New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-08-02
NUMBER 1913.

length had sufficient force to make stand. On
the 5th OF July the enemy appeared, NUMBERING I
twenty-five hundred men, under command OF Coi. |
Siegel. We routed them, drove them fourteen
miles and from every position they took, and the
last we heard of them they were still running. |
Laughter and cbeers.l 1t was done exclusively |
by Missouri troops.
Another battle we had day or two afterwards A
and think it is the greatest eight of the war, al
though upon a small scale. Col. Cook had raised |
regiment of eight hundred men, mostly Dutch
These he guartered in two large barns. Two of |
my Captains, Hall and Stone, with their COM
papies, consisting Of 1870 men, went to these barns
before daylight and slaughtered the enemy like
hogs, killing z30 Of them putting the rest to flight
and getting every gun the scamps had FCheers.l
There has been little skirrnishing on the
north side of the Missouri river, of which, how
ever, can give no account having seen nothing
but teegraphic reports from that region. The day
after the 5th Of July battle, was met by the gal
liant McCulloch-Ben McCalloch-you all know
him. [Cheers.l That gallant soldier had marched
for two days and nights He knew the enemy
was after me. He was fifteen hours too late, but
it was not his fault. | have been mortified, my
fellow citizens Of Virginia, to see it published in
your papers that that gallant officer and myself
had a difficulty after the battle.
| NY friends, if l. had the power, and desired to
| make man who should stand sthe representa-.
| tive of manhood, and combine within himself all
| that is excellent in human character, know not
| the model would sooner take than the gallant
| noble brave McCulloch. [Gheers.1 With eight
! thousand men he came to assistance. with
| troops from Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana. One
regiment from this latter State was the first and
| best ever saw. They came all the way On loot
they came to fight, and not to retreat In addition
to this force, he brought to my aid his high military
genius his Tesistless energy and brave and fear
less heart. ICheers Gen. Polk has ordered to
my assistance thirteen thousand men, and they
are on their way to the battle field. lCheers.1
shall return as soon as the cars can take me to
the State of Missouri shall go to the field, and
there shall remain until the invader is driven
from C0nuuhred. ttilRerS,
do not expect the latter to take place. Such men
as we have can never be conquered, tcheers,l be-
cause they are fighting for that which is deare'
than life itself-their rights. [Cheers.] I have
left behind me wife, children, home, everything
that is dear to man. Ny men are in the same con
dition. We would be worse than towards if W,
gave up the contest with anything less than lite
, In the great battle lately fought-the battle 0
Davis, Beauregard and Johnston-our men exhi
| bed foretaste of what Lncoln's menials ma,
| expect in every contest that is to follow. ANY sc
f of raw troops who can, with nothing but bowie
/ knives charge upon the bayonets of regulars, q
our men did in the late battle, can never b
whipped. There is no instance upon record wher
! raw recruits were known to make such bold dal
ing, sashing charges right up to the mouths of car
l. non, manned by veterans, and take them, as di
our men on that occasion. Nor was an army wit
Of such equipments and appointments, as the enem
possessed ever before known to leave all their mt
y nitions in the hands of force numerically inf'
rior as ours. Let every man in the southei
States be Of good cheer . .
With all the divisions of my people and all tt
- difficulties and embarrassments that have bee
y, thrown around me by the combined efforts
% traitors and foes, have never for one nome
doubted what is to be the final result [Applause
All we have to do, my friends OF the Southe
r States, is to rise at once and overpower the e
a. envy. Their troops have been ninety days troop
IL IL their time is about expiring. You may take n
word for it, very few OF those men who have test
the strength of Southern steel will be anxious
reenlist tCheers.l Then say, before they rec
in ganize their shattered army, let US strike, al
n strike home. [Cheers.l .
of claim to have superior military capacit
er hut to my mind the quick and decisive blow is 4
u one we should make in Virginia and Missouri, al
ee drive the invader from our SOIL. l advise eve
man in the Southern States, that can raise an a.
in defence of his home and rights, to 60 to
oF gina or Missouri. What is life to me or to t
ed twenty-iv thousand soldiers left behind m
~ Everything that makes life at all valuable cea
~ to exist unless we be with those near and II
, a to u.s. unless we are able to maintain our rigt
l" yindicate our honor, and establish our indep
.r dence. live me liberty or give me death.
s' my motto in this contest. Prolonged applause