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PREFACE. 
 
 To whom are we indebted for our recent brillinat achievements and 
 naval successes, but to woman. The noble action and self-sacrificing 
 devotion of our ladies, in forwarding money and raeans for tho oonstruc- 
 tion of gunboats ahd battering rams wherewitb to cope with an insolent 
 ajid barb.irian foe, is unequaled in all times past both ancient and modem. 
 Hundreds, aye thousandp, who had not the money sent forward what 
 jewelry ©r silver plate they possessed as contributions. Many a birth-day 
 present and bridal gift has been sacrificed upon the altar of liberty that 
 urged on our men of daring to deeds of valor and renown. History does 
 not record such unbounded and unanimously spontaneous action of a 
 people. Did we, indeed, lack the cavalier spirit of death-daring valor ic 
 our Generals, the innate heroism, fortitude and devotion of our women 
 would, doubtless, call forth from among their own sex a leader for our 
 ■armies to forego the pleasures of ease and feminine considerations and 
 respond to the call of temporal requirements for the occasion like a Joan 
 of Arc. 
 
 U is but a lillle more than a year since our women, as with one voice, 
 have called upon men of prominence to aid them in the construction of 
 floating engines of war, and behold the result; it is already glorious, 
 though, as yet, at the first bieaking of the dawn of day (the day of tri- 
 umph over a common enemy,) our achievements are great. 
 
Galveston was recaptured and her blockade raised, by Qen. Magruder, 
 with a fleet of cotton boats prepared for the purpose. He boro down 
 upon the Federal blockading fiebt, capturing four vessels, one of which 
 the Harriet Lane, a formidable ship of war, was taken by boarding ; 
 another one of the largest was blown up with all on boiird, the balance 
 having made their escape, two of which took advantage of the white 
 flag, which was raised in token of surrender, but seeing an opportunity 
 for escape nin the gauntlet. On shore the whole Federal garrison was 
 captar:d, wit!» large quantities of stores and supplies of ammunition. 
 
 Soon after this brilliant achievement the blockade of Charleston was 
 raised by Commodore Ingraham, who captured and sunk three ot the 
 cnemips veasels. This success was followed by the gratifying results upon 
 the Mississippi and the Cumberland Rivers, where we captured and de- 
 stroyed some forty of the enemies gunboats and transports, among which 
 were eight or nine of the most formidable gunboats and ironcladis. 
 
 Since the first of January, 1863, we have captured, in serviceable con- 
 dition, seven of the most formidable engines of war the enemy had afloat, 
 whi:h arc now being turned to account in a good cause, serving in the 
 Confederate States navy against God-defying infidelity and hell-deserving 
 Abolitionist.^, who, actuated by the basest instincts of brute nature, con- 
 front us with lustful designs of fiends incarnate. 
 
 In their last and vilest of efforts, by which they attempt to incite to 
 servile revolt our contented and happy aervaiits, God will cause their bar- 
 barous schemes as signally to fail and miscarry as have all their former 
 attempts at subjugation. 
 
 Let us look to our recent successes and oousiJer well the fortitude and 
 devotion of woman ia the cause of independence and liberty from a 
 tyranny %Yhich ' will saou bo ovor, past, provided, wo act with ever- 
 increasing vigilance and determination. 
 
Lit ns put our hope and trust in the God of hosts, for He hath set us 
 apart as His chosen people, hence the scourging vie are now receiving by 
 the visitation of revolution and "war which has deluged our fair land in 
 blood and anguish. If there is a people upon the face of the earth thnt 
 cannot be made slaves, but^vhich he has appointed fis his ovrn people and 
 cagenf 8 to perpetuate the work of civilization, it is the people of the Con - 
 federate States of America, the descendants of the Caucassian and 
 Jewish races who are entrusted with the fostering care and protection of 
 the African race as an institution of servitude to civilization. We arc 
 commanded to foster and perpetuate this institutio.u for the benefit of 
 future ages. God has commanded us to buy our servants from the 
 heathen nations to be an inheritance to our children and our children' e 
 children. The majority of our enemies, though at the commencement of 
 the war their visions were clouded wilh blind philanthrophy and fanati- 
 cism, arc now being informed, by the force of circumstances, by unacCTs- 
 tomed intercourse and association with the negro, of their error in the 
 course and policy they have, adopted with regard to the whole African 
 race, finding they can do nothing and accomplish less with such as have 
 been captured and others who were induced to leave their good and kind 
 masters and mistresses, they are now being prepared, drilled and armci". 
 for service and to be placed in the front lines of battle (finding them an 
 nnwielding mass of helplessness and inferiority for the. accomplishment 
 of any other purpose.) First being placed in the front lines of battle the 
 negro will serve as a breast work to 6hield the bodies and preserve the 
 lives of degraded and polluted Yankees. 
 
 2nd. Having served such pur;>o£e and being slain opon the field ol 
 battle, the Yankees have no more trouble wilh Cufiee, and say he has been 
 turned to good account. 
 
 Thns It will be seen that the poor and deluded African is to seive a two- 
 
^,^ PKEFACK. 
 
 fold purpose to the Abolition Yankee of the East, whose principles must • 
 be corrnpting to the most depraved and demoniac fiends of helL 
 
 Permit me kind reader, to ask does not a contemplation of the Yankee 
 ch acter excite in you a feeling of condemnation and scorn mingled with 
 alternate pity and contempt for our demented enemy whose every ex- 
 istence, being and io be, (now and forever,) is qualified by the epithet 
 k Yankee a term comprehensibly expressive of all that is impure, inhuman, 
 uncharitable, unchristian and uncivilized (barbarian and heathen is 
 scarcely applicable in the case,) demons of hell in the guise of men. 
 
 I have not done yet. If, indeed, there should be a discrepancy it will 
 be found in favor of language not containing words of suflicieut force to- 
 express the baseness of the character and nature of the Yankees and the 
 perverting influence of their selt established creed, which has given birth 
 to all the demoralizing, degrading and hellish isms, including (the last 
 tW)agh not the least) equalityism or negrophilism. 
 
 Pardon me condeming the Yankees as a nation, 
 For they are not deserving eternal salvation. 
 
 H. W. R. JACKSON. 
 
THE WOMEN 
 
 OK riiK 
 
 SECOND 
 
 AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 
 
 A FEMALE SOLDIER. 
 
 Among the strauge, heroic and self-sacrificing acts of woman 
 in this struggle for our independence, we have heard of none 
 which exceeds the bravery displayed and hardpliips endured by 
 the subject of this notice, Mrs. Amy Clarke. Mrs. Clarke vol- 
 nntcei*ed with her husband as a private, fought through the 
 battles of Shiloh, where JNIr. Clarke was killed — she performing 
 the rites of burial with her own hands. She then continued 
 with Bragg's army in Kentucky, fighting in the ranks as a com- 
 mon soldier, until she was twice wounded — once in the ankle 
 and then in the breast, when she fell a prisoner into the hands 
 of the Yankees. Her sex was discovered by the Federals, and 
 she was regularly paroled as a prisoner of war, but they did 
 not permit her to return until she liad donned female apparel. — 
 Mrs. C. was in our city on Sunday last, en route for J?ragg's 
 command. — Jackson Missiasipjnan, Dec. 30, 1862. 
 
 A FEMALE AID-DE-CAMP 
 
 The Baltimore " Clipper " says Antonia J. Ferd was tlie prin- 
 cipal spy and guide for Captain Mosbly in his recent raid on 
 Fairfax Court House, and aided in planning the arrest of Gen. 
 Slaughter, Wyndham and others.' She was nrrested and brought, 
 to the Old Capitol Prison, on Simd*Fiast, with $1,000 Con- 
 federate money on her person. The following is a copy of her 
 commission : ^ 
 
 To all vJiom it may CoJicern : 
 
 Know ye that, reposing special conlidencc in the patriotism 
 fidelity and ability of Antonia J. Ford, I, J. E. B. Stuart, by 
 virtue (-f power vostcdiu rae as r»rigadier General, I'rovisional 
 Arni^'''"!f< d^-ntc States, hereby appoint and commission her 
 
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b JIUC WOMKN OK TJLIE 
 
 my Honorable Aitl-de-Camp, to rack as such frein this date. 
 She will be obeyecl, respected and admired by all lovers of a 
 noble nature. 
 
 Ciivcn under ray hand and eeal, Headquarters Cavalry Brigade, 
 at Camp Beverlv, Tth October, 18C1, aud first year of our Inde- 
 pendence. ' . J. E. ¥.. STUART. 
 
 Bv the General: 
 
 L. T. Bi\ys^, A. A. G. 
 
 MISS BELLE BOYD, "TEE REBEL SPY." 
 
 Tills young lady has, by her devotion to the Soutlieru cause, 
 called down upon her head the anathemas of the enth-e Yankee 
 pres3. . , 
 
 Miss Belle is the daughter of Benjamin B. Boyd, of Martins- 
 burg, at which place he was for along time prominently engaged 
 in the mercantile profession. He afterwards removed to Kuox- 
 ville, Tennessee, where he lived .about three years, but returned 
 to Martiusburg about tv/o ye.ars previous to the breaking out 
 of the present war. Her mother was the daughter of Captain 
 Glenn, of Jefterson county. Miss Belle is tlie oldest child of 
 her parents, and is about 23 years of age. An uncle of Miss 
 Belle, James W. Glenn, of Jefierson county, commanded a 
 company during the present w\ar, known as the "Virginia Kan- 
 gers," until recently, the captaincy of Avhich he resigned on 
 account of ill-health. James E. Stuart, a prominent politician 
 of the Valley, and who was a member of the Virginia Conven- 
 tion of lB.uO, married a sister of Miss Belle's mother. 
 
 During her enrly years Miss Belle was distinguished for her 
 eprighthness and the vivacity of her temper. 
 
 That our readers may liave an opportunity of seeing what the 
 Yankee correspondents say about this young lady, we extract 
 the following article from the columns of the Philadelphia "In- 
 quirer," which was written by the army correspondent of that 
 sheet : 
 
 "These women are the most accomplished in Southern circles. 
 They are introduced under assumed names to our officers, so as 
 to avoid <letcction or recognition from those to whom their 
 names are known, but their persons imknown. By such means 
 they are enabled to frequently meet combiuedly, but at separate 
 times, the officers of^vcry regiment in a Avhole column, and by 
 simple compilation afll|||f)mparison of notes, they achieve a full 
 knowledge of the strength oi our entire force. Has modern 
 warfare a parallel to the use of such accomplishments for such a 
 purpose ? The chief of these spies is the'celebrated Belle Boyd. 
 Her acknowlcilged superiority for machination and intrigue has 
 given her the leadership and control of the female spies in the 
 valley of Virginia. She is a resident of Mai'tinsburg, when »t 
 home, and has a pion?, good old mother, Avbo rggrets aa. much 
 
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SECOND AMERICAN EEVOLUTION. 9 
 
 as any one cnn the violent and eceentrie course of her daughtei* 
 since this rebellion hns broken out. Belle has parsed the Iresh- 
 nesp of youth. She is a sharp-featured, black-eyed woman of 
 25, or care and intrigue have given her that nppearance. Last 
 [Summer, whilst Patterson^s army lay at Martinisburg, uhe wove 
 a i-evolver in lier belt, and was courted and flattered by every 
 Lieutenant and Captain in the service wlio ever saw her. There 
 wns a kind of Di Vernon dash about lier, a smart pertncss, a 
 (juickness of retort and utter abandoniuont of manner and bear- 
 ing which were attractive from their very romantic uuwonted- 
 ness. 
 
 "The fa' her of this resolute black-eyed vixen is a paymaster in 
 the Southern army, and formerly held a place at Washington 
 under our Government. She ha« undergone all that society, 
 jKtsition and education can confer upon a mind suited to the 
 days of Charles the Second, or Louis the Fourteenth — a mind 
 such ns ISIazarin or Richelieu Avould have delightol to employ 
 from its kindred r.ffinities. 
 
 " Well, this woman I saw practicing her arts upon our young 
 Lieutenants and inexperienced Captains, and in eacli case I uni- 
 formly felt it my duty to call them aside and warn them of 
 whom she was. To one she had been introduced as Miss An- 
 derson, to another as Miss Faulkner, and so to the end of the 
 chapter. She is so well known now that she can only practice 
 her blandishments upon new raw levies and their ofticejs. But 
 from tliem she obtains the number of their regiments and their 
 force. She lias, however, a trained band of coadjutors, who 
 report to her daily — girls aged from ]G upward — women who 
 have the common sense not to make themselves as conspicuous 
 as she, and who remain unknown, save to her, and are, therefore, 
 effective. The reports that she is personally impure are as 
 unjust a« they are undeserved. She lias a blind^ devotion to an 
 idea, and passes far the boundary of her sex^s modesty to pro- 
 mote its success. 
 
 " During the past campaign in the Valley this woman has 
 been of immense service to the enemy. Slie will be now if she 
 can." — Tlluatroted JVacs. 
 
 MISS KORAH McCARTEY. 
 
 A RKAIINISCICNCK OF TlliS MISSOUKl CAMPAIGN. 
 
 Thns far, Missouri has the better of other seats of hostility 
 for the real romnnf^e of war. <Most assuredly the light there 
 has been waged with fiercer earnest than alraobt arywl^re tlse. 
 The remote geography of the country, the rough, unhewn char- 
 acter of the people, the intensity and ferocity of the p^=:£ions 
 excited, and the general nature of the complicity reduced to a 
 warfa^ essentially parizan and frontier, gave to its progress a 
 
10 THE WOMEN OP THE 
 
 wild aspect, peculiarly susceptible to deeds, and suggestive of 
 thonorhts, of romantic interest. None of these struck us more 
 forcibly than the story of Norah McCtrtey, the Jennie Deans 
 of the West. 
 
 She lived in the interior of Missouri — a little, pretty, black- 
 eyed girl, with a soul as huge as a mountain, and a form as frail 
 as a fairy's, and the courage and pluck of a buccaneer into the 
 bargain. Her father was an old man — a secessionist. She had 
 but a single brother, just growing from boyhood. to youthhood, 
 but sickly and lamed. The family had lived in Kansas during 
 the trouble of '57, when Norah was a mere girl of fourteen, or 
 thereabouts. But even then Jier beauty, Mat and devil-may-care 
 spirit were known far and wide ; and many were the stories told 
 along the border of her sayings and doings. Among other 
 charges laid to her door, it is said she broke all the hearts of the 
 young bloods far and wide, and tradition does even go so far as 
 to assert that, like Bob Acres, she killed a man once a week, 
 keeping a private church-yard for the purpose of decently bury- 
 ing her dead. Be this as it may, she was then, and is now, a 
 dashing, fine looking, lively girl, and a prettier heroine than will 
 be found in a novel, as will be seen if the good natured reader 
 lias a mind to follow us down to the bottom of this column. 
 
 Not long after the Federals came into her neighborhood, and, 
 after they had forced her father to take the oath, which he did 
 partly because he was a very old man, unable to take the field, 
 and hoped thereby to save the security of his household, and 
 partly because he could not help himself; not long after these 
 two important events in the history of our heroine, a body of 
 luen marched up one evening, whilst she was on a visit to a 
 neighbor's and arrested her sickly, weak brotlier, bearing him 
 oif to -Leavenworth City, where he was lodged in the military 
 guard-house. 
 
 It was nearly night before Norah reached home. When she 
 did so, and discovered the outrage which had been perpetrated 
 and the grief of her old father, her rage knew no bounds. Al- 
 though the mists were falling and the night was closing in, dark 
 and dreary, she ordered her horse to be re-saddled, put on a 
 thick suriouty bolted a sash round lier waist, and sticking a pair 
 of ivory-handlei pistols in her bosom, started ofi" after the sol- 
 diers. The post was many miles distant. But that she did not 
 regard. Over hill, through marsh, under cover of the darkness, 
 she galloped on to the headquarters of the enemy. At last the 
 call of a sentry brought her to a stand, with a hoarse — 
 
 " Who goes there V" > 
 
 "No matter," she replied, "I wish to see Col. Prince, your 
 commanding officer, and instantly, too." 
 
 (• ^^Somewhat awed by^the presence of n young female on horse- 
 back at that late hout^and perhaps struck by her imperious 
 tone of command, the'^iaukee guard, without hesitat^, con- 
 
SECOND AMKEIOAN RE"Vn0LDTIOl!ir. 11 
 
 ducted her intoi the fortifications, and thenee to tlie quai'ters of 
 the Colonel commanding, with whom she was left alone. 
 
 " Well, madam," quoth the Yankee officer, with bland polite- 
 ness, "to what have I the honor of this visit?'* 
 
 " Is this Col. Prince ?" replied the brare girl, quietly. 
 " It is, and yourself?" 
 
 "No matter. I have come here to inquire where you have a 
 lad by the name of MtCartey a prisoner ?" 
 "There is such a prisoner." 
 " May I ask, for why ?" 
 
 " Certainly ; for being suspected of treasonable connectiom 
 with the enemy." 
 
 " Jrcasonable connection with the enemy ! Why, the boy is 
 sick and lame. He is besides my brother; and I have come to 
 ask his immediate release." 
 
 The Yankee officer opened his eyes ; was sorry he could not 
 comply with the request of so winning a supplicant ; and must 
 really beg her to desist and leave the fortress." 
 " I demand his release," cried she, in reply. 
 " That you cannot have," returned he ; " the boy is a rebel 
 and a traitor, and unless you retire, madam, I shall be forced to 
 arrest you on a similar suspicion." 
 
 " Suspicion ! I atn a rebel and a traitor too, if yon wish. — 
 Young McCartey is my brother, and I don't leave this tent 
 until he goes with me. Order his instant release, or," here she 
 drew one of the aforesaid ivory handles out of her bosom and 
 levelled the muzzle of it directly at him, " I will put an ounce 
 of lead in your brain, before you can call a gingl6 sentry to yonr 
 relief." 
 
 A picture that ? 
 
 There stood the heroic girl ; eyes flashing tire, cheek glowing 
 with earnest will, lips firmly set with resolution, and hand out- 
 stretched with a loaded pistol ready to send the contents 
 through the now thoroughly frightened, itartled, aghast soldier, 
 who cowered, like blank paper before flames, under her burning 
 stare. 
 
 "Quick!" she repeated, "order his release, or you die." 
 It was too much. Prince could not stand it.' He bade her 
 lower her infernal weapon for God's sake, and the boy should 
 be forthwith liberated. 
 
 "Give the order first," she replied, unmoved. 
 And the order was given; the lad was b4-ought out; afad 
 drawing his arm in hers, the gallant sister marched out of the 
 place, with one hand grasping one of his, and the other hold of 
 her trusty ivory-handle. She nio\inted her horse, bade him get 
 up behind, and rode oflT, rcadiiug home without accident before 
 midnight. 
 
 Now that is a lact stranger than fiction, which shows what 
 
12 THE -WOStEN OF THlf; 
 
 6ort of metal is in our women of the much abused and traduced 
 nineteenth century. — Exchange. 
 
 A BRAVE GIRL. 
 
 Tiie Cohimliue (Ga.) "Times" says the following extract from 
 a letter of a Savannah girl (not all unknown to fame) is too 
 G^ood to be immersed in the private portfolio fc which it wag 
 intended : 
 
 Do you believe that instead of feeling frightened I feel quite 
 brave, and I think if I only had the strength of my lieart in ray 
 hand, I would make a little here during this war ? On the day 
 that the engagement was going on at Fort Royal, and every- 
 thing iiround us was one wild scene of confusion, for fear of an 
 attack on Savannah, I seated myself in the midst of all, and 
 made a Confederate flag for the express purpose of waving it 
 saucily in their faces when they landed. If they come upon us 
 by land, they will have to pass this very door, and in spite of 
 everything but chains I intend to wave ray banner. I intend 
 to be the first Savannah girl to dare them, and to show them 
 the South has not only brave 7nen, but brave xoomen also. IIow 
 it makes my blood boil when I hear ot a cowardly act done by 
 any one bearing the name of ^lan ! There were some in Sa- 
 vannah who, during the fight at Port Royal, became alarmed 
 ibr fear their courage might be put to the test, and as they 
 would much rather run than fight, and could not do so well if 
 they wore a hat and boots, prelerred the more modest attire of 
 females, and took to bonnets and slippers. Since then I have 
 considered our uniform disgraced forever, if we do not prove 
 to the world that all who wear this modest disguise are not 
 cowards. To set the rest of the gentler sex an example, I have 
 volunteered to exchange my hat and slippers for the boots and 
 breeches of the next man who had rather run than fight, and 
 promise^ too, that I never will disgrace it by cowardly eonduct. 
 If the men prove cowards at a time like this, it is high time for 
 the women to show what they can do ; and if they cannot de- 
 pend on ihcm for protection, show them that they have bravery 
 enough to meet them at their own doors, if they cannot follow 
 them to the battle-field. 
 
 I think that every woman should pr@ve a true Spartan to the 
 cause of libeiiy, and when history shall bear record of the deeds 
 of 186],itAvill reflect upon them no disgrace, but give them 
 credit lor follo\^ng the example of their mothers of '76. 
 
 FIENDISH OUTRAGE UPON WOMEN. 
 A deed committed by Federal soldiers has come to the 
 knowledge of the writer,.which is shocking beyond description, 
 and the bare mention of which will produce a thrill of horror ic 
 
SR30ND A.MEKICAN REVOLUirON. 13 
 
 every Southern breast. The information comes iu such a shape 
 aa to leave no doubt iu regard to the truth of the story. 
 
 A few years ago a young lady of Columbia, Tennessee, waa 
 married to a young lawyer of Ilelemi, Arkansas. She was edu- 
 cated, talented, witty and accomplished iu a high degree. We 
 speak from personal knowledge in making "this affirmation. 
 They were comfortably settled in Ilclen.a, and was blessed with 
 one or more children, ller husband is iu the Southeru army. 
 Five Federal soldiers, including an officer, forcibly seized this 
 lady, carried her to a barn, and each of them committed an out- 
 rage on her j)erson. In two or three weeks she died, a victim 
 of their brutality, and of the grief and mortilioation produced 
 by their treatment of her. 
 
 Her husband is said to be a Lieutenant Colonel of some regi- 
 ment. The writer knows him, and could give his name, but 
 forbear to do so. 
 
 Soldiers and men' of the South, think of this nnparallefl deed 
 ot crime and infamy, and let it nerve you to fight for the pro- 
 tection of your wives and children, and to drive back and 
 destroy the invaders of your country and despoilers of vour 
 homes. — Knoxxnlle Ixegister^ Oct. 12^ 1SU2. 
 
 UNPARELLELED ATROCITY OF YANKEE DEMONS. 
 
 The Shel1)yville (TenH.) "■ r>anncr" says that very recently a 
 foraging party of the enemy, escorted by a comuiand of cavalry, 
 visited the premises of jMr. Anthony, iu Williamson county. — 
 The Colonel, Major and other officers entered tlie house and 
 indulged in the usual freedom and license. At the same time 
 they permitted a number of negro teamsters to seize the 
 daughters of Mr. Anthony, and ravish these unprotected fe- 
 males. Their mother besought the protection of the officers, 
 but these brutal men only cursed her, as a d— d rebel, saying 
 that they understood that the luisbands of her daughters were 
 iu the Confederate service, and they were being served properly 
 thus to be outraged by a race they had enslaved. — Jfan/i^ 18G3. 
 
 Oh ! God wo implore Thee to hear our prayer and aid us. 
 Let us accord to the Yankees everlasting reproach ; «//<?, n.ndy- 
 in(j shcone. Bless us, oh Lord, to rcmcnilKcr them with ever 
 increasing hatred and contempt. Guide us :\u>\ direct with the 
 most deadly purpose, lor their destruction, all our material and 
 ' appliances of war. Kuablc us to avenge the many outrages they 
 committeil upon our women. J fear, oh God, my prayer, I 
 beseech thee, and bless our .armies, in every conflict, with a 
 two-fold victory over our demented foe. Let the carna<r'\ the 
 destruction of life and limb in the ranks of our enemies ]>e an 
 
14 TKE W0MT5N OF THE 
 
 hundred fold greater than heretofore knovna. Would that I 
 could wield a sword of infinite magnitude, its blade keenly- 
 wetted for the vengeance of Heaven, and my arm clothed with 
 the power of Oiuuipotence. H. W. R. J. 
 
 THE WOMEN OF WINCHESTER, VIRGINIA. 
 
 The New York " New World's " correspondent from Banks' 
 retreating army, writing from Ilagerstown, Maryland, says that 
 while tlie Federalists were retreating through Winchester, 
 women of that town opened lire with ])istols upon them from the 
 windows, "and killed a great many." It is very doubtful 
 whether or no this is true. The women of the town hardly 
 fired the guns. Probably they were too glad to see the Yankees 
 going to dcJay the departure of even one of them by a wound 
 from 3^ pistol shot. The statement may, however, be taken as 
 an indication of what the writer thinks of the women of Win- 
 chester, Their fidelity to their country was so marked that the 
 Yankee )iot only expected no sympathy from thena in the re- 
 verse which hurried him from Winchester, but he even feared 
 they wouhl give him a parting shot as he fled. So the well 
 aimed bullets, which are alleged to have killed many of his com- 
 rades, are charged upon the ladies ! But how can the Yankees 
 hope for a restoration of the Union Avith a people whose women 
 even take up arms against them ? Go where they may they 
 find the ladies firm in their devotion to the South, giving the 
 invader no encouragement, and showing him no respect, until 
 they have brought down upon themselves a full share of that 
 Puritan hate which for so many months h.as poured out the 
 vials of its wrath upon our country. Butler has led on the 
 attack upon them, and cunningly devised the means by which 
 the most depraved and brutal animosity is to be appeased. But 
 the women of the South, like the women of Winchester, will 
 continue true in the face of all the terrors the invader can in- 
 vent. If the rougher sex were as univCTsally faithful as the 
 women, this great struirgle would have nothinir to fear from 
 enemies at home. God save the noble ladies of the South ! — 
 None of their sex, in any age or country, ever merited in a 
 higher degree the admiration of chivalrous men or their most 
 glorious deeds iji arms in their defence. 
 
 A SPIRITED LADY OF. NORTH CAROLINA. 
 
 Under the head of *' an impudent note from a Southern lady,"^ 
 the New Orleans "Delta" publishes the following, 'showing 
 how a true Southern lady dared to beard Picayune Butler in his 
 stronghold : 
 
 EmTOKS Delta — Sir: Having been arrested a few days since 
 
8EC0ND AMERICAN REVOLPTION. 16 
 
 for the display of Confederate cojors npon my person, in com- 
 memoration of our victory in Virginia, and since released upon 
 unconditional terms, I now desire through your columns to 
 contradict the rumor of an apology having hecix made by me to 
 Butler for the so-called offence. 
 
 I take the liberty of adding that I never had an interview 
 with the above person, nor to escape punishment had to lower 
 the dignity of our Southern principles, which I then and still 
 represent. I .fin, sir, MRS. E. A. COWEN", 
 
 1?62. 189 Canal street. 
 
 MURDERING WOMEN. 
 
 We learn froin the exchanged prisoners who arrived here on 
 Friday, from New Orleans, that on their departure from that 
 city, large numbers of truc-heartod Southern ladies gathered 
 about them, Avaving their handkerchiefs and cheering for Jeff. 
 Davis and the Southern Confederacy. For this the whole mili- 
 tary force was called out and ordered to charge upon the crowd, 
 by which four ladies were known to have been killed. 
 
 Vicksburg Citizen. 
 
 THE BAYONET! TEE NEEDLE! THE PLOW! 
 
 The press, the pulpit and the ])iirse is said to be a powerful 
 trio, but we doubt if a stronger trio can be formed than is sug- 
 gested by the caption of this article. The bayonet, the repre- 
 sentative of our army in the field, is all important in the groat 
 work of defending our altars and hearthstones, but the army 
 must be sustained. But for the needle, the representative of 
 our glorious, self sacrificing and patfiotic women, how many 
 bayonets would have been useless? How could the soldier 
 have stood the piercing blasts and numbing frosts, without the 
 kind ministrations of women ? Her fame will be co-equal and 
 CO extensive with that of the South — yea, will outlive it. "WhUe 
 the bayonet has plenty of food before it in the shape of a bar- 
 barous and malignant foe, without ailment for the sturdy arm 
 who wields it, the glistening steel is useless* ^It requires muscle 
 to sustain the bayonet, and that muscle must be kept up by a 
 fine commissariaf. Here, then, the absolute importance of the 
 plow, the representative of everything necessary for food, is 
 clearly demonstrated. In vain do we send our sons and brothers 
 to the field .and supply them with clothing for the outer man, it 
 the wants of the inner are neglected. The farmers of the Con- 
 federate States hold its independence and success in their own 
 hands. Whihj the weatlier-bcaten veteran is keeping back the 
 foe, and our women are doing their duty, let farmers not forget 
 theirs. Let the qeedle and the plow then come up to the sup- 
 port of the bayonet. — Atlanta Intelligencer. 
 
16 THE WOMEl^J OF THE 
 
 A PATRIOTIC J.ADY. 
 
 Lieuienant B. S. Russell, of the 16th Alabama, was of the 
 slain at Murfrccsboro', and fell in the early part of the action. 
 When stricken down, he felt the wound to be mortal, and at 
 once gave his sword to a comrade, saying, "take this to my 
 wife, and tell her I died bravely." The Colonel of his regiment 
 saw that the wish of the patriot was complied with, and, in 
 reply to the letter, the widow, true, like all other Southern 
 women, to the highest impulses of a noble patriotism, said: 
 " I mourn the death of my husband, but my greatest regret is 
 that none of his sons are old enough to take his place to battle 
 for our liberties.'" 
 
 PATRIOTIC COH'TSIBUTIOJJ. 
 
 A merchant of Charlotte, North Carolina, who has been in 
 the array, and is now at home on furlough, has placed in the 
 hands of the editor of t\\c " Bulletin," of that place, live hun- 
 dred dollars for the purchase of corn and has corn for the desti- 
 tute families of soldiers in service. In a note addressed to the 
 farmers, to which he appendg the signature " X," he says : 
 
 I have had some little experience in the camps, and know by 
 observation what is the hardest part of a soldier's life. I have 
 seen them open their letters from home, and hnvc witnessed the 
 tears trickle down their cheeks as they read from home and 
 hear of their suffering or destitute families, I teil you, if you 
 will come forward and bring your liberal subscriptions for the 
 suppoi't of their wives, you will make them better men and 
 better and braver soldiers, and our coimtry will be pafcr ; our 
 money better; and, above all, our conscier;; -s eisiev. 
 
 YANKEES OE HYi:^T AS? 
 
 The following graphic description of our. Yankees foes occurs 
 in the late speech of President Davis on his return to Richmond 
 from his western tour : 
 
 "Every crime conceivable, from the burning of defenceless 
 towns to the' stealing of silver forks and spoons, has marked 
 their career. In New Orleans, Butler has exerted himself to 
 learn the execrations of the civihzed world, and now returns 
 ■with his dishonors thick upon him to receive the plaudits of the 
 only peop'c on earth who do not blush to think he wears the 
 human form. lie has stolen millions of dollars in New Orleans 
 from private citizens, although the usages of war exempt private 
 property from taxation by the enemy. It is in keeping, how- 
 ever, with the character of the people that seeks dominion over 
 you, claim to be your masters, to try to reduce you to subjec- 
 tion — give up to a brutal soldiery your towns to sack, your 
 
SECOND AMEEIOAN REVOLUTION. 17 
 
 homes to pillage and incite servile insurrection. But in the lat- 
 ter point theyhave failed save in this that they have heaped, if 
 possible, a deeper disgrace upon themselves. They have come 
 to disturb your social organizations in the plea that it is a mili- 
 tary necessity. For what are they waging war ? They say to 
 presierve the Union. Can they preserve the Union by destroying 
 the social existence of a portion of the South ? Do they hope 
 to reconstruct the Union by striking at everything that is dear 
 to man ? By showing themselves so utterly disgraced that if 
 the question was proposed to you whether you would combine 
 with hyenas or Yankees, I trust every Virginian would say, give 
 me the hyenas. [Cries of ' Good ! good !' and applause." 
 
 THE VIRTUES OF WOMAN. 
 
 The fathomless wells of sensibility and sentiment which 'are 
 found in the glorious history of woman, may well be said to re- 
 semble that cave located by classic historians on the summit of 
 Mount Parnassus, on the brink of which a temple was erected 
 and dedicated to Apollo, and into the aperture of which it is 
 recorded that not even the goat herd could not look without 
 being seized with fits of enthusiasm. It is woman who has cos- 
 mopolized virtue, and made it peculiar to no clime under the 
 snn, to no race upon the face of the earth, and to no age in the 
 calendar of time. From that dark and dismal day on which 
 Mary passed from the foot of the cross to the door of the se- 
 pulchre, the celestial music of woman's soothing voice has been 
 heard everywhere, all round the globe, amid the deepest gloom 
 of sorrow, and the example of her conduct has never ceased to 
 loom up to illustrate the true and modest grandeur of moral 
 heroism. This will be found to be her history back to the very 
 cradle of time ; and however much patriots may lament the de- 
 generacy of statesmanship in these days of small men, to the 
 immortal honor of the sex it must be recorded that in her pas- 
 sage through the fearful ordeals which have met her footsteps 
 everywhere in this revolution, woman has not only always sus- 
 tained the exalted character which from time immemorial has 
 been her righteous portion, but has not unfrequently rose above 
 the brilliant examples of tlie past, and outshone even herself. 
 Wiien Francisco, Marquis of Pescari, had distinguished himself 
 by his valor at the battle of Pavia, he was thought of impor- 
 tance enough to bride, and he was offered the crown of Naples 
 to betray his sovereign." He wrote to his wife the facts, to 
 which she sent him the following reply : " Your virtue may raise 
 yon above the glory of being king. The sort of honor which 
 goes down to our children with real lustre, is derived from our 
 deeds and qualities, not from power or titles. P^or myself, I do 
 not wish to be the wife of a king, but of a general, who can 
 make himself superior to the greatest king, not only by courage, 
 
18 THE "SVOirEN OF TUE 
 
 but by magnanimity and superiority to any less elevated motive 
 than duty." Am I challenged to produce an example of virtue, 
 born ot this revolution, which is equal to this? I can do it. 
 In 1844, a young officer from Kentucky graduated at West 
 Point entered the United States army. His patrimony amounted 
 to a handsome fortune, and he soon thereafter was joined in the 
 holy bauds of wedlock to a beautiful and accomplished heiress 
 at the North, whose dowry approxitnated closely to a half miU 
 lion of dollars. When this revolution burst upon the two 
 countries, he saw in a twinkling that if he drew his sword under 
 the Confederate flag his own splendid patrimony, and the still 
 more splendid fortune he had acquired by his marriage, was 
 bound to be swept from him and his fomily. It could not but 
 occur to him that he might fall in the war, and while his per- 
 ception of the right to dispose of his own patrimony in the 
 maintenance of principles was clear, it was not so easy a matter 
 to prepare to take with him to a soldier's grave the conscious- 
 ness that he had beggard a widowed wife and her orphan chil- 
 dren, when it was to her he was indebted for so much of his 
 estate. In this dilemma she read his thoughts, and the lan- 
 guage — as reported to me by a lady, than whom no country 
 contains a superior, either morally or intellectually, who heard 
 it — in which she relieved him from his delicate embarrassment, 
 furnishes a parallel for the reply of the wife of Francisco, and 
 settles the fact, that in this Confederacy we have wives which 
 are an honor to the human race. Here it is: "You say that 
 your conscience tells you that the South is right. Let not the 
 sacrifice then of any portion, or all of the fortune you acquired 
 by our marriage prevent you Irom sustaining the true dignity ot 
 your character, either in your estimation or in the eyes of our 
 God. Our fortune is ample, but the- e is no fortune in the world 
 equal in value to a conscientious husband. Moreover, I, too, 
 believe the South is right, and therefore, albeit the North get 
 our estate, let the South have your sword. The pleasure that 
 we will derive from doing right, and the fame that you will 
 acquire by the sacrifices that you will make and the services you 
 will render to the Confederate cause, will bo worth more to us 
 while we live, and to our children hereafter, than any paltry 
 fortune we could possess or they could from us inherit, when 
 we are gone. 
 
 That husband instantly espoused our cause. At the fall of 
 Fort Doneison he was among the prisoners wh'^ fell into the 
 h mds of the enemy. His heroic and noble wife applied to Gen. 
 Sherman, at Cairo, to ascertain the whereabouts of her husband 
 and for permission to visit him. The requests were respectively 
 met with a categorical and brutal relusal, but she was informed, 
 while no information could be given her of where her husband 
 was, still if she desired to visit her friends at the North she 
 would be permitted to do so. " Sir," said she, " the only friend 
 
SK(X)NT) AMERICAN EEVOLUTION. 19 
 
 T have at the North whom I ever wish to see iigain is my hus- 
 banr], Gen. B., and if I cannot be permitted to see him 1 have 
 no further request to make." 
 
 Who can compute tlie vahie of such incidents in the instruc- 
 tion they furnish to the world, of who we as a people are, and 
 how is that instruction to be imparted if from a false sense of 
 delicacy we refuse to allow the light of such incidents to shine ! 
 
 Advertiser cb Ilcyister. 
 
 WHAT CAN WOMAN DO? 
 
 BY A. V. S. 
 
 1 see the satirical smile restins^ upon your featu'"es, Sir Cynic, 
 as you slowly unfold the ])aper and see the commencement 
 of this sketch. Don't think I am about to commence a labored 
 discussi')n upon womrai's rlt/hts^ and thereby bore you to death 
 with philosophical nonsensf. Nothiuir of the kind, I assure 
 you, is my intention ; for woman, in the stern cliaracter of lec- 
 turer \ipoii the rostrum and statue, we will leave to be personated 
 by the strong-minded woman of the North, and turn our eyes 
 .to a more extendeil held of labor in our own Sunny Sovth. 
 
 Neither do I wish to present her in the light of a ball-room 
 belle — a mere parlor ornament — whose highest ambition is to 
 expend large sums annually in decorating her person and feed- 
 ing her insatiate vanity; playing occasionally a little miserable 
 music; smattering a good deal of t)dions French, tand flirting 
 desperately with every nvoustached foreigner who chances to 
 fall into her clutches. 
 
 From both of these pictures we turn, in absolute disgust, to 
 woman's true, oi\ly proper sphere, as the brighteiier of man's 
 existence ; the one star, whose radiance far transcends all other 
 eartldy objects. The iiitluerice a pure-hearted woman exerts 
 over the world at large, can nevtr be adeiiuately known. Littie 
 deeds of kindness, soft words of friendshi]) whis'iered into the 
 car of souie lonely, forlorn one, may be the means of laising iiis 
 spirits from the depths of despondency, giving an impetus to 
 liis nobler, higher powers, and causing him to go forth into the 
 great battle of life with renewed energy. 
 
 What more beautiful than to see her, ntdiko the gay devotee 
 of lashion, turning her atteniion from the allurements of plea- 
 sure to that home which she can so well beautify and adorn. It 
 is her world, in whicli she is monarch of all she surveys. What 
 an exalti'*! and dignitied p(»siti()n? The id«>I of every heart, 
 slie rules by the k'indness and love which, like incense, rises all 
 around her ha])py pathway. When tlie bright beams of pj-os- 
 piirity's sun are obscured, and poverty's dai k cloud enshrouds 
 man's horizon, then ii is th;it woman's lovo appears as a be.-icou 
 li^ht, shedding its brilliant rays iar o'er life's dreary water, 
 
20 THE WOMEN OF THE 
 
 brightening every object, tmtil nothing seems too difficult for 
 ^e'^renewed spirit ; labor rather a pleasure. 
 
 Every other friend may forsake, and turn away, in the sad 
 hour of affliction ; bnt 'tis then with woman that her nature,, 
 like the ivy around the sturdy oak, entwines more closely, and. 
 strives more faithfully to bind up the bleeding tendrils of the 
 weary heart of father, brother or husband. No hand like her's 
 can lift, as with magic, the shade of care from a loved one's 
 brow, can speak those sweet words of comfort so grateful to the 
 bowed spirit, can lead, by cheerful conversation, the thoughts 
 away from disagreeable subjects, and make him forget that 
 aught save truth, purity and love ever mingles with our lot on 
 
 earth. 
 
 She could be dispensed with everywhere better than in a sick 
 roora. There is woman's particular forte more plainly visible 
 than anywhere else. The lords of creation may boast extrava- 
 gantly of their independence, but Avhen the heavy hand of 
 disease is laid upon their frames, and the strong man becomes as 
 a little child in weakness, then he must acknowledge his reliance 
 uDon her care. Who is there besides that can so well bathe the 
 fevered brow, raise the cooling draught to the parched lips, and 
 bestow all of those little nameless attentions which would only 
 be thought of by a woman ? Night after night will she sit, a 
 ione watcher, by the couch of pain, bearing the fretful exclama- 
 tions of man's turbulent nature with patience, striving, as best 
 she can, to mitigate his sufferings and allowing herself, some- 
 times, no rest, for her wearied system. Self is entirely forgotten 
 for the time, and the one great thought of doing good for the 
 ioved suffering one seems to absorb her every faculty. 
 
 Well indeed has the poet said : 
 
 " O, woman ! m our hours of ease, 
 Fantastic, coy awd bard to please, 
 And variable as the shade 
 By the light quivering aspen made: 
 When pain aijd anguish wring the brow, 
 A ministering angel thou." 
 
 How sublime is woman in the character of mother. 'Tis 
 her's to lead the infant minds of those committed to her care to^ 
 noble thoughts of existence ; and upon the unwritten tablets of 
 iheir young hearts, inscribed, Avith indelible distinctness, those 
 lessons which, in after years, never can be forgotten. The 
 father of his country, our own beloved Washington, owed his 
 Success, in life, to *that mother whose precepts he treasured 
 within his heart, and which he never failed to respect even when 
 he was at the pinacleof glory and idolized by a grateful people. 
 Throughout all ages so powerful has been the influence of a 
 mother upon the lives of their sons, that in reading the histories 
 of great men, one never fails to be struck with this peculiar 
 
 ower. It is the talisman which causes them, when everything 
 
SECOifD AMEEKASr KETOLCTION. 21. 
 
 else fails to move, to repent of their transgressions and abandon 
 the paths of vice forever. Even thongh years may have passed 
 since that loved voice was hushed in death, yet never will con- 
 science fail to upbraid when her teachings are about to be dis- 
 obeyed. When the path of glory invites, at her warning voice 
 that slippery course is abandoned, and the couquerer is again a 
 ■child. Coriolanus, enraged at the treatment he had received at 
 the hands oi" his countrymen, after joining his enemies, marched 
 upon the city of Rome. All would have been lost — the beauti- 
 ful seven-hilled city would have been razed to the ground — but 
 his mother, with a banil of maidens, went out to Lim and en- 
 treated his forbearance. The strong man burst into tears, and 
 exclaimed: ^'Mother, yon have sailed Home, but lost your 
 sonf^ — rilnstrated yhics, February^ 1868. 
 
 ** GOD'S LAST, BEST GIFT TO MAN," WOMAN A MINIS- 
 TERING ANGEL. 
 
 It is always cheering and encouraging to the patriot soldier 
 to receive the approving smiles of lovely woman, how much so, 
 when to these are added delicate attentions, profuse hospitality 
 and angelic liberality. Such was the good fortune of the Ma- 
 rion liijfes, when ordered to Rocky Point, North Carolina. The 
 attentions then and there received from " God's lost, best gift 
 to man," are indelibly engraved upon the tablets of our memo- 
 ries and hearts, and will always be most fondly cherished. The 
 warm and friendly greeting, the pressing, ready welcome, the- 
 delightlul hours, spent in j-ocial intercourse, all combined to 
 render our sojourn there, not only pleasant and happy, but sa- 
 tisfied us that indeed we were among "ministering angels." 
 
 New Year's day, 1863, at Rocky Point, will always be grate- 
 lully commemorated by us as a corps, and fond memory will 
 oftimes bring to mind the actors of that day. The Rev. Mr. II., 
 the widow M., the fiscinating Mrs. 11. and her lovely sister, 
 Mrs. C, as also the dear little spirits, Misses S.allie 11. and Lizzie 
 C, and we cannot omit our Ixachelor friend, Mr. B. — all were 
 intent upon making us happy and at iiomc ; what associations 
 cluster in that word, sweet, sweet home. "We wish these kind 
 friends continued happiness and prosperity, and indulge the 
 sincere hope that their quiet and happy homes may be undis- 
 turbed by the desecrating Abolitionists, but should he threaten 
 them, we would accept with proud and happy distinction the 
 privilege of being the foremost to meet and drive olf, at any 
 rsacritice, the enemy of our country and happiness. 
 
 MARION RIFLES. 
 
22 THE AVOifEN OF TIIK 
 
 BEAUTIFUL EULCGIUM AND TRIBUTE 10 WOMAN- 
 WOMAN'S HEROifM. 
 
 * * * The ;ittitiitle of woman is subliino. Bearing all the 
 Racriiiccs/)f wliicli I have just spoken, she is moreover called 
 upon to puffer in her atteclioiis, to be wounded and smitten 
 where slie tV-els deepest and most eiiduringly. ^fan li^oes to the 
 battle-fitld, but woman serids him there, even though her iieart- 
 strings tremble while she givt's ilje farewell kiss and the farewell 
 blessing. yV.in is sui)p')rit'd by the necessity of movement, by 
 the excitement of action, by tlie hope of honor, by the gloiy of 
 conquest. Woman lemains at home to suffer, to bear the cruel 
 torture of suspense, to tremble when the battle has been fought, 
 and tiie news of the slaughter is fl shing over the electric Avire, 
 to know that defeat will cover her with dishonor and her little 
 ones with ruin, to learn that the husband she doated upon, the 
 son whom she cherished in her bosom, and upon whoui she 
 never let the win^ blow too rudely, the brother with whom she 
 pported through all her iiappy days of childhood, the lover to 
 whom her early vows were pliglited, has died uj^on somedi.-taut 
 battle-field, and lies there a mangled corpse, unknown and un- 
 cared for, never to be seen again, even in death! Oh! those 
 fearful lists of the wounded and the dead ! How carelessly we 
 pass them ovtr, unless our own loved ones happen to be linked 
 with them in military association, and yet each name in that roll 
 of slaughter carries a fatal pang to some woman's heart — some 
 noble devoted woman's heart. But she bears it all, and bows 
 submissively to the stroke. lie died for the cause. lie perished 
 for his country. I wouhl not have it otherwise, but I should 
 like to have given the dying boy my blessing, the expiring hus- 
 band my last kiss of affection, the bleeding lover the comfort of" 
 knowing that I kneeled beside him. ***** 
 
 Extract J^rorn a sertnon delivered in ChrisCs Church, /Savan- 
 nah, Georgia, December, 18G2. 
 
 THE SOCIETY OF WOMAN. 
 
 No society is m(jre profitable, because none more refining and 
 provocative of viitue, than that of refined and sensible women. 
 God enshrined peculiar goodness in the form of women, that 
 her beauty- might win, her gentle voice invite, and the desire of 
 her iavor persuade men's sterner souls to leave the paths of sin- 
 ful strife for the ways of pleasantness and peace. But when 
 woman falls from her blest eminence, and sinks the guardiaix 
 and the cherisher ot pure and rational enjoyments into the vain 
 coquette, and flattered idolater of idle fashion, she is unworthy 
 of an honorable man's love, or a sensible man's admiration. — 
 Beauty is then but, at best. 
 
 Dear deceit." 
 
 A pretty play tiling, 
 
SECOND AMERICAN REVOLIfnON. 23 
 
 We honor the chivalrous deference which is paid in our land 
 to woman. It proves that our men know how to respect virtue 
 and puie aflection, and that our women are worthy of such re- 
 spect. Yet woman should be something more than mere 
 woman to win us to their society. To be our companions, they 
 should be litted to be our friends ; to rule our hearts, they 
 should be deserving the approbation of our minds. There are 
 many such, and that there are not more, is rather the fault of 
 our sex than their own ; and despite all the uninanly scandals 
 that have been thrown upon them in prose or verse, they would 
 rather share in the rational conversation of men of sense than 
 listen to the silly compliments of fools ; and a man dishonors 
 them, as well as disgraces him s If, when he seeks their circle for 
 idle pastime, and not for the improvement of his mind and the 
 elevation of his heart. • 
 
 TO ALL SOUTHERN LADIES. 
 
 Earnest devotion of the ladies of the South. Did but our 
 men manifest the same ardor our final success would not be 
 withheld much longer. 
 
 The following resolutions were adopted at a leraaie prayer 
 meeting at Carrolton, Alabama, and th*:iir publication was re- 
 quested : 
 
 WuKRKAS, Almighty God, in his infinite wisdom, has permit- 
 ted a cruel, unholy and dcstjuctive war to come upon us as a 
 scourge for our sinfulness and wanderings Irom Him ; and be- 
 lieving that the Omnipotent Arm alone can .save us from the 
 impending dangers ; therefore, the ladies of Carrolton, at their 
 female prayer meeting, resolved that they would set apart a half 
 hour the first Monday in every month, for special prayer for 
 peace^ and ask every lady throughout the South to engage with 
 us. We do not make this recjuest V)ecause Ave think Christians 
 are not praying; for we believe there has never been a time 
 when more earnest prayers were offered up for the same pur- 
 ]iosc', .and never has there been so great a necessity for impor- 
 tunate prayer as now. We believe our people are becoming 
 1 n nbled. and it is the best indication of peace we have had, but 
 we are not humble enough yet. God is a pra,yer-hearing and a 
 pr.ayer-ansvi ering God. Then let every woman's heart be united 
 in jirayer. Let eacli wife, mother Jina sister retire at sunset (on 
 the above mentioned day,) and beseech thu Lord to save us 
 from our cruel enemies, to w.atch over, preserve and restore to 
 us our beloved ones ; and grant us a speedy and honorable peace. 
 We consider prayer the most powerful of alt weapons. 
 
 The very idea of so many being engaged in jirayer the same 
 hour i» impressive of itself; we think it would encourage many 
 
24 THE WOMEN OF THB 
 
 a poor soldier to look forward with pleasing hopes for peace axid 
 a safe return to his beloved ones. 
 
 All papers favorable to this proposition will please copy, 
 
 A LADY. 
 
 The ladies, God bless them, are the true patriots in this strug- 
 gle; for while the pseudo lords of creation are gambling in the 
 prime necessaries of life, causing fear and trembling to seize 
 even the most sanguine well-wisher of the Southern cause, the 
 fair sex, as ministering angels, are pouring oil on the troubled 
 waters, and doing their utmost in assistance to bring about an 
 hororable peace, by rendering the soldier comfortable, and 
 thereby nerving his arm, so that he may be able to withstand 
 the rigors of the winter and successfully contend against fearful 
 odds on the battle-fi.eld. 
 
 WHY WOT IMPORT PROVISIONS? 
 
 Mr.. Editor; I often see and hear the remark made, that "wo 
 have but one thing to fear in our present struggle, but one thing 
 that will conquer, ruin us, which is the foilureof the grain crop." 
 All acknowledge that to be an event of such moment, that its 
 occurrence would most inevitably ruin us. Stil!, I see no effort 
 making to meet such a startlingly frightful calamity ; but 'tis 
 left to time to develope the awful uncertainty of our salvation 
 or our destruction. I may be asked what plan have I to offer 
 that will give us a certainty over the future. I cannot say I 
 liave apy such suggestion to make. But one thing appears 
 strange to me. In looking over the catalogues of the cargoes 
 of those vessels which svicceed in eluding the blockaders, they 
 arc assorted, to be sure, but in vain does the patriot search for 
 the staff of life — breadstuffs. We find silk, merino, broad cloth, 
 hoop skirts, alpaca, tea, &c., etc., <tc., each and every one of 
 which articles we can do without. Our independence can be 
 achieved, I may say, better without than with them, as well as 
 numerous other articles which fill the aforesaid catalogues. 
 
 Can no inducement be offered to men engaged in this business 
 tempting enough to cause them to invest their money in. the 
 great necessaries of life ? I would say, let a premium be offered 
 by our Government for every barrel of Hour and every pound 
 of bacon, and, if found advisable and practicable, levy a heavy 
 revenue upon the unnecessaries, which are now purchased by 
 the fashionable and luxury lovers of our land at enormous prices. 
 Aye, yes, let the inducement be such that no vessel would b 
 freighted for our shores with aught but bread, meat, medicine 
 and arniy stores. Flood our land, if possible, with the afore- 
 said articles, but, above all, bread, and we are saved. Yes, I 
 
SECOND AMEBUCAN BEVOLDTION. 25 
 
 say above aJl broad, for it' is even more necessary to our success 
 than ammunition, I may be told but a small quantity can reach 
 us in this way. Well, even if small, it would be that much 
 help ; but I feel confident that much would reach us. Take, for 
 instaiicc, the amount which one firm aJone, that of Fraser & Co., 
 of Charleston, has realized Irom this business — ten millions, 
 (eight millions of which have been invested in Confederate: 
 bonds — all honor to them), and then tell me the quantity would 
 be small. Not to speak of what others have made by similar 
 investments, which, if taken into account, would swell these 
 figures to an almost fabulous amount, an amotmt which, even at 
 the high price of flour and meat now, would i)nrchase a suffi- 
 ciency to warrant an escape from famine, should our crops fail — 
 a contingency so awful, that I tremble as I contemplate it. I 
 almost idolize my country, and this is the only jfjiology I have to 
 offer for obtruding this suggestion upon the public. 
 
 A DAUGHTER OF THE SOUTH. 
 
 ATROCITIES OF THE FEDERALS 
 
 A correspondent of the Chicago "Times" writing from 
 Memphis, gives the following account of the cold blooded and 
 unprovoked murder of a Mr. C. W. Alexander: 
 
 ]3ut, to satisfy you that I am not fabricating, imposing upon 
 your readers, let me narrate, in a few words, three occurrences 
 which have taken place within the last week in this city. A 
 host of witnesses stand ready to corroborate what I shall say. 
 The first case was that of a gentleman by the name of C. W. 
 Alexander. He was going to his residence in the suburbs of 
 the city, when a cavalry soldier rode up to him. The first word 
 uttered came from the soldier. " You are a deserter," he said. 
 " You are mistaken," replied Mr. A., " I am a citizen of this 
 place, and if you will but stej) with me to the top of the hill, I 
 will (satisfy you by the pickets there, who know me well, that I 
 live here, for they see me every day." " Well, you are a damned 
 Secessionist, then," said the soldier. "That is a question I do 
 not propose to discuss here," was the re])ly ; and Mr. Alexander, 
 being ordered to go ahead, started. He had gone but a few 
 steps, when the soldier drew a pistol and shot him in the back, 
 the ball passing entirely through the body. He sank down im- 
 mediately, was soon taken up by friends and carried home, 
 where he lingered about three days before he died. 
 
 Scarcely two weeks elapse ere the brother of the deceased is 
 assassinated by one of Lineoln's fiendish hirelings. The Jackson 
 " Appeal," of the 1 7th, h.as the following : 
 
 The Memphis "Argus " has information that 3Ir. J. M. Alex- 
 ander, formerly of the firm of Foster & Alexander, was killed 
 at Fulton, Tennessee, a few <lays a^^o, by a soldier. No par- 
 ticulars of the afiLiir have reached Alempbls. Mr. Alexander 
 
26 TIIK WOMEN OF THE 
 
 ■was a brother of Mr. C. W, Alexander, who was shot in the 
 northern portion of 'he city a few weeks ago. 
 
 Tiie correspondent of the Chicago "Times," after narrating 
 the iirst murder, continues: 
 
 Somewhere about tliesame time, some soldiers noticed a boy, 
 wlio wa^ not observing tlieni. One of them, drawing his revolver, 
 remarked that he believed he could hit the boy, and, suitin.? 
 the action to the word, fired, sliooting hini through the hip. It 
 is thought the wound will terminate mortally. 
 
 YANKEE BRUTALITY. 
 
 The Richmond "Dispatch" gives the following account of 
 .Yankee brutality in Norfolk: 
 
 We liave been shown a private letter from a lady, in Norfolk, 
 giving an account of the arrest and search of three ladies of 
 that city by the Federal authorities. Tlie writer of the letter 
 being one of the victims to this piece of Yankee malignity, re- 
 hearses her treatment with an indignation characteristic of 
 insulted womanly virtue. The Provost Marshal, it seems, 
 shirked the responsibility of the contemptible proceeding, and 
 left the niattei in the hands of a set of unprincipled clerks, who 
 secured the services of a woman as bankrupt in morals as them- 
 selves to superintend the search. Against only one of these 
 ladies was there any charge, and she was arrested upon infor- 
 mation iurnished to the 19th Wisconsin regiment by a negro 
 that she intended to pass the lines with letters for parties in the 
 Confederate army. When she was taken before the Provost 
 Marshal the other two ladies went to see her, when all three 
 were subjected so a rigid examination in a room adjoining the 
 Marshal's office. 
 
 AN APPEAL FROM WOMIN. 
 
 A call has been made upon a'l the able-bodied men to con.e at 
 once to the rescue of our country, and some one has asked that 
 we, the women, use our influence in urging forward to duty 
 those who have not been prompt to respond to the call. 
 
 We have tried to do our duty in this great struggle for liberty. 
 In every way except by personal appeals ; by our labor and 
 conduct throughotit, we have exhorted, urged and encouraj^ed 
 our natural protecto! s, to shield us from subjugation by our 
 tyrannical foes; and with loving hearts, willing hands and tear- 
 ful eyes, we have labored night and day to prepaie food, 
 clothing, and everything we could to relieve our suffering sol- 
 diers, and otherwise aid our cause. Physical'y, we are weak 
 and timid ; and though the loved ones we have sent into the 
 
SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 27 
 
 service are dear to us as our heart's blood, their honor is dearer 
 than life itself. 
 
 All know how intensely women admire courage in men. It 
 is impossible for us to respect a coward, and every true womnn 
 who has husband, latlier, brother or lover — though he be the 
 sun of her existoiici^ — the one star of her hope, had rather see 
 him prostrate before her with death's signet on his noble brow 
 that has never been branded by cowardice or dishonor, than 
 have him forfeit his good name and di«graco his manhood, by 
 refusing to do his duly to his country. "Women would have 
 men love God first, their country next, and then herself. 
 
 "We know the longer the war lasts the more homes will be 
 desolated ; the more precious lives will be lost by disease and 
 battle; and if the war continues long, all will be compelled to 
 go into the service and do their duty; and wo prefer that all 
 Khould go now — go without further delay, and with one efiectual 
 blow, and at once, this cruel war, which is desolating our 
 country and rending our hearts. If we must be left alone and 
 unprotected at our liomes, be it so. If we sufler it will be in a 
 good cause, and God and His Holy Angels will take care of 
 those who trust in Iliju. 
 
 If lel't to the women of the South to decide, we say, if it be 
 necessary, let all go at once. The sooner the war is ended, the 
 sooner will our sufterings be over; we, therefore, implore every 
 man, Avho is able to bear arms, to go forth and wield tiiem in 
 our defence. You are politically, as well as naturally, our pro- 
 tectors. We look to you ; we cling to you as our earthly 
 hope — our only dependence. You know that your lives are 
 dejix to us. Oh I so dear ! But your lives cease to be dear to 
 us, when you i'ail to provide us a country that we can be proud 
 of, and when we can no longer reverence your honor, your 
 patriotism and your courage. This patriotism, honor and cour- 
 age, we look to you to preserve untarnished, and to. give us a 
 country where freedom shall dwell, virtue be respected, and 
 which Mill be exalted and honored among the nations of the 
 earth. Let us have these, or let us share with you your honored 
 graves where the bones «'f heroes repose. Better death than 
 dishonor. Better the extinction of a jiroud race of freemen, 
 than have a country from which liberty has taken its llight for- 
 ever ! Some good angel has whispered it into our hearts that 
 Southern men can never be conquered by any i<)C if they wil\ 
 only be true to themselves and the proud national birthright 
 which we jiossess; but it they ]>rove themselves unworthy this 
 princely lurilage of freemen, liberty will bow its regal head 
 with shame and depart from us forever. 
 
 Then, resi)ond to o\ir country's call, men of '. l)e South. It is 
 woman that pleads and asks you to come to her rescue. Each 
 one of you is the star — the centre of hope — of some pure wo- 
 
28 THE WOMEN OF THE 
 
 man's heart; but where will be her joy, if she see that star set 
 forever in infamy and disgrace, either personal or national. 
 
 It is not brave, just and honorable, for some to endure all the 
 sufterings, hardships, toils and death, which are the last of a 
 soldier, in securing our independence for the enjoyment of 
 others who have avoided the post of honor and danger, and 
 have not contributed their part in this great struggle. 
 
 Come then, from the halls of learning. Come from the pulpit, 
 the rostrum, the tripod, the counting-house, the physicians' 
 office, ccme from the fields, mountains and vales. Let the great 
 heart of the South, like tlie pulsations of a convulsed world, 
 throb to the music-chimes of treedom's pealing strains, and every 
 brave man respond to the clarion call which summons freemen 
 to arms. Let every strong arm strike a simultaneous blow for 
 liberty and independence. Then, indeed, w^ shall be free. 
 
 No matter what the position or rank you fill. Every true 
 woman has more respect and admiration for the poor private in 
 rags and bleeding feet, if he be a true, unselfish patriot, than for 
 all the tinsel and gilded greatness of a laggard or coward. 
 
 We hope all will appreciate the sacrifices which we make in 
 giving up the objects of our love; but let all understand that 
 woman can never counsel dishonor. We will cheerfully endure 
 the privations and sufterings that may befall us. We will still 
 try to do our duty ; labor for, assist, relieve and encourage our 
 brave defenders ; and though our hearts are torn ; though we 
 are bereft of our dearest ones, we Avill never say " hold ! it is 
 enough ! " till the last vile foe shall bite the dust, or is driven 
 from our soil, and our countrv )>roudly takes her place among 
 the nations of the earth. ' WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. 
 
 BITTER FEMALE SECESSIONISTS. 
 
 We get the following good anecdote from the Washington 
 correspondence of a New York paper : 
 
 Four young gentlemen, who have been residing in Alexandria 
 for some months, a few days ago engaged apartments of a highly 
 respectable lady in Prince street, with her two daughters, aged 
 respectively sixteen and eighteen. 
 
 Although the lady and her daughters were open and avowed 
 Secessionists, the former having tw® sons in the Confederate 
 army, the young gentlemen were, nevertheless, surprised to hear 
 them speaking so contemptuously and bitter of the Union. 
 
 The young gentlemen, it appears, took it into their heads to 
 hoist the stars and stripes on the top of their dwelling one day, 
 upon- which the lady and her daughters, vrhen they discovered 
 it "peacefully floating above them raised a storm of indignation. 
 
 One of the young ladies then clambered to the roof of the 
 house at the risk of life or limb, and with the spirit of tigress, 
 tore down our national flag, trampled it beneath her feet, and 
 
SECOND AMERICAN KETOLmON. 29 
 
 then threw the fragments into the stove. Not content Mith 
 this (liBrespect, this young traitoress took the ashes of the burned 
 flag and pitched them contemptuously into the street. 
 
 ARTFUL DODGE. 
 
 We have heard of a fellow in Bedford, whose pluck and pa- 
 triotism not being of the fifst order, set his wits to work to 
 devise some means to get himself exempted. At last he hit 
 upon the plan of puttius some two or three dozen bees in the 
 leg of his pantaloons, and on the day before the meeting of the 
 board he put the plan in execution. On the day of meeting he 
 had himself conveyed to Liberty, where the board was sitting, 
 and, upon examination by two doctors learned in physic, his 
 legs were found terribly swollen. Inquiry was made of the 
 suftVrer as to how long he had been afflicted, and upon his an- 
 swering for several years, the doctors pronounced him imfit for 
 service, and he was accordingly exempted. His wife, however, 
 with a loquacity for which we suppose she gets no thanks from 
 the would be exempt, let the cat out of the bag, and the trick 
 coming to the knowledge of the board, the fellow was again 
 summoned, and upon his examination the swelling before pro- 
 nounced incurable had disappeared. He was served as his 
 cowardly conduct merited, and forced into the ranks whether or 
 not. — Lynchburg Republican. 
 
 ACTS OF KINDNESS AND DEVOTION OF THE LADIES OF 
 LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY. 
 
 Ix Camp at Manchester, Tennessee, ) 
 February, V, 1863. f 
 
 A chaplain who remained with our wounded who were left 
 at Murfreesboro', when we retired from that place, has arrived 
 here. Before returning to our lines he went to Louisville, and 
 describes, in touching language, a visit to Cavehille Cemetery, 
 near that city. He was carried to that lovely city of the dead 
 by a noble hearted citizen of Louisville, whose liberahty and en- 
 ergy have given a proper burial to every Coufederate soldier 
 that has died in the city. Here, on the Northern border of 
 Kentucky, he beheld a sight that should ]mt to shame many 
 who inhabit cities farther South. The grave of every Confede- 
 rate was raised, sodded, and not a few surrounded with flowers. 
 The name of^ the soldier, his State, and regiment, was lettered 
 in black on a neat white head-board, around which hung a 
 wreath of myrtle, the Christmas offering of the true Southern 
 ladies of Louisville, to the noble dead. In the grounds allotted 
 to the burial of the Federal dead, he found the graves sunken 
 
30 THE WOMEN OF THE 
 
 and uncared fored for; but few having stones or boards, or 
 marks of any kind. 
 
 The Yankee Congress has passed an act punishing with fine 
 and imprisonment, any one caught corresponding with a rebeh 
 Another is added to the previously existing trials (»f the 
 mothers, wives and sisters of the Kentuckians in our army. I 
 sincerely hope their devotion to our cause may be repaid by an 
 early release from Lincoln's hated rule. VOLUNTEER. 
 
 MOUPJi THOU LA.ND OE FLO WEES-BANISHMENT OF 
 FAMILIES FEOM ST- AUGUSTISE, FLOEI DA-INHUMAN 
 TREATMENT OF WOMEN AND CHILDEEN-THE FIDE- 
 EALS AT KE¥/ OELEANS. 
 
 We yesterday had an interview with the lady of an esteemed 
 citii^en of Savannah, who, with her lamily of five little children, 
 has just arrived from St. Augustine. She gives an account of 
 Yankee barbarism, and the hardships she had to encounter in 
 her efforts to reach her home in this city. 
 
 In the early part of September, a meeting of the citizens of 
 St. Augustine, male and female, from the age of fourteen years 
 and upwards, was ordered by General Saxon to assemble at the 
 Presbyterian Church. The meeting being assembled at the ap- 
 pointed time, Colonel Beard, of the Provost Guard, opened his 
 address as follows : ''I do not know whether to address you 
 (ladies present,) as ladies or women^ as all Broadway crinolined 
 women are called ladies /^^ It was soon ascertained, irom the 
 speaker's remarks that the object of the meeting was to have 
 the oath of alleg-iance to the United States administered.^ A 
 guard was stationed at the door to "prevent any from leaving. 
 Those who refused to take the oath were required to go in the 
 Cfalleries — some two to three hundred men, women and children. 
 The others were furnished with certificates and allowed to de- 
 part. Those from the gal leries were then called do wn to receive, 
 as Colonel Beard termed it, their "benediction." They were 
 forced to register their names, together with the number of 
 their respective residences. This having been gone through 
 with, ho told them that when he was ready he would give all 
 the women and children among them who had relatives in the 
 Confederacy, "a free ride across the lines." 
 
 He then gave orders to the guard to permit the ladies to pass 
 to their homes. Their residences were duly labeled, and about 
 a week after the meeting, wagons were sent for their baggage, 
 and these banished people were taken on board a transport. 
 The steamer left for the St. John's river with some fifty tami- 
 lies— about one hundred and fifty women and children huddled 
 together, without a bed to rest on, or any accommodations 
 whatever, and kept two and a half days outside without food or 
 
^ SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTIGN. 31 
 
 water save what they took with them, and in their sickness were 
 retuRcd even Avater to drink. Fearing to enter the St. Johu'.s, 
 as our informant supposes, they were taken back to St. Augus- 
 tine, and when near that place it was ascertained that the vessel 
 was leaking badly, having some four feet of water in the hold. 
 It was supposed on board that the negroes had attempted to 
 scuttle tlie vessel in order to drown the "Secesh." 
 
 Our informant, who was among the sufferers, having been 
 furnished a pass which had been s(»melinie previously promised 
 her was placed with her young charge and her baggnge in a 
 cart and taken across the country to tlie St. John's river. The 
 cart having broken down several times on the way, they were 
 forced to walk and seek shelter in a negro cabin, with nothing 
 but the naked floor to sleep upon, their teet and limbs sore and 
 bruised, and their dresses torn by briars. Arriving at the St. 
 Johns, they Wijre taken across in a small boat, where they pro- 
 cured another cart and reached the railroad at Trail Ifidge. 
 They were, after seven? snlFering, some ten days in their trouble 
 to get to our lines. Takmg the railroad they came by way of 
 Lake City, and reached this city, to the great joy of themselves 
 and friends, Saturday eveiiing last. 
 
 General ^Mitchell sent notice from Hilton Head to St. Augus- 
 tine, previous to her leaving, that he would send a boat to that 
 place and take all the ladies, who had refused to take the oath, 
 to Jacksonville. 
 
 She states that the poor of St. Augustine arc regularly fur- 
 nished v>'v\i rations by the Federals; Imt it was rumored they 
 intended to stop the supply. 
 
 The troops are respectful to the ladies, in passing them in the 
 streets, and are very orderly. 
 
 The soldiers arc kept in tlieir quarters at St. Francis Bairacks, 
 which is in the south end of the city, and in Fort Marion in the 
 north end. 
 
 There is but one regiment in St. Augustine, the Tth New 
 Hampshire, Colonel Putnam, comprising eight hundred men, 
 and a cav: Iry cor[)s. 
 
 Colonel IJeard is in command of the Provost Guard, and 
 Ca])tain Durgin is the Provost Marshal. 
 
 During the day one company is stationed at the barracks, one 
 at the Planter^' Hotel, one on the Hill at Fort ]M.irion. iin<l the 
 remainder of the regiment, excejjt the pickets, in the Foi t. 
 
 A gallant C;ipfain of one of the companies in riding out a 
 short time ago, be\ond the pickets, lost iiis way and wa«i lired 
 upon by guiiillas. He made good his escape after luhiiig his 
 sword, and his horse being shot. Arriving in the city willi bis 
 revolver in his hand, lie .'«tate(l his misfortune, but boa>te<l that 
 he thought he killed three gueiillas with his revolver. 
 
 The Fe^leral officers iu St. Augustine b<)aste<l liiat their Gov- 
 ernment intended to take Chariebton, Savanuab and Mobile this 
 
32 THE WOMEN OF THE 
 
 winter. They expressed the hope that when the demand was 
 made for the surrender of Savannah it would be given up. As 
 there were many Northern people and mnch Northern property 
 in this city, they did not wish to shell it ; but if the surrender 
 was refused, they would be compelled to destroy the city. 
 
 No articles ot gold or silver will be allowed to leave the city 
 in the baggage of those who are sent away, which is regularly 
 searched, in order to prevent them getting into the hands of the 
 Confederates to be coined into money. 
 
 Groceries of all kinds are selling at very low figures, for gold 
 and silver only. She saw no paper cu'-rency in circulation. 
 
 SavaJinah MepuhUcan, October 14, 1862. 
 
 A CRY FOR VENGEANCE-LATE FROM MISSOURI. 
 
 The editor of the Jackson "Crisis" has seen' a gentleman 
 direct from Missouri, whose reliability he vouches for, and learns 
 from him the following interesting intelligence faom that op- 
 pressed State : 
 
 The true-hearted Southern people of the State are as hopeful 
 and sanguine of the final success of our cause as our brave sol- 
 diers here in the army. The people do not feel that they are 
 part and parcel of the Lincoln empire, but are waiting patiently 
 for the day to arrive when they can openly avow their alle- 
 giance to the Confederacy. The late elections in the State, in 
 which the abolitionists were successful, have only caused the 
 people to set a higher estimate upon the value of Southern inde- 
 pendence. The sentiments of the true Southern people have 
 not been changed by the tyranny of a military government, 
 while the eyes of many of the former Union men have been 
 opened to see the enormity of Federal usurpations, and their 
 views have been accordingly changed. 
 
 The late elections, lie says, do, by no means, reflect the senti- 
 ment of the people ; but a few, comparatively, of the Southern 
 men participated in the election — where they did vote, they 
 voted for men known to be Southemi in sentiment. 
 
 Deniphan and Wolf, the Senator and Representative during 
 «>en. Price's stay in north-west Missouri, took their negroes to 
 Arkansas and left them there, while they returned home to enjoy 
 quiet and peace. Whilst the canvass was going on in Platte, 
 Curtis went into Arkansas, seized their negroes and freed 
 them. 
 
 In Clay, James H. Moss commands a Federal regiment, and is 
 stationed at Liberty. Colonel Doniphan is pursuing his old 
 course, taking no active part either one way or the other. 
 
 In Buchanan, Willard P. Hall is Brigadier General command- 
 ing the militia of the district. He superseded B. F. Loan, who 
 was elected to Congress. Hall is also Lieutenant Governor of 
 the State under the Provisional Government. Colonel Wm. R. 
 
SECOND AMEEICAN REVOLUTION. 33 
 
 Pennick, in command of a regiment of militia, not long since 
 left St. Joseph with his troops, in search of " biishwackers," 
 and having reached Clay county, arrested Charles Pullins, who 
 left Buchanan in company with Captain Gibson for the Southern 
 army. Pullins was taken to Liberty, a mock trial was gone 
 through with, and he was condemned to be himg. He offered 
 to prove that he was a regularly enlisted Confederate soldier, 
 but was denied the privilege and accordingly hung. 
 
 After hanging Pullins, Pennick proceeded two or three miles 
 further, and found two men sitting in a widow's door. He asked 
 them if they knew of the whereabouts of any " bushwackers." 
 Upon being answered in the negative, he proceeded a short dis- 
 tance when he was attacked, and his regiment repulsed by men 
 concealed in the brush. Pennick immediately returned to the 
 widow's house, hung the two men he had seen there and burned 
 the widow's house. Crossing the river into Jackson county, 
 nominally in search of Quantrel, some of his men arrested a boy 
 who was taking clothes to Quantrel's command. They went to 
 the house of the boy's mother, who was a widow, seized and 
 himg both her and her son. This man, Pennick, disgraces the posi- 
 tion of the Most Worshipful Grand Master of the Masonic fra- 
 ternity in Missouri. 
 
 We regret to learn that Captain Boyd, of St. Joseph, and 
 Captain Hart, who so gallantly upheld the standard of Missouri, 
 during the campaign of 1861-62, died of wounds received at 
 Independence last August. They were Confederate officers. 
 Henry M. Voorhees, Esq., of St. Joseph, was defeated as the 
 pro-slavery candidate for the Legislature by the Abolitionists 
 and weak-kneed Southerners. * 
 
 In Clinton county the notorious James H. Birch is " covort- 
 ing" as usual. James H. Birch, Jr., is in command at Platts- 
 burg. 
 
 The prices of articles will look strange to some in the South. 
 Crops of every description were abundant — better than for 
 several years. Corn sells at $1.25 per barrel of five bushels, 
 pork $2,50, bacon 6 to 8 cents, coffee 50 cents, sugar 25 cents, 
 wheat 70 cents, hemp $3 to $3.50, tobacco high and stock of all 
 kinds commanding a high price. Gold is very scarce, but 
 " greenbacks " are very abundant and at a heavy discount. 
 
 All the county seals are garrisoned by militia, the Federal 
 troops having been entirely withdrawn. This gentleman thinks 
 it the height of folly for Missourians to think of returning home 
 until our army is thrown into the State. 
 
 lie says, also, that the families of all absent Southern soldiers 
 .are well attended to, and are not permitted to suffer for any of 
 the comforts of life. No Missouri soldier need fear that hiA- 
 family is is want of anything to render them comfortable. 
 
Q;^ THE WOMEN OF THE 
 
 HOME FOE INVALID LADIES-INTERESTING CORSES- 
 P?NDENCE-W0MAN ALWAYS FOREMOST IN PBJOMO- 
 TING A GOOD CAUSE-GOD BLESS HER EFFORTS WITH 
 
 SUCCESS. ^ „. 
 
 From the Atlanta Intelligencer. 
 
 TO THE CITIZENS OF ATLANTA. 
 
 Atlanta, March 11, 1863. 
 Mr. Editor: la yesterday's issue of the « Commouwealth,^^ 
 I notice a report of various donations for the " Ladies Home, 
 from Mrs. J.N. Simmons, President of the Fmauce Comnaittee ; 
 and also, that Miss Fannie Holmes and myself had kmdly 
 offered our services to canvass Atlanta, I simply state that I am 
 ■proud of an agency in a cause so noble, and that m a tew days 
 '.we shall commence the delightful task. „ ,, , _ :„ 
 
 I have, in conaeetion with other ladies, done all that was in 
 my power to do for the soldier; but while m doing this, I 
 neither can, nor will turn a deaf ear to the ways and mea^s of 
 affording relief to the afflicted of our own sex-whom we should 
 especially cherish. Noble-hearted ladies ! I love and trust that 
 due sympathy is exercised towards every worthy female. Thou- 
 sands of our ladies every year are dropping from the stage ot 
 action into premature graves for want of the advantages which 
 can be realized in such an institution as Professor Powell pro- 
 
 ^ThVladSs of our proud and devoted country have done the 
 greater part for our independence. They have sent forth their 
 Lns into the field of battle-a host now fighting for our rights 
 and institutions-what a sacrifice? ^ I ask, where is the gentle- 
 man or lady that would withhold his or her mite to make the.e 
 mothers and daughters independent of a common foe Is there 
 one nation disposed to offer us the hand of friendship ? No 
 no ! The necessity of our institution is then a settled popt, and 
 Thope our intelligent gentlemen and ladies wiU ^PPf Xal^J 
 efforts to aid in the institution we so much need and that mil 
 reflect so much credit on the generosity of Southerners. We 
 Lope our philanthropic gentlemen will give liberally, which we 
 shall recei^ve as a token of their esteem-affection-mdeed, love 
 ?or the ladies of our Confederacy, Oar institution we must 
 have we will have, and as Atlanta is the place to give it birth, 
 why%^thhold the petty sum that shall usher into this city an 
 institution of so much intrinsic value-one so honorable. 
 
 We know Professor Powell and the elevated position he 
 holds in our Medical College, in which he has so er^u^enUy sus^ 
 tained himself. We know him m our famihes as a valuable 
 practitioner of medicine. We know him as a man of christian 
 character, and one of inestimable worth, and since H^s sefv^oes 
 can be procured in an institution of immense responsibihty, is 
 there one who will refose to aid in an enterprise so elev^t^^, «« 
 noble. I trust your inclinations will prompt you to a liberal 
 
SECOND AMERICAN RETOLUTION. 35 
 
 subscription. Any person subscribing twenty dollars or more, 
 as will be seen by Mrs. Simmons' Circular, wiH receive one copy 
 of the book worth ten dollars, and credited with a donation of 
 the amount received, minus ten dollars. 
 
 There are hundreds of ladies in the Confederacy that might 
 offer to Mrs. J. N. Simmons their services to act as agentsfor 
 the " Ladies' Home" — securing credit to themselves and benelit 
 to an enterprise so benevolent. 
 
 Institutions of this nature have very many years since been 
 established in the North, and have been productive of much 
 good — consequently many of our ladies have sought relief from 
 the various maladies with which they have be^n- afflicted in 
 those institutions ; but the time has come that we are thrown 
 upon our own resources. Then why not commence at once this 
 benevolent, valuable and honorable work in our midst. Why 
 linger. It must be done — it shall be done. Let lliese words 
 be prophetic, and aid us so far as lies in your power, feelinor 
 assured that the liberal hand becomes the rich. 
 
 ABBY FOOT FARKAK. 
 
 Correspondence of the Macon Telegraph. 
 HOME FOR INVALID LADIES. 
 
 Atlanta, Ga., March 7, 1863. 
 
 3fr. Joseph Clishy: The Ladies of the Finance Committee 
 iiave read Avith much pleasure your very kind and complimentary 
 letter, written in behalf of the Editorial Convention, and in 
 response to their own addressed to that intelligent body of 
 gentlemen. Please present to them through your paper our 
 grateful thanks for the cordial and flattering manner in which 
 our communication was received, and for the resolutions so 
 promptly taken to aid in the enterprise submitted to their con- 
 sideration. We were satisfied that an appeal from the pen of 
 woman, if it did not succeed in moving others, would never fall 
 unheeded upon the ears of the intelligent gentlemen who pre- 
 side over our high-toned Southern press, and failing to find 
 friends in them, we would, indeed, think there were none "to 
 do us reverence." 
 
 Your compliments to the worth and patriotism of Southern 
 women are gratefully and fully appreciated, and it thrills our 
 hearts with pride and pleasure to know that we can accept them as 
 our "meed" from our noble countrymen, and feel that wo have 
 tried to make ourselves worthy the high appreciation of those 
 to whom we look for help and defence. It is one of woman's 
 highest pleasures to find that her noble anti praiseworthy efforts 
 are appreciated by gentlemen of worth and intelligence, but in 
 our present struggle for independence, she fears that her efforts 
 for the success of our cause have been rather selfish at last. It 
 would give Southern w^omen no pride or pleasure to be exalted 
 to any position, it their brave countrymen were made bondmen 
 
36 THE WOMEN Of THE 
 
 and slaves ; for them, fox* their honor and happiness, we live, 
 and the chains of tyranny that fettered their limbs, would also 
 binds us in a slavish thraldom. The moon can only borrow its 
 light from the resplendent beams of the sun ; if the regal oak 
 is prostrated in the depth of the forest, the ivy that clings to 
 its strength and embrace will also fall in the ruin — and if our 
 countrymen are degraded and made slaves, Sovithern women 
 must bid farewell to their proud and high prerogatives of birth 
 add position, and also to their dearest happiness — loving, and 
 being beloved and re&pected by men who, disdaining the bonds 
 that would enslave them, can still tread the blood-stained soil of 
 the South with their honor untarnished, and a spirit that can 
 never succumb to the tyranny of oppression. 
 
 In conclusion please also accept the thanks of the Committee 
 for the kind wishes expressed for the success of the humane 
 enterprise in which we are engaged. The assurance of them 
 will much encourage us to persevere, and among the personal 
 records of the "Home," we will ever point with grateful plea- 
 sure to the names of the true and noble editorial gentlemen of 
 the South, who could not turn away from an appeal made in 
 the name, and in the behalf of woman. 
 
 MISS M. LOUISE ROGERS, 
 Corresponding Secretary in behalf of Committee. 
 
 HOME FOR INVALID LADIES. 
 
 We give here in a condensed form as possible, the plan of the 
 enterprise, and we will be under many obligations if the gentle- 
 men of the press will publish it in their journals until it is 
 known to the public, at the same time hoping they will " say a 
 word for us" as they deem proper and necessary. 
 
 The book, to be entitled "Moral Beauties from the Heart of 
 Woman, or Voices from the South," will be published as soon 
 as the blockade is raised. Its contents are contributed by the 
 most distinguished lady writers of the South, to aid in the 
 erection of the Home for invalid Ladies, and the manuscript is 
 now in the hands of Dr. T. S. Powell. One of the most emi- 
 nent lady writers has been engaged to edit the book ; the proof 
 sheets will be printed here, corrected and perfected, so that 
 when the blockade is raised the work will be published at once. 
 Its contents will be choice and miscellaneous literature, written 
 expressly for this work, with a short biography of each con- 
 tributor. The price of the first quality binding, octavo size, 
 with steel portraits of many of the writers, five dollars ; the 
 second quality, bound in muslin, three dollars and a half ; the 
 cheapest quality two dollars. 
 
 The Home for Invalid Ladies is not designed simply as a hos- 
 pital or infirmary, but a complete pleasant, and beautiful retreat 
 for invalid ladies of respectability — stately, elegant and com- 
 modious. The interior is to be furnished with all necessary 
 
SECOND AMERICAN RETOLUTTON. 37 
 
 medical apparatus, baths, and other appliances ; a library of 
 choice reading, musical instruments, and paintings to adorn the 
 walls, while the grounds will be ornamented with stately trees 
 and flowering shrubs, and riding facilities furnished by the in- 
 mates. Such healthful accessories, together with the best 
 medical attendance, cannot fail to restore the bloom to the 
 pallid cheek, and bring back elasticity to the faltering step and 
 wasted form of the invalid. The "Home" will be built on a 
 beautiful eminence near the Mineral Spring near this city, the 
 waters of which have been tested as higlily beneficial in many 
 diseases. 
 
 But while Dr. Powell, by the sale of the book, and his own 
 means, will erect the building, the ladies desire io furnish it by 
 donations from all ladies throughout the Confederacy, who will 
 give one dollar or more, and will be glad to have any contribu- 
 tions from gentlhmen who wish success to the enterprise. It 
 will require a considerable amount of money to furnish the home 
 as is desired, but we know there is enough wealth and gene- 
 rosity among the Southern people to accomplish this if they 
 will only promptly respond to the call. The ladies of the North 
 built a similar institution some years ago, and as the superior 
 valor of our troops has been fully tested during the war, South- 
 ern women will surely not prove themselves inferior in gene- 
 rosity aad benevolence towards their own sex to the women of 
 the Northern States. The name of every donor and the amount 
 given will be promptly recorded, and at a suitable time will be 
 published in pamphlet form, circulated through the country, 
 and permanently kept in the institution. This donation fund 
 will be given to Dr. Powell to make the purchases in P^urope 
 that cannot be obtained here. He will report to the Committee 
 of ladies the amount of money received and expended, and this 
 will be published. After the " Home" is completed, he pledges 
 himself to return this donation fund in gratuitous me<lical at- 
 tendance upon needy invalid ladies, so while this amount will 
 furnish the "Home," it will also be the means of restoring 
 many a poor woman to health, who might otherwise find death 
 41 welcome release from her sufi'erings. 
 
 As the building will be erected as soon as possible, it is 
 earnestly desired to have this donation fund collected at once, 
 so that soon as needed, there may be no delay in its appropria- 
 tion. Let all who can, and will aid us, do so inmiediately. We 
 do not say that if the enterprise fails the money will bo re- 
 funded ; for it can, and must succeed, and be completed at the 
 earliest possible time. Nothing need prevent it, but the want 
 of generosity and humanity among the Southern peo])le. 
 
 All subscriptions for the book must be forwarded to Dr. 
 Powell, Atlanta, Ga., but donations for the Home, to Mrs. 
 J. N. Simmons, of the same place ; and please let the names, 
 post-ofiice and State of all subscribers or donation be plainly 
 
38^ THE WOMEN OF THE 
 
 and fully stated. If any one wishes to send six dollars, five for 
 the book, and one as a donation, please state it so. 
 
 If any gentleman of the press who were not present at the 
 Convention are disposed to assist us in this enterprise, we will 
 be under many obligations if they will copy this circular. The 
 Home for Invalid Ladies is not for the benefit of one State, but 
 for the entire limits of the Confederacy. 
 
 Since the above was written, it has been suggested by an in- 
 fluential merchant friend, that perhaps there are numbers of this 
 class — traders and merchants throughout the Confederacy, who 
 would like to give something from their articles of commerce as 
 a donation to the "Home." instead of the money. We will be 
 grateful for anything of the kind, and any merchants who are 
 willing to aid us in this way, if they will send their contributions 
 to the following named gentlemen, they will be sold at the 
 mai-ket price, and the money s€nt to us, or if not sold, the com- 
 modities may be shipped to Salmons & Simmons, of Atlanta^ 
 Ga., and the amount which each article brings will be credited 
 to the generous donor. 
 
 Each person donating twenty dollars or more shall receive, 
 when published, one copy of the work entitled, "J/ora7 Beavir- 
 ties from the Heart of TFbman," worth ten dollars, and credited 
 with a donation of the amount received, deducting ten dollars 
 for the book. 
 
 LIST OF AGENTS. 
 
 Mr. J. F. Fears, Macon, Ga.; Messrs. Habersham & Son, 
 Savannah, Ga.; Messrs. Hull &, Duck, Colnmbus, Ga.; Messrs. 
 J. A. Ansley & Co., Augusta, Ga., Mr. F. M. Lucas, Athens,, 
 Ga.; Mr. R. F. Hargrove, Rome, Ga,; Mr. James Turner, La- 
 Grange, Ga.; Mr. J. Marshall, Madison, Ga.; Mr. Thomas Har- 
 well, Eatonton, Ga.; Messrs. Newton & Mickleberry, Griffin,, 
 Ga.; Messrs. Salmons «fc Simmons, Atlanta, Ga.; Mr. T. M. 
 Furlow, Americus, Ga.; Messrs. G. W. Williams & Co.; 
 Charleston, S. C; Mr. John C. Dial, Columbia, S. C; Mr, P. F 
 Prescud, Raleigh, N. C; Messrs. J. R. Blossom & Co., Wil- 
 * raington, N. C; Messrs. J. R. Branch & Bros. Petersburg, Va.; 
 Messrs. Davis, Roper &, Co.; Petersburg, Va.; Messrs. Samuel 
 Ayers & Son, Richmond, Va.; Messrs. Charles T, Worsham <fc 
 Co,, Richmond, Va,; Messrs. McCorkle, Son & Co., Lynchburg,. 
 Va.; Messrs. McDaniel & Irby, Lychburg, Va.; Mr. H. L.: 
 Johnson, Bristol, Tenn.; Messrs. Clark & Mayo, Knoxville, 
 Tenn,; Mr, John L, M. French, Chattanooga, Tenn.; Messrs. W. 
 B. & A. R. Bell, Montgomery, Ala,; Col, J. R. Powell, Mont- 
 gomery, Ala.; Messrs. Baker & Lawler, Mobile, Ala.; Messrs. 
 Tarleton & Whiting, Mobile, Ala.; Mr. F. L. Johnson, Selma 
 Ala.; Mr, J. G. L. Hewey, Talladega, Ala.; Mr. J. C. Bradleyr 
 Huntsville, Ala.; Messrs. Houghton, Allen & Co., Wetumpka,»- 
 Ala.; Mr. T. S. Burnett, Greenville, Ala.; Messrs. Allen Ligon 
 & Co., Jackson, Miss.; Messrs. Baskerville & Whitfield, Colum- 
 
SECOND AMEEICAN REVOLUTION. 3& 
 
 bus, Miss.; Messrs. Moody, Ferrall & Co., Enterprise, Miss. 
 
 MRS. J. N. SmMONS, 
 Chairman, Finance Committee. 
 M. Louise Rogers, Corresponding Secretary. 
 
 TflE WORTH OF WOMAIT. 
 
 FROM THE GERMAN OP SCHIU.ER. 
 
 Honored be woman ! she beams on fhe sight, 
 Graceful and fair, like a being of light ; 
 Scatters around her -wherever she strays, 
 Roses of bliss on our thorn-covered waje; 
 Roses of Paradise fsent from above. 
 To be gathered and twined in a garland of Love. 
 
 Man, op passion's stormy ocean, 
 
 Tossed by surges mountain high, 
 Courts the hurricane's commotion, 
 
 Spurns at reason's feeble cry, 
 Loud the tempest roars around him, 
 
 Louder still it roars within, 
 Flashing lights of hope confound him, 
 
 Stun with life's incessant din. 
 
 Woman invites him with bliss in her smile, 
 To cease from his toil and be happy a while; 
 Whispering wooingly — come to my bower — 
 Go not in search of the phactom of power — 
 Honor and wealth are illusory — come ! 
 Happiness dwells in the temples of home. 
 
 Man, with fury stern and savage. 
 
 Prosecutes his brother man, 
 Reckless if he bless or ravage. 
 
 Action, action — still his plan. 
 Now creating, now destroying. 
 
 Careless wishes tear his breast; 
 Ever seeking — ne'er enjoying ; 
 
 Still to be, but never blest. 
 
 Woman, contented in silent repose, 
 
 Enjoys in its beauty life's flower as it blow^-. 
 
 And waters and teuds it with innocent heart, 
 
 Far richer than man with his treasures of art ; 
 
 And wiser by far in the circles confined, 
 
 Than be with his silence and the lights of the mind. 
 
 Coldly to himself sufficing. 
 
 Man dit'daius the gentler artf, 
 Knoweth not the blifs ari^ng 
 
 From the interchange of hearts. 
 Slowly through his I oeora stealing, 
 
 Flows the genial current on, 
 Till by age's frost congealing 
 
 It is hardened into stone. 
 
40 THE WOMEN OF THE 
 
 She like the harp that instinctively rings, 
 As the night-breathing Z3pbyr soft sighs on the strings, 
 Responds to each impulse with steady reply, 
 Whether sorrow or pleasure her sympathy try; 
 And tear drops and smiles on her countenance play, 
 Like sunshine and showers of a morning in May. 
 
 Through the range of man's dominion, 
 
 Terror is the ruling word — 
 And the standard of opinion 
 Is the temper of the sword. 
 • Strife exults, and pity Mushing, 
 From the scene departing flies, 
 ^ Where the battle madly rushing, 
 
 " Brother upon brother dies. '^ 
 
 Woman commands with a milder control — 
 She rules by enchantment the realms of the soul; 
 As she glances around in the light of her smile. 
 The war of her passions is hushed for a while. 
 And discord, content from his fury to cease. 
 Reposes entranced on the pillows of peace. 
 
 MAIf AND WOMAN. 
 
 Man is strong — woman is beautiful. Man is dari ng in con- 
 duct — woman diffident and unassuming. Man shines abroad — 
 woman at home. Man talks to convince — woman to persuade 
 and please. Man has a rugged heart — woman a soft and tender 
 one. Man prevents misery — woman relieves it. Man has 
 science — woman taste. Mun has judgment — woman sensibility. 
 Man is a being of justice — woman of mercy. 
 
 THE WOMEN OF THE WEST. 
 
 Our informant, who gave us the facts in regard to the capture 
 of the Queen of the West, on Red River, and who was forced 
 to go with the Queen down the Atchafalaya, relates the follow- 
 ing incident : 
 
 At one of the places burnt by the Queen, and owned by a 
 lady who had been thus villainously left houseless, the valiant 
 commander attempted to converse with her on the bank from 
 the deck of his boat. She proved true pluck for him. He 
 asked her : 
 
 " Madam, have you a father, brothers or any other relatives 
 in this war ? " 
 
 The lady was quite young, a widow, with two young boys of 
 five and seven years of age by her side. She answered, in sight 
 of the smouldering ruins of her home : 
 
 " I have two brothers in the army, and if you keep on this 
 war twelve years longer, (pressing the heads of her boys,) I 
 shall have two sons to fight you till their deaifi ! I expect no- 
 thing better than murder and arson from any of your tribe." 
 
BECOND AMERI<:?AN REVOLUTION. 41 
 
 The commander sloped to his gun-room, while the lady and 
 boys cheered the departure of the Queen of the West the 
 "Bonnie Blue Flag." — N'atchcz Courier. 
 
 ATEOCITIES OF LINCOLN'S OFFICIALS. 
 
 The " Christian Observer " publishes the appended extract of 
 a letter from a clergyman in the country, dated February 2l8t, 
 1863: 
 
 " I returned yesterday from Stafford, where I had been called 
 to attend a funeral. It was within a mile or two of the Yankee 
 lines. It is the impression that a portion of their army ig 
 leaving this region. Their destination is not known. I have 
 buried in this region three females of the highest social position, 
 whose deaths have been caused by Yankee atrocities. They 
 were all in that situation which usually excites our tenderest 
 sympathies. The last one that I buried was the wife of a phy- 
 sician, whose husband was arrested while .attending a very sick 
 patient, and kept from his family fourteen days. When he was 
 absent, some of the Yankees, with satanic malignity, came to 
 his wife and told her that they had shot her husband. The 
 shock which this false intelligence produced was more than* her 
 delicate frame could bear, and she sank under it. I could tell 
 you much more, but in order to get this off I must close." 
 
 C OJistitiitionalist^ Mxirch 1863. 
 
 THE LADIES MAKING SHOES. 
 
 ThcFnanklin " Louisianian " says: Quite a number of ladies 
 of this parisli have commenced making their own and their chil- 
 dren's shoes, and they do very good work. We have seen 
 several pairs of these home-made shoes, and they are not only 
 strong, but they are well proportioned. The cheapest way that 
 they make them is to take the soles of old shoes, soak them in 
 water until they are limber, pick out the old stitches, fit theni to 
 the last .after the cloth is fitted to the same, sew the soles to the 
 cloth with strong waxed thread, and then turn the shoe, nail 
 the heel to its pl.ace, and the shoe is done. It is a cheap, ser- 
 viceable, and very good cloth shoe. 
 
 THE LADIES AND GEN PRICE-PRESENTATION TO GEN, 
 
 PRICE. 
 
 MoxTGOMERV, Ala., Feb. 24, 1863, 
 ^Tajor General Stcrlhig Price: The ladies of Montgomery, 
 fully appreciating your heroic conduct, sublime devotion .and 
 invaluable services in the hallowed cause of Southern indepea- 
 
42 THE WOMEN OF THE 
 
 deuce, and desiring to express their high esteem, their earnest 
 undying gratitude to one whose pure patriotism, whose noble 
 self-abnegation, has won the love and admiration of his country- 
 men and women, beg your acceptance of the accompanying 
 hat, as a very slight testimonial of the regard and confidence of 
 those whose prayers w ill ever follow you and the gallant men 
 of your command, cf w^hom our national annalist must pro- 
 claim — 
 
 "Enough of merit has each honored name, 
 To shine untarnished on the roll of fame. 
 To stand the example of each distant age, 
 And add new lustre to the historic page." 
 
 Very truly yours, 
 Mrs. S. E. Given, Mes. E. J. Fitzpatrick, 
 
 Mrs. W. B. Gilmer, Mrs. E. D. Fagara, 
 
 Mrs. E. E. Green, Mrs. General Fair, 
 
 Mrs. Tom Judge, Mrs. W. Marks, 
 
 Mrs. Judge Phelan, Mrs. C. T. Pollard. 
 
 Jackson, Miss., March 6, 1863. 
 
 Madam : I have the honor to acknowledge the reception, at 
 the hands of Dr. Blackburn, of the elegant " chapeau" sent to 
 me by yourself and other ladies of Montgomery. I accept it 
 with pride, and shall wear it in grateful rememberance of the 
 fair donors. 
 
 When the history of this revolution shall be written, I trust 
 that the ladies of the South may receive that credit to which 
 their lofty and self-sacrificing patriotii^m so justly entitles them. 
 Through our darkest hours they have stood firm and unshaken, 
 seeing, with the eye of faith the rainboAv of promise spanning 
 the horizon of the future, when to others all seemed gloomy, 
 desolate and hopeless. The first to counsel resistance to 
 tyranny, they have nobly maintained their position by sending 
 forth to battle, and perhaps to death, the objects of their 
 earthly adoration ; and this not reluctantly, as the miser parts 
 with his gold, but cheerfully and courageously they have laid 
 their temporal happiness on the altar of their country, content 
 to lose everything save honor, and determined that at any 
 hazard it should be maintained. Nor have their exertions stop- 
 ped here. The soldiers of every battle-field, and on every 
 starving march, and in every hospital, have been nerved, 
 strengthened and encouraged by the words of cheer and sym- 
 pathy that have reached them from home. Nobly have the 
 women of the South fulfilled their mission in this our struggle 
 for constitutional government. Their conduct gives assurance 
 to the world that men descended from such mothers, having 
 such wives and sisters, can never be made to bow the neck to 
 the yoke of oppression, no matter with what strength it may be 
 forced upon them. 
 
SECOND AMERICAN EETOLUTION. 43 
 
 For the complimentary expressiooB toward myself, contained 
 in your letter,'! am deeply grateful, but I cannot accept them 
 without assuring you that whatever of good to the cause I may 
 have been enabled to accompHsh is due to the exertions of the 
 noble men who have constituted my command. They have en- 
 dured the heats of summer and colds of winter — have faced 
 death in its most horrid forms, in camp and on the battle field, 
 with a sublime heroism to which history presents few parallels. 
 
 Again thanking you for your kind remembrance of me, I re- 
 main, very respectfully, your friend and obedient servant, 
 
 STERLING PRICE, Major General. 
 
 Mrs. Alex. F. Givens and others, Montgomery, Alabama. 
 
 THE GREATEST ATROCITY YET OF THE ENEMY. 
 
 Mr. Caswell Woods, a resident of Craven county. North 
 Carolina, had his house entered at midnight on the second of 
 October by two Yankee troopers armed with pistol and sabre, 
 who committed outrages of which the details are not fit for 
 publication. Mr. Woods is represented to be a respectable 
 citizen. The Richmond "Enquirer" gives the main tacts of 
 the case as contained in the subjoined depositions by Mr. Woods 
 and his wife. It is with reluctance that we insert details so 
 shocking to all sense of delicacy, but the necessity of placing 
 on record such atrocities as exhibit the character ot our foe who 
 permits their perpetration, requires this duty of us. Mr. Woods 
 deposes as follows : 
 
 " I came down stairs in ray night clothes. The front door 
 had been burst open. One ot the men had rode into the house 
 on his horse. The other walked in. The one on the horse, who 
 appeared to be an officer, commenced cursing me, and asked me 
 where I was two d:»ys before. When I told him I was home, 
 he said, ' You lie, for you shot at me.' Upon this pretence, they 
 cut the cord from a bed in the room, said they would hang him, 
 but finally tied him, took him out of the house and lashed him 
 to a tree, with the threat of instant death if he made any outcry 
 or attempted to get loose. They returned to the house and 
 locked the door alter them, and the old man had the inexpressi- 
 ble agony of listening for the rest of the night to the screams 
 and doleful lamentations of his wife and daughter." 
 
 The statement made by Mrs. Woods in her deposition of 
 what passed inside, is truly heartrending. The unparalleled 
 villians made the poor helpless women not merely the victims of 
 their brutal lust, but accompanied the outrage, which i.s worse 
 than death, with circumstances that mark them as the most 
 abandoned of villians. With jiislol in hand and with threat of 
 instant death, the deponent was required by one of the beastR 
 to divest herself of every ]»artic]e of clothing. But this was 
 almost Christian treatment compared with other acts which may 
 
44 THE WO^fEN OF THE 
 
 not be related. While such were her own sufferingis, the shrieks 
 of her daughter in another room told that hers was a similar 
 fate. About sunrise the next morning the human devils de- 
 parted. 
 
 The following remarks were made by the "Enquirer" on the 
 subject; 
 
 The depositions have been laid before us with the suggestion 
 endorsed thereon by the Adjutant General " that so much of 
 this account as is not too foul for publication should be given to 
 the public, through the press, in order that the righteous indig- 
 nation of our people, our Generals and our armies, may, under 
 the providence of God, visit a just retribution upon an enemy 
 80 fiendlike." Concurring in the propriety of the suggestion, 
 we have acted accordingly. 
 
 We are happy to say that General Gustavus W. Smith has 
 directed every effort to be made to ascertain the names of the 
 parties, and to " demand their delivery for trial and punish- 
 ment." We hope copies of the depositions have been forwarded 
 to the authorities of the enemy. Surely there are some, even 
 among them, who would be horrified by such conduct. The 
 vengeance of Heaven must light upon them and their cause ! 
 
 January 6, 1863. 
 
 EOBBERY OF A LADY. 
 
 We learn from the Memphis " Argus " tkat during General 
 Hovey's late expedition into this State, a lot of soldiers went to 
 the plantation of a Miss Hill, on Coldwater, twenty-two miles 
 from Friar's Point, in Coahoma county, and ransacked her 
 premises, taking from her $30,000 in gold, and a large lot of 
 Confederate sci'ip ; also sixty mules, and much other property. 
 Miss Hill's father died a few weeks ago, and had left her an 
 immense estate, which has been taken from her in a single day. 
 There was no white male person on the premises when the 
 stragglers 'entered, but one man, the overseer, who ranaway at 
 lightning speed. 
 
 Miss H. went to Helena, accompanied by her guardian, on the 
 13th, to endeavor to recover her property, when she received 
 only fair promises from the Federal commander. No clue was 
 obtained as to the whereabouts of her property. 
 
 Memphis Appeal^ Dec. 22. 
 
 PATRIOTIC AND TRUE DEVOTION OF WOMAN. 
 
 The following is an extract from a recent letter from Mrs. M. 
 L. Woodson, now residing in Texas, to her sister, Mrs. Isaac 
 Winship, the indefatigable and patriotic President of the At- 
 lanta Hospital Association. We doubt not that the sentiments 
 
SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 45 
 
 will meet a hearty response from the noble self-sacrificing 
 women of the whole South : 
 
 My Dear Sister / * * * I have uotliing to communicate at 
 present. You have seen in the papers the account of the fall of 
 Arkansas Post. My two poor boys were there, but where they 
 are noxo I do not know. We learned from a Commissary who 
 made his escape Irom the Post, that they were in the fight. — 
 Miller was in charge of a hosj^ital, but he left it and went into 
 the trenches and fought as a private. The returned soldier 
 pays he saw Swan and Miller both as they went into the fight, 
 but knows no more concerning them. They were three days and 
 nights in the trenches, without sleep, and I expect without food. 
 Judging from the reports we have, they must have eufllered 
 awfully from sickness while at the Post. The company which 
 went from here lost a great many by sickness. 
 
 There were 8,000 men at the Post, and only 4,400 were re- 
 ported as able to go into the battle. They fought seven gun- 
 boats and the land force, said to be 40,000 strong, for thirty-six 
 hours. Being completely surrounded by land forces, the few 
 who escaped, did so by swimming. 
 
 Swan had just recovered from a spell of six weeks' illnesp, 
 and returned to camps. Not a line from anybody at that place 
 has ever reached us since the battle. The sick were left in the 
 hospitals. Some of my nearest neighbors were there, but their 
 iriends have not heard from them, nor do we know who were 
 among the killed and wounded. We know but little besides 
 what the newspapers say. 
 
 If my song are alive, they are prisoners, and taken to some 
 Lincoln prison. The reflection that they are in the hands of 
 such cruel, inhumane creatures is as much as I have fortitude 
 and patriotism to bear. But they are in the hnnds of God, and 
 to him I commit them, but if they return to me no more, my 
 setting sun will go down in clouds. Yet I will not despair — 
 our cause is worthy of .any sacrifice — even the loss of my be- 
 loved and brave boys will not dampen my zeal in my country's 
 cause — No ; better a thousand times, that every Southern man 
 should perish, than yield their cause. All have sufiercd the loss, 
 either of kindred or friends, in this cruel war, and I must not 
 complain if it is my fate to have torn from mc those I loved 
 with no common aifection ; and no mother had more cause to 
 love her sons and cherish their memory. Mine were Virave and 
 honorable men, and warm-liearled and aiTcrtionate to me and 
 each other, and when all were around me no happier mother 
 could be found on earth. But it is a desolate home now, and 
 perhaps may ever remain so. 
 
 I have other children to raifc, and my duty to them will pre- 
 vent indulgence in useless repining. So if the worst comes, I 
 shall submit, with patience, to the will of Heaven, and discharge 
 the duty I owe to others; Int if I lose my dear boys life wUll 
 
46 THE WOMEN OF THE 
 
 lose its charms to me, though I shall love my country none the 
 less. On my country's freedom I have set my heart, on her 
 altars I have placed my sons and my hopes. 
 
 I would not see my children made slaves, or my country sub- 
 jugated by a hated foe. No, rather let their young lives be 
 offered up, and their mother go broken hearted to the grave. 
 
 But the arm of Goji is not shortened, that he cannot save 
 even those in the enemy's hands; sol will still entertain some 
 hope for the safe return of my dear boys. * * * * 
 Your sister, M. L. WOODSOX. 
 
 Intelligencer^ Aprils 1863;" 
 
 STARTLING REVELATIONS BY A MISSOURI AN WHO WAS 
 TO HAVE BEEN HUNG BY THE YANKEES. 
 
 The " Mississippian " contains a letter written by a soldier 
 of the Missouri army, who was captured and charged with 
 being a spy. He had frequent interviews with the officers high 
 in command, and so certain were they of hanging him that they 
 spoke quite unreservedly of their intentions and feelings toward 
 the South. The following is an extract : 
 
 From the point of my capture, I made with the entire Federal 
 army a march of about one hundred miles, during which march 
 my opportunities and frequent conversations with some of the 
 leading men, afforded me good grounds for knowing and judg- 
 ing of the feelings and intentions of those constituting the 
 Western Department. And I know to a certainty that we must 
 work to save ourselves from a worse fate than has yet been felt 
 by any. The enemy's present design is to re-open the Missis- 
 sippi river, and while establishing communication between two 
 of the r departments, cut off communication between two of 
 ours, thus leaving all the West without arms and at their mercy, 
 and for this purpose they will use all the force both here and 
 west of the Mississippi. And even now. they are niassing 
 rapidly at the principle points by Nashville, Corinth, Memphis, 
 Helena, and Columbus, Kentucky. Further it was asserted to 
 me by reliable (or at least influential) men as Gen. Rosecrans 
 and McCook, that if they ever came South again they would 
 not leave a house or field, man, woman, child or dog. So let us 
 at once prepare, for we will have work to do this winter ; let 
 one and all throw aside all idea that there is to be anything 
 hoped for from foreign powers or Democratic victories, or any 
 other Yankee humbug. 
 
 THE TEN MISSOURI MURDERS. 
 
 The ten Confederate soldiers whom the Abolition brute, Mc- 
 Neill, lately murdered in Missouri, were not executed for killing 
 
SECOJTD AMERICAN REVOLDTION. 4:( 
 
 an enemy. It seems that a man was missing from the neighbor- 
 hood of the ten, and they were held responsible for his safety, 
 and ordered to have him forthcoming within a fixed time, under 
 the penalty of death. The time passed, and they were slain. 
 It now turns out that the day after the murder the missing man 
 returned to hi'^ home. He had not been molested, and was 
 absent on business which he did not desire to communicate to 
 his friends. This statement is made on the authority of a St. 
 Louis paper. The crime in the case is made more terrible by 
 this statement; 
 
 ATROCIOUS MURDER BY YANKEES IN MISSOURI. 
 
 The Little Rock (Arkansas) " Democrat, " publishes the fol- 
 lowing : 
 
 Van Burex, August 20, 1862. 
 
 R. II. JoHNSox, Esq. — Dear Sir : The enclosed letter from 
 Mrs. Dunn to her husband's brother, informing him of the mur- 
 der of her husband by a party of Missouri militia, you will find 
 of sufficient interest for publication. William and James II. 
 Dunn were beef contractors in Price's army and gentlemen of 
 hifjh standing. 
 
 Respectfully, yours, WM. WALKER. 
 
 Junk 25th, 1862. 
 
 To Mr. J. H. DuNX — Dear Brother : I have bad news to 
 communicate to you. Poor William came home Saturday eve- 
 ning — Johnson and Clay were here when he came home. He 
 had not been here more than a half hour when he went to put 
 away his horse — Johnson and Clay went with him. He had just 
 got his saddle off, when forty or fifty of the State miliiia came 
 ffalloping up, and were at the barn gate before they saw them. 
 William and Clay ran into the orchard, and William lay down 
 behind the bushes by the fence ; they followed an<l took Clay 
 prisoner ; they fired at Willium twice, but missed him ; he then 
 raised up, came out and told them to take him. They ques- 
 tioned him about what he had been doing and he told them he 
 had just come home from ColTee's camp — they said he had come 
 to get news for Coffee, and they would kill him. They took 
 him oyer the orchard and pasture fences through the woods to 
 hunt Johnson and his horse, which, of course, he knew nothing 
 about, but they got his horse. They then brought William 
 around to the south gate. He asked them if he might come to 
 the house to see his wife and children, but they cursed him and 
 told him no, so he called me out there and whispered to me to 
 . go to the house and empty the pockets of his coat and bring it 
 to him ; I did so, and then he told me, " Annie these men are 
 going to kill me, I must bid you good bye, I want you to take 
 care of the children, and do the best you can; Jim will hel[> 
 
48 TnE WOMEN OF THE 
 
 you raise my children." He then asked me to bring Frank to 
 see him, the Lieutenant told him to hurry, I went to the house 
 to get Frank who was asleep and had not yet seen his father 
 since he came home. The Lieutenant called William out across 
 the road and told him he should shoot him there and to get 
 through his talk quick. William came back and told mother 
 and me that they were going to kill him right there, but mother 
 and I threw ourselves on him and told them they must kill ua 
 first. They ordered us off or they would shoot us, and I think 
 they would have shot us ; they then told William to get on his 
 horse, he did so, and took Frank to his arms and bid him good 
 bye, that those men were going to kill his father. Frank cried 
 and screamed, and said, men don't kill my pa ! and I told them 
 to look at those two little helpless children and then tell me if 
 they could have the heart to kill my husband, but they only 
 cursed and mocked us ; but told us they would not hurt him, 
 only take him with them. So they started down the country 
 road towards Fidelity ; then after going about a quarter of a 
 mile they stopped, (so Clay says) made him get off his horse, 
 and took him through the woods down a hollow to the left hand 
 and there by a big tree shot him with six balls. We heard the 
 firing and followed — I found him on his knee ; with his poor 
 face in a pool of blood ; I called him and thought he answered, 
 but no, his lips were sealed in death. He was shot twice in the 
 head, three times in the left arm and once in the left side. We 
 laid him to rest by his father's side in the grave yard, at the 
 meeting house. He looked very natural — he must have died 
 instantly, Jimmy try to bear it the best you can, it is a severe 
 affliction to us all. I don't want you to come home, stay away 
 until you know it is safe to come, or yoxi may share the same 
 fate. Mother says she wants us to be together now, there are 
 so few of us ; but she is afraid to go south at this season of the 
 year. Whas do you think it advisable for us to do ? 
 
 The same crowd of State militia under Lieut. Lefevre, passed 
 here yesterday (Monday) going back to Mount Vernon. The 
 Union men, Andy Foster, the Motley's Willoughbys, Smiths 
 and Oliver, that came in with the State militia Saturday as soon 
 as they heard what had happened, that night without waiting to 
 cut their wheat, they were afraid to stay. Jimmy, on no account 
 attempt to come home, but as soon as you think it best, we will 
 come to you, if we are spared. 
 
 Clay says, after they had killed him. Lieutenant Lefevre rode 
 among his men asking who would have his hat ; none would 
 take it, so he threw it and his coat to Clay, and told him damn 
 him, take them and go take care of that man. We met Clay 
 bringing his hat and coat, and he turned back with us to search 
 for William. • 
 
 I want yoH to let the Southern men read of this cold blooded 
 
8E(X)ND AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 49 
 
 murder. We are going to try and get Mr. May to go and see 
 you. From your aftiicted sister-in-law, 
 
 ANNIE C. DUNN. 
 
 INCIDENTS OF THE BATTLE OF FREDERICKSBURO-THE 
 PEOPLE OF THE TOWN WHO REMAINED-THE WOMEN. 
 
 The Yankee Generals were almost thunderstruck at finding so 
 many persons through a shelling lasting twelve hours, and car- 
 ried on without intermission, with one hundred and forty-three 
 guns. G"n. Sturgis told a lady that the -^roraen of Fredericks- 
 burg ought to be handed down to the latest posterity as model 
 heroines. He then said to the same lady — "madam, it is too 
 dangerous for you to remain longer, General Lee will shell the 
 town ; go over to the other side, I will insure you protection 
 and a return whenever you choose to come back." The lady's 
 reply wa'^ quite signifii-ant — "Xo sir," said she, **' I have no 
 more business across that river than a Yankee has in Heaven ; I 
 shall stay and take the best care I can of my property." lie 
 then asked if slie had a luisband in the Southern army. "No, 
 sir, I have a son ; but if my liusl)and does not now enlist and 
 avenire the v.-uid.ilism you have committed on my town and its 
 people, I shall get a divorce." Said Sturgis, "I admire your 
 pluck, madam, and from this time forward, as> long as I remain, 
 you shall be protected." 
 
 In another instance, a gentleman had been arrested, and was 
 being carried before an officer, when his daughter, one of .he 
 most beautiful and accomplished girls in the city, seized an old 
 Bwoid lying near, and following the guard, who was conducting 
 her father, and who was abusing him, bade him desist, threaten- 
 ing him Avith instant death if he should harm her father, 
 accompanied him to the presence of the officer, when both were 
 released. A Yankee officer who witnessed this scene said he 
 would rather tight the best regiment of the South than encoun- 
 ter the Avomen of Fredericksburg. 
 
 THE FIDELITY OF THE SLAVES. 
 
 One of the most gratifying of the many interesting incidents 
 of the occupation of Fredericksburg was the faithful conduct 
 of the slaves who remained. In several instances they saved, 
 amid the perfect rain of shot and shell, houses and indeed 
 squares from destruction. In other instances, they claimed and 
 secured protection for the property of their owners, wfiilst in 
 not a few instances they asked to be permitted to share the 
 plunder with the thieving soldiery, and getting the permission, 
 took care to save for those who had left, many valuable article/?. 
 
 YANKEE LETTERS WHAT THEY SAY. 
 
 I have been permitted to read or rather to glance at a large 
 number of letters written by the home people to their friends 
 in the field. 
 
 4 
 
tjO THE WOMEN OF THE 
 
 Tliey all complain of the great scarcity of labor, representing 
 that the crops in many instances, could not be harvested for the 
 want of it. They express strong hopes of speedy peace, and 
 say that it is folly to expect ever to raise another army in the 
 North. One girl says she dispairs of ever getting a husband, 
 as there is not a decent, marriageable man within twenty miles 
 of her. 
 
 MORE VANDALISM. 
 
 The Yankees have committed so many abominable wicked- 
 nesses, that it will hardly be cfedited Avheu it is told that they 
 destroyed the Masonic regalia, carried ofi" the charters of the 
 lodges, and actually burnt some of the Bibles found in private 
 houses and churches. As one of the ricses resorted to in facili- 
 tating their thieving operations, they would go to the houses 
 which were tenanted, arrest its occupants, and carry them 
 across the river. Whilst this was going on, another party 
 would enter the houses, bearing off and destroying whatever 
 they might find. 
 
 POISONED BULLETS. 
 
 I have seen, to-day some of these horrid looking messengers. 
 They are made in three parts, and so constructed that upon en- 
 tering the body, the head separates from the rest of the bullet, 
 which is drawn forward, the hindmost part remaining at the 
 point of entrance, and causing the wound to fester, and as a sure 
 consequence, it is said, death must ensue. 
 
 C orres2)ondence of the Bichmond Enquirer. 
 
 A CONFEDERATE ALPHABET. 
 
 A is for Anderson, foremost and least, 
 B is for Bethel, or Butler the Beast; 
 C is for Chase and also for Cheat, 
 D is for Darkies, Disaster, Defeat ; 
 E is for Eagle, transformed to a crow, 
 F is the Flag spreading ruin and woe \ 
 . G is for Gibbet on which we will hang, 
 Hanter the Hound and all of hi, gang; 
 I is the infamy of which they are proud, 
 J Johnson the Jackall, the Wf -rst of the crowd ; 
 K is the Kalendar of accidents dire, 
 L is for Lincoln the Long Legged Liar ; 
 W& for McClellan who Richmond Vvould see, 
 N is for Never, when his it shall be ; 
 O shows what Yankees will make by the war, 
 Q is lor Query, " what is it all for ?" 
 P, which was passed, stands for Puppy and Pope, 
 R is for Eosecrans, Rascal and Rope; 
 
SECOND AMEEICAN KEVOLDTION. 51 
 
 S stands for Seward, well surnamed the Snake, 
 T, the three months, the Rebellion will take ; 
 U's for the Union of all that is base, 
 
 Y for the Victories that never took place ; 
 W for Winfield, whose victories groat, 
 Xerxes-like ended in shameful defeat ; 
 
 Y stands for Yankees that self-esteemed natiou, 
 Z id for Zero, their true valuation. 
 
 Chattanoofjia Rebel, 
 
 NORTHERN VIRTUE 
 
 The. PetersbuvGc " Express," after givinsj specimens from a 
 Yankee love letter picked up on a battle field, says .: 
 
 Of all the Yankee letters we have read since the commence- 
 ment of this war, whether written by maidens, wives, husbands 
 or lovers, we have not yet seen one that would bear a virtuoiLs 
 criticism. They are filled with such obscene reference and de- 
 praved avowals, that a virtuous man or woman must blush in 
 reading tliem, to think of the nature of the people in whom we 
 have so long associated on equal terms. 
 
 UNION SENTIMENT IN NEW ORLEANS. 
 
 A Yankee letter- wi-iter gives the following illustrations ot 
 the presence of a Union sentiment in New Orleans city, in 
 which the Northern papers have been indulging so largely : 
 
 " The Union feeling existing there — that they talk so much 
 about — does not exist ; for Butler says that even the women 
 and children are the ' d — d'st rebels ' he ever saw, and there has 
 been but little Union feeling displayed where there was nothing 
 to be gained. Self-interest has been the parent of all Union 
 feeling exhibited there ; of this I feel certaiii. To demonstrate 
 this fact, let me relate an incident which I know to be authentic. 
 
 A Mrs. , whose husband has come out strong on the 
 
 Union subject, knowing that in the public schools there would 
 be many opportunities for those who would hurrah for the stars 
 and stripes, aijd desiring to obtain the principalship of one of 
 the girls' high schools, called upon Gen. Butler, accompanied by 
 a ' secesh ' lady, who was anxious to see the brute without hav- 
 ing any buainesa herself to take here there. Mrs. , after 
 
 eomplimentiug Butler highly upon the condition of the streets, 
 and the city gcncr.ally, .ind expressing her devoted allegiance 
 to the old tiag, stated lh:it she called, nctuatod solaly by the 
 promptings of her heart, to take the oath of allegiance. Butler 
 allowed her to get that far, and no farther. ' Get out, madam I 
 get out ! don't say another word. I have never seen the womao 
 in the South yet who would take the oath of allegiance, or even 
 hear of it, unles.s they had an object to gain in it. They are 
 
52 THE "WOMEN OF THE 
 
 the damndest rebels in the whole Confederacy of rebels. Get 
 out madam ; you want some favor under me ; go.' And out 
 she' had to go. The secesh lady couldn't keep it, you may be 
 sure; and it was no time before the story was out. Another 
 incident: While cur vessel way lying at the pickets, the Yan- 
 kee sentinels picked up a little boy of about six years, who was 
 playing near them, and tried to induce him to hurrah for Lin- 
 coln. *' I won't.' ' Hurrah, and I'll give you something.' ' I 
 won't.' Catching him up, and suspending the little fellow over 
 the canal, they said : ' Hurrah f©r Lincoln, or we'll drop you in.' 
 'Drop und be damned,' said the little rebel; and, with a shout, 
 they set him down, saying he was rebel pluck to the backbone. 
 These two instances that I know of, are pretty fair specimens of 
 the Union teeling there." 
 
 THE GREATEST BATTLE. 
 
 The more wc viow it and familiarize ourselves with its details, 
 the more clearly the fact stands out that the battle <»f Sharps- 
 burg, or Antietam, was, on our part, the greatest engagement 
 of modern tmies. Our correspondent's declaration, ihat we 
 fought 40,000 against a force of 125,000, is sustained by Gen. 
 Lee in his address to the army. Tliat so small a force, ragged, 
 bare-foot, half-starved and worn down by a lung series of batiles 
 and severe marches, should have proved a lull match for three 
 times their number of fresh and well disciplined Yankees, is in- 
 deed a marvel. History will so record it, and it will stand out 
 for all time as incontestible proof of our superiority over the 
 North in all that goes to make up a brave and warlike people. 
 
 And again : the fact that our army has remained for weeks 
 within a few miles of McClellan, without his venturing to attack 
 us, is evidence that his forces were f,o badly crippled in the 
 fight that they have been totally imable to renew it. 
 
 /Savannah Mepuhlican. 
 
 QE3J. LEES ADDRESS TO HIS ABJIY. 
 
 General Lee has issued the following address to his soldiers. 
 He recounts their achievements with eloquence, and delivers to 
 them the thanks of the President, and bestows, in feeling terms, 
 the praise they have so well earned : 
 
 Headquaetees Army of Xoetheen- Vieginia, ) 
 
 October 2, 1862. \ 
 
 General Orders, Ko. 116. 
 
 In reviewing the achievements of the Army during the pre- 
 sent campaign, the Commanding General cannot withhold the 
 expression of his admiration of the indomitable courage it has 
 
SECOND AilEKICAN REVOLUTION. 53 
 
 displayed in battle, and its cheerful endurance of privation and 
 hardship on the march. 
 
 Since your great victories around Richmond you have de- 
 feated the enemy at Cedar mountain, expelled him from the 
 Kappahannock, and, after a conflict of .three days, utterly re- 
 pulsed him on the Plains of Manassas, and forced him to take 
 shelter within the fortifications around the capital. 
 
 Without halting for repose you crossed the Potomac, stormed 
 the heights of Harper's Ferry, made prisoners of more than 
 eleven thousand men, and captured upwards of seventy pieces 
 of artillery, all their small arms and other munitions of war. 
 
 While one corps of the army was thus engaged, the other 
 insured its success by arresting at Boonsboro' the combined 
 armies of the enemy, advancinc; untler their favorite general, to 
 the relief of their beleagdercd conirades. 
 
 On the field of Sharpsburg, with less than one-third his num- 
 ber, you resisted, from daylight until dark, the whole army of 
 the enemy, and repulsed every attack along his entire front, of 
 more than lour miles in extent. 
 
 The whole of the following day you stood prepared to resume 
 the conflict on the same ground, and retired next morning, 
 without molestation, across the Potomac. 
 
 Two attempts subsequently made by the enemy to follow you 
 across the river, have resulted in his complete discomfiture, and 
 being driven back with loss. 
 
 Achievements such as these demanded much valor and pa- 
 triotism. History records few examples of greater fortitude 
 and endurance than this army has exhibited ; and I am commis- 
 sioned by the President to thank you in the name of the Con- 
 federate States for the undying fame you have won for their 
 arms. 
 
 INIuch as you have done, much more remains to be accom- 
 plished. The enemy again threatens us with invasion, and to 
 your tried valor and patriotism, -the country looks with confi- 
 dence for deliverance and safety; your past exploits give assu- 
 rance that this confidence is not mis])laced. 
 
 H. E. LEE, General Commanding. 
 
 FIR«iT NAVAL VICTORY 1^ VIRGINIA-HISTOUY OF THE 
 MERIMAC AND HER COMMANDER, ADMIRAL IFRANK- 
 LIN BUCHANAN. 
 
 This distinguished naval oiBcer is a native of the State of 
 Maryland, but for some years resided in Pennsylvania, from 
 wliich State he was appointed a midshipman. He entered the 
 navy on the 28th of January, 1815, and continued, in various 
 positions, until the 14th of September, 1855, when he was made 
 captain. Buchanan was in the United States naval service for 
 forty-five years, twenty-one of which were spent at sea. Hia 
 
54 THE WOMEN OF THK 
 
 last cruipe, while in the service of that government, was in 
 command of the steam frigate Susquehanna, on the Japan Ex- 
 pedition in 1855. 
 
 On the 19th April, when the Massachusetts troops were at- 
 tacked on their passage through Baltimore city, Capt. Buchanan 
 •was in command of the navy yard at Washington. He imme- 
 diately resigned his commission, and, in a short time thereafter, 
 tendered his services to the Southern Confederacy, which were 
 promptly accepted, and he drew his sword in defence of South- 
 ern independence. He was assigned to duty as Chief of Orders 
 and Detail, in the Confederate navy, then in its infancy, and in 
 February, 1862, hoisted his flag at Norfolk on board the iron- 
 clad frigate Virginia, such, being the name given by the 
 Confederate Navy Department to the United States frigate 
 Merrimac, partially burnt and sunk by Commodore Paulding,, 
 when the Federal forces evacuated the Norfolk navy yard on 
 the secession of Virginia, and on Saturday, the 8th of Mai'ch, 
 1862, engaged the enemy off Newport's News. It may not be 
 uninteresting to the readers of our paper to give here a short 
 description of this the greatest naval engagement that ever took 
 place in American waters. 
 
 The Virginia had been cut loose from her moorings, and was 
 on her way down the harbor, when Commodore Buchanan, call- 
 ing "all hands to muster," delivered the following brief, but 
 spirited address to the crew : 
 
 "Men, the eyes of your country are upon you. You are 
 fighting for your rights — your liberties — your wives and chil- 
 dren. You must not be content with only doing your duty; 
 but do more than your duty ! Those ships (pointing to the 
 Yankee vessels) must be taken, and you shall not complain that 
 I do not take you close enough. Go to your guns !" 
 
 How well the officers and the gallant crew of that "monster 
 of the deep" performed their whole duty, we let an eye-witness- 
 of that memorable engagement tell : 
 
 "The morning was still as that of a Sabbath. The two Yan- 
 kee frigates lay with their boats at the boom, and wash-clothes 
 in the rigging. Did they see the long, dark hull? Had they 
 made her out? Was it ignorance, apathy, or composure? 
 These wei*e the questions we discussed as we steamed across^ 
 the flats to the south of the frigates with the two gallant little 
 gunboats well on our starboard beam heading up for the enemy.. 
 Our doubts were solved by the heavy boom of a gun from be- 
 yond Sewell's Point. The reverberation rolled across the sun-lit. 
 water and died away, but still the clothes hung in the rigging, 
 Ktill the boats lay at the booms. Another gun (21 minutes past 
 1) broke on the air, and a tug started from Newport's News,, 
 while at the same time two others left Old Point, taking the- 
 channel inside Hampton bar. Steadily, with a grim and ominous 
 silence, the Virginia glides through the Water, steadily and 
 
SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 55 
 
 with defiant valor the Beaufort and Raleigh followed where <»he 
 led. At ten minutes to two, a rifle gun from one of these little 
 vessels rang out, then a white puff from her consort. Still the 
 clothes in the rigging, still the boats at the boom? Was this 
 confidence ? It could not be ignorance. Did it mean torpedoes, 
 submarine batteries, infernal machines? The gunboats have 
 fired again, aitd lo ! here away to the eastward were the Roanoke 
 and Minnesota rising like prodigious castles above the p'acid 
 water, the first under steam, the second in tow. Other pufts of 
 smoke, other sharp reports from the gunboats, but the Virginia 
 goes ou steadily, silently to do her work. Now the in-shore 
 frigate, the Cumberland, fires ; now the Virginia close aboard ; 
 now Sewell's Point battery; now the Minnesota; now the 
 Roanoke; now the air trembles with the cannonade. Now the 
 Virginia delivers both broadsides ; now she runs full against 
 the Cumberland's starboard bow ; now the smoke clears away, 
 and she appears heading up James River. This at twenty-two 
 minutes to two. The Congress now lets fall foretopsail, and 
 then the main, and so with a tug along-side, starts down the 
 north channel, where the Minnesota has jjrounded, and pre- 
 sently runs plump ashore. Meanwhile the Virginia opens fire 
 upon the Yankee fort, slowly she steams back, and the Cumber- 
 land, sunk now to her white-streak, opens upon her again. A 
 gallant man fought that ship — a man worthy to have maintained 
 a better cause. Gun after gun he tired, lower and low^r sunk 
 his ship, his last discharge comes from his pivot gun, the ship 
 lurches to starboard, now to port, his flag streams out wildly, 
 and now the Cumberland goes down on her beamends, at once 
 a monument and an epitaph of the gallant man who lought her. 
 The Virginia stops. Is she aground? And the gunboat? 
 Raleigh and Beaufort! glorious Parker! glorious Alexander! 
 there they are on the quarters of the Congress hammering away, 
 and creeping up closer and closer all the time. At ten minutes 
 to four the Congress struck. Parker hauled down the ensign, 
 run up his own battle-flag in its place, there the heroic Taylor, 
 who lought the Fanny at Roanoke Inland and Elizabeth City,- 
 got his \N ound — there the gallant young Hutttr fell, all shot by 
 the dastards who fired from the ship and shore when the white 
 flag was fl>ing at the main and mizen of the Congress ! 
 
 "Here too, and in the same way. Flag Ofliccr Buchanan, and 
 Flag Lieut. R. I). Minor, were wounded. Now the James 
 River gunboats, whose dark smoke had been seen against the 
 blue distance ever since 3 o'clock, came dashing along past the 
 shore batteries. Tucker, the courtly and chivalrous, leading the 
 van, with the Jamestown, Liout. Commanding JJarney, close 
 aboard, and the little Teaser, Lieut. Webb, in her wake — like a 
 bow-lei'ged bull dojj in chase of the long, lean, stag-hound. It 
 was a gallant dash, and once pa«t the balterie«, the two heavy 
 vessels took position in line of battle, while the Teaser dashed 
 
56 THE WOMEN OF THE 
 
 at the Minnesota, looking no larger than a cock boat. And 
 right well she maintained the honor of her flag and the appro- 
 pna encss of" her name. Now the Roanoke puts her helm up 
 and declines the battle. Now the Virginia is thundering away 
 again. The Teaser is still closer in. We are closer in — sizz 
 comes a shell ahead, presently another astern, finally a thiid 
 with a clear, sharp whizz, just over head, to the great delight 
 of the Commodore, who appreciated the compliment of these 
 good shots, which were the last of six shots directed at the 
 Harmony. Now the schooner Reindeer comes foaming along, 
 cut out from under the shore batteries ; she reports, and is sent 
 up in charge of acting Master Gibbs. 
 
 "And next the gallant Beaufort runs down. Parker steps 
 and brings on board the great piece of bunting we saw hauled 
 down just now. He brings also some thirty prisoners and 
 some wounded men — men wounded under that white flag yon- 
 der desecrated by the Yankees. One of these lies stretched 
 out, decently coAcred over, gasping out his life on the deck — a 
 Yankee shot through the head, all bloody and ghastly, killed by 
 the inhuman fire of his own people. Another pale and stern^ 
 the Captain of the Beaufort's gun, lies J,here too, a noble speci- 
 men of a man who has since gone where the weary are at rest. 
 A gallant man, a brave seaman ! 
 
 "We shake hands with Parker; he gets back to his vessel 
 slightly wounded, as is Alexander, and steams back gallantly to 
 the fight. The Patrick Henry, the Jamestown, the Teaser, the 
 Beaufort, the Raleigh, and the grand old Virginia, are all thun- 
 dering away. We steam down and speak the first. We hear 
 a report of casualties, we shake hands with friends, we shove 
 oflT, cheer and steam towards the Swash Channel. Presently 
 through the thickening gloom we see a red glare, it grows 
 larger, and brighter, and redder. It creeps higher and higher, 
 and now gun after gun booming on the still night as the fire 
 reaches them, the batteries of tlie Congress are discliarged 
 across the water in harmless thunder. It was a grand sight to 
 see, and by the light of the burning ship, we made onv way 
 back to Norlolk, » At half past eleven the act of retribution was 
 complete, for aUthat hour, with a great noise, she blew uj)." 
 
 When Commodore Buchanan was wounded and taken below, 
 a feeling of deep sadness pervaded the entire crew, but they 
 soon rallied when Flag Lieutenant Minor, himself wounded and 
 sent below, appeared on deck and delivered to them the follow- 
 ing message from the noble flag oflice : 
 
 "Tell Mr, Jones to fight the ship to the last — tell the men 
 that I am not mortally wounded and hope to be with them again 
 very soon." 
 
 The cheers that greeted the delivery of this message re- 
 sounded tar above the cannon's roar, and every man was again 
 
SECOND AMERICAN REVOLmON. 57 
 
 quickly at his post, dealing death and destruction with their 
 heavy guns. 
 
 Congress was in session when the ensfageraent took place and 
 shortly thereafter passed a bill creating the grade of Admiral in 
 the navy, to which position Buchanan was nominated by the 
 President and confirmed by the Senate. 
 
 The news of the great naval victory fled over the country 
 with electric speed, and was received with wonder and as- 
 tonishment by the }»eoplc of the South, who regarded it as the 
 turning point in our fortunes, then under a cloud from recent 
 disasters to our arms at Donaldson and other places. 
 England and France, with all their powerful resources, for two 
 years had been endeavoring to solve the problem of iron-clad 
 ships, but it remained for the Southern Confederacy, the 
 youngest sister in the family of nations, to demonstrate conclu- 
 sively, by actual trial in battle, their great efficiency, and thus 
 to radically revolutionize the old system of naval warfare, a fact 
 still more wonderful when we consider that the Virginia was 
 cut down, mailed, armed, manned and fought with unprece- 
 dented success, all within the brief space of six months, by a 
 people heretofore entirely dependent upon the Yankee States 
 for all commercial advant icres. — Illustrated I^^eios. 
 
 THE FIRST NAVAL VICTORY OS THE MISSISSIPPI 
 RIVER, BY GEN. JEFF. THOMPSON. 
 
 Ueador, you have before you an account of the exploits of 
 the gallant and dashing Thompson, one of the heroes of this 
 war, who shines with the notable refulgence pertaining to each 
 raeml)er of that cherished constellation to which we trust we 
 look in the darkest hour of the nation's adversity — a con- 
 stellation we may term the Orion of our national hrniaraent, 
 which with nerve firm strung and eye unblanched at the fierce 
 menace of the foe, advances and takes the Yankee bull by the 
 horns. The stars in this constellation are household words. 
 The little children are familiar with the name of Ashby, Stuart, 
 Morgan, Forrest and Jeff. Thompson. 
 
 He is not very handsome, but, then, his handsome deeds 
 make amends for what he lacks in personal beauty. An English 
 jockey would pro)i<>unce him "a rum un to look at, but a good 
 un to go," as in truth he is. That thin face has none of the 
 hatchet about it, but a great deal of the tomahawk. His eye 
 does not gleam with sheet-lightning, l»ut give^> forth a forked 
 flash whf.n much excited. A lVien<l wh<> is acqu.ainted with his 
 great powers of physical endurance thinks he is made u]» of 
 ■"cat-gut and steel-tilings." His address is easy and graceful, 
 his manner genial and earnes*., and his utterance as rapid as 
 volU-ys of musketry, though clear and distinct. 
 
58 THE WOMEN OF THE 
 
 He was born on the 26th of January, 1826, at Harper's Ferry, 
 Virginia. His father, Meriwether Thompson, was born in 
 Hanover county, and his mother, Maitha Slaughter Broadus, 
 was born in Culpeper county. He was intended and educated 
 for the army, and from his early youth has manifested a strong 
 passion for the -profession of arms. Through political influences 
 he was not admitted to West Point, but he understands the art 
 of war none the less thoroughly on that account, for the reason 
 that his soul has always been bent on the study of warfare and 
 his spirit eager for the fray. 
 
 We find him at the age of 17 years selling goods in Charles- 
 town, Virginia; afterwards, in Shepherdstown, Virginia; then 
 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Baltimore, Maryland; and from 
 thence he emigrates to Missouri, in 1847. He continues clerk- 
 ing until the year 1851, when the railroad system of Missouri is 
 inaugurated and he enters the service of the Hannibal and St. 
 Joseph railroad compan)^ as engineer, and is placed in charge of 
 the construction of the first division. West. He resigns his 
 position to survey public lands in Kansas and Nebraska, and, 
 after finishing several contracts, commences the real estate 
 brokerage business in St. Joseph, Missouri, which business, in- 
 terj)ersed with railroad enterprises, he continues up to the 
 election of Lincoln, at which time he is Mayor of the city of 
 St. Joseph, President of the Rose Port and Marysville railroad, 
 Secretary of the St. Joseph and Topeka railroad, and directly 
 or indirectly connected with every public enterprise in North- 
 west Missouri. A good many irons for one man to have in the 
 fire, but we have yet to learn that any of them were injured 
 through inattention on his part. 
 
 Upon the result of the election being known, he immediately 
 quit all business and attempted to arouse the people of Missouri 
 and other Border States to their true danger, and induce them 
 to take time by the forelock. The first address after the elec- 
 tion, issued in a Border States, urging their secession, was, we 
 believe, from his pen. He devoted his attention to the military 
 and reorganized a large number of companies in Northwest 
 Missouri, of which he had been chief officer and inspector for 
 several years. Upon the meeting of the Legislature, he visited 
 Jefferson City and remained during the entire sessions, urging 
 the passage of the " Military Bill " and other schemes which 
 would place Missouri in a state of readiness when the storm 
 should bu' St upon her. The preparations had just begun, when 
 Blair and Lyon captured Gen. Frost's command at Camp Jack- 
 son, St. Louis. 
 
 The forces under command of Gen. Thompson, at St. Joseph, 
 prepared to resist any attempt the Federal troops might make 
 toward them, but, by that unfortunate treaty between General 
 Price and Gen. Harnf y, they were disbanded. He started to 
 Virginia to cast his fortunes with his native State, but upon 
 
BECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 59 
 
 arriving at Memphis he found Governor Jackson had called the 
 Missourians into the field, and he immediately returned to Mis- 
 souri. He entered the State in Ripley county, and the next day 
 was elected Lieutenant Colonel of a battalion. In a week he 
 had a regiment, and in two weeks thereafter was elected Briga- 
 dier General of twenty-five hundred brave and earnest men. 
 This was on the 25lh day of July, 1861, and from that day he 
 commenced harrassing the enemy, and until December 1st, there 
 was scarcely a day that he did not exchange shots with them. 
 During the month of October, he fought at Pattonsville, Big 
 River Bridge, Blackwater Station, Frederickstown and Bloom- 
 ington. The months of December and January were spent at 
 New Madrid, Missouri, in disbanding the Missouri State Guard, 
 :md reorganizing the men as Confederate States troops ; yet, in 
 these two months, several excursions broke the monotony of 
 business. The steamboat Platte Valley was captured, the town 
 of Commerce and the steamboat City of Allen felt his presence, 
 and numerous pickets and scouting parties around Bird's Point 
 were compelled to yield their overcoats and arms to his men. 
 He withdrew his men across the swamp before the fall of New 
 Madrid, and when the Western troops were ordered to join 
 Gen. Beauregard, at Corinth, he marched down the Crowley 
 Ridge to Helena, and from tlience by boat Avent to Memphis. 
 He here found that the river defence fleet, known as the "Cot- 
 ton-boat Fleet," needed gunners and marines, and immediately 
 volunteered his artillery and infantry. They were gladly ac- 
 cepted, and on the 10th of May, above Fort Pillow, he gained 
 the first naval victory on the Mississippi river. There was no 
 little chagrin felt and expressed by naval officers, who had been 
 so long resting on their oars and rusting with inactivity, when 
 a land lubber from Western plains showed them " some things 
 could be done as well as others." The defeat at Memphis might 
 have turned out a victory, had he and his men been aboard. 
 
 After the fall of Memphis, he was placed in charge of the 
 lines around that city, and while in the performance of his duty 
 made ^veral narrow escapes from being captured. From 
 thence he was transfeired to Pontchatoula," Louisiana, to watch 
 Beast Butler's movements. 
 
 The remoteness of th«i scene of action, on which Gen. Thomp- 
 son has been engaged since the commencement of the war, has 
 prevented so full an account of his exploits being recorded in 
 the newspapers as of other leaders of his class, whose advan- 
 tures have figured more conspifuously in the letters of army 
 correspondents. Several battles have beon'fotight in Missouri 
 and the Southwest, besides skirmishes without number, that 
 only find a r<'Cord in the terse sentences of the official re}»ort 
 filed away in the war offire. When an authentic history of the 
 Trans-Mississippi campaigns shall be written, the readers, who 
 have had but a vague idea of facts, formed by a stray paragraph, 
 
^0 THE WOMEN OF THE 
 
 now and then, in the daily press, will be astonished at their 
 matmitiule, and the hardships and severe labors of the gallant 
 men Avho have accomplished wonders with such insignificant 
 means as have been placed at their disposal. In most of these 
 exploits, the subject of our sketch has figured conspicuously 
 and has won for himself the entire confidence of the men who 
 have followed him. With the exception of Gen. Price, there is, 
 perhaps, no man around whom the Missourians would more 
 enthusiastically rally than Jeff. Thompson, if sent among them. 
 We trust, ere many months, his sabre will flash on the plains of 
 Northern Missouri, and the echoings of his horn will arouse the 
 brave spirits of that region as in the early days of the war,, 
 when, with his gallant little band, he put his foot on one of the 
 main arteries of the enemy and defied his trained legions. 
 
 Since writing the above, we have seeti a proof-impression of 
 the engraving accompanying this sketch. The artist has flat- 
 tered the original by making the features more regular and more 
 youthful-looking than they really are. Lest any of our young 
 lady readers shall fall in love with the General, on seeing his- 
 picture, we take occasion to inform them that he is a married 
 man, with two or three children. — Illustrated Hews. 
 
 OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE NAVAL ENGAGEMENT AT 
 GALVESTON, TEXAS. 
 
 Headquarteks Galveston, Texas. 
 This morning, the 1st January, at 3 o'clock, I attacked the 
 enemy's fleet and garrison at this place, and captured the latter 
 and the steamer Harriet Lane, and two barges, and a schooner 
 of the former. The rest, some four or five, escaped igno- 
 miniously under cover of a flag of truce. I have about six 
 hundred prisoners and a large quantity of valuable stores, arms, 
 etc. The Harriet Lane is very little injured. She was carried 
 by boarding from two high-pressure cotton steamers, manned 
 by Texas cavalry and artillery. The line troops were gallantly ■ 
 commanded by Colonel Green, of Sibley's brigade, and the ships 
 and artillery by Major Leon Smith, to whose indomitable energy 
 and heroic daring the country is indebted for the successful 
 execution of a plan which 1 had considered for the destruction 
 of the enemy's fleet. Colonel Eagby, of Sibley's brigade, also 
 commanded the volunteers from his regiment for the naval ex- 
 pedition in which every oflicer and every man won for himself 
 imperishable renown. 
 
 (Signed) J. BANKHEAD MAGRUDER, 
 
 Major General. 
 
SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 61 
 
 INTERPSTING ORDER OF MAJOR GENERAL MAGRUDER- 
 COMPLIMhNTARY ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF THE DARIKG 
 AND GALLAHTRY OF OFF CEES AND MEN WHO VIED 
 WITH EACH OTHER IN THE GREAT NAVAL ENGAGE- 
 MENT WITH THE BLOCKADING FLEET ON THE COAST 
 OF TEXAS. 
 
 Headquakters District of Texas, 
 New Mexico axb Arizoxa, 
 Houston, Texas, March 11, 1863. 
 General Orders, Ko. 45. 
 
 The Commanding General, having been prevented by various 
 circumstances from acknowledging the services of the brave 
 Major Watkins, and the gallant officers aijd men under his com- 
 mand, in the recent victory at Sabine Pass, takes this occasion 
 to return them his official thanks for the accomplishment of a 
 purpose of great importance to us, and their participation in an 
 exploit ahnost unparalleled in tlie annals, of warfare. After 
 driving the enc'tny's blockading squadron from our immediate 
 waters, these devoted and heroic men, in their frail l)oats, pur- 
 sued him hoine iliiiiy miles to hca, and alter a tight of nearly 
 two hours, (in an element on which he considered himself in- 
 vincibK', c;iptured a ship of war of nine guns and an armed 
 scluioner of two guns, ot the United States Navy, forcing their 
 commanding officers to surrender at discretion. The perse- 
 verance, industry and firmness of the commanding officer. Major 
 Oscar M. Watkins, of the Provisional Army, were only equalled 
 by his intrepidity, admirable coolness, aqd skill in battle. En- 
 tirely unaccustomed to the sea, his devotion overcame all obsta- 
 cles, lie was ably and heroically seconded by Captains Fowler 
 and Johnson, respective commanders of the steamers l>ell and 
 Uncle Ben, by Captains Odium, O'Brien, Nolen and Aycock, 
 Lieutenants Dowling and Aiken, of the land forces, and by the 
 eagineers, pilots, troops and crews ol the expedition. 
 
 The Commanding General takes pleasure in announcing to 
 the officers alid men of Texas, land and naval, that their he- 
 roic example has been followed successfully throughout the 
 Confederacy. The echo of their cannon at Galveston and Sabine 
 had not died away' ere they were taken up at Charleston, and 
 reverbrated in glory along the Mississippi. 
 
 His Excellency, the President, has addressed a letter of con- 
 gratulation iuid tiianks to the Commanding General and gallant 
 men of Texas, engaged in these noble enleri)rise8. Congress 
 has unanimously passed a vote of thanks, in acknowledgment of 
 their services. The whole country has been electrified by the 
 daring and skill of Tcxans, while the hearts of their comrades, 
 batthng in the North lor their homes and altars, have been 
 made to beat with piidc and joy, by the news of battles fought 
 and victories won on the beloved soil of their glorious Slate. 
 To the true soldier there can be no greater reward. 
 
g2 "THE WOMEN OF TUE 
 
 Much has been done ; but raucb remains to be done. Our 
 mortal foe is again gathering his strength for another and still 
 another bIow;"but the Commanding General of the Army of 
 Texas is confident that his troops will return these blows, and 
 Avill astonish still more their enemies and the world, by such 
 evidences of skill and audacity, as shall make Texan a better 
 word than Spartan. 
 
 With this assurance, he leaves for a short time this immediate 
 scene of his labors, to secure other points and prepare other 
 fields of glory, confident that the officers and men of his com- 
 mand will use all the means in their power to perfect themselves 
 in such a knowledge and practice of their profession as will 
 ensure the fulfilment of the highest expectations of their friends 
 and country. 
 
 By command of J. BANKHEAD MAGRUDER, 
 
 Major General. 
 
 Stephex D. Yancey, A. A. A. G. 
 
 — l^^ lM l t I t llB 
 
 YANKEE ACCOUNT OP THE CAPTUEE OF THE DIANA. 
 
 Port Hudson^, April 4. 
 The New Orleans "Era," of the 2d inst., contains the parti- 
 culars of the capture of the Federal gunboat Diana, on Sunday 
 last, a few miles above Brashear City, on Atshafalaya Bayou, by 
 a portion of Sibley's command. It says : " The Diana was com- 
 manded by Captain Peterson, and had aboard Company A, 12th 
 Connecticut, and Cotopany F, 16th New York — in all, one hun- 
 dred and twenty officers, privates and sailors, all of whom fell 
 into the hands of the Confederates, together with the boat. 
 She mounted one thirty-four pounder Parrott, two thirty- two 
 smooth bores, and two twelve pounder guns. The boat was 
 badly damaged. The report of the engagement at Atchafalaya 
 was distinctly heard at Brashear City. General Weitzel com- 
 manding, immediately sent the gunboat Calhoyn to assist the 
 Diana, but having no pilot, the Calhoun grounded and came 
 near sharing the same fate. A South wind raised the water and 
 released the Calhoun. The Confederate loss was unknown. 
 The Federals lost three officers and two 2>i"ivates killed." — 1863. 
 
 MEN WHOSE NAMES SHOULD NEVEE DIE. 
 
 When Brigadier General Garland, of Virginia, fell mortally 
 wounded on the bloody field of Sharpsburg, his Aid rode up to 
 the dying hero with the inquiry, " Are you hurt. General ?" 
 
 " Yes," he answered, " I am dying — go teil the senior Colonel 
 of this Brigade to assume command." 
 
 Was there ever a more illustrious example of devotion to 
 duty than this ? Does history furnish a parallel ? The name of 
 
SECOND AMERI^JlN REVOLUTION. 63 
 
 Garland might might ■well be inscribed on a monument to those 
 whose latest breath murmured forth the accents of patriotism. 
 
 But not among Generals alone do w« find ever memorable 
 illustrations of all that is ennobling 'and all that is divine in 
 human impulses and character. The armies of the South fur- 
 nish from among the common soldiery instances of heroism and 
 of an inextinguishal)Ie love of glory which no recorded example 
 of human greatness transcends in ennobling characteristics. 
 
 When Sergeant Spithaler, of the Swiss Rifles, fell mortally 
 wounded on the battle-field of Perryville, his thigh crushed and 
 torn by a cannon shot, Colonel Tyle»', his commanding officer, 
 went to him, saying, '• let me have you removed to the rear." 
 
 "No?" said the. expirinsj officer, "let me die on the battle- 
 field." 
 
 His name should never be stricken from the roll of his com- 
 pany, and whenever it is called, let some war worn comrade 
 answer as was done for one who fell thus in the old war for in- 
 ('ependence — let som<? old veteran answer, '•'■Dead on the 
 Field:' 
 
 THE CONFEDERATE NAVY. 
 
 Since the days of Paul Jones there have been no achievements 
 of a single ship in naval warfare as brilliant as those of the 
 Alabama. Captain Semmes has won for himself and his country 
 imperishable laurels. The Florida, which has just put to sea, 
 under her gallant commander, bids fair to rival the renown of 
 the Alabama. The Xavy Department and the Confederate 
 Congress ought to devote their utmost energies to putting more 
 ships afloat, and giving an opportunity to our gallant naval ofli- 
 cers to distinguish themselves and render service to the Con- 
 federacy. The ocean is the only arena upon which we can carry 
 on aggressive warfare ag.ainst the Yankees, and touch them in 
 the vital spot of both their pride and interests. The extreme 
 sensitiveness manifested in their commercial circles to the 
 oper.ations of a single ship, the Alabama, shows us their weak 
 spot, and we should strike at it with ail our power. With all 
 the bot'Sted prowess of the Yankees upon the deep, we believe 
 that a Confederate navy can be built up which will make the 
 sea as uncomfortable to them as the shore, and drive their com- 
 merce — the pource of ali their wealth — f'-cm the face of the 
 oecan. — Disjyateh. 
 
 THE EABLY CASEER OF THE FLORIDA-SEVEN VESSELS 
 DESTROYED. 
 
 The privateer Oreto ran the blockade of Mobile, on the 13th 
 January, 1S5S, nntwithstan-ling there were nine United StatCH 
 
64 TirE -WOMEN OF THE 
 
 vessels of war stationed off the bar, and with full information 
 that she was meditating an escape. The steamers Cuyler and 
 Oneida chased the Oreto, the latter of which had returned to 
 •the fleet off JMobile. It "is supposed that the Cuyler followed 
 the Oreto to Havana, to which place it was thought that she 
 would go. On her way to Havana she destroyed the brig 
 Katelle, of Boston. 
 
 On tlie afternoon of the 22(3, four miles from the coast, the 
 pirate fell in with the brig Windward, Captain Roberts, from 
 Matanzas, with a cargo of molasses for Portland. The Wind- 
 ward was seized and burned, and the crew sent ashore in their 
 own boat. Her cargo belonged to Spanish merchants. On the 
 morning of the 23d, off Cardenas, the Oreto captured and 
 burned the brig Cora Ann, of Mechias, Maine, Captain Small, 
 from Philadelphia, laden with shucks. She was burnt only one 
 mile from land and the captain and crew sent into Cardenas in 
 their own boat. Soon after, the Oreto captured two mo'-e brigs, 
 just out from Cardenas, burned one and sunk the other. A 
 rchooner, which arrived at Havana on the nmrning of the 28th 
 states that the Oreto was last seen with the British flag flying, 
 steering for the Bahamas. 
 
 A letter from Havana, dated 24th January, says : " Nothing 
 is talked of here but the airopities cominitted by the rebel pirate 
 Maflit. The Florida has captuied and destroyed four merchant 
 vessels with valuable cargoes. 
 
 The Florida was pursued, after leaving Mobile, by the Federal 
 steamer Cuyler. Captain Maftitt hauled to, and gave her a shot 
 cutting away the foremast.. The Cuyler was so disiabled that 
 she had to cease pursuit. 
 
 The " World" says that the exploits of the Florida caused 
 profound excitement in New York Thursday, and well they 
 might, as she is as swift as the Alabama, stronger, and carries 
 heavier guns. The Florida is commanded by an oflicer who. 
 believes in fighting. 
 
 Thus it will be seen that in her first week's cruise she de- 
 stroyed seven vessels. Hurrah for the Confederate war steamer 
 Florida. H. W. R. J. 
 
 BRILLIANT NAVAL VICTORY-ACCOUNTS FROM EYE 
 
 WITNESSES. 
 
 In the following we give full particulars of the Confederate 
 Naval victory, by which the blockade of the port of Charleston 
 has been effectually raised : 
 
 At about 11 o'clock on Friday night, February 27, the Pal- 
 metto >State, in command of Captain Rutledge, and with the 
 Flag officer. Commodore D, N. Ingraham on board, together 
 
SECOND AM3EIR1CAN KETOLUTION. 65 
 
 with the Chicora, commanded by Captain Jno. Ti. Tucker, cast 
 off from the wharf, and with tlieir prows turned seaward steamed 
 across the Cooper. The moon was shining brightly, there was 
 not a cloud on the face of the blue sky, and the surface of the 
 water was smooth and glassy as a mill pond. Nature seemed 
 to smile upon the enterprise, and water, gky and wind presented 
 a most delightful manifestation" of the divine favor toward our 
 just and noble cause. 
 
 The deep silence that brooded over the water was 6nly broken 
 by the gurgle of the screws, as the iron covered vessels moved 
 slowly over the bay. Having reached Fort Sumter, they came 
 to anchor, and there awaited the going down of the moon. 
 
 At three o'clock, the report of two guns echoed through the 
 air. That was the signal for their departure, and once more 
 the gunboats are in motion. Silently they move through the 
 darkness, urging their course with all speed, so as to come upon 
 the unsuspecting war vessels before the dawn of day. 
 
 The undertaking promised rich rewards, and the nearer the 
 monsters drew to the hostile ships, the more impertinent and 
 resolved became the gallant men who were beneath their iron 
 roofs. Never did the little vessels seem to move so sluggishly,, 
 and most closely did the officers and crew scan the clear horizon,, 
 iearing that the light would steal over the sea before they 
 reached the blockading fleet. 
 
 But deep darkness is still on the deep, and they are near the 
 enemy. Commodore Ingraham descries a black form just ahead, 
 and the sharp bow of the Palmetto State is tnrned upon the 
 object. Nearer and nearer with all steam on moves the iron 
 vessel. A crash is heard, and the ram of the gunboat penetrates 
 the wooden side of one of Lincoln's blockaders. And while 
 the water was washing into the hole, the guns of the Palmetto 
 State opened upon the hostile vessel. 
 
 The oflicer in command of the Mercedita, sfeing it was folly 
 to contend Avith such an antagonist, immediately struck his flag 
 and surrendered. In a short time the vessel went down. All 
 this time Captain Tucker, of the Chicora, was laying about liim 
 vigorously right and left. The shells from his guns sot fire to a 
 large ship of war, and she lowered her flag. He sunk, it is be- 
 lieved, another vessel, and the two monsters threw shot and 
 shell at the otl'.er vessels that, seeing the fate that had bci.illen 
 their comrades, turned their bows to the sea .ind were making 
 their best speed to get beyond the reach of danger. Not one 
 of them showed any disposition to continue the fight; but, 
 careless ot the honor of that flag they profess to adore, their 
 cowardly hearts thoroughly possessed by fear, they fled ^fith all 
 the speed their sails and engines en.able<l them to coi/\mand. 
 But though they fled so precipitately, we have no doubt that 
 many of the seventeen carried away with them som^ painful 
 remembrance of that terrible surprise, while it is positively 
 
gg THE WOEEN OF THE 
 
 kao.wn that several, who succeeded in -making good their escape, 
 were severely injured. 
 
 When the morning light broke not one of the fleet was in 
 sif^ht. The gunboats cruised many miles seaward from the bar, 
 but the glasses revealed nothing within the range of vision. 
 
 The success of that attack is most gratifying, and coming so 
 soon after the brilliant exploit performed by Magruder, at Gal- 
 veston, it carries unspeakable joy to the hearts of the country. 
 
 "We cannot speak in too high terms of praise of the judgment, 
 skill and intrepidity that marked the undertaking, and its suc- 
 cessful accomplishment. Had it been possible, the entire fleet 
 would have been sunk or disabled. 
 
 Commodore Ingraham, Captain Rutiedge and Tucker, and 
 the ofiicers under them, as well as their brave crew» deserve our 
 profound and hearty gratitude. 
 
 We are indebted to several friends on board the Palmetto 
 State for the following account of her operations. We also give 
 the account of our Special Reporter, who was on board one of 
 the tenders. These accounts contain all the particulars of the 
 expedition and engagement, and show that it has been a bril- 
 liant and glorious success on our side, limited only by the 
 cowardly action of the blockaders. They fled, small and large, 
 without even making a show of fight, notwithstanding the pre- 
 sence of two forty-gun frigates, the Susquehaunah and Canan- 
 daigua. Their loss, however, is known to be severe. Two of 
 their vessels are known to be sunk, while several were fired and 
 went ofl" in a damaged condition. 
 
 THE MOVEMENTS OF THE PALMETTO STATE. 
 
 At eleven o'clock Friday night the gunboat Palmetto State, 
 Captain Rutiedge, bearing the flag of Commodore Duncan, N. 
 Ingraham, left her mooring and proceeded out the harbor to- 
 wards. Fort Sumter, Abreast of Fort Sumter, she passed the 
 three steamers acting as tenders, the Gen. Clinch, Edwin and 
 Chesterfield. At 4:30 A. M. the Palmetto State crossed the 
 bar, and stood out at sea in the direction of the blockading fleet. 
 At 5:20 A. M. we came up to the United States steamer Merce- 
 dita, and were hailed by the watch on deck, when the following 
 colloquy took place : 
 
 Watch. — What steamer is that ? Drop your anchor — back — 
 back — and be careful, or you will run into us. 
 
 Captain Rutiedge. — This is the Confederate States steamer 
 Pahnetto State. 
 
 As the answer was given the Palmetto State, with full steam 
 up, ran into the Mercedita, the bow striking her right about 
 midships and making an entrance of about three leet. At the 
 same time our bow gun was fired with a seven inch incendiary 
 shell. We immediately backed out, when the Mercedita hauled 
 down her flag. They were ordered to send a boat to us, and 
 Lieut. T. Abbot, commanding, came oS" with a boat's crew and 
 
SECOND AJIEEICAN REVOLUTION. UT 
 
 surrendered his vessel iu the name of Commodore Slell wagon, 
 of the Mercedita, carrying seven gvms, and one hundred and 
 fi(ty-eiglit men. He stated that his vessel was in a sinking Con- 
 dition, and begged our officers to relieve them. A shot had 
 pierced her boiler, which had burst and scalded a large number 
 of men. Lieut. Abbott begged Commodore Ingraham to take 
 the men with him on board the Palmetto State, as in their haste 
 to come to us they had neglected to put in the plug, and their 
 small boat was only kept afloat by the strenuous eflbrts of the 
 men bailing the boat. He also stated that the water in the 
 Mercedita had, at the time of his leaving, already risen as liigh 
 as the engine floor. 
 
 Commodore Ingraham regretted that he could not comply 
 with the request as he had no room to accommodate them aboard 
 of his vessels and no small boats or any other means of aftbrdin^ 
 them relief. Lieut. Abbot then pledged his word of honor for 
 the oflScers and crew of the Mercedita not to serve in any. man- 
 ner against the Confederate States until regularly exchanged, 
 upon which condition he was sent on board his own vessel. The 
 Mercedita was taken completely by surprise. They were roused 
 from their slumbers by the shock, the men not having scarcely 
 time to dress themselves. Lieut. Abbott and the men with 
 him were nearly all destitute of clothing. 
 
 The Palmetto State, leaving the Mercedita to her fate, stood 
 out to sea, and engaged several other vessels of the Abolition 
 blockading fleet, occasionally exchanging shots. The latter, 
 however, fled at our approach, firing at long distances, and 
 leaving us far astern. One or two shots were exchanged with 
 tlie United States frigate Powhatan. The latter, however, fol- 
 lowed the example of her companions, and fled. We then stood 
 Northward, towards the Chicora, which at this time was almost 
 surrounded by the enemy's vessels. At 8 A. M. there being no 
 more of the Abolition fleet in sight, we stoo<l back to the en- 
 trance of Beach Channel, having signalled the Chicora to return. 
 On passing we were saluted by Forts Moultrie, Stimter and 
 Riplev, and arrived at the wharf in the citv a little befor'» si\ 
 P. M.' 
 
 THE MOVEMENTS OF THE CHKOKA. 
 
 The Chicora, Captain John R. Tucker, started from hor wharf 
 at half-past eleven Friday night, .and crossed the bar at 4:30 A. 
 M. ^\ e c<>mmeu<:ed action at 5:05. The Palmett*^ State en- 
 gaged an Abolition vessel on the right, while we en ' ' ■ 
 one on the left. As we pa^ed th<' Ijlorkader on thf 
 Palmetto State was lyin^' '•■ of her. K' ■ 
 course, we proceeded to "' y yards of »1 • 
 left, and then gave her a ' our bow 
 at the time beinir under • viy W 
 gave her th.e full 
 She immc'Vi'tolv _ 
 
OS TlIE AVOMEN OF THE 
 
 tress to the rest of the fleet. The last seen of her by signal 
 officer Saunders, she was stern down very low in the water, "and 
 disai'ipeared very suddenly. Tliis vessel is supposed to have 
 o-one down. Notwithstanding the Chicora immediately steamed 
 towards her, nothing could be discovered of the vessel. 
 
 The Chicora proceeding farther out to sea, stood northward 
 and eastward, and met two vessels apparently coming to the 
 relief of the missing steamer. We engaged them. One of 
 them alter iiring a few guns, withdrew. Standing to the north-" 
 ward, about daybreak we steamed up to a small side-wheel, two- 
 masted steamers, and endeavored to come to close quarters, 
 She kept clear of us, driving away as rapidly as possible, not, 
 however, without receiving our compliments and carrying with 
 her four or five shots. Shortly after the steamship Quaker City, 
 another side-wheel steamer came gallantly bearing down upon 
 the Chjcora and commaiced firing at long range. Neither 
 would permit our boat to get within a respectable distance. Two 
 of our shots struck the Quaker City and she left apparently 
 perfectly satisfied, in a crippled condition. Another side-wheel, 
 tAVO-masted steamer, with walking beams now steamed toward 
 the Chicora, coming down on our stern. Captain Tucker per- 
 ceiving it, we rounded to, and proceeded until within about five 
 hundred yards, wheif the belligerent steamer also rounded to, 
 and gave us both broadsides, and a shot from her pivot gun. 
 We fired our forward gun with an incendiary shell, and struck 
 her just forward of her wheel-house, setting her on fire, dis- 
 abling and stopping her port wheel. This vessel was fired both 
 fore and aft, and volumes of smoke observed to issue from every 
 aperture. As we neared her she hauled doAvn her flag and 
 made a signal of surrender, l)ut still kejjt under Avay with her 
 starboard wheel, and changing her direction. This was just 
 after daybreak. We succeeded in catching this vessel, bl;t 
 having surrendered, and the Captain supposing her boiler struck 
 and the escaping steam preventing the engineers from going 
 into the engine room to 6top her ; ordered us not to fire. She 
 thus made her escape. After this vessel had got out of our 
 reach, to the perfectly safe distance of about three miles, she 
 fired her last rifled gun, again hoisted her flag, setting all sails, 
 and firing her rifled gun repeatedly at us as she left. 
 
 The Chicora now engaged six more of the enemy's vessels at 
 one time — three side-wheel steamers and three propellers — all 
 at long range. Discovering that the flag boat. Palmetto State, 
 standing in towards the shore, orders were given to follow her. 
 On our return we again came across a thi'ee-masted bark rigged 
 vessel, which wc engaged, firing our guns as we passed, striking 
 her once or twice. We then kept on our course to the Bar, 
 having sustained no damage in the action, nor a single casualty 
 on board. The last ship mentioned above kept firing at us until 
 we got clear out of range, and we giving them our return com- 
 
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 pliments. One of t,he blockaders was certainly sunk. Wo 
 engaged her at the distance of only one hundred yards, and she 
 settled down with her stern clear under water. 
 
 The Chicora anchored in Beach Channel, at 8:30 A. M., and 
 arrived at her wharf in the city about six o'clock, receiving a 
 salute from all the forts and batteries as she passed on her re- 
 turn. The number of shots fired by the Chicora during the 
 whole engagement was twenty-seven, mostly incendiary shells. 
 Lieut. Gaskoll commanded the forward pivot gun, assisted by 
 Midshipman Pinckey ; Lieutenant W. IL* Wall, tlio after pivot ; 
 Master Mason, the starboard broadside ; Master Payne, the lar 
 board broadside. 
 
 The different divisions were commanded by 1st Lieut. G. IL 
 Bier and Lieut. J. C. Claybrook, assisted by Midshijjmen R. H. 
 Bacot and Signal Officer Saunders. 
 
 The Pilots of the Chicora were Messrs. Thomas Payne and 
 Aldrich. 
 
 The results of the engagement are : Two vessels sunk, four 
 set on fire, and the remainder driven away. 
 
 CAPTURE OF TUE GUNBOAT ISAAC SMITH, IX STOXO EIVEE. 
 
 The Isaac Smith, which was captured in Stono River by our 
 troops, is an iron-screw steamer of 453 tons, and carried eight 
 eight-inch navy guns or sixty-eight pounders and seven-inch 
 thirty pound Parrot gun. She was commanded at the time by 
 Capt. F. S. Ccnover. llcr crew consisted of eleven officers and 
 one hundred and five men, of whom eight were killed andfifleen 
 wounded. She was towed up on Saturday morning by the 
 steamer Sumter to a place of safety under the guns of Fort 
 Pembertoii, and will probably be brought to the city to-day for 
 repairs. The Parrot gun was brought on the Sumter, on Sun- 
 day morning, to the city, and now lies on Southern wharf. 
 
 The steamer's upper works are badly dam.aged by our shot, 
 and the masts pierced with l)ullets. Her sides also give evidence 
 of the accuracy of our shot. She will be repaired immediately 
 and made ready for sea. Ninety-three prisoners, including 
 three negroes, arrived in the city on Saturday morning, under 
 escort of a detachment of the Charleston Battalion. They were 
 taken to Gen. Ripley's Headquarters, and ordered to tlie Pro- 
 vost ^larshal's Office, Lieut. Col. Gaillard, who registered their 
 names and turned them over to the care of Mr. Milligan, at the 
 Charleston jail. 
 
 From one of the prisoners, who appears to be a very iutelli- 
 gent person, vc gather the following account: 
 
 " Early Friday morning we were practicing at a target on 
 Cole's Island. In the afternoon started up Stono River and 
 dropped anchor a little above Grimball's plantation. We wero 
 preparing supper and the mess were pi]>ed up when a battery 
 immediately .above us on James' Island, opened fire. The first 
 shot that struck us entered the stern of the vessel, di-molishing 
 
70 THE "WOMEN OF THE 
 
 our crockery, kettles,- tfec, killing three men, besides wounding; 
 otherg. This shot apparently came from a clump of trees. We 
 immediately got up anchor, and the men beat to quarters. Our 
 guns were fired in the direction of the battery from were the 
 shot came, when another cross firing was opened on the boat 
 from a battery right ahead, supposed to be at Legare's place on 
 John's Island. We ran down as far as the turning of the river, 
 where some wooden spiles were driven iu ; another battery now 
 opened on us, Takiijg the vessel fore and aft and amidships. 
 The boat had gone a little farther when a shot struck the steam 
 condenser, and crippling the machinery, put a stop to our 
 further progress. We then struck our flag and surrendered the 
 boat. After the surrender, the gunboat Commodore Mc- 
 Donough steamed up to the assistance of the Isaac Smith, and 
 commenced firing, as the prisoners were landing, the Smith's 
 Ensign and Pennant at the time having been turned. The Isaac 
 Smith has been in service in Stono River about four months. 
 
 Charlkstox, February 1. 
 The following is the official proclamation in regard to the 
 raising of the blockade : 
 
 Hkadquaktees Naval akd Land Foeces, [ 
 Charleston, S. C, Jan. 31, 1863. \ 
 About the hour of five o'clock, this morning, the Confederate 
 States Naval Forces on this station attacked the United States 
 blockading fleet off the harbor of the city of Cliarleston, and 
 sunk, dispersed or drove off and out of sight, for a time, the 
 entire hostile fleet. Therefore, we, the undersigned. Com- 
 manders respectively of the Confederate States Naval and Land 
 Forces in this quarter, do hereby formally declare the blockade 
 by the United States of the said city of Charleston, S. C, to be 
 raised by a superior force of the Confederate States, from and 
 after this' 31 St day of January, A. D., 1863. 
 
 (Signed) * G. T. BEAUREGAKD, 
 
 General Commanding.. 
 (Signed) D. N. INGRAMAM, 
 
 Comrnandinof Naval Forces in South Carolina,, 
 • Oflicial : THOS. JORDAN, Chief of Staff. 
 
 Richmond, January 31. 
 
 The Secretary of State has notified the Foreign Consuls that 
 he has received official information of the opening of the block- 
 ade off Charleston. 
 
 The belief here is that the blockade cannot be renewed within. 
 sixty days. 
 
 The Foreign Consuls here (Charleston) held a meeting last 
 night. They are unanimously of the opinion that the blockade 
 of this port is legally raised. 
 
SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 71 
 
 CONFEDERATE VICTORY- YANKEE ARMADA REPULSED 
 WITH GREAT LOSS. 
 
 At Charleston, on the evening of the Tth of April, 1863, at 
 half-past tw o o'clock, the Yankee fleet 6f Monitors, accompanied 
 by the Ironsides, made an attack upon Fort Sumter with a view 
 to reducing that famous stronghold. They concentrated their 
 fire mainly upon that Fort.. A considerable quantity of metal 
 was, however, thrown at Fort Moultrie and Battery Bee. As 
 the fleet approached the winding of the channel brought them 
 within six hundred yards of Fort Moultrie, which gave her an 
 opportunity to fire the first gun in the glorious repulse of that 
 boasted invulnerable Yankee fleet. 
 
 The steamer Passaic was the leader in the attack. After an 
 engagement of twenty minutes she retired disabled, and was 
 soon followed by seven others, all in turn having received a 
 severe caetigation. The Keokuck remained longest in the con- 
 flict, having trusted in her vaunted invulnerability. Scarce 
 twenty minutes sufiiced, however, for her to adopt the proverb, 
 "He that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day,"' 
 and withdrew trom the scene of action, in a sinking condition, 
 about five o'clock in the evening. Thus ended in one single 
 day, aye, in a few short hours, the attack uj^on Charleston ; the 
 preparations for which required lull two years of time and a 
 cost of upwards of one hundred millions of dollars to the Abo- 
 lition Tankee nation. 
 
 It is an established fact that the troops in the various forts 
 and batteries constituting the bay and harbor defences of 
 Charleston with a universal shout of joy leaped to their guns 
 when they saw the hour of trial of their skill, the strength of 
 their works and the virtue of their guns and mettle was at hand. 
 The first volley from each fort and battery was accompanied 
 with a shout of defiance that rend the air and reverberated from 
 fort to fort and from battery to battery. 
 
 They felt every confidence in their ability to frustrate the de- 
 vices of the foe, and with a determination to do, or die, in the 
 protection of that famed city, from the poluting presence of a 
 hated enemy who with boastful threats and the most formidable 
 preparations had made his appearance. 
 
 But, while speaking of the valor and daring oi our tr'io] s 
 (that manod the guns which have done such terriTtle cx( cT.tion 
 'nj sinking the Keokuk, the most formidable double-turreted 
 
72 TILE WOMEN OF THE 
 
 Monitor and disabling eight otters who in time withdrew from 
 the contest to save themselves from destruction, having thought 
 prudence the better part of valor,) we must not forget ' the 
 proper head, 'the ever-vigilant and sagacious leader General 
 Beauregard, who some days previous, through mysterious 
 sources of information, expected an attack at an early day ; that 
 intelligence received confirmation on Sunday niorning, when 
 four Monitors, the Ironsides and thirty vessels of various sizes 
 were seen off the Bar. Four Monitors and thirty-five wooden 
 vessels were added to the fleet, the following- day thirty-five 
 vessels, for the most part transports, appeared in the Stono, and' 
 the enemy lauded a force of about six thousand men on Coles' 
 and Battery Islands. These facts, with other indications, lead 
 General Beaaregard, to count upon an attack on Tuesday, and 
 the expectations of that sagacious and watchful General were 
 realized. 
 
 Between two and three o'clock m the afternoon a dispatch 
 from Col. Rhett, commandant of Fort Sumter, informed Gen. 
 Beauregard that, the fleet were approaching the fort. The 
 action was opened, by Fort Moultrie firing the first gun. Fort 
 Sumter opens ten minutes later. Battery Bee, Forts Wagner 
 and Beauregard, and the Battery at Cummins' Point, also, 
 opened, firing by battery. The fleet fired with great rapidity ; 
 our forts and batteries replies with spirit and singular accu- 
 racy. The Ironsides took position to the left at Fort Sumter, 
 directing all her guns at that Fort, and throwing shells exclu- 
 sively. 
 
 It was manifest that the Ironsides appointed to test the 
 strength of the fort, whose reduction was the inauguration of 
 the terrific contest now going on. Fort Sumter acknowledge 
 the compliment of the preference by pouring the contents of 
 her biggest guns into the sides of that pride of the Yankee 
 navy, and she was not treated with contempt by the other fortf* 
 and batteries. 
 
 About forty-five minutes after the engagement began, steam 
 was seen issuing, in dense volumes, from the Ironsides, and she 
 withdrew from the action, taking position to the south of Fort 
 Sumter, but remaining a silent spectator of the exciting scene. 
 She was seriously damaged. 
 
 The fight continued till forty-fire minutes past five o'clock, 
 when the last of the fleet, the Keokuk, steamed away and came 
 
SECOND AMEEICAN REVOLDTION. 73 
 
 to .anchor off Morris' Island, where she sunk. Next mornino- 
 only her smoke stack remained visible. 
 
 During the battle, a drummer boy, named Ahreene, was killed 
 at Fort Sumter and five men wounded, two severely in the head, 
 the other slightly. A shot passed through Fort Sumter's Hag. 
 
 Colonel Khett'was in command of Fort .Sumter, Col. Butler, 
 of Fort Moultrie, Capt. Sitgraves of Fort Beauregard, Lieut. 
 Col. Simkins of Battery Bee, Major linger of Battery Wagner, 
 and Lieut. Lesevne, with a detachment from Fort Sumtor, of the 
 Battery on Cummins' point. 
 
 Fort Sumter was hit thirty-four times, but received no mate- 
 rial injury. Six men belonging to Cai)tain Mathews' Artillery 
 Company, stationed at Battery Wagner, were wounded. Two 
 of these have since died. Two were very seriously wounded, 
 and it was thought one would die before morning. The other 
 two, including an officer, were but slightly wounded. 
 
 The last gun was fired by the enemy at half-past five, V. M. 
 
 There were no casualties at the Cummins' Point Battery. 
 
 The flag staff of Fort Moultrie -vyas shot away and one man 
 killed by its fall. The fort itself received no injury -whatever. 
 The chimney of one house was taken off by a ball and the roof 
 of another house was struck by a fragment of sliell. 
 
 Thus is summed up tlie amount of damage sustained in that 
 terrible and formidable attack by the hated Yankees, who came 
 with a fixed purpose to destroy the cradle of secession and the 
 nest of rebellion, (according to their version.) # 
 
 The Keokuk was one of the most powerful o^her class, and 
 her loss will be a staggering blow to the enemy. She was built 
 last spring and summer, in accordance with plans furnished by 
 Mr. Whitney, an iron merchant of New York, and was said to 
 be impervious to the largest shot or shell capable of being 
 thrown from the most formidable fortification. Her armament 
 consisted of two fifteen inch Dahlgreens — one in eiich turret. 
 Thus ends one of the boasted invulnerable fleet, wliich, it has 
 long been trumpeted forth, could not be sunk, but would de- 
 molish and wipe out everything that opi)Osed their })rogres8. 
 
 The results, so far, lias elated our people and given the highest 
 satisfaction to our military commanders. 
 
 The nondescript, or " Yankee Devil," lur cieariug the clianncl, 
 was washed ashore on ^lon is' Island yesterd.iy, and is now in 
 our possession. It is described as an old acow-like vessel, 
 
■^4 THE "WOMEN OF THE 
 
 painted red, with a long protruding beak and jutting iron prongs 
 or *claw8^ intended for the removal and bursting of torpedoes. 
 It was attached to the Passaic, the leading vessel, and managed 
 by her during the engagement. 
 
 Two of the small boats belonging to the Keokuk have been 
 secured by our men on Morris' Island. 
 
 It is.a curious coincidence of war that the commanders Gene- 
 rals Beauregard, Ripley, Colonel Rhett, Lieut. Col. Yates, and 
 nearly all the garrison of Fort Sumter, .were the same men who 
 were the chief actors in the bloodless reduction of Fort Sumter 
 in April, 1861, and who have now so gloriously and successfully 
 repelled a formidable attack upon this famous fortress, while in 
 their keeping. 
 
 A YANKEE ESTIMATE OF GEH. BEAUREGARD. 
 
 The New York " World," in speaking of the fight at Charles- 
 ton, makes the following allusion to Gen. Beauregard: 
 
 One result of this Charleston fight will be to restore Beaure- 
 gard to the favor of the Southern people. True, he is boastful, 
 egotistical, untruthful, and wanting in fact, but he is certainly 
 the most marvelous engineer of modern times. By his genius 
 and professional skill he has erected batteries in Charleston har- 
 bor that would sink all the wooden fleets of the world did they 
 come under fire, and he has succeeded, moreover, in driving 
 back in disgrace, the most impenetrable iron-clad fleet afloat. 
 There is no denying what this man has done, unpalatable though 
 it may be to the Northern people. 
 
 But why sfiould the enemy seem to think that Gen. Beaure- 
 gard had lost favor among the people in the Confederacy, was 
 it because he so greatly defeal^ed the Yankees at Corinth, by 
 retreating and saving his little army from destruction and utter 
 annihilation, when the enemy had completed their fortifications 
 and entrenchments, having had in position three hundred guns. 
 Or was it because he had broken down his constitution by fifteen 
 months of almost incessant service in the field, having figured 
 most conspicuously in various campaigns that have resulted in 
 crowning him with undying fame, " not only in the Confederacy 
 but in Europe." His tenacity of purpose, his indomitable will and 
 energy united with his invaluable engineering capacity, have 
 caused his name to be heralded among the people and nations of 
 the earth as one of the great Generals of the age. H. W. R. J. 
 
 P. S. Probably our Northern enemy, like some of the people 
 
SECOND AMERICAN REVOLFnON. 75 
 
 in the Confederacy, knew not what had become of Gen. Beau- 
 regard while he was at the springs in Alabama recruiting his 
 health, but since the repulse and terrible disaster to the Federal 
 fleet at Charleston the enemies journalists have again pro- 
 nounced him as one of the principal actors upon the stage in 
 this terrible drama of revolution and war. H. W. R. J. 
 
 THE FIGHT AT CHARLESTON. 
 
 For a proper appreciation of our victory at Charleston I give 
 the following extract. Referring to the light at Charleston the 
 New York "Herald" says: 
 
 The gnus of the forts were of the heaviest calibre and most 
 approved patterns — the English allies of the rebels having sup- 
 plied them with some of their best ordnance. The artillery 
 practice was excellent, as is proved by the fact that our nine 
 vessels were struck five hundred and twenty times. 
 
 The "Herald" says editorially: 
 
 The repulse of Admiral Dupont's iron-clad fleet at Charleston 
 indefinitely postpones, we suspect, the resumption of active 
 operations against the rebel stronghold. The door will, doubt- 
 less, be kept more closely guarded th.an heretofore against 
 English blockade runners, with their "aid and comfort to the 
 enemy ;" but, as the sickly summer season iti a tew weeks will 
 revisit the South Carolina seaboard, we conclude that nothing 
 but some overwhelming Union successes in other quarters will 
 secure the capture of Charleston before the return of the malaria 
 killing frosts of autumn. Indeed, it is broadly hinted in a 
 leading abolition journal that the idea of a crushing spring cam- 
 paign has been abandoned at Washington, and that probably 
 our military operations, until the end of the summer, will be 
 limited to pegging a little here and there, as the occasion may 
 invite or demand. 
 
 The failure at Charleston, together with the failure at Vicks- 
 burgj to gain any decisive advantage over the enemy, has, at all 
 events, put an end to the late confident expectations of the 
 country in regard to a vigorous and decisive prosecution of the 
 war. 
 
 The "Herald" gives the following as the situation : 
 
 The attempt t-^ take Charleston is for the time abandoned. 
 The iron-clad fleet of Admiral Dupont and the army of General 
 Hunter have been withdrawn to I'ort Royal. Thy experiment 
 proved too hazardous. The batteries of the enemy at Sumter, 
 Moultrie and Cnmming"-' Point, and the obstructions in the 
 ch.annelfi, presented obstacles too formidable to be overcome by 
 the force brought against them. I>y the arrival of the Arago 
 from Charleston Bar on the llth instant, wi learn these facts. 
 The fire from the batteries was tremendotis, a« the condition of 
 
fJQ THE WOMEN OF THE 
 
 the Keokuk shows. She was fairly riddled through aiid through 
 with highly polished steel shot, weighing a hundred pounds 
 each, furnished to the rebels by England. Our vessels tired in 
 all one hundred and fifty-one shots at tlie forts, while the latter 
 struck the boats over five hundred and twenty times. 
 
 WAILING AND GNASHING OF TEETH BY THE YANKEES- 
 THE LAST HOURS OF THE KEOKUK- 
 
 A New York paper of the 15th instant has the fjllowing in 
 reference to the sinking of the Keokuk: 
 
 Off Charleston Bar, April 8. 
 
 In coming out of the actioa yesterday, the Keokuk had the 
 advance, and before she had arrived at the buoy I was alongside 
 of her in a small boat. It was nearly dark at the time; but I 
 could see in the dim light that she had been the target of the 
 most powerful guns the rebels could command. Great holes 
 were visible in her sides, her prow, her after turret and her 
 smoke stack. Her plates were bent and bolts protruded here 
 and there all over her. She Avas making water rapidly and it was 
 plain to be seen that she was used up and disabled. Before the 
 action her sloping sides and her turrets had been "slushed" 
 with tallow, and to avoid contact with this substance I placed 
 my feet in the shot holes, and literally ascended to her deck as 
 by a ladder. Until that moment I confess my conception of the 
 terrible earnestness with which the rebels had fought was far 
 behind the reality. So thickly did she wear her scars that no 
 one had been able at that time to count them. One round shot 
 penetrated her after-turret, the sides of which, it will be re- 
 membered, are frustrums of cones, while the turrets of the 
 Monitors are perpendicular cylinders. Another shot passed 
 through her port bow, and still another through her starboard 
 quarter. These were all steel projectiles of one hundred pounds 
 weight and polished to the smoothness of a knife-blade. The 
 terrible efi^'ect of these projectiles may be imagined when it is 
 stated that one of them, striking the after-turret at an angle, 
 when the vessel was almost under the waUs of the fort, buried 
 itself in the iron mail, and there remains. These shots, let it be 
 remembered, were furnished to the rebels by neutral English- 
 men, and have certainly proved a striking illustration of the 
 fairness and uprightness which characterize the conduct of John 
 Bull toward us in this war. 
 
 A WAIL FROM THE TRIBUNE. 
 A Hilton Head correspondent of the New York York " Tri- 
 bune " writes : The attack upon Charleston has been made. Our 
 force of cfteuce, collected during the last three mouths, in the 
 
SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 77 
 
 waters and upon the sea islands of South Carolina, have been 
 fairly tried and found wanting. Instead of the pleasant duty of 
 chronicling a triumph to the Union arms, which I had fervently 
 wished rather than hoped, the thankless harbinger of ill-tidings 
 devolves upon me. We have experienced a bitter repulse. The 
 iron-clads have disappointed the expectations of the niost,confi- 
 dent, and we are mourning over the apparent certainty'of an 
 abandonment of the enterprise of which the country, with more 
 faith than reason, hoped such good results. 
 
 CHARLESTON IMPREGNABLE. 
 
 The New York "Times" thinks Charleston impregnable. In 
 speaking of the fight there it says : 
 
 On these natural advantages have been brought to bear the 
 finest engineering skill in the Confederacy (and it was the flower 
 of the genius of the country) during a period of two years. 
 Lee, Beauregard and Ripley in succession have exhausted their 
 professional eflbrts to make it impregnable. ICverything that 
 the most improved modern artillery and unlimited resources of 
 labor can do has been done to make the passage of a fleet im- 
 possible. And it is impregnable. Sebastopol was as nothing 
 to it. 
 
 Our fleet got but to the entrance of the harbor. It never got 
 within it. Had the iron-clads succeeded in passing the obstruc- 
 tions they would still have found those miles of batteries to 
 run. They would have entered an Inferno which, like the por- 
 tals of Dante's hell, might well bear the flaming legend, " Who 
 enters here leaves hope behind." Not a point at which they 
 would not have found themselves 
 
 " Mid upper, nelher, and surrounding f rcp." 
 
 They pass out of the focus of fire of Forts Sumter and Moul- 
 trie, Beauregard and Bee, and they find themselves arrested 
 under the ranges of Sumter, the Redan, Johnston and Ripley, 
 Pinckney, the Wappoo battery, and the guns of the city fall 
 upon them ! Merely to run by batteries, as was done at the 
 forts below New Orleans, is not a very difticnlt thing <'vcn for 
 vessels not iron-clad ; but to be anchored as it were under such 
 fires as these, is what no ships were ever called uj^on to puflTer. 
 
 IHTEBESTING EISTORY OF THE OPENING OF THE 
 ALABAMA'S CAREER. 
 
 The London papers all [iublisli the following st.aeraent from 
 the late boatswain of the steamer Alabama, now Eccond officer 
 of the British steamer Thistle : 
 
 On leaving England, the 290 had a crew of ninety-three men, 
 for the most part belonging to the English Naval Reserve, all 
 
7.^ TIJE WOMEN OF THE 
 
 beino- trained gunuers, and the majority old men-of-war's men. 
 She was temporarily commanded by Capt. Bullock, who had 
 under him the proper completement of commissioned and petty 
 officers. Captain Bullock having learned tliat a Federal man-ot- 
 war (the Tuscarora) lay in wait for him in St. George's Channel, 
 took his departure by what is known as the North Channel, 
 thus eluding the Federal enemy ; though, even had she been 
 intercepted, the Northerner would have found himself in a 
 dilemma, as the 290 had a set of English papers and other pre- 
 sumptive proofs of her neutrality, in the face of which it might 
 have been difficult for hqr captor to have acted. The 290 at the 
 time carried no guns or other warlike stores, but consisted of 
 the hull, spars and engines, excepting, of course, coal and other 
 reqiiisites to enable her to reach her destination, which was 
 Tarissa, one of the Azores or "Western Islands, belonging to 
 Portugal. This destination the 290 duly reached, after a line 
 run of eight days, and came to anchor in T.arissa Roads, nothing 
 of any moment having occurred to break the usual monotony of 
 a long sea voyage. 
 
 Some time before the departure of the 290 from the Mersey, 
 a large bark left the Thames (cleared for Demerara, West In- 
 dies,) to meet the 290 at Tarissa, and there transfer to the latter 
 vessel the guns and other stores destined for her, and which 
 formed the cargo of the bark. Some reason required to be 
 assigned to the Portuguese authorities for the "290 having 
 anchored in the bay, and accordingly the excuse furnished by 
 them was that her engines had broken doAvn. This plea was 
 accepted as a valid one, and during the week that intervened 
 between the arrival at Tarissa of the 290 and the bark, the crew 
 of the fcn-mer vessel were ostensibly engaged in rej^airing her 
 engines, but really in preparing her to receive her guns, stores, 
 <fcc. 
 
 During this interval, large parties of the inhabitants of Tarissa 
 made daily visits to the 290, their curiosity evidently excited by 
 the war-like appearance of what laid claim to be an English 
 nlerchant vessel. Many pertinent questions were asked by the 
 Portuguese, and were as ingeniously evaded or met by the officers 
 of the 290. Among other things, the Portuguese wanted to 
 know why the vessel had so many ports, and were told that, as 
 she was bound to a warm climate, they were necessary for ven- 
 tillation ; and when they asked why there was such a numerous 
 crew, reply was, that as she was going on a surveying expedi- 
 tion she required to be well manned. Many similar questions 
 were put, and in like manner answered ; but it was all in vain 
 to a' tempt to undeceive the Portuguese, and they would persist 
 in calling her a "frigata luglesi." 
 
 About the lapse of a week from the arrival of the 290 the 
 l)ark acsDve mentioned sailed in and anchored, her Captain al- 
 leging as a reason to the Portuguese officials that his vessel had 
 
.SECON'D AilERICAN REVOLUTION. 79 
 
 sprung aleak, which would require to be repaired ere she could 
 resiime her voyage ; and on this understanding the Portuguese 
 at onee placed her in quarantine, (which in the Azortis lasts 
 three days.) On the day alter the Ixirk's arrival Capt. IJullook, 
 of the 290, being anxious to get his guns on board, hauled 
 alongside the bark, and erected a pair of large shears to effect 
 the transfer of her cargo from the bark's hold»tothe ?90'8 deck. 
 This brought olF the Portuguese in a fury that their rules should 
 have been broken by the 290 having dar<jd to communicate 
 with a vessel that had still tAvodays quarantine to run, and they 
 angrily demanded to know the reason why, their regulations 
 had been infringed. They were told that the bark was in a 
 sinking condition, and the erection of tlie shears was accounted 
 for by urging the necessity of an immediate temporary transfer 
 of lier cargo, that the leak might be reached and stopped, and 
 Captain Bullock finally succeeded in bearing down all opposition 
 by feigning to get in a passion, saying he was doing no more 
 for ihe bark than any Englishman would do for a countryman in 
 distress. The Portuguese left the vessel, and the transhipment 
 proceeded without further hindrance from those on shore. 
 
 About the afternoon of the second day, and when the transfer 
 was nearly complete, the British screw steamer Bahama came 
 in, having on board Captain Semmes and the other late officers 
 of the Sumter, besides the remainder of tlie 290'e armament 
 and an additioh of twenty od<l men to her crew. On the Baha- 
 ma's arrival and anchorage on a somewhat similar p'-etext to 
 those given to her two predecessors, the Portuguese fairly lost 
 all patience, and peremptorily insisted on the instant departure 
 of all three vessels. The Bahama at once communicated with 
 the 2t)0, and having haixled over everything destined for her, 
 got up steam and left, followed by the 290, towing the now 
 empty bark. All three went, not to sea, as tliey had been 
 ordered to do, but to Angra Bay, (a bay in the same island, and 
 only a few leagues distant from Tarissa Roadf-.) Here they 
 remained unmolested until noon the following day, (a Sunday,) 
 when, for the second time, all three vessels were ordered out of 
 Portuguese waters. All the 200'8 guns being now mounted, 
 and. the vessel otherwise ready for a cruise, the order was 
 obeyed, and all took their departure — the bark, as before, in tow 
 of the 290, which having conveyed her well out to se.i, cast her 
 off, and, with a favorite breeze, she steered for Cardiff, to b#hg 
 out a further supply of coal for the 290's use. 
 
 The 290 and the Bahama now steamed round the island, and 
 Captain Semmes, coming out ot his cabin, orderod the First 
 Lieutenant vO muster the crew aft. This liaving been done, and 
 all the officers assembled on the poo]i in tlieir full uniform— i. e.. 
 Confederate grey frock coat and trowser-— < ii'tain Semracfl 
 enjoined silence, and read his commission :> tptain in the 
 
 Confoderatf" mw T' «n- ,i do(;;?;i('Ti' i t'd at Rich- 
 
50 TUE AVOilEN OF THE 
 
 monfl, and bore the signature of "Jefterson Davis, President 
 Confederate States of America." He then opened and read his 
 sealed orders from the President, directing him to assume com- 
 mand of the Confederate sloop-of-war Alabama, hitherto known 
 as the 290, in which, having been duly commissioned, he was to 
 hoist the Confederate ensign and pennant and " sink, burn and 
 destroy everything' which flew the ensign of the so-called United 
 States of America." Captain Semmes then ordered the First 
 Lieutenant to lire a gun and run up the Confederate Hag and 
 pennant. 
 
 The gun was fired by the Second Lieutenant, (Armstrong, a 
 relation of the famous inventor,) and ere its smoke had cleared 
 away, the Stars and Bars of the young Confederacy were float- 
 ing on the breeze, and the ceremony was complete, Captain 
 Semmes declaring the vessel, henceforth to be known as the 
 Alabama, to have been duly commissioned. The next step was 
 formally to engage the crew to s6rve and fight under the Con- 
 federate flag, which having been done, the men were addressed 
 by their Captain in an eloquent and stirring speech, in the course 
 of which he said there were only four vessels in the United 
 States Navy that were more than a match for the Alabama; 
 but he said that in an English built heart of oak, as she was, and 
 surrounded, as he then saw himself, by British hearts of oak, he 
 wouldn't strike his newly hois^ted flag for any one of the four. 
 
 Of course this elicited a hearty burst of cheering for Presi- 
 dent, State and Captain, and when it had subsided, Captain 
 Semmes said the Bahama was on the point of leaving for Eng- 
 land, and intimated that if any of his crew repented of the step 
 they had taken, they were free to return in her. This alterna- 
 tive none would accept, and Captain Bullock and a few of the 
 other officers Avho had taken the 290 from England to the Azores, 
 find their occupation gone through the arrival of those who 
 had held similar appointments in the Sumter, having gone on 
 board the Bahama, the vessel and the Alabama, amidst hearty 
 cheering from the crews of both, parted company, the former 
 pursuing her course back to England, the latter in chase of a 
 Yankee whaler, which she captured and burned. This was her 
 first prize, and her subsequent career is now so famous as to 
 render a single remark thereon superfluous. 
 
 The Alabama's crew receive from the Confederate Government 
 half the value of each Federal ship and cargo they destroy, and 
 *each of her crew is now worth several hundred pounds. All 
 obligations have hitherto been faithfully discharged in gold. 
 The Alabama is supplied with coal from Wales, by three sailing 
 vessels thus constantly employed. 
 
 The Boatswain of the 290, to whom I referred abovoy- having 
 been superseded by the late Boatswain of the Sumter, returned 
 to England in the Bahama. 
 
SFrOXD AMKRIOAX REVOLUlIc (X. ^t 
 
 CONFEDERATE STEAMER ALABAMA-THE LONDON 
 "TIMES ' ON THE "290." 
 
 The Jioudoii "Times," in an editorial upon the New Vork 
 Chamber of Commerce and the Confederate steamer Alabama, 
 takes the ground that no blame can attach to the British Gov- 
 ernment because such vessels are built and fitted out in England. 
 We copy a portion of the article : 
 
 In the old days of Gretna Ctreen marriages, when an enraged 
 guardian drove up to Xewnnan's stables at Bernet just in time 
 to see the fugitive ward driven off by four speedy grays, he 
 turned furiously upon the horsckeeper ior having supplied th** 
 runaways Anth such splendid horse llesh. " I am strictly neu 
 tral, sir," said the master of the roa<l. " Four bays, the exact 
 counterparts in blood and bone, arc harnessing for you at thin 
 moment." We cannot shut up our shipping yards, but all the 
 world is free to buy in them. We do not fit out ships of-war, 
 hut sell all the competent materials to any one who will buy. It 
 is for them, at their own risk, to take them away and put them 
 together. In doing this wc follow very high example, and art- 
 covered by very high authority. In 1!=<55, when we were at war 
 with Russia, some of us had some foolish notion that we ought 
 to have the sympathy of a kindred race and a free Government. 
 We were irtclined to expostulate wlien we found America sellint; 
 to our enemy the chief materials by M'hich ho carried on the 
 war. But what did I\Ir. I*resident Pierce answer ? He showed 
 us at once how wVong we were. Tie professed the purest neu 
 tral policy. . * * * * 
 
 We have never gone beyond, or even stepped fully up to the 
 bounds of American theory. That theory, however, is per- 
 fectly sound, and therefore it is that we sell unarmed ships U* 
 the world, ''regardless," as Mr, President Pierce so aptly says, 
 " cf the destination of these articles.'" The New York Chamber 
 of Commerce had better send Capt. Wilkes to the Alahamn. 
 Wr» cannot undertake to capture this one Confederate cruiser 
 Wc arc very sorry that the Brilliant was burnt, and 8o we arc 
 that the towns on the Mississippi were burnt, and that inurde)- 
 and dishonor of men and w omen of Alabama took place. Thesr 
 scenes are said to have suggested the name of this terribU! 
 cruiser; but we know our duties as neutrals, and we si( as di«- 
 cip!o<j nt fhf feet of President Pie;'ce. 
 
 CONFEDERATE STEAMER ALABAMA 
 The following will give some idea of the rapidity of uiosc 
 meut of the Alabam.i. and lier efticienry in operating upon 
 \ankoo commerci-. . II. W. R. J. 
 
 The Confederate war ^slc.imer v\!.'>' " " r suc- 
 
 eessfuUv on the oommefcr of {he 1 Iia» 
 
 <; 
 
S2 I'HK \VOMFN OF THK 
 
 arrived at New York from Port Petrie, brought tbo ciew of the 
 ship Levi Starbuck, which was captured and burned by the 
 Alabama on the 2d of November, when five days out. On the 
 8th of November, the Alabama captured and burned the ship T. 
 B. Watts, of and for Boston, from Calcutta, with a valuable 
 cargo of saltpetre, gunny cloth, &c. The xilabaraa put into 
 Part Petrie on the 17th, and landed the Captains and crews of 
 the three ships. The same afternoon the United States steamer 
 San Jacinto arrived outside to wait for the Alabama — but the 
 latter vessel escaped during the night. Captain Semmes boasts' 
 that he has been within seventy miles of New York. 
 
 THE SEA FIGHT BETWEEN THE HATTERAS AND THE 
 
 ALABAMA. 
 
 The Kingston (Jamaica) Standard, of January 2oth, after 
 announcing the arrival of the Confederate States war steamer 
 Alabama, at that port, says : 
 
 Ti?lB Alabama is consigned to Messrs. Charles Levy & Co., of 
 this city, and is now receiving coals, &c., at Port Royal, from 
 Messrs. T. J). Pass & Co. She called into this port to receive 
 casual repairs. Captain Semmes, we learn, waited on his Excel- 
 lency, the Lieutenant Governor, in Spanish Town, yesterday. 
 Several ot the Confederate officers Avere ashore in grey uniforms, 
 and we learn that the prisoners will be left in charge of the 
 American Vice Consul here. We understand that in the en- 
 counter the Alabanyi received some damage and that several 
 shipwrights and caulkers have been dispatched to Port Royal 
 to repair the damages. 
 
 We gather the following additional jiarticulars : 
 
 On Sunday, the 11th instant, about 2.^ o'clock, the Brooklyn, 
 sloop-of-war, twenty-one gnns, Commodore Belt, lying at (ral- 
 veston, Texas, discovered a sail, which she supposed to be a 
 merchantman running the blockade, and immediately signalized 
 the Hatteras to give chase. The Hatteras pursued her nntil 
 dark. The Alabama then hove to and awaited her approach. 
 The Hatteras was prepared, and all the men went to quarters. 
 She bespoke the stranger, who replied she was "Her Britauic 
 Majesty's steamer Petrel." ( ^aptain Blake, of the Hatteras 
 responded. In the meantime, the Alabama attempted to 
 manoeuvre to the stern of the Hatteras. While off the port 
 quarter Capt. Blake said he would send his boat on board ; and 
 while in the act of lowering the boat the Alabama sent a blank 
 cartridge astern of the Hatteras. She liailed her and said she 
 need send no boat, as she Avas the Confederate steamer Alabama. 
 Captain Blake then gave the order to fire and the engagement 
 ensued. In about ten minutes a hole was discovered- between 
 wind and water, in the Hatteras. Fire also broke out in the 
 fore peak in the lower deck but was |3ut out. A shot was sent 
 
SECOND AMERICAN" REVOLUTION. 83 
 
 through lier sleaia chest. She then surrendered, lieing com- 
 pletely disabled. The ;Alabnma sent all her boats to take the 
 crew off, and in a lew minutes after this she sunk. Only th( 
 shij) papers were saved. ' 
 
 The Alabama made Port Kuyal in eleven days. 
 
 A boat'screw from the Hatteras, seven in number, is missing, 
 supposed to have gone back to Galveston. F.ittle personal in- 
 jury was sustained on either side. 
 
 THE STEAMER ALABAMA AT KINGSTON A CURIOua 
 INCIDENT OF THE WAR. 
 
 The very curious and oxciting incident of a.cowhiding be- 
 tween two Kingston mei chants had grown out of Captain 
 Semmes' visit. It appears that Capt, Semmes offered for sale 
 here the I nited States Treasury notes captared from the steamer 
 Ariel, "and two merchants of Kingston, in overbidding eacii 
 other for thu booty, got into a quarrel, resulting in the cow 
 hiding of one of the parties by the other. 
 
 kS INCIDENT CONNECTED WITH THE SAILINu Anv 
 RUNNING OF THE BLOCKADE BY THE CONFEDERATE 
 WAR STEAMER FLORIDA. 
 
 A correspondent of the Charleston Mercury, writing lioiu 
 Mobile under date of the 19th January, gives the following in 
 teresting news in relation to the sailing of the 'Steamer Florida 
 
 A premaiure statement appeared in a Richmond paper severaJ 
 weeks atro annf)uncing the escape from this port of the Con 
 federate States steam corvette Flori'la, (apt. Maflit commanding 
 It was not true, tor at that time no effort had been made to 
 escape, ('.apt. Maftit lingered here so long after his vessel was 
 ready for sea as to call upon himself much criticism and censure, 
 and applieations from some rpiarters went on to the Secretary 
 of the Xavy rerpiesting his removal from the command of h\^ 
 vessel. 
 
 The Secretary at onc«- issiicd the order relieving him liroin 
 command. President Davis was then absent from Richmond, 
 and the Seeretary acted on his c»wn counsel in the matter ; but, 
 h.appily for ^laftit. President Davis arrived in Mobile almost 
 simultaneously with the order of the Seeretary. The facts of 
 the delay were explained to the President, who at once restored 
 .Maftit to his vessel. 
 
 There may be truth in tlie m.atter, and even if true, there in 
 much reason why a man w}k» w.as going abroad for a three 
 vears' cruise upon the world of waters, and in far distant fceas 
 should linger long and fondly among the fair. Now he is gone, 
 the blockaders are dodged, and " the rover m fre<»." I saw bim 
 
s I TliK WOMF.N OF THE 
 
 oui! iii;^Ut when lie was Inddiug- adiou to his frionds. He said 
 thai tho \ve.'ither indicated a strong "northeaster," for which he 
 had )>oen Avaiting so long, and that- he would he off in a few 
 hours. r»ut the indication was not fnltilled. The weather 
 i-hanofed, and he remained until last Thursday, the J 4th instant, 
 « hen he escaped just before day. 
 
 He aitemptod it on the night previous, but the hlo kadeis 
 discovered him and signaled, when he withdrew.* Thursday 
 night was ver}- dark. There was a strong blow and a liailstorrn 
 during several hours. He ran out unobserved. I>.<t about four 
 hours after his escape, they cither discovered or suspected that 
 ho. was gone, and the swiftest steamer among them woitt to -ea, 
 apparently in "pursuit. She will hardly catch him. 
 
 The Florida is a splendid Aessel, in jierfect running and light- 
 ing trim, and can, probably, whip any cratt that she cannot 
 outrun. Maffit is as brave as Nelson, as shrewd as a.fos:, and 
 •iS thorough a seaman as ever trod a deck. His escape cannot 
 loug remain a secret, even if it ])0 one now, for Yankee journals 
 will soon teem with details of his operations. Those who know 
 know him well predict for him a career as glorious as that of 
 Semmes. — l^d". 
 
 THE TERRORS OF THE SEA-CAREER OF THE FIOBIDA - 
 DESCRIPTION OF HER OFFICERS AND STYLE. 
 
 The Yankee papers have a new sc.isation in the Florida and 
 two Confederate sailing privateers, which are just out — the 
 Retribution and Dixie. These sailng vessels are schooners of 
 about 1 GO tons, both painted black. The captain and crew of 
 the brig Estelle, Avhich was destroyed by the Flcnda, have 
 arrived in New York. The Estelle w is bound for Boston, witli 
 sugar and honey, and first descried tlic Plorida on the 19tu uU., 
 oft' (;.ape Antonio. The following i, a description by her firsi 
 mate of the Florida's style of taking prizes : 
 
 The i)rig was all the time imder dose .-eefed sails. Captain 
 Brov-:.', her commander, at first thou:. lit the stranger might be 
 the Alabama; but, as she had the st \rs and stripes flj'ing, this 
 opinion gave way to the belief of her being a Federal cruiser 
 
 Shortly before 3 o'clock, P. M , the steamer, which i...y.. ome 
 up abreast of the brig to a distance ol seventy-five yards, fired 
 a shot across her bows, and lowering the American flag ran up 
 that of the Confederacy. Her guns were brought to bear on 
 the Estelle, whose captain thus was Tuade aware of liis fate. 
 The Estelle at once backed her topsail and hove to, Avhen five 
 boats were lowered from the Confederate 8teamer and i»ulled 
 towards the doomed brig. The second lieutenant of the Florida 
 stepped on board, and respectfully saluting the captain, re- 
 marked, " Captain, you are a prize to the Southern Confederacy. 
 Pack up your private property with all dispatch and let your 
 
SECOND AMERICA:," EEVuLUTION. 5.5 
 
 crew do the sa'ne." Tiiii< order was at ouce complied with, 
 Avlien the crew were ordered on bi)a.rdlhc steamer. 
 
 The lieutenant seat the chronometer, charts and instrumeutf^ 
 of the brig on board the steamer, and selected from the ship 
 chandlery stores and cargo such articles as were wanted on the 
 steamer. He then set his crew to Avorlc in stripping the brigot 
 part of her rigging, all her sails, except lorctop gallantsail, royal 
 and main staysail and forctop staysail, wliich weri> sent on 
 board. A tire was then kindled on the deck, both fon* and aft^ 
 and in a few miuu(es tlic brig av;;s a mass of flanir. 
 
 When the crew of the brig arrived on the stiamer, thuy v ere 
 at, once inlcrmed by the lirst lieutenant that they would bo 
 treated as prisoners of war, and allowed the liberty of the ship, 
 provided they vou'd conform to the rules of the vessel. The\ 
 were divided among the crew of the steamer as messmates, and 
 had the sanie fare as their caiHors. Thi> captain of the brig 
 was at once invited to paitake of the hosj>italities of the cabin, ' 
 and a state-room was at ouct' arranged for himself and mate. 
 The second mate was sent to mess with thi' subaltern uthcorn. 
 The fare of the officers and crew of the Florida was nearly the 
 same — salt l)ecf, peas and rice, with an allow ance of hard bread. 
 The officers, however, said that in Havana they would be fully 
 Niipplied with all necessaries lor a long cruise. 
 
 The officers of the Florida treated their prisoners with greul 
 Jcli^i'^v and kindness and, dur'ug frequent conversations on thf 
 r"- -^ ; . ed, with tears in tlicir fyes, that the stern necessities 
 o. ,,ar obliged them to ii,Iit their brethren of the Xorth. 
 Tliey are most^ly ex-offic<vs of the na\y, and exact the ^ame dis 
 fipline of tlieir crew as on th,' United States men-of-war. \o 
 profane or insulting laiigur g<, is allow ed, and the offender pun- 
 ished severely. 
 
 The tirst lieutenant i< Mr. lleid, who had just returned froni 
 iho Pauific. when he tendered his resignation to the I nitcd 
 States au'^borities. The Ctiief Enpncer, Spydec, is a nativcof 
 middle Tennessee, where he lost all of his property. He is said 
 to be very proficient in his Vtusiness. 
 
 The othcers of the Florid. • state that they ran out of Mobile 
 on a clear, starlight night, witli a fresh breeze, and that they rap 
 
 past seven Federal gunboats, none of which fired a sint;I< "^hot 
 
 at them. 
 
 They were chased until next moiniug by two gunboats, bat 
 t.hen they left their pursuers far astern and hull down. ( .iptain 
 
 Haffit stopped the steamer until the Fed»'rals were in full sight. 
 
 when he crowd<.'d on steam until he lost sight of them. Tb« 
 
 Florida's officers stated that there were five more steanurs in 
 
 .>[obile ready to run the block,a<.le, and for aught they know 
 
 were already at sea. 
 
 The crew i" a mixture tA' all nationalities, but the Kogli<«li and 
 
 1 ish *:■'. .K:it predominntps. Tlicre are "ome Ka^feni Mi»n 
 
gg THE WOMEN OF THE 
 
 iraong them, and one of them named Layton, a native of Port- 
 litnd Maine is the boatswain. There is also one Chinaman on 
 board. Most of the o-rew have been prisoners of war at the 
 Xorth, and some of them were in Fort Columbus, or iu tho 
 Pea Patch, near Philadelphia. 
 
 They are well drilled in the use of the guns, and are far supe- 
 rior to many of our merchant crews. 
 
 THE CONFEDERATE WAR STEAMER FLORIDA AT BAR- 
 
 BADOES. 
 
 The 2s"ew York "Herahl" of a recent date contains the fol- 
 lowing : 
 
 Bakhadoks, February 2J. 
 
 Great is the excitement in this fast anchored isle of Barl)adoes. 
 The rebel steamer Florida, Capt. J. N. Maffit, arrived here in 
 distress, asking for coal. It appears that the pirate craft has 
 either had a hard mauling or a rough h.-mdling by the "ocean 
 monarch." 
 
 The Florida seems to be w;ell disciplined, tho men well be- 
 haved and orderly, the officers polite .and attentive. 
 
 The Florida privately takes a mail for France and England. 
 She went out iu splendid style. 
 
 From the station lookout the Florida was seen at 5, P. M., to 
 fire three vessels, some ten miles from the Barbadoes shore. 
 
 A large side wheel steamer, presumed to be the Vandorbilt, 
 went after the rebel, Avho seemed hove to, ready fqr a muss. 
 We are all excitement and anxiety here. No cannonading has 
 been reported, only the echo of one ov two heavy gun_s. 
 
 Everybody who can get an elevated position is looking out 
 tor the " sea fight." One of the vessels Inirned was a splendid 
 guano ship, with guano oul|jjard. The crew are landing. 
 
 The Florida is now seen, allright, steering north by east. She 
 is bound for the English Channel. This is i^nve.—A^v'il, 1P»J3. 
 
 THE RETRIBUTION. 
 
 We had the pleasure yesterday of seeing Capt. Vernon- Lock, 
 of the well known privateer Ketribution, which has been a 
 terror to Yankee commerce in the Gulf, only second to the 
 Alabama and Florida. 
 
 It is no secret that tho Retribution is the old tug Uncle Ben, 
 fitted up as a schooner. That a vessel of her class has been 
 able to make herself such a terror to the euem}', speaks volumet; 
 for the boldtrcss and enterprise of her officers and crew. 
 
 Charleston Cotifkr, Apfil, 1663. 
 
SECOND AMERICAN ET"VOLrTION. S7 
 
 A COMPLIMENT TO LIVERPOOL. 
 
 The Northern papers and their European c6rrot>pontlcnts, 
 referring to the naval preparations of the *' Rebels," remarks: 
 
 Bat it is the Liveri>ool Southern Association that the rebels 
 most largely owe whatever of credit and resources they possese 
 in England. Liverpool is bitterly and almost unanimously 
 rebel in its sympathies, and throughoiit Urcat Britain this 
 pestilent seaport hao exerted a wise and earnest intluenco against 
 us. Wc are not likely to forget it. 
 
 A lact concerning the Alabama deserves to be stated. The 
 American Consul at Liver])0()I se.ems to have made every effort 
 to persuade the British authorities to })revcnt her from leaving 
 port on a cruise which all men knew was to be piratical. The 
 Government at last consented to interfere, and the day after the 
 Alabama had sailed, issued an order restraining her from going 
 to sea. 
 
 It is evident, from such tacts as \}\o above, which arc impor 
 taut, and comes to us well authenticated, that the rebels have 
 no lack of money or credit in Etgland. Probably a considerable 
 part of the cotton hypothecated to the rebel government, is 
 |)ledged in some Avay to English capitalists as security for ad 
 vances, and they in turn are secured *by insurances at an 
 extravagant lu'cmium, but with margin enough to make thorn 
 selves good. 
 
 A RATTLESNAKE ON THE OCEAN. 
 
 On Tuesday night, the privateer Rattlesnake ran the gauntlet 
 of the blockading Heet at the mouth of the Ogeechce River and 
 nteamdd away on the broad ocean on her mission of destruction 
 of Yankee commerce. She is not a Government war vessel, a^ 
 waa stated by one of our city cotemporaries some time since, 
 hut a privateer — about one-fifth of her stock being owned in 
 this city. The Rattlesnake (late Xashville) is commanded hy 
 ('apt. T. JI. Baker, an experienced and competent officer, and 
 more especially <[ualitied fer his jiresent business by the brut-il 
 and inhunran treatment hu has received at the han<ls of th< 
 Yankees. It will be remembered that he was the Captain ul" lh«' 
 ill-fated Savannah, who, with the rest of her crew, were ho long 
 confined in chains in a Northern dungeon. We learn that he 
 has with him the handcuffs he wore while und<r the i»rote«'tion 
 of the Amerisan Eagle, and that he declares his purpose to try 
 them on several p.airs of Yankee wrists. No wonder that his 
 soul is all aglow with the j>assion of revenge. The Rattlpsnsk<- 
 is armed to the teeth and will weed a wide row on the ocenn. 
 Success to her. — Columbus Thne«f February 20, IPO.'l. 
 
gg THE MOMEN OF THE 
 
 PROGRESS OF THE WAR- AFFECTING INCIDENT-OKE 
 . OF THE RESULTS OF THE WAR. 
 
 One of the most aft'ecting incidents of the brilliant and suo- 
 ccsBful recapture of Galveston by the forces under Major General 
 Ma<rruder Avas the meeting (ah-eady briefly alluded to betweeo 
 Major Lea, of our army, with his eldest and fondly loved son, 
 nho "vvas 1st Lieutenant of the PTarriet Lane. The Houj^ton 
 " Telegraph " says : . ' . . 
 
 Nearly two years ago the tather, tlien residing in Texas, had 
 w ritten repeatedly to the son, then on the coast uf China, sug- 
 gesting the principles that should determine his course in the 
 then approaching struggle between the IN'orth and the South of 
 the L^nited iStates and saying that he could not dictate to one so 
 long obligated to act on his own judgment ; and that decide a;; 
 .he might, such was his confidence in his high consciousness he 
 would continue to regard him with the respect of a gentleman 
 and the aftection of a father; but that, if he should elect th(? 
 f^ide of the enemy, they would probably never meet on earth, 
 unless perchance they shoiild meet in battle. 
 
 The father has served nearly eighteen months eastwai'd of the 
 Mississippi, and, through unsolicited orders, arrived at Houston, 
 en route for San Antomo, late at night of the 30th ult., when, 
 hearing of the intended attack on the Harriet Lane, aboard o:' 
 which he had heard was his sou, also placed there simply in the 
 order of Providence, he solicited permission to join the expedi- 
 tion, in expectation of nursing or burying his son, whose courage 
 was obliged to expose him fatally to the equal daring of our 
 Texas boys. During the tight Major Lea was ordered by the 
 General to keep a look out from a liouse toj) for all movements 
 in the bay. As soon as daylight enabled him to sec that the 
 Lane had been captured, by permission of the (Tcneral, who 
 knew nothing of the expected meeting, he hastened aborrd, 
 when he was not sm'prised to find his son mortally Avounded. 
 Wading through blood, amidst the dying and the dead, he 
 reached the youth, pale and exhausted. " Edward, 'tis your 
 father." "I know you, father, but cannot move," he said faintly. 
 '' Are you mortally wounded ?" " I>adly, but hope not fatally." 
 " Do you suffer pain ?" " Cannot speak," he whispered. A 
 stimulant was given him. "How came you here, father?" 
 When ansAvered, a gleam of surprise and gratification passed 
 over his fine face. He then expended nearly his last words in 
 making arrangements for his Avounded comrades. His father 
 knelt and blessed him, and hastened ashore for a litter, and re- 
 turned just after life had fled. 
 
 When told by the surgeon that he had but a fcAV minutes to 
 live, and asked to express his Avishes, he answered, confidingly, 
 "My father is here," and spoke not again. He Avas borne in 
 procession to the grave from the headquarters of Gen, Magruder, 
 in company with his Captain, and they were buried together, 
 
SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 89 
 
 with ap|.i: "iate militai-j- honors, in the presence of uiany 
 
 officers ol" cii armies and many irencrous citizens, all of whom 
 expressec! thoJr deep sympathy with the bereaved father, who 
 said the solemn service for tlie Kpiscopal Chnreh for tho burial 
 of the dead, and then added this brief address: 
 
 "3Iy friends, the wise man has said that there is ;i titno to 
 rejoice and a time to mourn. Surely this is a time when wo 
 may weep with those that weej). Allow one so sorely tried, in 
 this his willing sacrifice, to beseech you to believe, 'whilst wp 
 defend our rights with strong arms and honest hearts, that those 
 we inc'^ti in battle may also have, iiearls brave and honest as onv 
 own. We have here bnried two brave and honest gontleiu»^n. 
 Peace to their ashes! Tread lightly o'er their graves. .Xmfn ! 
 
 INCIDENTS OF THE CAPTUEE OF THE HARRIET LANE. 
 
 Captain ^Villiam M. Armstrong Avent on board tho Harriet 
 Lane after the battle, and found, lying in the blood, on deck, a 
 Bible. He ]jic)vcd it up and remarked, ""Now I am going to 
 open this Bilile this new year's day, and the tirst passage 1 read 
 I will take as an omen for the new year." He opened it care 
 lessly and tho li'-st passage his eye fell on was the first verse ol" 
 the i-'Oth chapter of Deuteronomy, " When thou goest out to 
 battle against thine enemies, and seest horses atid chariots, and 
 a people more than thou, be not .afraid of them ; for the Lord 
 thy God is with thee!" It is a good omen as well a^ a nioM 
 startling circumstance. 
 
 One oC the Tcxans who boarded the Harriet Lane innne 
 diatcly jum))ed aboard, grasped .a Federal by the collar, <>x- 
 elairaing, "Surrender, or I will blow your br.ains out!" The 
 .ither replied : " You'd bettor look at me first !" Kecognition 
 wa<' instantaneous ; they were brothers ! 
 
 ftUEEN OF THE WEST-FURTHER PARTICULARS. 
 
 Tiic .Tackson (Miss.) " Appeal " of the '21st has the f tllowing: 
 From a gentleman direct trom X.atchez we have some t'urther 
 I'articulars of the capture of the Queen of the West. 
 
 . On Wednesday of last week the Queen ran jtast Xatche/, and 
 anchored two miles below. The ])eSoto followed her, stopping 
 just above the landing, where she destroyed several flat boats 
 .md skills. From one of the fiats slie took three boys jjrisoners 
 who were raised in Natchez. The Queen of the West remained 
 al anchor in protecting distance, while these depredations were 
 carried otit by the DeSoto. They both* then steamed away 
 together, the. bovs ha\ing been placed on the (^ucen of th'- 
 West. 
 The two vessels proceeded down the river, entered Hed Hiver, 
 
90 THE WOMEN OF THE 
 
 and at or near the moxith of the Atchafaylaya Bayou, the Era, 
 No. o, with a load of corn for Port Hudson, was captured. 
 Thev w-ere fired upon at the mouth of the Atchafalaya, by a 
 lif>-ht battery, when the Captain of the Queen was killed. In 
 revenge, they steamed down the bayou an<l utterly destroyed 
 six plantations by shelling them. 
 
 They pressed the pilot of the Era, ^'o. 5, who deceived them 
 as to the location and strength of our batteries. One of the 
 boys captured at Natchez heard Colonel Ellett repeatedly assert 
 that before he a\ ould surrender he would blow the boat up, but 
 when he was fired upon by our batteries, his feather imme- 
 diately wilted and his only anxiety was the safety of his precious 
 person. He was after ^vards seen floating down the river on a 
 bale of cotton. The courier has the lollowing report of the 
 affair : 
 
 The engagemeut lasted about one hour, when twenty-five of 
 the crew were taken prisoners, ten or twelve drowned, and Col. 
 Ellett, who was in command of the Queen, cowardly forsook 
 his boat and floated down the stream on a cotton bale. His 
 own crew shot at him for his coAvardice. 
 
 The Queen had on board six heavy guns. The DeSoto was 
 scuttled and sunk by her crew, as well as the coal boat in tow. 
 
 The Era, No. 5, being in possession of the Federal guard 
 below the scene of action, she soon put out to the Mississippi 
 River ; bringing Avith her our informant, Thomas O'Brien, Avho 
 was afloat in the river on a cotton bale, and Avho brings this 
 intelligence. About ten miles below Natchez, the Era, No. 6, 
 met the Federal gunboat Indianola, carrying four 11-inch gims, 
 and about two hundred men. Here both boats came to anchor, 
 and our informant made his escape. 
 
 Young O'Brien, and two others, were kept on board the 
 Queen of the West as prisoners, during the attack of our batte- 
 ries. Ho says that evei'y shell from the Confederate batteries 
 carried destruction to the boat and crew. The tiist shell com- 
 pletely cleared the gun-deck of her men, and the second or third 
 came crashing through her engines, cutting her steam pipe in 
 twain, and completely disabling the gunboat. She would soon 
 be got off for repairs. 
 
 On the Era, Avhen taken, were two Confederate oflicers and 
 t wenty-llve privates. The privates were paroled. 
 
 The victory on Red River Avas complete. The. amount, of 
 stores taken is large. 
 
 The prisoners taken from the Queen threaten to shoot Colonel 
 Ellett, for his desertion of them aiid cowardice, whenever they 
 overtake him. 
 
SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 91 
 
 THE CAPTURE OF THE UHITED STATES GUNBOAT INDI- 
 ANOLA ON THE MISSISSIPPI-ENEMIES ACCOUBT. 
 
 WAsHiNtiTOX, M:ircli '2, lS«io. 
 
 The j^iinhoat Indiauola lias? been taken by the rebels below 
 Vicksbnrjj. Two or throe rebel steamers, prepared in Galveston 
 style, and filled with armed men, fastened npon the Indianolf 
 and oaptnred her. She is iron elad. In conjunction "with the 
 <^ueen of the- West, and the vessels originally ]K)ssessed by the 
 rebels, they now have quite a tlcct below VicksburLj;, and it will be 
 necessary for Admiral Porter to ii^cnd down seven gunboatb at 
 once and clear out the reljol niuS(juito tieet. Their oj»eration^ 
 show the energy of des])air, and our own should be prompt and 
 powerful to crush out their last hope. 
 
 The language of the correspondent of the above item lathei 
 betrays a misgiving and a feeling bordering upon the verge of 
 despair, seeing that we are terribly in earnest to eslablish ouv 
 mdependence and free ourselves from tyranny and despotism, 
 and in future avoid corrupt association <. Pointing and debasing 
 intercourse with a hated race. H. "\V. K. J. 
 
 SHIPS AGAINST FORTS. 
 
 A correspondent of the Savannah " Rejmblican "' gi><'- ini 
 interesting review of the defence of Fort MciMlister: 
 
 The defence of Fort McAllister is one of historic intere^t and 
 niarkb .'i historic period, l>ecause it was a desperate struggle 
 against odds never before encountered. It stands forth in .soli 
 tary pie-cininence, and can only be <-ompared with future de 
 fences of like character. The annals of all the past furnish no 
 parallel to it. In the history of two or three hundred sieges, 
 from the era of Louis XI\', down to our day, no approi>riat«' 
 standard of comi)arison can be found, 'fhal history appertains 
 generally to land attack and defence. This is the old <(U( stion 
 of ships against fortifications revived under an asjtect absolutely 
 novel, -\mong the more prominent instances of this description 
 are, the attack of Lord K.vmouthon Algiers in the last century ; 
 that of Lord Xelson on the Crown Batteries of Copenhagen 
 about the beginning of this, and the comjiaratively recent attack 
 by Admiral Napier on the defences of St. Jean d'Acre on th< 
 ooast of Syria. There are other cases less signal, as that ai 
 Xew London during the war <if ]yi-, when l\vf» 18-ponndcr 
 guns beat off two IJritish sloops-of-war. Then, the ships had 
 wooden walls, and in gejieral their projectiles w«'re round shot 
 . of small dimensions. Tlie g;illant defence of Vicksbnrg has 
 been justly extolled, but ^\•hilc the attack theri was by no means 
 80 formidable as that of Gcuchis Point, the defence v.m'- made 
 KnHer (5oTiditions vastly mofc favorable. 
 
92 , THE ^^'oME^' of the 
 
 Fort McAllister, however, is a bimple irregular eartlnvork, or 
 field fortification, but the parajiets are unusually thick ana 
 Btron«4. It is quite open in the rear, and its Vatteries are not 
 cap-cnfated. The embrasures in Avhich the heaviest guns are 
 placed are protected by traverses from an enfilading fire, but 
 they are necessarily exposed to a direct one. This field work 
 has grown to its existing proportions by such successive adora- 
 tions as necessity has dictated, receiving its finishing touches 
 froiB the plastic hands of- Captain McGrady. It ^tould be im- 
 proper^ to advert here to the additioiai development whicl» 
 fhes^c entrenchments are now reg^iving.'^; It may suffice to say 
 (hat on the ;id instant it was far from formidable. The action 
 was chiefly maintained by its 32-pounder rifled gun and the 
 favorite I'i-pounder. One of the traverse wheels of this last 
 gun having been broken by a shell, it was replaced under fire. 
 The 8-inch gun, which did the best execution during the en 
 vagement ne.xt previous, was dismounted before uxeridian, by a 
 shot Avhich struck one of the diagonal braces. It was mounted 
 .igain daring the night upon a carriage sent down from Savan- 
 nah, The 10-inch gun, fired at an elevation of tJ.SO, generally 
 overshot the tower aimed at. It had been but recently placed , 
 in battery, and practice with it was limited. 
 
 Opposed to the fort were three iron-clad gunboats and three 
 mortar boats, the former laiinching, with a direct horizontal 
 fire, projectiles more formidable than any yet known ; the latter 
 throwing shells with curved fires, from six o'clock, P, M., during 
 all the night, which did not prevent, however, the reparation of 
 all the damage done during the day. In the Engineer's report, 
 the iron-clads — distant from 1,400 to 1,'JOO yards — arc num- 
 bered J, 2 and 3, No. 1 being up stream. The ])rojectiles hurled 
 by No. 1 were hollow shot and shells of fifteen inches diameter, 
 and also solid shot and shells of eleven inches. Those of No. i' 
 were cylindro-conoidal percussion shells, eight inches diameter 
 at the base and seventeen inches in length, and eleven inch solid 
 shot and shells. No. 3 threw cylindro-concidal shells like the 
 above. This fire was maintained nearly eight hours, with 
 average intervals of ten minutes. The most active fire appears 
 to have been concentrated on the 42-pounder, in the immediate 
 vicinity of which twenty-one projectiles fell. At this and most 
 other points the happy escape of the garrison seems_ almost 
 |iroviclential. 
 
 The fire of the fort Avas concentrated on Mouitor'No. 1, thv 
 men in No. 3, not on duty, quietly looking on from their deck. 
 Lieut. EUerby., from his position in the marsh on the left bank 
 of the Ogeechee, only 350 yards distant from No. 3, reports 
 that he could hear the words of command — that her ports were 
 always open, that the guns were run regularly in and out of 
 battery, the rammer staff and the hands of the men being visi- 
 ble, and that the guns wel'c therefore loaded at the muz/Je. 
 
sK(-<-»NT> AMERfPAN KF.VOI.UTIOX. 93 
 
 ()n« shot iVom the fori struck tlio tower a few iiu-lica from one 
 of the port holes. 
 
 The revolutions ot the tower of No. 1 were <>bserve<l to hi- 
 often tempornrily arrested either from design or injury sus 
 tained. The last shot from the 42-pounder struck No. 1 low 
 down, near the water line. This was followed l)y an escape oi 
 ;sterim and the sudden appearance and disappearance of thre(^ 
 intn. After this she l>low her whistle, when No. 2, which had 
 already weighed anchor and started down stream, returned and 
 took her jilace. Meanwhile No. 1 retiring dischargcfl her guns 
 without aim or oltject. — .l/a/*c//, ] SOn. 
 
 THE BATTLE OF GENESIS POINT. 
 
 Gen. Heauregard has issued the following order, conveying a 
 well merited tribute to the skill and gallantry of the garrison ol 
 Fort McAllister : 
 
 nK\r»Qr\rtTKKs DKrAKTMKxr ok S. C, Ga. ani> Fj v., | 
 CJiarlcston, S. C, February <?, ^><C,■',. ') 
 ^enerctl Ordrrs, Ao. 2n. 
 
 The Commanding General annoimces lo tlic forces, with s.itih 
 taction and pride, the results of the recent encounter of oui 
 battery at Genesis Point, Georgia, with an iron-clad of tht 
 Monitor class — results only alloyed by the life-bloocl of the f^n! 
 lant commander, the late Alajor .fohn B. Gallic. 
 
 For hours the most formidable voss(;l of her class hurled 
 missils of the heaviest calibre ever used in modern warfare, at 
 the weak parapet of the battery, which was almost demolished ; 
 but standmg at their guns as become men fighting for homes, 
 for honor, and for independence, the garrison replied with sncli 
 ♦•ffoct as to crip[)le and beat back their adversary, clad thouirl) 
 in impenetrable armor, and armed with 15 and 11 -inch guns, 
 aupponed by mortar boats, whose practice was of nncommcn 
 precision. 
 
 The thanks of the country are <lue to this intrepid garrison, 
 w^ho have thus shown what brave men may wit list and and nc 
 complish. despit ' apparent odds. 
 
 "Fort McAllister" will be inscribed 'on the tlag:. of ail tluj 
 troops engaged in the defence of the Itattery. . 
 
 I'.y command of General Bfaurec;ard. 
 
 (Signed) THOMAS .Fr)KI)A\, ( l,i<-f ol Siatl. 
 
 INTERESTINi SKETCH OF INORAHAM AND RUTLEDOE. 
 
 We take the f<•lIowin^ evtrads fi oin bj.igraphicnl «-k..trhes 
 which have appeared in Yankee papers in reference U< the fighi 
 off Charleston, in which the Meroedila wan sunk into Port 
 Royal: 
 
^i THE WOMEN OF THK 
 
 SKKXrH OF rOilMODOKE INOUAHAM. 
 
 Comiuftdoro Duncan N. Ingraham, who is over sixty years of 
 agf, is the son of the \i\te Xatiianiel Ingraham, Esq., of Charles 
 ton, S. C, and )iolongs to a family eminently naval in its char- 
 acter. All of them, with one exception, were officers in the 
 navy. His father being the intimate friend of Captain Paul 
 Jones, volunteered under his command, when he left France in 
 the Bon Homme Richard, in 1779, and tought with him in the 
 rjattle with the British frigate Serapis, one of the most dt sperate 
 battles in the annals of naval warfare. His uncle, Capt. Joseph' 
 Ingraham, United States Navy, was lost in the United States 
 ship Pickering, which went down at sea, and was never heard 
 ol, at the beginning of this centurv- His cousin, William In- 
 graham, was killed at the age of twenty when a Lieutenant in 
 the United States Navy. 
 
 The sole exception in the family was his uncle, Duncan Ingra 
 ham, Esq., from whom he received his name. He was one qi 
 the most accomplished gentlemen of his day, and though inti 
 mate with the leading political mvn of our country, yet from 
 taste and eai'ly associations he was a loyalist in his views. At 
 the opening of the Revolution in 1774, he went to Europe, and 
 remained there until its close. John Adams, wlicn Commis- 
 sioner to France in 1779, frequently speaks of hiuT in his diary 
 as his associate in Paris. He returned, however, to this i.'ountry 
 in 1784, gave in his adherence to the CTOvernment, and permit 
 ted his son to enter the navy — the Lieut. William Ingraham 
 whom we have mentioned as being killed in tha service. 
 
 Capt. D. X. Ingraham received his Midshipman's warrant ai 
 The age of nine years, on the 18th of June, 1812, during our 
 last war with Great Britain. Commodore Smith, of South 
 Carolina, the intimate friend of his father, being about to sail in 
 the frigate Congress, requested Mr. Ingraham to allow him to 
 take his son with him. " We shall probably have an engage 
 ment," said he, "and it will do him good." He accordingly 
 went to sea at once, at that tender age, and remained in active 
 service for two years, until the close of the war. He then re 
 turned home at the age of eleven, and resumed his education at 
 school. Since then he has most of the time been employed in 
 active duty. He commanded the ill-fated Somers in the block 
 ade duty at Vera Cruz and other parts of the Gulf during the 
 whole of the INIexican war, and being prostrated by sickness, 
 was sent home but a short time belore she was lost. For two 
 ears previous to his sailing for the Mediterranean, in the St. 
 
 ouis, he was attached to the Navy Yard at Philadelphia, the 
 society of which city will long remember him and his accom 
 plished family. 
 
 He was in command of the St. Louis in 1853 in the harbor of 
 Smyrna, when he made his name so famous in connection with 
 the Costa exploit while at that port. He bearded the lion in 
 
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SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION. • 95 
 
 his den, demanding and obtaining from the Austrian Govern- 
 ment the release of Costa as an American citizen. On the 15th 
 of September, 1855, he was promoted to a Captaincy, and after 
 an interval of inactivity was, on the 10th of March, 1850, at 
 tached to the Bureau of Ordnance as its Chief, lie hejd thin 
 position at a salary of n:^,500 a year when the rebellion broke 
 out, when he, like, mauy other traitors, forsook the flag under 
 which ho had so long fought and through which he had received 
 many honors, to join the cause of the rebels. 
 
 Captain Ingraham married Harriet Kutledge J^aurens of 
 South Carolina^ a grand-daughter, on the paternal side, of Henry 
 Laurens, the President of the first Continental Congress, and 
 who afterwards was (%ptured by a British frigate while on his 
 way to France as American Commi>sioner, and confined for a 
 long time in the Tower of London. On the maternal side she 
 is the grand-daughter of Edward Rutledge, one of the signers 
 of the Declaration of Independence. His eldest son, Henry 
 Laurens Ingraham, was a liieutenant of the Afarine Corps when 
 the rebellion broke out. 
 
 It is a curious circumstance, that by intermarriage wilh the 
 American fixmily, the Ingraham blood flows in the veins of some 
 of the most distinguished officers of the British Xavy. Among 
 those M'as the late Captain Marryatt, C, B., (the author,) and 
 Sir Edward Belcher, K. C. ]»., who i"inm:.i)ded the exploring 
 expedition round the world, and wb(t in lSy3 commanded the 
 Arctic (expedition, sent out by the Hi iiish Admiralty, in pcarch 
 of Sir John Franklin. The grand-mother '.f both these ofliccr^ 
 was an Ingraham, the near relative of Commodore Ingr.aham. 
 
 As a resume, it may be as well to state that he was in the 
 L^nited States service nearly fifty years, fourteen of wliich were 
 spent at sea, nine on shore and other duty, and the remainder 
 unemployed, although receiving pay. More than half his time 
 he accepted the pay of the United States for doing noililnf; el«e 
 than seeking the best means to ruin and betray her. 
 
 SKKTC II OF TAin ATX Kl'TLKPHE. 
 
 Tlie ri'bel Captain John Rutledge was formerly an ofH.ir m 
 the Ignited States Xavy. He is a native and citizen of South 
 Carolin.a, from which Stato he was appointed to the navy on the 
 9th of April, 1R''..5. On the 2l8tof June, 1P41, he was war 
 ranted .as a Past ^Midshipman, and on the 7th of .January, 1849, 
 was promoted to a Lieutenancy, which r.ink he held when th<: 
 rebellion broRc out. Fp to that time he has )ieen nearly twenty 
 six vears in the Fnited Stales service, eighteen yeirs of whicli 
 has Itecn spent at sea, three on phorc and other <lnly, and the 
 remainder unemployc<l. lie has seen a fair amount of sorvice 
 under the stars and stripes, and has now warrcl U flag 
 
 which had protected him, and which he has so 'i 
 
 Charleston Cmtrier^ Ftbrtiory^ 1^03. 
 
96 THK WOMKX OF THF. 
 
 THE UNITED STATES AND CONFEDERATE NAVAL 
 
 roncEs. 
 
 'J'iie uaval loices of Iho Cuufedcrate Stales and Krancu com- 
 pared with the navy of the defunct Ignited States. A signifi 
 cant comparison, inasmuch as it was made by a presumptuous 
 Vankee. I'artial admission of l)lockades havino; been raised by 
 the growing power of the Confederate navy forces. 
 
 Fl. \\. K. J. 
 
 A writer in the New. York "Sunday jMercury," of February 
 •i'^, in calliu::;- attention to the tlireatened conflict between the 
 United States and France, sums uj) tl* total numlx'r of vessels 
 of the French navy at four hundred and ei_i>hty-nine, including 
 six formidable iron-cased frigates and fourteen iron-plated bat- 
 teries. This immense force, he says, would be used against tlie 
 Lnited States in connection with the Confederates. Ke says : 
 
 At the outset of hostilities between Napoleon III, and the 
 Federal Government, the latter would be found the jsoorer pre- 
 pared for them — being vulnerable at a dozen different point'* 
 between Portland and New" Orleans. Our blockading fleet, 
 too, would have fearful odds to contend with should tlie Impe- 
 rial will offer to enter the sealed ports of the Soutliern States. 
 U"e possess all the national defences, and must protect all ex- 
 cept those located at four points, viz: Wilmington, Charleston, 
 Mobile and Galveston. Where his jVfajesty would first show 
 his hostile colors is a matter beyond conjecture; consequently, 
 )>rovision to meet him at all points is imperatively demanded. 
 Still, there is hope for us in the future, as may be discovered 
 from reflection upon the character which the war would assume, 
 and our resources in men and shii)S. The main difliculty in 
 eno-aging in the contest would arise from our deficiency in 
 ordnance. We must meet this want, however, and we there- 
 fore proceed to show what we may do presuming the necessary 
 provision to have been made. 
 
 The nnvy of the United States is rapidly increasing, and, in 
 the right direction. We find the following list of iron dads 
 afloat, or near completion : 
 
 Agamentious, Benton, Baron DcKalb, Chillicothe, Chickasaw, 
 ('atskill, Camanehe, Cairo, Caroudelet, Circinnati, Canonicns, 
 Catawba, Dictator, Dunderberg, Essex, Galena, Keokuk 
 (-Nloodua,) Kickapoo, Lexington, Lehigh, Louisville, Monodnck, 
 -Nlaretta, Manhattan, ]\[ahopac, Moynayunk, Miantonoraah, Mil- 
 waukic, Montauk, Nantucket, Nahant, Neosho, New Ironsides, 
 Ozark, Osage, Onondaga, Patapsco, Passaic, Puritan, Pittsburg, 
 Roanoke, Sandusky, Sangamon, Wchawken, Winniebago. 
 
 RAM <il,XnOAX.S AND BATTEKIKS AFLOAT, OK ^EAK ( OMrLETION. 
 
 General Bragg, General Price, General Pillow, Lioness, Queen 
 of the West, Switzerland, Lafayette, Little Rebel, Sampson. 
 
SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 97 
 
 Making a f^rancl total of the iron-clad fleet, soon to be ready, 
 54 vessels. The Furitan and Dictator are designated to be pe- 
 culiarly formidable. They measure over 3,000 tons, are to be 
 ^rmed with ordnance capable of throwing a two ton shot, and 
 will be provided with exceedingly sharji and strong prows. 
 
 "With those' now building, the total estimate of our naval 
 force, including transports and receiving ships, is swt down at 
 390 vessels. 
 
 THE COXFEDERATE NAVAL FOIK K. 
 
 The Confederate Navy is also a rapidly growing power. On 
 the ocean, already, the rebel mark has been made by the Ala- 
 bama, Captain Semmes ; tlic Oreto (Florida,) Captain Xewland 
 Maffit (son of the famous ^lethodist ])reacher,) and the Retribu- 
 tion, Captain's name unknown. , In Charleston harl)or there are 
 three ironclads, steamers of course, the Palmetto State, Captain 
 Rutledge, Chicora, Captain Tucker, and City of Charleston ; 
 besides three or four more small steamers, such as the General 
 Clinch, Etiwan and Chesterfield, and the celebrated floating bat- 
 tery which did such etfective execution during tlie Fort Sumter 
 bombardment. At Richmond, Merrimac No. 2 is sujvnosed to 
 be watching a favorable opportunity for coming out. Our Gov- 
 ernment constantly keeps a blockading fle^t of one iron-clad 
 and a dozen old style war vessels at the mouth of the James 
 River to prevent her escape, which looks as if she were rated a 
 pretty dangerous adversary. There is also the City of Rich- 
 mond, her consort, penned in. At Savannah the ram Fingal 
 lies penhi. She is supposed to be a magnificent crat\, very 
 powerfully armed, and was altered from an English vessel of 
 superior build. The Nashville has done, and may yet render, 
 eignal service to the rebels. The Thunderbolt is a sui)erior ves- 
 sel, now being built. At Mobile there are said to be three iron- 
 clad gunboats under way, that are to be ])rovided with the best 
 Whitworth, Blakeley and Armstrong guns. The Sumter is still 
 an object of Federal attention at Gibraltar, where we kept a 
 *' spotter " in constant attendance. The Harriet Lane is now in 
 the hands of the enemy. Besides these vessels, the rebels have 
 two or three efficient musquito fleets in the Gulf harbors, and 
 gome eftective batteries and rams, good in helping to raise 
 blockadfs, or disposing the entrance of light gunboat*. 
 
 To recapitulate the Confederate maritime strength, we find 
 that they possess : 
 
 Cruisers, 4 ; Iron-clads, 8 ; Rams, 2 ; Gunboat^ and transports, 
 5 ; Harbor fleets, of say, 25. Total 44. 
 
 W14EUE NAPOI.KON WOUI.n KK.HT I ■^, ANi> M'.n 
 
 It is evident that were he to undertake hostilities against us 
 it w^ould be in the interest of the Confederate States, and that 
 he would, with their assistance, raise the blockade and land 
 troops in different portions of their rebellious territory. Aj^in, 
 
08 THE WOMEN OF THE 
 
 '-hese "wc could readily tight— not one but two millious of men, 
 or even more could doubtless be had to sustain the Government 
 against the double foe. 
 
 The North would unite without delay — political grievancos 
 would be again buried, as they Avere after the first gun at Sum- 
 ter, and Napoleon would find himself the cause of the speedy 
 and sure overthrow of the Confeder<acy, which he would be 
 fighting to sustain. But at sea his power might aftord us more 
 apprehension ; and self-defence would compel us to swarm the 
 Atlantic with prjvateers. Tfie conflict would be desperate in 
 character ; and, undoubtedly, completely stagnate the commerce 
 of both countries. But France could never enter our harbors 
 except with lighter draught vessels than those she is now build- 
 ing, unless in rare cases. Light gunboats alone could cross our 
 bars, and what could be done yD check their progress and 
 eventually conquer them, besides opposing similar vessels to 
 them, has been shown in our suggestions about the proper mode 
 of defending New York. In the use of cruisers we should find 
 ourselves able to do more damage along the hostile coast, and 
 and in the very ports of France, than we would be likely to be 
 called upon to sustain ourselves from the nature of the contest. 
 The Apostle of the Latin race, as he is now religiously termed, 
 would do well to weigh the case carefully before entering into 
 active alliance with the bastard Government at Richmond, a«d 
 making common cause with it against a Republic whose recu- 
 perative powers and unceasing energy has been the wonder and 
 admiration of European nations in an especial manner during^ 
 the last two years. 
 
 England's position in the event of the struggle. 
 
 The policy which England would be apt to pursue, in the 
 event of her taking up arms against France, is almost beyond 
 fathom. * That she w^ould rejoice at our accumulating troubles, 
 is a matter of course ; but whether she w^ould seek to profit by 
 the opportunity in a manner other than by endeavoring to make 
 money in bestowing aid and raatejjal to all parties as long as 
 she could, is a point that cannot yet be discussed. Possibly 
 she would deem the time come ior her to strike that cherished 
 Wow at her dangerous rival, of which we have heard so much, 
 and would place herself on our side for the purpose. This 
 would involve the Avhole world in the most tremendous conflict 
 ever waged, and lead to an unheard of amount of desolation on 
 both continents. But soimd judgment must argue strongly 
 against her adopting any course but that which she has found 
 to pay so well, and whicli goes bv the name of " strict neu- 
 trality." • ^ ' •• 
 
 Our enemy in the above account, dated February 22, 1863, of 
 naval forces, has not given us credit for four or five of the most 
 formidable gxmboats we have recently captured out of his 
 
SECOND AMERICAN BEVOLUTION. 99 
 
 would-be ail-powerfuJ navy ; among them are the Queen of the 
 West, Indiaiiola, Isaac Smith and several others. The Harriet 
 Lane is the only one spoken of in the above account as being in 
 cur possession. Seven ot eight of the enemies gunboats have 
 been sunk in attempting to pass the batteries at Vicksburg 
 (luring the past two months, among which are several of the 
 formidable iron-elads mentioned in the above list, to wit: the 
 Benton, Cincinnati, Galena, Montauk, &c. During the past few 
 months we have captured and sunk more gunboats and iron dads 
 than the enemy could possibly build in twice the length of time 
 that was required for us to capture and destroy them. 
 
 ir. w. R. J. 
 
 Tiie blockade on the coast of Texas has been raised, January, 
 1863, by Major General Magruder, who immediately isgued a 
 proclansation declaring that as the ports of Sabine Pass, Lavaca 
 and Velasco, on the coast of Texas, have ceased to be actually 
 blockaded by the forced withdrawal of the enemy's fleet from 
 the same, he invites friendly neutral nations to resume commer- 
 cial intercourse with these ports until on actual blockade has 
 been re-established with the usual notice demanded by the laws 
 of nations. 
 
 A DITTY PARAMOUNT TO EVERY CONSIDERATION OF 
 PROFIT- AN APPEAL TO RAISE BREADSTUFFS. 
 
 A wise man may learn not only from a fool, but from his en- 
 emy, and nations m.iy act upon and derive benefit from the 
 same principle. With this object in vie^w, we give below an 
 appeal to Northern and Western farmers, from the pen of one 
 of them who evidently sees breakers ahead of the section, to 
 "Plant Corn.'" Our jilanters and small farmers may every- 
 where benefit by it, and we trust they will. They 
 hardly realize the advantage they possess over the Nortli 
 jn producing bre.idstufls. There the farmers can make but a 
 wngle crop of anything u[>on the same ground, and it njust all 
 be planted within .t given, and very brief period, or the early 
 frosts will kill it. How different with the agriculturists of the 
 South I They may plant some kind of food-producing crops 
 during almost any month of the year. 
 
 Hitherto, very little attention, comparitively, has be«n given 
 to this subject, planters depending in many instances, almost 
 entirely upon the West lor their provisionn, and others to a 
 greater or less extent. All this, however, must now \te 
 changed, and the JSoutherti Stat'« must rely wholly upon them- 
 
100 • THE WOMEN OF THE 
 
 selves for theix food. Fortunately, they have all the means to 
 be desired at their disposal. They have only to put forth their 
 hands and plant, and eat and live. They have the acres, the 
 genial climate, and the labor necessary to the production of 
 almost every kind of corn, grain, vegetable, and fruit that en- 
 ters into the composition of human food. Let the people be 
 alive to the great fact, and avail themselves of their advantages. 
 Let them plant, plant, plant. Their soil, though not inexhaus- 
 ble, is rich, and may be made richer by care and industry. 
 Plow up the old fields, and plow deep, the deeper the better, 
 and plant corn, potatoes, beans, peas, etK;., and see by a proper 
 variation of the kinds of seed, a succession of crops is pro- 
 duced. Any quantity of white potatoes can be grown so as to 
 mature in the fall — a circumstance whose impo'*tance has been 
 overlooked hitherto. Late corn may also be planted, as well 
 as sweet potatoes,- a most valuable root. But listen to the fol- 
 lowing importunately earnest and touching cry, though tinged 
 ■with the prevailing fanaticism, to "plant corn," addresged to 
 Northern farmers, or rather their wives and children, by an 
 agricultural journal, and then let all of our planters and farm- 
 ers profit by the appeal. 
 
 "Plant Corn." — It is the duty of those who take arms in 
 their hands to drive back the foe, to provide for that danger. 
 It is the duty of those who stay at home to provide against the 
 •danger of short crops. In short to provide that they are as 
 abundant as industrious labor, judiciously and economically di- 
 rected, can possibly efiect. To do this, we must begin now. 
 Now is the seed time, let us do our duty, and trust God for the 
 harvest. Brother farmers, we urge you to plant eorn. Plow 
 deep, manure well, and plant corn. 
 
 American moth.ers, wives, and daughters of American sol- 
 diers, we urge you to plant corn. 
 
 . What if every woman, who has the ability, shall plant and 
 tend one well-fertilized hill of corn ? 
 
 Who can imagine the vast addition all the golden ears 
 grown upon these extra stalks would make to the great nation- 
 al store ? 
 
 What if they were all garnered in one garner, and added to 
 the widows and orphans fund ? 
 
 Think of this, mothers, wives and daughters. Think what 
 you can do with such a trifling addition to your other labors. as 
 planting one hill of corn. 
 
 "Only t^ree grains of corn, mother," let every child cry, in 
 all the month of May, and plant it, and then follow the Scriptu- 
 ral injunction,. "Dig about it and dung it, until it grows and 
 bears fruit." 
 
 The waste bones of a single dinner, burned and pulverized, 
 will more than fertilize a hill of corn. The sweepings, the 
 slops, the pieces of a small family, mixed in a tub, and carefully 
 
SEOOND AMERICAN RETOLrTION. 101 
 
 applied as a liquid manure, would fertilize a hundred hills of 
 corn ; aye, more, would add a hundred bushels to the crop. 
 Then plant "three grains of corn." Dig the soil deep and 
 mellow. Soak the seed to haaten its vegetation. Keep the 
 ground free of weeds, and the euriace loose, and moist, and 
 rich. Dig in the early morning dew. There is no better ler- 
 tilizer. If you plant the right kind, three grains will produce 
 six ears, and each of these will have a hundred grains. 
 
 Men, women, and children — all who love your country—all 
 who have a superficial foot of the surface of the country — we 
 ask you to plant one hill of corn. Thus you can save your 
 coimtry in its hour of peril. -You can with your feeble hands 
 alone, provide a surplus of grain. Seeing your spirit, your 
 strong handed relatives will be animated to renewed and greater 
 exertion, and each .and all, chroHghout all the corn-growing 
 region of States, unpolluted with slavery, will plant one more 
 hill o( corn." 
 
 To carry on this fanatical and brutal war, which demagogues 
 have inaugurated against the South, the wives and children of 
 Northern and Western farmers are thus adjured togo out into 
 the fields and toil, to plant "one hill of corn." This shows to 
 what terrible straits the demagogues feel they have reduced 
 their section of the country. To ward off a famine, actual 
 starvation, they appeal to women and children to turn thepi- 
 selves into workmen, and dig and sweat, that the politicians 
 may enjoy office and cormorants fatten upon the common mise- 
 ries. For this there will come a reckoning day ; but let us in- 
 .lugurate the policy of entire home indei»endence in the depart- 
 ment of breadstuff's when it can be so easily done, with work 
 comparatively so light, and harvests so sure, so abundant, and 
 EO important. 
 
 Vast amounts of fertilizers might be saved upon every plan- 
 tation by the requisite pains and forethought, and turned to 
 the enriching of the soil, aad the consequent increase of crops. 
 Millions of dollars are every year lost to the South in this way — 
 from sheer neglect and improvidence. We trust to see a sjieedy 
 reform in this respect, and a grea*^ increase of all kinds of cere- 
 ■ als, fruits, and vegetables, as th^ n.iMiral result of it. Less 
 cotton and more food should be the motto, till the end of the 
 w.ir, whether it be one year or ten. 
 
 Fruits will soon be ripe, and many a ]>atriotic housewife in 
 the South may make all her jiin money by putting them up in 
 tiermetrically sealed cans for the New Orleans and other mar- 
 kets. — Xttr OrUari*: Jiulktin. May 1^01. 
 
 TEE APPXAL OF THE ALABAMA DELEGATION 
 
 The Confederate ^cLaior? :.^d litj-reseutatives from Alaba- 
 ma have issued a very patriotic appeal to the planters of that 
 
lf)'2 THE WOMEN OF THE 
 
 State, urging them to raise everything *in their power in the 
 eatin"' line. The Honorable gentlemen say : 
 
 The raising the present year of the largest possible quantity 
 of provisions, and the raising of pork, beef and mutton for the 
 supply of the army and the support of the people, have be- 
 come manifestly the duty of every citizen. The enemy have 
 possession of some portion of our country well adapted to rais- 
 wcr provisions. In other portions when in the possession of the 
 enemy, they have damaged farm?, houses, and fences, plundered 
 and appropriated stock, and destroyed farming implements, 
 iinder a hope that if they could not conquer us by arms, they 
 coixld subjugate us with the aid of starvation. 
 
 It behooves us, therefore, so to provide as to aatify our ene- 
 mies that they are not to have the aid of short crops, and con- 
 sequent want and suflering, in their wicked attempts to sub- 
 jugate, rob and plunder iis. We have the soil and the labor, if 
 properly used, to raise provisions and supplies in abundance. 
 We urge you and each of you, in the present state of affairs, to 
 devote the soil and the labor at your command to the planting 
 and cultivation of provision crops, such as corn, peas, potatoes, 
 and vegetables of all kinds ; and that you raise pork and beef, 
 so that our gallant army may be liberally fed, the people have 
 abundance, and our servants be saved from want and suffering, 
 such as has been the fate of those who have fallen into the 
 hands of the enemy, left to decay, starvation and neglect. 
 
 Every cultivator of the soil is deeply interested in expelling 
 from our lines the invaders of our homes, and this can only be 
 done by raising supplies sufficient for the liberal support of 
 all. Our true policy is to cultivate no cotton except to a small 
 extent for home consumption, and devote the labor of the coun- 
 try to the raising of provisions. 
 
 PLAHTING AND FARMING HINTS. 
 
 The Agricultural Editor of the "Southern Field and Fire- 
 side, who presides over a valuable department of a most valua 
 ble and deserving organ, writes : 
 
 "Good seed Corn on poof land will make a better yield than 
 snebbins on rich soil. Land that will not produce more than 
 ten bushels to the acre is hardly worth planting. Better plant 
 less and manure well. * 
 
 "Of Sweet Potatoes, the Yam is the best for the table, the 
 Alabama and Spanish for stock feeding — should be planted early 
 ill March. 
 
 "Of Peas, the 'Yellow Speckled' or 'Whippoorwill,' is very 
 productive but yields little forage. The 'Small Yellow' is re- 
 commended Avhere the vine is wanted. The Jerusalem Arti- 
 choke, Chufa and Ground Pea, should be planted freely for 
 hogs. The Colza {Branica lacinati) is sWongly commended 
 as an oil plant." _ • 
 
SECOND AMERK-AN REVOLCTION. 103 
 
 SPARE THE GARDENS. 
 
 The Richmond "Dispatch" says : "In every place where our 
 armies are stationed (Commanding officers should exercise the 
 strictest discipline in preventing injury to private property, 
 cither to fencing, fruits, vegetables, or animals. We are aware 
 of the law-and-order-loving character of our- soldiers, but there 
 are others who are not to be restrained from depredations ex- 
 cept by strict discipline. At this time, when every foot of 
 ground ought to be cultivated, and when a full supply of gar- 
 den vegetables may relieve in some measure the deficiency of 
 meat, the greatest care should be taken by the military and 
 civil authorities to encourage the cultivation of the soil. No 
 gardens at all will be made in the neighborhood of large armies 
 unless they are secured from depredation." 
 
 We regret to state that reckless and wanton depredation.^ 
 have been committe<i against farms and gardens in this vicinity. 
 These disorders, we believe, are committed by very few soldiers 
 or persons wearing .the badges of soldiers. 
 
 The general reputation of most of our brave soldiers is an 
 good for order and civil deportment as for gallantry in action. 
 It is the interest of all good and orderly soldiers that the depre- 
 dations and misdeeds of those who bring the service into ill re- 
 put-e and who threaten to interfere with the supply of provi- 
 sions frqm our larras, should be detected and exemplary punished. 
 
 Where officers do their duty, soldiers are never dangerous or 
 destructive to their friends. 
 
 HOME MEDICIKES-THE POPPY FOR OPIUM 
 
 It will be most profitable, and render vast service to the coun- 
 try. If any of you have PoppyiSeed to spare, send them to 
 Dr. Blaskie ; he will distribute them. . 
 
 We also urge upon every family to raise large quantitiffl of 
 pepper, sage, balm, thyme, »fec., &c. It is all wanted. 
 
 "FAMIHE IN THE SOUTH " 
 
 Under this suggestive head, a number of tihc papers of the 
 North are endeaioring to show to tiieir readers that the "re- 
 bellion" may soon bo brought to a close by the ajtpearance of 
 starvation in the Confederacy. They are. impresM'd with the 
 idea that the people and the army arc .already siiffering from 
 want of food, and believe that if they can Iwfore many weeks 
 succeed in obtaining posse'ssion of the seaports of the country, 
 and continue to hoM the country at prefont under their control, 
 tho "rebels" will Ik* compelb'd to submit or starve. 
 
 The other day, when Yankee priHonern were passing through 
 Knoxville, their officfr** in conversation frankly confe''se<l that 
 they did not believe that the South could be conquered >»y tb* 
 sword, but were perfectly confident that the rebellion would b-; 
 starved Off in a year more. 
 
1 04 THE WOMEN OF THE 
 
 THE CHEAPEST FOOD. 
 
 The cheapest and most nutritious vegetable used for food is- 
 heo7is. Prof. Liebig says that pork and beans form a com- 
 pound of subst.inces peculiarly adapted to furnish all that is 
 necessary to support life. A quart of beans and half a pound 
 of pork will feed a small fdmily for a day with good strength- 
 ening food. Four quarts of beans and two pounds of corned 
 beef, boiled to rags, in fitty quarts of water, will furnish a good 
 meal for forty men. — Charleston Courier, 1863. 
 
 SOMETHIITG TO BB DONE. 
 
 One of the greatest wants of the medical department, says 
 the "South Carolinian," is opium and its preparations. The 
 poppy, its source, is within our reach. The common garden 
 poppy is easily cultivated, and all we want is for the ladies to 
 tr.ke it in hand. The only preparation needed is to slice the 
 capsules and collect the juice on plates or glass, and to dry it 
 liud forward it to the nearest medical purveyor. He will pre- 
 pare it for use. Will not our women take this in hand in their 
 fiower gardens ? It is specially their province to soothe suffer- 
 ing: and solace the distressed. Let them take • the matter up 
 and the fall season will show an immense supply ot the most 
 valuable medicine that the armv needs. 
 
 A MODEL BOY. 
 
 A correspondent of the Mobile "Advertiser and Register?'' 
 writes from Savannah : 
 
 This allusion to the "Republican" reminds me of the wonder- 
 inl success which has attended the efforts of one of the boys- 
 engaged in the sale of that paper in the camps around the 
 city. Within a period of eighteen months he accumulated 
 money enough to purchase a horse and dray, but finding that 
 be was too small to load and unload his dray, he sold it and the 
 horse, and invested the money in five milch cows. He still 
 continues to furnish the paper to the soldiers, and with the pro- 
 fits arising from the sale he buys feed for his cows. The income 
 arising from the sale of papers and the milk given by bis cows, 
 is now ten dollars a day, or at the rate of about $3500 per an- 
 num. This boy will make his way in the world, and I allude 
 to his good fortune that the boys engaged in the sale of the 
 "Advertiser and Register" may take heart and emulate his ex- 
 ample. You may tell your boys that this Savannah boy does 
 not swear, nor use tobacco, nor drink liquor, but loves his 
 mother and is very industrious. 
 
 One of Major-General J. E. B. Stuart's servants is in captivi- 
 ty, glorifying in his Southern proclivities, and declaring that he 
 
SEOOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 105 
 
 will "die fuss 'fore he'll take the oaf of allegiauce." The same 
 darkey, the morning after the passage of the negro regiment 
 bill, told his fellow prisoners that the white men of the North 
 had foimd themselves unable to whip the Southern Confedera- 
 cy, and had to call on the "niggers." 
 
 GEN. PILLOW AHD THE PRESIDENT. 
 
 Gen. Pillow recently made a speech to Planters in Alabama, 
 to induce them to permit their slaves to enter Government em- 
 ploy as teamsters, etc. To show that he was not asking them 
 :o make sacrifices that he himself wonld not make, he told of 
 his Own losses — 400 negroes, four gin houses worth 810,000 
 each, 100,000 pounds of bacon, 2000 hogs, 500 head of cattle, 
 his houses and plantations destroyed and desolated, and 2100 
 bales of his cotton burned by his own Government. 
 
 He stated that Gen. Sherman had written him a letter, 
 couched in very polite language, offering to return his negroes 
 to him, and to indemnify him for 'hll his losses, if he would 
 abandon the Confederate service. His answer was : 
 
 General, whilst I thank you for your courteous letter, let me 
 say to you, the property your Government has taken from me 
 was my own. Your Government has the power to rob me of 
 it, but itis too poor to buy me." Concerning President Davis, 
 he said : "The President is the very man for the position he 
 holds; if he cannot conduct us through this revolution, no 
 man could ; he is a man ot delicate form, but of large brain 
 and patriotic heart, and eminently <juaiified in every respect for 
 the Chief Executive of the Confederacy.'* Although he thought 
 the President had not done him justice, yet he preferred him 
 for President to any other man. We were not now fighting for 
 President Davis, nor for any other man, but for our rights as 
 freemen ; and as for himself he would, if he had it to do over, 
 vote for Jefferson. Davis for President, if he knew that he 
 would place him in a dungeon during the whole war. 
 
 The "Southern Christian Advocate" says such remarks 
 evince a noble and unselfish jiatriotism, that sets the country 
 above self, and wo take ]ileasure in recording them and re- 
 commending them to the notH-e of whatever selfish churl may 
 })C looking to hi« own gain honor?, rather than to hi? country's 
 weal. — Charltf'toTi Courier. 
 
 STAKPEDE OF CONTRABAND TROOPS 
 
 A corresjxndeLt of i];<- Haitfoni ^Connecticut) "Times" 
 writes from Hilton Head, Feb. 2 : 
 
 The negro exfredition from St. Mary> has just returned. It 
 was compofed of four companies of ibe negro regi month. 
 They went afler nepro recruite and Inmbtr. Tkey got togetb- 
 
lOfi THE WOJIRN of the 
 
 er a lot of negroes, but they refused to come away and were 
 left behind. They did not succeed in getting any lumber. The 
 transports were fired at from the shores. Caj^tain Jack Clifton, 
 of the steamer John Adams, was killed by a ball through the 
 head. He was well known all over New York. He was the 
 brother of the celebr.ated actress, Josephine Clifton, and was very 
 much liked for his social and cheerful qualities. His wife and 
 daughter are at Beaufort. His loss is regretted by all. The- 
 The expedition succeeded in bringing off four non-combatants. 
 The town of St. Mary's was burned by the negroes. 
 
 The negroes landed and encamped at St. Mary's. During th§ 
 night twenty rebels on horseback made a dash into their camp, 
 when the negroes fled in every direction, and then stampeded 
 for the transj^orts, throwing away their guns. They rushed 
 pell-mell on board, and created the greatest confusion. The 
 rebels fired from high bluffs, and oUr troops could not ele- 
 vate their guns enough to do much execution. 
 to . — — 
 
 A VALUABLE SUGKJESTION TO PLAUTEES. 
 
 A corresponj-ient of the "Savannah News" suggests to plan- 
 ters that they prepare to plant largely of slip or layer of sweet 
 potatoes. He says : 
 
 There is now ample time for the preparation as they may be 
 planted as late as the. latter part of July and produce a goo^ 
 crop. I have made 350 bushels per acre on very light land, by 
 the application of about two bushels of rough stable manure to 
 the task row, and much larger yields have been made to my 
 knowledge ; but if only 50 bushels were made it will be a good 
 return for the labor required. 
 
 As an article of food I need not say much, as their properties 
 are well known ; but as I am convinced that they have never 
 been properly appreciated as food for horses, I "wish to make 
 known the fact that they are equal to corn or oats in quality, and 
 I think 5 pecks of potatoes equal to 4 of corn for horses ; at 
 least my experience for several years justifies my conclusion. 
 TThey should not be fed to horses until they have been banked 
 about three weeks, as they arc apt to give the scours ; but after 
 that there is no danger. Simply let them be dry and not 
 wasted, and no danger need be apprehended. As the 
 'cost of transportation would be greater than corn, I 
 would suggest that farmers use them at home and ship their 
 corn to points where it may be needed. 
 
 PATRIOTISM OF NEQROES-THE OLD DRUMMER OF 
 CHALMETTE. 
 
 The old aegro drummer, Jordan, cf historic fame as a drum- 
 mer at the battle of New Orleans, in conformity with the order 
 
SEC0ND AMERICAN RKVOLCTrOX. 107 
 
 oj;' Beaat Butler, handed in a complete list of his property for 
 Gonfiscation by the Lincoln irovernnicnt, and declared himself 
 " an enemy of tlic United States." The Louisiana " Democrat " 
 says : 
 
 Ten thousand of those citizens of Xew Orleans preteudiagj 
 to be loyal, who have sworn allegiance to the United States, foY 
 the purpose of saving their property, must have blushed from 
 shame when they saw this old negro voluntarily stripping him- 
 self of his hard-earned gains, and becoming j^enniless in the 
 evening of his days, rather than yield obedience to a Govern- 
 ment which has become an object of the contempt of the 
 civilized world. — N'ovember^ 1^02. 
 
 NEGRO PATRIOTISM. 
 
 Benjaniin Marrablo, E.^q., of Halifax county, Virginia, has 
 four negro men who, for some time, have been engaged working 
 on the fortifications at Richmond. A few days ago they came 
 up home on a visit, and finding go^td warm. clothing, excellent 
 shoes and socks made for them, they generously decUned them, 
 on condition that their master would send them to the suffering 
 soldiers who, they said, needed them much more than they did. 
 They had seen suffering soldiers, and it touched their hearts to 
 compassion, besides they want the South to conquer. Now, 
 how many miserable money grabbers and Shylocks, with white 
 skin, but with hearts blacker than the hides of these contra- 
 bands, would have been as self-sacrificing, generous and mag- 
 nanimous? Not one I The articles thus contributed by these 
 colored men would buy several barrels of com, at the extor- 
 tioner's price. Let many " white " men think of this. 
 
 A LOYAL NEGRO. 
 
 A correspondent inform*, us that a fommitt'/e wa« recently 
 ap])ointed in Portsmouth to urge Robert Butt, a negfo of that 
 place, of worthy repute, and who rendere<l himself famous for 
 his kindness durinjj the prevalenft- of the yellow fever, to be- 
 come a candidate for Conffre.ss to rejtresent that District. . The 
 negro, more lo>al than Sej^ar or (owpcr, jiromptly sent the 
 following response, which our correspondent assures us was 
 copied from the original. — liichwrmd Euqvirer. 
 
 PoKTSMorTir, December 22, 1862. 
 To John Council, John O. Lawrence, Nicholiw Butler and 
 
 others, Committee r 
 
 Gcni!> — Acropt m- • '- for your 6at ter- 
 
 ing invitatiou to bf^ ■ -'-nt the Dij«trict 
 
 in the 37th Con?re*« of xhv Uoit*^ StJite». 
 
108 fHE WOMEN OF THE 
 
 There was a day in the history of our once glorious country, 
 when such an invitation would have been received with some 
 consideration, but now things are very different, and to accept 
 such a position when I know, if elected, I cannot represent the 
 voice of the people of this District. In my humble opinion, 
 gentlemen, any individual who would sufier his name to be used 
 in this connection, and under the existing circumstances, \^ ould 
 disgrace himself, and show but little respect for his friends of 
 the District who are beyond the lines of the United States 
 Government, fighting for our very existence. I must decline 
 your invitation to become a candidate (to be voted for by ballot) 
 for a seat in a Congress which knows no law, except the higher 
 law, and are every day enacting unconstitutional measures, 
 thereby disgracing the capital of the country. No, gentlemen ; 
 I will leave this position to some one who is more anxious to act 
 the traitor, and have his name written high upon the page of 
 infamy, than one who has ever borne within his bosom the true 
 motto of his mother State — " Down with the tyrant." 
 I am, gentlemen, very respectfully, 
 
 your obedient, humble servant, 
 
 ROBERT BUTT. 
 
 From the New York World. 
 THE MURDER OF THE BLACK RACE. 
 
 The "Evening Post" frankly admits that the ultimate object 
 of the radicals is the destruction of the colored race on this 
 continent. It says : 
 
 "As the Indians were crowded westward, and out of our 
 bounds, by the irresistible advance of the white man, so will the 
 blacks be whenever that powerful protective system with which 
 the slaveholders have guarded them is removed. It is the 
 destiny of the free white working men of this country to pos- 
 sess it ; the efforts of the slaveholders have hitherto robbed 
 them of one-half of it — the richest, fairest half^— and devoted it 
 to the blacks. It is the slaveholders who have preserved the 
 negro /rom decline among us ; it is the slaveholders who have 
 increased the blacks from seven hundred thousand in 1790 to 
 four millions in 1860." 
 
 .So it is admitted that those terrible fellows, the slaveholders, 
 whose chains, whips and blood-Rounds we have heard so much 
 about in anti^slavery novels and poems, are after all the real 
 conservators of the negro race, while the Abolitionists, with all 
 their professions of philanthropy, contemplate their destruction. 
 The " Post " is right. The freeing of negroes means their ex- 
 tinction as a race in North America ; the history of the present 
 war proves that, beyond all peradventure. From Arkansas 
 around to Port Royal the same complaint reaches us, that the 
 negroes within our army lines are in rags and starving, and tliat 
 
SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 109 
 
 the soldiers abuse and hate them. A card in yesterday's " Tri- 
 bune," from the agents of some negro missionary society be<''. 
 ging for money and clothes, says : ' * ' a 
 
 " There are about a thousand in Hampton, quartered in tents 
 and a still larger number at Norfolk— seven hundred and ei<^hty 
 at Norfolk, and three hundred and seventy quartered in a large 
 storehouse and in barracks. Could the benevolent look upon 
 these pitiable objects of charity, tattered and shoeless, destitute 
 of decent clothing, and compelled to sleep on hard boards 
 bricks or ground, without a i)allet, or hardly a rag under them' 
 their hearts would bleed, and ' eyes unused to weep o'erflow 
 with tears.' 
 
 " It is not improbable that there arc sixty thousand freed 
 negro families within our lines in this condition, and, under the 
 operation ot the emancipation proclamation, as our army ad- 
 vances, this number will double and treble. These poor people 
 are destined for misery and ultimate destruction. The North- 
 even Massachusetts— will not allow them a residence, and for 
 the present, perhaps for years, there can be no fixed system of 
 labor where they are located." 
 
 What a strange verdict will history pass upon the Abolition 
 party. It was originally organized to' champion the woes of the 
 black race; it made the world ring with the aUejjed cruelties of 
 the slaveholders ; yet this same party, in less than two years 
 after it assumed power, inflicted more real distress upon the 
 black race than have several generations of slaveholders. More 
 than that, one of its principal organs now admits that' the ne- 
 groes thrive under the sway of slaveholders, but are destined 
 to perish from out the land at the expense of their quondam 
 friends, the Abolitionists. 
 
 NO LOVE FOR SAMBO-NEOROES EXPELLED FROM 
 INDIANA. 
 
 The City Council of Vincennes, Indiana, adapted on the 6th 
 instant the following preamble and resolution : 
 
 Wheukas, a number of negroes were brought into the coun- 
 try on the 1st inst on the Ohio and Mississippi Kailroad, from 
 the yicimly of Noble, Indiana, from which point thev wore for- 
 warded, as we learn by a man named Hughes, who had procured 
 them at Cairo to work on his farm; an<l whereas, the presence 
 of said negroes among us is contrary to the laws and constitu- 
 tion of the State of Indiana ; therefore, 
 
 Resolved, That the M.ayor, with the a<inisiance of the CitT 
 Marshal and such other forr.-s a-^ may l.f n< r w^^arv, be reouired 
 to take immediate steps toward havii ;rroc« nent back 
 
 from whence they camo, conM-nol to i., ^ ., , . f^y panj^, ^^ 
 forwarded them to thid upon con«ulution with th° 
 
 City Attorney, it is deter: .i puch action can be loff.illv 
 
110 THE WOMJiN OF THE 
 
 taken ; and ihaij in the meantime, all parties employftig the 
 negroes aforesaid, or any other negroes, in eur city or county, 
 contrary to the constitution and laws of the State, be proceeded 
 against at once. 
 
 The condition of these negroes. is said to be deplorable. They 
 are crowded together in a ruinous building in the outskirts of 
 the town. One of them has uied, and others are sick. 
 
 (Jo7xfedercu?y, November^ 1862. 
 
 THE NEGROES TO BE FORCED TO FIGHT- 
 
 The Washington "Chronicle" lays down the law for the ne- 
 groes thfls : Fighting promiscuous is forbid, and they must go 
 in the forefront of the battle. The Yanke€s evidently intend to 
 destroy the entire breed in America. 
 
 General Hunter believes the employment of blacks as soldiers 
 to be necessary to the preservation of our country. The result 
 of the war must be to secure to them the inestimable blessing 
 which, but for the rebellion, could never have been attained by 
 the present, or, perhaps, the next generation. This being the 
 case, it is no more than fair that negroes should aid us in crush- 
 . ing that rebellion which is as hostile to their interests as it is to 
 ours ; and if there are among them any who are too selfish or 
 two cowardly to make sacrifices 'xad. incur risks for the sake of 
 the great privilege of their manhood, they should be compelled 
 to do their duty. 
 
 CUE YAKEEE AND THREE NEGROES BURIED IN ONE 
 
 HOLE. 
 
 On White River there is a grave in which are buried a white 
 man, a negro woman and two negro men. In one of the battles 
 last year, among the killed were the chaplain ot the 1st Wis- 
 consin regiment, who had shortly before married a negro wench, 
 the property of a Mr. Thomas, and the negroes also. When 
 our troops came to bury the dead, they put the parson and his 
 wife in the hole, and, to give him enough of nigger company, 
 threw in the bodies of two negro men, who had been killed in 
 the action, — TAttle Pk.ock Democrat. 
 
 THE NEQRO BEGINS TO "HURT" IN MASSACHUSETTS. 
 
 The backs of the Yankees are becoming sore under the negro 
 saddle which they voluntarily begirted themselves with, and 
 they have already commenced wincing under the self-assumed 
 burden even in negro-worshiping Massachusetts. The Boston 
 "Courier," of March 16th, lets loose a winning half-suppressed 
 complaint, which we copy: 
 
SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Ill 
 
 Th:^ Difference:. — About a week ago several pereons, and 
 among them one or more officers, having been condemned by a 
 court 7imrtial held at the Navy Yard, were quietly taken to the 
 State prison at Charlestown, shaved, clad in prison costume and 
 put to hard labor. We announce this fact thus nakedly without 
 approval or condemnation, for the consideration of the people 
 of tlie Commonwealth. In times past, when under the laws of 
 the United States fugitive slaves, were arrested in Massachu- 
 setts, the use of the State prisons and the help of the State 
 officers were denied to the General Government by statute. 
 What has so changed matters, that while the Government may 
 not be aide<i as to one class of persons it may be as to another? 
 Is it not clear that both ca^es canuot be right ? If so, which is 
 wrofu ? — March, 1S63. 
 
 A FULL YANKEE LIEUTENANT A NEGRO. 
 
 Yesterday a lot of some ten or twelve prisoners — mostly 
 bushwhackers — captured near the Big Creek Gap by Colonel 
 Palmer's command, were brought to this city. Among them 
 was a negro, named John PJdmonds, who claimed to be a regu- 
 larly commissioned Federal IJeutenant. He states that he 
 started out as cook in the 33d Indiana regiment, but on their 
 i^treat, from Cumberland Gap, was left in the mountains. He 
 subsequently joined Capt. Goodwin's company of bx^^hwhackers, 
 in which he was commissioned a l^ieutenant, sleeping and mess- 
 ing with the white officers. He boasts of having killed three 
 "secesh" with his own hand. The guard who escorted him to 
 jail could scarce refrain from lynching him at this avowal, and 
 only the doubt as to whether he -wafC rom}>os infjitis saved his 
 black bide. He professes to own 8:9,000 worth of property in 
 Indiana, and says he could have liad a white wife there if he 
 had wanted one; and that his commission as ;i Lieutenant is at 
 Captain Goodwin's house. 
 
 In addition to the above, some thirty to forty other prisoners 
 were brought >>efore Provost Marshal Toole, consisting of de- 
 serters, rcnf crades, bushwhackers, &c. — Knoji'iUc Ti> {lisfcr, 1f/>. 
 
 THE NEGRO IN THIS WAR. 
 
 "P. W. A.," writing to the Mobile "Advertise;." from Sa- 
 vannah, nays : 
 
 The negro is performing an import aiit part in the ercat work 
 of our redemption. At one ol the foundries to-day, I saw a 
 nnraber of blacks engaged upon the raonpter shells and parrot 
 balls. At another place H/'veral were at work upon a Bpeciea of 
 machinery which most l>e namclesp. Bey end the city, botli on 
 water ar.«l land, they havf/ rcnd*^?"^^ ' n ucr- ^t • xr.-^* 9; in the 
 
112 THE WOMEN OF THE 
 
 construction of the fortifications which environ the town. This 
 is all right. No one has a deeper interest in the success of the 
 Confederate arms than the negro. Every blow he strikes — 
 every bolt he forges — is a blow and a bolt in his own behalf. 
 The success of the North would be the ruin of the black man. 
 It would reduce hitn to rags, to starvation, to death. The suc- 
 cess of the South, on the contrary, would perpetuate the happy 
 condition he now occupies in our beneficent social system — a 
 state of comfort and civilization to which the sons of Ham have 
 attained in no other part of the world. Well may the negro^ 
 assist, therefore, in the erection of batteries and the forging of 
 the thunderbolts of war. It .is for himself that he works. 
 
 CRIME AND ITS PUNISHMENT. 
 
 A Northern paper publishes the following item : 
 A letter from a correspondent at Denton in Maryland, gives 
 the details of a terrible tragedy enacted at that place on Satur- 
 day last. A mulatto man named Jim Wilson had outraged and 
 murdered a little daughter of Edgar Plutnraer, about 1 1 years 
 of age, residing near Brighton, in Carolina coimty, meeting her 
 in the woods on her way from school. The perpetrator of this 
 terrible outrage was arrested, confessed the deed, and was com- 
 mitted to the Denton jail. The people of the surrounding * 
 country flocko^ to the town and broke open the jail, took out 
 the prisoner, hung him to a tree, fired sixteen bullets into the 
 body, dragged it through the streets attached to the rope, put 
 it lip, burned it, and concluded the ceremony by giving three 
 cheers for Stonewall Jackson. — November^ 1862. 
 
 THE KEY TO THE PROSPERITY OF THE CONFEDERACY. 
 
 " Kin you tell me, Sambo, de key to de prosperity of de 
 Souf?" 
 
 "Key to prosperity of de Souf? Big words, Juno; guess 
 you must hab been eating massa's dickshunary. Golly, I ain't 
 learned nuflf to answer dat." 
 
 " Well, chile 'tis de darkey." — Field and Fireside. 
 
 THE NEGRO AND THE YANKEE-THE YANKEE HANGS 
 THE NEGRO- AND HIS OPINION OF HIM. 
 
 In a series of letters from correspondents of New York and 
 Philadelphia journals attached to the Federal army in the Penin- 
 sula, They were dated in New Kent county. One of them, 
 dated at New Kent C. 11., May 13th, has the following para- 
 graph, which we think worthy of special attention : 
 
 " A negro, a very desperate character, was hung at West 
 
PFCOND ATVIF.RTCAN RKVOT.UTTON. ll^^ 
 
 I'oint, on tlio vivcr, hist Fridiiy, for tlu- ookl-hlooded innvdtn- of 
 two MassaclmsettH soldiers. Ilo had caught them asleo]i alone, 
 and innrdored them for their money. lie wa8 cau!i;ht the next 
 day, and Avas made to jump ofl" the Tunb of a tree with a rope 
 around his neck. This murder, and other instances of atrocity, 
 cruelty, deceit and ingratitude, on the jiart of negroes in camp, 
 liave comjiletely cure<l the Massachusetts soldiers of that negro 
 wor8hip]>ing mania of which they have hitherto lieen possessed. 
 They have repeatedly declared, in my hearing, that they wisheil 
 that the Avar could br conducted in such a manner as would 
 leave the status of slavery just as it AVas before the war ; ibr the 
 slaves have proved theniselves utterly unworthy of freedom, 
 and utterly unfit to be free. And such, too, have been my ex- 
 perience in regard to them. — 18(V2. 
 
 DERIVATION AND MEANING OF THE WORD YANKEE. 
 
 The Richmond " Whig" li.as discovered in a record oi tr.avel 
 kept by one Thomas Anbiri< y, and published in London in I /'.•], 
 the fulIoAving in reference to the derivation and meaning of the 
 word Yankee. ITaving relerred to tlie New Knglanders as 
 Yankees, he says : 
 
 ':'■ Apropos — It may not be amiss just here to observe to you 
 the etymology of this term. It is derivetl Irom a Cheroki*!- 
 word, enakke^ which signifies coward and .slave. Thi.s ejtithet 
 of Yankee was best oAve<l upon tlx; inhabitants of New England 
 by the Virginians, for not assisting them in a war witlt the 
 < "herokees, and they have ahvays been held in derision by it. ' 
 
 NEW SLAVE TRADE. 
 
 A gentl' iii;iii oiieet from AU-xandria, \ irgim;i, .viieie ih, 
 Yankees liave po.ssession, informs u.s that two vessels left thai 
 jiortone day last week loa<b'd with slaves stolen from the loyal 
 citizens of Virgini.i, and doubtless bound ft»r St. Croix, or somi- 
 otlier West India iHland. A vessel recently sailed from the 
 N'ork river, wliere kIic arrived a few days previous \\\\h \\'e^l 
 India fruit, and by the cunning and dujjlii'ity ol" the 
 skipper and his crew, many slaves in the neighborhood 
 duced to go ftu bo.ird. As s<»on .is a load of tl 
 creatures wa." <d»taine«j, ilinr-^rl Irit'tcd nff, an" 
 sail, despite llie t«ars an' I -es, w ho too j;u 
 
 discovered the lra[« in v^ . f. i,. tlinn . ;'. 
 
 as prizes no doubi to If 
 
 anybody belicvcM that ?■ ..ilo 
 
 bondage, he ha« morn faith \n i is than 
 
 their past hi«tMv and re^-'-t.i ■,••., 
 
114 THE WOMEN OF THE 
 
 A JOYFUL RETURN. 
 
 Joe, a servant of a gentleman of this city, who has been an 
 absentee from his master's premises about eighteen months, and 
 •luring that time employed by the Abolitionists on St. Helena 
 and the adjacent ishands, returned on Fi'iday nu'>rning to his 
 master. lie reports the negroes on tlie island in a destitute 
 condition, and many anxious to return had they the facilities for 
 doing so. He is very much emaciated, but will soon recover 
 under home intlnences. — (Jharleston (Joiirier. 
 
 THE RETURN OF A SLAVE. 
 
 A negro, named Jesse, the property of K. 1>. Kimball, of this 
 city, who, it will be remembered, made his (;scape from this 
 port in July or August last, in com]iauy with four others — one 
 <jf them named Abram, and belonging to Dr. S. Woft' — returned 
 this morning, perfectly disgusted with the Abolitionists. II<' 
 states that when he and his companions left jMobile, they got on 
 board the Federal steamer Pocahontas, then lying in tlie fleet 
 in front of our harbor. Since then lie has been in JJaltimore, 
 Washington and otiier Yankee cities, and says that he has found 
 out all he wants to know about the Yankees. He says that lie 
 never was so badly treated in liis life as he was on board that 
 steamer. One half the time he had not enough to eat, and was 
 only half-clothed, and the way they punished was awful— that 
 they would ]>ut him in doaI>le irons and steam him, and so it 
 was with both while and black. The negroes in the Northern 
 cities were a most miserable and sorry set of fellows. One of 
 tliose that went away with him was killed on the Mississippi 
 River in one of the engagements there, and the others have 
 been trying to escape ibr a long time, and he knows that they 
 would give anything in the Avorld if they could get home. 
 
 Tlie way he got away is thus told : Last week the Pocahontas 
 returned to Pensacola, after her cruise North, and the day after 
 lier arrival at the Navy Yard, three of the oilicers started out 
 hunting and took him along to carry the game. NV^hen out, he 
 watched his opportunity and skeedaddled ; making his way 
 through the woods until lie got to the l*erdido K'iver. There 
 he found a skift' and came ovei" home. 
 
 Jesse gives a deplorable account of the Abolitionists, and says 
 that all "dera dat wants to go dar may do it, but he neiier is 
 gwine to leave his niaster and home again." He declares that 
 he is perfectly v^illing to "live and die in Dixie Land."- 
 
 Mobile Tribune, Feh-iiary 5, 1S63, 
 
 NEVER GIVE UP. 
 
 Never give up ! it is wiser and better 
 
 Always to hope than once to despair ; 
 Fling olf the losul of doubt's cankeri% fetter. 
 
SECOND AilEIilCAN REVOLUTION. 115 
 
 And break, the dark spell of tynmnical care, 
 Kever give up or the burden mav sink you— 
 
 Providfencc ba:3 kiudlj- mingled the cup; 
 And in all trials or tronbles, bethink you, 
 
 The -watchword of life must be, never imvo up. 
 
 Never give up! there are chances and changes 
 
 Helping the hopeful a hundred to one. 
 And, through the dark <±aos, Hi^h TV'i.sdom arranges. 
 
 Ever Buccc;;3 — if you'll only hope on ; 
 Kevcr give up I for the wisest iw b ildejl. 
 
 Knowing that Providence mingles the cup. 
 And of all maxima the best as the oldert, 
 
 I;, the true watchword, never give up. 
 
 Tsevcr give up I thou;;h th(- grape, rliot raay rattlr, 
 
 Ur the fidl thunder cloud over you burst, 
 Stand like, n rock, and the storm of the Itatlle, 
 
 Little shall harm you, although doiug tlicii worst, 
 Never give up 1 if adversity prcsser;, 
 
 I'rovidciice wincly has mingled tbe cup, 
 And the best (;oun3el in all your diFlrcr.oep, 
 
 I'jtiic stout hearted watchword of never give up ' 
 
 DR. NORTHS TREATMENT IN A YANKEE TRISON - A 
 FAITHFUL NEGRO-CAMP NEAR FREDERICKSBURG. 
 FEBRUARY 8, 1863, 
 
 Dr. Nortli, of (Tfoigia, has just joined Aiulcrsoii's (icorgi.i 
 lirig.'ido, as Assist.-mt Siirf^con. Tliis j^ent Ionian has just re- 
 turned iVoui a coinimlHory visit t<» "Wasliinglnn, ho liaving been 
 ( apluvcd at W.irrcnton, Virginia. lie \vas carried to the Capital 
 prison, together with a negro hoy belonging to him. Ou their 
 arrival ih the jireseiice of tiic brute Wood, keeper of tbe j)risou, 
 the negro was informed by the scoundrel that he wa.s free, aiitl 
 could do whatever lie wished. He was his own man. 
 
 Tlic negro ])OKitively refu.oed to (piithis master . and lontinue*! 
 his relusal until cvasi>eratcd, the Itnite oiilered Dr. North to 
 make his negro ipiit him. (Jn Dr. North's i\iusal, ho, and bis 
 lioy were placod in a dark dungeon and kept there for near 
 twenty-lour hourn. Wo«k1 e.vpresse«l with many oaths hi» de- 
 termination to keep them tlien- f«>r a month, but desisted when 
 (lur ca]»tive oflieers threatened that wln-n tiny arrived in Ilieh 
 n\ontl they would lay thi« mntter beli.re I're.-ident Davis, and 
 have the /''• '■''^'•^"W apiiiicnl. The boy «bing to hin master's 
 skirls and < ime back to Dixie well satisfied witb having e.sea|»e<l 
 the ebUchci* ol il" \l...iii;..i.i^t^. I mention this incident as it 
 is not \vithoul 
 
116 THK WOMEN OF THE 
 
 YAHKEE HYPOCRISY AND BARBAEITY ILLUSTRATED. 
 
 A c()no8}tun(lent writing from FaycUe C'OiirL House, Alabama, 
 iimler date of January 27, sends the following account of the 
 barbarous treatment of two negro boys, belonging to Mr. Nanee, 
 of Pickens County, Alabama. The facts are vouched for by 
 Dr. Sheltou, of Fayette Court House : 
 
 "A company of volunteers having left Pickens County for 
 the field of action, Mr. Nance sent two negro boys along to aid 
 the comj)any. Their imaginations became dazzled Avith the 
 visions of Elysiau fields in Yankeedom, and they went to find 
 them. But Paradise was nowhere there, and they again sighed 
 ibr home. The Yanks, however, detained them, and cut off 
 their ears close to their heads. These negroes fiually made their 
 esca])e, and are now at home, with Mr. Nance, in Pickens. They 
 arc violent haters of Yankees, and their adventures and expe- 
 rience are a terror to negroes of that region, who learn a lesson 
 from their 1)rethren Avhose ears are left in Lincolndom..' 
 
 COHiEDEEATE MONEY-ITS FUNDABILITY AND CUR- 
 RENT VALUE AFTER THE FIRST LIMITED TIME FOR 
 FUNDI SG MADE INTELLIGIBLE TO ALL. 
 
 No more grievous injury can possibly be inflicted uj)on this 
 country than the systematic attemi>ts made in some <iuarters to 
 discredit the issues of Treasury Notes, or any part of them. 
 The motives are various, but the great end sought to be attained 
 is always speculation — s)»ecidation upon the ignorant fears of 
 the people. Finance is a subject not easily mastered, and thus 
 there is room and opportunity for scattering about fears and 
 ^suspicions. The methods <jf procedure adapted t<> depreciate 
 our cu.rrency are various also, but the most ef^cacious of them 
 is tlie ill-boding hint and whisper of "repudiation." It is even 
 insisted that the })rinciple of rejjudiation is already ado^tted by 
 our Government in limiting the time for funding Treasury 
 Notes in eight per cent, bonds, afterwards limiting a time for 
 funding at seven per cent., and so on. 
 
 We think it highly mischievous to allege that this means re- 
 pudiation, either in whole or in jiart. In fact it is the agency 
 svliich will prevent .all necessity or excuse lor rcpudiati(.>n, inas- 
 much as the fmidi?)g, thus encouraged and hiu-ried, helps to 
 jjrevcnt the purchasing power of our remaining notes from going 
 down to zero; and keeps the lial)ilities of the country within 
 the limits of ])(»ssible payment. 
 
 Besides, this constant operation of speculators in frightening 
 people out of their notes, has an evil political effect, as well as a 
 ruinous financial one. Every one ought to know, and lay to 
 lieart the fact, that if we establish our independence, all the 
 Treasury Notes are as good as minted gold. To be subdued 
 
SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 117 
 
 Avill never pay; and with this conviction — with all to win, or 
 all to lose, in jiockct as well as in honor — inon will he more 
 /oalous to win the caiisr, or die. Life, indeed, would be a small 
 uiatter to save out of the c^eneral ruin ; because, it would bo the 
 life of beggars as well as of slaves. 
 
 Therefore, it is distinctly disloyal to seek to discredit our cur- 
 rency, by scattering abroad doubts and fears. The (Tovennnent 
 ;nid the Congress, we believe, have acted wisely in stimulating 
 ilu' funding of notes and diminishing (after ample notice) the 
 loo exorbitant interest on their Ixinds. We lind some ap])ro- 
 |)riate remarks on this subjei't in the Augusta "Constitution 
 alist','' which present the case in a light intelligible to all, 
 
 "liCt us look into the matter a little. l>y the acjt of August 
 iayt Treasury Notes were fundable till 1st April^ in eight ])er 
 cent, bonds — after that in seven ]>cr cents. But*l>y the act of 
 ■\pril, Treasury Notes issued j^rior to Is^ December, except the 
 f u'o-year notes, were fmidable till 22tl of April In eight percent, 
 lionds — afterwards, til! August next in seven ])er cents, after 1st 
 August they are no longer fundable, but they are receivable, till 
 paid, for all (Government dues, except export duties, and paya- 
 ble, in gold or its eipiivalent, six months afler peace. All th;' 
 twj)-ye3r notes are fuiulable till .'ilst Jiily in eight per cent, 
 bonds, ]>ayable in two years — after the 31st of Jidy they arc 
 not lundable, but jiayable only when presented, and receivable' 
 for duties an<l taxes. All notes issue<l.from 1st December to (ith 
 April are fundable in seven ])er cent, bonds till 1st August — 
 afterAvards in four per cents, only, but receivable for duties and 
 taxes, and payable after peace. Notes issued after t3th April arr 
 fvnidalde in six per ceuts for twelve months from the first day 
 of the month of their issue, afterwanls in lour ]H'r cents. This 
 is the system a<lopted by the last (\ingr»;ss. 
 
 "We do not know how many Treasury Notes were issued pie- 
 vious to the 1st Decfmber, nor how many have since been 
 Onided. Wcestimate, however, that the issue then outstanding, 
 exclusive of interest notcR, two-year notes and one nnd two 
 dolhir notes, (not fun<lable,) was alnuit two hinidred and fifty 
 Tiiillicns. Probably sevcnty-H\e millions were funded to the 
 "jd Ajuil, and it is hoped that the ann.unt in all ui.iy reach 
 100,000,000 by August. If ro, the amount of those left will bo 
 onJy fifty millions, every <lolIar of which is as good as gokl for 
 laxes, and will be absorbed nn<ler the tax l»ill. Sr. that th«»ro is 
 -nt the slightest reawon why HpeeiHali^rs nnd banks should refn^" 
 ;o receive notes issued prior to I)p(Tnd>pv — thus <liHcreditinn 
 ihe eurrdv y of the country — the issues of the V'onfederate 
 Treasury. Those notes .are jus i. an gu<>«l as any Tre.isury issues, 
 and partio-i r^ fusing l<» receive them know it. They are ahv.iys 
 receivable for taveM, and payable bin nit.nths :Ul<'r pi.<ace. The 
 notes is8ue<l itter jRt of T)erember and previous to (itli April 
 are equally gu..(l— and they ive fundablo after Jit August, 
 
lis THE WOItfEN OF THE 
 
 though only ia four per cents — just as all other Treasury Notes, 
 issued after 6th April, are fundable only hi four per cents, twelve 
 months after issue. It is therefore only a ruse of interested 
 parties, this attempt to discredit Treasury Notes, which are as 
 good as any issues." 
 
 GOOD PROSPECTS-FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. 
 
 KicHMOXP, June 16, 1863. 
 
 Thc^ Richmond banks are receiving "a pcoring" from the 
 press of this and other States, for refusing to receive or ]>ay ont, 
 hereafter, the Confederate Treasury Notes which cease to be 
 fundable on the Istof August. Whilst Ave have not approved 
 <if the proce.eding, we have not lost sight oi" the ft.ct that it is 
 the policy of the Government, as indicated by the recommenda- 
 tion of the Secretary of the Treasury and l»y the action ol 
 C'ongress, to " demonetize" these notes as far as practicable on 
 and after the 1st of August, and that the banks have cither to 
 refuse to circulate them now, or to continue to receive them 
 until the date mentioned, when it is possible that they would 
 have large amounts thrown upon their hands which they could 
 not use, unl(!ss they and the people, by common consent, Avoidd 
 continue to receive and pay them up as heretofore. If this be 
 done, the funding act is, practically, nullified, and the relief ex- 
 }tected. from the rctiren^ent of a large amount of paper money 
 defeated. 
 
 It is evident, therefore, that the bank directois had to dispose 
 of u "(lilemma." On the one hand, they would, to some ex- 
 tent, frustrate the purpose of CJongrcss. On the other, they 
 M'ouM excite distrust among certain classes of people, and, per- 
 haps, produce a quaal ))anic. They threw the Avcight of their 
 own self-intorest into the balance, and, of course, decided that 
 th<^ would trust to the good sense and ])atrioti8m of the people 
 to avert the probable consequence of their action. 
 
 We employed every argument to convince Congress «f the 
 impolicy of the "demonetising" system, which foun<l favt>r 
 with its leading members, and pointe<l ont some of the evils ol 
 tli.at system which have already presented theniselves, but our 
 <',ounsels did not, of coarse, prevail, and w(! now have a system 
 of finance which, in part, contemplates the foi'cing out of circu- 
 lation, on the 1st of ^Vugust, by funding and ]>aymentof taxes, 
 of about $140,000,000 of currency. If this object is attained, 
 the result Avill })e highly beneficial. 'I'he currency will be de- 
 j)leted, and, eonse(iuently, the ])rices will decline, or, the notes 
 remaining in circuhition, will have an increase^l purchasing 
 power. Will this be accomplished ? Certainly, it Avill, if the 
 action'of the Richmond banks be followed up by the banks else- 
 where in the Confederacy, and by the refusal of the people 
 generally to receive the discredited notes. But, it may be au- 
 
SECOND AMERICAN RF.VOTXTTON. 119 
 
 com})lisho(l without this wholesale discrediting, and hence wo 
 aro diejiosed to belicvo tliat the Itanka wcve too jirecipilate in 
 rulinnr out tlio oM issne. 
 
 The thforvof tlic Treasury l)ei)artmcnt is that the process o( 
 funding and the tax levy Avill al)Horl> all, or the greater portion 
 of" this issue. This ev])e('tation is so reasonable that we liavc 
 hen-telore e.vi»re«siMl the earnest hope that the merchants, 
 tradesmen an<l other>< should continue to reiu'ive, at h\ast, a poi 
 t ion of the notes issued j)vior to December 1st. For the same 
 r«>ason, W(^ believe that the banks could hav<' postponed their 
 action until the middle of .luly, liy A\hich tinu^ it is jiORsibh' that 
 the veiy "slowcoach" — the " War Tax," will begin to make 
 itself felt as an absorbent of redundant cash. '^Phe b.anks a<l- 
 here<l to their resolution, and the business men, inst(Mvd o|' eon- 
 ferring together, and acting in c<^ncert, are rejecting or receiving 
 the old issue, acc<u'ding to their individual avarice, patriotism, 
 or views of inoxpediency. 
 
 It is obvious that much needless vexation, inconvenience, dis 
 trust and loss will result from even the jiartial exclusion of these 
 notes from circulation. If every mnn Avould recciv*', say one- 
 half or one-fourth of them in tlie payment of a debt, they woidd 
 be ke)»t aHoat until the war tax collector presented his bills, and 
 then, as everybo<l}, with a grain of senise, woidd [»!\y his taxes 
 in these notes, tlu'y would, of course, gradually disa|>jtear from 
 circulation, and the object of the fuiiding act be accom])lished. 
 We trust, therefore, that the people generally will continue to 
 circulate them as freely as they diil ind^ankable Nortli ('ar<>lina 
 notes, before the war. Those who refuse to <lo bo will Kubject 
 themselves to a disparaging remembr.ance. 
 
 Afr. J. S, O'Snllivan, of New York, late AFinlHter of tlie 
 United States to Portugal, has written a lengthy and eloquent 
 letter in favor of "j»e:ice at all hazardB." Mis letter is date.l ai 
 London, inth Ajtril, lHr,.^, aii«l contains this declaration : 
 
 *' Ab a trustee, I would at this moment prefi-r to place trust 
 fimds for peruianent inveHtnjent in tin; Southern war debt, at 
 par, rather than in llie Northern at onei'ourth of its faw. 'J'he 
 one can be ]»aid and will be paid; the other m-ither will noj 
 can. 
 
 In this declaration we liave the judgment ol an intelligent and 
 an]>reiinliced observer <ii' the war in this country. Ilr vit?w 
 the cfintest from a stand-point which enaliles him to form ;i 
 cx)rrcct ojiinion of tlie jirobable result, and in exercising hi . 
 reasoning faculties, h«- lias evidently been aided b\ n iii^i ,om 
 prehension of the resources of the Stales con)|»<' < .,n- 
 
 I'ederacy The r-tmfidence lie e\]*resHvs in the i ;...,,, , ,.,n of 
 our war di bt is sharrni by those capitalists of (itreat Krif aiii who 
 hav« subscribcrd to tbe Lonfederate loan recently effected in Lon- 
 don, anil we <lonV»t not the judgment upon which this ■ r.nfidence 
 
Vj,li THF WO^tEN OF THTi: 
 
 IS l)ase(1 prevails in every intellicje'ot and nnbiasecl cirrle in 
 Enroj^e. 
 
 Tf tills l»e s<^.^ (and wlio can ;.';ain3ay it?) miffht not a mnoli 
 stronger degree of confidence in the ability of the Confederate 
 < fovernment to ni*,ot and liqnidate every pecuniary obligation 
 Hxist among the people of the (confederate State.s ? \Ve are 
 iiappy to know it does exist, to a very wide extent, Imt at the 
 ,vauie .'i me, there in too nuich tenacity on the part of gold- 
 hoarders, Avlio constitute a very lai'ge amount of specie. This 
 tenacious grasp ot the precious gold cannot be construed other- 
 wise than as a distrust of the result of the contest. If we are 
 to Hclneve our independence, why hold on to gold C(un, whicii 
 brings in no interest whilst Confederate Bonds are so easily 
 jturchased, which do yield interest ? We <lo not argue that it 
 is neither patriotic nor wise to hold any gold, but we would 
 ask those who have put away coin to consider whether the time 
 has not now arrived when they should part with at least a j^or- 
 tion of their hoards ? Gold is wanted for commercial purposes, 
 and there may be persons who have become glutted a\ ith gain 
 who are eagea* to convert their Treasury Notes into specie, 
 Tlie demand certainly exists, and this, together with the 
 scarcity, has put the premium up to a Jiigh figure. The brokeu'S 
 will give about $lt> in Treasury Notes for |2 in gold.- Is this 
 not allurement enough, if it be true, as Mr. O'tSuUivan says, 
 tliat the Confederate war debt "can and will be paid?" But 
 we will not pursue the subject. Every one must determine for 
 himself whether he will be wise or foolish in holding on to his 
 gold when he can sell it for $V premium, and invest the money 
 in seven per cent. Confederate Bonds at par. We are on the 
 eve of important and decisive events, and people may well be 
 exrnsed for awaiting the issue of those events, but the de- 
 velopement may be attcmded AvHh a collapse in the premium for 
 !-pecie, and thus the "golden opportunity" alluded to may be 
 lost. 
 
 Confederate eight per cent, bonds were sold at auction in 
 Augusta, Ga,, on the 12th inst,, at i^^l'irt, and interest. We 
 presume they were registered bonds of the tifteen million loan. 
 
 Hichmond Whig. 
 
I N D e: 
 
 
 v^ 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 A Female Soldier 7 
 
 A Female Ai(l-de-Canip 7 
 
 Miss Belle Boyd, "The Rebel 
 
 Spy." 8 
 
 Aliss JSorah McCartey — A lit mi- 
 niscence of the Missouri Cam- 
 
 paisrn 
 
 A Brav* Girl 12 
 
 Fiendish Onti age upon Women. 12 
 Unparalleled Atrocity of Yankee 
 
 Demons IS 
 
 The Women of Winchester, Va. 14 
 A Spirited Lady of North Laio- 
 
 Hna 14 
 
 Murdering Women ' 15 
 
 .The Ba\ onet ! The Needle ! The 
 
 Plow'! 15 
 
 A Patriotic Lr.dy 10 
 
 Patriotic Coniribution 16 
 
 Yank ees or Hyenas V "... 10 
 
 The Virtues of woman 17 
 
 What can Woman Oo V ID 
 
 " God's Last, Best Gift to Man," 
 
 WoniHU a Ministering Anj^el. . 21 
 Beautiful Eulogium ai d Tri: ute 
 to Woman — Woman's Heroism 22 
 
 The Society ol Woman 22 
 
 To all Soufheni Ladies 
 
 Why not Import Provisions V. ... 24 
 
 Atrocities of the Federals 25 
 
 Yankee Biutality 20 
 
 An Appesil from Women 26 
 
 Bitter Femide Secessionists 2b 
 
 An Ai ifiil Didge 29 
 
 Acts of Kindness and Devotion of 
 
 the Ladies of Louisville, Ky.. . 29 
 Miium thou Land of Flowers — 
 Banishment of Families from 
 St. Augustine, Florida- inhu- 
 man Treatment of Women and 
 Chil(^en— The Federals at N. 
 
 Orli aiis, Louisiana 30 
 
 A Cry for Vengeance — Later from 
 
 Missouri 32 
 
 Home for Invalid Ladies— Inter- 
 esting Corre'^pcndence — Wo- 
 men Always Foremost in Pio- 
 
 rr.otine a Good Caus''>^^^^^ /.- 
 Blths Her Eflbiis wiiii Success. 
 
 The Worth of Woman 
 
 Man and Woman 
 
 The Women of the West 
 
 Atrocities of Lincoln's Officials.. 
 
 The Ladies Making Shoe? 
 
 The Ladies and Gen. Price — Pre- 
 sentation to Gen. Price 
 
 Thi' Grtalest Atiocity yet of- the 
 Enemy '. 
 
 Robbery of a Laay 
 
 Patriotic and True Devotion of 
 Woman 
 
 Startling Revelations yy a Mis- 
 sourian wio wns to have been 
 Hung by the Yankees 
 
 The Ten Missouri Murders 
 
 Atrocious Murder by Yankees in 
 Missouri 
 
 Incidents cf the Battle of Frcf^c- 
 ricksburg— The People of the 
 Town who Ren aintd — The 
 W omen 
 
 A Confederate Alphabet 
 
 Northern Virtue. 
 
 Union Sentiment in N<'W Orleans. 
 
 The Greatest Battle 
 
 Gen. Let's Address to his Arnty . 
 
 First Naval Victory hi Virginia— 
 History of tie MnTimnc s nd 
 her 'Commandir. Admiral 
 Franklin Buciiauan 
 
 The First NhvuI Victory on the 
 Mihsissippi Riv«r by Gen. Jcfl'. 
 Thom) son 
 
 Official Report of tlie N;;val En- 
 giigcmcnt and Victory at Ga! 
 vcsion, Texas 
 
 Interesiing Order of Maj. Gen. 
 Magrrdt r— Comi'iiinentary Ac- 
 krowhdgment of the daring 
 and gallantry of oflicers and 
 men who vied with each other 
 in the rreat Naval En^jfgeinent 
 with the Blockading Fleet on 
 the Coast of Texas 
 
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 40 
 41 
 41 
 
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 44 
 
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 oa 
 
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 (jl 
 
Hi') 
 
 in evpry in toll, 
 
 is ])ase<l prevail 
 Europe. ^,^^,a- 
 
 li this be ,s^.. (and who 1i her 
 stroiigor degree of con fiderr •••63 
 < Government to nK.t and P^^.^- 
 Hxi.Ht aniono- the ])eople "^y..^^^* 64 
 imppy to knov^ijt djory — Yankee 
 ^auie rime, ! 'Repulsed with Great 
 
 \J*oo ••'"'I'jftss 71 
 
 A. Yankee Estimate of General 
 
 Beauregard 74 
 
 The Fight at Charleston 75 
 
 Wailing and gnashing ot teeth by 
 the Yankees — The last hours 
 
 of the Keokuk 76 
 
 A wail from the "Tribune." 76 
 
 Charleston Impregnable 77 
 
 Interesting History of the Open- 
 ing of the Alabama's Career. . . 77 
 Confederate Steamer Alabama — 
 The London " Times " on the 
 
 "290." 81 
 
 Confederate Steamer Alabama. . . 81 
 The Sea Fight between the Hat- 
 
 teras and the Alabama 82 
 
 The Steamer Alabama at King- 
 • ston — A Curious lacident of 
 
 the War ... 83 
 
 An Incident connected with the 
 sailing and running of the 
 Blockade by the Confederate 
 
 war steamer Florida 83 
 
 The Terrors of the Sea — Career 
 of the Florida— Description of 
 
 her officers and style 84 
 
 The Confederate war steamer 
 
 Florida at Barbadoes 86 
 
 The Retribution 86 
 
 A compliment to Liverpool 
 
 A Rattlesnake oa the Ocean 
 
 Progress of the War— Affecting 
 Incident — One of the results of 
 
 the War 
 
 Incidents of the capture of the 
 
 Harriet Lane 
 
 Queen of the West— Further Par- 
 ticulars 
 
 The capture of the United States 
 gunboat ludianola on the Mis- 
 sissippi — Enemies Account — 
 
 Ships against Forts 91 
 
 The Battl^ at Genesis Point 93 
 
 Interesting sketch of Ingraham 
 and Rutledge , 93 
 
 PAeK 
 
 CFuited States and Con'eder- 
 
 fHF WOIIEN OF T-e Naval Forces gg 
 
 A. duty paramount to every con- 
 sidi ration of profit — An appeal 
 
 to raise BreadstufiFs 99 
 
 The appeal of the Alabama Dele- 
 gation 101 
 
 Planting and Farming Hints. . . .102 
 
 Spare the Gardens 103 
 
 Home Medicines — The Poppy for 
 
 Opium 103 
 
 " Farming in the South" 103 
 
 The Cheapest Food 104 
 
 Something to be Done 104 
 
 A Model Boy 104 
 
 Gen. Pillow and the President.. .105 
 Stampede of Contraband Troops .'105 
 A valuable suggestion to Plant- 
 ers 106 
 
 Patriotism of Negroes — The old 
 
 Drummer of Chalmette..' 106 
 
 Negro Patriotism 106 
 
 A Loyal Negro 107 
 
 The Murder' of the Black Race. .108 
 No Love for Sambo — Negroes ex- 
 pelled from Indiana 109 
 
 The Negroes to be forced to fight. 110 
 One Yankee and three Negroes . 
 
 Buried in one Hoie. 110 
 
 The Negroes begin to "Hurt" in 
 
 Massachusetts 110 
 
 A full Yankee Lieutenant a Ne- 
 gro HI 
 
 The Negro in this War Ill 
 
 Crime and its Punishment 112 
 
 The Key to the Prosperity of the 
 
 Confederacy 112 
 
 The Negro and the Yankee — The 
 Yankee Hangs the Negro — and 
 
 his opinion of him 112 
 
 Derivation and Meaning of the 
 
 word Yankee ,113 
 
 New Slave Trade 113 
 
 A Joyiul Return 114 
 
 The Return of a Slave 114 
 
 Never Give Up 114 
 
 Dr. North's Treatment in a Yan- 
 kee Prison— A Faithful Ne- 
 gro — Camp near Fredericks- 
 burg, February 8, 1863 115 
 
 Yankeee Hypocrisy and Barbari- 
 ty Ulustratt d 116 
 
 Confederate Money — Its Funda- 
 bility and Current Value after 
 the first limited time for Fund- 
 ing made Intelligible to all 116 
 
 Good Prospects — Financial and 
 Commercial 118 
 
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 91 
 
100 fHF. WOMEN OF^ 
 
 is 1)ase(l prevails in evory inteU? 
 Europe. f^j' 
 
 !£ this l)e h<>, (and who'?; 
 stronger degree of '^onfideiv 
 < Jovernment to nicot and V 
 Hxist aniono- the people 
 happy to knn\^^ df^ 
 same .■iine, **^ 
 
CONFEDZRi 
 
 AND 
 
 PATRIOT'S FRIEND, 
 
 COXTA.INING IfUMKBOUS 
 
 IMPORTANT AND THRILLING EVENTS 
 
 OF THK 
 
 PKESJENT REVOLUTION. 
 
 Will shortly make its appearance in a new edition. I will doiate 
 
 twenty-five cents on each copy sold towards the establish meat 
 
 and support of a Soldiers^ Orphan School, male and female. 
 
 11. \V. 11. JACKSON. 
 
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 loo niF. WOMEN OF r - ^^ ^^-^ c^;-r 
 
 . „y iONs. H 
 
 '■- based prcvailst m ovcry nitGU? > f 
 
 Knropo. »<{jf ' ~— 
 
 If this he s'- (ami who r, . ■ , , ., 
 
 stronger (legrco of confide., '^ ^^^^ »»«» '"'^'''^ "^'' ^Pi'^ ' 
 
 • loveinment to nic^t and 1 
 
 :i8t anions'- the people \i|* 
 
 .j-^: jr^ o E m: s 
 
 /In, 
 
 ^ CONFEDERATE STATES. Vl 
 
 .-1. 1 
 
 OF THE 
 
 CONTAINING A VARIETY OF 
 
 POEMS, BALLADS, SONGS, &c. 
 
 _^>om the (liferent States and members of the Southern Con- '^^ 
 federacy, haomg a hearhuj upon our national strug'jle 
 . for indepeiidence — dating from the commencement 
 of the Second American Revolution. 
 
 
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 Tflke heed, ye Family nf Nations, 
 You've iieard a mw member's born, 
 
 Which assumes gigan'ic proportions. 
 While another to f).i..menta is torn. 
 
 Our object is peace and good will, 
 To all nations and mankind ; 
 
 Our fields many garnerri can iill : 
 At our bands all justice can find. 
 
 3BY H. \^. It. ,TACI£SO]V, 
 
 AIKEN, SOUTH CAEOLINA. 
 
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 COP.T-EIGHT SEOUEED.