The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-02-03

And hurls his fierce and 6ery lance
On that Doomed city's forehead bare. p.
Ttse sunset . lid and wandering hair
q streams edward like 4 comets name,
sAssd from tho deep and sailen glare.
T. i No shudderl ns columns crouch IN VAIN,
.Aed tnpeash the wrecs Of w'athful years
Hhe srIm hy una stalks and sDesrs.
40 's@17 LII iAH TAe Yea, Round.
Sad Story.
The Il Glowing 1Iief and melancholy story
illustrating the sweeping mortality tina
sometimes marks the soldiers history, is, WI
are assured upoE undoubted authority
strictly true. 1t is one Of those narratives
which can BE- brought TO the absolute test o
truth. There are enough OF living and reia
BILE witnesses in the good cid county of Buck
ingham TO settle the question of the truth OIL
fiction 81 the story Of the fate Of the Bucking.
ham Regiment; and by their testimony it:
maies point is fully sustained. The reader OF
the. day, VINO was born in the midst of peace
and hiss i,een reared ia its sunshine and hap
piness, viii seein this story vivid picture OF
sorae If the horrors Of War. Of which he had
but faint conception; horrors which canno,
Be exaggerated by. The Imagination, and which
are - er reminding us OF the adage that
"Truth Is stranger than Fiction -
From the koatacrn Literary Messenger OF 1858 ]
THE LAST OF THE BUCKINGHAM REGIMENT.
The bahe Of history is its tendency toward
coisr Less generalization; It's neglect Oh, or
c,dsr,.St, ,vh,c,s .,u,r.n ".,nrn $500 tr,h
warm, breathing, and with throbbing pulses -
The historians lose sight OF the hero in the
crOwd-the true material in the mass of I'm.
p;vs IN, A. snaasi,e s;,hsr %;sa,oar. ~, -.
background or is thrown aside altogether.
Dynn.ae.s u,e u.nieui.y VI alfIs.uR at 'uese
I'D ,hns ,a,ati, !. ,,,a nn,w ~ 1879
In r.-.,rra 10 ha, ,hav learn xrhs;har I'm ~.
,l;ti,s,, ~ "tn.r ',r,v,1s s,,rces whan ,n.
houfin and the man arrive tho material will
Ihas, Ia awa,4ing ,ha iny.st,o. .nr a,,T COM
nos..r Ji,,v., ~ ,,n;,nrnr,.n, -. n 49,, ,r;iI
fh.se hrisf inciaanis nav .n,,a.r h,.warar
h.n.. IN The m ,,ch "a ,ksa':f ,ri'i, ~ h;",r
1hev esrno, ha cons idared nv ,ns ,r -. 10,
tivaIorl - Tho "a inca. NJ avanys m ,vnr,hv of
tha m,,ica ct hs rr.,es,. go, 49, .,, 80 y,
eves1s nus uiav.S rhsir r.r,s "a avs,vn
de1niI "a an addi.ionaI crinr IN the grasr nc.
tnrs, e0' 49, '-e e'e"' p''
What am shopt 70 ,a,a "a IL o,,v. hr,.fi,
cidsnt touchinc the = T.ast Warrvf 1915 IN,
II H. sarve NO o,hsr n,r,.o-s If will .hund,o1
Iv shuw the ;nstica If inc fnw vnrds ha 20 49,
npon the dei,ciencv .f our friends ths hat
riayiS Ilns M Trhs must alevant ri ,h.so IN
his uccount OF the doincs Of the infamous
the T;rrinaos ne e o.
lish i,set WAS COLLECTED in The Raw near ne
Can.x ard h, Ivnhnyen ha rh,r X Y u *
To- NEE .Iiu, emergency. mrae bodies If militia
nom lhe nnl,rr cnnniiss had a,..n ~ ora.r.n
down 10 the s.ahoard Unv,sd IN RE ,aa,n,,n
NJ ~. u o% "",s 70 nc maa,.a
6yars mn ri .;rL in u~o,b,ys nen~ ~ N.
d;eS /. :. nsnr Va,f,L mJ r.. 81 ~. y ~, ~,
anpa,n~ taes" VIA IL here esnerai y.s Hn
1he ii annie fact stnt.d-mv hr,ef relation viii
illustrais. The authorize ia a ladv of War
wick county ana shall nrssamr Tho snnr,
stofv Almost in her Own rnrds T, MAS as
follows:
~ N* reco,lact once hearing a. old lady
relate IN incinrnt which nic,nr..i u, NV w;uS
the horrors OF war more forcibly than ali the
Old COUNTY of New Kent wing ;nsi below
Richmund and nor fa her Was ihS k.srsr a,
thai time Of An Ordinary unon the main rn,ad
running Fast aud West NorfoIk Vac hasiao
ed hv = Rriiish iee, under tho man whn &C.,
wassis ,s.rm,Itr his hr,,ai soldiers ~ ina;c,
snch ,Snntnn ,,utrav.s imam The fiaf.noaIass
worasn and children of the seaboard~the IN |
famous Ad,niral (yockbnrn--and ynlun ,eers
frofn dffYerent nortions Of virginia wers f,oct
inr 10 C,ranev Island W here 1he Ia ,r,a.u
t4rwards fouaht and the enemy defea,ei Tho
halted n her father,s tavern on tha,r ,rav ~
the eenhoard. aud ono mnr,inr hyynS
numh.erino from ono hundrad Cd ar ="
two hundred of the finest looking man shs
hnd ever ssan thns s,onrod to fooG onG NV. |
ter THAR horsas- for The dsv,s ;onrao
They said thev ware from RnchinnH.r,
county ON their xsav tn t,ranev TsInud on,i
boasted of their health and strength. They
had .hexrd ihev sa,d .hat the f~w Cnnn
trv had heen called Graveyard hnt thay |
defIe0 IL or anv other climate ~ lavaI such
men a Them ives-fhev were proof aooirs, |
,nv snch infInencas avd h.d NO faar oi,h
ar Of the Rri1ish or the chiIis and favers
Havf6r made these h,ast. win lomd ianchtar
and Nirh spfrits they mon ted their freshemed
HORSES. and sci forward again with ardor uDon
their inurnev TO the sea.coast hurniny ~ meet
the espfnv ana cor fident of their nowsr IN rs
list 1yery hostiie influence whether in the
shape Of cannon balls or aeue The old lady
head no more OF them for several weeks. and
he Incident Of their stonning had almnst
passed from her recol,ec lion when IA she sal
one dav al her Tn theirs door man nnon nurse
sins frpn the ..irectian ut WiiiismshnrS A.
he ssms naarvr .he W. "a strnek nv his tsa.,e aud
pmaciated an,,.a RI nrs - ana indeed ~ SEQ rcsiv
.aa - - ~ ~. .'ueeu Mt sca1cely
b. Would nj any moment fali :" ,he ~ronndN
Vines hs came epposi,e, he checked his horse.
.na anen' ~, win a'mc".sy. dragged himself
'iowiy 10 me door OF ahe tavern. Here paus-
mich ran around the porch. he seemed ahoms