Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1861-08-14


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Address to the Army from Gciierals
Johnston and Beauregard.
The following eloquent address Of our gen
erals to the army under their command will
excite the patriotic emotions Of every South,
ern reader:
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE PoToMAc.
MANASSAS, July 25, 1850.
Soldiers ofMe Confederate States:
One week ago countless host of men, or
ganized into an army, with all the appoint,
ments which modern art and practiced skill
could devise, invaded the soil of Virginia,
Their people sounded their approach with
triumphant displays of anticipated victory.
Their generals came in almost royal state
their great ministers, senators and women,
came to witness the immolation Of our army,
and the snbjugation Of our people, and to eel
citrate the result with wild revelry.
1t is with the profoundest emotions Of graf
itude to an over.ruling God, whose hand is
manifest in protecting our homes and our
liberties, that we, your generals commanding,
are enabled, in the name Of our whole conn
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, BY which the hosts of the enemy were
scattered, and signal and glorious victory
obtained.
The two affairs of the 18th and 2lst were
but the sustained and continued efforts of
your patriotism against the constantly recur-
ring columns of an enemy fully treble your
numbers and their efforts were crowned on
the evening of the 2lst with victory so COM
pletc that the invaders are driven disgrace
fully from the field, and made to fly in disor-
derly reuts back to their entertainments, a
distance Of over thirty miles.
They left upon the field nearly every piece
Of their artillery, large portion of their arms,
equipments, baggage, stores. &C., &c, and al
most every one Of their wounded and dead,
amounting, together with the prisoners, tc
many thousands. And thus the Northern
hosts were driven from Virginia.
Soldiers We congratulate YOU on an event
which insures the liberty Of our country.
We congratulate every man Of you, whose
glorious privilege it was to participate in til
triumph Of courage and of truth-to fight in
the battle OF Manassas. You have created an
epoch in the history of liberty, and unborn
nations will rise up and call you "blessed."
Continue this noble devotion, looking al
ways to the protection Of a just God, and be-
fore time grows much older, We will bc hailed
as the deliycrers Of nation Of ten millions Of
people.
Comrades our brothers who have fallen
have earned undying rcnov'n upon earth, and
their blood shed in Our holy cause is pre-.
cious ard acceptable sacrifice to the Father OF
Truth and of Right.
Their graves are beside the tomb "l WASH
ington; their spirits have joined with his in
eternal communion.
We will hold fast to the soil in which tic
dust of Washington is thus minged with the
dust of our brothers. We will transmit this
land free to our children, or we will lal into
the fresh graves Of our brothers.ia-arms We
drop one tear on their laurcls, aud move ior-
ward to avenge them.
Soldiers! we congratulate you on glorl'
Gus, triumphant and complete victory, and we
thank you for doing your rdo7e duty in the
service Of your country.
j. f. JOHNSTON,
General c. S. \.
G. 7. BEAuREGARD.
General c. S. a.