The Des Arc weekly citizen., 1861-08-14
Address of Generals Beauregard and
 Johnston to the Soldiers.

The New Orleans Picayune has received the following despatch from Virginia
 CULPEPPER, August 3.--I have great pleas ure in transmitting, for the readers Of the Pic ayune, the following address of Generals John ston and Beauregard, after the battle of Ma nassas, to the soldiers:
 HEAD QUARTERS OF THE ARMY OF POTOMAC. !
 MANASSAS JUNCTION, July g, 1761. Soldiers of the Confederate States:
 One week ago. countless host of men, or ganized into an army, with all the appoint rnents which modern art and practical skill could devise, invaded the soil of Virginia
 Their people sounded their approach with triumph ant displays of anticipated victory Their ministers, senators and women came to witness the immolation of this army and the subiugation of our people, and to celebrate these with wild revelry.
 It is with the profoundest emotions of grat- itude to an overwhelming God, whose hand is manifest in protecting our homes and your liberties that we, your generals commanding, are enabled. in the name of our whole coun- try, to thank you. for that patriotic courage, that heroic gallantry, that devoted daring, ex- hibited by you in the actions of the 18th and 2lst of this month, by which the host of tue enemy was scattered, and sl9uai and Slorl- ous victory was achieved.
 The two affairs of the 18th and 21st were but the sustained and continued efforts of your patriotism against the constantly recurring coors of an enemy fully treble onr numbers, and this effort was crowned, on the evening of the 2Iss, with victory so complete that the invaders were driven from the field and made to fly in disorderly rout back to their entrenchments. a distance of over thirty miles.
 They left upon the field nearly every piece of their artillery, a large portion of their arms, euuipments baggage, stores, etc. etc., and al- most every one of their wounded and dead, amounting, together with the prisoners, to many thousands and thus the northern hosts were driven by you from Virginia.
 Soldiers! we congratulate you an event which insnres the liberty of our country. We congratulate every man of you whose glo- rious privilege it was to participate in this triumph of courage and truth, to fight in the battle of Manassas. You have created an epoch in the history of liberty, and unborn nations will rise mp and call you blessed. Continue this noble devotion, looking always to the protection of the just God, and before time grows much older, we will be hailed as the deliverers of nation of ten millions of peoplel
 Comrades! Our brothers who have fallen have earned undying renown, and their blood, shed in our holy cause, ispreclous and accep- table sacrifices to the father of truth and righ; their graves are beside the,tomb of Wilmington. on their spirits have joined his in eternal communion. We shall hold the soil in which the dust of Washington is mingled with the dust of our brothers. We drop one tear on their laurels and move forward to avenge them.
 Soldiers! We congratulate you on glori- ous triumph and complete victory. sWe thank you for doing your whole duty in the.service of your country. JOSEPH E JOHNSTON. G. T. BEAUREGARD.