Yale University Library 39002009193187 I give: tbe fe: Book j far the. faHHaVng of a- College in this Colony' •Y^JE-'VMVIEiaSJnnr- mW^W^tWUSSgre Bought with the income of the Yale Alumni Association of Long Island Fund Confederate Scrap-Book. Copied from a Scrap-book kept by a young girl during aqd immediately after the war, with additions from war copies of the " Southern Literary Messenger" aqd "Illus trated News" loaded by frieqds, and other selections as accredited, Published for the benefit of the Memorial Bazaar, held in Richmond, April ii, 1893. RICHMOND, VA. ; J. L. Hili. Printing Company. 1893. THIS COLLECTION, ALTHOUGH WITH NOTHING OF MY OWN BUT THE LOVE OF "SOLDIER AND CAUSE" WHICH PROMPTED THE PRESERVATION OF THESE CLIPPINGS IN MY CHILDHOOD AND THEIR PUB LICATION NOW, I DEDICATE TO MY FATHER, COL. JOHN B. CARY, HIMSELF A FAITHFUL SOLDIER AND PATRIOT, WHOSE TEACHING AND EXAM PLE HAVE BEEN THE INSPIRATION OF HIS CHILDREN, AS HIS UNBLEM ISHED LIFE IS THEIR PRICE LESS HERITAGE. PREFACE. A "WORD of explanation is necessary in excuse for the evi dent incompleteness and imperfection of this collection, which might almost be called an impromptu effort. It came out of almost a moment's thought, after the work of the Bazaar had begun, with only the fragments of time between the duties of Corresponding Secretary, and Assistant on a Table, to bestow upon it; so had to be compiled from material on hand, or within easy reach, with literally no opportunity for careful selection or revision. To me, " my scraps " were very precious, and full of interest, and the thought that they might be so to others, as well as of some historic value to future generations, together with the hope that their sale would materially aid in building the two monuments for which we are working, has induced me to give them to the public. Lizzie Gary Daniel. INDEX. General Lee's Farewell Address to his Army 1 Mosby to his Troops . .... 2 Letter of Commander M. F. Maury . . .... 2 General J. B. Magruder's Address to the Soldiers at Houston, Tex. . . 3 General E. Kirby Smith's Farewell Address to his Army . . . 5 General Lee's Address before the Secession Convention 6 The Names of the Men who Refused to Leave President Davis ... 6 Worsley's Lines to General Lee 6 A Description of General Lee by a Northern Clergyman . . . 8 The Form of Parole . 8 The Last Day of Public Fasting and Prayer in the Confederacy . . 10 Proclamation Appointing a Day for Public Worship .... 11 ¦Reward for Jeff Davis ... . . . . 12 Nineteenth Anniversary of the Arraignment of ex-President Jefferson Davis 13 The Amnesty Proclamation by Andrew Johnson . . . 15 An Incident of Mrs. Davis . 17 General Order Forbidding "the wearing of the grey" 18 Quartermaster's Receipt, 1864 ... 19 Ashes of Glory— A. J. Requier ... ... . . 19 John Pelham— James R. Randall . . . . . . 20 Jackson — Henry L. Flash .... .21 A Noble Regiment, 12th Mississippi . .22 Major-General Hill's Address to the 12th Mississippi . ... .23 John Pegram — W. Gordon McCabe . .... 23 Lee to the Rear— John R. Thompson 25 Extracts from E. C. Walthall's Address at Dedication of Monument at Jackson, Miss., June 3, 1891 27 Grant and Lee . ... . . . .... 30 Death of General Jackson . . ... 32 In the Land where We were Dreaming 33 Ordinance of Secession ; 35 Principal Events of the Months of January and February, 1862 ... 38 Burial of Latane' 40 General Lee 41 We Challenge the Comparison . . . 42 Patriotic Southern Ladies • • • .44 From Matoaca Gay's Article in Philadelphia Times 44 Bishop Elliott's Eulogy on the Private Soldier 45 ii Index. A Letter from Jackson's Army 45 Hospital Directory . 46 From an Old Vicksburg Paper ... 48 Personal in Savannah News . ,_ . ... 49 The Sword of Robert Lee — Father Ryan .50 The Lone Sentry— James R. Randall . . 51 A Yankee Prayer 52 The Toast of Morgan's Men — Captain Thorpe . . 54 Foot Cavalry Chronicle . 55 Mother Lincoln's Melodies . . .55 To Die Cotton or Wool Brown ... . . . . 56 Our Contributors . . . 57 A Soldier's Dream ... 57 " Poor Johnnie Pope " . . . . ..... 58 Richmond's Great Day, October 27, 1887 ... . .... 59 Memoriae Sacrum — James Barron Hope ... 63 Dispatches from General Lee .... ... 71 Extract from "The Burning of Hampton " . 72 Ratdenlinden — Colonel B. H. Jones ... . .74 Albert Sidney Johnston ... . . . 75 General Patrick Cleburne 76 Missing . . . . 77 Lines to the Fredericksburg Memorial Association — Father Ryan ... 78 Little Giffin— Dr. F. O. Ticknor " . . 79 The Ninth of April, 1865— London Spectator . . 81 President Davis' Message, August, 1862 . . . . 82 General Orders from Lee, Cooper and Randolph and Halleck . ... 89 Copy from Richmond Whig, April 4, 1 865 98 Letter from ex-Secretary of War Seddon, October, 1863 99 Medal for Confederates 102 Authorship of Dixie . 102 The Rebel Yell . ... 104 Jefferson Davis, a Heroic Character . . 108 Jefferson Davis as Secretary of War— G. B. McClellan, Jr. . . . 109 With the Old Vets of Georgia— Presentation of a Gold-Headed Cane to the Colored Legislator .... 109 A Spicy Correspondence between Jackson and Early ... . . 113 A Review of General Beauregard as a Soldier and Citizen ...... 114 J. J. Dickison's Farewell Address to the Florida Troops 116 Electoral Ticket, C. S. A 117 A Curious Epitaph 117 Would'st Thou Have Me Love Thee, Dearest ?— A. B. Meek 118 Reminiscences of War Times — A Letter 119 The Bible on the Battle-Field 121 Jackson's Parting with his Old Brigade , 121 Index. iii The Most Extraordinary Marches on Record 123 To the Women of the South— "The Memorial Association in Rich mond" 124 General Lee's Illness and Death . . . 125 The Confederate Battle-Flag— Carlton McCarthy 126 Jefferson Davis' Motto for Southern Women 129 Jefferson Davis' Bond 129 Habeas Corpus for Jefferson Davis 129 Letter from Beresford Hope, Offering the Jackson Statue to Virginia . . 130 England's Neutrality — John R. Thompson 131 War-Time Prices for a Newspaper .... . 135 What a Dinner Cost in 1864 136 Price of Ice 136 Casti — The Examiner's Convention of Beasts 137 Jackson's Last Dispatch 147 The Private of the Confederacy 147 All Quiet Along the Potomac To-hight— Mrs. Randolph Harrison ... 148 About a Famous War Song, "All Quiet Along the Potomac " 149 " True to the Last"— W. S. Hawkins . . * 154 The Vanquished Patriot's Prayer — Confederate War Songs 156 "Jackson's Foot Cavalry" . . . 158 Turner Ashby 159 Written on the Back of a Confederate Note 160 Constitutions of the United States and of the Confederate States . . . 161 - Forbidding the Issue of Marriage Licenses 187 Why No More Music . . . 190 Part II — Songs of the Camp and the Home, with Music 191 God Save the South 192 The Bonnie Blue Flag— Music 192 The Southron's Chant of Defiance — Music 194 Southern Song— Wait for the Wagon 195 The Volunteer ; or, It is My Country's Call, Dear— Music 197 God Bless our Southern Land 198 My Maryland — Music 199 There's Life in the Old Land Yet— Music 201 - "Allons Enfans " — Southern Marseillaise 203 Imogen — Music . . 204 The Cavalier's Glee 205 Gay and Happy 205 Richmond is a Hard Road to Travel 206 The Song of Dixie— Music 209 The Homespun Dress 211 Song of the Southern Soldier 213 God Save the South 214 iv Index. Virginia's War-Call 217 The Song of the Snow — Mrs. M. J. Preston . . . 218 .The Southern Cross — Tune, Star-Spangled Banner . . . . 219 Stonewall Jackson's Way — Music . . 220 "Address of the Women to the Southern Troops . . . • 222 My Order . . . 223 BattleSong . . . . 225 My Soldier— Mrs. E. A. Charters . . . 225 We Swear . . 226 Hurrah! . . .... 227 A New Red, White, and Blue ... 228 ' Somebody's Darling . . 229 Music in Camp .... ... 230 The Virginians of the Valley— Dr. F. O. Ticknor 232 Our Dead . . 233 The Conquered Banner .... . . . 234 The Reply to the Conquered Banner ... . . . 236 The South ... . 237 The Unforgotten— Mrs. E. A. Charters .238 I'm a Good Old Rebel . . ... 239 sThe Faded Gray Jacket 241 Farewell Forever to the Star-Spangled Banner — Music 242 All Quiet Along the Potomac To-night —Music. . . .... 243 Southern Land .... ... .... 245 Dixie 246 The Cotton States' Farewell to Yankee Doodle— Tune, Yankee Doodle, 248 In Hollywood . 249 In Memoriam, 1891— Mrs. E. A. Charters ... . . .250 Chivalrous C. S. A 251 The Volunteer . . . .252 A Southern Woman's Song . . . . . 253 CONFEDERATE SCRAP-BOOK. GffilSnERAL ROBERT E. LEE'S FAREWELL ADDRESS TO HIS ARMY. Headquarters Army of Northern Virginia, Appomattox C. II., April 10, 1865. General Orders So. 9. After four years of arduous service, marked by un surpassed courage and fortitude, the Army of Northern Vir ginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources. I need not tell the survivors of so many hard-fought battles, who have remained steadfast to the last, that I have consented to this result from no distrust of them, but feeling that valor and devotion would accomplish nothing that could compen sate for the loss that would have attended the continuation of the contest, I have determined to avoid the useless sacrifice of those whose past services have endeared them to their coun trymen. By the terms of the agreement officers and men can return to their homes and remain there until exchanged. You will take with you the satisfaction that proceeds from the consciousness of duty faithfully performed, and I earnestly pray that a merciful God may extend to you his blessing and protection. With an unceasing admiration of your constancy and devo tion to your country, and a grateful remembrance of your kind and generous consideration of myself, I bid you an affectionate farewell. /E2&- General. Confederate Scrap-Book. MOSBY TO HIS TROOPS. Just before running away Mosby issued the following ad dress to his troops : Eauquier, April 21, 1865. Soldiers, — I have summoned you together for the last time. The vision we have cherished of a free and independent coun try has vanished, and that country is now the spoil of a con queror. I disband your organization in preference to surren dering to our enemies. k I am no longer your commander. After an association of more than two eventful years I part from you with a just pride in the fame of ^our achievements and grateful recollections of your generous kindness to myself; and now, at this moment of bidding you a final adieu, accept the assurance of my unchanging confidence and regard. Fare well. J. S. Mosby, Colonel Commanding Battalion. LETTER OF COMMANDER MAURY. At Sea, May 25, 1865. Sir, — In peace as in war, I follow the fortunes of my native State, Virginia. I read in the public prints that she has prac tically confessed defeat and laid down her arms. I am here without command officially, alone and busied on matters of public concern abroad ; nevertheless, as I consider further resistance worse than useless, I deem it proper formally to confess and to pledge you on my word of honor that should I find myself before the final inauguration of peace within the jurisdiction of the United States, to consider myself a prisoner of war, bound by the terms and conditions which have been or may be granted to General Lee and his officers. Be pleased to send your answer through my son Colonel R. L. Maury, a paroled prisoner of war in Richmond. In the meantime, and until I hear to the contrary, I shall Confederate Scrap-Book. 3 act as though my surrender had been formally accepted on the above-named conditions. Respectfully, M. F. Maury, Commander C. S. N. To Commander U. S. Naval Forces in the Gulf of Mexico. GENERAL J. B. MAGRUDER'S ADDRESS TO THE SOLDIERS AT HOUSTON, TEXAS. • May 25, 1865. Fellow-Soldiers, — Although too ill to say much to you at this time, I am happy, most happy, to meet you. We all belong to the same great army of patriots, and as my interests are identified with your own, in the future as in times past, you will always find me at my post. There is no use in denying the fact that we have met with great misfortune in the surren der of General Lee. But we must look these things in the face and see what there is of it. At first it was announced that General Lee had surrendered forty-three thousand troops, but I am happy to inform you that he surrendered only, accord ing to the admission of the enemy, about seven or eight thousand men. Now, the loss of this number of men in itself was not a serious misfortune in a military point of view. The loss of General Lee himself was a greater loss — a serious loss — but not a fatal one by any means. Such losses are common, .and to be expected in great revolutions. I see nothing alarm ing in this — nothing to frighten us. Let us not attach too much importance to this. We have still many great leaders left, and if we stand by them we will gain the victory. The «nemy has had advantages east of the Mississippi he never can have in Texas. There he used his steam to advantage, not only on the coast, but in all the streams, large and small. Here in Texas he can make no use of such power to back him up. Here he will have to fight us on broad prairies that we can roam over as well as he; and if he drives us from one fortified 4 Confederate Scrap-Book. place we can fortify ourselves in another and another, and worry out any army he can bring. Here we have plenty of supplies. I see nothing discouraging, if we are determined to' fight it out. And you who know me should know I shall not sacrifice life when I can help it. Not a drummer-boy shall be' sacrificed imprudently. I will take care of you. I shall not act recklessly, regardless of the rules of war. We have, I am sorry to say, an enemy among us who is daily circulating false reports. One of these came to my ears to-day, which was that General Forney's men were deserting in large numbers and going home. This, th#hks to the telegraph wire, I am able to brand as a base lie. Nothing of the kind has occurred. I commanded that division once myself, and I know that a. braver, better-disciplined set of troops never breathed. They will stand by their col<*s to the last; and let no slanderer dare to tell me that they are deserting their companions in arms. It is a base lie. Nothing of that kind will occur among the Texas soldiers. I know them well, and I know what I say. Come what may, I shall stand by my country, and I will never be a slave to Yankee power. I had rather be a Comanche Indian chief than bow the knee to Yankeedom. I will only add that we have a neighbor near at hand. I do not feel at liberty to say anything further concerning the matter at pres ent. But it may be that we may have aid from a source unex pected, and at a time when we least dream of it. Therefore, let us stand by our leaders, and all will yet be well. *I do not feel discouraged at the present position of matters, and I am certain you would not if you realized all the facts which will develop themselves. At the close of the address three rousing cheers were given for General Magruder. Colonel Carter, Colonel Sydnor, Gen eral De Bray, Colonel Murray, Major Waller, Dr. Farmer, and others, each made remarks to the immense crowd assembled. General Magruder arose from a sick-bed to address this- assembly. Confederate Scrap-Book. FAREWELL ADDRESS. General Kirby Smith issued the following address to his sol diers on abandoning the war : Headquarters Texas-Mississippi Department, Houston, May 30, 1865. Soldiers, — The day after I refused the demand of the Fede ral Government to surrender this department I left Shreveport for Houston. I ordered the Missouri, Arkansas, and Lou isiana troops to follow. My purpose was to concentrate the entire strength of the department, await negotiation, and, if possible, secure terms alike honorable to soldiers and citizens. Failing in this, I intended to struggle to the last; and with an army united in purpose, firm in resolve, and battling for the right, I believed God would yet give us the victory. I reached here to find the Texas troops disbanded and hastening to their homes. They had forsaken their colors and their commanders ; had abandoned the cause for'which they were struggling, and appropriated the public property to their personal use. Soldiers, I am left a commander without an army — a general without troops. You have made your choice. It was unwise and unpatriotic, but it is final. I pray you may not live to regret it. The enemy will now possess your country and dic tate his own laws. You have voluntarily destroyed our organ ization and thrown away all means of resistance. Your present duties are plain. Return to your families. Resume the occu pations of peace. Yield obedience to the laws. Labor to re store order. Strive, both by counsel and example, to give se curity to life and property. And may God in his mercy direct you aright, and heal the wounds of our distracted country. E. Kirby Smith, General. 6 Confederate Scrap-Book. SPEECH OF GEN. R. E. LEE WHEN HE WAS INTRODUCED TO THE SECESSION CONVENTION AND INFORMED OF HIS APPOINTMENT TO THE COMMAND OF THE MILITARY AND NAVAL FORCES OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA. This ceremony took place on the 23rd April, 1861. "Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Convention, — Profoundly impressed with the solemnity of the occasion, for which I must say I was not prepared, I accept the position assigned me by your partiality. I would have much preferred had your choice fallen on an abler man. Trusting in Almighty God, an approving conscience, and the aid of my fellow-citizens, I devote myself to the service of my native State, in whose behalf alone will I ever again draw my sword." The following are the names of the soldiers who refused to leave President Davis, in making his way through South Carolina, although their brigades and the whole escort had disbanded and scattered. They all belonged to the Second Kentucky Cavalry: Lieutenant Baker, privates Sanders, Smith, Heath, Walbert and Harkness. WORSLEY'S LINES TO GENERAL LEE. The following inscription and poem accompanied the pre sentation of a perfect copy of the " Translation of the Iliad of Homer into Spencerian Stanza," by Philip Stanhope Worsley, Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford — a scholar and poet whose untimely death, noticed with deepest regret throughout the literary world, in England, has cut short a career of the brightest promise : "To General R. E. Lee — the most stainless of living com manders, and, except in fortune, the greatest — this volume is Confederate Scrap-Book. 7 presented with the writer's earnest sympathy and respectful admiration." 1. The grand old bard that never dies, Receive him in our English tongue ! I send thee, but with weeping eyes, The story that he sung. 2. Thy Troy is fallen, thy dear land Is marred beneath the spoiler's heel. I cannot trust my trembling hand To write the things I feel. 3. Ah, realm of tombs ! But let her bear This blazon to the last of times : No nation rose so white and fair, Or fell so pure of crimes. 4. The widow's moan, the orphan's wail, Come round thee : yet in truth be strong ! Eternal right, though all else fail, Can never be made wrong. 5. An angel's heart, an angel's mouth, Not Homer's, could alone for me Hymn well the great Confederate South — Virginia first — and Lee. GENERAL LEE'S LETTER IN REPLY TO THIS GRACEFUL COMPLI MENT FROM THE ENGLISH SCHOLAR. Lexington, Va., February 10, 1866. Mr. P. S. Worsley: My Dear Sir, — I have received the copy of your translation of the " Iliad," which you so kindly presented to me. Its peru sal has been my evening's recreation, and I have never enjoyed the beauty and grandeur of the poem more than as recited by you. The translation is as truthful as powerful, and faithfully reproduces the imagery and rhythm of the bold original. 8 Confederate Scrap-Book. The undeserved compliment to myself in the prose and verse, on the first leaves of the volume, I receive as your tribute to the merit of my countrymen who struggled for constitutional government. With great respect, your obedient servant, R. E. Lee. [Copied from the Columbus (Ohio) Journal from an account of an interview with General Lee, in Richmond, written by "A Northern Clergyman."J " General Lee looks older than his portraits generally make him. His hair is grey; his head large; his brow grandly arched, and his eyes and nose of a generous greatness — finer than he is represented in the portraits. The mouth is large, the lips somewhat fallen. In his conversation with me the General was extremely affable and talkative, but he undoubt edly has the faculty of being very reserved. " I agree with the English colonel, who pronounces General Lee the handomest man he ever saw. He is tall, broad-shoul dered, well set up, looks every inch a soldier. He has a most captivating personelle, a fair and open face, dark liquid eyes, glowing when aroused like polished diamonds." THE FORM OF THE PAROLE. We, the undersigned, prisoners of war, belonging to the Army of Northern Virginia, having been this day surrendered by General R. E. Lee, commanding said army, to Lieutenant- General Grant, commanding the armies of the United States, do hereby give our solemn parole of honor that we will not hereafter serve in the armies of the Confederate States or in any military capacity whatever against the United States of America, or render aid to the enemies of the latter, until Confederate Scrap-Book. 9 properly exchanged in such manner as shall be mutually approved by the respective authorities, R. E. Lee, General. W. H. Taylor, IAeut.-Col. and A. A. G. Chas. S. Venable, Lieut.-Col. and A. A. G. Chas. Marshall, Lieut.-Col. and A. A. G. H. E. Praton, Lieut.-Col. and Ins. -Gen. Giles Brooke, Major and A. A. Surgeon-Gen. H. S. Young, A. A. General. Done at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, this ninth (9) day of April, 1865. The above parole is the same given by all officers, and is countersigned as follows : The above-named officers will not be disturbed by United States authorities as long as they observe their parole and the laws in force where they may reside. George H. Sharpe, Gen. Asst. Provost Marshal. Here is another document which every officer had to sign for the men of his command : I, the undersigned, commanding officer of — , do, for the within-named prisoners of war, belonging to the Army of Northern Virginia, who have been this day surrendered by General R. E. Lee, Confederate States Army, commanding said army, to Lieutenant-General Grant, commanding armies of the United States, hereby give my solemn parole of honor that the within-named shall not hereafter serve in the armies of the Confederate States, or in military or any capacity what- 10 Confederate Scrap-Book. ever against the United States of America, or render aid to the enemies of the latter, until properly exchanged in such manner as shall be mutually approved by the respective au thorities. Done at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, this 9th day of April, 1865. THE LAST DAY OF PUBLIC FASTING AND PRAYER IN THE CONFEDERACY, MARCH 10, 1865. [Dispatch, January 26, 1865.] Proclamation by the President Appointing a Day ot Fast ing, Humiliation, and Prayer, with Thanksgiving. The Congress of the Confederate States have, by a joint reso lution, invited me to appoint a day of public fasting, humil iation, and prayer, with thanksgiving to Almighty God. It is our solemn duty at all times, and more especially in a season of public trial and adversity, to acknowledge our dependence on his mercy, and to bow in humble submission before his foot stool, confessing our manifold sins, supplicating his gracious pardon, imploring his divine help, and devoutly rendering thanks for the many and great blessings which he has vouch safed to us. Let the hearts of our people turn contritely and trustfully unto God ; let .us recognize in his chastening hand the correction of a Father, and submissively pray that the trials and sufferings which have so long borne heavily upon us may be turned away by his merciful love ; that his sustaining grace be given to our people, and his divine wisdom imparted to our rulers; that the Lord of Hosts will be with our armies, and fight for us against our enemies ; and that he will graciously take our cause into his own hand and mercifully establish for us a lasting, just, and honorable peace and independence. And let us not forget to render unto his holy name the thanks and praise which are so justly due for his great goodness, and for the many mercies which he has extended to us amid the trials and sufferings of protracted and bloody war. Confederate Scrap-Book. 11 Now, therefore, I, Jefferson Davis, President of the Confed erate States of America, do issue this my proclamation, ap pointing Friday the 10th clay of March.next, as a day of public fasting, humiliation, and prayer (with thanksgiving) for " in voking the favor and guidance of Almighty God " ; and I do earnestly invite all soldiers and citizens to observe the same in a spirit of reverence, penitence, and prayer. ,— a_, Given under my hand and the seal of the Con- < seal V federate States, at Richmond, this twenty-fifth day ' — f—' of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five. Jefferson Davis. By the President : J. P. Benjamin, Secretary of State. PROCLAMATION APPOINTING A DAY FOR PUBLIC WORSHIP. It is meet that the people of the Confederate States should,. from time to time, assemble to acknowledge their depen dence on Almighty God, to render devout thanks for his man ifold blessings, to worship his holy name, to bend in prayer at his foot-stool, and to accept with reverent submission the chas tening of his all-wise and all-merciful providence. Let us then, in temples and in fields, unite our voices in recognizing with adoring gratitude the manifestations of his protecting care in the many signal victories with which our arms have been crowned, in the fruitfulness with which our land has been blessed, and in the unimpaired energy and fortitude with which he has inspired our hearts and strengthened our arms in re sistance to the iniquitous designs of our enemies. And let us not forget that, while graciously vouchsafing to us his protection, our sins have merited and received grievous- chastisement ; that many of our best and bravest have fallen in battle ; that many others are held in foreign prisons ; that large districts of our country have been devastated with savage 12 Confederate Scrap-Book. ferocity — the peaceful homes destroyed and helpless women and children driven away in destitution ; and that with fiendish malignity the passions of a servile race have been excited by our foes into the commission of atrocities from which death is .a welcome escape. Now, therefore, I, Jefferson Davis, President of the Confed erate States of America, do issue this my proclamation -setting apart Wednesday, the sixteenth day of November next, as a day to be specially devoted to the worship of Al mighty God ; and I do invite and invoke all the people of these Confederate States to assemble on the day aforesaid, in their respective places of public worship, there to unite in prayer to -our Heavenly Father, that he bestow his favor upon us ; that he extend over us the protection of his almighty arm; that he sanctify his chastisement to our improvement, so that we may turn away from evil paths and walk righteously in his sight ; that he restore peace to our beloved country, healing "its bleeding wounds, and securing to us the continued enjoy ment of our right of self-government and independence; and "that he graciously hearken to us, while we ascribe to him the power and glory of our deliverance. _a^ Given under my hand and the seal of the Con- f ' ' 1 < seal V federate States, at Richmond, this twenty-sixth day ' — « — ' of October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four. Jefferson Davis. By the President : J. P. Benjamin, Secretary of State. REWARD FOR JEFF. DAVIS. A Proclamation. Whereas it appears, from evidence in the Bureau of Military -Justice, that the atrocious murder of the late President, Abra ham Lincoln, and the attempted assassination of the Hon. W. II. Seward, Secretary of State, were incited, concerted, and Confederate Scrap-Book. 1& procured by and between Jefferson Davis, late of Richmond, Va., and Jacob Thompson, Clement C. Clay, Beverly Tucker, George N. Sanders, W. C. Cleary, and other rebels and traitors against the Government of the United States, harbored in Canada: Now, therefore, to the end that justice may be clone, I,. Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, do offer and promise for the arrest of said persons, or either of them, within the limits of the United States, so that they can be brought to- trial, the following rewards : $100,000 for the arrest of Jeffer son Davis; $25,000 for the arrest of Clement C. Clay; $25,000 for the arrest of Jacob Thompson, late of Mississippi; $25,000 for the arrest of George N. Sanders ; $25,000 for the arrest of Beverly Tucker, and $10,000 for the arrest of William C. Cleary, late clerk of Clement C. Clay. The Provost-Marshal General of the United States is directed to cause a description of said persons, with notice of the above rewards, to be published. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand (L. S.)< and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, the second day of May, in the year of our Lord 1865, and of indepeqdence of the U. S. A. the eighty-ninth. Andrew Johnson. NINETEENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ARRAIGN MENT OF EX-PRESIDENT JEFFERSON DAVIS. [From The State, May 13, 1886.] Monday, May 13, 1867, ex-President Jefferson Davis was arraigned in the United States Circuit Court in Richmond to be tried for high treason and other misdemeanors. John C. Underwood was the district judge, William H. Barry was- clerk, and C. Duncan, United States marshal. Mr. Davis was delivered into court by General Barton, com mandant of Fortress Monroe. He was accompanied by the- 14 Confederate Scrap-Book. following gentlemen as counsel : -Charles O'Connor, William B. Reed, George Shea, John Randolph Tucker, and Robert Ould. The United States was represented by L. H. Chandler, district attorney, and William M. Evarts. The court-room was -crowded with notable men. Nearly ail of the most prominent ¦citizens of Richmond were present. Among the notables in attendance from abroad were Horace Greeley, Benjamin Wood, John Mitchell, the Irish patriot, and many others. Mr. Davis was heartily cheered as he drove from the Spottswood hotel to the court-room. After the usual preliminaries and argument by counsel, a motion to continue the case to November and admit to bail was entertained. Mr. Davis qualified in the sum of $100,000, and the following gentlemen in the sum of $5,000 each : Horace Greeley, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Gerritt Smith, Benjamin Wood, Augustus Schell, Horace F. Clark, all of New York; A. Welsh and D. K. Jockman, of Philadelphia; and Isaac Davenport, Jr., R. Barton Haxall, Abram Warwick, William H. Macfarland, W. W. Crump, James Lyons, William H. Lyons, John A. Meredith, James Thomas, Jr., Thomas W. Doswell, John Minor Botts, and Thomas 11. Price. Mr. Thomas was suffering from some nervous prostration, and had to make his mark, which gave rise to the story that one of Richmond's richest men could not write his name. After signing the bond Mr. Davis was discharged amid ¦deafening applause, and was driven to the Spottswood through thousands, who rent the air with joyful acclamations. He -was greatly affected. He soon joined his former pastor, Rev. Dr. Minnegerode, and engaged in private worship. In a few days he left the city. Messrs. Greeley and Gerritt Smith, by invitation, addressed the people of Richmond at the old African church in speeches full of patriotism. All of the Northern men were most kindly received. It is a matter of history that at the November term of the court all proceedings .against Mr. Davis were quashed, and he was never brought to -trial. The recent demonstrations in his honor are fresh in the Confederate Scrap-Book. 15 minds of the readers of The State. Circumstances forbade the •extension of that triumphal tour to the ex-capital of the Con federacy. But nowhere in the land over which once waved the Southern Cross has Jefferson Davis more sincere friends or devoted adherents. Here in this historic city he is regarded .as the beau ideal of a soldier and statesman, a scholar, a gen tleman and a Christian, whom we are willing shall stand forth .as the typical Southern representative of the unhappy war between the States. THE AMNESTY PROCLAMATION BY ANDREW JOHNSON. To the end, therefore, that the authority of the Government •of the United States may be restored, and that peace, order, and freedom may be established, I, Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, do proclaim and declare that I hereby grant to all persons who have directly or indirectly participated in the existing rebellion, except as to slaves, and except in cases where legal proceedings under the laws of the United States providing for the confiscation of property of persons engaged in rebellion have been instituted; but on the condition, never theless, that every such person shall take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation, and thenceforward keep and maintain said oath inviolate, and which oath shall be regis tered for permanent preservation, and shall be of the tenor and effect following, to-wit : "I, , do solemnly swear, or affirm, in the presence of Almighty God, that I will henceforth faithfully support and defend the Constitution of the United States, and the union of the States thereunder, and that I will in like manner abide by and faithfully support all laws and proclamations which have been made during the existing rebellion with reference to the emancipation of slaves. So help me God." The following classes of persons are excepted from the ben efits of this proclamation : 16 Confederate Scrap-Book. First. All who are or shall have been pretended civil or diplomatic officers, or otherwise domestic or foreign agents, of the pretended Confederate Government. Second. All who left judicial stations under the United States- to aid the rebellion. Third. All who have been military or naval officers of said' pretended Confederate Government above the rank of colonel in the army or lieutenant in the navy. Fourth. All who left seats in the Congress of the United* States to aid the rebellion. Fifth. All who resigned or tendered resignations of their commissions in the army or navy of the United States to evade duty in resisting the rebellion. Sixth. All who have engaged in any way in treating other wise than lawfully as prisoners of war persons found in the United States service as officers, seamen, soldiers, or in other capacities. Seventh. All persons who have been, or are, absentees from the United States for the purpose of aiding the rebellion. Eighth. All military and naval officers in the rebel service who were educated by the Government in the Military Acad emy at West Point or the United States Naval Academy. Ninth. All persons who held the pretended offices of gov ernors of States in insurrection against the United States. Tenth. All persons who left their homes within the jurisdic tion and protection of the United States, and passed beyond the Federal military lines into the so-called Confederate States- for the purpose of aiding the rebellion. Eleventh. All persons who have been engaged in the de struction of the commerce of the United States upon the high seas, and all persons who have made raids into the United. States from Canada, or been engaged in destroying the com merce of the United States upon* the lakes and rivers that sep arate the British Provinces from the United States. Twelfth. All persons who at the time when they seek to obtain the benefits hereof by taking oath herein prescribed, are in mili- Confederate Scrap-Book. 17 tary, naval, or civil confinement or custody, or under bonds of the civil, military, or naval authorities or agents of the United States as prisoners of war, or persons detained for offences of any kind either before or after conviction. Thirteenth. All persons who have voluntarily participated in said rebellion, and the estimated value of whose taxable property is over $20,000. Fourteenth. All persons who have taken the oath of amnesty, as prescribed in the President's proclamation of December 8, A. D. 1863, or an oath of allegiance to the Government of the United States since the date of said proclamation, and who have not thenceforward kept and maintained the same inviolate : Provided, that special application may be made to the Presi dent for pardon by any person belonging to the excepted classes, and such clemency will be liberally extended as may be consistent with the facts in the case and the peace and dignity of the United States. The Secretary of State will establish rules and regulations for administering and recording the said amnesty oath, so as to insure its benefit to the people and guard the Government against fraud. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and ¦caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. ,_~_, Done at the city of Washington, tbe twenty-ninth < l. s. 1- day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand *• "— v—" eight hundred and sixty-five, and of the independ- -ence of the United States the eighty-ninth. By the President : Andrew Johnson. Wm. H. Seward, Secretary of State. The Augusta Constitutionalist, date, says : A clerical friend of ours, in passing through one of our streets a few days since, to perform a ministerial duty — attending to the sickjand wounded in the hospitals — encountered a stranger, who^accosted him thus : 2 18 Confederate Scrap-Book. " My friend, can you tell me if Mrs. Jeff. Davis is in the city of Augusta?" "No, sir," replied our friend, "she is not." " Well, sir," replied the stranger, " you may be surprised at my asking such a question, and more particularly so when I inform you that I am a discharged United States soldier. But (and here he evinced great feeling), sir, that lady has performed acts of kindness to me which I can never forget. When serving in the Valley of Virginia, battling for the Union, I received a severe and dangerous wound. At the same time I was taken prisoner and conveyed to Richmond, where I received such kindness and attention from Mrs. Davis that I can never forget her ; and, now that I am discharged from the army and at work in this city, and understanding that that lady was here, I wish to call upon her, renew my expressions of gratitude to her, and offer to share with her, should she unfortunately need it, the last cent I have in the world." Can it be truly charged on a nation that it was wantonly, criminally cruel, when a generous foe bears testimony to the mercy, kindness, and lowly service of the highest lady of the land? Headquarters Dept. of Virginia, Army of the James, Richmond, Va., June 10, 1865. General Order No. 70. A sufficient time having elapsed since the surrender of the forces late in rebellion with the United States for all who were of such forces to procure other than their uniform, it is hereby ordered that no person, after June 15th, 1865, appear in public,. in this department, wearing any insignia of rank or military or naval service worn by officers or men of the late rebel army.. When plain buttons cannot be procured, those formerly used can be covered with cloth. Any person violating this order will be liable to arrest. By command of Major-General E. 0. C. Ord. Ed. W. Smith, Assistant Adjutant-General United States Army. Confederate Scrap-Book. 19 No. 56. Quartermaster's Department, Petersburg, November 25, 1864-. Received of Nelson Hotchkiss [1500 lbs.) fifteen hundred pounds Blade Fodder, said to be one-tenth of his crop, being the tax on same due to the C. S. A. J. T. Cage, Buckingham county, Va. Capt, A. Q. M. ASHES OF GLORY. by a. j. requier. Fold up the gorgeous silken sun, By bleeding martyrs blest, , And heap the laurels it has won Above its place of rest. No trumpet's note need harshly blast — No drum funereal roll — Nor trailing sabres drape the bier That frees a dauntless soul ! It lived with Lee, and decked his brow From Fate's empyreal Palm ; It sleeps the sleep of Jackson now — As spotless and as calm. It was outnumbered — not outdone ; And they shall shuddering tell Who struck the blow, its latest gun Flashed ruin as it fell. Sleep, shrouded Ensign ! Not the breeze That smote the victor tar With death across the heaving seas Of fiery Trafalgar ; Not Arthur's knights, amid the gloom Their knightly deeds have starred; Not Gallic Henry's matchless plume, Nor peerless-born Bayard; 20 Confederate Scrap-Book. Not all that antique fables fame, And orient dreams disgorge; Nor yet the silver cross of Spain, And lion of St. George, Can bid thee pale ! Proud emblem, still Thy crimson glory shine3 Beyond the lengthened shades that fill Their proudest kingly lines. Sleep in thine own historic night! And be thy blazoned scroll, A Warrior's Banner takes its flight, To gree$ the warrior's soul! JOHN PELHAM. JAMES R. RANDALL. Just as the spring came laughing through the strife, With all its gorgeous cheer, In the bright April of historic life, Fell the great cannoneer. The wondrous lulling of a hero's breath His bleeding country weeps ; Hushed in the alabaster arms of Death, Our young Marcellus sleeps. Nobler and grander than the child of Rome, Curbing his chariot steeds, The knightly scion of a Southern home Dazzled the' land with deeds. Gentlest and bravest in the battle brunt, The champion of the truth, He bore his banner to the very front Of our immortal youth. Confederate Scrap-Book. 21 A clang of sabres 'mid Virginian snow, The fiery pang of shells, And there's a wail of immemorial woe In Alabama dells. The pennon drops that led the sacred band Along the crimson field; The meteor blade sinks from the nerveless hand Over the spotless shield. We gazed and gazed upon that beauteous face, While round the lips and eyes, Couched in the marble slumber, flashed the grace Of a divine surprise. Oh, mother of a blessed soul on high ! Thy tears may soon be shed ; Think of thy boy with princes of the sky Among the Southern dead. How must he smile on this dull world beneath, Fevered with swift renown ; He with the martyr's amaranthine wreath Twining the victor's crown. JACKSON. BY HENRY L. FLASH. Not 'midst the lightning of the stormy fight, Not in the rush upon the vandal foe, Did kingly Death, with his resistless might, Lay the great leader low. His warrior soul its earthly shackles broke, In the full sunshine of a peaceful town ; When all the storm was hushed, the trusty oak That propped our cause went down. 22 Confederate Scrap-Book. Though his alone the blood that flecks the ground, Recording all his grand, heroic deeds, Freedom herself is writhing with the wound, And all the country bleeds. He entered not the nation's promised land At the red belching of the cannon's mouth, But broke the house of bondage with his hand — Tho Moses of the South. 0 gracious God! notgainless is the loss; A glorious sunbeam gilds thy sternest frown; And while his country staggers with the cross, He rises with the crown ! "A NOBLE REGIMENT." Rev. Mr. Lacy, chaplain of the Second corps, stated in a sermon at Dr. Hoge's church, Sunday evening, that a few days since, the fact becoming known to them that the poor in Rich mond were suffering for food, the Twelfth Mississippi regi ment of General Lee's army, which is living on a quarter of a pound of meat and a pound of flour a day, unanimously resolved to go without food one day in each week, and send the day's ration to the suffering in this city. They communicated their resolution to the gentlemen having the matter in charge in Richmond, mentioning the fact that after the battles around Richmond, the people had been very kind to their regiment, and they should " like to do some thing to show they remembered it, and they were sorry their rations were all they had to give." The generous offer was declined, but we think we can safely say that no citizen of Richmond who reads this will ever for get the Twelfth Mississippi regiment. Confederate Scrap-Book. 23 MAJOR-GENERAL HILL'S ADDRESS TO THE TWELFTH MISSISSIPPI REGIMENT. While the Twelfth Mississippi regiment was drawn up in line of battle on Thursday, the 5th instant, Major-General Hill, commanding the division in which it operates, rode up and addressed it relative to its conduct in the recent battle before Richmond. The substance of his remarks was as fol lows: " Twelfth Mississippians ! I witnessed with my own eyes your manoeuvres on the battle-field on Saturday, and I am proud to say that you maintained your ground heroically amid the deadly storm of grape, canister, shell, and musketry. "With you there was no wavering, no unsteadiness, no lag ging behind, but ' onward, still onward,' you pressed toward the enemy with a spirit of valor which it did my heart good to witness, and the full credit it affords me much pleasure thus publicly to accord you. The troops of Mississippi have won laurels for her upon every field wherever they have been en gaged, and your gallant action on Saturday can but add new luster to her name. I love Mississippi as I do my own native State. There resides my only brother, and beneath its hal lowed soil repose the last remains of a beloved mother. " Mississippians, from the bottom of my heart, I thank you ! " JOHN PEGRAM. [Fell at the head of his Division February 6, 1865— aged 33.] BY W. GORDON M CABE. What shall we say now of our knight, Or how express the measure of our woe For him who rode the foremost in the fight, Whose good blade flashed so far amid the foe ? 24 Confederate Scrap- Book. Of all his knightly deeds what need to tell ? That good blade now lies fast within its sheath. What can we do but point to where he fell, And like a soldier, met a soldier's death ? We sorrow not as those who have no hope, For he was pure in heart as brave in deed. God pardon us if blind with tears we grope, And love be questioned by the hearts that bleed. And yet — oh, foolish and of little faith — We cannot choose but weep our useless tears. We loved him so, we never dreamed that death Would dare to touch him in his brave young years. Ah, dear browned face, so fearless and so bright, As kind to friend as thou wast stern to foe, No more we'll see thee radiant in the fight — The eager eyes — the flush on cheek and brow; No more will greet the lithe, familiar form Amid the surging smoke, with deaf'ning cheer; No more shall soar above the iron storm Thy ringing voice in accents sweet and clear. Aye, he has fought the fight and passed away, Our grand young leader smitten in the strife ; So swift to seize the chances of the fray, And careless only of his noble life. He is not dead, but sleeps. Well we know The form that lies to-day beneath the sod Shall rise that time the golden bugles blow, And pour their music through the courts of God. And there amid our great heroic dead, The war-worn sons of God whose work is done, His face shall shine as they, with stately tread, In grand review sweep past the jasper throne. Confederate Scrap-Book. 25- Let not our hearts be troubled. Few and brief His days were here, yet rich in love and faith. Lord, we believe ; help thou our unbelief, And grant thy servants such a life and death. LEE TO THE REAR. JOHN R. THOMPSON. Dawn of a pleasant morning in May Broke thro' the Wilderness, cool and gray, While, perched in the tallest tree-tops, the birds Were carolling Mendelssohn's "Songs Without Words." Far from the haunts of men remote The brook brawled on with a liquid note, And nature, all tranquil and lovely, wore The smile of spring, as in Eden of yore. Little by little, as daylight increased, And deepened the roseate flush in the East — Little by little did morning reveal Two long, glittering lines of steel ! Where two hundred thousand bayonets gleam, Tipped with the light of the earliest beam, And the faces are sullen and grim to see In the hostile armies of Grant and Lee. All of a sudden, ere rose the sun, Pealed on the silence the opening gun — A little white puff of smoke there came, And anon the valley was wreathed in flame. Down on the left of the rebel lines, Where a breastwork stands in a copse of pines, Before the rebels their ranks can form The Yankees have carried the place by storm. .26 Confederate Scrap-Bcjok. Stars and Stripes o'er the salient wave, Where many a hero has found a grave, And the gallant Confederates strive in vain The ground they have drenched with their blood to regain. Yet louder the thunder of battle roared — Yet a deadlier fire on their columns poured — Slaughter, infernal, rode with Despair, Furies twain, through the smoky air. Not far off in the saddle there sat A grey-bearded man with black slouch hat; Not much moved by the fire was he- — Calm and resolute Robert Lee. Quick and watchful, he kept his eye On two bold rebel brigades close by — Reserves that were standing (and dying) at ease Where the tempest of wrath toppled over the trees. For still with their loud, bull-dog bay The Yankee batteries blazed away, And with every murderous second that sped A dozen brave fellows, alas! fell dead. The grand old beard rode to the space Where Death and his victims stood face to face, And silently waves his old slouch hat — A world of meaning there was in that ! •" Follow me ! Steady ! We'll save the day ! " This was what he seemed to say ; And to the light of his glorious eye The bold brigades thus made reply : " We'll go forward, but you must go back." And they moved not an inch in the perilous track. ¦" Go to the rear, and we'll give them a rout." Then the sound of the battle was lost in their shout. Confederate Scrap-Book. 27 Turning his bridle, Robert Lee Rode to the rear. Like the waves of the sea Bursting the dykes in their overflow, Madly his veterans dashed on the foe; And backward in terror that foe was driven, > Their banners rent and their columns riven Wherever the tide of battle rolled, Over the Wilderness, wood, and wold. Sunset out of a crimson sky Streamed o'er a field of a ruddier dye, And the brook ran on with a purple stain From the blood often thousand foemen slain. Seasons have passed since that clay and year, Again o'er the pebbles the brook runs clear, And the field in a richer green is drest Where the dead of the terrible conflict rest. Hushed is the roll of the rebel drum; The sabres are sheathed, and the cannon are dumb, And Fate, with pitiless hand, has furled The flag that once challenged the gaze of the world. "But the fame of the Wilderness fight abides, And down into the history grandly rides, Calm and unmoved, as in battle he sat, The grey-bearded man in the black slouch hat. EXTRACTS FROM ADDRESS BY E. C. WALTHALL AT DEDICATION OF MONUMENT AT JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI, JUNE 3, 1891. But we did not go to war for slavery, though slavery was interwoven with the causes and intensified the bitterness of the war, and the fate of slavery was forever settled by the result. We were not precipitated into it by reckless public 28 Confederate Scrap-Book. men who had not counted the cost, for the great leaders, and notably Mr. Davis, were slower in the movement than the masses of the Southern people. We did not take up arms because we were dissatisfied with our form of government, for we valued that then as we value it now; and we so loved the Constitution for the safeguards of liberty which we read in it, that we fashioned our Confederate Constitution after it as a model. We loved the flag, too, with its stars telling of co-equal States in a common union so long as it floated above us with that symbolism. The war with us did not originate in ambition, nor did we fight for spoils, for conquest, or for fame. With us it was no war of invasion, or of retaliation, or of revenge. It was not to build up some great leader's fortunes, nor to elevate some popular favorite to place or power. We went to war for none of these; but it was " to save the Constitution," as we read it, and to save ourselves and preserve our cherished form of gov ernment. We resisted these perversions which we believed would destroy that Constitution and us, and subvert that form of government. Those whose interests were not ours — as ours were not theirs — sought, as we believed, by " a system of con structions," to gain what was not given in the compact under which all were living, and to ignore and obliterate the true in tent and meaning and purpose of that compact. This perversion of the Constitution, as it seemed to us, was willful and systematic, and daily it grew more dangerous and unendurable; and we felt we could not, without dishonor and disaster, submit to what seemed inevitably coming and actually impending. Our rights and liberties seemed in the utmost peril, and the danger was increased by delay. After all efforts for peaceful solution had proved of no avail, and our great leader's plea, " We ask only for the Constitution," had brought forth no response, and only when there was " no longer any room for hope," did we " appeal to arms and to the God of battles." Then, throughout the South, " we must fight," was Confederate Scrap-Book. 29 sounded from the mountains to the sea, and we did fight; and to such a fight as our dead heroes and their comrades made there is no parallel in history, and never can be until some other people, equal to ours in courage and endurance, with the same stimulus and the same spirit of devotion, shall shut their eyes to untold odds against them, and close their ears to, every warning of calculation or policy, and wage a great war upon a cherished sentiment and sincere conviction. It was the effort to establish the true boundary line between the constitutional authority of a State and the general Government that brought the war upon us. It was to maintain the theory of government which Mr. Calhoun and those of his school taught us that six hundred thousand Southern soldiers went eagerly to the field, and they to whom we raise this monument freely gave up their lives. It was not for power, nor for riches, nor for ambition's sake, but for a great governmental principle of right, which was rooted and grounded in their faith and sanctioned by their judgments. Without faltering or wavering our martyred dead stood by this principle with their lives, and while the great guns of war shook to its centre this now peaceful and pros perous land; while men were slain by tens of thousands, and hearts were stricken, and homes were darkened; while the groans of the dying and the wails of those bereft burdened the very air from Maryland to the Rio Grande, inspired by their example, those who survied stood to the last by the teachings of Calhoun and Davis and those who held the same political faith. ******* * The records show that more than two million eight hundred and fifty thousand troops were furnished to the Union army by the States, and while, for lack of official data, I cannot state to a man the enlistments in the Southern army from first to last, the estimate has the sanction of high authority, deemed reliable, that the Confederate forces available for action during the entire war did not exceed six hundred thou- 30 Confederate Scrap-Book. sand soldiers, of whom there were not more than two hundred thousand arms-bearing men at any one time, and when the war closed half that number covered the whole effective force of all arms in all quarters of the Confederacy. When the Union army was dissolved four hundred thousand more men were borne upon its rolls than the estimated num ber of available enlistments in the Southern army, from the spring of 1861 to the spring of 1865, and during that time there had been two hundred and seventy thousand Federal prisoners taken. GRANT AND LEE. In the Southern Bivouac for October will be found an inter esting article upon U. S. Grant and R. E. Lee, from the pen of a Northerner. The author says of these : " There has been, as yet, no critical or even impartial biography written of either of them." It must be admitted that when the two great captains met face to face upon the Rapidan, in May, 1864, Lee's reputation rested upon more battles fought — bloody, terrible battles — and victories won against greater odds than could be claimed for Grant. In comparing the military career of these two men the historian of another generation will say that they were strikingly alike in those characteristics that lie at the foun dation of military success — in quiet confidence, in that combi nation of moral and physical courage, that heroic persistence which no calamity can defeat, which feels the assurance of vic tory in the very hour of disaster. He will also say that in mental power, in the capacity for rapid combination, in stra tegic invention which is seen in the skillful disposition of his troops before and in battle, in the genius that enables a gen eral with inferior numbers to gain the stronger position and to have more men at the critical point and moment, and especially in the power of personally inspiring his men to endure and achieve, Lee was beyond question the greater commander. Confederate Scrap-Book. 31 Each was modest and unassuming, and while fully realizing the vast responsibility resting upon him, involving life and empire, and conscious that his every act and utterance was- looked at and listened to by the whole world with intensest interest, yet neither of them betrayed a sigu of faltering, or even exhibited the least spirit of arrogance or vainglory. In Grant sincere and enlightened patriotism was superior to all meaner passions, and he cherished no feeling of animosity toward the people so lately in rebellion. He was, indeed, a man of tender heart and warm personal attachments, which last often blinded him to the vices of his real and pretended friends. But he was also a man of strong personal animosi ties — a thorough and consistent hater where he felt that he had been wronged; sometimes, too, when only his measures had been opposed and defeated. Therefore, when in powen, he was sometimes unjust. In some respects he was a very humane, great man. In these respects Lee was much his superior; in by the high test of human greatness, Lee stands out as one of the noblest characters in American history. He was absolutely incapable of cherishing personal animosity or the spirit of revenge — not from weakness, but from loftiest controlling principle. His humanity was responsive to every suffering,. whether of man or brute. He stooped in battle to replace in its nest a young bird that his cannon had shaken from the tree. Grant ordered his soldiers to lay waste the country he in vaded, so that it might furnish no support to the Confederate armies. Lee, while in Pennsylvania, ordered the arrest and punishment of any of his soldiers found guilty of taking the property of any citizen. ******* The closing years of Lee's life recall what Plato says of the nobility, wisdom, and clemency of the great Socrates. His memorable words at Appomattox, spoken to his sorrowing comrades about to depart for their ravaged, desolate homes, interpret the high completeness of the character of this most remarkable man : " Human virtue should be equal to human. 32 Confederate Scrap-Book. calamity." This noble sentiment — his parting benediction to his army — so completely illustrated in his own life, and in the loyalty and prosperity of the South, will forever attest the beneficent influence of his great example. ON THE DEATH OF GENERAL JACKSON. [Literary Messenger, June, 1863.] Our idol has been taken from us. The man we delighted most to honor, the chieftain loved and trusted beyond all others, is no more! Stonewall Jackson is no more! Thank heaven, he was not slain by the foe, nor can it be said that he was killed by his own men. The wounds they inflicted, thoufgh painful, were not enough of themselves to destroy his precious life. Still less fatal in itself was the cold bandage, which is said to have brought on the attack of pneumonia under which he succumbed. Looking to all the antecedents of his death, we are forced to the conviction that this God-given leader was taken away by the all-wise Giver for beneficent reasons. His hour was come; his work was done. Let us bow humbly to the sad decree. Jackson leaves a void which no man can fill. • But his imperishable spirit lingers in the breasts of his soldiers. His courage and his fame, his blameless life and steadfast faith iu the cause, still inspire the people in whose defence he died. They owe it to his spotless memory to make good the holy cause in which he perished, and by God's blessing they will not prove recreant to the sacred trust. If the blood of martyrs be the seed of the Church, the blood of heroes is the life-giving dew to the germs of liberty. The cause is doubly safe since Jackson's blood has consecrated it. Confederate Scrap-Book. 33 IN THE LAND WHERE WE WERE DREAMING. BY D. B. LUCAS. Fair were our visions ! Oh, they were as grand As ever floated out of Faerie land ; Children were we in single faith, But Godlike children, whom nor death, Nor threat, nor danger drove from Honor's path, In the land where we were dreaming. Proud were our men, as pride of birth could render; As violets, our women pure and tender ; And when they spoke, their voice did thrill, Until at eve, the poor whip-poor-will, At morn the mocking-bird, were mute and still In the land where we were dreaming. And we had graves that covered more of glory Than ever tracked tradition's ancient story; And in our dream we wove the thread Of principles for which had bled And suffered long our own immortal dead, In the land where we were dreaming. Though in our land we had both bond and free, Both were content ; and so God let them be ;— Till envy coveted our land And those fair fields our valor won : But little recked we, for we still slept on, In the land where we were dreaming. Our sleep grew troubled and our dreams grew wild, Red meteors flashed across our heaven's field ; Crimson the moon ; between the Twins Barbed arrows fly; and then begins Such strife as when disorder's Chaos reigns, In the land where we were dreaming. 3 34 Confederate Scrap-Book. Down from her sunlit heights smiled Liberty, And waved her cap in sign of Victory — Tbe world approved, and everywhere Except where growled the Russian bear, The good, the brave, the just gave us their prayer In the land where we were dreaming. We fancied that a Government was ours — We challenged place among the world's great powers ; We talked in sleep of Rank, Commission, Until so lifelike grew our vision, That he who dared to doubt but met derision In the land where we were dreaming. We looked on high: a banner there was seen, Whose field was blanched and spotless in its sheen — Chivalry's cross its Union bears, And vet'rans swearing by their scars Vowed they would bear it through a hundred wars In the land where we were dreaming. A hero came amongst us as we slept ; At first he lowly knelt — then rose and wept; Then gathering up a thousand spears He swept across the field of Mars; Then bowed farewell and walked beyond the stars — In the land where we were dreaming. We looked again : another figure still Gave hope, and nerved each individual will — Full of grandeur, clothed with power, Self-poised, erect, he ruled the hour With stern, majestic sway — of strength a tower In the land where we were dreaming. Confederate Scrap-Book. 35 As, while great Jove, in bronze, a warder god, Gazed eastward from the Forum where he stood, Rome felt herself secure and free, So, " Richmond's safe," we said, while we Beheld a bronzed Hero — Godlike Lee, In the land where we were dreaming. And are they really dead, our martyred slain? No ! dreamers ! morn shall bid them rise again From every vale — from every height On which they seemed to die for right — Their gallant spirits shall renew the fight In the land where we were dreaming. ORDINANCE OF SECESSION. An Ordinance to repeal the ratification of the Constitu tion of the United States of America by the State of Virginia, and to resume all the rights and powers granted under said constitution. The people of Virginia, in their ratification of the Constitution of the United States of America, adopted by them in conven tion on the 25th day of June, in the year of our Lord, 1788, having declared that the powers granted under the said Con stitution were derived from the people of the United States, and might be resumed whensoever the same should be perverted to their injury and oppression, and the Federal Government having perverted said powers, not only to the injury of the people of Virginia, but to the oppression of the Southern slaveholding States : Now, therefore, we, the people of Virginia, do declare and ordain, That the ordinance adopted by the people of this State in con vention on the 25th of June, in the year of our Lord 1788, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America 36 Confederate Scrap-Book. was ratified, and all acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying or adopting amendments to said Constitution, are hereby repealed and abrogated; that the union between the State of Virginia and the other States under the Constitution afore said is hereby dissolved, and that the State of Virginia is in the full possession and exercise of all the rights of sovereignty which belong and appertain to a free and independent State. And they do further declare, That the said Constitution of the United States of America is no longer binding on any of the citizens of this State. This ordinance shall take effect and be an act of this day,. when ratified by a majority of the votes of the people of this State cast at a poll to be taken thereon on the fourth Thursday in May next, in pursuance of a schedule hereafter to be enacted. Done in convention in the city of Richmond on the 17th day of April, in the year of our Lord 1861, and in the eighty-fifth. year of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Signed, W. M. Ambler, E. M. Armstrong, Wm. B. Aston, John B. Baldwin, George Baylor, Miers W. Fisher, Wm. Hamilton Macfarlane, Hugh M. Nelson, Johnson Orrick, Logan Osburn, Wm. C. Parks, Wm. Ballard Preston, Wm. Campbell Scott, John M. Speed, John T. Thornton, Samuel Woods, John J. Kindred, Henry L. Gillespie, Alfred M. Barbour, James Barbour, Ed. M. Chambers, George Blow, Jr., James Boisseau, Peter B. Borst, Wood Bouldin, Wm. W.Boyd, James C. Bruce,. Benjamin W. Byrne, Thos. Stanhope Flournoy, William M. Forbes, John T. Sewell, Geo. P. Taylor, Wm. M. Tredway, Benj. F. Wysor, Hervey Deskius, Geo. W. Hall, Confederate Scrap-Book. 37 F. M. Cabell, S. L. Graham, Sam M. Garland, Geo. W. Richardson, Henry A. Wise, J. T. Martin, James Marshall, A. F. Caperton, Thos. Branch, WT. P. Cecil, John A. Campbell, John K. Chambliss, Sr., Sam'l A. Coffman, R. M. Conn, C. B. Conrad, Robt. G. Conrad, John Critcher, Sam'l Price, Timothy Rives, Charles R. Slaughter, Alex. H. H. Stuart, Robt. H. Turner, James H. Cox, Samuel G. Staples, James W. Sheffey. Geo. W. Randolph, James Lawson, Andrew Parks, Thos. Moslin, Edw. D. McGuire, Robt. E. Cowan, Wm. L. Goggin, John Goode, Jr., Fielden L. Hale, James P. Holcombe, John N. Hughes, W. T. Sutherlin, Jas. W. Hoge, Robert C. Kent, R, E. Grant, Richard H. Cox, Stephen A. Morgan, John A. Robinson, C. J. P. Cresap, James B. Dorman, Jubal A. Early, Napoleon B. French, Colbert C. Fugate, Peyton Gravely, Fendall Gregory, Jr., Addison Hall, Cyrus Hall, J. B. Miller, Horatio G. Moffett, David Pugh, Peter Saunders, Sr., V. W. Southall, John Tyler, Ro. H. Whitfield, Jas. G. Holladay, Henry H. Masters, Jeremiah Morton, Thomas F. Goode, Geo. Wm. Brent, Wm. H. B. Custis, W. P. Cooper, Leonard S. Hall, Allen C. Hammond, Lewis E. Harvie, . Alpheus F. Haymond, Peter C. Johnston, John K. Kilby, 38 Confederate Scrap-Book. Lewis D. Isbell, Paul McNiel, Walter D. Leake, Robt. L. Montague, Chas. K. Mallory, Edmond Taylor Morriss, J. B. Mallory, S. W. D. Moore,- John L. Marye, John Q. Marr, R. E. Scott, Wm. J. Neblett, J. D. Sharpe, Edward Waller, James Magruder Strange, Sam'l C. Williams, Wms. C. Wickham, Marmaduke Johnson, Wm. H. Dulany, Wm. White, John Armistead Carter, John Janney, President of M. K. H. Garnett, Convention and dele- Manilius Chapman, gate from Loudoun. G. W. Berlin, Algernon S. Gray, Thomas Sitlington, Jas. V. Brooke, Franklin P. Turner, Angus R. Blakey, J. M. Heck, John Echols, Eppa Hunton, Burwell Spurlock, J. B. Young. Attest: John L. Eubank, Secretary of the Convention. PRINCIPAL EVENTS OF THE MONTHS OF JAN UARY AND FEBRUARY, 1862. JANUARY. 1st. Battle at Port Royal, S. C. ; party of the enemy landed and were driven back to the shelter of their gunboats. Presi dent Davis' first public levee. Mason and Slidell left Boston. 4th. Judge John Hemphill, of Texas, died. Legislative Council of Kentucky elected Henry C. Burnett and William E. Simms Confederate senators. 5th. Skirmish at Hanging Rock, near Romney, Va. ; Con federate troops surprised and driven back by a superior Fed eral force. 6th. French man-of-war approached Ship Island under a Confederate Scrap-Book. 39 neutral flag for the purpose of business with the French con sul at New Orleans, and was fired into by Federal vessel ; an apology soon made. 9th. Colonel Lubock, of the Texas Rangers, died. Burnside expedition left Annapolis. 10th. Battle of Prestonsburg, Ky. ; the enemy repulsed by the Confederate forces under General Marshall. 12th and 13th. Burnside expedition left Old Point, and caught in a succession of damaging storms before and after reaching Hatteras. 16th. Battle near Ironton, Mo.; Confederate troops under Jeff. Thompson drove the enemy towards Pilot Knob. 18th. Ex-President Tyler died. 19th. Battle of Somerset or Mill Spring, Ky. ; the Con federates under General Crittenden routed by the Federal forces under Thomas and Schcepf, after a severe fight. ; Briga dier-General Zollicoffer slain. 23d. Virginia Legislature elected R. M. T. Hunter and William Ballard Preston Confederate senators. FEBRUARY. 3d. Three Federal gunboats opened fire on Fort Henry, Tennessee. 6th. Fort Henry taken by Federal troops. 8th. Roanoke Island taken by Federal troops, after a heavy loss from a portion of the Confederate forces. 9th. Federal gunboats reached Florence, Ala. 13th. Battle commenced at Fort Donelson. 16th. Fort Donelson surrendered after three days' hard fighting, with heavy loss on both sides, particularly on the part of the enemy. 17th. Provisional Congress terminated. 18th. Permanent Congress of the Confederate States organ ized; R. M. T. Hunter elected president pro tern, of the Sen ate, and Thomas S. Bocock, of Virginia, elected speaker of the House of Representatives. 22d. Jefferson Davis inaugurated President of the Confede rate States. 40 Confederate Scrap-Book. BURIAL OF LATANE. " The next squadron moved to the front under the lamented Captain Latane, making a most brilliant and successful charge with drawn sabres upon the enemy's picked ground, and after a hotly-contested hand-to-hand conflict put him to flight, but not until the gallant Captain had sealed his devotion to his native soil with his blood." — Official Report of the Pamunkey Ex pedition—Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, C. S. A. 1862. [From a Private Letter.] Lieutenant Latane carried his brother's dead body to Mrs. Brockenborough's plantation an hour or two after his death. On this sad and lonely errand he met a party of Yankees, who followed him to Mrs. B.'s gate, and stopping there, told him that as soon as he had placed his brother's body in friendly hands he must surrender himself prisoner. * * * Mrs. B. sent for an Episcopal clergyman to perform the funeral cere monies, but the enemy would not permit him to pass. Then, with a few other ladies, a fair-haired little girl, her apron filled with white flowers, and a few faithful slaves, who stood rev erently near, a pious Virginia matron read the solemn and beautiful burial service over the cold, still form of one of the noblest gentlemen and most intrepid officers in the Confederate • army. She watched the sods heaped upon the coffin-lid, then sinking on her knees, in sight and hearing of the foe, she com mitted his soul's welfare and the stricken hearts he had left behind him to the mercy of the "All-Father." From John R. Thompson's exquisite poem we copy the fol lowing : One moment on the battle's edge he stood, Hope's halo like a helmet round his hair, The next beheld him dabbled in his blood, Prostrate in death, and yet in death how fair ! Even thus he passed through the red gate of strife, From earthly crowns and palms to an immortal life. ******* Confederate Scrap-Book. 41 Let us not weep for him whose deeds endure, So young, so brave, so beautiful, he died As he had wished to die ; — the past is sure ; Whatever yet of sorrow may betide Those who still linger by the stormy shore, Change cannot harm him now, nor touch him more. And when Virginia, leaning on her spear, Vietrix et vidua, the conflict done, Shall raise her mailed hand to wipe the tear That starts as she recalls each martyred son, No prouder memory her breast shall sway, Than thine, our early-lost, lamented Latane ! General Burnside remarked that he had never encountered --a more desperate resistance than was made by the gallant four hundred at the barricade outside of which fell the chivalrous O. Jennings Wise, whose last words, recorded by the enemy, were in answer to the hope expressed by a Federal (Major Kimball), " that they should be still reunited under that flag — the Union colors " — to which the dying patriot replied : "¦ Never, never ! We will never live under that flag again. Every man, woman and child is willing to pour out the last drop of life's blood before we shall ! " GENERAL LEE. Up to this time Lee had resisted the proposals for capitula tion which had reached him from his adversary; but when this fatal news came from his most trusted officer, the gallant ¦Gordon, who led his advance, he resigned himself to his fate. For a moment those who looked on him saw him almost over come, and the first words of complaint ever heard from his lips during the war broke sharply forth : " I had rather die a 42 Confederate Scrap-Book. thousand deaths ! " Musing sadly for a few seconds, as his men's favorite cry broke on his ear, " There's Uncle Robert! "" in deep, sad tones he said to those near him, " How soon could. I end all this and be at rest. 'Tis but to ride down the line and give the word, and all would be over." Then presently recovering his natural voice, he answered one who urged that the action might be misunderstood, " That is not the question. The question is whether it is right. And if it is right, I take- the responsibility." Then after a brief silence, he added with a sigh, " It is our duty to live. What will become of the wives- and children of the South if we are not here to protect them."' So saying, he sent his flag of truce without further hesitation to Grant. It is not to be expected that in an avowed eulogy of General Lee, the claims and characters of others should be strictly weighed, and, therefore, we are not surprised to find some statements very much open to question. But, on the whole,. the eulogy is fair, and certainly deserved. WE CHALLENGE THE COMPARISON. General Hood can't be of the full-blooded chivalry. He has refused to receive money raised for him by subscription. It is- the first instance we have ever seen recorded of a " Southern gentleman" too proud or too self-reliant to accept filthy lucre, come from what source it may. — Albany Evening Journal. To which the Petersburg Index replies : " Then you are ex tremely ignorant of cotemporary history — that's all. Hood has only done what Lee did a dozen times, what Beauregard did, what Magruder did, what Longstreet did, and what Pres ident Davis did, and what no Federal general has done. The Al bany Journal has made an unfortunate mistake in calling atten tion to this matter, as it suggests a comparison between the representative men and chief officers of the two armies not dis creditable to the South. When Robert E. Lee was receiving- $401 per month in Confederate money, at a time when that Confederate Scrap-Book. 43- sum would not purchase a half-barrel of flour, the writer of this paragraph moved, in the Legislature of Virginia, to present him, in view of his actual necessities, with $100,000. He would not receive it. A member of the Legislature, iu view of the General's known unwillingness to accept presents of any sort, proposed to accomplish indirectly what it was impossible to- achieve directly. General Lee was for several months in the employment directly of the State of Virginia, and received his pay for that service in Confederate money. It was proposed to pay him for that service in gold, deducting the gold value of the Confederate money he had received. A resolution to that effect was passed and communicated to him. He immediately replied that he had given a receipt in full to the State of Vir ginia, did not consider himself entitled to further compensation,. and therefore respectfully declined the sum tendered. "At that time General Lee and his staff were destitute of the com monest necessaries of life, and frequently toithout animal food. All will remember, likewise, how vainly the people of Richmond endeavored to force a present of a residence in that city on General Lee, at a time when his family were fugitives from their beautiful home. The noble response of Magruder to the people of Texas, who contributed a handsome purse to procure a fine plantation during the war, was the impulse and utterance- of the universal spirit of the Southern soldiers: "No, gentle men, when I espoused the cause of the South I embraced pov erty, and willingly accepted it." Such, also, was the conduct of Mr. Davis, who, shortly after his arrival in Richmond, was presented by the generous citizens of our capital with the mansion which he occupied during the war. He declined, respectfully but positively, to receive it on any other terms- than being permitted to pay rent for it at the usual percentage of cost for which sueh property is rented. And Mr. Davis's salary per annum was not equal to General Grant's per month. "It is not necessary to enlarge upon the contrast between- these acts and the course of General Grant, etc. If this con trast is not creditable to our Northern brethren, let them; remember that we did not provoke it." 44 Confederate Scrap-Book. "PATRIOTIC SOUTHERN LADIES." A correspondent of the Petersburg Express, writing from 'Clarksville, Virginia, January 1st, says : " There lives in the lower end of Mecklenburg county, Vir ginia, two sisters and one brother. Some time in June last the brother volunteered in defence of the South. The sisters said " Go — and we will do the best we can ! "; and what they have -done is not to be beaten. They have clothed their brother, gathered the crop, and taken care of it; wove about one hundred yards of cloth for the soldiers, and made about forty garments for them, beside taking care of and feeding all the stock. Such patriotism can never be overrun by the Yankee vandals, let them come as they may. I withhold the names, but it is certainly true." FROM MATOACA GAY'S ARTICLES IN THE PHILA DELPHIA TIMES. In a diary kept at the time by an official in the War Depart ment, I find this entry : May 10, 1861. — The ladies are sewing everywhere, and are full of ardor. Love affairs are plentiful, but the ladies are post poning all engagements till their lovers have fought the Yan kees. Their influence is very great. Day after day they go in crowds to the Fair Grounds, where the First South Carolina volunteers are encamped, showering upon them smiles and every delicacy which the city can afford. They wine them and dine them, and they deserve it, for they are just from the taking of Sumter, and have won historic distinction. I was presented to several very distinguished looking young men, all of them privates, and was told by their captain that many of them were worth from $100,000 to half a million. These are the men the Tribune thought would all of them want to be captains ; but that is only one of the hallucinations under which the North is now laboring. Confederate Scrap-Book. 45- BISHOP ELLIOTT'S EULOGY. [Literary Messenger, January, 1863.] God forbid, says Bishop Elliott, that I should take one atom of honor or of praise from those who led our hosts upon those- days of glory — from the accomplished and skillful Lee; from the God-fearing and indomitable Jackson, upon whose prayer- bedewing banner victory seems to wait; from the intrepid Stuart, whose cavalry charges imitate those of Murat; from that great host of generals who swarm around our country's flag as did Napoleon's marshals around the imperial city; but, nevertheless, our victories are the victories of the pri vates. It is the enthusiastic dash of their onsets, the fearless bravery with which they rush even to the cannon's mouth, the utter recklessness of life, if so be that its sacrifice may only lead to victory, the heartfelt impression that the cause is the cause of every man, and that success is necessary. What intense honor do I feel for the private soldier ! The officers may have motives other than the cause — the private solclier can have none. He knows that his valor must pass unnoticed, save in the narrow circle of his company ; that his sacrifice can bring no honor to his name, no reputation to his family; that if he survives, it is to enter upon new dangers, with but little hope of distinction; that if he dies he will probably receive only an unmarked grave; and yet he is proud to do his duty and to maintain his part in the destructive conflict. His com rades fall around him thick and fast, but with a sigh and a tear he closes his ranks and presses on to a like destiny. Truly, the first monument which our Confederacy rear, when our independence shall have been won, should be a lofty shaft,. pure and spotless, bearing this inscription : "To the Unknown and Unrecorded Lead." A letter from Jackson's army, dated October 21, 1862, writing of the spoils from Pope's defeat, says : What think you of pickled oysters, lobsters, smoked beef-tongues, West- 46 Confederate Scrap-Book. phalia hams, coffee, sugar (brown and white), lemons, oranges, plums, nuts, cakes, besides any quantities of more substantial food, in the shape of "hard-tack" and pork, not to mention a goodly supply of brandy, wines, rum, and whiskey ? We had a gay time, and verily enjoyed the luxuries which had been collected here for the refreshment of " Doodles." They seemed to have set themselves down here to live — every comfort that heart could wish — even their wives. HOSPITAL DIRECTORY. The following is a list of the different hospitals in the city : ARMY HOSPITALS. Camp Winder : Western suburbs of the city. Chimborazo : On the hill overlooking Richmond. General : Northern terminus of Second street. Louisiana (formerly Baptist College) : Western termination of Broad street. Byrd-street : Southern termination of Ninth street, near the river. South Carolina : Manchester, approached by Mayo's bridge, ¦end of Fourteenth street. PRIVATE HOSPITALS. Bellevue : Broad Street, Church Hill. College : Corner Marshall and Eleventh streets. Soldiers' Home : Corner of Clay and Henry. Baptist Church : Fourth street, between Lee and Laurel. Robertson's : Corner Main and Third streets. St. Frances de Sale : Brook avenue, near Bacon's-Quarter Branch. First Georgia: Twenty-first street, between Main and dary. Second Georgia : Twenty-ninth street, between Main and Franklin. Third Georgia : Corner Franklin and Twenty-fourth streets. Confederate Scrap-Book. 47 First Alabama: Broad street, between Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth. Second Alabama : Corner Franklin and Twenty-fifth streets. Royster's : Twenty-fifth street, between Main and Franklin. Banner : Corner Franklin and Nineteenth streets. Globe : Nineteenth street, between Main and Franklin. HOSPITALS RECENTLY OPENED. Liggon & Howard's Factory : Main street, between Twenty- fifth and Twenty-sixth. Crow's Factory : Corner Cary and Twenty-first streets. Seabrook's Warehouse: Corner Grace and Eighteenth streets. Kent, Paine & Co.'s : Main street, between Eleventh and Twelfth. Keen, Baldwin & Co.'s : Main street, below Governor. St. Charles Hotel : Corner Main and Wall streets. Masonic Hall : Twenty-fifth street, Church Hill. Breeden & Fox's Store : Broad street, Shockoe Hill. Spotswood : Under Spotswood hotel. Mayo's and Dibrell's warehouses, and the Danville work shops in Manchester, have been opened for hospitals. Hospital tents have been erected at Howard's Grove ; Naval hospital ; Howard's hospital ; Atkinson's factory, Main street ; Third Alabama hospital; Fourth Alabama hospital; Fourth Georgia hospital, Twenty-third street; Company G's Hall, Twenty-eighth street, between M and N; Samaritan hospital; * Clopton's hospital; Soldier's Rest, Clay street, between Fifth and Sixth ; Henningsen hospital, Locust Alley, below the Ex change hotel. Bacon & BaskervilFs : Cary street, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth. Bailey's Factory : Seventh street, between Main and Cary. Moore's : Main street, between Twenty-fifth and Twenty- sixth. Howard's Grove : On the Mechanicsville road, one mile from city. 48 Confederate Scrap-Book. Centenary : Basement of Centenary church. Gwathmey's : Corner Cary and Twenty-fifth streets. United States Hotel : Corner Nineteenth and Main streets- End of Hospital Directory. FROM AN OLD PAPER—" THE DALLY CITIZEN." (Printed in Vicksburg, July 2, 1863, on wall-paper,. now in the hands of an old " vet." at camp hardee, bir MINGHAM, Alabama.) (1) We are indebted to Major Gillespie for a steak of Confede rate beef alias meat. We have tried it, and can assure our friends that if it is rendered necessary they need have no fears at eating the meat. It is sweet, savory, and tender, and so long as we have a mule left, we are satisfied our soldiers will be content to subsist upon it. Among the many good deeds we hear spoken of with pride by our citizens, we cannot refrain from mentioning the case of Mr. F. Kiser. This gentleman having more corn than he thought was necessary to last him during the siege of this place, portioned off what he thought would do him for the • brief interval that will ensue before the arrival of succor to to our garrison, and since that time has relieved the wants of many families free of charge! May he live long and prosper, and his name be handed down to posterity when the siege of Vicksburg is written, as one in whose breast the " milk of hu man kindness" had not dried up. * (2) Vicksburg, Miss., Thursday, Jidy 2, 1868. On Lit. — That the great Ulysses, the Yankee generalissimo,. 'surnamed Grant, has expressed his intention of dining in Vicksburg on Sunday next, and celebrating the 4th of July by a grand dinner, and so forth. When asked if he would invite Gen. Joe Johnston to join, he said " No, for fear there will be a row at the table." Ulysses must get into the city before he Confederate Scrap-Book. 49 dines in it. The way to cook a rabbit is " first catch the rab bit," &c. ***** * Note. — July 4, 1868. — Two days bring about great changes. The banner of the Union floats over Vicksburg. Gen. Grant has " caught the rabbit." He has dined in Vicksburg, and he did bring his dinner with him. The Citizen lives to see it. For the last time it appears on " waif paper." No more will it eulogize the luxury of mule meat and fricasseed kitten — urge Southern warriors to such diet nevermore. This is the last wall-paper Citizen, and is, excepting this note, from the types as we found them. It will be valuable hereafter as a curiosity. PERSONAL IN SAVANNAH NEWS. In 1865, while her husband was a prisoner at Fortress Mon roe, Mrs. Jefferson Davis, with her four helpless and dependent little children, came by steamer to Savannah. She and her children were landed on the wharf without a protector. The •city was then in the possession of the Federal army, and the bayonets were bristling in every street. The wharf was crowded with spectators expecting the arrival of Mrs. Davis. There she stood, a stranger among strangers, for want of gallantry, or, perhaps, from fear of the soldiers, if any civility was extended to Mrs. Davis. The gaping crowd stood and gazed ! Seeing the friendless and disconsolate condition ot this noble lady, Mr. Tison pressed his way through the crowd, approached Mrs. Davis, introduced himself and offered his services. He took charge of Mrs. Davis and her children, gave directions about her luggage, procured a conveyance, escorted her to the Pulaski House, had provided for her comfortable apartments, and pledged himself to the landlord to be respon sible for all Mrs. Davis' expenses while a guest in the house. Here was an act of gallantry, sympathy, and heroism which, of all that crowd, but one man, William H. Tison, had the moral ¦courage to perform. 50 Confederate Scrap-Book. THE SWORD OF ROBERT LEE. WORDS BY MOINA. MUSIC BY ARMAND. Forth from its scabbard, pure and bright, Flashed tbe sword of Lee! Far in the front of the deadly fight, High o'er the brave, in the cause of right, Its stainless sheen, like a beacon light, Led us to victory. Out of its scabbard, where full long It slumbered peacefully — Roused from its rest by the battle song, Shielding the feeble, smiting the strong^ Guarding the right, and avenging the wrong- Gleamed the sword of Lee! Forth from its scabbard, high in air, Beneath Virginia's sky — And they who saw it gleaming there, And knew who bore it, knelt to swear That where that sword led they would dare To follow and to die. Out of its scabbard ! Never hand Waved sword from stain as free, Nor purer sword led braver band, Nor braver bled for a brighter land, Nor brighter land had a cause as grand, Nor cause a chief like Lee ! Forth from its scabbard! All in vain ! Forth flashed the sword of Lee ! 'Tis shrouded now in its sheath again, It sleeps the sleep of our noble slain, Defeated, yet without a stain, Proudly and peacefully. Confederate Scrap-Book. 51 THE LONE SENTRY. JAMES R. RANDALL. The Rev. Dr. Moore, of Richmond, in a sermon in memory of the beloved Stonewall Jackson, narrates the following inci dent: Previous to the first battle of Manassas, when the troops under Stonewall Jackson had made a forced march, on halting at night they fell on the ground exhausted and faint. The hour came for setting the watch for Jhe night. The officer of the day went to the General's tent, and said : " General, the men are all wearied, and there is not one but [who is asleep. Shall I wake them ? " " No," said Jackson, " let them sleep, and I will watch the camp to-night." And all night long he rode round that lonely camp, the one lone sentinel for that brave but weary and silent body of heroes. And when glorious morning broke, the soldiers awoke fresh and ready^for action, all unconscious of the noble vigils kept over their slumbers. 'Twas in the dying of the day The darkness grew so still, The drowsy pipe of evening birds Was hushed upon the hill; Athwart the shadows of the vale Slumbered the men of might, And one lone sentry paced his rounds, To watch the camp that night. A grave and solemn man was he, With deep and sombre brow, The dreamful eyes seem hoarding up Some unaccomplished vow. The wistful glance peered o'er the plains Beneath the starry light, And with the murmured name of God He watched the camp that night. 52 Confederate Scrap-Book. The future opened unto him Its grand and awful scroll — Manassas and the Valley march Came heaving o'er his soul ; Richmond and Sharpsburg thundered by, With that tremendous fight Which gave him to the angel hosts Who watched the camp that night. We mourn for him who died for us With one resistless moan, While up the Valley of the Lord He marches to the throne. He kept the faith of men and saints, Sublime and pure and bright; He sleeps — and all is well with him Who watched the camp that night. Brothers! the midnight of the cause Is shrouded in our fate, The demon Goths pollute our halls With fire and lust and hate. Be strong, be valiant, be assured — Strike home for Heaven and Right ! The soul of Jackson stalks abroad And guards the camp to-night. "A YANKEE PRAYER.' The following parody on the Lord's Prayer was found writ ten on the leaf of a tract on the person of a dead Yankee on the battle-field of Sharpsburg, and has been furnished us for publication. We infer from this that the Yankee soldier was more wrathful than pious, and withal slightly " demoralized " : " Our father, who art in Washington, Abraham Lincoln be thy name ! Thy will be done at the North as it is at the South ! Confederate Scrap-Book. 53 Give us this day our daily rations of crackers and bacon, and forgive us our shortcomings as we forgive our quartermasters and commissaries, for thine is the power, the nigger, and the soldiers, for the term of three years. Amen." STONEWALL JACKSON'S WAY. (Found on the body of a sergeant of the old Stonewall brigade, Winchester, Virginia.) Come, stack arms, men ; pile on the rails, Stir up the camp-fire bright ; No matter if the canteen fails, We'll make a roaring night ; Here Shenandoah brawls along, To swell the brigade's rousing song Of " Stonewall Jackson's way." We see him now — the old slouched hat Cocked o'er his eye askew — The shrewd, dry smile — the speech as pat — So calm, so blunt, so true. The "Blue Light Elder" knows o'er well — Says he, " That's Banks ; he's fond of shell — Lord save his soul ! we'll give him" — well, That's " Stonewall Jackson's way." Silence ! ground arms ! kneel all ! caps off ! Old Blue Light's going to pray; Strangle the fool that dares to scoff; Attention ! 'tis his way ! Appealing from his native sod, In forma pauperis to God — " Lay bare thine arm ; stretch forth thy rod ; Amen ! " That's " Stonewall's way." 54 Confederate Scrap-Book. He's in the saddle now ! Fall in ! Steady, the whole brigade ! Hill's at the ford, cut off! He'll win His way out, ball and blade. What matter if our shoes are worn ! What matter if our feet are torn ! " Quickstep — we're with him before dawn ! " That's " Stonewall Jackson's way." The sun's bright lances rout the mists Of morning, and, by George! There's Longstreet struggling in the lists, Hemmed in an ugly gorge — Pope and his Yankees whipped before — " Bayonet and grape ! " hear Stonewall roar, " Charge, Stuart ! Pay off Ashby's score In " Stonewall Jackson's way." Ah, maiden ! wait and watch and yearn For news of Stonewall's band ; Ah, widow ! read with eyes that burn That ring upon thy hand ; Ah, wife ! sew on, pray on, hope on, Thy life shall not be all forlorn — The foe had better ne'er been born, Than get in " Stonewall's way." THE TOAST OF MORGAN'S MEN. BY CAPTAIN THORPE, KENTUCKY. Unclaimed by the land that bore us, Lost in the land, we find The brave have gone before us ; Cowards are left behind. Then stand to your glasses, steady ; Here's a health to those we prize, Here's a toast to the dead already, And here's to the next who dies. Confederate Scrap-Book. 55 "[Written for the Illustrated News, October 18, 1862.] "FOOT CAVALRY CHRONICLE." BY HARD CRACKER. 1. Man that is born of woman and enlisteth in "Jackson's army," is of few days and short rations. 2. He cometh forth at " reveille," is present also at " retreat," and retireth apparently at "taps." 3. He draweth his rations from the commissary, and devour- eth the same; he striketh his teeth against much hard bread, and is satisfied ; he filleth his canteen with aqua pura, and, clap- peth the mouth thereof upon the bung of a whiskey barrel, and after a little while goeth away rejoicing' at the strategy. 4. Much«soldiering hath made him sharp; yea, even the sole of his shoe is in danger of being cut through. 5. He fireth his Minie rifle in the dead hour of night, and the camp is aroused and formed in line, when to his mess he cometh bearing a fine "porker," which he declared so resem- bleth a Yankee that he was compelled to pull trigger. 6. The grunt of a pig and the crowing of a cock awaketh him from the soundest sleep, and he sauntereth forth in search of the quadruped or biped that dareth to " make night hid eous," and many other marvelous things doeth he; and lo! are they not already recorded in the morning reports of " Jack son's Foot Cavalry ? " Camp of the Turned-over and Used-ups, Sept. 27, 1862. " MOTHER LINCOLN'S MELODIES." Little Be-Pope, He lost his hope, " Coz " Jackson he couldn't find him. He found him at last, And ran very fast, With his tail hanging down behind him. 56 Confederate Scrap-Book. Burnside, Burnside, whither doth thou wander, Up stream, down stream, like a crazy gander ? The man in the North, He pledged his troth, To find a Richmond barber, But the man in the South, He mashed his mouth At a place they call Cold Harbor. Old Mother Seward, She went to the .Lee- ward, To get her dog Union a bone. She got to Manassas, And saw them harass us — Lord! how Mother Seward did groan. Pope and McDcDowell Fighting for a town, Up jumped General Lee And knocked 'em both down. Yankee was a bad man, Yankee was a thief, Yankee came to my house and stole a piece of beef; I went to Yankee's house, Yankee he had fled, Caught him on the battle-field, and there I killed him dead. TO DYE COTTON OR WOOL BROWN. A lady friend sends us the following recipe for dyeing cotton or wool brown : Take the bark of the root of the common wild plum, boil in iron or brass, as most convenient, until the dye looks almost black; strain, and add a small quantity of cop peras dissolved in a small quantity of tbe dye. Add the arti cles to be dyed ; boil an hour or so ; wring out, and dip in strong cold lye. When dry, rinse in cold water. This gives a genuine bright brown, which is the prettiest contrast for Confederate Scrap-Book. 57 blue, and when checked in together makes a dress becoming enough for the proudest Southern dame or belle. Try it. — "Economy," in Southern Illustrated News, October 4, 1862. OUR CONTRIBUTORS. As an evidence that we are leaving no stone unturned to- give the public a»first-class literary paper, we take pleasure in announcing that we have secured the valuable services of the following-named talented gentlemen and ladies, each of whom will contribute weekly to the columns of this paper : W. Gilmore Simms, James Barron Hope, Hugh R. Pleas ants, John R. Thompson, Dr. Bagby (" Mozis Addums"), Rev. J. C. McCabe, D. D., S. S. Bryant, Margaret Stilling, Grace- Millwood, Mrs. Herbert (Louise Manhiem), Zilla Bryant, Laura Leason, and many other writers whose names are withheld from motives of delicacy. — Southern Illustrated News. A SOLDIER'S DREAM. Last night as I toasted My wet feet, and roasted A small bit of beef by a similar blaze, While nought but the wheezings, The snorings, and sneezings Of comrades grouping in Dreamland's haze Disturbed tbe fond vision — The picture Elysian — That Fancy's weird wand conjured up to my thought, As she stood like a spooke, In a garb of blue smoke, And amid the hot embers her wonders she wrought. ¦58 Confederate Scrap-Book. Adown a highway Were marching so gay An army with banners bedecked o'er and o'er With the brightest garlands, Wove by fairest of hands, While a flaming bouquet stuck in each musket bore. Each triumphal arch It met on the march Was blazoned with " Peace"; " Welcome home each loved one"; While maid, wife, and mother Would with rapture discover And rush out to meet lover, husband, and son ! I forgot my sore toes — Nay, all of my woes — As I sprang to the threshold and clasped her dear waist ; And every campaign I'd gone over again To get from those ripe lips another such taste. But as I flew to her I dropped my fine skewer, And with it my supper. I mastered my grief As the vanishing vision Of joy's Elysian, But I couldn't get over the loss of the beef! [To the tune of "Little Bo-Peep."] "Poor Johnnie Pope Has lost his coat, But let him never mind it; When he comes down On Richmond town There he'll be sure to find it." Confederate Scrap-Book. 59 RICHMOND'S GREAT DAY— OCTOBER 27, 1887. "THE CORNER-STONE OF THE LEE MONUMENT LAID — THE PROCES SION OVER A MILE LONG — GOVERNOR'S SPEECH — PRAYER DELIVERED BY THE REV. DR. HOGE — THE LATE CAPTAIN JAMES BARRON HOPE'S POEM READ. [From The Virginian.] A day of greater feeling and demonstration was perhaps never known in this city than this, the 27th day of October, when the corner-stone of the Lee monument was laid. The "morning broke cool and with an uncomfortable, drizzling rain, but patriotism knew no obstacle. The love of the people for Lee could not be mitigated. The city was crowded with visi tors, and. early in the morning the healthy and decrepit, young and old, came forth from their comfortable quarters and immerged into the showery atmosphere to see the celebration incident to the laying of the corner-stone. For two days the influx of military companies and war veterans had been large, and all knew, be it rain or sunshine, the celebration to-day would be an honor to the great Southern chief. About 10:30 o'clock the procession formed with Governor Lee and General Wade Hampton at the head; the three cavalry companies (Stuart Horse Guard, Surry troop, and Hanover) were next. The procession was a mile and one-third long, and took fifty minutes to pass a given point. The home of General Lee from 1861 to 1865, on Franklin street, was beautifully and appropriately decorated. The coat of arms of Lee and Vir ginia were upon the wall. The arms of Lee contain the motto, "non in cautius fure" — not unmindful of futurity. Governor Lee and General Hampton passed this house with uncovered heads, as did the veterans and cavalry companies. At this point a large crowd congregated, and the cheering was enthu siastic. Most of the bands played "Dixie" as they passed, and the soldiers were given orders to " shoulder arms." The Lee family were in carriages. The procession reached the site •of the monument about 1 o'clock; the rain was still falling. 60 Confederate Scrap-Book. The committee decided not to have the address delivered at the grounds, but in the hall of the House of Delegates to-night. Governor Lee called the meeting to order, and said: " Citizens and comrades, as Governor of Virginia, I am by law a member of the Lee Monumental Association, and by the action of the association I am its president. The duty, therefore, devolves upon me of calling this vast assemblage to- order. The ceremonies now about to commence mark an event, not only in the history of Virginia and its capital city, but are of great interest to all sections where the heroism of the Southern soldier is appreciated and remembered. The proceedings here will now be opened by a prayer from Rich mond's distinguished divine, Rev. Dr. Hoge. Dr. Hoge stepped forward and fervently delivered the fol lowing prayer : DR. HOGE'S PRAYER. Almighty God ! Fountain of Life and Father of Mercies, there is no offering of gratitude, no tribute of thanksgiving which is not thy due — none which we would not bring thee at this very hour, as we bow before thy footstool. With humble reverence we invoke thy blessing upon this great multitude gathered to unite in these impressive ceremo nies. Let thy benediction rest upon these organizations, military and municipal; upon these associations representing the indus trial pursuits of the people; upon these fraternities, philan thropic and charitable; upon these institutions and societies whose aim is the advancement of souud learning and the materia] and moral welfare of the citizens of this State and of our common country. We recognize thy gracious providence over our Common wealth from its foundation to this auspicious day. Thou hast made it not only the mother of States, but of the men whose virtue and valor have been illustrated in the halls of legisla tion and on the fields of conflict — men whose names are the purest in human history — and whose memories are the heritage Confederate Scrap-Book. 61 •of all whose hearts beat in sympathy with exalted worth and unselfish devotion to freedom, truth, and justice throughout this great Union from north to south and from east to west. Especially do we bless thee for the life and example of the patriot, soldier, sage, and servant of God, in grateful and loving honor of whose memory we unite in these solemnities. In words wise and fitly chosen may he whose office it is this ¦day to portray his character and worth so perform his high duty that our souls may be kindled afresh with the love of those virtues which made his life illustrious and his memory immortal. Great God! as we stand in the midst of this vast and jubi lant throng of the living, we pause in reverential silence to hear the voice of thy providence reminding us that one who was to have borne his honored part in these services is now numbered with the dead. The poet dies — the undying song survives. The hand that tuned the harp is cold and still — the melody it awakes yet sounds to entrance the ear of the living. 0 God of pity ! bless and comfort the family of our departed brother, and be thou their strength, support, and consolation. 0 thou that hearest prayer, we beseech thee receive and acceptthese our humble supplications; and help us all so to discharge the duties we owe to thee and to our fellow men that we may pass from lives of usefulness and honor into an immor tality of rest and peace; and to God most high, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, we will give the glory evermore. Amen. The Governor then resumed his remarks. "The death of the commander of the Army of Northern Virginia occurred at Lexington the 12th of October, 1870, and the people of that section at once determined to organize an association with the intention of marking in an appropriate manner the place of his burial. Valentine's recumbent statue is there to-day to prove they have fully and faithfully executed their trust. In this city the ladies of the Hollywood Memorial Association, never weary in work for the Confederate soldier, living or dead, at once proceeded to take the necessary steps to collect money to erect 62 Confederate Scrap-Book. a monument to General Lee in Richmond or its vicinity. An other society was formed for the same purpose a little later, and was the result of a call by General Jubal Early (the senior Confederate soldier in Virginia) for a meeting of his Confed erate comrades for the purpose of testifying their sorrow at the death of their commander, and perfecting an organization to build to his memory a monument. A memorial meeting on the 3d of November, 1870, was the result of General Early's action, and a monument association was promptly organized. The funds collected by this last body were during Governor Kemper's administratiou, and placed by them into the hands of a State board, consisting of the Governor, Auditor, and Treasurer. At the request of the Board of Managers (of which General Early was president), this board then assumed the place of the former one, and this action was confirmed by law. These two associations, having the same objective point, then proceeded to carry out the object for which they were formed, and after my installation to office efforts to consolidate the two organizations into one were successfully made. Now, with united purpose we propose to continue this work of love, and in two years from this date I invite you here again to witness the unveiling upon this spot of an equestrian statue to Gen eral Lee. We have in our midst to-day the officer who first organized the move to form within the ranks of the Confed erate soldier an association to perpetuate the memory of the army commander, who was the first president of the Lee Mon ument Association, and whose heart to-day beats as steady and strong for the strong as it throbs tender and true for the dead. I voice the^unanimous wish of our association in asking Jubal A. Early to preside over this meeting, and I now with great pleasure present him to this audience." General^Jubal A. Early took the chair amid applause. He made a few'earnest and appropriate remarks, and introduced Mr. Gordon McCabe, who was selected to read the poem of the- late lamented J. Barron Hope. [This poem was written by Captain James Barron Hope, to- Confederate Scrap-Book. 63- be read at the laying of the corner-stone of the Lee Monument at Richmond yesterday. The author had just finished his work, when, on the 15th of September, he died suddenly of heart disease. Governor Fitzhugh Lee, of Virginia, represent ing the Monumental Committee, has selected William Gordon McCabe, of Petersburg, the life-long friend of the dead poet,. to deliver the poem on the occasion of the monument ceremo nies on the 27th instant.] MEMORL^l SACRUM. Great Mother of great Commonwealths Men called our Mother State ; And she so well has earned this name That she may challenge Fate To snatch away the epithet Long given her of "great." First of all Old England's outposts To stand fast upon these shores, Soon she brought a mighty harvest To a people's threshing floors, And more than golden grain was piled Within her ample doors. Behind her stormy sunrise shone, Her shadow fell vast and long, And her mighty Adm'ral, English Smith, Heads a prodigious throng Of as mighty men, from Raleigh down, As ever arose in song. Her names are the shining arrows Which her ancient quiver bears, And their splendid sheaf has thickened Through the long march of the years, While her great shield has been burnished By her children's blood and tears. 64 Confederate Scrap-Book. Yes, it is true, my countrymen, We are rich in names and blood, And red have been the blossoms From the first Colonial bud, While her names have blazed as meteors By many a field and flood. And as some flood tumultuous In sounding billows rolled, Give back the evening's glories In a wealth of blazing gold; So does the present from its waves Reflect the lights of old. Our history is a shifting sea, Locked in by lofty land, And its great Pillars of Hercules, Above the shining sand, I here behold in majesty Uprising on each hand. These Pillars of our history, In fame forever young, Are known in every latitude And named in every tongue, And down through all the ages Their story shall be sung. The Father of his Country Stands above that shut-in sea, A glorious symbol to the world Of all that's great and free ; And to-day Virginia matches him — And matches him with Lee. Confederate Scrap-Book. 65 II. Who shall blame the social order Which gave us men as great as these ? Who condemn the soil of t' forest Which bring forth gigantic trees ? Who presume to doubt that Providence Shapes out our destinies? Foreordained, and long maturing, Came the famous men of old. In the dark mines deep were driven Down the shafts to reach the gold ; And the story is far longer Than the histories have told. From Bacon down to Washington The generations passed, Great events and moving causes Were in serried order massed; Berkeley well was first confronted, Better, George, the King, at last. From the times of that stern ruler To our own familiar days Long the pathway we have trodden, Hard and devious were its ways, Till at last there came the second Mightier Revolution's blaze ; Till at last there broke the tempest Like a cyclone on the sea, When the lightnings blazed and dazzled, And the thunders were set free ; And riding on that whirlwind came Majestic Robert Lee. 5 66 Confederate Scrap-Book. Who — again I ask the question — Who may challenge in debate, „ With any show of truthfulness, Our former social state Which brought forth more than heroes In their lives supremely great ? Not Peter the wild Crusader When bent upon his knee, Not Arthur and his belted knights In the Poet's Song could be More earnest than those Southern men Who followed Robert Lee. They thought that they were right, and this Was hammered into those Who held that crest all drenched in blood Where the "Bloody Angle" rose. As for all else? It -passes by As the idle wind that blows. III. Then stand up, oh, my countrymen! And unto God give thanks, On m'ountains and on hillsides And by sloping river banks — Thank God that you were worthy Of the grand Confederate ranks ; That you who came from uplands And from beside the sea Filled with love of old Virginia And the teachings of the free, May boast in sight of all men That you followed Robert Lee. Confederate Scrap-Book. 67 Peace has come. God give his blessing On the fact and on the name ! The South speaks no invective And she writes no word of blame ; But we call all men to witness That we stand up without shame ! Nay ! Send it forth to all the world That we stand up here with pride, With love for our living comrades And with praise for those who died : And in this manly frame of mind Till death we will abide. God and our conscience alone Give us measures of right and wrong. The race may fall unto the swift And the battle to the strong; But the truth will shine in history And blossom into song. Human grief full oft by glory Is assuaged and disappears When its requiem swells with music Like the shock of shields and spears, And its passion is too full of pride To leave a space for tears. And hence to-day, my countrymen, We come with undimmed eyes, In homage of the hero Lee, The good, the great, the wise ! And at his name our hearts will leap Till his last old soldier dies. 68 Confederate Scrap-Book. Ask me, if so you please, to paint Storm winds upon the sea; Tell me to weigh great Cheops — Set volcanic forces free ; But bid me not, my countrymen, To picture Robert Lee ! % As Saul, bound for Damascus fair, Was struck blind by sudden light, So my eyes are pained and dazzled By a radiance pure and white Shot back by the burnished armor Of that glory-belted knight. His was all the Norman's polish And sobriety of grace ; All the Goth's majestic figure ; All the Roman's noble face ; And he stood the tall exemplar Of a grand historic race. Baronial were his acres where Potomac's waters run ; High his lineage, and his blazon Was by cunning heralds done ; But better still he might have said Of his " works " he was the " son." Truth walked beside him always From his childhood's early years, Honor followed as his shadow, Valor lightened all his cares, And he rode — that grand Virginian — Last of all the Cavaliers ! Confederate Scrap-Book. 69 As a soldier we all knew him Great in action and repose, Saw how his genius kindled And his mighty spirit rose When the four quarters of the globe Encompassed him with foes. But he and his grew braver As the danger grew more rife, Avaricious they of glory But most prodigal of life, And the "Army of Virginia " Was the Atlas of the strife. As his troubles gathered round him, Thick as waves that beat the shore, Atra Cura rode behind him, Famine's shadow filled his door ; Still he wrought deeds no mortafman Had ever wrought before. IV. Then came the end, my countrymen, The last thunderbolts were hurled! Worn out by his own victories His battle-flags were furled, And a history was finished That has changed the modern world. As some saint in the arena Of a bloody Roman game, As the prize of his endeavor Put on an immortal frame, Through long agonies our Soldier Won the crown of martial fame. 70 Confederate Scrap-Book. i But there came a greater glory To that man supremely great (When his just sword he laid aside In peace to serve his State), For in his classic solitude He rose up and mastered Fate. He triumphed and he did not die! — No funeral bells are tolled — But on that day in Lexington Fame came herself to hold His stirrup while he mounted To ride clown the streets of gold. He is not dead ! There is no death ! He only went before, His journey on when Christ the Lord Wide open held the door, And a calm, celestial peace is his: Thank God forevermore. V. When the effigy of Washington In its bronze was reared on high 'Twas mine, with others, now long gone, Beneath a stormy sky, To utter to the multitude His name that cannot die. And here to-day, my Countrymen, I tell you Lee shall ride With that great " rebel " down the years- Twin " rebels" side by side — And confronting such a vision All our grief gives place to pride. Confederate Scrap-Book. 71 These two shall ride immortal And shall ride abreast of Time, Shall light up stately history And blaze, in Epic Rhyme ! Both patriots, both Virginians true, Both "rebels," both sublime. Our past is full of glory, It is a shut-in sea, The Pillars overlooking it Are Washington and Lee: — And a future spreads before us Not unworthy of tbe free. Andahere and now, my Countrymen, Upon this sacred sod, Let us feel : It was " Our Father " Who above us held the rod, And from hills to sea, Like Robert Lee Bow reverently to God. DISPATCHES FROM GENERAL JACKSON. Valley District, May 9, 1861. Via Staunton, May 10. To General S. Cooper: God blessed our arms with victory at McDowell yesterday. T. J. Jackson, Major-General. After a four hours' bloody fight near McDowell with Mil- roy, Jackson captured 100 boxes ammunition, 500 Enfield rifles and minie muskets, 60 to 75 cavalry saddles, and nearly 200 head of cattle which had been stolen from the citizens in the vicinity. Winchester, May 26. During the last three days God has blessed our arms with 72 Confederate Scrap-Book. brilliant success. On Friday the Federals at Front Royal were routed, and one section of artillery, in addition to many prisoners, captured. On Saturday Banks' main column, whilst retreating from Strasburg- to Winchester, was pierced, the rear part retreating towards Strasburg. On Sunday the other part was routed at this place. At last accounts Brigadier- General George H. Stuart was pursuing them with cavalry and artillery, and capturing many. A large amount of medi cal, ordnance, and other stores have fallen into our hands. T. J. Jackson. The result of this fight was the annihilation of an army from 12,000 to 15,000, the capture of 6,000 fine rifles, 2,000 muskets, 6.00 sacks of salt, 400 wagons, many horses, twelve pieces of artillery (three being rifled Parrot guns), $100,000 worth of medicines, hospital stores of every imaginable kind, every luxury a sick man could desire, and clothes without limit. A portion of the captured stores had to be destroyed, but all the guns and medicines were saved. From the battle of Port Republic comes his dispatch : Near Port Republic, 9th, Via Staunton, June 10, 1862. To S. Cooper, Adjutant- General : Through God's blessing, the enemy near Port Republic was this day routed, with the loss of six pieces of his artillery. (Signed) T. J. Jackson, Major-General Commanding. EXTRACT FROM "THE BURNING OF HAMPTON"— OUR WOMEN IN THE WAR. General B. F. Butler was in command at Old Point in May, 1861, and held possession of a number of runaway slaves who had escaped from Hampton. Upon the complaint of promi nent citizens Colonel John B. Cary, then Major in command, Confederate Scrap-Book. 73 sent a flag of truce to General Butler — probably the first of the war — asking for a conference with the view of learning the line of policy he proposed to adopt towards the people. General Butler responded favorably, and that afternoon (the 24th of May) was appointed for the meeting. The details of this interview have been reported with tolerable accuracy in a Northern campaign paper engaged in the futile attempt to raise a boom for General Butler for the Presidency. The General vaunted his State's-rights doctrines, claiming credit for having voted for Jefferson Davis fifty-two times in the " Charleston Convention," and stated that he had come down to Virginia to teach the people Jeffersonian democracy; to which his interlocutor replied that he was not aware that Virginia needed instruction in political science, but that if such were the case she would certainly not select him as her pre ceptor. The discussion proceeded pleasantly for two hours, during which the General applied, for the first time it is believed, the title of " contraband" to the slaves of the Southern people. When about to separate Major Cary remarked he had only one request to make personal to himself, which was that he might be allowed to move his library to a place of safety — the port of Hampton being blockaded, and no ingress or egress being allowed by water. This favor Butler promised to grant, on the plea that "books neither fed nor clothed an army," and the next day he sent the required " permit " to take them to Smithfield, Va. Hampton, however, was evacuated on the following Monday, before there was any opportunity of taking advantage of this courtesy, but General Butler was not forgetful of his promise, as will be seen from the following communication, voluntarily sent under a flag of truce after the engagement at Bethel: Headquarters Department of Virginia, . June 22, 1861. Major John B. Cary.- Lear Sir, — Finding that your library had been disturbed at 74 Confederate Scrap-Book. Hampton, I have done that which I advised you to do — brought it to " Fortress Monroe " for safe-keeping, where it awaits your requisition, unless you deem it safer there than anywhere else you can send it. I have the honor to remain, very respectfully, Benjamin F. Butler, Major- General Commanding. Every effort was made to profit by this unexpected kindness, as the books possessed a value far greater than their intrinsic worth. Communications were sent, and interviews sought, twice under a special " flag of truce," but the " rest was silence," and the library was never recovered. After the war it was found to have been placed in the hospital (now the " Soldier's Home," near Hampton), where a few scattered and defaced volumes were collected and brought away as souvenirs of the traditional fairness of love and war. RATDE&LINDEN. BY COL. B. H. JONES, PRISONER OF AVAR. In prison, when the sun was up, Each " reb " licked clean his plate and cup, And not a scrap left for our pup — Little " Reb "* — the terrier. But Ratden saw another sight, When "Yanks" lit up each sentry light, Scattering far the shades of night Within the Federal bastilery. Then quick, at certain signal made, Each " Reb " intent upon a " raid," With stick in lieu of battle blade, Fiercely assailed the rattery. * "Reb," a Small terrier dog, a great favorite among the prisoners, and famous as a rat catcher. Confederate Scrap-Book. Then were their secret dens upriven, Then scampered rats in terror driven, No quarter them by " Rebs " was given — It was a bloody massacre. Fiercer and louder grows the " row," Fiercer and keener " Reb's" " bow-wow! " We've had enough of Yankee " cow," Unless it conld some fatter be ! 'Tis taps now, yet to-morrow's sun Will prove our work has been well done; A full day's " rash " of " grub " we've won — To us a bloodless victory. " The combat deepens ! On, ye brave " ! Resolved rat bacon now to save ! Strike, rebels, strike ! with stone and stave — " Go in," ye little terrier. Few rats shall part where many meet; Lank "Rebs" will free their bones of meat — 'Twere better far of rats to eat, Than die of hunger bodily. Johnson's Island, November 3, 1864- ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON. {LINES WRITTEN BY AN UNKNOWN HAND OVER THE TOMB OF ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON AT NEW ORLEANS.) Behind this stone is laid, for a season, a General in the Army of the Confederate States, who fell at Shiloh, Tennessee, -on the 6th day of April, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty- i two; a man tried in many high offices and critical ! enterprises, and found faithful in all. 76 Confederate Scrap-Book. His life was one long sacrifice of interest to conscience ; and even that life, on a woeful Sabbath, did he yield as a holocaust at his country's need. Not wholly understood was he while he lived, but in his death his greatness stands confessed in a people's tears. Resolute, moderate, clear of envy, yet not wanting in that finer ambition which makes men great and pure. In his honor, impregnable; in his simplicity, sublime. No country e'er had a truer son, no cause a nobler champion, no people a bolder defender, no principle a purer victim, than the dead soldier who sleeps here. ' The cause for which he perished is lost; the people for whom he fought are crushed ; the hopes in which he trusted are shat tered ; the Flag which he loved guides no more the charging lines; but his fame, consigned to the keeping of that time which, happily, is not so much the tomb of Virtue as its shrine, shall, in the years to come, fire modest worth to noble ends. In honor, now, our great Captain rests ; a bereaved people "mourn him. Three commonwealths proudly claim him. Among those choicer spirits who, holding their conscience unmixed with blame, have been, in all conjectures, true to them selves, their- country, and their God. On the morning of the battle of Franklin, Tenn., Major- General Patrick Cleburne, C. S. A., while riding along the line encouraging his men, beheld an old friend — a captain in his command — nis feet bleeding from cold and other causes. Alighting from his horse, he asked the Captain to " please" pull off his boots. The Captain did so, when General Cleburne told him to try them on. This the Captain also did. General Cleburne then mounted his horse, told the Captain he was tired of wearing them, and could do very well without them. He would hear of no remonstrance, and bidding the Captain good bye, rode away. Iu this condition he was found dead at the Confederate Scrap-Book. 77 close of the battle. An officer within a few feet of him when he fell says his last words were, "I'm killed, boys ; but fight it out." MISSING. In the cool sweet hush of a wooded nook, Where the May-buds sprinkle the old green sward, And the winds and the birds and the limped brook Murmur their dreams with a drowsy sound, Who lies so still in the plushy mold, With his pale cheek pressed on a breezy pillow, Couched where the light and the shadows cross Through the flickering fringes of the willow? Who lies, alas! so still, so chill, in the whispering grass ? A soldier-lad in a Zouave dress, A bright-haired boy with his lips apart, One hand thrown up on his frank, dead face, And the other clutching his pulseless heart, Lies here in the shadows cool and dim, His musket swept by a trailing bough, With a careless grace in his quiet limbs, And a wound on his manly brow, alas ! Whence the warm blood drips on the quiet grass. The violets peer from their dusky beds, With a tearful dew in their great pure eyes ; The lilies quiver their shining heads, Their pale lips full of a sad surprise ; And the lizard darts through the glistening fern, And the squirrel rustled the branches hoary ; Strange birds fly out, with a cry, to bathe Their wings in the sunset glory, While the shadows pass o'er the quiet face and the dewy grass. 78 Confederate Scrap-Book. God pity the bride who waits at home, With her lily cheeks and violet eyes, Dreaming the sweet old dream of love, While her lover is walking in Paradise ! God strengthen her heart as the days go by, And the long, dreary nights of her vigil follow ; No bird, no moon, nor whispering wind May breathe the tale of the hollow. Alas! alas! the secret is safe with the woodland grass. March, 1862. [From the Fredericksburg News.] LINES RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED TO THE LADIES' MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION OF FREDERICKSBURG, VA., BY THE AUTHOR OF THE CONQUERED BANNER. The following lines, by Father Abram Ryan, author of the " Conquered Banner," will thrill the heart and nerve the efforts and open the purse of all who honor the memory of the brave and are not dead to every impulse of patriotism. They con tain an exquisite argument and appeal in behalf of the holy cause to which our ladies have consecrated their energies. Let our dead "together sleep " : Gather the sacred dust Of the warriors tried and true, Who bore the flag of our nation's trust, And died for me and you. Wherever the brave have died They should not rest apart ; Living they struggled side by side — Why should the hand of death divide A single heart from heart? Confederate Scrap-Book. 79 Gather them each and all From the private to the chief; Came they from cabin or lordly hall, Over their dust let the fresh tears fall Of a natron's holy grief. No matter whence they came, Dear is their lifeless clay — Whether unknown or known to fame, Their cause and country were the same — They died — and wore the gray. Gather the corpses strewn O'er many a battle plain ; From many a grave that lies so lone, Without a name and without a stone — Gather the Southern slain. And the dead shall meet the dead, While the living o'er them weep ; For the men who Lee and Stonewall led, And the hearts that once together bled. Should now together sleep. LITTLE GIFFIN. BY DR. FRANCIS 0. TICKNOR. "A ballad of such unique and really transcendent merit, that in our judgment it ought to rank with the rarest gems of mod ern martial poetry." Out of the focal and foremost fire, • Out of the hospital walls as dire, ' Smitten of grape-shot and gangrene, (Eighteenth battle, and he sixteen !) Specter such as we seldom see — Little Giffin of Tennessee. ¦80 Confederate Scrap-Book. " Take him and welcome," the surgeon said, " Much your doctor can help the dead ! " And so we took bim and brought him where The balm was sweet on the summer air; And we laid him down on a wholesome bed — Utter Lazarus, heel to head! , Weary War, with the bated breath, Skeleton boy against skeleton Death, Months of torture, how many such ! Weary weeks of the stick and crutch! Still a glint in the steel-blue eye Spoke of the spirit that wouldn't die. And didn't! nay more! in death's despite, The crippled skeleton learned to write ! "Dear mother," at first, of course, and then, "Dear Captain," inquiring about the "men." Captain's answer: " Of eighty and five, Giffin and I are left alive." "Johnston's penned at the front, they say! " Little Giffin was up and away. A tear, his first, as he bade good-bye, Dimmed the glint of his steel-blue eye ; " I'll write, if spared." There was news of a fight, But none of Giffin ! he did not write. I sometimes fancy that were I a king Of the princely knights of the Golden ring, With the song of the minstrel in mine ear, And the tender legend that trembles here, I'd give the best on his bended knee, The whitest soul of my chivalry, For little Giffin of Tennessee. Confederate Scrap-Book. 81 THE NINTH OF APRIL, 1865. [From the London Spectator.] It is a nation's death-cry! Yes, the agony is past; The stoutest race that ever fought to-day hath fought its last. Aye, start and shudder. Well thou may'st ; well veil thy weep ing eyes. England, may God forgive thy past; man cannot but despise. Yes, shudder at that cry that speaks the South's supreme des pair. Thou could'st save and saved'st not, thou could'st and did'st not dare. # Thou that had'st might to aid the right, and heart to brook the wrong, Weak words of comfort for the weak, strong hands to help the strong. That land, the garden of thy wealth, one haggard waste appears, The ashes of her sunny homes are slaked with patient tears — Tears for the slain who died in vain for freedom on the field; Tears, tears of bitter anguish still for those that lived to yield. The cannon of his country pealed brave Stuart's funeral knell; Her soldiers' cheers rang in his ears as Stonewall Jackson fell. Onward o'er gallant Ashby's grave swept War's triumphant tide, And Southern hopes were living yet when Polk and Morgan died. But he the leader, on whose word these captains loved to wait, The noblest, bravest, best of all, hath found a harder fate; Unscathed by shot and steel, he passed through many a desper ate field. Oh, God ! that he hath lived so long, and only lived to yield ! 6 82 Confederate Scrap-Book. Along the war-worn wasted ranks that loved him to the last, With saddened face and weary pace the vanquished chieftain passed. Their own hard lot the men forgot; they felt what his must be; What thoughts iu that dark hour must wring the heart of Gen eral Lee. The manly cheek with tears was wet, the stately head was bowed, As breaking from their shattered ranks around his steed they crowd. I did my best for you, 'twas all these quivering lips could say. Ah, happy those whom death had spared the anguish of that day. ' Weep on, Virginia ! Weep the lives given to thy cause in vain ; The sons who live to wear once more the Union's galling chain ; The homes whose light is quenched for aye ; the graves with out a stone; The folded flag, the broken sword, the hope forever flown. Yet raise thy head, fair land ! thy dead died bravely for the right; The folded flag is stainless still, the broken sword is bright. No blot on thy record found ; no treason soils thy fame ; Weep, then, thy death. With covered head we mourn our England's shame ! PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE AND ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTS. To the Senate and House of Representatives of the Confederate States : It is again our fortune to meet for devising measures neces sary to the public welfare whilst our country is involved in a desolating war. The sufferings endured by some portions of the people excite the deep solicitude of the Government, and the sympathy thus evoked has been heightened by the patriotic Confederate Scrap-Book. 83 devotion with which these sufferings have been borne. The gallantry and good conduct of our troops, always claiming the gratitude of the country, have been further illustrated on hard- fought fields, marked by exhibitions of individual prowess which can find but few parallels in ancient or modern history. ¦Our army has not faltered in any of the various trials to which it has been subjected, and the great body of the people have continued to manifest a zeal and unanimity which not only cheer the battle-stained soldier,, but gives assurance to the friends of constitutional liberty of our final triumph in the pending struggle against despotic usurpation. The vast army which threatened the capital of the Confed eracy has been defeated and driven from the lines of invest ment, and the enemy, repeatedly foiled in his efforts for its cap ture, is now seeking to raise new armies on a scale such as modern history does not record to effect that subjugation of the South so often proclaimed as on the eve of accomplishment. The perfidy which disregarded rights secured by compact, the madness which trampled on obligations made sacred by every consideration of honor, have been intensified by the ma lignity engendered by defeat. These passions have changed the character of the hostilities waged by our enemies, who are becoming daily less regardful of the usages of civilized war and the dictates of humanity. Rapine and wanton destruction of private property, war upon non-combatants, murder of captives, bloody threats to avenge the death of an invading soldiery by the slaughter of unarmed citizens, orders of banishment against peaceful farmers engaged in the cultivation of the soil, are some of the means used by our ruthless invaders to enforce the submission of a free people to foreign sway. Confiscation bills ¦of a character so atrocious as to ensure, if executed, the utter ruin of the entire population of these States are passed by their •Congress and approved by their Executive. The moneyed obligations of the Confederate Government are forged by citi zens of the United States and publicly advertised for sale in their cities with a notoriety that sufficiently attests the knowl- 84 Confederate Scrap-Book. edge of their Government, aud its complicity in the crime is- further evinced by the fact that the soldiers of the invading armies are found supplied with large quantities of these forged notes as a means of despoiling the country people, by fraud, out of such portions of their property as armed violence may fail to reach. Two at least of the generals of the United States are engaged, unchecked by their Government, in exciting ser vile insurrection, and in arming and training slaves for warfare against their masters, citizens of the Confederacy. Another has been found of instincts so brutal as to invite the violence of his soldiery against the women of a captured city. Yet the rebuke of civilized man has failed to evoke from the au thorities of the United States one mark of disapprobation of his acts, nor is there any reason to suppose that the conduct of Benjamin F. Butler has failed to secure from his Government the sanction and applause with which it is known to have been greeted by public meetings and portions of the press of the United States. To inquiries made of the commander-in-chief of the armies of the United States whether the atrocious con duct of some of their military commanders met the sanction of that Government,- answer has been evaded on the pretext that the inquiry was insulting, and no method remains for the re pression of these enormities but such retributive justice as it may be found possible to execute. Retaliation in kind for many of them is impracticable, for I have had occasion to re mark in a former message that under no excess of provocation could our noble-hearted defenders bo driven to wreak ven geance on unarmed men, on women, or on children. But stern and exemplary punishment can and must be meted out to the murderers and felons who, disgracing the profession of arms, seek to make of public war the occasion for the commis sion of the most monstrous/ crimes. Deeply as we may regret the character of the contest into which we are about to be forced, we must accept it as an alternative which recent mani festations give us little reason to hope cantbe avoided. The exasperation of failure has aroused the worst passions of our Confederate Scrap-Book. 85 enemies : a large portion of their people, even of the clergy men, now engage in urging an excited populace to the extreme1 of ferocity, and nothing remains but to vindicate our rights and maintain our existence by employing against our foes every energy and every resource at our disposal. I append for your information a copy of the papers exhibit ing the action of the Government up to the present time for tbe repression of the outrages committed on our people. Other measures now in progress will be submitted hereafter. In inviting your attention to the legislation which the neces sities of our condition require, those connected with the prose cution of the war command almost undivided attention. The acts passed at your last session intended to secure the public defence by general enrollment, and to render uniform the rules governing troops in the service, have led to some unex pected criticism that is much to be regretted. The efficacy of the law has thus been somewhat impaired, though it is not believed that in any of the States the popular mind has with held its sanction from either the necessity or propriety of your legislation. It is only by harmonious as well as zealous action that a government as new as 'ours, ushered into existence on the very eve of a great war, and unprovided with the material necessary for conducting hostilities on so vast a scale, can fulfill its duties. Upon you who are fully informed of the acts and purposes of the Government, and thoroughly imbued with the feelings and sentiments of the people, must reliance be placed to secure this great object. You can best devise the means for establishing that entire co-operation of the State and Confederate governments which is essential to the well-being of both at all times, but which is now indispensable to their very existence. And if any legislation shall seem to you appropriate for adjusting differences of opinion, it will be my pleasure as well as duty to co-operate in any measure that may be devised for reconciling a just care for the public defence with a proper deference for the most scrupulous susceptibilities of the State authorities. 86 Confederate Scrap-Book. The report of the Secretary of the Treasury will exhibit in detail the operations of that department. It will be seen with satisfaction that the credit of the Government securities remains unimpaired, and that this credit is fully justified by the com paratively small amount of accumulated debt, notwithstanding the magnitude of our military operations. The legislation of the last session provided for the purchase of supplies with the bonds of the Government, but the preference of tbe people for treasury notes has been so marked that legislation is recom mended to authorize an increase in the issue of treasury notes, which the public service seems to require. No grave incon venience need be apprehended from this increased issue, as the provision of law by which these notes are convertible into eight per cent, bonds, forms an efficient and permanent safe guard against any serious depreciation of the currency. Your attention is also invited to the means proposed *by the Secre tary for facilitating the preparation of these notes, and for guarding them against forgery. It is due to our people to state that no manufacture of counterfeit notes exists within our lim its, and that they are all imported from the Northern States. The report of the Secretary of War, which is submitted, contains numerous suggestions for the legislation deemed desirable in order to add to the efficiency of the service. I invite your favorable consideration especially to those recom mendations which are intended to secure the proper execution of the conscript law, and the consolidation of companies, bat talions and regiments, when so reduced in strength as to impair that uniformity of organization which is necessary in the aimy, while an undue burthen is imposed on the Treasury. The necessity for some legislation for controlling military transportation on the railroads, and improving their present defective condition, forces itself upon the attention of the Government, and I trust that you will be able to devise satis factory measures for attaining this purpose. The legislation on the subject of general officers involves the service in some difficulties which are pointed out by the Secretary, and for which the remedy suggested by him seems appropriate. Confederate Scrap-Book. 87 In connection with this subject, I am of opinion that pru dence dictates some provision for the increase of the army, in the event of emergencies not now anticipated. The very large increase of forces recently called into the field by the President of the United States may render it necessary here after to extend the provisions of the conscript law so as to embrace persons between the ages of thirty-five and forty-five years. The vigor and efficiency of our present forces, their condition, and the skill and ability which distinguish their leaders, inspire the belief that no further enrollment will be necessary, but a wise foresight requires that if a necessity should be suddenly developed during the recess of Congress, requiring increased forces for our defence, means should exist for calling such forces into the field without awaiting the re-assembling of the legislative department of the Govern ment. In the election and appointment of officers for the provisional army, it was to be anticipated that mistakes would be made and incompetent officers of all grades introduced into the ser vice. In the absence of experience, and with no reliable guide for selection, executive appointments as well as elec tions have been sometimes unfortunate. The good of the service, the interests of our country, require that some means be devised for withdrawing the commission of officers who are incompetent for the duties required by the position, and I trust that you will find means for relieving the army of such officers by some mode more prompt and less wounding to their sensibility than judgment of a court-martial. Within a recent period we have effected the object so long desired of an arrangement for the exchange of prisoners, which is now being executed by delivery at the points agreed upon, and which will, it is hoped, speedily restore our brave and unfortunate countrymen to their places in the ranks of the army, from which by the fortune of war they have for a time been separated. The details of this arrangement will be com municated to you in a special report when further progress has been made in their execution. 88 Confederate Scrap-Book. Of other particulars concerning the operations of the War Department, you will be informed by the Secretary in his report and the accompanying documents. The report of the Secretary of the Navy embraces a state ment of the operations and present'' condition of this branch of the public service, both afloat and ashore; the construction and equipment of armed vessels at home and abroad; the manufacture of ordnance and ordnance stores; the establish ment of workshops and the development of our resources of coal and of iron. Some legislation seems essential for securing crews for vessels. The difficulties now experienced on this point are fully stated in the Secretary's report, and I invite your attention to providing a remedy. The report of the Postmaster-General discloses the embar rassments which resulted in the postal service from the occu pation by the enemy of the Mississippi river and portions of the territory of the different States. The measures taken by the department for relieving these embarrassments as far as practicable are detailed in the report. It is a subject of con gratulation that during the ten months which ended on the 31st March last, the expenses of the department were largely decreased, whilst its revenue was augmented, as compared with a corresponding period ending on the 30th June, 1860, when the postal service for these States was conducted under the authority delegated to the United States. Sufficient time has not yet elapsed to determine whether the measures heretofore devised by Congress will accomplish the end of bringing the expenditures of the department within the limit of its own revenues by the 1st of March next, as required by the Consti tution. I am happy to inform you that, in spite both of blandish ments and threats used in profusion by the agents of the Gov ernment of the United States, the Indian nations within the Confederacy have remained firm in their loyalty and steadfast in the observance of their treaty engagements with this Gov ernment. Nor has their fidelity been shaken by the fact that, owing to the vacancies in some of the offices of agents and su- Confederate Scrap-Book. 89 perintendents, delay has occurred in the payments of tbe annu ities and allowances to which they are entitled. I would advise some provision authorizing payments to be made by other of ficers in the absence of those specially charged by law with this duty. We have never-ceasing cause to be grateful for the favor with which God has protected our infant Confederacy. And it becomes us reverently to return our thanks and humbly to -ask of his bounteousness that wisdom which is needful for the performance of the high trusts with which we are charged. Jefferson Davis. Richmond, August 15, 1862. [Copy.] Headquarters Army of the C. S., Near Richmond, Va., August 2, 1862. To the General Commanding U. S. Army, Washington : General, — In obedience to the order of his Excellency, the President of the Confederate States, I have the honor to make to you the following communication : On the 22d of July last a cartel for a general exchange of prisoners of war was signed by Major-General John A. Dix, on behalf of the United States, and by Major-General D. H. Hill, on the part of this Government. By the terms of that cartel it is stipulated that all prisoners of war hereafter taken shall tbe discharged on parole until exchanged. Scarcely had the cartel been signed when the military author ities of the United States commenced a practice changing the ¦character of the war from such as becomes civilized nations into a campaign of indiscriminate robbery and murder. A general order, issued by the Secretary of War of the United States in the city of Washington, on the very day that the cartel was signed in Virginia, directs the military com mander of the United States to take the property of our people for the convenience and use of the army, without compensation. A general order, issued by Major-General Pope on the 23d 90 Confederate Scrap-Book. of July last, the day after the date of the cartel, directs the murder of our peaceful citizens as spies, if found quietly tilling their farms in his rear, even outside of his lines. And one of his brigadier-generals (Steinwehr) has seized in nocent and peaceful inhabitants to be held as hostages, to the end that they may be murdered in cold blood if any of his sol diers are killed by some unknown persons, whom he designated as " bushwhackers." Some of the military authorities of the United States seem to suppose that their end will be better attained by a savage- war, in which no quarter is to be given and no age or sex to- be spared, than by such hostilities as are alone recognized to be lawful in modern times. We find ourselves driven by our enemies, by steady progress, towards a practice which we abhor and which we are vainly struggling to avoid. Under these circumstances this Government has issued the accompanying General Order, which I am directed by the President to transmit to you, recognizing Major-General Pope and his commissioned officers to be in the position which they have chosen for themselves — that of robbers and murderers, and not that of public enemies, entitled, if captured, to be treated as prisoners of war. The President also instructs me to inform you that we re nounce our right of retaliation on the innocent, and will con tinue to treat the private enlisted soldiers of General Pope's army as prisoners of war ; but if, after notice to your Govern ment that we confine repressive measures to the punishment of commissioned officers who are willing participants in these crimes — the savage practices threatened iu the orders alluded to — be persisted in, we shall reluctantly be forced to the last resort of accepting the war on the term# chosen by our enemies, until the voice of an outraged humanity shall compel a respect for the recognized usages of war. While the President con siders that the facts referred to would justify a refusal on our part to execute the cartel by which we have agreed to liberate an excess of prisoners of Avar in our hands, a sacred regard for Confederate Scrap-Book. 91 plighted faith, which shrinks from the semblance of breaking a promise, precludes a resort to such an extremity. Nor is it his desire to extend to any other forces of the United States the punishment merited by General Pope and such commis sioned officers as choose to participate in the execution of his infamous orders. I have the honor to be, # Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, (Signed) R. E. Lee, General Commanding. Adjutant and Inspector- General's Office, Richmond, August 1, 1862. General Orders " No. 54. I. The following orders are published for the information and observance of all concerned : II. Whereas, by a general order dated the 22d of July, 1862, issued by the Secretary of War of the United States, under the order of the President of tho United States, the military com manders of that Government within the States of Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Lou isiana, Texas, and Arkansas are directed to seize and use any property, real or personal, belonging to the inhabitants of this Confederacy which may be necessary or convenient for their several commands, and no provision is made for any compen sation to the owners of private property thus seized and appro priated by the military commanders of the enemy; III. And whereas, by General Order No. 11, issued on the 23d July, 1862, by Major-General Pope, commanding the forces of the enemy in Northern Virginia, it is ordered that all " com manders of army corps, divisions, brigades, and detached com mands will proceed immediately to arrest all disloyal male cit izens within their lines or within their reach, in rear of their respective commands. Such as are willing to take the oath of "92 Confederate Scrap-Book. allegiance to the United States, and will furnish sufficient se curity for its observance, shall be permitted to remain at their homes and pursue in good faith their accustomed avocations. Those who refuse shall be conducted South, beyond the ex treme pickets of this army, and be notified that if found again anywhere within our lines, or at any point in rear, they will be considered spies, an