Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-09-01


Yankee solder the night before the fight at
Manassas, said letter having bsan found in HE
haversack, which be ran of and left upon the
fyld.l
"CENTEBvILLE, July 2Olh.
"DEER FRIEND L is with pleasure that 1
seat myself 90 wright few lines 10 let you
know that l am we'll and hope that thease lew
lines viii lnd you the same / chsced a rebel
and took nis rifel from 1lm and the Tfei was
worth a bout forty dollars wo 5oHt make eaey
thing Of going OUT and taking OK OF q pig and
If we want TO WTide we take a horse we don't
know but wha. we shGl! be cauiei into batlei
a moment warning and am Ie3rV foCT them
trs Goat cal5sriaic TO S50w azy 4 gsr5 to iis
Sons OF bicljs | want You to give my love TO
all the folks and tel hem 10 wright a s soon as
they can cur ordley Sargent was Shot through
the foot and he'd to have his toes taken of
want you to tel meria to wright for I haven't
heard from her l want you to wight to
''from your friend
'STILMAE WRINK."
"WIight Soon"
Poor, vindic,i7e, low-Aaug dsyill His stolen
"rifei f" did not serve to keep on the rebels in
the battel next day, and all the "favers,' p
as well as all the +" hOnoTs " and all the trump
cards, happened to be Oh the other side I
Shouldn't be surprised If be very much wanted
a horse to wIideo the next evening -" about" 5"
the time Of the great Bull Run Races. And
what vii his " meTia . say the next time she
wrights > to her heroic "ox-and-pig'' .
stsalsT?
As you have heard, thousands Of indecent
letters were found Oh the battle field written
by Yankee men and Yankee womeR to their
friends who had gone a-soldisriag down to
Virginia. One young lady ia Massachusetts
wrJ 60 her brother to bring her JEFF. Davis
head, OF a least a piece Of his sealpl An
other wrote to her sweetheart, to whom she
was engaged to be married, in these words:
"DEAE BILL: I want you to come back
home as quick as ever you can get of, and We
will get married the very first night after you
arrive / wish you was at home BOW, and Ihad
enc arm round your meek and you had both
yours round mine, what a glorious squeeze
we'd bsvel'
Alas! poor Bill viii return 10 more to his
arden, lady love. With two thousand others
Of hia delu4ed comrades, he sleeps quietly be-
meath tie sod Of Manassas. 3 defender Of
the sacred soil Of the Sauth-a L0uislsnt Ii
geT-clove him from cTowa to chin with a
bowie knife
l have in reduced Ibis subject Of Yankee
letters merely to show the 1nimgs which per-
vsdas the northern nations aai to illustrate the
boas,cd 'fseperioriiy' Of the descendants Of the
Puritaas over the defendants Of the CavalIsIsl
Whatever may be said Of the leaders OF the
Hessians, the great bulk Of their arm es is the
veriest rilT-TaE that ever diszraced humanity.
4 letter euveiop was fouad, embellished
with a vignstte Of an ass in a lions skin-.hs
southern dsg streaming from the ass's tail
and beneath were the following lines printed
in blue ink:
'vhsu southern fools de7ute on ass,
In lions akin. 10 bray their cause.
ard faaCv that the world, eu Hlsec,
VII give Tie l0lg-eared beast applause,
Nly, all must szy thar such a master
VIII 20 them rr0ve Sod di=-sss-ter, -
Net such "disastsr," however, as BULBS
Run turned out 10 be, where the authors OF the
above poetry fought lie asses and coEards
and s'ran like scared wolves"
am indebted to General Anthony Foster,
Of Pamela county, Miss, who bore an honora-
be part in both the Manassas battles, for a
copy Of the following Yankee letter, picked
up on TIE battle field OF tie 2lst. It is the best
witten Of ali the Hassian letters / have yet
seen, and may be truthfulIy csptiOnized-
LETrER FROM JOHN QUIEcY ADA9ls-
"SAco CNANE) July II b, 1861.
"DEAR jim Yours bearing date July %,
has lust reached me, through some unsCc0uut-
able detention was seusjbiy rsii we'd when
it came, as I had allowed myself to i'm
-. -
vour silence. have scanned the papers daily,
Isone copies Of which I'il sen! you) and nave
kept well posted up as 20 ths whereabouts f
vapr Reg. as well as al others from Ne. the
On leaves Portland TO-DAY. They are STYLED
aNobismsn,0 . quiet, deteTminel fellows 10 a
man. no dtsoTderl7 conduct has occurred
during Their stay in Portland and their Guard
d4tv has been very light, merely formsity.
30 men doing the requirements while 100 could
not keep those devils Of the 5th within du
bounds. I have seen rgmor that detach
ment from 3 OF Of our regiments numbering
about 1900 bad taken possession Of Fairfax
G. H aud have since seen it ContTadicted. /
. esume ere this reaches YOU however you
will have achieved a victory over those DeViie
there and perhaps Failed them out at Manas-
sas june. Didn't they?-orer The ieft.-
J.P.P.
CHOW far is Manassas from Your encamp-
r5sut at Falls Church Not very far / pre-
sumo. You'll doubtless have some fun there.
CYes. 0fun alive'' had they there. They an
ficinsted the "FaiI races'' there aud made the
hest tine. backward, on record j. P. P L
aeems g though so many as are reported 10 be
at Manassas would not eUgcUGis sic but wall
TO be cleaned out, which I'm perfectly confident
You Bows can do at your leisure. III Com
neDt is aamb, after what actually happened at
fbe great Manassas "CleaniHg 0ut."-J. 2. p.
And I'm anxious the hour you are aii wishing
for should come, giving you q chance to do
yourselves credit. Ne. men are well spoken
Of geBersllv-snd before all others jim Fm
extremely anxious that the rePresen atlves OF
Dear OH PenObscOg dear alike 70 you and me,
should distinguish themselves, & Eve 10 fears
f0r The result
Notwithstanding your EnfatteTing descTip
tion Of your officers / know the temperature
Tsicl Of the men SO we'll They'll fight whether
well led or not ie an opportunity OHeTs. VAN
"calcular ion y The Presiden-'5 Message is
very favorsbly re-reczived. Il difflses al easy
ccaidentiaI air which has q tendency 10 i'm
prove rather than retard business matters and
confidence in Gen Scott Is uEbouHded. 'Ii5
Tumored ne is to take command Of your eTpe-
ditiou in person, that he has crossed the Poto-
mac for that purpose, and gil lead you victo-
riousIv through Manassas on TO 2 brilliant
victory at Richmond. Alas Man proposes,
bat God dispOses ii. P. P God speed him!
sTEsula be GLORY enough fOr mortality to fight
undar tie Old veteran long enough 20 clean the
traitor, JEFF, cut Of bis stF0nghold-I hope
you'll capture him, not allow him to escape a
traitors doom By flight. Vain hope Twas
ag7rr Triends that fed before "the traitor,
Jf"-J P P
wish ] could send you a good dinner,
lin e seems the worst part Of the campaign
- 4. tes,abls fodder. RIt perhaps they do
ne ,sst the- cen. Tie commisssriat is q big
,-srhfre TO manage and some bidnders must
arcrr However 'tEiii s"nn be oyer, ! look
for you home bv Thanksgiving and nil be home
with You If nothing splits, Just so and wen
have . Thanksgiving as is one.
IeDtss big National circus plays here today
Tbs ssft85osiug pagean." bas just passed ny
yrin4ow. IL they don't have slim attendance
,t,riIi be very strange. / hardly know OF ten
men in town with money enough IN Lheif
rockets to pay admission"
Your Brother
J. QUINcT ADAMS.
Mr.. John Qlincy Adams, Of fdear old Pea
obscot.o - has doubtless got a new wrinkle
since he wrote the above. Some few Of the
Maine people at Manassas, 1 believe, fought
nrsttv well at the first, but all Of them ran as
ssstsnd a. s.irssn as any Of the last. Masked
b,asries.,, ,, which scarcely had an existence
=, fbs 6eld that day, were to them, as to the
in fha nrht. and