riiUi-^rii^EN^-i I 9r -"■ f ^n the C'erl. h ' - S^i-ank-l : I :]sr ID E-s: PAGE. The Praiaea we have won — our dity •now,.. 8 A Remarkable Vision, • 6 Phenomenon— Ssvord in the Heavens, 11 A Phenomenon —The Sword in the Heavens,. 16 European Eecognition, 18 A Recent Dream, 24 General Thomas J. Jackson — A Bio- graphical sketch of St.onewall,.. 26 His Battle of Falling Waters,... 28 " '' *•' Kernstown, 29 " M'Dowell,... . 30 " " " Winchester,.;. ..30 Port Republic........ 31 Yankee Notions about the General- ship of Stonewall Jackson, 33 Tackson's Marches, 85 Geiiei-al John II. Morgan — Biographi-"^ cal Sketch of the Dashing" Piirti- zan Leader, HC General Morgan's Capture of Seven- teen Cities — The most extraordi- nary Chapter in the History of the War, 39 Official Report of Col. John H. Mor- gan, 4^ History of a Yankee Chase and Cap- ture of Federal Bridge-burners — A Biocraphical Sketch of Capt.' W. A. P'uUer, 54 General Forrest just' in Time, 57 The Confederate States Navy, 58 Woe to the Vanquished, ; 59 Doctor M'Dowcll of St. Louis— An Important Letter, of December 15, 1859, , ,,. 62 The. Mystery of Negrophilisra, . . 69 Yanbee Mistakes in regard to the South, 71 Tour Hundred Thousand Men already buried being the loss in tEeTWorth- ern Armies, for the first year and' a half of the War, T2 PASB. European Opinion of Butler's Procla- mation,-; 75 Butler's Proclamation, by Paul H. Hayne, * 7^ . The enemy acknowledges a severe whipping— They resort to lyipg to rally their men— "Bravery of the Rebel Troops," 80 The Women of the Revolution, 88 Lincoln and his Proclamation,.. S4 The Pederars Bombardment of Vicks- burg — Providence protects the Innocent, ", 87 The Seige of Vicksburg and the Les- son it teaches, 89 Federal loss 95,000 men in a campaign of two weeks. Losses of the two Armies — The Balance Sheet,.... 91 General Bragg's Address to the Peo- ple of the North- West, . : 93 Noble Generosity 97 Our Duty to the Soldier, .101 Sympathy, .-.lOS Our New Star Spangled Banner, 104 A Patriotic Song from across the "Wa- ters— The Southern Cross, 106 The Doctrine of the North, 107 The Battle of Shilo>^ 108 Oh ! Weep not for be So' \hr Lad,. ..109 The Voices of 1862, 110 StonewaU Jackson, ...... 112 The Acts of the last SesSio^T' -of Con- gress, A ...T....114 Acts relative to the Army, 114 " •' Navy, 116 " " " " Financial Affairs,! n " " " " Postal, 117 " " " " Judicial, 117 " " " " Treasury Notes,. 11 7 " " " "- Resolutions of thanks, 118 " " " " Sick and Woun- ded Soldiers, 118 " '■• • Miscellaneous Affairs.. 119 ERRATA. On tuikd page : " It i^i said that the war has visited us so long," &c,y should read sad. / . On ninth page :, '" Wheu up started from thQ crown^^^ &C'., should read crowd. ,- On fifteenth page : " We of the South have been over credulous as to the mora effect," &c., should read moral. On Titlb page : Copy-right secured in South Carolina^ instead of Georgia. ^ CONFEIIERATE MONITOR PATRIOT'S FRIEND. Containing sketches of numerous important and thrilling events of the present Revolution, together with several in- teresting chapters of history concerning GEN. STONEWALL JACKSON, GEN. MORGAN, AND OTHER Grreat men oV a new Nation Her armor and salvation. n infant nation is .joftf to the world, An infant in asre j in form, a giant'stroufj:, oes forth to battle with a nation old, ' To free itself fiom oppression and wrong. Tlie tj'ratit now refublic' thouirh 'taa been, ' Came foi-wjrd with mi2:bt this infant to crush. Whose armor's wielded with hopes virtuous sbeeu, Oheck'd the monster with an impetuous ru?b Its arm, though young, is nerved for the strife ; Its virtue a d strength nature's God hathgiveu, WMth terrible carnage, regardless of life, T'le Despot from its borders has driven. AIKEN SOUTH CAROtTNA. (^ itered, according to Act of Congress of Confederafe States, in the year 1 862, by n. F. R. JACKSON, " - Tn the Clerk's Office of the Northern District of Georgia, in Atl;uvta. ATLANTA, GEOEGIA : >^ FraixliliTi Steara iPrintiiag Uonse, * • J. jr. TOON & CO. 186S. y Barnwell District, March, 1862. H. W. R. Jackson, of Aiken Beat Company, 11th Regi- ment South Carolina Militia, in consequence of deformity of left leg, on account of fracture, is declared incapable of mil- itary duty, and is hereby exempted from conscription. T. J. COUNTS, Chairman. J. J. O'Bannon, Sec't/. Being an invalid," I have given my entire attention to the publication of several vrorks since the commencement of our Revolution, having- a bearing upon our national cause, hoping thereby to render good service to the Confederacy. H. W. R. JACKSON, Aiken, South Carolina. fi^ef'^ce:. For a Preface to correspond with the title of this work, I could think of no subject more appropriate to arouse in- creased ardor and patriotic devotion to the cause of the Confederacy, than to produce the follovving extracts which will be held in cherished remembrance by a devoted people, inasmuch as the crowned heads of Europe are extending to us the meed of praise so nol)ly won by an unparrelled and self-sacrificing devotion of our Generals and Soldiers upon many well fought fields of battle, where a thousand victo- ries have perched upon our banners. H. W. R. J. THE PRAISES WE HAVE WON--OUR DUTY NOW. It is said that .the war has visited us so long ; but it is pleasant to receive the encomiums and the applause which have been elicited by the skill and courage of our. generals and soldiers, and the wisdom of our rulers. The world is praising us ! We have nothing to do but to persevere, and we shall not only establish our security, but wc shall hold a proud name among the nations, and command a 'respect which, perhaps, will save us many future wars. The following is from the London "Times" of the 16th September : "The people of the Confederate States have made them- selves famous. If the renown of brilliant covrage, stern devotion to a cause, and military arhievfincnts almost tuithout parallel, can compensate men for the toil and privations of the hour, then the countrymen of Lee and Jackson may be consoled amid their sufferings: From all parts of Europe, from their enemies as well as their friends, from those who condemn their acts as well as those who sympathize with them, comes the tribute of admisation. When the history of this war is written, the admiration will doubtless become deeper and stronger, for the veil which has covered the South will be drawn away, and disclose a picture of patriotism, of unanimous self-sacrifice, of xoise and firm cubninistration, which now we can only see indistinctly. The details of that 4 CONFEDERATE MONITOR extraordinary national effort which has led to the repulse and almost to the destruction of an invading force of more than half a million men, will then become known to the world, and, whatever may be the fate of the new nationality, or its subsequent claims to the respect of mankind, it will assuredly begin its career with a reputation for genius and val- or ivhich the most famous nations may envy. Within^ a period of eighteen months a scattered population, hitherto living exclusively by agriculture, and occustomed to trust for every product of art and manufiicture to the North, has been turned into a self-sufficing State, able to raise an im- mense army, and conduct what is now an offensive war." The Liverpool Courier of the 16th says : " The Confederates have won the admiration of the civili- zed, nations for their constancy , fortitude^ endurance and bravery. They have ftianaged to create resources when shut out from the commerce of the earth ; they have beaten, an insolent and bullying people three times their number." ' The Manchester " Guardian-" says : . "The Southj both by their niilitary (lualilus m the field, and by (heir statesmanship in the council, \iiiv(d clearly estab- lished their title to a separate nationality, and.. the sooner that title is recognized by the North, the loss cause will the latter have lor subsequent regret. ■ • ' They have given a complete answer to all. those persons who doubted whether they could cope successfully with the superior resources of tlie North." In connect-ion with these tributes of admiration and com- pliment, there is an. earnest call for our "recognition. The Paris " Constitu-tionel " says : "From the point-- of view^- of European inteivsts, should the- present situation be prolonged? We think not. The sc'parate existence of the Confederate Slates is a fact as well as a necessity : the impossibility of reducing them is demon- strated. Can Europe wait any longer before recognizing theml Will she require that they shall have Washington'? That will be asking of them what was not asked of the Greeks, the Belgians, or the Italians. It sufficed for the rec- ognition of the independence of these people, that they were masters of Athens, Brussels and Milan. We did not wait until they had taken Constantinople, the Hague, and Vienna. They had driven away the .enemy. That wf|s enough." AND PATRIOT S FRIEND. O The Liverpool " Chronicle " says : *' Three invasions have been baffler! or repelled, three in- vading arjiiies have been shattered, both separately and to- gethc]'. W/ia( do we ivaii for, and what do we require ^ — Gunboats, indeed, may steal up rivers and tire coniniereial towns; but the spiteful vengeance of a malignant enemy is not to be a bar to justice. The siege of Washington places the Confederates in a position fo demand their recognition. — lliey are no longeron the defensive, but the assailants." It is a pleasing privilege thus to publish to our brave sol- diers and to our rulers and statesmen, the praises they have won even in distant lands. That fame is large which thus fdls the world ! Oh, how it will glow on tne page of histo- ry ! Nothing is requisite to crown it with everlasting glory but the continued display of wise councils and the patient endurance of privations and hardships for a little longer! Those who love to praise the noble and the courageous, would almost weep tears of blood if in the least wc should falter now, when a thousand signs tell us our cause is won ! A whaler, when he drives In his harpoon, watches to see the effect. If the huge fish spout Ijlood,, then he knows that" he has touched '' his life," and that his prize is secure. We are encouraged now by the cposed, and returning, reinforced Shields at the end of the first day's fight. During the night he drew off, and re- treated up the Valley. In less than tliirty days he dashed at Fremont' advance, west of Staunton, and driving it back, wheeled his army, swept down the Valley, and drove Banks across the Potomac, licturniiig to the upper Valley, he mano^uvercd around for three weeks — in the meantime dealing Fremont a heavy blow at Cross Keys, and thrashing Shields in the Luray val- ley — and then suddenly swept down the Virginia Central liailroad, via Gordonsville, on McClellan's right, before 1 Richmond. The part he played in winding up our campaign on the Peninsula is well known. Almost before the smoke had lifted from the bloody field of the Chickahominy, we hear of him again on his old stamping ground above Gor- donsville. Cedar Mountain was fought and won from Pope before he knew his campaign ivas opened. Jackson fell back, but only to flank him on the right. Pope retired from^the Papidan to the Rappahannock, but Jackson swung stiU»fur- ther around to the North and outflanked him again. Yet AND patriot's FRIEND. 35 again he gave up the Rappahannock, and fell back South of VVarrenton, and, for the third time, Jackson outflanked him through Thoroughfare Gap, and at last got in his rear. Pope now had to fight, and he did fight well ; but victory perched upon Jackson's banner, and our armies rest on the Potomac. — Richmond Bispatch. JACKSON'S MARCHES. Bonaparte, in his first campaign in Italy, wrote to the Di- rectory that his troops had out-done the Roman legions. The latter, he said, marched eight leagues (twenty-four miles) a day, whereas the French marched ten, and fought a battle every day. The French are proverbially rapid marchers ; but the great exploits alluded to by Napoleon in this letter extended only over a space of one week, during the time of Wurmser's first invasion, when the battle of Castiglione was fought. The General-in-Chief himself, during that time, never took off his clothes, or slept in a bed, and sometimes kept on horseback for twenty four hours, changing only from one horse to another. At other periods the French enjoyed comparative repose, while engaged in blockading Mantua. For rapid marching, contiiuied steadily through a long pe- riod of time, it may be doubted whether any troops — even those of Bonaparte in Italy — ever surpassed the troops of Jackson. For a whole month they are said to have made twenty-five miles a day ; and when we look at the ground they passed over, we are induced to believe the distance not overstated. He has discarded all superfluous baggage, has few wagons and no tents, and makes his men move with no knapsacks on their backs. They carry nothing but a haver- sack, in which they thrust their rations, to supercede the ne- cessity of stopping to eat when it is not convenient. Only one blanket is allowed, and this the men tie around their s'loiilders. Everything is brought down to the condition wiiich allows of most speed, and is subject to least stoppage. The men who make these prodigious marches are the healthi- est in the whole service. They complained at first, and were weary and foot-sore, but they soon got over it, and grew every day more and more capable of enduring fatigue, until now they can bear as much as the deer that used to feed on the mountains around them. Stonewall has moulded them 36 CONFEDERATE MONITOR into the very form for great exploits, and great exploits we are confident they will perform. Already they see that vic- tory seems chained to his standard. Already his name be- gins to exercise over them that magical influence which is the best omen of success. They think him invincible, and they will do their best to make him so. — Richmond Dispatch. GEN. JOHN H. MORGAN Is one of the oldest of six brothers, all of whom, save one, have been active and useful in the present struggle of our young Confederacy, devoting their all to the great cause. Calvin C. Morgan has acted as an agent at home in Ken- tucky for the command of his brother, and has undoubtedly done as much good in that capacity as he would have done had he been in the field. His third b'^other, Col. Richard Morgan, is the Adjutant-G-eneral of the junior Hill, and has been with that gallant officer through his whole campaign. The fourth brother, Major Charlton H. Morgan, is at pres- ent in his brother's command, having been recently trans- ferred from the army of the Potomac. When the present war broke out, Charlton Morgan represented the United States Government abroad. ^ He immediately resigned his position and came home to take his part in the struggle, and was the first member of his family to come into the Confed- erate States. The fifth brother, Lieut. Thomas Morgan, at present a prisoner at Camp Chase, Ohio, was one of the first youths of Lexington to shoulder his musket and march to the defence of Kentucky. The sixth brother is yet too young to bear arms. Gen. Morgan, as were all of his brothers, was born and educated near the city of Lexington, in Kentucky, and is a lineal descendant of Morgan of Revolutionary fame. In 1846, during the Mexican war, when the call came for ^^more volunteers,^'' John H. Morgan, then scarcely of age, raised a company, and was just upon the point of starting, when the news reached the States that a treaty of Peace had been concluded. Well do the survivors of that company re- member the conduct of their Captain upon the disbanding of his company. Every man of the company, (which was prin- cipally composed of young men dependent upon their labor for support,) was indemnified for the loss of his time during AND patriot's FRIEND. 37 the period of recruiting. 'Twas at this time that Morgan gained the title of Captain. The Kentuckians of his com- mand still refuse to recognize or apply any other title to him than that of "The Captain." Gen. Morgan is not a "West Pointer," but one of the few- men who was born to command, as he has incontestibly proven. He believes that it is his destiny to fight against a race of men whose every principle is so utterly repulsive to his own noble nature. His contempt for the Yankee char- acter is great and natural, and his daring deeds in this war show how thoroughly he understands it. Sometime after the Mexican war, he purchased an estab- lishment and engaged in the manufacture of jeans, linseys and bagging for the Southern market. About the same time, he married the accomplished Miss Rebecca Bruce, (whose traitor brothers are all against us in this war). After years of suf- fering from sickness, she died about the commencement of the present troubles. After performing the last sad rites to his departed wife, he immediately and secretly collected a little band of followers, and left the country, making his way to Green river, where he reported himselfto the Confederat,e officer in command " ready for duty. ' His band was rap- idly increased by the arrival of exiles from Kentucky, who knew well the worth and valor of the man as a leader. His command, upon reporting, were placed, with some other cavalry, upon picket duty on the Green River, where, he began a series of bold and daring exploits, which are une- <|ualed for their boldness and the manner of their execution. It was his determination when he left his home in Ken- tucky, should his command ever become numerous enough, to return and drive out the crojveared Puritans, who, through Kentucky's generosity, had quite ruined his native State, by over-running it and driving her sons to the States of the Southwest. A little incident, showing the strategic powers of Morgan, is here worthy of mention : An order was issued by the au- thorities of Kentucky, from head-quarters at Frankfort, that all the arms in the State should be forthwith forwarded to the State armory, there to be inspected and repaired for the use of the " State Guard," who were to maintain what the Union shriekers termed Kentucky's " Armed Neutrality." Gen Morgan, then Captain of the " Lexington Bifes" was suspected of having evil intentions against the peace and 3S CONFEDERATE MONITOR quiet of Uncle Sam, or rather that '^ Hoosier," King Abra- ham. It was, however, known to all loyal Kentuckians that he was " a good man and true ; " in other words, that he was for his State first, last, and all the time. Hence, the Lin- colnites kept a sharp eye on the guns held by Morgan's Company. Morgan knew that they had determined to get the arms out of his hands, and issued the order mainly tor that purpose. And he, in turn, had determined that they should not have them ; so, in the dead of night, they were removed some distance from the city, and the boxes in which they were to have been placed, neatly filled with bricks in- stead, and marked, " Guns from Caj^t. Morgan, State Armo- ry, Frankforty Good care was taken that the boxes should reach the depot at Lexington just too late, and there they lay exposed to public view. The Lincolnites received the boxes with unspeakable delight, winking and blinking at one ano- ther, supposing that they had fixed Morgan and his Secesh Company," and flattering themselves that they had for once in their lives defeated a man who had always been as a thorn in their sides. That night Captain Morgan, in command of his brave band, passed througli Lawrenceburg, Ky., a dis- tance of twenty -five miles from Lexington, having in their possession eighty fine r2*/?t suspicion any- thing wrong, and I answered for Bowling Green, when 1 re- ceived the followinf]^ messanre : Louisville, July 10, To S. D. Brown, Bowling Green : You and Col. Houghton move together. I fear the force of Col. H. is too small to venture to Glasgow. The whole force should move together, as the enemy is mounted. We cannot venture to lea^e the Road too far, as they may pass round and ruin it. T. J. Boyle, Briii^adicr General Commandins:. I returned the usual signal, ^' O. K." afber receiving the message. Louisville immediately called Nashville ; and I answered for Nashville, receiving business for two hours. This busi- ness was mostly of a private nature, and I took no copies. It could be plainly seen from the tenor of the messages, that 40 CONFEDERATE MONITOR Morgan was in the country, and all orders to send money and valuables by railroad, were countermanded— as they supposed. Little did the operator at Louisville think all this work would have to be repeated the next day. Louisville also sent the news of the day, and thus we were furnished with New York and Washington dates of that day. During the whole of this time it was raining heavily, and my situa- tion was anything but an agreeable one — sitting in the mud with my feet in the water up to my knees. At 1 1 o'clock P. M., the General, being satisfied that we had drained Lou- isville of news, concluded to close for the night, and gave me the following message to send, dating and signing as below : Nashville, July 10. To Henry Dent, Provost Marshal, Louisville: General Forrest commanding a brigade, attacked Mur- freesboro, routing our forces, and is now moving on Nash- ville. Morgan reported to be between Scottsville and Gal- latin, and will act in concert with Forrest, it is believed. Inform the General commanding. Stanley Mathew^s, Provost Marshal. . I am not aware that General Morgan claims to be a prophet, or the son of a prophet; but Forrest did attack Murfrees- ooro', and rout the enemy.* On arriving at Lebanon, July 12th, I accompanied the ad- vance guard into town, and took possession of the telegraph office immediately. This, as you know, was at 3.30 A. M. 1 adjusted the instrument and examined the circuit. No other operator on the line appeared to be on hand this early. I then examined all the dispatches of the day previous. Among them I found the following : Lebanon, July 11, 1862. Gen. J. T. Boyle, Louisville, Ky : I have positive information that there are 400 marauders in 20 miles of this place, on the old Lexington road, ap- proaching Lebanon. Send reinforcements immediately. A. Y. Johnson, Lieut. Col. Commanding. At 7.30 an operator signing ''Z" commenced calling *'B," which I had ascertained by the books in the office, was the signal for the Lebanon office. I answered the call, when the following conversation between "Z" and myself ensued : * The taking of Murfreesboro' by Forrest was three days afterwards— on the 13th,— Eds. Confed, AND Patriot's friend. 41 To Lebanon. What news ; any more skirmishing after your last message ? Z. To Z. No. We drove what little cavalry there was a- way. B. To B. Has the train arrived yet? Z. To Z. No. About how many troops on train ? B. To B. 500— 60th Indiana, Commanded by Col. Owens. Z. My curiosity being excited as to what station Z was, and to ascertain without creating any suspicion, I adopted the fol- lowing plan : To Z. A gentleman here in the office, bets me the cigars you cannot spell the name oi your Station correctly. B. To B. Take the bet. L-e-b-a-u-o-n J-u-n-c-t-i-o-n. Is this not right ? How did he think I would spell it 1 Z. To Z. He gives it up. He thought you would put two B's in Lebanon. B. To B. Ha ! Ha ! He is a green one. Z. To Z. Yes, that's so. B. To Z. What time did the train with soldiers pass, Z? B. To B. 8 30 last night. Z. To Z. Very singular where the train is ! B. To B. Yes, it is ; let me know when it arrives. Z. At 8 20 Lebanon Junction called me up and said : To B. The ti-ain has returned. They had a fight with the rebels at New Hope. The commanding officer awaits orders here. Z. To Z. Give us the particulars of the fight. Col. Johnson is anxious to know all about it. B. To B. Here is Moore's Message to Gen. Boyle : Lebanon Junction, July 12. To GeneralJ. T. Boyle, Louisville: At 11 o'clock last night at New Hope Station, part of my command encountered a force of rebel cavalry posted on the country road, one half mile South of the Railroad. After a brisk fire of musketry for twenty minutes the enemy was rout- ed and fled. Skirmishers were sent out in diffi^rent direc- tions, but were unable to find the enemy. At three this morning, apprehending that an effort might be made to de- stroy the bridges in our rear, we moved down the New Ha- ven and remained until after daylight, when the train went back to the scene of the skirmish. A Mr. Foreman, of Ow- en county, was found mortally wounded. He reported the 42 CONFEDERATE MONITOR rebel force at 550 under command of Capt. Jack Allen, and that they had fallen back towards Greensburg. One horse was killed and three captured. The books of the company were found on the field. Blood was found at different places, showing that the enemy was severely punished. No casual- ties on our side. Here with train awaiting orders. O. F. MooRE, Commanding." Lebanon Junction being the repeating Station for Louis- ville business, he forwarded the following telegrams just from Louisville — 9 o'clock, A. M. : Louisville, July 12. To Col. Johnson, Lebanon: Leave good guard and join Col. Owens. Pursue the ene- my and drive him out. Be cautious and vigorous. Make no delay. J. T. Boyle, Brigadier-General Commanding. By the following it will appear that Col. Owens must have been en route for Lebanon: Louisville, July 12. Colonel Owens, Lehanon : You will move after the enemy and pursue him. J. T. Boyle, Brigadier-General Commanding. Up to the time of our leaving Lebanon, which was about noon, Col. Owens had not arrived. Gen. Morgan told me 1 could close my office ; and to allay for that evening all sus- picion at Lebanon Junction, at not being able to communi- cate with Lebanon, I dispatched the operator as follows : To Z. Have been up all night and am very sleepy. If you have no objections I will take a nap until two or three o'clock. B. To B. All right — doii't oversleep yourself. Z. Wonder if I did! We arrived at midway between Frankfort and Lexington, on the Louisville & Lexington Railroad, about ten, A. M. next day. At this place I surprised the operator, who was quietly sitting on the platform of the depot, enjoying himself hugely. Little did he suspicion that the much dreaded Mor- gan was in his vicinity. 1 demanded of him to call Lexing- ton and inquire the time uf day, which he did. This I did for the purpose of getting his style of handling the "Key in wri- ting dispatches. My first impressions of his style, from no- ticing the paper in the instrument, were confirmed. lie was, 43 to use a telegraphic term, a "Plug" operator. I adopted his style of writing, and commenced operations. In this office I found a signal book, which proved to be very useful. It contained the calls for all the offices. Dispatch after dis- patch was going to and from Lexington, Georgetown, Paris, and Frankfort, all containing something in reference to Morgan. On commencing operations at this place I discovered that there were two -wires on the line along this railroad. One was what we term a "through wire," running direct from Lexington to Frankfort, and not entering any of the way offices. I found that all military business was sent over that wire. As it did not enter Midway office, I ordered it cut, thus forcing Lexington on to the wire that did run thr(.)ugh the office. I tested the line and found that by applying my ground wire, it made no difference with the circuit; and as Lexing- ton was headquarters. I cut Frankfort off. Midway was called. I answered, and received the following : Lexington, July 15th. To J. W. WoohwiSy Ope?' a tor Midway .^ Will there be any danger in coming to Midway ? Is eve- rything right? Taylor, Conductor. I inquired of my prisoner (the operator) if he knew a man by the name of Taylor. He said Taylor was Conductor. I immediately gave Taylor the following reply : Midway, July 15. To Taylor Lexirujton: All right — come on — no signs of any rebels here. WOOLUMS. The operator in Cincinnati then called Frankfort. I an- swered and received about a dozen unimportant dispatches. He had no sooner finished than Lexington called Frankfort. Again I answered and received the following message : Lexington, July 15. To General Finnell, Franl-forl : I wish you to move the forces at Frankfjrt on the line of the Lexington Railroad immediately, and have the cars fol- low and take them up as soon as possible. Further orders will await them at Midway. I will, in three or four hours, move forward on the Georgetown Pike ; will have most of my men mounted. Morgan Left Versailles this morning at 44 CONFEDERATE MONITOR 7 o'clock with 850 men, on the Midway road moving in the direction of Georgetown. Brigadier-GenerF.l Ward. This being our position and intention exactly, it w^as thought proper to throw Gen. Ward on some other track. So in the course of half an hour I manufactured and sent the following dispatch, which was approved by Gen. Morgan : Midway, July 16, '62. To Brigadier- General Ward, Lexington : Morgan, with upwards of one thousand men came within a mile of here, and took the old Frankfort road, bound, as we suppose, for Frankfort. This is reliable. "WooLUMS, Operator." In about ten minutes Lexington again called Frankfort, when I received the following : Lexington, July 15. To General Flnnell, Frankfort : " Morgan, w-ith one thousand men came within a mile of here and took the old Frankfort road. ' This dispatch re- ceived from Midway, and is reliable. The regiment from Frankfort had better be re-called. General Ward. I receipted for this message and again manufactured a mes- sage to confirm the information General Ward had received from Midway, and not knowing the tariff from Frankfort to Lexington, I could not send a formal message ; so appearing greatly agitated, I waited until the circuit was occupied, and broke in, telling them to wait a minute, and commenced calling Lexington. He answered with as much gusto as I called him. I telegraphed as follows : Frankfort to Lexington : Tell General Ward our pickets are just driven in — great excitement — Pickets say the force of the enemy must be two thousand. Operator. It was now two o'clock, P. M., and General Morgan wish- ed to be off to Georgetown. I run a secret ground connec- tion and opened the circuit on the Lexington end. This was to leave the impression that the Frankfort operator was ske- daddling, or that Morgan's men had destroyed the telegraph. We arrived at Georgetown about the setting of the sun. I went to the telegraph oflicc found it locked, enquired for the operator, who was pointed out to me on the street. I bailed him, and demanded admission into his office. lie ve- ry courteously showed me in. Discovering that his instru- AND patriot's FRIEND. 45 ments had been removed, I asked where they were. He said he had sent them to Lexington. I asked him what time he had Lexington last. He said nine o'clock, and since that time the line had been down. I remarked that it must be an extraordinary line to be in working condition when it is down, as I heard him sendi.:g messages to Lexington when I was at Midway at one o'clock. This was a stunner ; he had nothing to say. I immediately tested the wires by applying the end of the wires to my tongue, and found the line "OK." I said nothing to him, but called for a guard of two men to take care of Mr. Smith until I got ready to leave town. 1 did not interrupt the lines till after tea, when I put in my own instrument and after listening an hour or two at the Yan- kees talking, I opened the conversation as follows, signing myself "Federal Operator :" To Lexington : Keep mum ; I am in the office reading by the sound of my magnet in the dark. I crawled in when no one saw me. Morgan's men are here, camped on Dr. Ga- no's place. Georgetown. To Georgetown : Keep cool ; don't be discovered. About how many rebels are there ? Lexington. To Lexington : I don't know ; I did not notice, as Morgan's operator was asking me about my instruments, I told him I sent them to Lexington. He said d — n the luck, and went out. Georgetown. To Georgetown : Be on hand and keep us posted. Lexington. To Lexington: I will do so. Tell General Ward I will stay up all night if he wishes. Georgetown. To Georgetown : Mr. Fulton wishes to know if the rebels are there 1 Cincinnati. To Cincinnati : Yes ; Morgan's men are here. Georgetown. To Georgetown : How can you be in the office and not be arrested 1 Cincinnati. To Cincinnati : Oh, I am in the dark, and am reading by ^< )und of the magnet. Georgetown. This settled Cincinnati. Question after question was ask- < J me about the rebels, and I answered to suit myself. Things had been going on this way for about two hours, when Lexington asked me where my assistant was. I re- plied, Don't know. He then asked me, Have you seen him to-day 1 I replied, No. This was the last telegraphing I could do in Georgetown. 46 CONFEDERATE MONITOR I called on Mr. Smith, the operator, who was under guard in my room, and informed him that I would furnish him with a mule in the morning, and should be pleased to have him accompany me to Dixie, as I understood he was under the employ of the U. S. Government. This was anything but agreeable to him. I thought I had struck the young man in the right place, and remarked that had he not sent his instru- ments to Lexington, I would have taken them in preference to his person. His face brightened and an idea struck him very forcibly, from which he made a proposition — it was to furnish me the instruments if I would release him. This I agreed to, as such instruments are of much more value to the Confederacy than Yankee telegraphers. I ac- companied him to the servants room, and there, under the bed, in a chest, we found the instruments. Mr. S. having given me his word on honor, that he would not leave town for the next twenty-four hours, he was set at liberty to visit his wife, and the young Smiths. On arriving at Cynthiana, 1 found that the operator had skedaddled. I tested the wires, and found no fluid from ei- ther Covington or Lexington, nor were the wires in working order when I left the office next day. At Paris the operator had made a clean sweep. He left the night before, taking all his instruments. At Crab Orchard there was no office, and I had to put in my pocket magnet which I did at 11 A. M. The first mes- sage [ received was the following : Louisville, July 21. To Col. Woolford^ Danville : Pursue Morgan. He is at Crab Orchard, going to Som- erset. Boyle. No sooner had the Danville Operator receipted for this than the Operator at Lebanon suggested the following : To Lebanon Junction : Would it not be well for Danville and offices below here to put on their ground wires when they send or receive important messages, as Geo. Elsworth, the rebel Operator, may be on the line between here and Cumberland Gap ? Lebanon." The Operator at the Junction agreed with him, and said it would be a good idea, but it was not carried into effect. We arrived at Somerset that evening. I took charge of the office. I ascertained from citizens that it had been clos- ed for three weeks, up to the very hour that our advance AND PATRIOrS FRIEND. 47 guard arrived in town. It was just opened by the operator from Loudon, who came to work the instruments for the purpose of assisting to catch Morgan ; but unfortunately for Uncle Sam, the Operator, and all concerned, he had no time to either send or receive a message ; but he had it in fine working condition for me. I had been in the office for some time, when Stanford called Somerset and said : "I have just returned from Crab Orchard, where I have been to fix the line. The rebels tore it down. J left there at 8 o'clock. The 9th Pennsylvania cavalry had not then arrived. What time did you get in from Loudon? Stanford." To Stanford. Just arrived and got my office working finely. Somerset. To Somerset. Any signs of Morgan yet? lie left Crab Orchard at 11 30 to-day. Stanford. To Stanford. No signs of him as yet? Somerset. To Somerset. For fear they may take you by surprise, I would suggest we have a private signal. What say you ? Stanford. To Stanford. Good. Before signing we will make the figure 7. Somerset. This was mutually agreed upon. I asked when Woolford would bo at Somerset. lie said Woolford had telegraphed Boyle that his force was green and insufficient to attack Morgan. Seeing there was no use of my losing a night's rest, I told Stanford I would retire ; that I had made arrangements with the pickets to wake me up in case Morgan came in. The operator at Lebanon Junction urged me to sit up, but I de- clined on the ground of being unwell. This did not satisfy him, but after ari^uino^ with him for some time I retired. July 22 — Opened the office at 7 o'clock, a. m. ; informed the Stanford operator that Morgan had not yet arrived ; made inquiries about different things; and after everything in town belonging to the United States was destroyed, the General gave me a few messages to send — one to Prentice, one to Gen. Boyle, and one to Dunlap. They are hereto annexed. I then telegraphed home, informing my relatives of my whereabouts, what I was doing, 4zc. I then transmitted the General's dispatches as follows : 48 CONFEDERATE MONITOR Somerset, July 22. George D. Prentice, Louisville : Good morning, George D. I am quietly watching the complete destruction of all of Uncle Sam's property in this little burg. I regret exceedingly that this is the last that comes under my supervision on this route. I expect in a short time to pay you a visit, and wish to know if you will be at home. All well in Dixie. John H. Morgan, Commanding Brigade. General J. T. Boyle, Louisville: Good morning, Jerry. This telegraph is a great institu- tion. You should destroy it, as it keeps you too well post- ed. My friend, Ellsworth, has all your dispatches since the 10th of July on file. Do you wish copies "? John H. Morgan, Commanding Brigade. Hon. Geo. W. Dunlap, Washington City : Just completed my tour through Kentucky — captured 17 cities, destroyed millions of dollars worth of U. S. property — passed through your county, but regret not seeing you. We paroled fifteen hundred Federal prisoners. Your old friend, John H. Morgan, Commandinof Bricrade. [The foregoing dispatches were well calculated to dum: found these Yankee dignitaries — who no doubt were half in- clined to pronounce them some spiritual freak — but for con- centrated audacity, the following is unequalled. — Eds. CONFED.] Headquarters, Telegraph Department of Ky., ) Confederate States of America, V Georgetown, Ky., July 10, 1862. ) General Order No. 1. When an operator is positively informed that the enemy is marching on his station, he will immediately proceed to de- stroy the telegraph instruments and all material in his charge. Such instances of carelessness as were exhibited on the part of the operators at Lebanon, Midway; and Georgetown, will be severely dealt with. By order of G. A. Ellsworth. Gen. Mil. Sup't C. S. Telegraph Dep't. Southern Confederacy , August 1862. 49 OFFICIAL EEPORT OF COL. JOHN H. MORGAN. Headquarters, Morgan's Command, ) Knoxville, Tenn., July 30, 1802. j To Major-General E. Kirhij Smithy Commandiny Depart- ment of East Tennessee — General : I have the honor to report that, upon the clay of the en- gagement at Tonipkinsville, a full report of which I have al- ready sent you, I moved my command, consisting of my own Iwegiment, the Georgia Regiment of Partisan Kangers, coni- inanded by Col. A. A. Hunt, and Major Gano's Texas squad- ron, to which was attached two companies of Tennessee Cav- alry, in the direction of Glasgow, which place I reached at twelve o'clock that night. There were but few troops in the town, who fled at our ap- proach. The commissary stores, clothing, ifcc,, together with a large supply of medical stores, found in Glasgow, were burned, and the guns were distributed among my command. — about two hundred of which were unarmed when I left Knoxville. From Glasgow I proceeded along the main Lexington road to Barren river, halting for a time near Cave City — my object being to induce the belief that I intended destroying the railroad bridge between Bowling Green and Woodson- villc. I caused wires connecting with a portable battery I carried with me, to be attached to the telegraph liiie near Horse Cave, and intercepted a number of dispatches. At Barren River, I detached three companies under Capt. Jack Allen, to move forward rapidly and destroy the Salt River bridge, that the troops along the line of railroad might be prevented from returning to Louisville. On the following morning I moved on towards Lebanon, distant thirty- five miles from Barren river. At 11 o'clock at night I reached the bridge over Rolling Fork, six miles from Lebanon. The enemy had received information of my approach from their spies, and my advanced guard was fired upon at the bridge. After a short fight, the force at the bridge w^as dispersed, and the planks which had been torn up having been replaced, the command moved forward to Lebanon. About two miles fr-om town, a skirmish com- menced between two companies that I caused to dismount and deploy, and a force of the enemy which was posted on the road, which was soon ended by its dispersion and cap- o 50 CONFEDERATE MONITOR ture. Lieut. Col. A. Y. Johnson, commanding the troops in the town, surrendered, and I entered the place. The prison- ers, in number about 65, were paroled. I took immediate possession of the telegraph, and inter- cepted a dispatch to Col. Johnson, informing him that Col. Owens, with the 60th Indiana Regiment, had been sent to his assistance ; so I at once despatched a company of Texan Rangers, under Major Gano, to destroy the railroad bridge on the Lebanon branch, which he successfully accomplished in time to prevent the arrival of the troops. I burned two long buildings full of commissary stores, consisting of up- wards of five hundred sacks of coffee, a large amount of all other supplies in bulk, marked for the army at Cumberland Gap. I also destroyed a very large amount of clothing, boots, &c. I burned the hospital buildings, which appeared to have been recently erected and fitted up, together with about, thirty-five wagons and fifty three new ambulances. I found in the place a large store of medicines, five thousand stand of arms, with accoutrements, about two thousand sabres, and an immense quantity of ammunition, shell, &;c. I distribu- ted the best arms among my command, and loaded one wag- on with them to be given to the recruits that I expected to join me. I also loaded one wagon with ammunition. The remainder of the arms, ammunition, and the hospital and medical stores, I destroyed. While in Lebanon, I ascertained from telegraph dispatches that I intercepted, that the force which had been started from Lebanon Junction to reinforce Lieut. Col. Johnson, had met and driven back the force und^r Capt. Jack Allen, killing one of his men, and preventing him from accomplishing the purpose for which he had been detailed. I proceeded from Lebanon on the following day through Springfield to Macksville that night to recover the prisoners, which I did the next morning. I then left for Harrodsburg, capturing a Federal Captain and Lieutenant on the road ; reached Harrodsburg at 12^5- o'clock, and found that the Home Guard of all that portion of the country had fled to Lexington. A force was also stationed on the bridge where the Lexington road crossed the Kentucky river. My recep- tion at this place was very encouraging. The whole popu- lation appeared to turn out and vie with each other as to "who should show us most attention. I left Harrodsburg at 6 o'clock the same evening, and moved to Lawrenceburg, twenty miles distant, threatening 51 Frankfort in order to draw off the troops from Georgetown. Remained there until the return of my courier from Frank- fort, who brought the information that there was a force in Frankfort of two or three thousand men,cionsisting of Home Guards collected from the adjacent counties and a few regu- lar troops. From Lawrenceburg I proceeded to Shrykes' Ferry, on the Kentucky river, raised the boat, which had been sunken, and crossed that evening, reaching Versailles at 7 o'clock. — I found this place abandoned by its defenders, who had fled to Lexington ; remained tliere that night, and on the next morning marched towards Georgetown. While at Versail- les I took about three hundred Government horses andnmles, I passed through Midway on the road to Georgetown, and was informed just before reaching the place that a train from Frankfort was nearly due, with two regiments of Federals. I tore up the irack and posted tlie howitzers to command it, and formed my command along the line of the road ; but the train was warned of our presence, andreturned to Frank- fort. Having taken possession of the telegraph oflice, I in- tercepted a disf)atch asking if the road was clear, and if it would be safe to start the train, and made preparations to i-eceive it, but it was also turned back and escaped. I reached Georgetown, 12 miles from Lexington, that eve- ning. Just before entering the town, I was informed that a small force of Home Guards had mustered to oppose us. I sent them word to surrender their arms, and they should not be molested, but they fled. The people of Georgetown also welcomed us with gladness, and provided my troops with every thing that they needed. I remained at Georgetown two days, during which time I sent out a company under Capt. Mc^Iillan to destroy the track 1x4 ween Midway and Lexington, and Midway and Frankfoit, and to blow up the stone bridge on that road, which he successfully accomplish- ed. Hearing that a company of Home Guards were en- camped at " Stamping Ground," thirteen miles distant, I dispatched a company under Capt. Hamilton to break up the encampment, burn the tents and stores, and destroy the guns. This was also accomplished — Capt. Hamilton taking fitleen prisoners and all their guns, and destroying a large amount of medical and commissary supplies. I also, whileat George- town, sent Capt. Castleman with his company to destroy the railroad bridges between Paris and Lexington, and report to me at Winchester. This was done. 52 CONFEDERATE MONITOR Determining to move on Paris, with a view of returning, and hearing that the place was being rapidly reinforced from Cynthiana, I deemed it of great importance to cnt off the communication from that place, while I drew off the troops that were already there, by a feint on Lexington. I there- fore dispatched a portion of two companies towards Lexing- ton, with instructions to drive the pickets to the very entrance of the city, while 1 moved the command towards Cynthiana. When I arrived in three miles of the place, I learned that*it was defended by a considerable force of infantry, cavalry and artillery. I despatched the Texas squadron, under Major Gano, to enter the town on the right, and the Georgia Regi- ment to cross the river and get into the rear,, while I moved my own Regiment, with the artillery under the command of Lieutenant J. E. Harris, down the Georgetown Pike. A severe engagement took place, which lasted about an hour and a half, before the enemy were driven into the town and compelled to surrender. 1 took four hundred and twenty prisoners, including about seventy Home Guards. I regret to have to mention the loss of 8 of my men in killed and 29 wounded. The enemy's loss was 94 killed and^woundcd, ac cording to their own account. Their excess in killed and wounded is remarkable, as they fought us behind stone fences, and fired at us from buildings as we charged through the town. We captured a very fine 12-pounder brass piece of artillery, together with a large number of small arms, and about three hundred Government horses. The arms and Government stores were burned, and as many of the horses as we could bring with us were kept. I found a very large supply of commissary and medical stores, tents, guns and ammunition at this place, which L destroyed. The paroled prisoners were sent under an escort to Falmouth, where they took the tntin for Cincinnati. I proceeded next morning towards Paris, and was met on the road by a be«arer of a flag of truce, offering the unc^ondf- tional surrender of the place. I reached Paris at 4 o'clock, remained there that night, and started towards Winchester next morning. As my command was fding out of Paris, on the Winchester Pike, I discovered a large force of Feder- als coming towards the town, from the direction of Lexing- ton. They immediately countermarched, supposing, no doubt, that my intention was to get into their rear. This enabled me to bring off my entire command without moles- AND PATRIOt'*S FRIEND. 53 tatioii, with the exception of two of my pickets, who were probably surprised. I reached Winchester that day at 12 o'clock, and reniaiiud until 4 o'clock, when I proceeded to- wards Richmond. At Winchester I fitund a nuni ber of arms, which were destroyed. I ari-ived at Richmond at 12 o'clock that night, and re- mained until the next afternoon, when [ proceeded to Cral) Orchard. 1 had determined to make a stand at Richmond, and await reinforcements, as the people appeared reaply of commissary stores, clothing, blankets, shoes, hats, /)C(Z /V/.s entjme (ind reversed her, to run into the one in pursuit ; but, in hi? fright, he forgot to take off the break and she stopped still. Ta- king to the woods, Capt. Fuller found himself rpon a new ffeld of action, where the power and endurance of hi» muscu- lar frame was more than fairly tested in the pursuit (j>f a band of criminals whom, it may well be imagined, made a desper- ate effort to make good their escape, who separated as they advanced through the w oods in order to baffle pursuit. But Capt. F., as the sequel proves, was fully equal to the emer- gency. Though he had but six men with him, he felt per- fectly confident of his capturing the whole gang. Meeting several negroes in the course of his pursuit, he gave them running orders to station themselves at certain points, who promptly obeyed his command, while he contin- • ued his course. Finding a mule, he pressed him into service, rode to several plantations where he was joined by citizens with their servants, who assisted in the capture of the Yankee thieves who were brought to halt in squads of twos and threes on the banks of the river, (which was impassible at the time) where they readily yielded to a demand of surrender to their victorious pursuers. Andrews confessed, while in prison in Chattanooga, Tenn., after having been condemned to be hung, that it was the ob- ject of the Expedition to steal and take to lluntsville the AND patriot's iFRIEND. 57 engine, and to burn all the bridges on the State Road between Marietta and Chattanooga^ thereby cutting oif communica- tion and re-inforcements. lie was to get $10,000 for steal- ing the engine and 660,000 for burning the bridges. lie was hired by the Yankee General Mitchell to accom- plish that thievish and incendiary project, in which, had he been successful, would have resulted in an incalculable loss to the Confederate States. But the energy, indomitable will, , and power of endurance of Capt. Fuller was sufficiently great not only to cause that infamous scheme to miscarry, but to accomplish the capture of Andrews and his whole crew. A- ;\ bout the 20th of June last, Capt. Andrews, the leader of the *v expedition, was cxcciitaJ, and a few days sul)sequcnt seven others followed, all executed in Atlanta, Ga, They severally expressed their warmest feelings of respect and good wishes for Capt. Fuller, and upon the scaffold declared that they ap- proved of his conduct. Thus ends a hastily written chapter of one of the exciting I events of the present llevolution. Hoping to be pardoned - for mistakes if any there be, I remain, llcspectfully, II. W. 11. J. P. S. : The bridges, eighteen in number, on the State Road which > Mr. Andrews and his party iiitendfd to destroy cost the State nearly a million of dolhirs. Thus it -will be seen that by Capt. Fuller's hazzard- ous and fri<;htful chase he saved to the State, in round numbers, tlic fc sum al)ove mentioned, in actual expenditure. |k Had those bridges been destroyed, the S.ate would nf)t only have BuflVrcd to the extent of taeir value, but the upper part of the State would have b:en invaded by a vindictive and barbarous enemy, and n large amount of ihe rolling stock of the Road would have been cut oft" ^ and lost to the State. As for the eventual loss to the Confederacy in so sad an event the amount would have been, indeed, incalculable. H. V/. R. J. Gen. Forrest Just in Time. — While Gen. Forrest was making his forced cavalry march upon Murfreesboro', the ene- my at that place, all unconscious of their approaching doom, was holding a drum head court for the trial of numerous cit- izens of the vicinity accused of shooting the Yankee pick- ets. They had condemned quite a number to be hung, among them master Charley llidley, a youth of sixteen, entirely in- nocent of the oflcnce charged, but a most acceptable victim, inasmuch as he was the son of Broomfield L. Ridley, one of the Judges of the Chancery Court of Tennessee; whose broth- el 58 CONFEDERATE MONITOR er, Dr. Charles L. Ridley, a citizen of Jasper county in this State, is well known to many of our readers. While these summary trials and convictions were going on, the distant thunder of the tramp of cavalry attracted the attention of the "honorable Court/^ and in a few minutes the sharp re- port of musketry and the terrified cry of ''the rebels — the rebels,'' adjourned that tribunal with more dispatch than cer- emony. The provost marshal, who, in a few minutes, would have been treating his prisoners to short shrift and a cord, took to his heels, and the happy escaped set up a shout of deliverance that made the welkin ring. What a lucky arri- val for them. — Macon [Ga.) 2'eler/ra2>h, August 6. THE CONFEDERATE STATES NAYY. The Navy Department of the Confederate States has been the subject of a great deal of abuse and ridicule from Our own press and people — whether altogether deserved or not, we shall not pretend to say. But we should remember that "Rome was not built in a day" — and that many great enter- prises have their origin in very small beginnings. Thus our navy, though small now, will, in the future, we believe, occu- py a prominent place in the navies of the world. Small as it is, it has accomplished much. The daring of Tatnall, the gallantry of Buchanan, the bravery of Jones, of ]3rowu, of lloUins, and the hosts of other noble spirits, whose naval exploits have won for them imperishable renown, have already illustrated many bright pages in the glorious history of our young Confederacy, and give promise of still greater deeds of emprise and renown in the future. With pride and gratification, we can recall the movements of our little " Musquito fleet,'' under command of Commodore Tatnall at the mouth of the Savannah river; the successful cruise of the Sumter, under Lieut. Semmes, on the bosom of the broad Atlantic : the terrific onslaught of the Merrimac — Virginia, under Commodore Buchanan and Lieut. Jones, in the waters of Hampton Roads, the successful attack of the Louisiana Ram, under Commodore Hollins, at the Delta of the Mississippi ; The " cotton clad " experiment of Gen. Jeft". Thompson on the Mississippi river; and lastly, of the aston- ishing victory of the Arkansas, under Capt. Brown at Vicks- bursr. AND PATRIOT S FRIEND. 59 These are some of the feats which our gallant little navy has accomplished — so many evidences of greater deeds were the facilities at hand — and so many assurances of additional glory for the participators. With this record and these evidences, it is, indeed, a source of the deepest regret that the field of operations is not larger. With a fleet of a dozen '^ iron-clad ^' frigates, the termination of the war would be hastened. Northern seaports would be made to feel the presence of a hostile navy, and taste the bit- ter fruits of an " effective blockade." A Southern array thrown upon Northern soil, would then be supported by a Southern navy ; and thus, blows, thick and fast, by land and sea, would bring the crazy fanatics of Yankeedoodledom to their senses with a most desirable haste. Now, the question arises, can we not have such a navy ? Cannot European workshops, and European ship yards, and European workmen be set to work \':- accomplish this great necessity ? Could not, for instance, the ships be built, the machinery constructed, and the iron plating prepared, and shipped to this country by piecemeal ? The policy seems to us plausible enough ; and worthy of a trial. We are aware that the Confederate Naval Department is not idle. Movements are on foot now, from which good re- sults may reasonably be anticipated ; but we cannot accomplish all that we desire with our limited and over-taxed facilities. A¥e must supply the necessities abroad, if possible, and with- out delay. We have a navy, it is true, but we want a fleet of vessels worthy of the gallant men who compose that Navy. — Consti- tutionalist. WOE TO THE YANQUISHED. From the days when Sennacherib generously proffered the invaded to eat the fruits of their own vine and fig trees and drink of their "own cisterns'' — to the cruel and fraudulent designs of the Yankees against us, it has always been a trick to deceive the foolish or detach the timid by pledges of kind- ness, to be redeemed in blood and rapine. We cannot imagine that our own case would constitute an exception. The assurance of Seward that no war of con- 60 CONFEDERATE MONITOR quest was intended — the measures taken for a ^^ short sharp war" — the agreement to liberate our prisoners on parole, fol- lowed by sending them to Chicago — the- specious proclama- tion of safety and protection, followed by the arrest of our citizens and plunder of their property — all prove the fraud and rapacity which we have to apprehend. While history teems with evidences of this inevitable ten- dency of a war of invasion, we present an example in which its consequences have been inflicted by a people of the same race with ourselves and coinciding in general character with our Yankee invaders. Cromwell's invasion of Ireland was conducted on precisely the same plans, and with identically the same purposes which actuate our foes. The reader will find the same treachery mark every step of his progress. Soon after landing a pow- erful and well equipped army in Ireland, Cromwell published a proclamation, forbidding his soldiers, on pain of death, to hurt any of the inhabitants, or take anything from them, without paying for it in ready money. This was so strictly executed that even in his march from Dublin to Drogheda, where he was guilty of that horrid butchery, [he took the place by storm, and after having promised quarter, massacred all his prisoners,] and breach of faith before mentioned, he ordered two of his private soldiers to be put to death in the face of the whole army, for stealing two hens from an Irishman, which were not worth two pence. "Upon this strict observance of the proclamation, together with positive assurances given by his officers, that they were for the liberties of the Commons, and that every one should enjoy the freedom of his religion, and that those who served the market at the camp should pay no contribution, all the country people flocked to them with all kinds of provisions, and due payment being made for the same, his army was much better supplied than that of the Irish ever had been." The conquest having been secured, the disguise is thrown off "On the 26th September, 1853, the English Parliament declared that the rebels in Ireland were subdued and the re- bellion ended, and thereupon proceeded to the distribution of their lands." The whole kingdom was surveyed, and the number of acres taken with the quality of them, all the soldiers brought in their demands for arrears, and each man received, by lot, as many acres as should answer the value of his demand. 61 The best land was rated only at four shillings an acre, and some only at a penny. The soldiers drew lots on what part of the kingdom their lots should be assigned them. Great abuse was committed in setting out the adventurers' satisfac- tion for the money they had advanced at the beginning of the war; for they had whole baronies set out to them in gross, and they employed surveyors of their own to make their admeasurement. What lands they were pleased to call unprofitable, they re- turned as such. The soldiers' land returned as unprofitable amounted to 605,670 acres. In this manner was the whole kingdom divided between the soldiers and the adventurers of money. THE IRISH ARE TRANSPLANTED INTO GONNAUGUT. Cromwell and his council finding the utter extirpation of the Irish nation to be in itself very difiicult, and to carry in it somewhat of horror, that made some impression upon the stone hardness of their own hearts, after so many thousands destroyed by the sword, famine, and by the plague, and after so many transported into foreign parts, found out the follow- ing expedient of transportation, which they called ''An Act of Grace" : There was a large tract of country, even to the half of the province of Connaught, that was separated from the rest by a long and large river, and which, by the plague and many massacres, remained almost desolate. Into this place they required all the Irish, whom Cromwell had declared innocent of the rebellion, to retire by a certain day under the penalty of death, and all who after that time should be found in any other part of the kingdom, man, wo- man, or child, might be killed by any who saw or met them. "The land within this circuit, the most barren in the king- dom, was, out of the grace and mercy of the conquerors, as- signed to those of the nation who were enclosed in such pro- portions as might, with great industry, preserve their lives, and to those persons from whom they had taken great quan- tities of land in other provinces they assigned greater pro- portions within this, on condition that they should give re- leases of their former rights and titles, and bar themselves and heirs from ever laying claim to their old inheritance. " By this means the plantation, as they called it, was finished, and all the Irish natives were enclosed within that circuit, the 62 CONFEDERATE MONITOR rest of Ireland being left to the English. Some few estates, were left to the old proprietors, who, being all Protestants, had either never offended them, or had scrred them, or had made composition for their delinquencies. ''The Irish were to confine themselves to Connaught, so that the new English planters might proceed, without inter- ruption, and without that degradation which former ages had experienced from an intercourse luith the Irish, and the natives divided by the Shannon from the other Provinces, and sur- rounded by the English garrisons, might be restrained from their old barbarous incursions. "These colonists were transported (to Connaught) without seed to sow, cattle to stock, ploughs to cultivate, servants to aid, or houses to shelter them ; they were not to settle within four miles from the sea, two miles of the Shannon, or enter any garrisoned town without orders, on peril of life." From these instructive extracts we may read our own fate, if we should yield either to the threats or predictions of the Yankees. The confiscation of lands to be drawn for by lot among a licentious and foreign soldiery. The seizure of our country, schools, pulpits, with every State and local office-^by the most vicious and vindicative of our enemies, the lawless mixture of negroes, foreigners, and fanatics, would so transform our once happy country that the doom of the poor Irish would be indeed an act of grace. The Virginian seeing his coun- try, the home of vice, infidelity and enmity to all he reveres, would gladly go to any wilderness where his children might forget a country he could not rescue. — Richmond Whig. DR. M'DOWELL OF ST. LOUIS. To the Editor of the Whig : The Missourians in this city are greatly gratified at meet- ing their distinguished fellow-citizen, Dr. Joseph N. McDow- ell, who, for twenty-five years, has filled the chair of Anato- my and Surgery in the Medical School of St. Louis, and for the last twelve months has been Surgeon General of Missouri. At present he occupies the honorable post of Inspector Gen- eral of the Confederate Hospitals We>st of the Mississippi. Dr. McDowell has borne a conspicuous and honorable part in the pending struggle for our liberties, and is devoted to the 63 cause with a noble zeal. I herewith enclose you a production of his pen, the perusal of which, I think, will entertain you. Yours, B. LETTER TO REV. HENRY WARD BEECIIER, As originall)/ imUkhcd in the " >S'/. Louis Daily Morning Her- alij;' of December 15, 1859. St. Louis, Dec. 8, 1859. To the Rev. llcnrij ^Ynrd Beeeher : Sir — This is the morning of the anniversary of the ^'cross- iug of the Delaware'^ by George Washington, and the battle of Trenton. The Governor of Missouri has appointed to-day a day of thanksgiving in memory of the achievements of the "Father of his country." And I keep it with a twofold feeling of filial duty, for George Washington and my own father, who was with him on that dreadful night and the two succeeding days. I do most heartily thank God, my Father in Heaven, for their deliverance in that most perilous adventure. I thank Him that He parted the ice as lie did the lied Sea, to safely land on that stormy night that small but heroic band to battle with the enemies of liberty, and made them successful against fire times their number. I thank Him for the freedom and prosperity of our common country, both North and South ) and I thank Him for the preservation of our Liberties beneath the hollow of His hand. But above all things I have thanked Him that He has not made me such a man as Henry Ward Beeeher, with a heart full of such black ingratitude for the achievement of human liberty by that heroic band. I thank Him there still lives the same love of liberty in my humble bosom that impelled them to battle and to cross the Delaware, and would impel me to cross the Mississippi to battle with the foes of the South. Sir, let me reason with you, and carefully read what I write you, that you may " see yourself as others see you." You profess to be a Christian, yet in no wise do you follow in the tbotsteeps of your Master or are actuated by the spirit of his religion. His was of peace, yours of the sword. His was forbearance, yours assault, even unto death, upon your friends and your country. He purchased no weapon even to be turn- ed upon his enemies; while yours is the religion of the bow- ie-knife and the rifle. His was mercy, yours is murder. You would turn the brutal negro upon the unsuspecting white man and the defenceless white womaiij and see him gloat on 64 CONFEDERATE MONITOR murder and rapine. He would gather little children to his bosom, while you would consign innocent white girls of your own race to the brutal embrace of the African. I, therefore, cannot address you as a minister of the Christian religion, or a follower of Jesus ; but as a heartless, unfeeling, uncompro- mising knave, too wise to act without a deadly purpose, too little religion to be a bigot or a fanatic, but possessing the power to make fools and fanatics of others. In your Church "but recently you have raised money to excite insurrection in my native country," and when the damning deed was done, say with hypocritical cant, "I did not do it; that no force should be used except moral suasion." You send men to ap- ply the torch to your neighbor's dwelling; and excite black men to murder white men, then say you only wish to liberate the SLAVE. Such conduct no reason can justify, no honest Christion can approve. Jesus Christ lived in a province of the Roman Empire and never excited feelings of anger in man against his fellow man, and never plotted treason against the government under which he lived, but said "render unto Csesar what is Caesar's," "servants be obedient unto your masters," and that, too, when there were sixty-three millions of white slaves in the Empire. If, sir, your excuse for such conduct is, that you wish to confer a boon upon the human race, why prefer the black and inferior race to the white? — why spare the one and butcher the other ? Why in blood instead of peace and mercy ? Or, if your philanthropy must be exercised, why not begin with "your moral suasion," your bowie-knives, your Sharpe's rifles, and blood-shed in Africa, the parent country, where the field is wider and the harvest ripe ? But, sir, turn in at home and look upon yourself — cleanse first the lazar-house of your great eastern cities before you begin the work of reform in Ken- tucky and Virginia ; and when your work is finished at home, if not partial to color, we would invite your philanthropic ef- forts to Asia, where there are four hundred millions more de- graded than the African of your own country. Why excite men to fanatical deeds which must destroy both their country and themselves ? The South can and will make an alliance with either Eng- land or France, commercial or political, oS"ensive and defen- sive, and in either case it will be utter ruin to New England and the manufacturing States. If with England, your tariff system (which has ever been oppressive to the South) will be AND patriot's FRIEND. 65 broken like a rope of sand and scattered to the winds, and you come at once in collision with your ancient competitor without protection, and yourmanufactories must be destroyed. And far worse would it be for you, for us, and the whole civ- ilized world, if that alliance should be made with France, for then the cotton, the sugar, aud all the products of the South- ern States would be landed at Havre and purchased at a much higher rate, and Old England and New England would see the hand-writing on the wall. Think you, that most sagacious and wily monarch of the French, would not see the way open to crush the commerce and manufactories of England, and make her feel that she is ilcpendcnt upon her ancient enemy ; possibly feci the tread uf the iron wheel of war. This opportunity offered to Louis Napoleon, and we should see three thousand Frenchmen quar- tered at New Orleans and at the (^hcsapeake, and the South would command the Mississippi Valley and whip Ohio, Indi- ana, and Illinois into her Southern Confederacy. At the mouth of the Ohio would be a toll-gate for the entire pro- ducts of this wide and fertile country, while our railroad bridges would be burned and the tracks of every quarter would be snapped like a spider's web by the hurricane of civ- il war. And while the strife between England and Franco is impending for the mastery of both sea and land, (but for the abolitionist and negro) would be the scene of civil war, the most deadly of all wars — knife to knife, face'^to face, steel to steel, brother against brother, father against son, mother against child, and this fair land would bleed at every pore. IJetter far that the whole African race should be annihilated, and all the silly white race destroyed, and our Union and lib- erties perpetuated. If the course that has been so wickedly and willfully pur- sued by the fanatics of tlje North is continued, the result will be as I have portrayed it, and your wailing for your fall- en country will come too late. Pale-faced poverty and dis- may will stare you in the face at every corccr. Your man- ufactories will cease and your starving thousands will fly to a more productive and less fanatical laud for bread. But should the South be unable to make an alliance with either England or France, think you she will tamely submit to Northern in- sult and domination ? No, never. She will command the commerce of the Mississippi river and its tributaries, and should the North, after years of bloodshed, be successful in 66 CONFEDERATE MONITOR the contest, it will cost the North more than the price of all the negroes twice told to possess the land and life of every white man that has a soul. The South for a thousand miles holds the outlets of the Father of Waters, and will dye them and its swamps with the blood of thousands, both sons of the soil and its enemies. While there is a Lucifer match to burn' your bridges, or a stone or a log to obstruct your commerce, the vengeance of the foe at midnight will be upon you. In turn, you can do much to desolate and destroy ; but you can- not damn up the Mississippi nor dip it dry. Swamp foxes will be upon you at every bayou, and even the alligators will be your enemies. Pause, then, sir, and lift the veil of the future, which is ] just before you, and stay the fanatical hand now lifted to strike. If you do not, like Macbeth, your own sleep will be murdered and the sleep of thousands. You shall never wash the stain of the blood of your relatives from your own hands, the hands of your wife, or the hands of your sister, Harriett Beecher Stowe. Call around you Senator Seward, Wendell Phillips, Joshua Giddings, and Fred. Douglas, and visit your first victim in a lunatic asylum — Gerritt Smith, of New York. Call a prayer meeting and pray Old Brown and his confed- erates out of purgatory, perhaps from hell where all of you should have gone before. Ask God to forgive you for your wickedness, wash your filthy garments, go thy way and sin no longer against your conscience and your country's consti- tution. No longer lie against nature and common sense, and make negroes your equals, while you will not give your sons in marriage and negro husbands for your daughters. Your knowledge of natural history can but convince you of the truthfulness of the best authorities, that there is no identity of the origin, no equality in mental or physical or- ganization, and that the negro has been what he is for four thousand yesrs, and will be the same for four thousand years to come. The white man has scarcely proved the problem of self-government: the negro never has and never can. If your honor is engaged and your conscience smites you, and you find that the records of your country implicate both Old and New England in the introduction of this unhallowed trafific, who stole them from Africa and sold them into bond- age in the South ; and you wish to pay the purchase money back, with the interest of the debt, and do not wish to steal and sell them again, we would ask, where is the money to pay AND patriot's FRIEND. 67 for them ? Where the seven hundred millions to buy them ? ' Where the three hundred millions to transport them ? Where > the money to sustain them as a free people ? Pay first the in- terest upon your railroad debt of eight hundred millions before you borrow money to buy negroes. One of these two propo- sitions must be pursued, either to exterminate the white man and give the soil to the negro, or purchase and transport the negro, either of which is impracticable. But while you teach them to murder the white man, and violate the white woman, you will never teach them the religion of Jesus Christ, with all your babbling preachers. The boast of the people of the North that they can overrun the South is a bravado. In ev- ery mountain pass they will meet a Jackson, a Taylor, or a '_, Leonidas, and a Marion in every swamp. The "Swamp Fox" ' of the Pedee and Santee of Carolina was never conquered, but defeated the armies of the then most powerful nation on the globe. They will say to you, come; thrust in your Nor- thern sickle, and your harvest shall be death ; you shall meet foemcn worthy of your steel, to the last of their blood and their breath. My dear sir, you mistake the position of the North and I yourself — neither your moral suasion nor your Sharpc's rifle . can subdue or terrify the people of the South — you look thro' a medium that magnifies yourselves, while it diminishes oth- ers. Allow me to draw the picture. The great mass of man- • kind who appear upon the stage of human life, seem to be born but to eat, to drink, to propagate their specie>^ and to die. Both lord and vassal, nobleman and peasant, king and ^ subject, though widely separated in life sleep on the same pal- let of death. After the surprise of youth and ioexperience is over, they loiter on earth or burst like bubbles on the sea of matter, or flirt like butterflies from sweet to sweet, from flow- er to flower, and then disappear forever. If born to position or occupy oflice they arc viewed in their elevation, because of their wickedness and crime, and are as odious as they are conspicuous. But some claim a diviner right made under a hiijhcr lav:, sent as Rabbi, teachers from God, to dictate the will of Heaven, who abide neither the laws of men nor the constitution of their country, whose puritanical cant and hy- pocrisy make them odious to every sensible and honest mind. They may be ministers, indeed, but not ministers of the religion of Christ, but of divine vengeance, who sometimes destroy not only themselves but the people to whom they 68 CONFEDERATE MONITOR preach. To this latter class, Mr. Beecher, allow me to say, [ think you belong. Your slender virtues are so mixed up with arrogance, impudence and crime, that the most acute analysis could not discover one grain of honesty in the composition ; and if God's grace can save the sinner, the selfish hypocrite, the winged messenger of Mercy would never light on as mean a thing as you. Again, we have men who seem to be created for a higher purpose — sent on important business, sent to des- olate and destroy, or to create, to build up and sustain, men not living for themselves as you do, but for the whole human race ; whose lives are the ornaments which adorn the age in which they live. If they appear either in public or private life the places they occupy are radiant with the glory of their j acts ; men who arc stars and suns in the pathway of life, to i cheer, to guide, and to save. Not a few have adorned your profession, sir ; some have adorned mine. But the most mark- ed and distinguished men of the past age were Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Patrick Henry, Calhoun, Clay, and Web- ster, most of whom were born in that State which you would desolate, and under institutions which you profess to despise. Such men are holy fathers of the church to which I belong, and if sent to hell for the enormous sin of slavery allow me the privilege of choice to go with them rather than to the heaven of the canting hypocrites, whose every act is to anath- ematize all but his own dogmas, and propagate error and falsehood in every step he takes in life. Such men, under the garb of religion, in every age of the world^nd under ev- ery form of faith, have despoiled the fairest hopes of the hu- man race. Such men as claim to be guided by a ^'-liujlur hiiv'' than the constitution of this country, would dash to pieces the fair fabric of our country's liberty, and lay their unhal- lowed, polluted hands even on the stones of the very temple of liberty ere they had grown cold from the hands of Wash- ington and Jefferson. Such men as you, sir, would see the waves of human passion in a storm sweep over the ruins of the lighthouse of the world reared upon time's thousand miles of coast by the toil of millions of the just, the virtuous, and the wise, at whose base lie the brains and skulls of the fanat- ical gulls that have dashed against it. And, sir, if such men go to heaven they should carry with them every creeping- thing. Such men would plot treason again'^t virtue, and sac- rifice even female honor upon the altar of their hellish de- signs. I do not covet such a heaven — have no desire to AND patriot's FRIEND. 69 walk the streets of your New Jerusalem, where I am to be saluted by the whistle of the rattlesnake and the hiss of the viper, and breathe the atmosphere poisoned by the breath of tlie toad and the copperhead. This may be heaven for hypocrites and fanatics, but not for me. Many years have passed since I knew you sir, an impudent boy, and having added wickedness to impudence, you have become a more conspicuous man, while my obscuri- ty will scarcely bring me to mind. I have wielded the knife in surgery for a profession, and whether I have won laurels or not, my history and my profession must show. But, sir, this much will I say to you, that when my country is destroy- ed by heartless fanatics, excited to deeds of bloodshed, the - knife which has never been turned on the human family but Mn kindness and mercy shall be keenly whet injustice and in vengeance. My last surgical operation shall be performed on such destroying monsters, to cut from their hearts the rooted cancer, and rid the world of such canting hypocrites. I am, sir, a Huguenot Protestant of the Marion stock, the Le Grand family of France, my immediate ancestors by my mother. My father descended from a race of Scots that have never been conquered, of the Campbell clan, and Rob Roy was 'f MY COUSIN. I have never bought, or sold, or stolen, or own- . od a negro; I am a Kentuckian, born among slaves, and no Judas shall sell my country for silver, but he shall receive steel instead. I am a friend of the constitution and of the rights of the States, and an enemy of all disturbers of my country's peaci;, and, therefore, I am f/our enemy. JOS. N. McDOWELJ., M. 1). I'lofessor of Snrfjferj/ in the Medical Collie oj Mis^^ouri. THE MYSTERY OF NEGROrHILISM. Undei- this caption, the New York " Times " publishes the following editorial — a very remarkable emanation from a Journal which has devoted its influence to the cultivation of negrophilism : " Of all the topics now engaging the thoughts of Gods and men, the American negro is unquestionably the chief Fi-om the lowest * I'^ce in the scale of human existence, he' has reached the highest; '•.liJ. even yet the interest in him seems 70 COl^PEDERATE MONlTOIt unabated. To what new honors he is reserved — to what re- markable career he is predestined — it would be a rash prophet that would attempt to foretell. But the evidences are abundant that he is the central figure of the nations — the unit of existence around which the " rest of mankind" parade themselves as mere ciphers. "It would be hard to tell whence this extraordinary interest in the negro has come. It does not arise from his beauty, | for no writer on assthetics has evei pretended to find either beauty or grace in the shambling African. It can not be because of his illustrious or romantic history, as a race or as a nation ; for classic literature is extremely barren of the records of orators, statesmen, philosophers or warriors, of negro origin. It can not be because of any physical affinity between the white race and the black, for the black has al- ways been declared unsavory, and naturally beset by lazi- ness and vermin. And, lastly, it can not be because of the sympathy of the whites with a weak, down-trodden, and en- slaved race ; for the negro of Africa, (from which the Ameri- can negro was taken, is weaker to-day, and more oppressed, and nearer a barbarian cannibal, than his American cousin has ever been, and yet no Anglican Dutchees, nor American Greely, is ever heard wailing over the sorrows of the sons of Ashantee. The passion for the American negro must be considered, therefore, entirely abnormal — a phenomenon which was de- fined once by a Western pioneer, as " something that never had happened before, and never would happen again." The African in America is an exotic — he is a hot-house plant, and, like all exotics, he is valued just in proportion to the care required in his cultivation — the intrinsic value of the plant never being considered at all, and our people nurse him in their hot-house as though Africa were not teeming with mil- lions like him — like him, truly, but with a thousand attrac-. tive variations : negroes that hunt negroes, that buy negroes, that sell negroes, that kill negroes, and that eat negroes ; ne- groes that go naked through life, and negroes that clothe Iheir shame with beads on their necks and rings on their fingers. Three hundred years ago we got our Africans from that unfortunate Continent which, Mr. Seward once very aptly said, " nature had fortified against civilization." We took them naked into our land, and lo ! they have come in the end to clothe the whole world. * * It is surprising that n the Southern States wish to keep what other countries deem so valuable, and are trying so hard to get. Has not the South taught the world the value of African labor, and is not mankind better off to-day than if this discovery had never been made ? "These speculations, however, are profitless. What is there about our American negro that recommends him to the absorbing and passionate attention of the world 1 Why are many thousands fanatics about him, and more thousands fools about him ? Is it possible that black is the primeval and regal color of the race — that Adam was a black man as well as Cain and Abel, and that Cain turned white only when caught in crime and driven out to be a vagabond on the earth? This, we know, is the faith of the dusky Gospellers of the South, and, doubtless, they are rejoicing to see the day returning when Heaven's favor will triumph over the white man's crime, and the black man will again gather fruits in tropical Edens, untroubled by visions of shovel or hoe." YANKEE MISTAKES IN REGARD TO THE SOUTH. The following communication, dated New Orleans, July 19, 1862, appeared in the Boston " Courier" : ** We have been laboring under certain grave errors in respect to this rebellion, which it is high time were corrected. " We have supposed there was a Union party in the South. There is none. ^ " We have supposed the rebellion oould be quelled in this campaign. It must last for years. " We have supposed half a million of troops were suffi- cient to subjugate the revolted States. It will require at least a million and a half. " This is the most serious of all our errors — this constant- ly undervaluing the strength of the enemy, and over estima- ting our own strength. The time has arrived when we must come up to the strengtR of our endeavor. Not a man less than a million and a half will be necessary. We must at once take measures to raise this number of troops, or the contest will be prolonged indefinitely. " We have supposed that after subduing the rebels, a small force would suflice to enforce obedience to the law. Such may be the case twenty years hence, but for the pres- 72 CONFEDERATE MONITOR ent, say for the next ten years, we shall want a standing : army of not less than three hundred thousand men to pre- serve order in the South. The people literally hate us. The women teach hatred to their children. The clergy preach hatred from the pulpit. The growing generation will be even more embittered against us than the present. No- 1 thing but force can keep the country. For this purj)Osc, my estimate of three hundred thousand men is moderate. " One great source of the fatal errors we have committed, is the delusive statements furnished to the press. Here, we J are compelled to suppress the truth to prevent its injurious ^ influence on our troops At home it is otherwise. " If the people were apprised of all the facts in the case, j their patriotism would be equal to the emergency, and we I could take the field next fall with the million and a half, ^ without which we can not expect success. " It is most important they should know the truth, and the whole truth." Since then, the combined forces of Pope, McClellan and liurnside have been defeated with great slaughter upon the Plains of Manassas, and forced to betake themselves, with shattered and decimated ranks, to their entrenchments and fortifications at Washington. FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND MEN ALREADY BURIED BEING • THE LOSS IN THE NORTHERN ARMIES FOR THE FIRSTS YEAR AND A HALE OF THE WAR. LAMATION DENOUNCED. A meeting was held at the Democratic head-quarters in New York, at which about one thousand persons were pres- ent. Tlon. James Brooks, of the New York Express, first addressed the meeting. After denouncing the emancipation proclamation : He then spoke of the second proclamation, saying to thft people, If you aqitate this subject you shall be put in Fort [.aFayettc ("Let them try it." Laughter.) It was a 73 proper corollary on the first. The provost marshal (hisses) of the State or city of New York, is made the judge of our loyalty, and any person's enmity may obtain the incarcera tion of any one of us. There are two points in the procla mation. The first is, the suspension of civil and the estab- lishment of martial law, and the second is, the suspension of the Habeas Corpus. That right which our English fathers have had since the (lark ages, is annulled by a proclamation, and citizens are arrested without knowing why or wherefore. (Infamous.) Never, never, did the revolutionary fathers, who struck bright and free the sparks of liberty, delegate such power to the Executive. Could they tell that for his speech he should not be in Fort LaFayctte to-morrow. (No. no.) If it was not a period of war, we should have no hesitancy in saying, " Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." (Tremendous applause.) The ballot-box is the remedy. Form huge pro- cessions, bearing the red cap of liberty, and protest, beg, and implore, a return of our liberties. (You're right.) Kead t he Constitution of the United States, securing to every man freedom of speech, trial by jury, and protection in his per- son and property. (Cheers.) lie did not propose ever to give up the Constitution, or surrender to the rebels. (Applause.) But he proposed to carry on the war on a different principle, and taking a sword in the right hand and the Constitution in the left, and save the country through the Constitution. (Cheers) He would surround the rebels, and leave treason to sting itself to death. This geographical idea of overruiming the Southern territory with unacclimated Northern men, is a theory the most fatal. He abhorred secession and abolition equally. Jeff*. Davis was a rebel only two years old ; Wendell Phillips is, by his own confession, a rebel twenty years old. (Applause.) — With the exception of the little Republic of San Marino on a peak of the Appenines, we are the only Republic now in existence, and we are working out the grand problem. Ty- rants in Europe are using all their power to subvert our principles. More than ever now is it necessary to impress upon the Northern mind, that " Liberty, liberty, liberty and Union, now and forever, are one and inseparable." (Cheers.) Mr. Schenable, who was imprisoned in Fort LaFayette, then addressed the meeting. Mr. Lincoln, he said, will be supported by all when he 4 "74 CONFEDERATE MONITOR acts Constitutionally. (Applause.) We have already bu- ried 400,000 men or more, and saddled the country with a debt nearly equal to Great Britain's. There was a time when, if a few men had been treated for their attempts at destroying the labor and peace of this country, as loyal men have since been treated, be imprisoned, this might have been prevented. (Applause.) The clap-trap knavery of the Sec- retary of State is double-tongued, like the serpent. When he utters anything, he shapes it in such a way that, if the party he belongs to turns a back somerset to-morrow, he can swear just as w^ell by his interpretation, as he can by the position of the party to day. When imprisoned in Fort LaFayette, he was offered his freedom on condition of taking a certain oath, which closed as follows : " And you do fur- ther swear that you will never, by writing or public speak- ng, throw any obstacles in the w^ay of whatever measures this Administration may see fit to adopt." (Laughter and hisses.) He refused to take that oath. (Great applause.) The time is coming when he would revenge himself. — (Cheers.) Remember that free speech will not be crushed. (" No, never.") Imprisonment may begin again, but at last we will be triumphant. Men must depend upon public ora- tors and the public press, and they must judge how near they are right. God Almighty himself, when amid the dark- ness of chaos He laid the stagnant w^aters in order, said, " Let there be light." (Applause.) And now, amidst the moral, and civil, and political chaos of our country, let the battle-cry of the Democracy be, " Let there be light." — (Cheers.) If the free Northern white man is to lose his lib- erty in the atrocious effort to make the descendant of Ham his equal, then it is high time that we begin to investigate whether the teachings of the party which is bringing about this damnable result, are right or wrong. The doctrine an- nounced by Simon Cameron, the great Winnebeg plunderer, who has robbed the Government coffers more than any crim- inal that ever disgraced the annals of a court of justice, as the only plan by which he could save his ill-gotten gains, was the obliteration of State lines and the elevation of a man of perpetual power, like the arbitary Louis Napoleon, or some one backed up by the Abolitionists, like that mon- strous jackass, John Charles Fremont. (Laughter and ap- plause.) The experience of history teaches us that whenever, from generation to generation, you bend the knee of the la- 75 boring classes of a country to a power beyond their reach, in a little while the child, following the parent's example, adopts the genufluction and subniits, until at length the chains are bound upon it without any chance of breaking. — It is almost the history of poor Ireland. It is the natural effect of the operations of tyranny. — Sept., 1862. \ EUROPEAN OPINION OF BUTLER'S PROCLAMATION. The following, from a very influential London Journal, is one of the severest invectives upon the conduct of Butler, the Beast, that we have seen. In this country we have be- come so accustomed to the diabolical courses of the enemy, that our sensibilities are perhaps a little blunted, and we may sometimes foil to do justice to the occasion. This Eng- lish writer, however, does not fail to see Butler's late order in its true light, and to denounce it as it deserves : From the London Saturday Revie>s', June 14. GEN. BENJAMIN F. BUTLER. The proclamation of Gen. Butler, at New Orleans, has been read in England with a horror which no other event in this deplorable civil war has created. The attention it has excited in Parliament inadequately represents the general feeling of indignation among us. It is difficult to conceive that a civilized man can have written it, or that civilized nian can have been found to carry it out. This is not a genera- tion in which men shudder at the ordinary horrors and bru- talities of war. The experience of the last ten years has taught us, as actors, as sufferer?, and as bystanders, that war is not made of rose-water. It is hard to set a limit to the horrors which rough, uneducated men, with their passions strung to the highest point, will commit in the first revelry of success. But such excesses have been usually confined to the first sack of a stormed town — and they have always, among civilized nations, been the result, not of a command- er's order, but of the ungovernable brute impulses of the men. They have been always checked and disavowed by commanding officers, not only as demoralizing to their troops, but as a blot upon the flags under which they were commit- ted. In dealing with women, even the sternest commanders 76 CONFEDERATE MONITOR have, as a rule, been gentle. No conqueror but has had to face their unarmed hostility, all the bitterer and bolder that it was secure of impunity. In some cases it may have been firmly though mildly checked — in most instances it has been contemptuously passed by. Banishment from the places where their expressions of opinion might be embarrassing, has usually been the extremest measure of rigor to which they have been exposed. Occasionally, the animosity of some peculiarly brutal officer has hurried him beyond this limit, and he has inflicted upon women the punishments that are reserved for men. Such an instance was the well-known case of Haynau. But the execrations of all Europe spurned the perpetrator of that outrage, and rest upon his name even to this day. Yet his offense against humanity was light, compared to that of which Gen. Butler has Ijeen guilty. He outraged but one victim, and his cruelty left no stain upon her fame. No commander of any civilized nation in the world, up to this time, has carried his contempt for manly feeling so far, as deliberately, for the purposes of repression, long after the excitement of battle was over, to let loose the lusts of men upon the women who had fallen into his hands. In this, as in other matters, the Model Republic has been the bearer of a new revelation to mankind. The Northern- ers are fond of boasting that they have to deal with a larger civil war than ever before in history, started into being in the course of a single year, and that they have made them- selves liable for a larger debt than any other State ever con- tracted in ten times the same period. To thesejust subjects of exultation, they may now add the gratifying reflection that they have by far the most ruffianly commander the world ever saw or dreamed of. If any thing can add to the atroci- ty of Gen. Butler's proclamation, it is the slenderness of the provocation that called it forth. Even if the ladies of New Orleans had been detected conspiring in favor of the cause for which their husbands and brothers are fighting, it would have left an indellible infamy upon his name, that he had attempted to punish them by subjecting them to the foulest dishonor a woman can undergo. But they have not been punished for conspiring. Their only offense has been that, " by gesture or word, they have expressed contempt for Fed- eral officers and soldiers." The Federal officers appear to to be thin-skinned in the war of words — they find it an une- qual combat. AND patriot's FRIEND. 77 The sarcasms of quick-witted French women, reinforced, possibly, by the sugcjestion of their own consciences, have made them feel more keenly than they had felt before, the blood-thirsty hypocrisy of their leaders. They feel even that derisive smiles are more than they can bear. If they are to continue to fight only with the same weapons, they arc conscious that they may as well retire from the field al- together. But they have a weapon sharper than words, more cutting than sneering glances. They have an instrument in their armory which can tame the most taunting tongue, and quell the proudest Moman's heart. Physically, they are the strongest, and therefore it is al- ways in their power to inflict dishonor — that dishonor to which every woman is liable — of which no words can meas- ure the hideous depth, and which no later reparation can ef- face. True, it is a kind of revenge which no man above the rank of a savage would employ. But what of thati The Federals have already shown to the world that they have a special interpretation of the word Freedom, as well as of the word Bravery. It only remains for them to show that they have also a special interpretation of the word Honor. And it will be a sweet re-payment for all the insults they have endured, to hear the taunting accents change into sobs of de- spairing supplication — to see the disdainful cheek mantled with the blush of hopeless, helpless shame. Accordingly, Gen. Butler issues his edict — "Any lady who ihall, by word or gesture, express contempt of any Federal officer or sol- dier," shall be liable, without protection or redress, to be treated as common prostitutes are treated. Gen. Butler spares us the details of that treatment — for the Americans are a very decent people. He is, no doubt, fully conscious that the insulted officers and men will need no special in- structions. It may be said this is no afiair of ours, and that if Gen. Butler and his officers choose to treat the ladies of a city they have conquered, as Alaric's soldiers treated the nuns of Rome, or as the Sepoys are said to havo treated our countrymen at Delhi, it does not concern us in England. — It may be so. At least our indignation and our sympathy must be alike barren of practical result. We may be told, as we have been told before, that if we censure Americans with the freedom we have been wont to use towards Eng- lishmen, we shall embitter a powerful nation against our country, that we shall be sowing seed of hatred that we shall 78 CONFEDERATE MONITOR reap in war. It is very possible. If generals in supreme command are so thin-skinned, that, to suppress a sarcasm or a gibe, they are content to perpetrate an outrage to which the history of modern warfare can present no parallel, it is likely enough that they may wince at the out-spoken lan- guage in which English politicians and English journalists re- cord their judgment against deeds of infamy. Yet it has not been the habit of those who guide opinion here to modify their censures of wrong on account of the sensitiveness or the power of the wrong doer. The cruelty of Minsk, the horrors of the Neapolitan prisons, the threatened bombard- ment of Palermo — all called forth a prompt and powerful reprobation from English writers and speakers. But none of these outrages will leave upon those who contrived them so deep a stain as that which this New Orleans proclamation fixed upon Gen. Butler's name. The crimes of European despots have either been justified by some precedent of State craft or of war, or were palliated by the barbarism of the people among whom they were committed. But this Re- publican proceeding was done among the people for whom their maudlin advocates here claim a special enlightenment and a peculiar courtesy towards women, and is justified by no precedent, or vestige of precedent, in the horrible annals either of despotic repression or warlike excess. Tilly and Wallenstein have not left in history a character for exag- gerated tenderness — but no such disgrace as this attaches to their name. The late Grand Duke Constantino was , not a sentimental Governor. It is said of him that, on one occa- sion, he sent to pi-ison the husbands of all the Polish ladies of rank who refused to dance with Russian officers at a State ball. But when we come to speak of guilt such as that of the Republican general, even Constantine's blood-stained crime is spotless. He would have driven from his presence any officer — if any such European officer could have been found — who should have suggested to him the decree that the Polish Countesses might be treated as " women of the town." We can do nothing in England to arrest such pro- ceedings. We can only learn from them what South America might have taught us already — how civil war can double its horrors when waged by a Government of Democratic origin. But, at all events, we can wash our hands of complicity in this guilt. Unless the author of this infamous proclamation is promptly recalled, let us hear no more of the " ties that AND patriot's FRIEND. 79 bind us to our trans- Atlantic kinsmen." No Englishman ought to own as kinsmen, men who attempt to protect them- selves from the tongues of a handful of women, by official and authoritative threats of rape. The bloodiest savages could do nothing more cruel — the most loathsome Yahoo of the fiction could do nothing more filthy. BUTLER'S PROCLAMATIOxN. BY PAUL n. HAYNE. It is ordered, that, hereafter, when any femalp/Bhall, by word, gesture, or moveiuent, insult or show contempt' for anv officer or soldier of the United States, s/ie ahall be regarded and held liable io be treated as a woman of the toitm 2^^U^ng her vocation. — Butler's order at New Orleans. Aye ! drop the treacherous ma«k! throw by The cloak, -which veiled thine instincts fell, Stand forth, thou base, incarnate Lie, Stamped with the sinnet brand of Hell ! At last we view thee as thou art, A Trickster with a Demon's heart. Off with disguise ! no quarter now To rebel honor ! thou wouldst strike Hot blushes up the anguish brow. And murder fame and etrergth alike : Beware! ten millions hearts allame, Will burn with hate thou can'st not tame ! We know thee now ! we know thy Rare! Thy dreadful purpose stands revealed, Naked, before the Nation's face !— Comrades ! let Mercy's front be sealed, While the black Banner courts the wind, And cursed be he Avho lags behind ! O ! soldiers ! — husbands, brothers, tires ! Think that each stalwart blow ye give Shall quench the rage of lustful fires, And bid your glorious women live Pure from a wrong whose tainted breath, Were fouler than the foulest death. O ! soldiers !— lovers. Christians, men ! Think that each breeze that floats and dies O'er the red field, from mount or glen. Is burdened with a maiden's sighs — And each false soul that turns to flee. Consigns his Love to infamy ! Think ! and strike home !— the fabled might Of Titans, were a teeble power To that with which your arms should smite. In the next awful battle hour ! And deadlier than the bolts of Heaven, Should flash your Fury's fatal levin ! 80 CONFEDERATE MONITOR No pity ! let your thirsty brands Drink their warm fill at Caitiflf veins : Dip deep in blood your wrathful hands, Nor pause to wipe those crimson stains, Slay ! Slay ! with ruthless sword and will — The God of vengeance bids you " kill ! " Yea ! but there's one who shall not die In battle harness! One for whom Lurks in the darkness silently Another, and a sterner Doom ; A warrior's end should crown tlie brave — For him, swift cord ! and felon grave ! A loathsome chamel vapors melt, Swept by invisible winds to nought, So, may this fiend of lust and guilt. Die like a nightmare's hideous thought! Nought left to mark the monster's name, Save — immortality of shame ! THE ENEMY ACKNOWLEDGES A SEVERE WHIPPING. THEY RESORT TO LYING TO RALLY THE MEN. ^^Bravery of the Rebel Troops^ The Yankees, as will be seen by the foHowing, are some- times compeHed, against their will, to tell the truth. The subjoined article, from its special correspondent, appeared in the Cincinnati " Inquirer," of August 4th : The rebel army made two attacks, one from the right and one from the left ; both were equally determined and fierce, but the one on the right was by far the shortest and the most magnificent. After driving in our skirmishers on the right, (Company E, from New Hampshire, Sharpshooters,) the rebels shelled us terribly. For an hour it was hell personi- fied, but to one who has never been under fire of batteries, shooting these most infernal of all contrivances, shells, it is an utter waste of time to attempt to convey a realizing sense of what the words " being shelled " mean. All at once the bombarding ceased, and an ominous silence ensued. From experience we knew what was coming, and anxiously gazed at the woods to see from what point they would emerge. — Every nerve was braced for the coming hand to hand deadly struggle. In a moment, as it were, the woods on the right were filled with a dense mass of human beings, and in anoth- er moment, a long, steady line advanced firmly and quickly AND patriot's FRIEND. 61 into the open space. What daring ! AYhat madness ! In- fantry charging immense batteries at a distance of half a mile over a level plain raked by nearly forty cannon. — Throwing aside all aid from their own cannon and cavalry, they desperately formed on an open plain, and pitted them- selves against our infantry, cannon and cavalry. It was sub- lime — and forgetful of all else save their boundless courage and daring, I swung my hat and cheered till the tears ran from my eyes. The moment they hove in sight, twelve Parrot guns and '"ur large howitzers begun the dreadful work of death and struction ; covered with dust, whole companies, as it were, L:<»ing down at every discharge, the cannon playing quicker ;iiid faster; still they closed up their shattered ranks, and advanced further and further into that awful arch of certain dcatli ; shot and shell, canister and grape, mowed them down, yet, firmly as ever did the veterans of Napoleon, they ad- vanced and faltered not. Already the remnant had reached s') near that the loud, clear tones of the officers could be dis- tinctly heard, and the batteries seemed doomed. Thousands wore killed, but hundreds survived. The guns were doomed. 1 held my breath, when lo ! right from under their faces in the long grass came a volley from our gallant men, who up to that time had laid concealed in a little ravine, or rather 'litch. Flesh and blood could stand no more. They broke and fled, and our men lay down again while the terrible can- non hurled destruction into the fleeing mas?. Three fourths of that brigade were left on that field, and all I have related did not occupy more than ten minutes. It must be confessed that their discipline equals ours, if it is not superior, and braver men than their officers do not live. This talk about the rebels not fighting is played out. In fact, the whole North has been humbugged with stupendous falsehoods con- cerning the South. Why should they not fight as well as we? Are they not one and the same? This system of misrepresentation has gone far enough. We were whipped at Gaines' Mills, and our army a rab- ble. The cavalry appeared on our right, and appeared anx- ious to charge on the bridge in our rear. They could have done it easily. Then the whole army would have been ru- ined, and the Southern Confederacy a fixed fact. It was the most critical moment of the battle or the war. A beaten army, a bridge and morass in the rear, a stampede, add *o .* 82 CONFEDERATE MONITOR that a charge by three thousand cavalry on the bridge, and any one may see the terrible result. To Col. Berdan is due the most of the credit of saving the army. Rallying the men, forming a nucleus, he began to inspire the men with the idea that all was not lost. Still they wavered. Officers and men were forced into the ranks ; others, assured by the Colonel, assisted him in the terrible struggle, not to win the day, but to save the army. At length, eleven lines w^ere formed, and at this critical juncture the cavalry appeared on our right. They had not seen our rout, and supposed the lines were reinforcements. They were not decided, and ap- peared to be calculating the chances. On their decision de- pended the fate of every thing. Col. Berdan seeing this, or- dered an aid to the rear and galloped up announcing that Richmond was taken. He did so, and the effect was magic- al. The men cheered, flags were waved, and the cavalry, thinking our whole army was there, halted, and we were saved. When they afterwards learned from prisoners the real state of the case, their mortification was excessive. — General Morrell thanked Col. Berdan, and gave him the credit of having saved the army, as he indeed had done. • It was the turning point. Generals in the front could not have seen it. Luckily, Col. Berdan was equal to the emer- gency. It is impossible to portray the effort required to stop the tide often thousand retreating men. You can only comprehend that it was done, the Cavalry charge averted, the bridge kept, and the army saved. Tuesday night we slept on the battle-field. . No meat had we seen — nothing but hard bread for five whole days. The night was as cold as the day was warm. We had no blank- ets nor overcoats, our clothes were wringing wet with per- spiration, and now most frozen upon us. But soon came the sad scenes of the Chickahominy, leaving our wounded com- rades. At 3 A. M. we were aroused, and began our weary march to Harrison's Landing. As I left the field — I was one of the very last — the wounded bad just begun to com- prehend what w^as going on. " Are you going to leave us?" " Can't we hold the ground ?" they asked. When answered that they were to be abandoned, they set up a most misera- ble cry. They wept, prayed, blasphemed, and besought us not to leave them. No one even togive'their fevered bodies a drop of water — no one to care for them. I pass hastily over this scene, but I never shall forget the poor boys rais- 83 ing up a little and gazing at us with eyes expressing only utter despair as \ye filed slowly out of sight. (It is but jus- tice to add to this that the rebels, as far as we know, treated our wounded as well as they could.) — Richmond Enquirer, Sept. \st.j 1862. THE WOMEN OF THE REVOLUTION. We copy the following beautiful tribute to the Ladies of the South, from the " Richmond Christian Advocate : " The women of the South have distinguished themselves during the war. In respect to courage, patience, self denial, active benevolence, and the most refined illustrations of pa- triotism, they have clothed themselves with honor. The fact is not less gratifying to national pride than inspiring to virtuous deeds. The whole country feels the influence of these noble heroines. In every department of usefulness ac- cessible to her, the Southern woman has been found a gen- erous volunteer, sparing herself no toil or trials, always ready to spend her all to purchase blessings for her country. It has been poetically said, that woman's union with men was as ^'perfect music set to noble words ^ In our present strug- gle she has unquestionably furnished the " music " — whose inspiring tones and consoling melody have animated the healthful and cheered the sick. From her has flowed the music of our revolution. To be sure, some of the women, like some of the men, have been behind the times, weak, wavering, and failing in the time of trial, illustrating selfish- ness rather than patriotism ; but tens of thousands of them have borne witness for right and liberty at every hazard. The character of a people has no better index than that which is furnished in the character of their women. From their intelligence, refinement and jnorale, we may easily in- fer the social standard of the nation. It is, therefore, ex- edingly gratifying to discover such abundant evidence of elevated society of the South, as that which is supplied 111 the character and influence of our women. We could tell of many individual instances in which the daughters of the South have exhibited their greatness of soul. The whole land is full of such facts. There is not a place of trial in the history of the Southern Confederacy which does not show a record of honor for Southern women: while battles rage, 84 CONFEDERATE MONITOR her hands prepare the lint and bandages, and her heart is up- lifted to the God of battles for victory ; in [the hospitals, where there is "Gathered about her the harvest, Of Death in his ghastliest view," she moves bravely, untiringly, as a ministering angel : at home she prepares clothing for the absent soldier, while her letters of comfort and good cheer, her appeals to all that is noble and Christianly in his character, clothe him with strength in the day of battle. We have read of nothing in the early history of our country that is more creditable to the women than what we have seen and heard since this fierce war has been in progress. Let them not be weary in well-doing ! Wheresoever the story of this great conflict shall be told in the earth, this shall be told as a memorial of her — that " she hath done what she could ! " LINCOLN AND HIS PROCLAMATION. Abraham Lincoln's Proclamation, ordaining servile insur- rection in the Confederate States, has not been for a moment misunderstood, either North or South. After undertaking to destroy four thousand millions of our property at a dash of the pen, Lincoln proceeds to say : " And the Executive Government of the United States, including the Military and Naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, a?id ivill do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom^ This is as much as to bid the slaves rise in insurrection, with the assurance of the aid of the whole Military and Na- val power of the United Stc^tes. The New York " Times," while applauding the wisdom of the proclamation, says : " From now till the first of January — the day when this proclamation will take effect — is little over three months. What may happen between now and then, in the progress of the war, it is hard to say. We earnestly hope, however, that by that time the rebellion m ill be put down by the mil- itary hand, and that the terrible eleinent of slave insiirrectlon may not he invoked^ Deliberately, and with full purpose, om- enemies have en- tered upon this step. ■A AND patriot's FRIEND. 85 Is there any one who has not reflected upon the nature of the agency which Lincoln now invokes ? A servile war is necessarily one of extermination, and the peculiar character of the negro adds to its inevitable horrors. Released from authority, he is at once a savage ; and the very ignorance which drives him to his own destruction, stimulates him to the darkest excesses. How was it in Southampton County in 1831, when Nat. Turner engaged in the work to which Lincoln now invites? Not satisfied with murdering the few men who fell into their power, they massacred even thebahe in the cradle. They in this manner exterminated the family of Mr. Travis, Turner's kind and indulgent master. Next Mrs. Waller and her ten children were slain, and piled in a heap. Near by, a school of little girls was captured, and all massacred except one, who escaped. The family of Mrs. Vaughan was next destroyed. In this manner, between Sun- day night and Monday noon, they had murdered fifty-five persons, nearly a'l of whom were women and children. This is the sort of work Lincoln desires to see. This is the agency which Lincoln now invokes! It is one which the most callous highwayman should shudder to employ. This is now liis war-cry ! It is " as if the [vilest fiend] that fell, had raised the battle-cry of hell ! " Butler has been called infiimous — by common consent he is known as the Beast. But Butler is a saint compared to his master. In addition to all that Butler authorized, Lincoln adds butchery — even the butchery of babes ! Language is too poor to furni^i a name for such a character. Nay, the whole catalogue of dishonoring epithets is not sufficient to do justice to it. " Murderer" is a term of honor compared to Lincoln's crime. " Child and woman murderer " tells but a part of the story. To this is added the cowardice of employ- ing an agent. To this belongs the additional fact that the agent, when unloosed, is a savage. To this is added the further fact that Lincoln dooms his agent to destruction. — What shall we call him? — coward ? assassin? savage? — the murderer of women and babes, and the false desttoyer of his own deluded allies? Shall we consider these as all embodied in the word "fiend!" and shall we call him that? Lincoln, the Fiend ! — let history take hold of him, and let the civili- zed world fling its scorpion lash upon him ! We have described Lincoln's inte?itlons and ivishes towards us. We have shown what terrors he would let loose, if he 86 CONFEDERATE MONITOR could. He is as bad as if his power corresponded with his avowed design. But, thank Heaven, we are Lot delivered over to his will ! We are abundantly able to maintain a salutary domestic authority at the same time that our armies meet Lincoln's in the field. Lincoln w^ould simply drive our servants to destruction. Cheerful and happy now, he plots their death. An insurrection is their swift destruction. — How was it in the long-hatched Southampton case to which we have referred 1 Sunday night the insurrectionists began their work. Monday at noon they were in full flight and hiding in the swamps. It needs hardly be asked how they fared. They suffered a terrible retribution. They were hunted like wild beasts, as they were, and were at first killed where ever found. Several of these murderers of women and chil- dren were taken to the Cross Keys, and their heads cut off on the spot ; afterwards, captives were tried and hung — among them Nat. Turner, the leader. Some innocent ones are be- lieved to have perished with the guilty. So it will ever be with servile insurrections, if attempted here. They can gain no foothold, with proper vigilance. — They will, at any rate, be as swiftly suppressed as a common riot, and terrible punishment will fall on the guilty. But what does the Fiend care for that ? He is the common ene- my of white and black. The efforts of the Fiend to breed discontent can be readily counteracted and provided against if we are vigilant, as wo must be. The County Courts or Military Authorities must • establish suitable patrols for the preservation of the public peace. The men of a neighborhood, even if there be but a few, and if they be infirm, must keep fire-arms, and form a neighborhood guard, if necessary, A very little organiza- tion and preparation, with vigilance, will suffice to counter- vail all the efforts of the emissaries whom the Fiend may send, and to overawe all turbulance. These things must be duly attended to. Our military operations are henceforth to assume a very grave character. The Fiend's new programme will, neces- sarily, destroy all terms between us. The next campaign will be a tremendous one, both for the character and the magnitude of the hostilities. Let our authorities prepare the whole strength of our people for the tremendous shock. The enemy is making giant preparations, as well as issuing fiend- ish proclamations. We must respond with equal energy. 87 If we do, we are safe, now and ever. If we do not, we shall bo lost. But we will do it, and we will not lose it! What sajs Congress and the Executive 1 The Washington City Republican, in commenting on the Fiend's late proclamation, says : "At any rate, the military method of subduing the rebel- lion has been tried, and utterly failed ; and if the policy of Congress is not effectual, no other remains. ^' The President has even gone beyond the legislation of Congress, although not beyond their known wishes." The above is a confession which we hardly expected to be made. The last chance is now to be tried, and will fail also! THE FEDERALS' BOMBARDMENT OF VICKSBURG.-PROVI- DENCE PROTECTS THE INNOCENT. The remarkable escape of the people of Vicksburg during the bombardment is one of the most wonderful illustrations of the protecting care of an overruling Providence that has yet been recorded in the history of time. For ten weeks did their mortar fleet lay off before this city and hurl their fiery missiles into our midst without effecting any serious injury. Notwithstanding their boastful threats tliat they could lay this little city in ashes in two hours under the fury of their combined fleet, Vicksburg still stands, apparently as sound as ever. The power of their gunboats has vanish- ed ; the prestige and dash of their mortar fleet is broken ; the glory of their navy is departed ; their trip on the Missis- sippi was a barren one. But their main object, their pet idea, the destruction of Vicksburg, was, above all, the object of their hearts' desire ; and in it they made a humiliating failure. All the power of every mortar, rifle, siege gun, small arms, grape, canister, round shot, rifle shell, liquid shell, hot shell — from the minic ball to the hundred and ninety pound bomb shell, all were hurled with the concentrated fu- ry of the combined fleets against this devoted city. During the storm of fire, iron, sulphur, and all the hellish combina- tions of Yankee ingenuity, on the morning of the 28th of June, the constant, unbroken, and deafening roar, the rever- berating echoes from the forests, the howling of the rifle balls in their passage through the air, the cloyds of dust they rais- 88 CONFEDERATE MONITOR ed when they struck the earth with a force that shivered ev- erything they hit ; the whirring of fragments of sliell as they flew from the elevated points of explosion, and the continu- ous sheet of flame on the river, all combined, to render it the most terrific pyrotechnic exhibition ever witnessed. Indeed it is fair to assert that the like was never before witnessed. The accounts given by the enemy themselves say that the world had never witnessed a bombardment like this. Their combined fleets, composed of the pride and boast of the Federal navy — their armament, all consisting of the la- test, most improved and destructive instruments of gunnery, manned by the most experienced adepts, urged by all the considerations and inducements of booty and beauty, and driven by the most savage, wanton, brute force, which was further augmented by the mortification at seeing their eff(3rts so fruitless and abortive. The prestige of their first class sloops-of-war, Hartford, Richmond, Brooklyn, Iroquois, and Oneida, the boast of their mortar fleet, and the terror of their gunboats had forsaken them. It has been aptly said that if all the thunder-storms that a man has ever heard in his life were concentrated into a space of three hours, it would not equal the tumultuous roar of that eventful morning. The very earth shuddered, the forest trembled, and the buildings rat- tled as if shaken by a hurricane. Such is an imperfect pic- ture of the terrific bombardment on the morning of the 28th, and again on the evening of the 15th July. In the midst of this storm did our gallant and noble Gen. Van Dorn issue an address to the brave defenders of Vicks- burg, aptly saying that all this tumult was "sound and fury, signifying nothing." At the time but few of our people were willing to agree with this sentiment ; but afl:er the firing had ceased, an examination of the casualties was had, and it was ascertained that but two lives were lost, and that the city was but little injured. All became reconciled to the timely assertion that it was all "sound and fury, signifying nothing." Truly did a kind Providence preside over the destinies of this city and her people in those trying times. Surely may we congratulate oui'^seLves that there was more than one — even more than five righteous left in this city at the time our enemies attempted its destruction. That anything should live in such a fiery ordeal — that a building should remain standing and uninjured, is truly wonderful and mysterious. Yet but two lives were lost, mid no serious damage resulted AND patriot's FRIEND. 89 to the city, vv^hile our batteries were entirely unharmed and untouched. If ever a community had occasion to offer thanks- i^iving to their Creator for Providential protection it must surely be the case here. Like in times of old, when the king had a golden image and commanded all the people to bow down and worship it, and Shadrac, Meschac, and Abed- nego, who refused to obey his decree, were cast into a burn ing fiery furnace, their God delivered them without even the smell of fire upon their hair. So did our enemies set up a golden image at Washington, and ordered the people of Vicksburg to fall down and worship him, and, upon their re- fusal to do so their houses were to be burned down, their ]»ruperty destroyed, their wives and little ones to be slaugh- tered, and the last vestige of their beautiful city was to be wiped from off the face of the earth. The people were here true to their trust, and, like the three fiiithful men of old, refused to worship the idol which our enemy had set up, and a storm of iron, and fire, and brimstone, and all the deadly <•< >ntrivances of a wicked and perverse nation were let loose n|)on the devoted city and her faithful people, and instead of ]);irming them, its fury was hurled back upon the aggressors and smote them by the scores. Like Daniel in the lion's (i'li, the people were safe in the midst of the deadly missiles (it" destruction ; the power of doing harm seems to have been aken from the shells, and balls, and slugs as they were hurl- etl into the city, and the destruction of life and property re- sulted almost entirely to the side of our remorseless foe, while Vicksburg stands triumphant and almost unscathed amidst the fiery tempest. Surely a divine Providence protects the just and the innocent. — Vicksburg Citizen, Aug. 14/A. THE SIEGE OF VICKSBURG AND THE LESSON IT TEACHES. In all the history of the great struggle for liberty, in which the Southern people are engaged, no page will contain a prouder record than that which tells of the heroic defence of Vicksburg. Her citizens, self-banished from their homes — tliose homes given up to destruction — life, property, domes- tic happiness, all sacrificed upon the altar of country, rather than permit the foul pollution of their soil by the ruthless foe. Such heroism is sublime — it is worthy of a people struggling to be free ; it gives strength to the faith of the D** 90 CONFEDERATE MONITOR / hopeful, rebukes the craven, dispirits the disloyal, and furnish- es a bright example everywhere. Oh, that the places which have succumbed to Yankee pow- er, wielded from Yankee gunboats, had possessed the indom- itable courage and patriotism of proud little Vicksburg ! We would then have been spared many a record of disaster and regret. But it is useless to mourn the fate of those fallen cities ; they are in the hands of a powerful enemy, and must patiently bide the time when our victorious armies, having driven the enemy from our soil shall be prepared to rescue them from the hands of the tyrants who now hold them and rule them with a rod of iron. We can only hope that for the future there will be no more Nashvilles, and New Or- leans to record, but that every place threatened by the van- dal foe shall prove a Vicksburg or a Richmond to them. The fall of Donelson, of Nashville, of New Orleans, and of Memphis, had a most depressing effect upon our people for a time. That was the night of defeat. The day of vic-^ tory has again dawned ; and it is to be hoped that the sue-' cesses which have been inaugurated at Richmond, at Vicks- burg, and in Arkansas, will be rapidly followed up by our Gov ernment. This it has promised to do. We have faith that' it will. Then, the people must give it their aid and approv- al. There must be no second Manassas supineness because of our great victories — no langor because of hoped for and anticipated foreign aid. To these things we should shut our eyes. We must bring oiu'selves to the belief that there is no hope for Southern In- dependence but in Southern hearts and Southern arms. We must feel that war is the great business in hand, and strength- en the hands of the Government with men and money, by all the honorable means within our power. Blows must fall thick and fast — and, as soon as possible, these blows must be given beyond the borders of the Confederacy, whither President Davis has promised to lead his gallant and victo- ' rious army. We must sustain the credit of the government and frown down all efforts to depreciate the currency, or to bring suffering upon our people by improper speculations and cruel extortions. Following this as our programme for the future — emulating the example of glorious little Vicks- burg — and with a firm reliance upon Divine Providence, we may hope that hostilities may not be continued for a long time — we may hope that the day of peace is not as far dis- 91 tant as many fear — and that our enemies seeing the hopeless- ness of the task which they have undertaken, will gladly ac- knowledge our independence. Then, free from all foreign interferences — owing obligations to no foreign Government for our nationality — we shall be . a free people indeed, and be enabled to dictate our own terms : to those who wish to establish commercial relations and en- \- joy the profits of a trade with the South. ''• Another lesson that V^icksburg teaches, is the folly of be- ing frightened by Yankee gunboats. Properly constructed batteries at eligible points, commanded by competent offi- cers and manned by brave men, it is now fully demonstrated, are fully able to withstand the attacks of the dreaded gunboats and their noisy shells. Let us hope that the lessons which gallant Vicksburg so nobly teaches, will bo heeded and learned with profit. — ConstltuiionaliHt. Federal Loss 95,000 men In a Campaig^n of two weeks, besi- tle. Every man who saw the field says there were at least five dead or wounded Yankees to one Confederate. Every man who saw the field of Sharpsburg says there were five or six Yankees lying there to one Confederate. A correspond- ent of the New York Tribune says McClellan lost 28,000 men there. This, we have no doubt, is within the mark, for McClellan has never yet acknowledged the half of his loss on a single occasion. His loss on the 14th all Confederate accounts put down at at least 5,000. Here, then, is a state- ment of what we believe to be very nearly the loss of the Yankees since Jackson first crossed the Rapidan ; 93 ! From the Rapidan to the 30th August 20,000 ^ BattleSOth August 27,000 Battle 14th September 5,000 Battle Sharpsburg 28,000 Battle with A. P. Hill 3,500 (Capture of Harper's Ferry 11,500 Total 95,000 r Such we believe to be very nearly the true state of the case. We believe that killed, wounded, drowned, and taken prisoners, the Yankees have lost in the campaign from the Rapidan, at least that number of men, and we give our reas- ons above for thinking so. How many more they have lost from disease we cannot say ; but that the campaign has been to them a terribly destructive one does not admit of a doubt. They pretend to have won a great victory at Sharpsburg. If so, why do they not follow Gen, Lee and destroy his army ? They boasted of their intention to do so, yet they have not tried it. — Chattanooga Rebel. GEN. BUAGG'S ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF THE NORTH-WEST. Gen. Bragg has issued from his head-quarters at Bardstown, Ky., one of the strongest addresses which has been issued by any military man during this war. It is addressed to " The people of the Northwest." He assures them that the Con- federate Government is waging this war with no design of conquest, but 'Ho secure peace and the abandonment by the United States of its pretensions to govern n people who never have hern their suhjecfg, aud who prefer self-government to a union with them." " He further assures them that the Con- federate Government and people deprecating civil strife from the beginning, and anxious for a peaceful adjustment of all differences growing out of a political separation, which they deemed essential to their happiness and well being, at the mo- ment of its inauguration sent commissioners to Washington to treat for these objects, but that their commissioners were not received or even allowed to communicate the object of their mission ; and that on a subsequent occasion a communication from the President of the Confederate States to President Lincoln remained without answer, although a reply was prom- 94 CONFEDERATE MONltOJt ised by Gen. Scott, into whose hands the communication was delivered. That among the pretexts urged for the continuance of the war, is the assertion that the Confederate Government desires to deprive the United States of the free navigation of the Western rivers, although the truth is that the Confederate Congress by public act prior to the commencement of the war enacted that " the peaceful navigation of the Mississippi river is hereby declared free to the citizens of any of the States upon its borders or upon the borders of its tributaries*' — a declaration to which our government has always been and is still ready to adhere. From these declarations, people of the North west, it is made manifest that by the invasion of our territories by land and from sea, we have been unwillingly forced into a war of self-defence, and to vindicate a great principle once dear to all Americans, to-wit : that no people can be rightly governed except by their own consent. We desire peace noio. We desire to see a stop put to a useless and cruel effusion of blood, and that waste of national wealth rapidly leading to, and sure to end in, national bankruptcy. We are, therefore, now, as ever, ready to treat with the United States, or any one or more of them, upon terms of mutual justice and liber- ality. And at this juncture, when our arms have been suc- cessful on many hard fought fields ; when our people have exhibited a constancy, a fortitude, and a courage worthy of the boon of self-government — we restrict ourselves to the same moderate demand that we made at the darkest period of our reverses — the demand that the people of the United States cease to war upon us, and permit us in peace to pursue our path to happiness, while they in peace pursue theirs. We are, however, debarred from the renewal of former' proposals for peace, because the relentless spirit that actuates the Government at Washington leaves us no reason to expect that they would be received with the respect naturally due by nations in their intercourse, whether in peace or war. It is under these circumstances that we are driven to pro- tect our own country by transferring the seat of war to that of an enemy who pursues us with an implacable and appa- rently aimless hostility. If the war must continue its thea- tre must be changed, and with it the policy that has hereto- fore kept, us on the defensive on our own soil. So far it is only our fields that have been laid waste, our people killed; AND patriot's FRIEND. 95 our homes made desolate, and our frontiers ravaged by rapine and murder. The sacred right of self-defence demands that henceforth some of th consequences of the war shall fall up- on those who persist in their refusal to make peace. With the people of the Northwest rests the power to put an end to the invasion of their homes ; for if unable to prevail upon the Government of the United States to conclude a general peace, their own State governments, in the exercise of their sovereignty, can secure immunity from the desola- ting effects of warfare on their soil by a separate treaty of peace, which our Government will be ready to conclude on the most just and liberal basis. The responsibility then rests with you, the people of the Northwest, of continuing an unjust and aggressive warfare upon the people of the Confederate States. And in the name of reason and humanity, I call upon you to pause and reflect what cause of quarrel so bloody have you against these States, and what are you to gain by it ? Nature has set her seal upon these States, and marked them out to be your friends and allies. She has bound them to you by all the ties of geographical contiguity and conformation, and the great mu- tual interest of commerce and productions. When the pas- sions of this unnatural war shall have subsided, and reason resumes her sway, a community of interest will force com- mercial and social coalition between the great grain and stock growing States of the Northwest, and the Cotton, tobacco, and sugar regions of the South. The Mississippi river is a grand artery of their mutual national lives which jien cannot sever, and which never ought to have been suffered to be dis- turbed by the antagonisms, the cupidity, and the bigotry of New England and the East. It is from the East that have come the germs of this bloody and most unnatural strife. It is from the meddlestone, grasping and fanatical disposi- tion of the same people who have imposed upon you and us alike those tariffs, internal improvement and fishing bounty laws, whereby we have been taxed for their aggrandizement. It is from the East that will come the tax gatherer to collect from you the mighty debt which is being amassed mountain high for the purpose of ruining your best customers and nat- ural friends. When this war ends the same antagonism of interest, policy, and feeling which have been pressed upon us from the East, and forced us from a political union, when we had ceased to find safety for our interests, or respects for our 96 CONFEDERATE MONITOR. rights will bear down upon you, and separate you from a peo-, pie whose traditional policy it is to live by their wits upon the labor of their neighbors. Meantime you are being used by them to fight the battle of emancipation — a battle which, if successful, destroys your prosperity, and with it your best mar- kets to buy and sell. Our mutual dependence is the work of the Creator. With our peculiar productions, convertible into gold, we should, in a state of peace, draw from you largely the products of your labor. In us of the South, you will find rich and willing custom- ers; in the East you must confront rivals in productions and trade, and the tax gatherer in all the forms of partial legisla- tion. You are blindly following abolitionism to this end, while they are nicely calculating the gain of obtaining your trade on terms that would impoverish your country. You say you are fighting for the free navigation of the Mississippi. It is yours freely and has always been, without striking a blow. You say you are fighting to maintain the Union. That Un- ion is a thing of the past. A Union of consent was the only Union ever worth a drop of blood. When force came to be substituted for consent, and the constitutional jewel of your patriotic adoration was forever gone. I come, then, to you with the olive branch of peace, and oiFer it to your acceptance in the name of memories of the past, and the ties of the present and future. With you re- mains the responsibility and the option of continuing a cruel and wasting war, which can only end after still greater sacri- fice in such treaty of peace as we now ofier ; or of preserving the blessings of peace by the simple abandonment of the de- sign of subjugating a people over whom no right of domin- ion has been conferred on you by God or man. BRAXTON BRAGG, General 0. S. A. AND patriot's FRIEND. 97 NOBLE GENEROSITY. The fallowing correspondence gives the particulars of one of the most touching, and probably the most liberal, of the many benefactions which have mitigated the distresses of the present war. It is from a battalion and a regiment of the Missouri army ; the sum contributed is no less than four thousand seven hundred dollars ; and it is sent to aid in re- lieving the suffering and promoting the comfort of the sol- diers who were wounded in the late battles before Rich- mond. In some respects the soldiers of Price's glorious Missouri army are the last from whom such a contribution would have been expected. The extraordinary hardships through which they have passed, their isolation from home and friends and property, and their own pressing necessities, might well be supposed to have clipped the wings of their sympathy for others, and bid them think only of taking care of themselves. It certainly was not to be expected that their charity would stretch out its arm from the Mississippi to the Atlantic bor- der, and that the hospitals of Richmond should be cheered by their bounties. Those who would thus reason, however, forget that beauti- ful law of our nature, so abundantly illustrated in this war, in virtue of which deeds of generosity and self-«lcnial and 5elf-sacrifice, f<^ster the growth and promote the further devel- opment of these holy virtues. It is not from the curmudg- eon who has seldom or never unlocked his pocket at the ap- peal of distress, that charity is to be expected ; but rather from him whose life has been a series of generous benefac- tions. And it is precisely from those, who in this war, have made most sacrifices, have left home and property, joined the army, endured the fatigue of many a weary march and per- iled life amid the dangers of the furious combat, that the most outgushing and wholesoulcd liberality has proceeded. They have been ennobled by their sacrifices, and these are the evidences! Applying this rule, this surpassing liberality of the Mis- souri soldiers is not to be wondered at, though it is to be greatly applauded and admired. What soldiers have endured and done and dared, as Price's noble band ? In rapid advance and in distressing retreat, in the wrenching of bloody victories from nperior armies of the enemy, in hunger and cold and naked- 5 98 CONFEDERATE MONITOR ness and exile, none have surpassed if any have equalled these varied experiences of the Missouri army. They have shown a fortitude, a courage, and a prowess, rarely paralleled on the page of history. It is meet and natural indeed, that from such men a tribute should come to soldiers so worthy as the wounded heroes of the Chicahominy ; but to these last it must be an uncommon pleasure to receive it from such a source. It is indeed an honor when Price's veterans, some of them almost without shoes to their feet, have found a pleasure in paying them so noble a compliment, and sending them such proofs of a generous sympathy. Let the Missourians and their gallant State be remembered for this ! Let the whole Confederacy honor them for it, and return all their fraternal generosity a thousand fold \ Headquarters ErWin's Battalion, 1 Third Brigade, First Division, Army of The West, >- Out on Post duty, July 4, 1862. ) Sir : The officers and soldiers of my Battalion, sympathi- zing with their "brethren in arms" who have been wounded in the late engagement near Richmond, Virginia, washing to offer some substantial proof of their sympathy, have chosen this day as one particularly adapted to make an offering for their benefit. They have selected you, sir, to bear this humble fourth of July offering ($2,350) to Kichmond, and there place it in the hands of the President of the society called the "Southern Matrons," who will apply it to the purpose for which it was intended ; and to express to her, and those ministering angels who have so nobly assisted her in relieving and soothing the sufferings of so many whom the fortunes of war have placed under their hands, our unqualified admiration for deeds of self-sacrifice which have shed additional lustre upon a name already hallowed by associations and recollections calcula- ted to inspire the wildest enthusiasm in the breast of the soldier. You will also express to the President of the society the deep and heartfelt sympathy we feel for the suffering soldiers and the pride inspired by the manner with which they have acquitted themselves in that and all other engagements in which they have been participants since the commencement of the revolution. AND patriot's FRIEND. 90 Enclosed you will find subscription list, with the names of the donors attached and the amounts subscribed by each; 1 have the honor to be, Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, Eugene Erwin; • Lieut. Col. Com'g Bat. Mt'd Con. Vols. To Rev. John E. BennetTj Chaplain 3rd brigade* Headquarters Army of the West, ) Camp at Princeville, Miss., V July 14, 1862. ) Rev. John R. Bennett: Dear Sir: You will see from the accompanying letter, addressed to me by Col. E. Gates, that the officers and men of his, the 1st Regiment of Missouri Cavalry, have requested me to transmit to Richmond two thousand three hundred and fifty dollars which they have contributed for the relief of the Southern soldiers who were wounded in the late battle before Richmond. As the officers and men of Lieut. Col. Erwin'a Battalion of*Missouri Infantry have delegated you to bear to Richmond a like sum, which they, too, have contributed for the same object, I must ask that you will be the bearer also of the contribution made by Col. Gates' regiment, and that you will hand it over to those who will expend it in sxfth a way, as to accomplish most fully the kind purposes of the givers. This generous act of these veteran troops, nearly all who fought under me in the arduous campaign in Missouri, and participated of all its glorious victories, is but another proof of the exalted patriotism and wide reaching sympathy and fraternity which distinguish our Southern soldiers, and which prove tliat they will faithfully stand by one another Until the independence of every one of the Southern States shall have been established. I am, very respectfully. Your obedient servant. Sterling Price, Major-General Commanding. Headquarters 1st Cavalry, 1st Brigade, Army of the West. Princeville, July 12, 1862. 100 confederate monitor Maj. Gen. S. Price : Dear Sir : The officers and men of the Missouri Cavalry- having a lively appreciation of the gallantry and fortitude of our brothers in arms before Richmond, and not being able to share with them the dangers and glory of driving the in- vader from before our capital, desire through you to give some material of their gratitude to, and consideration for, those who were so unfortunate as to receive wounds in the late glorious conflict. You will be pleased to receive here- with and transmit in such manner as may seem best to you, to such parties in Richmond as your judgment may suggest, the sum of $2,350 for the purpose indicated. (Signed) Elijah Gates, Col. Com. 1st Missouri Cavalry Regiment. Richmond, Va., July 26, 1862. Col. Wm. P. Munford: Dear Sir: The annexed cor- respondence will explain my mission to this city : Finding, after diligent enquiry, no such association as the "Southern Matrons," and, believing that the Young Men's Christian Association was acting in conjunction with the La- dies' Soldiers' Aid Society, for the proper distribution of funds for the relief of our sick and wounded soldiers. I have determined to place the amount contributed by CoL, Erwin's Battallion and Col. Gates' Regiment in your hands, feeling assured, from what I have learned of the zeal and fidelity of your association in connection with the Ladies of the Soldiers' Aid Society, that this gift of the generous donors will be faithfully and successfully applied for the relief of our suffer- ing fellow-soldiers. Permit, me, sir, to tender, through you, to all the gallant men who fought in the battles in front of this city, and who shall hereafter bear the proofs of their valor in honorable scars, ths sincere sympathy of their comrades of the Missouri army ; and to assure them that it would have given us no less pleasure to have shared with them the perils and the glory of defending the Capital, than it does now in seeking, by this humble offering, to remind them that we are one with them in the cause of our whole country, and that the soldiers of the Western Army feel most deeply for them in their pres- ent sufferings. Yours, most respectfully, John R. Bennett. 101 Depot Army Committee Y. M. C. A. ") And Ladies' Soldiers' Aid Society, >• Richmond, July 26th, 1862. ) Rev. John R. Bennett : Bear Sir : I have received your favor of this date, with the sum of four thousand seven hundred dollars, contributed by the Western Army for the reliet of the gallant soldiers who were wounded in the recent battles for the defence of this city. It will afford our association much pleasure, in con- junction with the Soldiers' Aid Society, to apply this fund to the best advantage, in accordance with the wishes of the gen- erous contributors. The valor and generosity of our soldiers, seconded by the benevolence of the ladies and the justice of our cause, will, I trust, through the blessing of Providence, soon secure the in- dependence of the Confederate States. Yours respectfully, Wm. p. Munford, Chairman. Richmond ( Fa.) Enquirer. OUR DUTY TO THE SOLDIER. The sun shines in unclouded brightness upon the cause ot the South. The skill of our Generals and the valor of our soldiers have been most brilliantly manifested. Twenty-eight battles have been fought in the last three months, and out of twenty-six of them we have come forth victors, and in the numerous lesser engagements that have taken place during that period we have shown ourselves superior to the foe in all the elements that constitute the soldier. Several of these conflicts have been of momentous impor- tance. The evils they delivered us from were of the most terrible nature, and the heart grows sick in the contempla- tion of the woes^the bloody and vindictive enemy would have visited upon us. All the benefits these signal successes have secured are not so manifest. They have refreshed our spir- its, excited our hopes, confirmed our resolve, animated our vigor, fired our zeal ; and besides these moral eflfects, they have diminished the discomforts and privations of the men who compose our army, and made our victorious legions the more efficient and formidable. But the consequence of these 102 CONFEDERATE MONITOR glorious results in the wider circle of their influence is mat- ter for conjecture and speculation. We accept with profound gratitude and exultant joy the fruits these victories have yielded, and await with patience grounded on reasonable hope, the bestowal of the greater benefits and blessings the future may contain. In comparison with the remoter effects these splendid victories may produce, the results we are at present rejoicing over may be as the light of the stars to that of the sun, as the rill to the mighty river. Though we may discover that we have overrated the im- portance of these victories so far as their future effects are concerned, if we fail to realize the hopes they have given rise to, the disappointment will not be owing to any lack of vigilance and energy on the part of our Generals, or to the failure of the men under their command to come up to the full measure of their arduous and dangerous duties. Our army has already done enough to^entitle it to the praise and gratitude of the country. We cannot overrate the debt of obligations we are under to these able, brave, and noble men. Their sublime fortitude, their heroic valor, imm.oveable firm- ness, untiring energy, boundless confidence, prompt and cheerful obedience, have made their names a pride and a glory, and reflected undying renown upon the infant Confederacy. It is not by pouring forth upon them the fragrant ointment of praise, by lauding their courage and resolution, we show our appreciation of their great services, and give expression to our gratitude We must do this, but if we do this and nothing more, we fall far below the requirements of our du- ty to them, to the country, and the cause. Our applause refreshes their energies, strengthens their heroic souls, makes their courage the more firm and the more dashing, and is most wholesome in its effects upon their spirits, but these pleasing words do not lighten the burden of their hardships, or furnish them with any substantial comfort. We should do more than rejoice in their achievements and glory in their gallantry and courage. Those noble men have undergone toils, and sacrifices, and sufferings, that have put their patri- otism to the severest test. Since Spring those who fought the battles in whose issue we are now exulting, have not known the luxury of a tent, and have subsisted on the coars- est fare in scanty measure, and thousands are barefeoted and in rags. They have labored night and day with the spade AITD PATRIOl's FRIEND. 103 and shovel, and long marches, and often gone into battle hungry and weary, with blistered and bleeding feet. Under the most favorable circumstances they must needs be subjected to many discomforts and hardships, but we should see to it that they are not required to endure greater evils than the necessities of the case make unavoidable. We must administer to them our abundance, and even deny our- selves accustomed blessings, that we may mitigate the hardness of their lot. We can do a great deal, and it is our bounden duty to do our utmost. The praise we delight in bestowing upon their bravery and spirit will be infinitely more grateful if accompanied with some comfort for the physical man. The leaves have begun to fall and in a short time the air will grow raw and frosty. They need warm and comfortable clothing; let us address ourselves to the good work of supplying these wants. By providing for their bod- ies we shall make them more strong for toil, better enabled to bear exposure, less liable to disease, and more terrible to the foe. We expect them to perform great achievements. They are making stupendous exertions. The successes that have rewarded their energy and valor have opened before them a new road to glorious deeds. We, too, should bestir ourselves and give convincing and timely evidence of our gratefnl ap- preciation of their bravery and resolution. Let us perform our duty to these champions of liberty, in the same spirit that marks their obedience and fortitude and valor, and the work we do for them, the sacrifices we make for their comfort, will redound to the good of the cause in which we have em- barked our all. — Charleston Courier, Sei^t., 1862. SYMPATHY. The great secret of human happiness is human sympathy. Can a man live without it ? Such life would not be living. The oft-quoted author of " Leaves of Grass " in one of his expressive lines says— - "He who .ETOCS q, furlong without sympathy Walks to ills own funeral, dressed in bis shroud." It is about so. We cannot truly enjoy anything alone. We must at least carry our friends, memories, and hopes in our hearts, to render solitude endurable. The man who detaches 104 CONFEDERATE MONITOR himself from the chain of human sympathy, even to pray, worships a false God. To pray for one's self alone implies a devilish egotism, and is mere mockery. Love is the soul of religion ; and love is but another name for sympathy. Selfishness is its own worst- enemy. If you keep your good fortune all to yourself, you turn it into ill fortune. But share a blessing with another, and it is increased four-fold. Open your heart, and it grows larger ; but lock it up, and it shrivels like a windfall pippin. Your own instinct teaches you this. If you have good tidings, you hasten to tell them. If you are unfortunate, nothing is so sweet to you as the consolation of a friend. If you are ill, what music in the voice at your bedside, how beautifully the loving face shines upon you ! If you have found some pure sources of happi- ness, you are not fully content till you have led others to the fountain. What you enjoy, you desire to impart to your friends. You want others to appreciate the beauties of the poems you admire, the picture you have studied, the land- scape that delights you. If you are honored, the satisfaction is in feeling that some one you love or reverence is aware of your acquisition. The true ambition for wealth seeks it but as a means for impressing the hearts and imaginations of men. You wish to be loved, esteemed, or to do good, through your riches. In short, a sub-stratum of sympathy will be found to underlie every true ambition, all happiness. It is the perversion of this instinct into a love of selfish gratifica- tion and power, that results in meanness, misery, and crime. — Southern Illustrated Netcs.. OUR NEW STAR SPANGLED BANNER. The patriotic song of the Star Spangled Banner is a South- ern production and belongs to us. Let us sing of our stars in a new constellation. Our birth- right they will shield from a barbarous nation. Let every Southern patriot read the following with grateful remem- brance to the honor of Francis S. Key. H. W. R. J. [for the RICHMOND WHIG.] To the Committees of Congress on the Confederate Flag : AND patriot's FRIEND. 105 I respectfully submit for your selection two designs for our Confederate flag, each of which is studded over with stars to represent the true "Star-Spangled Banner" of the glorious old ballad, composed by that whole-souled Southerner and Slave holder, Francis S. Key, whose utter contempt of the Yankee character was so admirably expressed in his terse definition of the genus Yankee as being " in commerce a cheat — in politics a snake — in religion a hypocrite. To allow the swindling Yankees to filch from us this grand Southerii bal- lad and its appropriate flag would amount to a dereliction of duty to the noble dead. The indignant spirit of the depart- ed author would rise up to protest against the sacrilege, I therefore implore you to rescue from the unhallowed grasp of the Yankees these long cherished stanzas by adopting some standard to whose folds they may be appropriately ap- plied. The South should never allow the Yankees to usurp either that ballad or its corresponding banner. The flag of the Yankee is most properly the despotic flag of the stripes, whilst that of the South is the Banner of the Stars. *' When clouds of pppresssion o'ershaded The Banner that Liberty bore, The stars from its galaxy faded, ;- The day of its splendor was o'er. Those stars in a ?iew constellation. The sky of the South now adorn. And proclaim to each civilized nation That Freedom's true Banner is born." Then, indeed, may be sounded, in truth and sincerity, that noble refi'ain — "The star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave." In the first design presented, the field is blue, with a diago- nal cross of stars equal in number to the Confederate States; the union is red, with a circle of stars, also equal in number to our Confederate States. In the second design, the field is red, with a simple (or straight) cross of stars conforming in number to the Confederate States ; the diagonal cross is blue, studded with stars, also equal in number to our States. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, Lewis Cuiger, of S. C. E* 106 CONFEDERATE MONITOR A PATRIOTIC SONG FROM ACROSS THE WATERS. We have been favored with a copy of the following beau- tiful soul-stirring lines from the pen of Mrs. Ellen Key Blunt, daughter of the late Francis Key, the well known author of the " Star Spangled Banner," to whom and his song a touch- ing allusion is made in the second stanza. Accompanying the lines is a model of a national flag, in which thirteen stars, equal to the number of the thirteen States, are arranged in the form of a cross on a blue ground, the red and white bars be- ing disposed at as present ; THE SOUTHERN CROSS, Jn the name of God ! Amen ! Stand for our southern rights! Over ye, Southern men, The God of Battles fights ! Fling the invaders far, Hurl back their work of woe ; The voice is the voice of a brother, But the hands are the hands of a foe. They come with a trampling army, Invading our native sod — Stand Southrons ! fight and conquer! In the name of the Mighty God! They're singing our song of triumph, Which was made to make us fre^. While they're breaking away the heart-strings Ot our Nation's harmony. Sadly it floateth from us. Sighing o'er land and wave, Till mute on the lips of the Poet ; It sleeps in his Southern grave. Spirit and Song departed ! Minstrel and minstrelsy ! We mourn thee, heavy hearted. But we will, we shall be free! Thev are waving our flag above us With a despot's tyrant will ; With our blood they have stained its colors, And call it holy still. ^ With tearful eye^ but steady hand, ^ We'll tear its stripes apart, And fline them like broken fetters That may not bind the heart. But we'll save our stars of glory, In the might of the sacred sign Of Him who has fixed forever Our Southern cross to shine. 107 Stand, Southerns! stand and conquer! Solemn and strong and sure ! The strife shall not be longer Than God shall bid endure. I By the life which only yesterday »' Came with the Infant's breath! By the feet which 'ere the morn may Tread to the Soldier's death I J By the blood which cries to Heaven ! { Crimson upon our Sod ! ' Stand, Southerns ! stand and conquer ! In the name of the Mighty God! (To his ExccILbucj President Davis, From his fellow citizens, Paris, a 8(53. Ellen Key Blunt. J. T. MxYsoN Blunt. Of Maryland and Virginia. THE DOCTRINE OF THE NORTH. BY J. H. F. The South must be subjugated : its products are essential to our pros- perity: our laws must be enforced over them at every hazzard ; if the people will not submit they must be exterminated ; ravage and desolate their country ; let fire, the sword, and poison do their worst ; leave them no hope; permit no service in their churches, unless they pray as we dictate. — Northern Doctrines from Northern Papers. Hear ye the Federals' taunting tread, Oh, people of this Southern land : And is there one among you yet . Would join with theirs your hand ? "Southrons bow down," the Northmen say, And tribute to us bring, Fear ye the might we dow display And know us for your King. " We are the masters, you the slaves, Our bidding you must do ; That which the Xorth as Sovereign craves Though sore ye Southrons rue. Must } et be done, or we will bring The poison and the rope, And round all Southron homes will fling A fear that has no hope. " We want the products of your soil The labor of your hands : Then forth, and dig and delve and toil — Obey ye our commands! And ye may live that groveling life The Northern poor now wear; A long continued, struggling strife Twixt hope and wild despair 108 CONFEDERATE MONITOR. " And if J e look to Heaven above For help from the Most High, Beseech not of that Gofrof Love Heart thoughts to sane ify. For 3^e might ask of Him to bless Your caus' , your hoiie, and aim, Therefore ' pra)'^ not to Him, unless With lying heart and shame.' " Missitsippian. (From the RUhmond Whig,) THE BATTLE OF SHILOH. BY MR,S. MARY S. WIIITAKER. On Shiloh's field opposing armies stand, One to invade — one to defend our land — Prcsum|)luous those, urged on by ruthless hate, Those, in a holy cause, resolved and great. A war-cry rends the air with deafening sound, As dread prtillery's lightning flashes round, Dark battle clouds obscure the light of day, And fiery steeds rush headlong to the fray. Proudlv they tread— that gallant Southern host, Forth marshalled there from mountain, grove and coast, Their hearts beat high, they thunder on the foe, And, like a whirlwind, to the conflict go! Fierce grows the fight ! On, Southrons ! Charge amain ! Victorious floats your banner o'er the slain ! They waver — they retreat — the Vandals fly — Exultant shouts rise frequent to the sky! Our cup of joy is drugged with bitter grief, As midst the foe, on rides our hero chief; But pale his visage, and a crimson tide. Wells slowly forth adown his courser's side. Eternal shadows darken o'er the eye. Whose soul-lit glance led on to victory; The clarion voice is mute which ruled the bold, The lion heart is pulseless now and cold. On victory's bright breast he laid his head, Her shining arms enfold the warrior dead ; A graleliil South shall long her loss deplore, And Johnston's name be honored evermore ' 109 OH! WEEP NOT FOR THE SOLDIER LAD. Written in memory of Sergeaift John H. Breckinridge^ who fell in th? in the Battle of the Seven Pines, at the post of danger, while defending h is beloved con ntry. He died in the 11th year of his age. Oh ! weep not for the soldier, lad, Though lowly is his bed, And Death has east his chilling dews About his lair young head. He fell as brave men seek to fall, 'Twas foremost in the fight. — The shot were falling thick and fast, — The battle at its height. He fell -but sisters blest him. And mothers breathed his name. As if 'twere hallowed in their hearts, Though all unknown to fame ; And aged men did reverence him, As o'er the bier they stood, For the priceless boon to Freedom given.— This yonng heart's noble blood. He fell, while t^houts of victory Rang loud o'er hill and plain — Oh I welcome sound ! He e'en forgot His agony of pain, lie e'en forgot that life's pure stream Was ebbing fast away, And whilst yet in its dawning, He saw the close of day. For the dastard foe had faltered, And our own, our brave men stood, To make a barrier of their forms — A river of their blood ; — And louder, wilder grew the shout, As on the foe they pressed. Though many a soldier fell like ours, A death-shot in his breast He fell I — but oh. rich legacy ! Gave to his country dear — A life, young, brave, unspotted — Yea, unshadowed by a care. 'Twas not Ambition led the way ; Too young to dream of fame, He sought not on the batlle-tield, To win himself a name. But the noble, patriot heart that beat, Withiiv that bosom brave, Could never yield to Tyranny; 'Twas thus he found his grave— 'Twas thus he gave up all of life, Friends, home, — a mother's kiss, — A patriot true — can words adorn A noble deed like this ? 110 CONFEDERATE MONITOR Oh, weep not! he is marching To a country far away, He feels no more the burning thirst, The noontide's scorching ray ; What though the path mysterious be — Mysterious, dark and lone! 'Tis the same path our Savior trod, The soldier la'd hath gone. No martial music greets him, No camp-fire burning nigh, But a star is shining in the East, 'Tis there he turns his eye ; And ere his earthly toils are o'er, Or life's young chords were riven, An angel lingered by his side, To point the road to Heaven. Oh, weep not! He is marching To a country far away. Though he seemeth to our mortal eyes, A lifeless form of clay. Beneath the banner of the cross, Methinks I see him now — The same sweet smile upon his face, A halo on his brow. He joins the mighty Conqueror, He fadeth from the sight. His robes, once soiled and torn, are changed For robes of dazzling light ; And in the Resurrection morn, A soldier still he'll be. Faithful, and listening for that sound, The last Grand Reveille. Botetourt County. Melodia. The Voices of 1§62, AX AFTER ACT, PERFORMED AT THK AMATEUR CONCERT GIVEN IN GREKN- viLLE, (ala.,) JULY 18th, 1862. Enter SOUTH CAROLINA Miss A. Porter. Though the Vandal's step pollutes my shore, From my burnt and blackened field? Rings out the cry I learned of yore: Carolina never yields. Enter FLORIDA, Miss V. Knowles. Florida's sons on Virginia soil, Are pouring out their blood ; While with breaking hearts, her daughters toil, For the noble, brave, and good. Ill Enter GEORGIA, .....Miss C. Oliver. Hark ! on my mountain and my main, -Uoes the deafening cannon roar j But Georgia swears by her heroes slain, To conquer or live no more. Evter ALABAMA, Miss V. De Villiers I stand to the pledge I gave, when I swore With my sisters to live or die. Alabama's sons and daughters adore, The God of Tnuh on high ! Enter MISSISSIPPI, Miss A. Key. Let Shiloh's plain attest my truth, And Donelsoa's tale of shame; How Mississippi can tight, in sooth, For her rights and her fair fame. Enter NORTH CAROLINA, Miss S. Dunklin. Though every foot of the old North State, Should prove a Roanoke disaster, From the Dan River down to Pamlico, IShe'll rebel but the.faster and faster. Enter TENNESSEE, Miss E. Porter. Though a traitor mocks my woe, Though a brother's hands betray ; Tennessee will ne'er to the foe 0{ her soil and her rights give way. Enter KENTUCKY, Miss M. Thames Kentucky may now to the Vandal quail, But yt t she'll arise in her might, And tell another and fearful tale, To pay for that Donelson fight Enter ARKANSAS, Miss P. De Villiers When all the stars of the Scmthern cross Fade in the Southern sky, Arkansas scarce will count their loss She'll think, but to conquer or die. Enter MISSOURI, Miss E. Oliver. From Missouri'.*! turf there will yet arise, A cry to the God on high, To avenge her outraged liberties, And clear her darkened sky. Enter VIRGINIA, m^,, T Herbert. By the sacred blood they pour From Southern hearts on mej By Richmend's fields of yore, Virginia swears to be free. 112 CONFEDERATE MONITOR Enter LOUISIANA, , Msss M. Dunklin. List! From the Crescent City, Rif'gs out a voice of wail ; The cry of her outraged daughters, Swells on Louisiana's gale. Enter TEXAS, Miss S. Ford^ Texas has heard that maddening cry ; Butler, foul heart, does she swear, By the Ranger's hand shall surely die. While his corse shall the vulture tear. Enter MARYLAND, Miss M. Ellsworth. Oh ! sisters, help for Maryland ! Oh! mother, hear my prayer! Help for the down-trodden, mourning band, Who plead your fate to share ! Enter SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY, Miss P Daughters! whose cry swells on the gale? 'Tis thine, my Maryland. A mother's love can never fail. Come! jon her peer(j?ss band. Come ! live or die with those you love, Your sisters bid you live ; Their sons will yet in battle prove, ^ How richly they can give ^ Freedom to her who'll meekly bear • :\ The tyrant's chains, until We from her limbs the shackles tear, And then she'll prove her will To place her radiant, beaming star Where glory's arch still shines afar. [Charleston Courier. STONEWALL JACKSON. BY THE REV. JOHN C. MCABE, D. D., CHAPLAIN CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY. I. There he stands, our brave hero ! like " Stonewall " built by the sound- ing sea, A tower of strength and a tower of might — a gallant warrior he ! And the waves of a furious oppression break harmless against him there. For he trusts in the Lord Jehoyah's strength, ever, and '' instant in prayer.'' J e leans on the hand of the Mighty One. nor of human prowess boasts- Aye, his trust is in the conquering arm of the glorious Lord of hosts. II. We ask for no brimming beacon light — noBacchanalian draught to him; No carved, red wine cup pledged to his *' onward " move, sjiarkling to the brim — AND patriot's FRIEND. 113 But, we ask a prayer from each patriot heart whea the battle strife rules wide. That '• God and good Angels," as before, may still fight on our hero's side ; That He to our " Stonewall " defender, maybe both a Tower and Rock, Meeting the myriad waves of the spoiler, and shivering them in the shock. ni His name to us a pillow of light, a wilderness cloud to our foes. Haunting, ard scaring by day and night, from their guilty and short repose ; His prowess, a terror, invaders to check — a token known full well, On fields where the cowardly vandal* have waved, and faltered — and fell. His faith in his God, a Symbol to us that|" onward" his march shall be, 'Till those who noyrp>»e 'neath a Despot's power, shall like ourselves be free.* And 'round him are gathered true hearts — brave men ready to do or to die ; And they watch with pride, and with pleasure too, the glance of his eagle eye, As the light on his blazing falchion flashes luminous on their gaze, And reflects its Heavenly brightness, as on musket and brand it plays. So hurrah for "Old Stonewall Jackson," for the foe have been made to feel The shock of his thundering columns — the weight of his glittering steel! V. When the madness that rules the hour, and the terror that has its day Shall have swept with an under-tow to the North, ruin on their stormy spray : Leaving wrecks all scattered and stranded, the wrecks of a glorious past — Aye, wrecks of a beautiful Union once — a Union that could not last. Because it Mas scuttled and broken by those Northmen crafty and base, "Who stranded the gallant ship of State on the shoals of a dark disgrace. VI. Those bold men who have stood in the forum and fought on the gory field. And battled for irulh and for justice, with God for their buckler and shield. Shall receive their meed from the nations who shall soon acknowledge withjpride. The young, the glorious league, for whose life confessors and martyrs have died ; And no name on that scroll immortal with a brighter lustre shall shine, And no wreath, "Old" Stonewall Jackson, shall be greener than that which is thine. *The people of Maryland. 114 CONFEDERATE MONITOR THE ACTS OF THE LAST SESSION OF CONGUESS. The following for the year 1862 which we find in the Rich- mond Whip will answer many inquiries as to what Congress did and did not: THE ATIMY. No. 4 — Provides for the organization of army corps, to be commanded by Lieutenant-Gcnerals. No. 32 — Authorizes the President to organize divisions of the provisional army in army corps, and appoint officers to the command thereof. No. 5 — Authorizes the appointment of additional officers of artillery for ordnance duties. No. 7 — Makes it the duti/ of the Secretary of War to transfer any private or non-commissioned officer who may be in a reginient from a State of the Confederacy other than his own, to a regiment from his own State, whenever such private or non-commissioned officer may apply for such trans- fer, and whenever such transfer can be made without injury to the public service. This act does not apply to any one - v/ho has enlisted as a substitute. 1 No. 26 — Authorizes the Secretary of war to furnish trans- " portation whenever he grants transfers agreeable to the act No. 7. No. 10 — Confers rank on officers of the Engineer Corps of the Provisional Army equal to that of the Engineer Corps of the Confederate States Army. No. 15 — Increases the Signal-Corps. No. 17 — Is the new Conscript Act. No. 25 — Extends the provisions of an act approved Au- gust 3Ist, 1862, relative to Adjutants, so as to apply to inde- pendent battalions, etc. No. 30 — Provides that claims due to deceased non-com- missioned officers and privates for pay, allowances, and boun- ty, may be audited and paid without requiring the production of a pay- roll from the commanding officer, where thei-e is other official evidence. The other sections of this act pro- vide for the employment of additional Clerks, and otherwise for the prompt settlement ,of the claim? of deceased officers and soldiers. No. 37 — Authorizes the establishment of camps of instruc- tion in the several States, and the appointment of officers to command the same. i A¥D patriot's friend. 115 No. 38 — Requires the Secretary of War to furnish uni- form clothing to soldiers, instead of commutation therefor. No. 42 — Provides that all persons subject to enrollment for military service may be enrolled wherever found, unless in actual service, without the limits of the State as a mem- ber '-fa military organization under any State law. The President is authorized to suspend this as regards the resi- dents of any locality where it may be impracticable to exe- cute the conscription laws. No. 43 — Provides for the organization of military courts to attend the army in the field. Each court shall consist of three members, to be appointed by the President, and its ju- risdiction shall extend to all offences now cognizable by courts marshal, etc. No. 47 — Authorizes the Presidsnt to accept and place in service regiments or battalions, which were organized prior to 1st October, 1SG2, although composed in part of persons between the ages of 18 and 35. Also companies, battalions, or regiments of infantry, raised or organized before 1st of December next, in Middle and West Tennessee, or in North Carolina, East of the Wilmington and Weldon railroad — said troops to select their own officers for first election, but all vacancies to be filled by the President. No. 48 — Adds to the Adjutant and Inspector-General's De- partment one Assistant Adjutant-General with the rank of Colonel. No. 49 — Establishes places of rendezvous for the exami- nation of enrolled men. No. 51 — Provides for raising forces in the States of Missouri and Kentucky. No. 55 — Secures to the soldiers who shall have entered the army for three years or the war, the bounty granted by act of December 14th, 1861, although he may have been killed in battle, died, or been honorably discharged before the expiration of the first year's service of his term. No. 53 — Is the " exemption act." No. 63— Allows to cadets in the service of the C. S., the same pay as Second Lieutenants of the arm of service to which they are attached. No. 65 — Provides for relieving the army of disqualified, disabled, and incompetent officers. The 1st section authori- zes the General Commanding a department to appoint an Ex- 116 CONFEDERATE MONITOR amining Board to inquire into and determine the qualifica- tions of officers brought to their attention. The second sec- tion provides that whenever the Board shall determine that any officer is clearly unfit to perform his legitimate and prop- er duties, or careless and inattentive in their discharge, they shall report their decision to the General, who is authorized to suspend said officer, and directed to transmit the decision, etc., to the Secretary of War, under the 3d section, the Sec- retary, if he approve the finding of the Board and the action of the General, shall lay the same before the President, who is authorized to retire honorably without pay, or drop from the army, the officer who has been found unfit for his posi- tion. The 4th and 5th section relate to filling vacancies. No. 7 — Authorizes the granting of medals and badges of distinction as a reward for courage and good conduct in tlie field of battle. No. 72 — Authorizes any number of persons not less than twenty, who are not liable to military duty^ to associate themselves as a military company for local defence, elect their own officers, etc., and shall be considered as belonging to the Provisional Army, serving without pay, and entitled, when captured by the enemy, to all the privileges of prison- ers of war. The muster rolls of such companies are to be" forwarded to the Secretary of War and the President, or the commander of the military district may, at any time, disband such companies, etc. No. 73 — Authorizes the President to appoint twenty Gen- eral officers in the Provisional army, and to assign to them such appropriate duties as he may deem expedient. THE NAvy. No. G — i.\uthorizes the issue of 3,500,000 bonds to meet a contract made by the Secretary of the Navy for six iron- clad vessels of war and six steam engines and boilers com- plete, to be constructed abroad. No. 11 — Increases the number of non-commissioned offi- cers and musicians in the marine Corps. No. 15 — Determines the pay of the Engineer-in-Chief and Passed Assistant Surgeons of the Army. No. 29 — Authorizes persons subject to conscription to en- list in the navy and marine corps, and increases the pay of sailors and marines $4 per month. No. 57 — Authorizes the appointment of three naval store keepers. AND patriot's FRIEND. 117 FINANCIAL. No. 8 — Authorizes the issue of such additional amount of •bonds, certificates of stock, and Treasury notes as may be required to pay the appropriations made by Congress at its last and present session. Also, extends the authority to issue reconvertible bonds or certificates in exchange for Treasury notes from 850,000,000 to $100,000,000. Also, authorizes the payment of interest annually on all interest-bearing Treas- ury notes, and authorizes the extension of the issue of Treas- ury notes under the denomination of $5 to the amount of 810,000,000. No. 67 — Provides that Treasury notes issued after 1st of December next shall be fundable only in bonds bearing in- terest at the rate of seven per cent. Notes issued prior to that date and those now in circulation may be funded within six months after public notice in eight per cent bonds, there- after in seven per cent bonds. POSTAL AFFAIRS. No. 13 — Provides for the payment of sums ascertained to ' c due for postal service rendered under contracts made by the United States Government before the Confederate States Government took charge of such service. No. 35 — Authorizes the Postmaster (General to employ special agents to superintend and secure tlic certain and speedy transportation of the mails across the Mississippi river at such points as may befound piacticable. No. 60 — Establishes various post routes therein named. JUDICIAL. No. 21 — Divides the State of Texas into two Judicial Districts, and provides for the appointment of Judges and 'officers in the same. No. 34 — Authorizes the Jud^i^es of District Courts to change the place of holding court in certain cases. treas#!ry notes. No. 13 — Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to offer a reward not to exceed 85,000 for the apprehension and con- viction of any person engaged in foreign or uttering counter- feit Treasury notes.. ** No. 58 — Provides that ^ny person in the service of or ad- hering to the enemy, who shall pass or ofler to pass or dis- 118 CONFEDERATE MONITOR pose of spurious or counterfeit' Botes, purporting to be Treas* ui:y notes of this Government, shall, if captured^ V- put to death by hanging, and every colilmissloned pfficer of tl;e ene- my who shall periiiit any offence mentioned in th!« act hy any person under liis authority, shall also be liu^g. RESOLUTIONS OF THANKS. No. 1-^To Captain Raphael Semmps, officer.s and crew of the steamer Sumter, for gallant and iri6ritorious serviceiS. No. 3— ^To commander K, Farrand, Captain Ai Drewry, and officers and men under their'command,for the victoi'yat Drewry's Bluff. No. 28— To Lieutenant I, N. Brown, and all under his command, for their skill and gallantry in the on'^agement of the "Arkansas" with the enemy's fleet near A ivlrsburg. STCK AND WOUNDEJb SOLDIERS. No. so — ^This is an important act, entitled '-an act to betJ- ter provide for the sick and wounded of the army in hosj^i- tals," which if enforced and carried out, would silt^nce many oi' the complaints in retiiarj to t^ -^ trofltrr^put of sick anv| wounded soldiers in ;md out of hospitals. The firet secti^ fixes the commutation value of rations of siHv a'"j disal>leal soldiers in the hpspitals atone dollar, which shall constitute' the hospital fuiid-; for the purchase of supplies^any excess over $5,000i;o be paiiSnto the Confedemte States Treasury. The second section directs the Secretary of War to make con tracts for. the^ speedy transportation of supplies pirchascd for hospitals, or donated by individuals; societies, or ^ta1:Q|i|. .etc. The od section allows to each hospital suits of cl'.'t'hin^^ (shirts, pantaloQiis, and drawers,) equal, to the number of beds in the hospital, for the use ')f iho sick while in tlic hos pital. The 4th section albwS two mat^ons-il9:cL^ ' ' sistant matrons, and two 6kJ/lier matrons, fof each \n ery hospital, and prescribes their pay, respective duties. [ v.-v- ery matron so employed should be furnished with a cOpy of this act.] The surgeon or assistant surgeon in charge of an hospital is authorized to employ such other^ nurses (giving preference to females) as nuiy be^ecesSsai . \ n iha proper care and aifejiiiori of Ihe slt'Jr. ^ Tha Tith s^ttion provides for accommodating in the same;1lo.sj>it;il, as far-*.s practicable, all siick and wounded soldiers A'om aiiy *farri'-ular State — tjie ' hospitals to be num.ber4nd designated for that Hollinger Corp. pH8.5