BY A PRISONER ON JOHNSON'S ISLAND
Arr —‘Rally Round the Fiag,” With the fierce terrific roar Of five hundred guns or more, A doom over Sumter long was seeming ; But they gave up in despair, For our Beauregard was.there, And brightly the Southern Cross is gleaming.
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Shoulder to Shoulder, with hearts frm and true, We never can be conquered by,an Abolition, crew ; For whenever is seen our bayonet's sheen, Brighily the Southern Cross is gleaming.
.Brigbtly the Southern Cross is gleaming.
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The Miscreant Dahigreen thought As he led his brave cohort, That with blood the Streets of Richmond wouid be streaming ; But he tasted Southern lead, Aud above his gory head
When Gilmore?’s mongrel hord Into Florida was poured, Fondly of triumph he \wwas dreaming ; But his column backward reeled From Olustee”’s bloody field Wheré brightly the Southern Cross is gleaming.
Since Banks quit keeping store . For Stonewall Jackson’s corps, Louisiana’s ruins he’s been scheming ; … But his Star at Grand Ecore :
Has set to rise no more, And brightiy the Southern Cross is gleaming,.
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Brave Forrest once again, With his gallant mounted men, Has filled the Yankee heart with terror teeming ; At Fort Pillow he has paid The full price of Sherman’s raid, :
Arid brightly the Southern Cross is gleaming.
With Lée in the East, And Hood in the West, Brightly the Star of hope is beaming ; Our success in °64 Will end a glorious War ; Proudly the Southern Cross is gleaming.
Proclamation de Jefferson Davis à l’armée.—Extrait :- Soldats:! la campagne du printemps va, s’onvrir sous des auspices bien propres à raflermir ves espérances. Vous pouvez attendre l’envahisseur avec une confiance justifiée par le souvenir.de vos victoires passées et par |
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l’énergie déja chancelante de l’ennemt. Sa campagne de 1854 sera, à en juger par l'épuisement de ses resour. cesen homes et en argent, bien moins form:dable que celle des deux dernières armée et dont 14 noms de Manassas, de Shiloh, de Penys-ville, Mufreesborough Chickahoininy, Freilerick “burgh, Chacellor-ville vous,
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Headquartere, Department of south Carol. Georgia and Florida, Feb. 10 1864. Piece of Fiagstaff of fort Sumter, Harbor ot Charleston, sent with my compliment to W. H. Gregory, M. P. for Gaiway. The flagtaff ofthat fort has already been shot down forty times by the enemy's fire since the commencement of the siege July 10 th. 1863.
G. T. Brauregard, General C, T. P,
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Campagne d’Ulysses Grant we can see no break in the sable cloud that overhangs the theatre of th: great stugzle. Even the gloomy days which followed tbe rat Bull Run, grow lighter by contrast with those that are now upon «as. Foruow the vast available resources ofthe loyal North are piited in the conflict and at the end of three yéars of such a war as never before shook the worid, the dowufall of the rebellion seems further off than ever. “The roseate oratory and sixtyday vaticinations of sdnguine abolitionists are heard no longer, The most fippaut are sobered into a realizing sence of the gravity of 1lie situation. x
Under the mercilegs and terribly stern leader. ship of General Grant. six \veeks is longer 10 an army
than, with some Generals, six months would be, He
has, dashed.his troops incessantiy against the strong. holds of ihe enemy in Virginia, reckiug nothing of the
:cost in steadfast devotion to the end te be gained, and.
yet there is no:singu that Lee is shaken in his defences. How long can such fighting cou'inue? and even:if, as Assistand-Secretary Dana asserts, our army is two-; thirds larger than that of the rebeis, is such a farce
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equal tn the task that is yet, after snch a longed an agonizing effort, onlÿ begün? Thèse âre questions whic everybody asks. *° 7 1 1" 7 Si Tae Federal Losses.—"l'he New York correspondent of the Times, writing 6n May 13 th, observes : = Hitherto the march ofGrant--though, if it be ultimatelÿ successfull, it will be considered herovie—is thé advance of a piece of mechanism. He sees no obstacles, and goës blindly and pathleselr on. Hetrusis to nothing Put superior numbers and hard fighting. The lives of his men ere of no value. : He throws them away by thousands, to gain half a mile of jungle. He‘has pushed on for five leagues, and paid about 9000 lives for each. At every step he fights at a disadvantage où ground of 1he enemy’s choosing. But he fights on. His men : re picked off by urerring sharpshonters from behind every tree, but his order js still 10 push ouward, His Generals fall as ifthey were of no more account than private soldiers. Up to Tuesday evening—the seventh day ofthe conflict—he had lost 13 of them iñ killéd, wounded and prisoners, and at least 45,000 men, This loss is admitted by friends and admirers, while those who are not incline to him add 15,000 to that étiormous estimate. But still he holds his way undauntéd, seeing nothing, caring for nothing, but Richmond, which if he ever reach upon the terms of these seven days, he will reach without 4s much as a body-guarg a vôlitary prisonner. ‘l'he havoc coinmitted in his rank! it is sickening to reflect upon. One NewYork regimétif, thé'pride of the ‘city, which not long sinéé marchéd down Brondway amid flaunting banners,waving hafidi kérchiefs,loud huzzas, and the musie of drum and fifé, suffered $o terribly that out of its full 'ecinpic méfit: butfour officers and fifteen men were ‘lefl after a ht
day’s fightiñg. Wholé brigades have l6$f their offitére:
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béiOs Dir li 1110 #11 Or VOUON LU 6 5 24m Hbl having a brigadier left to reorganise their shattered rem: nants. , But the voice of wailing and la men tation is beard in too many thousands of households in this,and all the citiss of the Norih to permit unqualified ap;)ro-. bation of a system of war so cortlyas this or to silence: the buz of adverse citicisin, 11 Grant’s army, instead of athrobbing thinking mass of human beings, were but an agglomeration of steel and iron—a monster steamengine cunninglÿ put together for purposes of destruction—its driver could not more deliberately urge it forward in its pitiless career.
The Commanding-General announces (o the army, with heartfelt sorrow, the death of Major-General J. B, Stuart, late comuauder of the cavalrÿy corps of the army.
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Among the gailant soldicrs who have fallen in this war, General Stuart was second to none in valor, in zeal, in unflinching devotion to his country.
… Ris achievements form a conspicioas part of the history of this army, with which his name and services: will be forever associated. To military capacity of a: high order, and all the noble virtues of the soldier, he added the brightest graves of a pure life, guided' and sustained by the Christian’s faith and hope.
, Tke, mysterious hand of an all-wise God has removed him trom the scene of his usefulness and: fame. His .grateful countrymen will mourn his loss-and cherish hisimemory, To his comrades in arms he has left the proud recollection of his deeds and the inspiring influence of his example. r be Unes
R. E. LEE, General.
Léttre d'un soldut canadien.—Extraits —S'il y avait chez les soldats du Nord la moitié de la bravou:. re déployée par celui du Sud, il y a longtemps que 19 sort dés armes se serait décidé e» faveur du Nord : car a véc-du-coûrage et de la discipline, l’armée de Grant qui double celle de Lee, devrait écraser celle-ci. Les
charges à la bayonnette parles troupes du Sud «ont effrayantes, elles se font au milieu des cris des soldats au son de inille clairons et de milles fanfares.. .,,,.,., :: Quand on écrira l’histoire de cette guerre fratricide sion y met de Pimpartialité, il Ÿ aura plusieurs pages qui devront faire rougir ce grand peuple. |
Richmoxd Enquirer.—The advance of Grant is the main, but not the only attack npon Richmond. Butler, with a vast armada, ascends the James River, ard lauding at Bermuda Hnndreds, cuts de railroads and proceeds to invest the city on the South side. General Beauregard is called up from Charleston, and having collected the army destined for the immediate defence of.the city, on monday last, broke up th: investment drove off the army, #nd now held them cowering in
their own fortifications and under the protection of
their gunboats.
.. Nothwithstanding the success that has attended Generals Lee and Beauregard, blunders have taken elsewhere, upon which, at present, we shall not comment. Let all now seek to aid tie cause to the uttermost. j
Richmond Examiner.—The battle near Drury’s Bluff was impeifecily appreciated in Richmoud till yesterday. It was during the time it lasted one of the most terrific combats that has been known. Confede. rate valor never had a more spiendid illustration. The nerve of Smith’s or Builer’s laige army was concentrated on the hill’s behind heavy fortifications which they had strengthened wi‘h all the appliance ofunlimited labor and inexhaustible ingenuity. A world in arms would not have moved Beauregard from such a camp. Yesterday a grand field day under the eye of. Beauregard (Felix ! )was anticipated. But at daybreak the whole show of the enemy had vanished, But'er had stolen off in the night to the shelter of his gunbouts. He is scarcely 10 be blamed. The contest was une-
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The Richmond correspondent of the London T'imes.—As it was ample time was given to General Beauregard to gather up a force from Charleston and Wilinington, and he had little difficulty in scattering Butler’s forces to the wind in a well-planned night attack, which lacked little of compassing the utter annihilation of Butler,
(Siège de Petersburgh.) It is a miracle that the onslaught of 20,000 or 30,000 men should not have sWept Beauregard and his feeble force of 3,000 bayo: nets off the face of the earth. By fortunate effrontery Beauregard, held his own fortÿ eight hours, until reiaforcements joined him from General Lee, and Petersburgh was safe.
Maolice d’un journal contre Butler, qui avait annoncé qu’il tenait le Fort Darling, qu’il appelait la clef de Richmond.
Key lost.—0,000 Reward.-Lost, near fort Darliag.Sthe key to Richmond,” which, as was ar ‘unrced by the Republican papers, was entrusted to the keep+ ingofthe subscriber It is supposed to have been taken by a fellow named Beauregard, who violently assaulted, battered and trashed the subscriber, causing him to skedadle in such haste that he dropped the key.
. The above reward will be paid in Linco!u-skins to any
one who will restore it.—Ben. BuTcex.
Special Orders No. 11.—VIL Tothe troops of my command for the defense of Petersburg, on the south side of the Appomattox, on the 9th instant. Î haye, with the approval and under the instructions of the Commanding General, to offer my grateful acknowledgements for their gallant conduct, and my congratulations unon their successful repulse of the enemy. Approaching with nine régiments.of infaniry and cavalry, and at Jeast four pieces of artillery, they. sear-
ched our lines from battery No. 1 to battery No. 29 a distance of nearly six miles Hood’s battaillons the 46 regiment Va, Vols, and one company (Captain Wood’s co. F) of the 23d S. C., with Sturdivant’s battery and a few guns in position, and Talliaferro’s cavalry, kept them at bay, and punished them severely until they reached the Jerusalem Plankroad in front of Battery 29, defended by Major Arclier’s corps of reser- . ves, and second class Militia, and by one piece of Sturdivant’s Battery, a howitzer, under the temporary command of Brig Gen. Colston. Then, with overwhelming numbers, they were twice repulsed and succeeded only at last in penetrating a gapin the line and iaflanking and gaining the rear of a mere handful of citizen soldiers, who stood firmly and fought bravely as veterans until ordered to fall back. Alas ! some of . the noblest of them fell € with their backs to the ground and their front to the foe,” consecrating with their blood the soil of the homes they defended. Their immediate commanders have reported the heroism of them all, the living and the dead, and now with pride and gratitude, Î announce that Beauregard himself has thanked Archer and his comrades onthe very spot of their devotion. Ifthey lost killed, wounded and missing, 65 out of less than 150 men, they spent their blood dearly to the.enemy ;.if Sturdivant’s baitery lost one gun a better was captured, and another disabled, and if they lost a half a mile ‘of ground, they gained about a half hour of time and saved their beloved city byholding on long enough for Sturdivant’s and Graham’s and Young”’s batteries, Deming”’s cavalry, and the 46th Virginia Infantry, with Wood’s South Carolina, Companÿ, a company of convalescents, and a company of penitents, to drive back the ïnsolent foe from approaches which their footsteps for the first time polluted. With the help of God it shall be the last time. With such troops as all have proved themselves, commanders may well give assurance with confidence to the people of Petersburg. A people who can thus fight for their Altars must be aided supported, guarded by
every ‘arm Which can be outstretched for their defence, Comnrades ! their wives and daughters are daily and hourlÿ nursing our sick and wounded, they wipe -the hot brow, cool the fevered lips, and tenderly nourish and comfort the suffering soldiers in their hospitals. The angel nurses and the stricken patriots of this patriotic place shall not fall into the hands of ruffian in. vaders. Its very Militia has set an example which inspires the confidence that Petersburg is indomitable,and which consoles and compensates for every drop of blood which has been spilt at Nottawvy, at Walthal! Junction, and at Drewry’s Bluff and Howlet’s Neck, for the defense of the old Cockade City. Let the reserves and 2d class militia of the surrounding counties now come an promptly, one and all, and emulate this bright and successful example—let it hotly hiss to blood-red shame the laggards and skulkers from the street añd alleys of the city to the lines ; and let it proclaim aloud that Petersburg is to be aud shall be defended on her outer walls, on her inner lines, at her corporation bounds, in every street, and around every temple of God, and altar of man,in her very heart until the blood of 1hat heart is split. Roused by this spirit to this pitch of resolution, we will fight the enemy at every step, and Petersburg is safe.
Henry À. Wise, Brig.Gen.
(From the Richmond Whig, June 15).
It will now be Grant’s effort to precipitate a large body of his forces upon Petersburg, which he may fancy of as much importance to Richmond as Grand Gulf was to Vicksburg. Herein he errs ; but to what extent we shall not be in haste to informhim. There are contingenciés which may serve ere long to enlighten him, and that very suddenly. Around Peterburg there arefortifications superior to those which held Ulysses in cheek for two months before Vicksburg.. Behind these there is no incompetent leader, with an army disgusted and
disheartened at his imbelioity. The first engineer of the ; and a field mr too equal to any in the world is there ; his troops have unbounded confidence in him ; he has proved them and they him on many fields, he awakensenthusiasm as none other can it ; and when Grant comes in contact with him, he will find another master, nay, two masters— for the day which sees the bulk of Grants army oh the south side will find the two best heads, and the bravest, purest and most magnaniïnous hearts on this continent opposed to him, and that will be a field day, indeed.
Corresp. du Times de New-York.—Les mesures de défense de Beauregard à Petersburgh rivalisent avec celles qu’il a prises à Charleston. Elles révèlent en Jui un des plus habiles soldats de l’armée da Sud. Cette opiniom n’est poïnt affaiblie, mais corroborée au contraire pour un fait qui a étonré tout le monde ici : Parmée du Potomac n’a pas encore rencontré unseul homme appartenant en propre à l’armée de Lee, pas un seul soldat des corps de Longstreet, de Hill ou de Evwell. Les forces qui défendent Petersburgh sont exelusivement de l’armée de Beauregard.
Dix-sept redoutes, armées chacune de 6 à 18 canons, défendent Petersburgh. Elles sont parfaitement disposées et d’une construction puissante, égales en tout aux fortifications de Washington. Elles sont reliées par un parapet qui sert à l’infanterie, le plus fort que j’ai encore vu.
