Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-07-31
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AaeaeN Y t"N ~ DN4tf ~ - htAl
for The Capture Of Washiagton-Tisi to the Prison
Depot-Waat the Captured Hcssians say-A RUM
Congressman CoRriains Of hard Treatasnt-Th
Gaze Of &c Graz and HarriS-Tae President Refuse
to Release ncm-Haadelgs AmOHg the Spoils Take,
at Naad5sGs-TEe CONFIRMATION Of M. Hunter a
S~ecrsfary Of State, ETC., etc.
RIcHMoND, July q, 1861.
It is well for US, perhaps, that we have haC
two or three dull days, for had the intense ex.
citement Of the caller part Of the week been
kept up by The news of further operations in tht
field, brain fevers might have prevailed to ar
alarming extent. As it is, an opportunity hai
been afforded to the public mind to calm dowr
into a healthy condition. Meanwhile the
journalists have been cleaning frem every pcs.
sible source all the details Of the great battle
and an inmense mass Of facts has been pub.
lished, from which it will be The duty Of The
historian to write out an Ineligible narrative
Of events of the day. The official account
would be read BY thousands with the greatest
interest, but it has not yet been presented &c
the world, and, for reasons satisfactory to the
Var Department at least, may not be for some
tue to come. There are very few men in any
general engagement who can give more than 3
partial statement of facts connected with it.
They can tell what happened Immediately
around them, but with respect TO the larger
and momentous incidents, on which depended
the awful issue ofvictory or defeat, with its in
f1encs on the destinies Of nations, they ear
really say nothing thsreupon. As for the prl-
vste soldier who is wounded in the fray, be
can impart little more about it than the Irish.
man could about the row at Donnybrook Fair
] WHO was "laid oui0 after knocking down his
father, and declared that "faith! be saw a
head conyanient, and be bit it." From The
many hundred survivors Of Manassas who are
nos in town, almost every f'inquiring minis
has learned some Interesting circumstance OF
vaIor, of magnaDimity, Of heroic performance
of duty, Of cheerful endurance, the mirthfuI
often mingling with and relieving the tragic
elements of the story.
The Wing of this morning publishes a long
list Of the names of the wounded who have been
brought to Richmond, together WITH the num-
bers Of their regiments classified according tc
the States they represented) and the private
houses to which they have been sent. Not
more than one half Of the wounded sOutherners
will get to Richmond, for the good Samaritsns
along the lines Of the Orange and Alexandra
! and Virginia Central railroads are fockiDg
daily to the stations as the trains pass by, beg
| ging the privilege Of carrying to their homes
some one or more Of the brave defenders Of
Virginia. Here the competition for tue Offices
of kindness and attention is very strong, and
last night / saw at the outeImost car-shed oil
| the Central road, a full mile from The depot,
large numbers Of citizens, not members Of the
| committee, who were waiting with carriages
and litters the mere chance.of being able to
have a poor wounded soldier under their roof.
This is nothing to the credit of Richmond. 1t
is just az it should be, but it is just what the
hospi'abIe people OF Memphis or Mobile OF
New Orleans would 90, if a great battle had
been fopghs near BY and the victory had been
won at tie expense Of hundreds Of dreadful
wounds, in addition to heaps OF slain.
l. seems to have been almost impossible to
get any positive information concerning the
plans OF movements concerning Gen. Beaurs-
gard, since the battle. A gentleman Of the
most eminent position in our State, a high
officer in the judicial department Of cur Gov
eminent, who had two sons in the field last
Sunday, tells US that be was at Manassas two
days afterward that the sntrenchuents were
almost deserted: that he could not get further,
and thai all he could learn was that Be8Ure-
gard, with thirty regiments, had gone on. Later
than this we hear Of his main body in the re-
giou Of Fairfax Court House and Falls Church.
Expectation is rife that the aggressive policy
viii be assumed before any of US are many
hours older, and that our army will strike a
heavy blow at the dsmoralized Iegions OF Gen.
Scott before that Infatuated old man can or
ganize another immense corps d'arnee, of
course, upon a much grauder scale to make
the advance to Richmsnd more automatically
certain (if.tnere can be any degrees Of matbe-
NAUTICAL certainty than before.
Several thousand men have gone eff to Join
the command on the Potomac within two or
three days, and if it be any part of oar plan
to take washington at all, now would seem
to be the time to do it. At the least, every
one will agree that the last federal soldier
ought 10 be driven from the soil of Virginia
When we have Arlington nights, there will
probably be a removal OF the U. S. govern
ment (the archives have been removed long
since) to some safer and less menaced local
ity. Why not to Springfield?
Your correspondent is wholly ignorant of
the science Of war, its theory or practice,
and would therefore hesitate to give an opin-
ion as to SO important a step as the move
msnt upon Washington, yet be cannot help
thinking that when the federal capital and
Bal imore, and even Philadelphia and New
York, are threatened by our arms, we shall
at once cease to hear Of projected descents
upon Memphis and Charleston, and perhaps
even receive propositions for peace from the
bumiliated foe.
went yesterday into one Of the Lf'; airy
prisons, where some $50 of those taken at
Manassas are kept in confinement, and held
quite a free and easy conversation with sever
al OF the number. Every variety of tone from
that Of i~nsolent defiance to that Of penitent
sorrow, was manifested by the prisoners.
Every class Of life was represented among
them except that Of the pseudo money a%ristoc-
racy OF the large cities. saw a fine looking
boy Of sixteen, well-grown, high spirited, from
Massachusetts, be came, he said, TO defend the
capital and had no idea of coming into Vir-
ginia. Another young fellow told us they bad
not expected 10 encounter any serious resist
ance, because they were sure the strong Union
party of the State would rise up everywhere
to join them as they advancsdi Bsauregard
would certainly fail back, they thought, be-
fore such a powerful army as that Of Nc
Dowelps. Several declared that if they could
ever get home, safe and sound, they would see
lincoln dee deed before they would ever fight
sgsinstthe South again. Parts of three or four
different regiments asserted thatthey were fore
ed into the fight, fer their terms OF enlistment
had expired on the 18th OF July, and they would
have gone back North, only the officers would
not let them Of. Upon one point they were
unanimous. The column Of Mcdowell bad no