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XOTICa-: TO DESSTOKS.
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J.owne,
deceased, art requested to call and mak? im-
;! !; ate payment
Dec 3', i'2
to- SAML. I'. SMITH.
Attorney for Executrix.
Copartnorsliip.
TO COTTON PLANTERS.
I have been appointed by the Secretary of the
Treasury, Chief Agent for the purchase of Cotton for
the Confederate Government .within the Su te of North
Carolina, and will pay for the same in 7 percent Bonds
or Cash.
Sub-Agents visiHng the different parts of the State,
buying in my name, will have written certificates of
appointment.
Hy order of the Secretary of the Treasury, all Cot
ton purchased by myself or my agents, on and after
the 18th day of March, 1863, will be paid for in 7 per
cent Bonds or Cash, and not 8 per cent Bonds as stated
in a former advertisement. Up to that lime, however,
the '8 per cent bonds will be. furnished as stated..
PatriotTccTtTzens! are now offered an opportunity to
aid the Government by selling to it their Cotton rather
than to private capitalists.
LEWIS S. WILLIAMS.
Charlotte, March 24, 1863 tf
AHJIIIVISTRATORS' NOTICE.
Having taken out Letters of Administration with the
Will annexed on the estate of A. J. Dunn, deceased,
all persons having claims against said estate are
hereby notified to present them within the time pre
scribed by law, or this notice will be pleaded in bar
of their recovery. And those indebted to said estate
are requested to make immediate settlement.
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Feb 3, 18G3
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with the Will annexed.
SUPERIOR SEWIIVG SILK.
The subscriber has just received an invoice of the
veiybest ITALIAN SEWIN'G SILK, which he offers
to the public, at 1 2 A cents per skein.
March 3, 18G3 tf J. S. PHILLIPS.
NEW GOODS.
Just received, and will be MADE TO ORDER, or
SOLD BY TIIE YARD,
Super. West of England Black Cloths;
Satin Finished Black Doeskin Cassimeres;
English Grey Cloths, a fine article for Confederate
Uniforms;
Also, Confederate Stuff Buttons.
J. S. PHILLIPS.
March 3, 18G3 tf
BLACK ALP AC C A.
Just received a superior lot of the above desirable
Goods for ladies' dres-e3, which will be sold at a very
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March 3. 1803 tf
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IVgged Calf Bootees (light) for Ladies.
Gents' High Cut Scotch, neatly made.
Elegant pegged and sewed Brogans, double sole.
A fresh arrival of Shoe-Peggs, to sell by the quart;
sizes 4-8, 5-8, 6-8, J-8. Also, a lot of Shoe Knives.
JOHN F. BUTT,
March 10, 1S63 tf Mint Street, Charlotte.
Carriage & Wagon Shop.
The subscriber, successor to Mr Charles Overman in
the Carriage and Wagon making business, respectfully
informs the public that he will promptly execute all
work entrusted to him, and he solicits a share of pub
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REPAIRING of all kinds will be particularly atten
ded to and done at short notice on reasonable terms.
Send your work to Overman's old stand and give me
a trial.
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Chailotte, Jan'y 13, 18G3. y
DISSOLUTIOIV.
The copartnership heretofore existing under the
came an 1 st.yle of STEVENS, SCIIUTT & McLEAN, in
the general Cabinet business, is this day dissolved by
the withdrawal of I. A. McLean. The business will be
continued at the same stand by the undersigned, who
respectfully solicit a portion of public patronage.
J. H. STEVENS & CO.
February 3, 1863 tf
$60 REWARD.
The above rewar.l ($30 for each of theTn) will be
paid for the apprehension of John D. Ewing and Thos.
King, members of my company, when delivered at
Camp, near Guinea Station, Va., or whirever the
company may be stationed. The said Ev ing and
King left the camp near Guinea Station m .be 28th
of March last without leave. Ewing is about 2G or 27
years of age, about 5 feet 7 inches high, sandy hair,
grey e es aud fair complexion and is supposed to be
lurking in the vicinity of Charlotte, N. C. King is
about 18 years of age, 5 feet six inches high, dark
hair, blue eyes, fair complexion and is supposed to
be lurking in the neighborhood of Steel Creek or the
vicinity of Charlotte, X. C.
By order of Col. W. L. J. Lowhaxce.
G. M. NORMENT,
April 14, 1863 5t. Capt. Co. G, 34th N. C. Regt.
Davenport Female College.
Rev. A. G. Stacy, President and Professor of Mental
and Mora Science and English Literature.
Rev. George F. Round, A. B., Professor of Mathemat
ics. Natural Science and Ancient Languages.
J S. Montgomery, Esq., Assistant in Mathematics.
Mrs. C. Amelia Wii.bau, Instructress in Literary De
partment. Miss Emma Rankin, Instruct rcss in Music.
Miss Sarah T. Eankix, Instructress in Ornamental
Department.
Mrs. C. F. Stacey, Superintendent of Domestic and
Social Duties.
j A. A. Scuoor.s, M. D., Lecturer in Physiology and
I Hygiene.
' For the present year there will be an irregular Col
legiate Term, divided into two Sessions. Tbe Sum
mer Session will commence May the 28th, and nd
August the 31st. Tbe Second Session will begin
September the 1st, and close December the 2d.
Charges per Session or llalf Term, payable, strictly in j
advance. w
Board STO; Tuition $1S; Preparatory Department,
Section Xo. 1, $10, Section So. 2, 53; Music $18;
Drawing 13; Painting in Oil, $18; French, etc , fxtra:
Washing, extra. Pupils to furnish their own bed
linen, towels, lights, etc.
The College is beautifully situated in a mountainous
region, remote from the ravages of the enemy.
Climate unsurpassed for health and comfort. No
effort will be spared to make it equal to the best Fe
male Col.ege in the Confederacy. There is a Tri
weekly stage from Hickory StaUon to Lenoir. For
further particulars apply to'the undersigned at Abbe-ville-C.
H-, S. C. Thos"e who expect to patronize us
the present year would do well to notifv us of the fact
at their earliest convenience
April 14, 1863 2i " A. G. STACY, Pres t.
The Confederate Victories.
THE BATTLilfiS AX j'iiiHJtita.KjLoo u jtvt
AND CHANCELLOBSVILLE.
A correspondent of the Richmond Enquirer
gives the iollowing detailed and interesting ac
count of the late battles:
I propose to give you a history of the whole
fight, beginning with the crossing below Freder
ietshnri' on Wednesdav morninc. AdHI 29th, and
briuin it down to the' brilliant charge of .Mou -
day evening, Jlay 4tn, wnen the euemy
driven in confusion across the river, their
were
mid
night cry being " retreat to' Banks' ford!"
The first movement of the enemy the crossing
below town can baldly be said tp have been a
feint. It would be perhaps ore proper to speak
of it as a movement designed to co-operate with
the main attack at Chancellorsville, or it is possi
ble that this force was left in front of Fredericks
burg to prevent a rear movement on our part,
which, if successful, and the river once crossed by
our troops, at a point near town, their access to
the railway could have been cut off and their
base of supplies rendered useless to them. To
guard his rear and' protect his base; the force,
which afterwards operated offensively, was at first
intended to act defensively, in all probability.-
How it aftewards acted on the offensive, and
succeeded in carrying by storm "Marye's Heights,"
can probably be explained by the fact that Hooker
had been hard pressed and whipped in the fight of
Saturday and Sunday morning at Chancellorsville,
and made this attack in order to create a diversion,
and enable him to cover his retreat.
Chancellorsville having been the real point of
battle, it will be most fitting to speak of it first.
On Thursday evening Gen. Anderson, w,ho was
holding a position in front of the United States
Mine Ford, twelve miles above Fredericksburg,
ascertained that the Yankees, numbering five army
corps, with at least eighty thousand men, crossed
the Kapidan at Kelly's and Germana Fords, hav
ing previously crossed the North Fork of the Rap
pahannock at Ely's Ford, in Culpeper county, and,
were advancing down the plank road. Gen.
Andersen at once fell back to Chancellorsville, and
took up'a line of battle in front of the plank road,
and extending to the river, and reaching over
towards the old Catherine Furnace. Gen. Ander
son, however, having too small a force to hold the
enemy at this point, fell back to a position some
four miles below Chancellorsville, and fronting
the old mine road. On Friday morning Gen.
Anderson was reinforced on the right by Gen.
McLaws, and on the left by Gen. A. F. Hill. At
this period Gen. Jackson t ok command, and
ordered an advance, himself leading it, and suc
ceeded during the day in driving the enemy back,
they making but slight resistance. On Friday
night our forces rested fully two miles beyond the
ground occupied by the Yankee forces on the pre-
vious evening.
Saturday morning wore away without important
results. There was some artillery firing and a
little skirmishing, but the engagement did not
become general until about 5 o'clock in the after
noon, from which hour the fight raged furiously
until about eight o'clock. Jackson, at this time,
had thrown a force on their upper flank, and was
driving them fiercely down upon our lower line,
which, in turn, was hurling them back, and ren
dering futile all their efforts to break through our
lower lines, and making it necessary for them to
give back towards the river. There was an inter
mission in the filing from eight o'clock until about
nine. But from nine until long past midnight the
sound of artillery and small arms was well nigh
deafening. The explanation was ready. Jackson
was pressing them with a night fight. Our boys
drove tbe Yankees, who stoutly held their ground,
until near day; and at early dawn on Sunday, the
fight began on both ends of the line, and by 11
o'clock the firing had ceased. On the upper end
of the line, near Chancellorsville, the Yankees
got badly whipped, retreated to the river.
On the lower line, near Fredericksburg, they
succeeded in carrying Marye's Heights, and
rioted in the wildest excess of joy. They had
stormed, they said, the Gibraltar of America, and
their route to Ilichmond was plain and'easy, little
remembering that they had hurled a column of
fully ten thousand upon one regiment in front, and
thus gaining the rear of the rest of Barksdale's
brigade.
But " the best laid schemes of men and mice
gang ait agree; ana wniist tne lar'ees were
felicitating themselves on their splendid successes,
and imagining themselves to be in the rear of our
army, Gen. Lee was so manceuvreing as to meet
the enemy who were now throwing themselves
torward irom the town on the plank road. About
four o'clock on Sunday evening, McLaw's
division, including Wilcox's brigade of Ander
son's division, met the advance column of the
Yankees, under Gen Sedgwick, at Salem Church,
tour miles beyond r redericksburg, on the plank
road, and our line of battle was formed at right
angles with the plank-road. The battle here
raged for about two hours,' but the Yankees were
repulsed with considerable loss, including some
five to six hundred prisoners Our line on the
Telegraph road, meantime, had been formed at
Smock's, about three and a half miles out from
town.
Early on Monday morning, Lawton's old
Bri gade, now Geu. Gordon's supported by Gen.
Smith's and Gen. Hayes, all of Early's division,
advanced towards Marye's Heights, and charged
them without the firing of a guo, driving the
enemy from a position from which less than 24
hours previous he had dislodged Barksdale's Missis-
i sippia'ns after a most heroic resistance, in which the
enemy's loss was quite considerable
lu this con
dition matters remained until about five o'clock in
the evening, when a general. advance was ordered.
At the firing of a signal gun, Gen. Early moved
unon the enemv from the riiiht. and Gen. Ander
son and Gen. McLaws from the left. The enemy
i j
son and ben. Jicis iron, tne e.t. "J ". j
who held a position on the p ank-road, extending ;
! up and down, were quickly dislodged and driven !
' wt, f Wo r thn fir.M Thpir resistance I
oi:i, ti irna nr!.nH Fnrlc's men. ;
a oar.o;Qllt7 tho T.nniianiana under Haves,
walked over the enemy as
giants over pigmies, !
of Anderson and Mc-:
' n uuc nuni ouuit, - - -----
laws, wno nau oeeu cuutiuuuj uiaa-mug .
fighting for five days, showed no signs of relaxa-;
T l, V 1 Vr. .r.nclmlln mirfhlIl(T flna
! tiOD, but marched boldly and fearlessly up to their
. huuviuicu nui i lie icouib vv fia lug t ii f i i i v whn
ari?en
in
confusion towards Banks' Ford, across
which he succeeded in making his way during the
niglit not, however, without serious loss in
killed, wounded and prisoners. Gen. Hoke, of
the North Carolina Brigade, in Early's Division,
was wounded in this charge. Whilst this was
going on, Barksdale's men were holding he stone
wall, Mary's hill and the heights commanding the
plank-road, so as to prevent a movement on our
i?ear ffsm Fredericksburg. But this was hardly
necessary. Yankee desire tor a general advance
had been satisfied, and by nightfall the Yankees
had begun to prepare for the third and last-time
to evacuate Fredericksburg and by day-break our
pickets were in the town, which is once again in
the hands of Barksdale's men
Though the enemy at Chancellorsville did not
recross the river at the United States Ford until
ednesday, there was no general engagement
after bunday only some occasional skirmishin
and, feints of attack to cover up their retreat across
the river. Hooker, though having the choice ot
position, did not act offensively after crossing, but
fortified and threw himself on the defensive, thus
forcing our men to contend against him in this
fight against vastly superior numbers, aided by
breastworks, fortifications and obstructions of all
sorts. But they were of little avail; "Jackson turn
ed their flank and fell upon their rear. And
Jackson's boys did their work with all their might
and main. They charged faster over the field
than they marched to it, and their cheering as
they drove the enemy before them broke upon the
air with fine, inspiring effect, and told too plainly
that our men were in earneat, and were fightiug
for home, for woman, manhood and independence.'
lln such a cause it were worse than base not to
strike heavy blows for freedom and the right.
Hooker expected success. He had planned
well; but General Lee has proved himself more
than a match for him, and his splendid army now
lies a part dead on the south side of the Itappa
hannock, a part wounded on its north bank, and
some here, too, and a large part of the advance is
already iu Ilichmond. Hooker had drawn every
man from his fortifications, find came prepared
with eight days rations i. e., eight days hard
tack: three days' cooked meat and eight days cat
tle in a herd and eight days' coffee. Hooker
made his men a speech, telling them he had advan
tage of position and was bound to go forward; all
that he asked of them was to fight." He had sum
moned every man from the fortifications, and had
uncovered JVashington, and must have put into
the fight, from first to last, not a man under one
hundred and fifty thousand.
The bravery, fortitude aud endurance of our
men in all of these engagements cannot be too
highly praised or too gratefully remembered by the
country. It would seem inviduous to make speci
al allusions where all fought so well, but it is due
to candor and truth to say that the troops of Mc
Laws and Anderson were oftener engaged than
any other troops, they being engaged in fighting
and marching almost without intermission for rest
or refreshment, from Thursday night until Tues
day morning, a period of four days and nights.
While to D. II. Hill's old division, commanded by
General Rhodes, and Trimble's division, led by
General Colston, Early's division, led by Early
himself, and A. P. Hill's men, under their favor
ite leader, the country is indebted. ,
The cavalry, too, claim a share oF this glorious
work, for while the ftfantry were thus being en
gaged, one brigade under Fitzhugh Lee met the
enemy near Spotsylvania Court House and suc
ceeded in whipping and driving back to Chancell
orsville, certainly two brigades of cavalry, and,
PerftPs fur kM'ng tne Colonel of the Sixth New
5wk Cavalry and two captains, and taking some
sixty prisoners.
Tbe battle field, which reaches from Fredericks
bure to a point above Wilderness, some twelve
miles up from town, and out to the river, with the
exception of about two miles between Salem and
Zoar churches, attests the skillful aiming and
deadly destruction of our artillery. The Yankee
dead and wounded are strewn over the entire coun
try. Yet had it not have been one of the most
thickly wooded sections of land in Virginia tbe
Yankee loss would have been far greater.
Over this same field of battle are scattered, in
immense quantities, blankets, overcoats, canteens,
knapsacks, haversacks, cartridge boxes, and any
quantity of rifles, "muskets, aud various other
equipments of the soldier. Our boys, however,
found but little to eat. The Yankees had well
nigh devoured the commissariat, still, a good
quantity of hard tack, with some good cooked
meats and coffee, were found in the Yankee haver
sacks. We also captured some freshly slaughter
ed meats, and some corn and oats; all of which are
quite valuable, and just the articles we needed.
Fredericksburg, on this occasion, did not suffer
severely as she did before, though the Yankees
managed to steal a good deal. Private houses, 1
believe, were in no instance entered, where the
families were present, and the tovn was not shell
ed, nor were any citizens arrested or carried off in
'the town. A few were arrested outside, but in
every instance I believe they were rescued by our
own soldiery.
Hooker commanded in person at the Chancell
orsville fight, and occupied a position near that
place during the fight. Hooker has made a good
fight. He has manoeuvred well, and done better
than any other Yankee general but Hooker is not
the equal of our commander-in-chief. Gen. Lee,
duriug the fight, has displayed the highest quali
ties of an able and successful commander. To
him the country is indebted for the most wonder
ful qualities of the soldier and tactician. He has
so manoeuvred and combined aa to 6urround the
Yankees twice, and drive them back to the river,
when they supposed, on both occasions, that they
1 1 l " . . J vaiA Knflf tf en. 1
1 1 prise him, whilst Gen. Jackson has outdone him-
' i self, and exhibited the hhrhest characteristics of a
UaU gOlieu IUiO U13 rear, ul ncib auvua v out'
' ! r,tPUk n,i .niifnl r,nal. fullv eonfirmine all
strategist and skillful general, fully confirming all
J .dddieir new laurels to the
""P-" JL
any aireaay
his cast renown, and addioe new laurels to the
r ' . ...
won in the service ut nia country.
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n o- lf, a j i
ully o,U00, and .
Our losses are fully o,UUU,
i aokees are confessed to be I ally
about thirty pieces ot artillery. e have captur-
ed very near 8,000 prisoners, and have lost, I sup-
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I'UftC, J.UUU VI isuucio. uvc iuiui ut IUC
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fight point most conclusively to a most brilliant j
Confederate victory. We captured one brigadier
wlMT111 f ?f,d Rndn Uff fficerS-
r d!it f Q !W Sre "'I v.nX,0D,
of the Stonewall brigade; General Nichols was
wounded in the leg, having previously lost an arm
at V mchester; General McOowin j wounded
slightly; Gen. Hoke was wounded in the ana.
, m ' ft v - .
(iMis MoCnmh. litwnrri anrf fl'Vailt V r.
Icon armv are rennrtPtl L-illuil nA aPlnlit.io. Tn"
J - - v. v. a , .lit. A it II '
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saia to oe sugnuy wounaea.
We gather the
changes: -" ' ;
following items from our Ex-
fT.- ,r- him , , -
Grir.
Ho Tt.mnv'. TlJl-A i ,.r.i.
2d, 4th, 14th and SOch N 0 Troops, was compli-
rf vji.. v. I o IMICilUt vuiiiLimcu I'l lliu
mented by the Corps and Division Commanders to
. i r . m . . . , "
I cffic,cnl emM KnJertd
Gen. Longstrcet did not participate in the la to
great victories oyer Hooker. . He was not present.
Two of his divisions were there and maintained
their well-won fame.
The Yankee prisoners admit that they were aw
fully beaten, but say that it was owing to the fact,
which they never cease to proclaim, that thr.y have
no generals. They believe that their troon nr
fas good as ours, but that we beat them by the su-
I Ml 1 -
penorsKiu oi our generals.
One of the Yankee officers brought to Rich
mond told a gentleman who was in conversation
with him that'Burnside was not beaten at Frede
ricksburg, he was repulsed, but that Hooker had
gotten "perhaps the d est drubbing that ever a
general had."
All of our troops are jubilant over what thj
consider as beyond all comparison the greatest
victory of the war. They say the victory of the
13th of December was not a circumstance to it.
Gen. Hooker (the yankee commander) was
stunned and thrown down by a shell which shat
tered the pillar of a porch he was leaning against at
Chancellorsville.
The Losses of (lie enemy. -F 'rofli the best sour
ces of intelligence at our command, we arc enabled
to estimate the losses of the enemy in the recent
battles near Fredericksburg, at twenty thousand.
Among the killed we learn are the following gene
ral officers: Brig. Gen. Seth Williams, Adj Gcn'l
to Hooker, and formerly Adj. Gen'l to Mc.CIellan;
and Bri Generals Daniel E. Sickles. Barrv. Jluir-
er, Howard and Birney.
FURTHER PARTICULARS.
Correspondence of the Richmond Dipatch.
Let it be remembered that the distance over
wliich the battle raged and fluctuated like a tea
of fire from Wednesday morning until the Wed
nesday following was fifteen miles. Commencing
its muttered thunders at Deep Run, its real storm
broke forth above Banks' ford, and culminated in
the splendid fight and triumphant victory at
Chancellorsville. Gen. Lee said the enemy's
position could not have been stronger. They had
three lines of entrenchments. It is said Mc-
Clellan was there superintending the ditchings.
In every attack our men were successful. The
enemy were driven in panic from their breastworks.
Gen. Posey s command alone took three nines of
entrenchments. On Friday, McLaws' troops at
tacked and drove the enemy from a point seven
miles from town and commenced tho attack at
Chancellorsville, ten miles from town, on Satur
day. The night .attack was made on Jackson b
the enemy, d heir repulse was complete and their
destruction immense.
The prisoners captured, the stores destroyed,
&c, I am unable to state accurately. The moat
desperate fight, however, was on Monday evening.
Sedgwick's 20,000 Yankees who crossed below and
at Fredericksburg, and got Marye's Hill after losing
three times as much as the force which defended
it, swept up tbe plank-road and -met their fute on
Monday, when Early s, Anderson s, and McLaws'
forces enclosed them in a crescent of fire and
swept them baek towards the river. That closed
the debate. It became a mere question of wafelv
reerossing the Rappahannock. jVt Bunks' ford
McLaws alone took 000 prisoners and 19 officers.
His horse was struck as well ss himself on Sunday.
The enemy's loss must be 25,000. We have
taken at least 40,000 small arms and 20 cannon.
One good result is the proof afforded of our im
proved artillery Major Latimer, with two batte
ries, drove the men from a Yankee battery oppo
site the Bernard House and made them abandon
their guns. Major Braxton, at Chancelloraville,
twice compelled the Yankees to leave their guns.
McClellan's boast of superior artillery is exploded
The Yankees attacked Marye's Hill early
Sunday morning and were repulsed. About 11
a. m. they reconstructed their shattered columns
and advanced from the pjankroad ana from Fred
ericksburg, and obliquely along Hazel Run, with
out firing a gun, and took the Heights. Two. or
one of Barksdale's Mississippi regiments and 16
guns ot tne vv&sningion Artillery could not witn
stand the overwhelming attsck on Loth flanks and
iu front. The enemy got six guns, and turned
them on our retreating troops. Jt is reported thtt
a flag ot truce was granted slier tne hrtt repulse
of the enemy, by which, they learned the small
force defending the heights. Nearly all the 18th
Mississippi are prisoners. It is said the Musia
sippians clubbed muskets and fought, but in vain.
They lost the heights. Gen. Early and Gen.
Pendleton' were in command. Our line of battle
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at Wyatt's run, and recaptured the Heights. The I
Federals, in their attack on Marye s heights, were
commanded by Gens. 6cdgewick and Gibbon.
The Yankee prisoners. Among the prisoners
who fell into our hands is a son of Francis P.
Blair, the Black Republican member of Congress j
from the St. Louis district in Missouri. A gentle-;
man who was present at the time informs us that j
young Blair, after his capture, ssked permisMon ;
to take the oath of allegiance to the Confederate j
... ry f.irniiH ihraa mi Ira tin tho o t cr r i r. V, A !
T?:7t . r .7 1 ?
on ?f the enemies of the South volunta-;
nly became a citizen or tne confederacy
The Yankee officers seem to have a high respect '
ior our lniamry. jae oi meui rruiar&eu iuai ido
cavalrymen were not as well built nor as courageous i
as their cavalry; but the iofantry were too des-
for tbera .por Mid he uwhen lfc i
d infantry CCOje upon a battery it is no n?e '
b to hoH if. and if Napoleon's men were be-:
hind it they could not stop them.
They are crazy
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aboufc fcatteries
! DEATH. OP GEN. TU.0MA8 J. JACKSON.
J k we Mced the sorrowful tiding
of the death of Licutcnant-Gcner.l ThomaaJ.,
! J.ckaon, which took place at th residence of Mr
j Thomas Chandler, near Guinea Station, at fiftoea
! minutes past 3 o'clock, on Suuday evening, M.y
I 10th . 6 - 3
va
CI en .1 arlr ann trn 1,wn In
tbe town of Claris-
t. n. .
. uurg, xiarruoQ uouniT. va ,
ani WM tLe Joangeat of f
youngest ot four children. Ero ha
hai passed his third yior his parents died. The
sabject of hla sketch was Uken by bis unci to
I w-u.j, -cic ui- rciuaioeu uoui oe trriVfU
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graduated with high distinction, sad was itnme-
-j srJj a...
n.tu nwv.M ug kiivu UUlll VJCII. OCUlt CQUJU1UQCCU
his campaign in Mexico, when young Jackson was
assigned to his command. Before he retched the
city of Mexico he was brevetted Major for "gallant
and meritorious conduct." Soon alter tho termi
nation of the war he resigned his commission in
the army, and obtained a Professorship in tho
Virginia Military Institute Shortly aflcrcoterine
upon his duties there he married the daughter of t,
Mr Junkin, the Principal of Washington College t,
She died, and he subsequently luarried Mis f
Morrison, of North Carolina. . (
When the present war brolo out Lo tendered m K
his services to his native State, wss commissioned i
Coll hy tJov. Letnrtr, ni wm
couurmoa ny tne convention or Virginia, thea
in session. He was tbe first Colonel and the first
man, under the provisional army of Virginia, to
take command of hit troops. As Colonel, ho
commanded the forces at Harper's Ferry till ti e
arrival of den. Joseph E. Johnston. By General
Johntton he was assigned the important duty ot
checking the Yankeo General in bis advanee.
Soon alter this affair Col. Jackson was made a
Brigadier-General. At the first battle of Manassas
he gained tho soubriquet of "Stonewall' tinder
the following circumstances : General Bee, whoe
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jrigaue was oeing sorely prcsneo:, rode up to lieu.
Jackson, aud said : "General, they uro beating us
back." The reply was, "Sir, we will give them
tbe bayonet." Gen. Bee immediately rallied' the
remnant of his brigade, and hi Int words to them
were ''There is Jackson standing like a Stone-wall.
Let us determine to die here, aud we will conquer.
Follow mo."
In November, after tho battle of Manassas, Gen.
Jackson was assigned to the command of the
Department of the Valley. On the 23d of March,
following thebattle of Kernstown was fougbt.
With a force not exceeding 2,000 effective ucn
he attacked 20,000 fresh troops, repuhsd them
repeatedly, aud so crippled tho foe that he dared
not, with all his numbers, follow him io hi retreat.
The next fight in which he commanded was at
McDowell, where he met the enemy under Muroy,
aud defeated him after" four hour's hard fighting.
Pushing down the Valley he drove tho enemy
from Front Royal and Winchester.
Gen. Jackson soon fell back to meet the com
bined forces of Fremont and Shields. These he
met at Cross Keys and J'ort Rcpublio on tho 8th
and 9th of June, when he obtained another deeided
victory.
This, for the time, closed his operations to tho
Valley , and his command was ordered to join Gen.
Lee, which it did in time to participate in the
series of battles which delivered Richmond from
the siege under which it had been laid by Mo
Clelltn. In all these battles General Jackson bore
a conspicuous part, as he did subsequently at
Cedar Run, Manassas Plains, Harper's Ferry,
Anlietam, and Fredericksburg. At Chancellors
ville fate ordered that his useful csreer should he .
closed, aud over his loss a bleeding country is now
called to mourn.
Gen Jackson's body was received in Richmond
on Monday the 11th by an immense oonoourse of
citizens and military, and was afterwards removed
to Lexington, Va., for interment.
The E.vEMr'd Depredations A corrcspon- )
dent writes irom Swift Creek, Craven County, S. (
C, to the Raleigh Progress as follows: '
"Thinking you would like to hoar from this
section, I avail myself of a few moments to lot yon
know how the- enemy had been acting in this
vicinity since Gen. Hill's siege at Washington, N. 'i
C. They have been pretty quiet down on this
side of the River. Ttey made one raid on this T
place, commanded by General HpiaoU, which con
sisted of Pennsylvania troops. They burnt some
few store-bouses on the Creek. They went to an
old lady's house and demanded her money and pa
pers, which she refused to deliver, and teeiag
that she did not intend to give them up, thsy
searched her person and took from her some $100,
and a gold watch that belonged to her son who
had been dead for several years, and took nearly
everything they could lay their polluted hands oo.
They drove a widow lady that lives nesr Bsrriog-
too s teny out of her house, and did not giro her
time to remove its contents before they set it oo
fire and burnt it, together with every house po her
premises, to sshes.
But the worst of all is, when thsy started
through to Blount's Creek to relieve that mesa -dog,
Foster, they were so msd that they, io one t
intanrn. after thev were dflfeafrrf. atnr.nprl t .
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nouae ana waniea io xnow ir iny naa any arms '
buried; they replied they had none. They called
the lady of the house a Uart ani went to the
grave yard wbsre thcro waa a nev grave and du
into it, and broke into the box and the coffin, an!
left it in this condition. This Mr Editor, I.eso
vouch for as being true, fori visited the place my- ;
self, and raw tho men that filled it up after they f
had opened it, and they said it was oertainly opou- tt
ed and the dead body exposed. " i
Can a people that robs the grave "of its deaf i
eW P" S'D.C0. tUJ h? contended
such mean and theivmg acts I feclconfident of our
bui-u iuhu iuu luciviDg acts s teciconuaeni oi our t
I success, for a jost God (and lie is just we know) (
' Will Kilf .mil. M aMt tltaw im " '
will never smile on each demons as they are'
Death of Maj. Gekeral Earl VaiDoem. (
The telegrsph brings the newa of Vsn Dora's'
death lu iied h u anjrsU)od, the yicUa of a r
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man, whose conjugal happiness he had mined,
is said oot to have been his firsi similar off
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Uia fate will excite oo -ytnpetby, while a cans
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