.Preston's, Cash's and Kershaw's regiments
Hampton's Leg ion and Kemper's battery alsc
pursued along tthe Warrenton road by the Stone
Bridge, the enemy having opportunely opened &
way for them thjough the heavy abatis which mj
troops bad made'on ihe west aide of the bridgi
several days before- But this pursuit was sooi
recalled, in corusequence of a false report whici
unfortunately reached us, that the enemy's r«-
serves, known to be fresh and of considerable
strength, were threatening the position of Unicn
Mills Ford."
Col. Radford, with six companies of Virginia
eavalry, who was also ordered by Gen, Johnston :o
cross Bull Run and attack the enemy from the di-
rection of Lewis's .house ; conducted bv one of ny
aids, Col. Chishofcm, by the Lewis Ford, to tie
immediate vicinity .of the Suspension Bridge, le
charged a battery with great gallantry took C)l.
Corcoran, of the 69:ti regiment New York vo'.ui-
teers, a prisoner, ana' captured the Federal colors
of that regiment, as well as a number of the en;-
my. He lost, however, a promising officer of tis
regiment. Capt. Winstaon Radford.
Lieut. Col. Munford also held some companies
of cavalry in hot pursuit, and rendered material
service in the capture o f prisoners and of cannon,
hones, ammunition, &<r., abandoned by the ene-
my in their flight.
Capt. Lay's company of the Powhattan trocps,
and Utterback's Rangera, Virginia volunteers,
attached to my person, di d material service, uider
Capt. Lay, in rallying troops brouen for the lime
by the onset of ihe enemy's masses.
During the period of the momentous events
fraught with the weal of crcr country, which vere
passing on the blood-stained plateau along the
SudJey and Warrenton roads, other portiois of
the line of Bui! Run had not been void of action
of moment and of influence upon the general re-
sult.
While Col. Fvana and his sturdy band were ho ding
at bay the Federal advance beyond the tarripik*. the
enemy made repeat*d demonstrations with artillery
and infantry upon the line of Cocke'a brigade, w.llh
the serious intention of forcing the position, as Gen.
Schenok admits In his report. They were driven tack
wlih severe loss ly Latham's (a section) and Bocgeris
four 6-pounders, and were so Impressed witt the
strength of that line as to be held in cheek and inac-
tive, even after It had been stripped ot ail its troops
but one company of the I9th Virginia regiment, under
Capt. Duke, a meritorious officer. And it is worthy
of notice lhat, In this encounter of our six-pounder
guns, handled by our volunteer artillerists, they bad
worsted such a notorious adversary as the Ayres's,
formerly Sherman's battery, which quit the cbnte* t
under the illusion th>--t It had weightier mcla! than
its own to contend with.
The center brigades—Bonham's and Longstreet's—
of the line ot Bull Kuo, if not closel}' engaged, were
nevertheless exposed far much of tbe day to an
annoying, almost incessant fire of artillery of long
range; bat, by a steady, veteran lite r ialntenanc- of
Uieir position a they hold, virtually psralyzeJ all da v.
t wo strong bilgadf s of ihe enemy, with their t.uicr-
rles (four) of rifle rods.
retriments of Bonlmni's brlg Je.
xd and 8th fcouth Carolina vuluutr--r^, ;iir! Kf i!,:>'T\s
buttery toon a distinguished part Id tbeb*ul<- The
remainder. 3d Williams's, 7iU Bacon's Eontb Carollua
volunteers; llth (Kirkiaud's) North Carolina i-gi-
SLe,nL:- flj5. companies 8ih Louisiana -volunteer';
Shield s battery, an 1 one section of Walton's battery,
under Lieut. Uarnett, whether in holding tnelr post or
taking up tbe pursuit, officers andiceu <;iNchar"ed
their duty with credit and promise. r
Longstreet's brigade, pursuant to orders prescri-
bing his part ot the operations of the center and riaht
wing, w-as thrown across Bull Run early in the morn-
ing, and urder a severe fire of artillery. was *k:bu!iy
dh-pos.-dfor the assault of the enemy's batteries in
that quarter, but were withdrawn vuhse-joemly, in
Mention-
The subordinate grade.- were also abundantly con-
spicuous far zeal ?nd capacity lor the leadership of
men tn aims. To mention all who fighting well, paid
the lavish forfeit of iheir lives, «?r at least crippled,
mutilated bodies on the deld of Manassas, cannot well
be done within the compass of this paoer. but a grate-
fu« <*< unrry and mourning friends will not suffer their
names aod services to b^ forgotten and pass awav un-
honored.
Nor are those officers and men who were so for tu- j
nstess ;o escape the thick-flying, deadly missiles of the j
enemy, lees wo.tby ot praise for tbelrendurance.firm- 1
ness and valor than their brothers in-nmis whose !
lives wrre rio?ed or bodies maimed on fhet mem'.r- !
at le day. To mentlou all who exhibited ability and I
brilliant courage, w^re impossible in this report"; nor I
do the reports of hr?g de and other subordinate com- |
munders supply full lists of all actually deserving of ;
diftluctian. 1 t an only mention tho>e whose conduct .
oune immediately under my notice, or the conse-
quence of whose actions happened to be signally !tn-
por'ant.
It is fit that I should. In tV is way. commend to notice
thedantdieas condurt and Imperturbable coolness of
Col. Evans; and well indeed was he supported by Col.
Sloan and the officers of the.Fourth South Carolina
regiment, as also Maj- Wheat, than whom no one ui.-
pl.tyed more brilliant courage until ca: ried from tbe
field, shot through the lungs, though happily, not
mortally stricken. But in the desperate unequal con-
flict to which thoce brave gentieuien were, for a time,
necessarily exposed, tne behaviour ot officers aud men
generally was worthy of the highest admiration; and
assuredly, hereafter, a i those present may proudly
say: We were o' that band who fought the first hour
of the battle of Mai assas. JKqual honors and credit
must also !>e awarded in the p.«£j*'R ot history to the
gallant officers and men who, under Bee and Bartow,
subsequently marching to their side. Saved th?m fr- m
destruction, and relieved them from the brunt of the
enemy's attack.
The conduct of Gen. Jackson also requires mention
as eminently that ot an able, fearless soldier, aad sa-
gaci -uh commander, one fit to lead his efficient brigade:
his pron.pt. timely arrival bef re .the Henry house,
and his judicious disposition of his troop', contributed
much to the success of the day. Although painfully
wcutided in t*ie hand, he remained on the field to the
end of the battle, rendering invaluable assi-tance.
Col. Wm.Smith was as efficient, as self-possessed
and brave; the influence of b s example ard his vords
of ucour-g^ment was not confined to bis immediate
command, the good conduct of whi^h is especially
noticeable, iuasmuch as it had been embodied but aday
or two before tbe battle.
Cois. Harper. Huntou and Hampton, commanding
regiments of the re-erve. attracted my notice by their
soldierly ability, as with their gallant commands they
restored the fortunes ot tbe day. at a time when the
enemy, ly a last desperate onset, w*th heavy odds,
had d*iven our ft-rce* trom fii - fiercely contested
ground aronnd the Kenrv «nd Robinson houses.
Veterans could not have behaved better lhan these
well led regiments.
Uisb praise mu.-t al?o be given to Cols. Cocke. R«r1y
and Elzey. brigade commanders: also, to Col. Ker-
shaw. commanding tOr the tlr-.e tne I'd and Stii South
Carolina regiments. Under tb*i instructions of Gen.
Johnston, these officers reached the ti-l J at an oppor-
tune. crit'cal moment, and disposed, handled and
fought f heir respective command* with .^«icit:, de-
cit'on 1 sric.ftaa'ti! rgsnTLs whir-h h.vie been de-
scribed in detail.
Coi. J. E. B. Stuart likewise deserves mention mr
his enterprise and ability .> a cavalry commauder.
Through his judicious reconnoisance of the conutrv
on onr left tlank. he acquired intormati'ui both of topo-
graphical features anu tbe positions of the enemy, of
the utmoht importance in the subsequent and closing
movements ot the day oa that dank, and his services
in tbe pursuit were highly effective.
a ~d Mr. .John Grant, were drawn by the l tter with J
r.ir«* de'icjcv worthy ot hi«h commend r ion.
in conclusion.it is proper, muu 4i uo«le>* expected
Hut ihiough this report my countrymen should be j
> :de acquainted with some of tbe sufficient causes, j
that prevented the advance of our forces, and pro- <
lMu e i. vigorous pursuit of the enemy to and beyond
the Potomac. The War Department has been fully
advised long since of all tho>e causes, t-omeof which
only ar«- proper to l e communicated. An army which
had tou-iit ; n ours on that day, against uncommon
dds, un.ier a July sun, ino? t of the time wit-out wa-
t. r'au I without food, except a hastily snatched meal
.-i dawn, was not in a condition for the toil of an
eager, .•tfe.'tlve pur-nit ot an enemy Immediately
aT'er the battle.
On the following day an unusually heaw and unln-
termltti^g fall ot ram 'ntervened to obstruct our ad-
vance. with reasonable prospect of fruitful results.
Added to this, the want of cavalry force of sufficient
numbers made an efficient pursuit a military Impos-
siUi lity \ our obedient servant,
G. T. BEAUKEGAI
"per.
To Gen. f.
Bichtnond.
Offlc!it I;
K. U.Chilton. Adjutant,
. T. BEAUREGARD,
General Commanding.
Adjurant and Inspector Genera],
THE FEDERALS OS THE COAST !
FiSfl&t at A rail waa ?
We are permitted to take the following extract
from a private letter dated "Matagorda, February
13th:
"A fight occurred at Arausa> Pass, about 100 miles
west of this place, day before yesterday. The result
is not known as yet. Two boats arrived here last,
night, which came through the bay while the figbt
waa going on, could see the bark firing shells ou the
shore to protect her boats, which we.re engaged with
about 200 of our people from Corpn> Christ! and the
adjacent country. We are very anxlou*to bear tne
result, which we may >-oroe time to-day or to-night.
Our folxs at Corpus were in hopes of beimr able to
intercept the boats from the Federal birk. Th ev had
been in the habit for some day#, of landing, atealinic
beet, sounding tbe bar, Ac.
L«ater from the llio Grande.
MORE OF THE FEDERAL 0UTBAGE!
A GRAPHIC SPEECH.
lie following is extracted from the speech of ;
Mr. Dawes of Maigachusetta, In the Federal House
of Representative.* on the civil appropriation Bill
It is good to read of these things. It lives one a
A^tsuemeat of ifc«
« apitrrd tn ike
Other Engagement* in
th*
during the vear.
from the Official reports ot J
(when Fuch reports were pi
refreshing insight into the affairs of our former can only gue*.« *i the
brethren : em p.pers seldom
nonfldence can be placed Id
are published. *or instance. _..
I bi« to* at Beth-I, aiabout thirty,
rious fact th t one Amfi
alone buried tinny two Federal bodi««afi< r the
In estimating the iWeral *
SKIRMISHING AT ARAXSAfc. Ac , £c.
Vireirh?«S i. k ard Whitehead's company
virglLia c ivalry: throughout the day th'-ae truoM
evinces th«- most soldi*riy snlrit. troops
_.A_ft?r l.h.e having been ordered bv Gei John-
ston .n the direction of Ceutrevjile tn nurault these
brigades advanced near to that place wE^i Vt .n3
r me.de andei
tlon,. w« .Si"„ RnnST' 'n,trUC'
ration* TTnsn.■ nuu
At noon this brisadc, tn obedience to
monatrations. ""J*
lastly made until
C*pt. K. P. Alexander. Coniederate States Engineer
save me seasonable and material assistance earlv in*
the day. with his system ot signal*. Almost the first
shot tire 1 by the enemy parsed through the tentof
his party at the Stone bridge, where they subsequent-
ly firmly maintained their position in the dlscharee
of their duty—the transmiasion of meiJsaKes of tbe
enemy's movements—for several hours under fire.
Later, Capi. Alexander acted as my ale-de-camp. iu
t he transmission of orders, and in observation of the
enemy.
I was most efficiently served throughout the day
by my volunteer aid*. Cols. Preston. Manning,
Chesnnt, Miles, Rice. Heyward and Chisholm, to
whom I tender my thanks for their unflagging,
intelligent and fearless discharge of the laborious
and responsible duties entrusted to them. To
Lieut. 3. W. Ferguson. A. It. C.. and Col. Heywood
who were habitually by my side from 1" noon un-
til the close of the battle, mv special acknowledge
mrnts are due. The horse of the former was killed
under him by the same shell that wounded that of
the latter. Both were eminently useful to me,and
were distinguished for coolness and courage, until
the enemy gave wa* and fled in wild dUorder in
every direction—a scene the President of the
Confederacy had the high satisfaction of witness-
ing, as he arrived upon tbe field at that exultant
moment.
I also received, from the time 1 reached the
front, such signal service from H.E.Peyton, at
the time a private in the Loudoun cavalry, that I
have called him to my personal staff. Similar
services were also rendered me, repeatedly during
the battle, by T.J. Bandolph. a volunteer acting
A.D- C. to Col. Cocke.
Capt. Clifton H. Smith, of the general staff, was
also present on th« field, and rendered effective
service in the transmission of orders.
It must be permitted me here to record my pre
found sense of my obligations to Gen. Johnston,
for his generous permission to carry out my plans
with such modifications as circumstances had re
quired. From his services on the field, as we en-
tered it together, already mentioned, and his sub-
gequent watchful management of the reinforce
mints as they reached the field, our countrymen
may draw the most auspicious auguries.
To Col Thomas Jordan, my efficient and sealous
Assistant Adjutant General, much credit is due for
his able assistance in the organization of the for-
ces under my command, and for the intelligence
and promptness with which he has discbarrei all
tbe laborious and important duties of his office.
Valuable assistance was given to me by Major
Cabell, chief officer of the Quartermaster's Depart-
ment, In the sphere of his duties—duties environ
ed by far more than the ordinary difficulties and
embarrassments attending the operations of a long
organized, regular establishment.
Col. R. B. Lee, Chief of Subsistence Department,
had just entered upon his duties, but his experi-
ence and long varied services in his department,
made his as efficient as possible,
Capt. W. H. Fowle, whom Col Lee had relieved,
had previously exerted himself to the utmost to
carry out orders from these headquarters, to ren-
der his department equal to the demands nf the
service ; that it was not entirely so, it is due to
justice to say was certainly not his fault.
Deprived, by sudden and severe illness, of the
Medical Director, Surgeon Thomas H. Williams,
his duties were discharged by Surgeon R. L. Bro-
die, to my entire satisfaction ; and it is nroper to
say, that the entire medical corps of the army at
present, embracing gentlemen of distinction in
the profession, who had quit lucrative private
practice, by their service ia the field and subse-
quently. did high honor to their pro Session.
The vital duties of the Ordnance Department
were effectively discharged under the administra-
tion of my Chief of Artillery and Ordnance, Col.
8. Jones.
Atone, time,when reports of evil omen and disas-
ter reached Camp Pickens with such circumstantial-
ity as to give rea^nable grounds of anxiety, Its com-
mander, Col. Terrett; the commander of the entrench-
ed hatteries, Capt. Sterrett, of the Confederate States
Navy, and their officers, made tbe m-jst efficient pos
slHe preparations for the desperate detente of that
positi- n in extremity: and in this connect!^ I regret
my inability to n<enti"n tbe names of those patriotic
gent emeu of Virginia, by the gratuitous labor of
whote slaves tbe entrenched camp at Manassas had
been mainly constructed, relieving the troops from
thitt laborious service, and giving Opportunity £-r
tlielr military instruction.
Lieut Col. Thome* H. Williamson, tbe engineer of
tbe-e woras. assisted byC.tpi. D.B. Harris, discharge !
his duties with untiring energy and devotion, as well
satisfactory skill.
Capt. W. H. Stephens, Engineer Con'ederate States
Army, served with the advanced forces at Fairfax
Courthouse lor some time befoie the battle; he laid
out the works the ein admirab e accordance with the
purpose- for which they were designed, and yet so as
to admit of ultimate exten i.n ana adaption to more
per Ions mes a- means ant part of a system of leal
d ense when deternrned upon. has shown hlm-
£e f io be an officer of energy and ability.
MaJ. Thomas G. Rhett, auer having olscbarged for
several months the labor ous duties of Adjn'ant Gen-
eral to t^e commanding officer of Camp Pickens, was
detached to join the army of the Shenandoah, just on
tbe eve oi the advance of the enemy, but volunteer-
ing his her vices. wu? ordered to assist on tbe staff of
Gen. Ben ham. Joining that officer at Centreville, on
the night ot the 17th, f efore the battle oi Bull Run.
where be rendered valuable services until the atrivai
of Gen. Johnston, on the 20th July, when he was
called to the place of Chief of Staff of that officer.
• It i> also proper to acknowledge the signal services
rendered by Co .B.F. Terry and T.C.Lubbock.of Texas,
who had attached themselves to the staff of Gen.
Longstreet. These gentlemen made daring and
valuable! recounolssances of the enemy's positions,
assisted by Cants. Goree and Chichester; they also
carried orders to the field, and on the following day,
accompanying Capt. Whitehead's troops to take pot-
session of Fairfax Court House. Col. Terry, with his
unerring rl tie, severed the halliards, and thus lowered
the Federal flag found still fl /ating from the cupola of
the Court House there. He also secured a large Fed-
eral garrison fia^, designed, it Is said, to be unturied
©s-er our intrenchments at Manassas.
In connection with the unfortate casualties of the
day—thav is, the miscarriage of the orders sent br
courier to Gens. Holmes and Kwell to attack the ene-
my In flank and reverse at Centrevll e, through which
the triumph < f curarms. was prevented from heiag
still more decidve. I regard it In place to say, a divis-
ional organization, with officers In command of
divisions with appropriate rank, as in European
services^would greatly reduce the risk of such ruls-
happ. and would advjitageocsly simplifv the com-
munlcitlous of a General iu crmmand of a field with
his troops.
While glorious for our people, and of crnshisg effect
upon the mrrale of our hitherto confident aud over-
weening adversary, ea were the events of the battle
of Manassas, the tieli was onlv wi n by stout fight-
ing, and, as before stated, with much loss, }«,
precisely exhibited In tbe papers herewith, marked
F, G nnd II. and beinc lists of the killsd and wound-
ed. The killed outright numbered 3fr , tbe wounded
1,4S3, making an aggrrgate of l,S.r2.
The actual loss of the enemy wiil never be known—
!l may now only be conjectured. Their abandoned
dead, as tbey were bnrled by our people where they
fell, unfortunately, were i ot enumerated, but many
parts of tbe fie?d were thick with their corpses, as
but few bet'Je fields have ever been. The official re-
ports of the enemy are studiously silent upon this
point, but still atford us data for an approximate esti-
mate. Left almost In the dark lu respect to the losses
of Hunter's and Helntzleinan'.-* division—first, long-
est and most hotly engaged, we are iuformed that
Sherman's brigade, Tyler - division, suffered, In killed,
wonuded and mlsslcg. 6CJ; that is. about 18 per cent,
of the brlsade. A regiment of Franklin's brigade.
(Gorman's)'ost 21 per cent. Griffin's < battery} loss
was 30 per < ent., and that of Keyes's brigade, which
was so handled by its commander as to C e exposed to
only occasional volleys from our troops, was at least
10 per cent. To these facts add the repeated refer-
ences in the reports of tbe more reticent command-
er*. to the *" muTderouv*' fire to which they were
bv special express:
two days later-
FORT HENRY TAKEN.
etc., etc., etc.
matte de-
thw
advance wusaallantlv uiadfimM>«-•.! er *rooP5
Pr r5
Carolina an<1 rant rf n oiIi > tu. Jenkins Jlon h
Missisriipp! rtginietit, are nwnni^rS'br r'.n* !W4 li>lh
having shown conspicuous galUntrv mrlnJ
clp'ini*, amvr a combined ltreof anliwL^n/^.Jr
>ot only did thu relurn fireoi ifce biiwa.lj ViL'f,'
cover ti:e enemy a lnfantrv, bnt ?,. n . "
questionably spread through tbe enemy? rif
of inM.cur.ty and danger frcm Juiu- k K- , w- , ^
f^ ! ' • - - ■«^ o r;a ^;r'
the extraordinary panic i-hich wetnov.i , .
the entire Cideralmmy for the time. Thlsi,
fron the fact that Coi.D vio. ti e immediate Vver
mry't commtnder. in his < flic'.al report w,s ^iCed
In mo fit Iff nuu Iin.ail * • ° tr.tpice<l
our cavalry, vnnich
to magnify one sn ail company
acoompanied the brigade, Into a force of «
andIt cl. Miles, the commander of the Federal r
at CentrevlUe, savs the movement
* See official Reports of Cols Heittlemar. Porter
etc
•pnren." gioiu for the t. it Hark" ot'tbelrTrm'
„'"f ! >r In- Kraethe right'of it.,,
ilnes of Bun Hun at Union Mills Ford. «it.rth«V,i
"VP"' my Older* ,ot M, ,d,.nc. npon Ce, tr°-
vihe in the afternoon was ordered by (in,. Jr,hri£,n
. h t.0pE brl';'l<!e > • battle, then ra«1,w „?T«t e
le t flank. Pronii lly ,-v-, uteda. this roovera, „t '
the brigade, after a aeveie march, reached the r/id
of°th* V° rc.l" ,h" 1,1 ay had the 1.1 O -
of the day. As the Important position at tl,,. i „i.V„
pil ti 1 wiIil b'Jt a slender tuatd tj.'iieral
Kwell was at once ordered to retrace hi* stei and n--
some his portion, to prevent the po«sr 'tt\ . f its
.seizure by anv force of the eremv }n that mart ft
brig. Gen. Holmes-ieff w!?ll llU br1eJl Hm 4 ,
port Whe same position in tbeoHgfral p. not iheb; ■
tie—had also been called to the int. wultter h* nm^-h
ed with the utmost speed, but not m tune t. join
actively in tbe battle.
Walker's rifie guns of tbe brieide however, came
up In time to be tired with rrci.-'^'i and <4eci''ed ex-
ecutlon at the retreating mi* m v. ii*i f>, caval y, ; rm rations >; t>
Joining in the pursuit, as* iite<i Intht capture ol |,ris- most Inc-juMJ
onera and war munition* j ih'iMli tr !*re'.e
Thia victory, the details of which I havetbu«sooaht'| Ac*.o opauy!
to chronicle as fully ai were niting an official report, ! the arml«>a,oii
It remains to record, was dear y won by th« d'-e'b'rf . three sever-.I !•
many officers and men of Inestimable v«tu-; belonging J Ball Hun nor
to all graded ot our society I from actual a
habitually exposed, the " pistol range w volleys, and
galling musketry, of which they spealc.as scourging
their ranks, and we are warranted in placing the en-
tire lofs cf the Federal!; ts at over 4,WQ in killed,
wounded and prisoner-. To this may be legitimately
added, as a casualty of the ba;t!e, ihe thousands of
fugitives from the Held, who have never rejoined
their regiments, and who are a-* much lost to the
enemy's service as If Included under the head of
"missing," because, in every instance of such report,
we took as many prisoners ot those brigades or regi-
ment* as are reported " missing."
A list appended exhibits soiue 1.460 of their wound-
ed and others, who fell into our hands and were sent
to Richmond; some were sent to other points, so
that the number cf prisoners. Including those who
did not die. may be set down a-* not Jev-% than l.«0U.
Besides these, a considerable number who could not
be removed from the field, died at several farm
houses and field hospitals within ten days following
the battle.
To serve the future historian of this war. I will
note tbe fact, that among the capiured Federal
ists are officers and men of forty-seven regiments of
volunteers, besides from some nine diiferent regi-
ments it regular troops, detachments of which were
iiga>ed. Prom their official r ports, weleatn ot a
reniment ot voluttuers engaged, fdx regiments of
Miien'sdivision, and thetfive regiments of Itunvon's
brigade, from which we have neither-ound or wound-
ed prisoners. Making ail allowances for mistakes, we
are warranted In suvlmrthat the Federal army con-
sisted of at lra t fifty-five regioients of volunteers,
night companies of regular hilar,try, tour of marines,
nine of regular cavalry, and twelve batteries, one
hundred aud nineteen gun-. These r^gimerjts, at one
time, as will appear fr m a published !l<t appended,
marked"K." numbered,In tbe eg^regate, 51,140, and
averatred iV 4 each. Prom an ord-r iYoxn tbe enemy's
commander, however, dated July ISth, we learn that
one hundred men from each reKiuient were ordered
to remain In charge of respective camps, some al-
lowance- must further be made for the sick and de-
tails. which would ieduce the averag- to sofl; adding
the regular cavalry, infantry and artillery ptesrnt, an
estimate of their farce may he made.
A paperapnendrd marked "l.." exhibits In p-«rt the
ordnance aud supplies captured, including Hom«2$
field pieces of the heat character of arm, with over
one hundred rounds «-t ammunition i«-r *arh gun.
thirty-seven c alssous, six i 'rge«. four battery wagons,
64 anillery ^horses <• inpletrdy equioned, 500.0> of
-mail arm1* atuni.JtiiUoi,. 4,SOU aete round* of accou-
trenu nts.over .r^0tuusk«*ts. snue n'r.e r %dmental an 1
garrison flags, with a lar^e hunt her of pistol", fcnip-
backs. cwords, canteens, ilankett, a lui e ft« reofen-
trench ng'.to 1-. wagons, ambulances, horses, camp j
sti't garrison equipage, hospital stores, anJ some sub j
I tdstanc**. j
j Added t'* these re«'.lt* auv rightly be ootkvd here, j
that by lids battle an invadlnz army, superbly j
.<iuipp> d. within twentv md -sot their i-s-eof opera- j
Vns. ! a- been c" v rt« d intoorie vfriUu iy tesieged,
j e.\c usivciy c
By the arrival ©f the New Orleans train at eight
o'clock Saturday evening, we have two days later
news. We give the telegraphic summary:
Nashvill*. Feb. 7._a special dispatch to the
Union and American,dated Clarkaviile. the 7th..
2 o'clock a. M.. says Fort Henry has fallen into
the hands of the enemv. Our forces retreated to
Fort Donelson. Gunboats are at Danville, on ihe
Tennessee river, and the bridge at thnt place has
been destroyed by the Federals. No farther par-
ticulars.
Memphis. Feb. 7.—Fort Henry was captured by
the Federals on yesterday, after two hours fight-
ing. The Federals have advanced and destroyed
the Tennessee river bridge, thua cutting off com-
munication between Columbus and Bowling Green.
No particulars yet.
Richmond Feb. 7.—While the Provisional Con-
gress conducts their business in secret sessions,
the outsiders are busy arranging for the organisa-
tion of the permanent Congress The gentlemen
named for Speaker of the House are Mr.Mer-
edith and Geo. W. Jones, of Tennessee; Mr. Bo-
cock. of Virginia ; Mr. Curry, of Alabama ; Mr.
Kenner, of Louiniana : and Mr. McRae, of Mis-
sissippi. •
For Clerk of Ihe House, Mr. Dixon, of Georgia
and Mr. McCluskey.of Tennessee, are the prom
in-nt. candidates.
Jonce Hooper, the present Clerk of Congress, is
prominently spoken of as Secretary of the Senate,
although several other candidates are named.
The stn-ets of Richmond ar now dark at tfight. In
consequence of trouble with the retorts at the gas
office.
NotFGi K. Feb. 6.—A flag of trcce to day brings from
Old Point Northern paers of the Oth !u<t. The follow-
ing summary of the news;
A party of Federals advanced to Oocoquan on
Monday last, and had a brush with the Confeder
erate pickets. It u atated four of the latter were
seen to fail.
President Pavis has informed Lincoln, hv fiag
of truce, if the bridge burners in Missouri are
hung. Corcoran. Wilcox, Lee and others will be
hung in retaliation
Great difficulty is experienced in taking care of
he negroes in camp. Wool is puzzled about them,
and has appointed a committee to provide for
their further wants.
In the Senate, Sumner has reported a bill author-
izing the appointment of diplomatic representatives
to Liberia and HaytL
ScboepFs brigade has moved to the Cumberland
river.
A corps of artillerymen, to ga&rd The coast, is be-
ing formed in New York- Scott has not left, that
city.
Th6 Pailadeiphians are actively engaged about
the naval expedition to be fitted ou; there for the
Southern coast.
There, was a great disolay of fashion a* the Whit e
House last night, and flashing and drinking.
Krricesson's floating battery is nearly completed.
I>. Jo'.nville has gone to Washington.
Maine 1* to be fortified at the exnense of the State,
to be reimbursed by tbe Federal Government.
The House ha" passed a bill authorizing the con-
struction of 20 plated frigates.
An expedition numbering twelve vessels left Cairo
on the.vl insT_t?obe joined at anjther point by a
large force.
The citizens of New York ask tor the repeal of the.
treaty of reciprocity between Canada and the Cnlted
St -tes-
The Herald says the guns of the friga*e« in Hamp-
ton Roades are double shotted, and they are not
at raid of the Merrimac.
A pilot to assasinate the President of San Salvador
also Gen.Castillo, has been discovered.
Great swindling has bean developed by the con-
tractors of the Lincoln Government.
Th.rty-flve thousand troops are at Cairo*
The Bostontans held a meeting atfaneull Hall, to
ake measures for the release of Corcoran.
Chase is In great trouble, and urges Con-
gress to prompt action, andeays ihe Treasury near-
ly enipty^
Foreign exchange is 114. Stocks unsettled.
Special to the Picayune.
Norrfolk, Feb. 7.—A Flag of truce to-day,
brings New York papers of yesterday. Mr®. Gen-
Gaines's brother and Mr. Gardetts, of New Or-
lean. also came over in the boat. all well.
The advices from Europe are to the 24th.
The foreign powers are more decided in their
Intention to break the blockade, in order to save
the suffering among the working classes.
There has been a decline of a % to % in the
Liverpool cotton market.
No financial arrangement has yet been effected
at the North. Exchange is at 114. Gold 4 per
cent, premium. The Northern Government is in
a hopeless condition.
Mkmphis, Feb. 7.—The Federals have taken
Fort Henry, on the Tennessee river.
The fate of the garrison is not known here.
The bridge of the Memphis and Ohio Railroad,
which crosses the Tennessee, twenty miles above
the fort, has been drstroyed by the enemy.
Norfolk, Feb.7.—The Northern news received to-
day by the flag of truce, gives no Indications of no
change in the situatlos of aflairsat the North.
NaenviLLE. Feb. 7.—A dispatch from Hon. John
Bell, from Fort Donelson, this morning, says that
Gen. Pillow was expected at Fort Doneh>on with 8000
or 10,000 more troops, by 8 clock Saturday morn-
ing.
Not many lives were lost at Fort Henry. Our
forces were driven out by the shells from the enemy's
gunboat.-.
Tbe Tennessee river bridge wa s burned between 5
and C o'clock last evening. Our force*, retreating on
Fort Donelson. were pursued by tbe enemy. It is
reported that Fort Henry is Inundated.
Dr. Cliffe* who was captured at Fish'.ng Creek,
has been released, and arrived here early thia
morning.
Gen. Pillow has been assigned the command at
Fort Donelson.
Fort DoHKLsoH.Feb. 7—.Geo. Tilgham, Major
Gillmore. Capt. Miller, and about eighty officers
and men, surrendered at Fort Henry with the
fort, and remained to covtr the retreat of our
forces.
Col. Heiman brcught over the rest of the com-
mand, numbering 3000 men, in good order to this
post, Krriving at II o'clock last night.
Owing to he bad slate of the roads, high water,
and an attack in his rear, by the enemy's cavalry;
Col. Heiman says it was a matter of physical im-
possibility to save tbe field brtteries.
Nothing was saved but the small arms.
An attack is not expected here until to-morrow.
Mkmphts, Feb. 7.—A special dispatch from Pa-
ris last night reports three gunboats arrived at
the Tennessee river bridge yesterday, at II o'clock
and took possession of the bridge, turned the
draw,and passed up the river, first shelling the
town, but did not damage the bridge.
Nostolk. Feb. 8.—The engagement at Roanoke
Island commenced ou Friday, in the foronoon,
and continued until the courier left, at two o'clock
the same afternoon. * Tne enemy had then ceased
firing.
The most energetic portion of the attack was an
attempt of the Federals to land, which failed.
Two or tbree of the steamers were much damaged.
Our batteries were uninjured, and coolly con-
ducted, resulting in great precision of fire. Some
of the private residences on the Island were in-
jured
Gen. Wise being at Nac's Head, sick in bed. his
physicians could with difficulty control him auriag
th;s entailment and right.
He«\*y firing southward was-heard at Norfsik up to
one o'clock to-day, and It it presumed io be canuona
lug at Roanoke.
Memphis, Jan. S.—This city Is full of excitement
in consequence of the ascent of the Tennetsee river
by the federal gunboat-*. The Federals went to
Florence and destroyed tbe warehouse at 'J'u^um-
bla, landing and In flirting other Injuries. Ii is re-
ported they are marching towards lnka.
Special to Pica3m ne.
MiMPdis, Feb. 7.—Later advices received here con-
firm the report of the capture, by the Federal, of Fort
Henry, bnt contradict those of the destruction of the
railr *ad bridge over tbe Tennessee, at Danville.
Brig. Gen. TUghman's command, which was in Fort
Henry, retreated towards Fort Done Icon, on the
Cnmberland. where our armament and forces are
stronger than were those at Fort Henry.
There is a reoort that three companies of Feder-
al cavalry had reached ParU; and that the enemy
had landed a large cavalry force on tbe west bank
of the river to cutoff our retreat.
Five of our steamers escaped up the riyer. The
Federal gunboats pursued them and struck one of
ih&n-
There vere but few stores and but little ammu-
nition (fourteen cannon*) captured by tbe enemy
atJFort Henry.
Norfolk, Feb. s.—A messenger from Roanoke
Inland Iiaa arrived. He reports a heavy cannonade
there yesterday, at 10 o'clock, which waged until
night. Our batteries returned the fire gallantly, set-
ting oi-e steamer ou tire. The attempt to land, under
cover or tho guns, had not succeeded when the cou-
irierleft. it was uppo«eu the tight would be renewed
this morningj No killed are reported.
Wise is ill and has removed his quarters to Nags
Head.i
Memphis, Feb. Dispatches to the Superintec
dent of the Charleston Railroad, received here, sav
that three Federal gunboats reached Florence to-day,
at ? o'clock, in hot pursuit of five Corfeaerate steam-
ers going up Tennessee liver. Tne river being high
It was impossible for our boats to pas.s the bridge,
and tier were burned.
The telegraph line was cut at Florence .iust after
the operator had left with the imstrumenU.
It was reported at Tuscumbia that a body of in-
fan try was coming from the river, two m ilea dis-
tant, to burn the trestle work, this side of there,
on the Memphis and Charleston Railroad.
Two gunboats remained at Kattport, eight miles
from Inks.
It is reportod that troops are moving on Iuka,
to barn the bridge over Bear Creek. Troops have
been sent up from here to intercept their move-
metita.
Much excitement prevails here, military enthu-
siasm runnia/ high.
Mkmphis. Feb 8.—A dispatch from Inke,
Charleston Deport, says that tbe Lincoln gun-
boats are at Eastport ; also that troop® of the en-
emy are marching on lnka
Freight foing both ways was stopped. The
small train due at 1«£ p. a. to-day failed.
It is suj-posed that the enemy's guuboats are
chasing Confederate transports, and that the en-
emy will destroy the bridges that fall into his
hands.
Mr. Cabanas, of Brownsville, arrived here lar t
Friday evening, and to him we are indebted fbr a fall
account of the capture, by the Federals, of a British
steamer on the R'.o Grande. He says the matter
caused a great deal of indignation. The British con
sul at Matamoros offered at once to Memnlfy Oetling
A Co. so certain was hefthat his Government would
make matters rleht.
The doings of the FeJerals about Aransas Pass w-fll
interest our readers. They will see sights If they
make too much disturbance there.
| The Federal sloop-of-war Portsmouth. :2 guns,
arrived off the Rio Grande about the third instant
and immediately seized the English steamship
Labuan. and on the third day afterwards, under a
prize crew, sent her away.
On Friday the 7th, the first day a pilot could
venture out after the Lahuan wa6 seitcd, the Brit-
ish Vice-Consul of Matamoras paid a visit to the
Portsmouth, and formally demanded to know why
the steamship had been seised, nnd where sent ?
The only answer received was that she was found
with cotton on board from Matamoras, and that
they, the Abrahamites. did not allow cotton to be
shipped from the port of Matamoras 11 1
The Labuan had arrived off the Rio Grande,
direct from Great Britain, a few weeks before her
siesure, with assorted cargo, under consignment
to Messrs. Oteling & Co., ot Matamoras; which
cargo had been discharged. When seized, she had
on board about three hundred hales of cotton, and
was only waiting for a full load of the staple.
Messrs. Oteling Sc. Co., were shipping the cotton
direct to Europe.
At the time of seizure the stesmer was laying In tbe
Gulf, about two miles from tbe mouth of the Rio
Grande. The only papers the bad on board was a re-
ceiot, from the Collector of Mattamoros, tor the ship's
papers, which had been placed in the Collector3*hands
for safe keeping.
The English Vice-Consul entered his protect against
the seizure of the steamer before leaving the Ports-
mouth, and Immediately upon reaching Matatnoroh,
made a full report of the proceedings to tee English
CorifcUi at Havana, for which place a vessel was to
have left ou Saturday, the 3th «nst.
The British Conaui, witu whom I conversed, is con-
fident that the seized ship was sent to Key We^t; and
he is eqoailv confident that difficulty wiil a rite be-
tween hs Government and the children of "Abra-
ham El JYi'/nero,* as our neighbors on the olber tide
are pleased to cail the Constitutional ursur^-r.
The Abrahamites landed at Cedar Buvou, between
Aransas and Saluria, from a bark, early last week.
Tbey killed a beef and wrung the necks oi a lew
chickens, but did «•> otber damage. It was their In-
tention to capture several cotton bdat5Ty7rx"TTri* -
hay at the time, about three miles distant from the
bayou, but when being assured by,Mr. Sett !e,residing
on tbe island, that there was not water enough to
float their launches, they returned to the bark with
their plunder.
On Wednesday last, the bark in question an-
chored off Aransas, and, on Friday, two or three
of her launches entered the bay and attempted to
capture the schooner Clorinda, from Sabine, ly-
ing at the Shell Bank,but the appearance of Lieut.
Maltby with twenty-five men. who had waded
through three miles of mud and water to reach the
place, th^t, too, in the face of an opposing
Norther, they turned about and made for their
vessel. On their way back they seized upon the
sloop Beadpost, which Maltby had abandoned in
his pursust of them, owing to head winds, but
being unable to get her out of Turtle Cove, they
took all that was aboard, consisting of spy-glass,
compass, blankets, muster roll of company, <fcc.
The launches also landed at the lower point of
St. Joseph's Island, where the men killed what
sheep as they wanted.
On Saturday, Sunday. !aud Monday, the barque's
brC5fCD " j *'*-deral t*eneral*. and tbe latter
•'There are eighty-three regiments of cavalry to- i themselves such
day,one thousand strong. It takes two hundred
and fifty thtuaand dollars to put one of these regi-
ments on foot before it moves. Twenty millions
of dollars have thus been expended on these cav-
alry regiments before they left the encampments __ _
whare they were mustered into service, and huD- \ ihe opinions of the Con federate
dreds upon hundreds of these horses have been I who are gentleman, and an*., who#e
condemned and sent back to Elmira. and to An- j renaoce may be placed:
napolia, and to thia city to spend the winter. Any i
t day hundreda of them can be aeen round this eity.
chained to trees, where they were left to starve to
death. Gangs of two hundred horses, in varions !
places, have been thus left to die and rot, till the
committee on the District of Columbia, have called
for a measure of legislation to protect the city from
the danger to be apprehended from th^se borae f
Golgothas.
An ex-Governor ot one State otlered to an ex-Judge
of another State live thousand to get permission ot
raise one of these regiments of c.valry.and when
the ex-Judge brought hack the commission the ex-
Governor take* it to his room at the hotel, while an-
other plunderer sits at the key-ho'.e watching like a
niastin. while he inside counts up torty thousand dol- ! Nov
law profit on the horses, and calculate* twenty
thousand dollars more u^on the accoutrements and 1
on tbe other details of immlshin* these regiments i
In addition to the arms in the hands of the six hun-
ured thousand soldiers in the field, there are numer-
ous outstanding coutracts made with private individ-
uals—not made upon advertitement, noi made with
tbe knowledge of the public, bat made by ex-mem-
bere of Congress, who know no more of theuiflerenc*-
between one class of arms and another than doe® ,
Methodist preacher.
ter h*ve rat v uravfet
kMv u-ko.. <>
launches entered Arans .> Pass, landed upon Mustani
Island, ' ' - -. -
mutton.
Island, each time carrying away with them beei
A trap had been set for them to land again on Tues-
day, if they did which, you will hear of tbe killing of
something besides cattle, sheep and chickens.
On tbe ISth tiring was heard in direction ot t.he Pasa
rom a point Id miles beloa- Saluria
We also are obliged to Mr. Cabanas for a copy of
the Fort Brown Flag of thi 6tb, from which we take
the following Items:
Tbe siege 01 Matamoros still drags its slow length
along. Caravajal still holds his position in the city,
while Capistran maintains hia In the Plaza- The ru-
mored approach of Commonfort with Vidaurri's
forces lacks confirmation. Caravajal has established
a foundry and is engaged casting and inch mortar.
His first attempt was not successful. The metal tor
the mortar is furnished by the tx:!!* of a small church
n Jackass Plaza,
The Flag's account of the capture of the La-
buan is substantially the same as that given above
The t lag says three other vessels a*ere captured
by the Portsmouth, all carrying the British or
Mexican fiag, and ownad in or doing business with
Mexico. Besides cotton, the Labuan had a valua
ble specie lilt onboard.
A Mexican news is of little importance. There were
about 12,000 men in Vera Cruz of tbe Spanish forces
A forward movement of the Spaniards on the Capital
was looked for, and the general sentiment was, that
the European intervention was bnt a subtufuge under
which the allies Intended to attempt the conquest o
Mexico.
Most of the reactionary officers have availed
themselves of the amnesty.
Martial law has been proclaimed by Ortega in
San Luis, ZaceUtcas andq&a ntus
Further of th© T*ate Battle.
MM
Kattle..
.1un -
mPHi;
Boonvllle
K4ch Mt'n.
*t. George
Hatrer**...MM~ J
frc4ericktown
Rm-al
Dratiifv(l)*.. «
i**te>.
j Feb. 16]
: March 12
' A 1*11 ]3
■ni
There are outstanding: contracts for t b^inunufa"
tute ot Springfield muskets, the . 5rst one 01 which
cannot be delivered in six months from th'sdar
There is a contract tor the supply of oue million and
ninety thousand muskets, at 28 aollars u piece, when
the arne quality ot muskets are manufactured at
Spriugfield for thirteen and a half apiece: and an ex- -I 5pr'1
member of Congress is now in Has-iafcDusctw win# -"l*"*!
to get machinery made by which he will he abieu> ' AV*1'
manufacture. In fcix months hence, at twentv-one ; Sw
dollars apiece.t^mae rified muskets mauu£aciure<i jo-
day in that armory for thirteeft dollars and a half 5
Providence, befhre six mouths, wifldispose of "this *!"' *
war. or be wui dispose of ue. Not one of the.<e muh- .u,ie
ket6 thus contracted for, will be of tbe slightest ' u,,«
service In this emergency, or before Prt v!d.j&ce %u,"i
whet&er lor good or for evii. will dispose of it.
j ask my frlenus trout *ne Korta and Northwest j
how they exnwrt to be betefited by an armory at j Jnu
Chicago, at Hock Island and at Qnlncy..wl*n a rail- I Ja|r
Hon and ninety-one thousand muskets will.accordluK ! Jalv
to this contract, be thrown upon the country, and i Jolr
that after the war is over, and at snch an enovmou* > Jolv
price, in addition toother ontaun^ig contracts tor 1 JuiV
tbe manufacture, sometime hence, of tw hnndred '
and seventy-two thousand EutieJd rifles? bes«de«
these, there are seveuty-five thousand ti > e bcrJred
and forty-three sets of harness to he delltv-.t hv
and at thv cost or one million nine hundred a ..i
seventy-eight thousand tour hundred and i«rtv-six
dollars.
Battle
July
At:*-
ran*.
depK
JS'pt.
>ept.
Sept.
Sejit.
I have not time to enumerate alflhese contracts
when we appropriated, at the laai somou of Cuu-
greas,for this purpose iwenu of dollars.'
thirty-seven millions and some thousand doit«r«
bad been already pledged to contractors—not for
the purchase of arms for tbe men in the field, not
to protect them in fighting their country's battles • oct
in this great emergency and peril, hot for some j oct.
future use. for soma future occasion.^- to meet ,
present n^ed.6f the contractors -1 don't know
which at this moment TD6 not ottty—rfr?—appro-
priation of last aesaion haa been rxhaorted, but
seventeen millions put upon it. The riot of the
19ih"of April in Baltimore opened this ball, and on
the 2lst of vpril, in the city of New York, there
was organized a corps of plunderers ol treas-
ury. Two millions dollars were entrusted to a
poor, unfortunate, honest, but entirely incompe-
tent editor of a paper in New York, to dispense it
in the best manner he could- Straightway lh:s
gentleman began to purchase linen pantaloons.
straw bats, London porter, dried heirings, and
such like provisions fo^ the army, till he expend-
ed in this way three hundred and ninetv thousand
dollars of the money, and then he got scared and
quit. (Laughter.> There is an appropriation al so
for the supply of wood to the army. The contrac-
tor is pledged the payment of seven dolla's a cord
for all the wood delivered to the different com-
mands: wood collected after the labor of the *ol
diers themselves had cut down the trees to clear
the ground for their batteries', and then this con-
tractor employs tbe army wagons to draw it to the
several camps, and he has no further trouble than
■■an Antonio....
Fon ilr.iwu—...
Fort Sumter.—.'
Fo-t Bliss.
Indtanola .......
Jewel's Pcifit.
Fairfax C. H ...
Aqnia Creek.....
Ptx's Point
Gre.it Bethei... I
\ tenna
Kar.'s City.......
New Creek
RoTnney_„,.
Mf P.iKr ;
UavneevIltottBj
Osrtbage
?c'ry Creek
Buli Kuu..._...
Manasaas^, .!
*«• ■*
hurt S antoiiu. J
iJiSerirarfleld—J
Ifftft's V
20) (lawk1
- L^nes j
■iaf^fH
tfi 2?
ii
....
nt...
* "i
I20(
f:: L'.
St® ta
1*
H2
iat
3 ;
lal
"*Hd
8b
200
ION
I A-
x
{ r
m
j..
.ti-J
=3
7
ft
r
Lew"
tile
j£r
f Oct;
I dct.
j Nov.
' Nov.
i Nov.
I Nov.
! Nor:
i Nov .
Nov
1 Dec.
i Dec.
: Dec.
t Dec.
: D*C
Rsr'vrntr.
LexSngto
Alaru
Steamer Fanny
Gree:i brier.—
t3i ickamaeornl—
" icum
I- Pa«ee«.—..
lb Bohva'- -„j
Lee-l<urg j
Belmont....—..1
Pfketon
Uuyand« -- -
Falls Church
Pensec<.ia ' ii
Sear Vienna..., j :
Anandale- fl
Alleghany j 25!
Woodson viiie ~ |
Opoth'evholo... 12|
Sacramento ......I T
■>
-3,
J ~
"'Xt
i
97
m
fs
S7S
8
«... -
. I*
:r.
Z'.\ 2| 4
eol lft'
V ..... !
an.... | :.r>
Total..
1 w*|;
Fj^u-rrn vtios.
Confederate loa^et
Kide l 1.18t.
Woundel. 3 345
Prlaoners. 1.487
TotaL.....
proved by the following ext met trom the \
correspondence of the New York Titu< ,
date:
By returns at the War Department np to Ibe £0tb
Deoetvt er. i learn that the mnrtalfw | i«*uranx >
since the war broke ou*. win reach 22,000. The num-
ber killed In battles, ski finishes, is altotit Ji.ooo.
the number wounded it.flqfl The number nf prison-
er* In the South and deserter* mmount to moo.
ii" we had the means of ascertaining the Federal
lo#*es by the numerous smaller engagement*, picket
skirmishes, Ac., dnrlng the year, we might ea^i5?
carry the number of killed ard wotto -d up totlic
figure Indicated In Ute New York Time*-.
to draw his seven dollars for a cord, leaving the ! ttui1 have not overrate.: u.e ?.
government to draw the wood. [Laughter, j It proved bv the following evtea(«^ *n !t>.
costs two millions of dollort every day to support
the army in the field. a hundred millions of dol-
lars have thus been expended since we met on the
22d day of December, and all that time the army ]
has been in repose. What the expenditure will
increase to when the great day fhall arrive when !
our eyes shall be gladdened with 'the sight of the
army in motion. i do not known. Another bun- :
dred millions will go with the hundreds more i
have enumerated. Another hundred millions may i
be added to these before the 4tu of March.
The treasury notes Issued in the face of these iui
inense outlays, without revenue from customhouses,
from land sales, from any source whatever, are begin-
ning to tall in the market. Already have thevle'eun
to sell at six per cent, discount at the tables of the
money changers : at the very time, too, ;
that we here exhibit the singular spectacle of fraud.
and 01 a struggle with the Committee of War,. and
Means itself, in au endeavor tn lift up and sustain tbe ?
gcvernment or the country. AJready the sutler—that •
curse of t&e camp—ie followitg the paymaster, as the
shark f.llows the ship, buying up for four doHar* t
every five dollars the wages of the soldiers paid to
them in treasury Votes- i have no desire to hapten
the movements of tbe army, or to criticise the con-
duty of Its leaders, but ia view of the stupendous
drattjs upon the1 treasury. i must say that 1 i n* for * "oilver "he"^nat^d•
the day ol striking the blow that will bring this re- ! e-^llver ue®Pie*a
bellion to an end. Sixty days longer and this stat^ot" . . ^ blankets. , overcoata, w
things will bring about a result one way or tbe other. paiTiradlea aoeks.3 pair woolen mittens.
It is impossible that *he treasury of the United Through Mr. B. W. Taylcr. Houston :
Stutes can meet, and continue to meet, this sort of , Sixty-one coats. 43 pah pants, 30 pair woolen
i, ,,nfiisxtykda!vfl?l*er; fan^ Ignominious pearp socks. 2 pair cotton drawers. 3 pair woolen mil-
must be submitted to unless we see to it that the tens
From Mr,. Anna Pointer, hollandal« :
rigAPHfC aCCOURT.
We condense the following graphic and tl trill-
ing account of the late battle on Fishing Creek.
from a letter in the Nashville Banner, written by
a lieutenant of the same company which the la-
mented young Bailie Peyton commanded :—Pic.
For days previous Maj. Gen. Crittenden had in
formation to satisfy him that the enemy were con-
centrating" large forces around his position at
Mills Springs, with tne evident determination to
cut off his supplies and starve out our little army ;
and a force supposed to be 3000 strong had made
its appearance suddenly on this Bide of Fishing
Creek- Gen. c. concluded it would be politic to
fight the ememy by detachments, to advance upon
the force at Fishing Creek and, if possible, drive
them back, and then to engage afterwards with any
other forces that might obstruct the navigation of
the Cumberland by Southern steamers. He held a
consultation with the different commanders of the
post, and all agreed, with one assent, thatta at-
tack the enemy on Fishing Creek was tbe most
feasible olan of operations.
We were all ordered to cook two days rations
on last Saturday morning, the 19th January, pre-
paratory to a march that night, and towards eve-
ning./re received orders to march at 12 o'clock m.
in tfte direction of Fishing creek. It had been
raining all day. and the roads were in wretched
condition for the task we had before us. the dust
being reduced to the consistency ofmuih, some-
times knee-deep, and in many places almost im-
passable.
At midnight we started on the march—the most
cheerless and disagreeable night i ever experi-
enced, to attack an enemy eight or nine miles dis-
tant. Long before we reached the vicinity of the
enemy, our troops were completely fagged out, from
tbe great difficulty ol dragging themselves through
the thick, heavy slush, in almost e&rptian dark-
ess. Before daylight,a cold, drizzling rain com-
menced falling, which saturated our clothing and
rendered our progress still more difficult and dis-
agreeable. Rarly in the morning our vanguard
commenced firing on the pickets, and now and
then the echo of a distant shot would fall upon
the ear. and at intervals a succession or volleys
of musketry and an occasional rifie shot, which
old that the bloody work was already^ommenced
head. We pushed on. in order to surround the
nemy's camp and take him by surprise before the
day was too rar advanced.
The MisBissippians went down the road towards
the upper ford of Fishing Creek, at a double quick,
followed by Cummings's regiment. Just then a
couple of riderless horses came galloping towards
ns from the woads ahead, which proved that the
advsmce cavalry had encountered the enemy with-
out doubt. thf two preceding regiments were just
disappearing in a skirt of woods on ahead of us,
when our regiment (Col. Battle's) was ordered to
double-quick, and we went forward rapidly. We
filed to the left across an open field, and then ;
formed in line of battle, and so advanced up the
field in the direction of the enemy's camp, which
we had not yet seen. As we passed, i saw General
Zolliroffer sitting quietly in his saddle, and sur-
rounded by his staff. a placid smile stole over
his features, as we went forward with so much
eagerness and hurry, and that was the last i saw
of him. for he fell on the battle-field in an hour
afterwards. As we advanced into a copse of woods
at the upper end of the field, the Missiisippians
opened fire on our left. We quickened our pace,
and coming out of the woods on the rise of another
open field, found ourselves in the very face of the
enemy, who opened on u6 a terrific volley.
Our boys commenced firing without waiting for
orders, and then the battle commenced in dead
earnest. For three-quarter* of an hour it was one
incessant, deafening rat tie of small arms, inter-
mingled with the heavy booming of the enemy's
cannon and the crash of grape and cannister
among the trees and bushes- Just then it com-
menced raining, and the priming in the pans of
our muskets became wet and the pieces refused
fire. In this the enemy hkd a fearful advantage i lijeaol-Jievthnstodle'
by the conviction goi ng forth from thi shall to the
people of the country that we will treat as traitor?.
not only those who are bold and manlv enongh to
meet us face to face in the field of strife, but all tho*e
also who clandestinely and stealthily suck the life
blood irom us in the mighty struggle.
The Capture of Fort fleary.
The Memphis Appeal of the 9th contains the an -
nexed particulara of the capture «f Fort Henry,
its situation, a:c.:
them to the hospitals here.bear in
much needed.—jed. Tel.]
they 1
Submarine batteries were planted below on the
east side of the island, and were being laid in the
west channel on the day of the enemy's approach,
but our plans were disturbed before rully perfected.
a special dispatch to the Avalanche, dated
Paris, Feb. b\ says
From the Camps
The following letter from Capt. PoweiL will flud an
echo In the hearts of all patriots. head it, and if
m* mmon hs* toe upper hands of patriotism in your
soul, let the voice of a patriot soldier d-ive th - sordid
dem^n en t.
Camp dth Txxas Reoihxm ,
t-- ^ Duxrixs. Jan. uih, ;
Frtena CusJuno:—-xtmr various « orrespondenla
have kept yon well informed upon even's occurLnJ
aud In anticipation. wcuring
Our Begiment although having suffered severely fs
at her post i*ady tomeet the enemy, and i-oofident
ofv.ctory. We are now more hopetul, our health ii
Improving and cheerfulness once more enlivens tbe
camp we bave ju*t moved to new quarters and are
In comfortable cabins. My company have to nmnra
the los." of four noble and gaJUni spirits—k h ai
of .Wa^r • onni>: CTRAYKO.-PrwD Parsms'JUegira en*, feb 3d,
Thev ^v Cuunlotham. of Waeerlv. tr ow d*rk b*y hon5*- four years old. hau -
o{ .liberty, though branded on the left shoulder with "3." white in the
5.be balt!a * ^rerk it h hard for ' Uoe' hind foot white. Anv hronwtion as u
Round Top. Fayette Co. toi jTanXVS-S
—— ^
aT TIIE NOVEMBER TERM of the Pm-
bate Court of Limestone Uonntyv Texas, the
nnders-gned was appointed Admlniatraior of the JBs-
ta« of b. d. pr rror<. icceased! All those havin*
chtftn*anlnrt said Ratate. are notified to present
their claims amy authenticated. and ali those who
are indebted to said Estate are r-que*ted to or.me for-
ward and make payment. j. l. billimoton
. 1 •*Sy«rator of the £*t. of b. D. Person
Jan. tftlh. IW2 v-Sm *
LATER NROiU NEW MEXICO,
The las; mail brought us a private letter irom Sib-
ley's Brigade, dated "In camp, 90 miles above Jil
Paso, Jar. 2S," from which we take the following
extract .*
"We arr- maklug every preparation to push lor-
ward to Fort Craig. The 24 Kegtment is camin. i two
mi'es below us, and the 1st battaiiou ot the £d Keg-
mentisou tbe Rio Grande, and will be up in a tew
ddyp. We are drying twenty days' rations, and I think
when you hear irem u> again, we will be in posses-
ion 01 the Fort, having whipped the Yanseea and
taker- £.11 they have. There are no better troops In
the service than the army of New ilexlco, and they
have every confidence that they are fully able to
drive all our enemiea out of this country without the
help of auv other troops.
'* Baylor's command caught five spies a few days
isince 1 rylng to make their way to Fort Craig. They
hung jae aod have the other* in irons, and will lor-
ward tbem to Gen. Sllley. I expect they will hang
also. Ono confessed thai he was employed by the
Federals to give tbem information when 'Jen. Sibiey's
Brigade arrived, which they wete trying fo do when
caught. He (the spy; saj* they will not figbt us, but
retreat to California. I hope not, a- we uo not want
them to destroy all their supplies, munitions. Ac., as
we want tbem very much. Uood living among our
bt.ye not counted aa one of the bics-sings of this
campaign, although we bave as yet plenty of beei and
bread fur brea.tubt, dinner and supper. .Notruai-
bling; all eat what they havo,and are satisdeii that
our Government Is doing all she c.-n tor her aoidiers.
Vou shall hear a good report from m? yoon. Tell our
ft lends we will conquer or leave our bodlea to i.ieacb
on the plains oi hew Mexico."
with their percussion lock rifles. We retired be
low the crown of the hill to get the firelocks in
order, and then advancer! firing again. In this
fire Lieut. Col. Carter'a horse wa* killed, aod it
was a miracle he was not killed himself in the
shower of Minie balls that whiased savagely over
onr heads. At this juncture we were in a fearful
Htrait, with guns rendered utterly useless by the
rain, and no supporting regiment coming to onr
assistance, while we knew, from the report of their
guns, that the enemy were advancing in front.
Then, ;ts a last resort, we were ordered to charge
right in among the Yankees, and the gallant ?dth
went forward with a yell that made the woods re
sound. They reserved their fire until we hsd ap-
proached quite close upon their fortifications, and
then they opened upon us a murderous fire, so con-
stant, so regular and so deadly, that no troops in
the world could withstand it, and we were forced
to retire with heavy losses.
Our charge is all t hat saved the MtsxlsslppiJriH, -ho
were fighting desperately on the left—indeed, that
regiment and onr ow n were the chief participants and
the only sufferers In the action. I have since he erd
officers who were it the Mexican campaign, assert
that at th* charge of Monterey, tbe enemy'.- ballets
never came so fast as they did on tbl* occasion. It
1 really seemed as it one con Id Just hold out his open
hand and gather bo'lets by tue handfbll. The .regi-
ments in the rear of us were panle-strlcken at the
overwhelming force ot the enemy. At that time we
were scattered about in sqnadt. and endeavoring to
overtake tbe remaining regiments, who had fallen
back, and were falling back oil our encamped and forti-
fied position at Mills frprings. Everybody aeerued to
he retreating, though nobody was running to an alarm-
iug extent. 1 avoided the main road my*lf. aod kept
y> the woods, and after a while we all got lost in the
woods. We could still hear the enemy shooting at
stragglers in the rear, and occasionally, the boom
boom? of tbe cannon, advancing toward* Milia Springs.
We got in ab-uit five o'clock, almost exhausted, and '
bad barelv net foot inside our own breastwork - b.-fore
the cmuf>n of the enemy commenced hombaidmg us
from outAlde. Our cannon returned the tire and drove '
the assailants back. At. nightfall the firing ceased, hut
our men, tired and worn out they were, stood be-
hind the breastwork* until midnight, when ord-r*
came for us to retreat quietiv acro?« the river. Tbe
steamer Noble Ellis, with three hifgea attached, com-
menced the work of transportation, and though we
abandoned baggage, and wagons, and horse* and can-
non. and everything save what we had on our backs,
tbe whole night was consumed In retting th armv
over the river, which was \erv high at tbe is me. I
should not forget to mention that the cannon -^ere
spiked Wore they were left.
TEXAS ITEM S.
The Fairtield Pioneer has resumed, it « ai not
our noble Texas has done everything to make her
j^^ccmfortable. Her Kegimenu this dav tn tt£
best ciotbed troops in the world. Te 1 her to *ej*!
mom Rv her niik)!.. k. 111
j *ald bot e will be thankfully received auu trouble r
T2£?*. Aldrea- J. P. SPILL MAX. Co. <J..
tehy-wlt Pstwq w Rer't. B on Eton
>rV her public action her soldiers harTSS Ol5!,A!n 4 WHITEN Dlf iKST for SALE,
^ylocks, domestic aaxiety relieved, and 77 undersigned. under authonfy from t)ie Leg-
mo re.
ty
there is not on* care left to seduce the true natriot j i^iature oflern lor sale copies ot Okihazn A White's 1*.
speralattonl krre bee^'made' j^rral..mla,jon- Mar,-V ' *so° Percopy.^'t being the origin
j al cost.) They will be sent by tn«'ii to any nan of tb*-
State. — -
is uwles to conjecture,manv hal,ul'" Lver\ order mu«t be accompanied by tne
for fOTe^n interference, they mourn their d'sannotiir- ' cln°unt nec^ai' ror the book and one dolla-
ment, while i rejoice. If our ports are o^aea ta-ade on it l warrant* yeelvab'-e
2rriveAmoney in 80,1 the energies or war ' '"I1!1* D c, :x UKWWT.
increased.but our people win also return :o the mS February 1
, 191*1
^ec-etary of State
. P«>Ple in return :o the pn"r
l ^ce, and peace np^n any terST^cttri^S^r*!! be ' GWUKMI OQiljKT—Wr'rttm
no longer fil/ed by a senae of patriotic dntv bu' bv suant to anact « t th Lejgi«!atore. approved De-
compuLfiou and hirvi subtlitniet. In ulaoe nf m «-^mber 31st, 1961, notice ts hereby riven that the Jann-
army representing the chivalry and worthni .hi i ^ 1>**. of the Supreme Coort ior tae GaVe*-
comntry, we will hare one of hirelings and wiil ^ holder, a*, the city of Houston.
hitn. Already our national name!- shadowed w,th . .c,vl! cai-e w.ll be determined n the order in which
shame,for It ha* gone forth to the world that we ,DHV l,a*e taenoj may le submitted, unles* con-
would welcome any a** tstance that would relievo nv 1 Lllm*1 under the'provision of the act of tbe2Ttho*
irom the inconveniences and coro,euu^nre« «t C 1 Dew ber. 1MQ. Cases not heretofore submitted wii
oa-n conduct. Already .we bave lower.i the I 1K>t ^ beard until tbe submitted cases aha 11 have been
of nut w>n kfrnnr — 1 I dUpos- of Criminal all! be heard in tbe order
Itereuifore observed, at the Jan^arr s -s*ion, is61.
Austin, Jan. 1862. B. t. WHEELER.
Jan. 55—w tw Sw Chf. J. Sup. Court.
of natHmtl honor, before we have achieved oitr
natjom^ity or fully proven our capacity to do It
at? assistance that we mar even accept or Intimate
x-1^'11 given unsskoti, will
\\ e<j ro WABf, -ays his name is jim, and be-
JHBP _,.u , >>*Mfa to M. A. Dickson, nesr Shreveport, L#..
mld-aay an i grapplea with the wretch- okt.5 feet, nine iache> high, and ITU
vitsrtit uhiu ... * reicu , trfinnrts vnh «,•/* nmu, teeth decayed
b county. OwDf
be . cau^ot"future humnuuon, iV ^t ii™"™: Sow
to-day suffering all the inconveniences and dis- orn-
forts of winters severity, where disease and
holds court at mld-aay ami grapple* with the wretch
ed soldier at bight. *> hiie our Regiments treraul ^ fonuds welgut, with two upper front
like withered leaves in the winter's olasts JSdS beea committed t :al! of Barrit c
sacrifice 01 everything on earth dear to man Jtx* ' w,il prove Pri,P^riy. pa> charges, and take him awa?
honor, i say us fight It out alone and unaMed G W ******* Sherifi.
^e^th.'Pow^wdchpfomi^ I
If we cannot achieve our Indepemteoce we are nn. ~ -
vorlhy of it. 4nytiln« lees wou|.J leave Uicon-cnleui ! L"t!''
*t' «"-"'rtlons. L.t all corar I
ty*Uiw wl > one rt—q one miorj. ami car.* -n-
•tepeBdefliv. aod peace will be our reward
1 ours truly. k M. POWELL.
THIRTY CAVALRY !tlKN wanted
k For iix mouths >ervlce on tbe Rk> Grande. lhi>
1 mouths
l call that v.
rande. fbb-
made for six months ser
Recruita will report at S'erflng. Robertson (Jauntv.
• w - r. talbot
unill the i : of March.
fob is.wit*
Captain C. E.
A ,ilnnl(i«B of Barbarous Warfare,
uot^rttigeT.h'.eomptnt o. Coi R„.,. ;i] Art „.
, . ^ erihll ited to u. ou
facvert a ! 0\,
( mix and WOOLFACT0B8.UI4OfaeralCom-
v ml sion Merchanta. Matamoros. Mexico, willre
j ceive and *11, on commiral-m.atl cotton and wool
| consigned to thtiu Accoantsof aaies promptly rec
deed. Liberal cash advance# AH communlcatioos
yesterday a alDgular contrivance of Yankee incetmltv 10 be addreeeed Brownsville. Texae.
•bullet by tbe Peieral troops in tbe Jate flrbt Karuts to B. Tiernan, a. c. Crawford. Galveston ,
near Bath. It has the iorm of an ordinary conical t«r---mayer, Lagrange; 1 ultou, Cariwell a Co., La-
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Orrcoa or Mtnirat. Director It Peav yok,/
Unnrm?;, i^ebroary 13. 1962. S
K, ti. Ctski%£ I desire to acknowledge the
receipt, and return thanks through your paper
for the following very renerouB contrfbntioi -
for the sick in hospital. Respectfully yours,
henri P. HOWARD.
Medical Director It Purvayor,
Galveston Mil. Dist.
list or ARTICLE?.
From Mrs Dr. McK^nxie Johnson, and JUrs. M.
Tvoplllowt, six towels,n battles of Texas port
wine.
Through Mr. K. H. Cashing, agent for the Hos-
pital Fund Cash $75,3 pillows, 13 pillow ticka,
5 woolen underahirts. 13 pair woolen socks, U
towela, 6 bed sheets. 2 coats. 3 ounce* lint. IS
pieces soap. 2t'> handkerchief?, 24 pair woolen
aocks-
lOf the above articles received from us. the 2*
pairs socks were out of a lot of 48 pairs sent to
us by the pupils of Bellverille Academy,for Capt.
McCown's company, btn which we hare been un-
able to forward him; the other 24 pairs were jrfven
to Oapt. Tomlinso&'g company. The other arti-
cles were sent te us to be forwarded to the Vir
ginia hospitals, but which we were unable to get
We are forced this morning, ss we seriously ap •
prehended. to chronicle the fall of Fort Henry.
The enemy attacked the position on yesterday
about half past 11 o'ciock a. at., with five gun-
boats. and after a bombardment of ae hour aud a
half, and the disabling of one or two of their
boats, compelled a surrender. Thev then nro- , . .....
ceeded np the Tenneve* rirer and burned the i off' ,cd l00k ^ appropnatuif
railroad bridge over that stream.
We are enabled to state from our own knowledge,
that the amount of stores and ammunition taken
was small. The fort was located on the east bank
of the Tennessee river, twenty miles below the
railroad, and was purely an earthwork defence,
though of considerable magnitude. It was sur-
snrrouded by a deep ditoh and strengthened by
rifie pits in the rear.
Only a small portion of Oen. Tilghman
Vjexy Important Mimiaei Bill — a System of Vhi
verstu Enlistment.—we have obtainei a ctpy of an
important hill, passed hy Congres# and approved br
the Prudent. It proposes, as wilt be aeen, some
radical and important changes in the organization
and enlistment of our military torces,. As«n .
mand (probably 500 men) were stationed itnmedi- i Pr«ate explanation of Its otjects, we make a^rie
'itbiD p-1 u'
COn^trii?e,cl^tiefort n vioterior-1
consisting of fourteen guns of the following de- ; mg their acceptance by companies.
ecription : One 126-pounder, not properly mount- ' 2. In tbe second taction 11 changes tbe made of ap-
ed, and rendered unserviceable after being firifl pointmentof held and company officers; the original
twice last Tuesday. One 32-pounder rifled, the I blllglvinf: to the PreKideot tue puwer ot appoiiit-
only one that could compete in range with the 10- . ,
inch gans of the enemy. The others were 41 and i <v,tem SnromothTu "at; vacancI, b b* ■
34-pounders. Only four of our gans were in posi- .' "4. rt prwlaes: r deti
tion so as to range with the ascending boats.
i 5 ailing officersto recnilt.
It provides a system of universal rntl 'mrnit.
witu special encouragement for :alslnc inllltar**
corps.
Toe bill fwhleh is bow a law) ts oneof mncfclropor.
tanfe and lolerest, and we learn, has b -en partialis-
denenedoyConzress aroid. If iw«li.le, tne trf-
te^f coaatrlpUcn, or Jr-.uuiiu Vy 'uviti.wln* tbe
I w the conflict at Fort Henrr, and «itnes«ed votaot^f., oa,ria* !ndncem«u to
the defeat cf our forces at that place with the ! —
deepest regret. After our rorces gave up the fort, j
of cavalry on this side of the river. They a?i^ j NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
vanced on two aides to cut off our retreat, but we 1 1
managed our escape by swimming a creck and ar- ! T \RT\ RH^niP _u 7^——1
DMhio" rUU 14fe* The aUmT D"' 0Ce"P OUr I *' -toy eu*einto «
""•'""P.T.HUBBAED. of Honiton Cavair,.
In it, editorial summary, the Avalanche of the ''f of John Ftuic ,t> >H S PI Ch *
Tth says: iayetievlile,F.b.7, witwSw fHlLIP fLCk.
The rail oad train left l'aris between one nnd I
two o'clock this morning, and it i, not inproha- ' HWijr.rtSIGV177jV be!r .pro nted a:ih.
ble that it will be some time before onr anthorities : ol.l!OT€n3 ^orr;1 ■ '*1, oi theCc-nntv Orcrt ot
will permit the cars to g. up so near the enemy. I w Shfwi! t' A'^ml0Wra!or npon the estate of J
Varions are the conjectnre, in reference t^the ?*>>■* rt pwmt te-
eCect of the more. We hare an hiding conll- howS: 2^
dence that it will eienluate in good to onr caaae. j .ntlwnt'cainl aerorflng t. !,w Vo Tihn a??
The fort captured can do them but liU.it service, | ab5ence.to hu Attorney, Hanin t.kusta^-
and if Johnston does not pay them back within ' k r t. k- ►'akhrll
terest. we shall be much mistaken *eb waw admintefrator of j. w. e7-« «-- pker.
Administrators Kotice.
The undertdsned having beer appointed admlnis-
i ii* riof estate of Jnhaa A. Wiina, deoeasod. b*
art of Faiette county, at the
December Term, A. D. 1*1: all persons bavins
claims against said eatate are berehv notified tc
prfeent them for alto wince, within the time pre-
scribed by law; and si! persons indebted to saw
estate are requested to onnie forward and settle tbe
*ain«?. SAM. K. UWU. Administrator
■h Texas, Jai *
tlOdV a
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JO3 The Bhinplaster men of New Orleans are
being arraigned by the Grand Jury. The Balletin
^ays :
The most important movement iu connection ,
with financial matters which has juit transpired j -vonr sn,1<J**ri
r,?c" J recently was the arraignment by the Grand Jury like death.
,e [ cf the various parti'-s mho bave for several
ra] f months been Hooding the city with the irredeema-
n*i j ' 1« and illegal currency, euphoniously termed
•m- I shinplasters. Tbe time, it appears, hns at last
] arrived when every one who can furnish pasteboard
will net om entitled to banking privileges, and it
s to be sincerely hoped that all who have arAi
?.ited to themselves the right to issue promises to
j P*y in contravention of l^w may be made to t«uf
if tl e positions of * «er the penalties they have wantonly incurred.
.he morning of the 21st Jti'y, and of * ■
uges "f the batt'e ; r!.-o, or the line ot • 1 - -
:.t of rdackf.orn's Ford. These mans '■ We an* authorized to anno inee K. Tbw-dore
jTveyh made by*Capt D. B. liarrfson ' biuyth of Montgomery, for Judge of ihe Tth District.
bail Tr. ib ordinary conical
inrk ^m4l! excavation coutalu- :
blfnt?l^H^PrJ? ♦w1th ani having a ta- :
tSn exposed side, tilled with a
01 pu°!f. an'1 " green, nolsonous looking
verlicrts. When the gun or
?^s;^"jlasibel0Sver}~ tomboitible. isim-
powder .ttuic
I cun.-?^, n Wi!h °ach « <l' bolica: ;
.V™ i s uf course but few vlcUu.. who I
I SmlrttU ultimate .Unttl. Lient. Fiu-
stopped for want of paptT, the editor hs int a stoct : i .X.t.1 ^ <" tbese curious twl In in |
for.year and a half on hand. ! theenemy had utm !
The Pioneer ^peaks of tbe 4th volunteer company
taking ita departure from that place for ser\?ce In
the army.
The Pioneer protests againai being numbered with MM1JS IIBa fu rn
the dead. W e t*ke it m11 back bro. Caldwell, though j Chrlstiau North" is an authentic "circumstance which
In tbes^ r'mes looked exceeding- "*"* *
vaca; £. f. gwen^on. Austlo ;* Hon. J. B
Wsbberville; Ool. Qfi ver. Houston. ietl7«w3m.
r w. orai a. a. Excs&azieoH.
GRAY A KICHARDSON.
Attorneys and ('ounspllors at Law,
Houston, Texa*.
Mr. RicbaM*>n will attcafi to my buslae^ during
my absence. P. V. GRAY.
Houston. January 31. l£6l. lm
i. -Ti: 1 — iuo cutaij nau uira
i . the Potomac. He .tute. ib.t
our soldiers heard tbem bursting about their beadt- , ^ - ^ — — —.
continually dusing the fight on the day previous an«i i mnUtto boy EH FOB. Said boy u i J ye irs old. !ltb«
HTIfc 10 account for tbe noise* until making
this discovery. The lact that *o gavajie and barba-
rousan expedient.better worthy 01 the Bepoy and
resorted to by "the civilised aud
uuistian North" is an authentic circumstance which
°«Iht certainly to find its wav Into the futnre h'sto-
ry or thia -vat. — Memphis Apptal, January 21.
SKWAKJI.-l will pay th« above reward
for the arrest nd 8*te delivery to me of my
moUtto hey RUFUB. Said boy u 2tya«rs ok. !i h«
mulatto. live feei elt;t-i lnci.es hadon a geoc
suit of of clothe«. and a black ribt ed overcast when
1 ent) Capitol.
;!«*ntlon To the reports of t
n mni.dera lor reference to
'.riclvlduals o' their este'
iict' ry stistement-^ fotind i
excite ^u^|^ri.«e. when we
not Impcasib •. it fo rec
lander- or p.*' •. ^* 1;:
able afi~ r t-'m. h le?s th
)f a battle r
p->
jn.fmlter I
ncdethe
even the J
Bellvllle Countryman has the following.
Ou la^-t Mouisy evening, fhe little children of I>r.
snrf ted /in old pistol '
hp time and were hav
• Ktiappuo: u at each other. !
nt r.' t e 02 tht-ni ktiov. Ing it I
ha
Howard, of llils p!ai
that had beeii laid a-
lug child sp««rt ^ ith
The pft*tol w !<>-de«
a can was put < n \ <
t-care hi- - o.aiger s:?
of the liitie girip, -a*
sot out 01 tae way.
llowani stepped fov.ard and told her" brother he
might sh >ot at her. and he pulled trigger and tbe
cot.tenth took etr>ct in her bead, reanltlnp. It i
thought. dt iger' nsTvr though hope-are eutertalnen
of her recovery
he )eft.<Dec. 3P. ' has a flight stammer when sn'idecly
spoken to. He was brought lxutu Hen^pstead two
years ago. XI. BUKhKBlSO*
Houston, Feb. 7,1861. iw. -
TTTEareantbortied to announce JAf. A. JTAHJ2R,
ft Ksq.. rf Hontsvtffe, as a candidate for Judge of
the 7th Judicial District.
; h-* then leveled it at
te \*:>uid ahooL her, bur. she
little daughter .f Dr.
the
„ CJKNEKAI.ORDEK. No. 6.
HUMiriKTERS. Dep«rtn/ent <■! l'exiu, „«.■ -..un
Hoicioy, Jaa.6th, / A „ l^Ey K.-S PLANTATION RErOHy ■
Commanders of Regiments and Battal^ns vbo* J saie at this outer, prror?. «na
men are unprovided wlih bavonets. will take the , Cash muu r'u-omp^ny <ill or^err'. LU-wt^it
neceaaarr f-teo> to provide tbem with side-arms, such ,_.„v w4Was -Price
*■5 bowie-knives or such cutlasses at may be made or 1 rjlLHAill^ SilLfPAKY v**
procured In the country. v-f. «- Sent t y •nail, d f * S l. For**
OlHceraa? d ofhe.-a, now rerruitlac CofflpaiileaBat- ; Hnoatno. ,fn^. H.sa
talioneand Regiments,to be offered aimeda.ndequip- ; T ohT_ ^u , lb- c g butlhedty
ped. wm cauae their men to be proved with clde- ; 1 bxle, of
.rmsa^bove By order of^ ^ HEBgKT_, j hay, tin. Caled h. Payu«*
tf Saxrzx Bona Ptvis, Ms'-jt, A. A. G. tFeb. 14—3t j
J. U itOOV.
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Cushing, E. H. The Weekly Telegraph (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 49, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 19, 1862, newspaper, February 19, 1862; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth236181/m1/2/?q=j+w+gardner: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.