Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-07-31

| OF washington city. They are very grateful for
the kind treatment they are receiving Rt our hands
| But the Fire Zouaves are Ineoreigible. They
seem perfectly obliVious to every sentiment
| OF honor, gratitude, or decency They have
nothing but the human form and faculty
OF speech to distinguish them from Go-lllas.
! No wonder the Astors and COopers of New York,
contributed so literally TO their equipment, and
urged them so earnestly to invade the South. They
knew their brown stone fronts, marble palaces and
plethorie warehouses rested on a foundation as IN
secure the passions of Ibis glorious fighting ma
terial," as Ellsworth termed them, which waited
but the spark of some favorable event to fan into
hsmes, hercer than those that lit up the streets of
Paris, and cast lurd light over the thousand hor>
rors OF French revolution. The New York Herald
stated few weeks ago thst there were three hun
dred thousand just such men in the North as those
! composing the Fire Zouave Regiments and insisted
that they should be organized into 'grand army
to invade the South and should, in the language of
the Botany Bay Poet,
Leave their country for their country's good"
The sentiment of humanity which finds no more
capaclOus dwelling than Southern heart, demands
these ZOuayes-debased degraded and uugrateful
as they are-should be taken care of in their pre-
sent condition but we would respectfully suggest
that no such sentiment requires that our men should
| De compelled to occupy the same apartment with
them or what Is tantamount to it. adjoining reoms
! through the open doors of which they can hesr
abuse heaped upon cause by the representatives
from BackwelPs Island, the Five Points, and other
draws Its deepest inspirations
TROPHIES OF TIE VICTORY.
! We have heard our trophies taken from the Var
KEGS at the battle of Manassas estimated at from
oOe and half to two millions of dollars in value
but as Mr. Secretary Cameron has not vet furnished
US with On invoice Of the cost of the cannon musk
cts, knapsacks, haversacks, cartridge boxes ammu-
milton, wagons, horses, bacon, coffee. sugar salt
rope and other articles, we cannot arrive az cor~
| rect estimate CT their worth. Let them send US
bill Of all. We doubt not they have sufficient as
suranee to send us bill of the same for payment;
but if they do we suppose Davis, Bsauregard John
son 4 Co. will settle the claim in Washington.
| We notice that large number of wagons, and
1000 horses have just been sent to their army in
| Northwestern Virginia. The Yankees must look
out, or we viii soon grab them also; @ word to the
/ wise is sufficient
| INTERESTING MENENrO.
We have before us the original commission of
Josiah Head, Captain of the Company of Infan-
try in the fifth Regiment, from the first Brigade and
third division of the Volunteer Militia of the State
of Maine raised in accordance with an act approved
April %, A. d. 1861, to rank from the 9th day of
April A. d. one thousand eight hundred sixty-One."
This document and button from the coat of the
afOre said officer may be seen at the office of the
| Enquirer" They were taken the battle field
near Manassas on Sunday evening last by W. w.
| Word, Of the Fineastle Rifles son of Mr. E. ~ Word
late Sergeant at Arms of the House of Delegates of
Virginia, and the youngest volunteer in the Regi-
wards Of sixteen years Of age.
THE HUMANITY OF THE YANKEES
In their precipitate fight from Manassas the
Yankees appeared to be ntently oblivious of their
poor wounded comrades who had battled by their
side, but left both their dead and their wounded to
the better care of our men-the rebel barbarians.
Nor so far we have been able to learn hss the
General Of the Yankee forces ever sent any one to
administer to the wants and suhsIiDgs of the wound
ed, or to make any preparations to bury their dead
What humanity Think of that ye mothers and
sisters Of the North when next you urge your
sons and brothers to march against US
Some Of the wounded prisoners now here express
many thanks for the attention which has been paid
them by own men at Manassas, and frankly con-
TESS that they little deserve it.
DID NOT WANT TO INVADE VIRGINIA
Some of the prisoners now here earnestly protest
that III entering the army they intended to in
wade the South and were DESTROYS only of defending
Washington but after getting to that city they were
compelled by their officers to march into Virginia
One man from Minnesota says he enlisted to fight
against the Indians and was afterwards brought
down here. The officers probably supposed there
was nation of aborigines in Virginia, in which if
he was disappointed he at least had the gratiica-
ton of finding men who could give him equally as
hard fight. The truth is, the Yankees beng una
BILE longer to indulge in their old tricks of cheating
the SOutherners, exercising their ingenuity and
keeping their hands in by fooling one another. On
such game we can look with the pleasure of spec
baNbIsg WIZ OCslFt u gee tu5 ~ DOLl
edges.
WHO TOOK sHERMAX's BATTERY?
The reader will doubtless become confused at
the conflicting statements respecting the capOrS of
the celebrated Sherman's battery the honor hav-
ing been claimed for each of dozen or more regi-
ments. We have published several accounts, no
two Of which agree to the particular parties who
accomplished the brilliant feat We incline to the
opinion that the claims of several regiments to the
grand achievement are well founded. The work
was accomplished by the cooperation of a number
of regiments and battaliOns. A work grand, so
stupendSus, could not possibly have been performe
except through the combined efforts of legions of
stout hearts and brave arms. The achievement
even through the combination Of all the regiments
named, is one which raises its authors "above all
Greek, above all Roman fame"
A PRIZE INDEED
A Manassas army correspondent of the Rich
mond Enquirer gives the following account of rare
scoundrel, who Is among the Federal prisoners
in Richmond
Among the thousand prisoners taken, yoa have
one now in Richmond, wh5 is q real prize Bis
name Is Fairbanks. and he is the Adiutant of the
Michigan Regiment. He halls from Detroit by trade
he is shoemaker, and by nature is Of the black
est hearted abotonists and haters of the South that
Is anywhere suffered 70 carry Gods breath aroun1
in wicked carcsss He is the same individual who
was so urgent to have the clergyman arrested in |
Alexandria for praying for the Confederate States,
thrown into the negro pen, and there confined until
he repented. He was equally anxious to have sew
eral Of the ladies of Alexandria hung an example
of the manner in which the abotionisss intended to
treat seCesSiOnists.
As you now have excellent opportunity of al !
lowing him to test the beauties of his theory, l |
would suggest that the fellow be kindly treated, as
long as he lives, on bread and water, and that twice
a day committee of ladies call upon him and, with !
rope, stretch bis neck until he is perfectly salts
fed with the honor conferred upon him. After
rAz g.,
cur, and shoot the dog.
Bon the Richmond Wing, July 81.
THE LOSS OF THE ENEMY,
In the fight at Manassas the enemy threw for
ward their very best material The flower of the
Regular army was there. We do not know precise
ly the number of this arm that was engaged But
we infer from circumstances, that the greater por-
ton of it, probably ten thousand. were there. II
Patterson did not have two Regiments, it is very
likely Ethe whole of it was on the ground We
know all their famous batteries were TAKEN and in
addition, the crack Rhode Island Battery. The Sd
Infantry was in the hottest of the fight, and from !
the wrecks the field of battle, it was almost an
initiated. This was the most distinguished Regi-
nent in the service. We conclude that these mer-
,ensres will never again be rallied to fight for des
lotism.
Besides these Regulars, the next mos. reliable
regiments were thrust into the lannon's mouth. |
The regiments from Maine and from Michigan, the
'ery best of their volunteer force, were swept from
he face of the earth.
The inference is, that what remains of the
IRANn ARMY consists mainly of Cobblers from Mas
achusetts and the ragtag and bobtail of Pennsyva-
andN auv Korb We baa hat Ian of |