Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-08-10
ADDRESS
Of Gems Johnston and Beauregard to the army
after the battle Of Mand&sd.

Of Gems. Johnston and Beauregdrd to the army
after the battle Of ManaSsd.
The following eloquent address of our Generals to
the army under their command will excite the pa
triotic emotions of every Southern reader:
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE PoToMAc,
Manassa, July %, 1861.
Soldiers Of the Confederate States:
One week ago countless host of men organized
{ into an army, with all the appointments which
modern art and practced skill could devise invaded
the soil of Virginia. Their people sounded their ap-
proach with triumphant displays of anticipated VIC
tory. Their Generals in almost royal state;
their great Ministers Senators and women, came to
witness the immolation of army, and the subju-
CATION of our people, and to celebrate the result
with wild revelry.
1t is with the profoundest emotions of gratitude
to an over-rung 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 country, to thank you for that
patriotic courage that heroic galantry, that devoted
daring exhibited 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 21st were but the
sustained and continued effort of your patriotism
against the constantly recurring columns of an ene
my, fully treble your numbers; and their efforts
crowned on the evening of the 2lst with vic
tory complete that the invaders driven disgrace
fully from the field, and made to fly in disorderly
rout back to their entertainments a distance of
over thirty miles.
They left upon the field nearly every piece of
their artillery, a large portion of their arms, equip
ments baggage, stores, &C., &C., and almost every
Of their wounded and dead, amounting, together
with the prisoners, to many thousands. And thus
the Northern hosts were driven from Virginia
Soldiers! we congratulate you on an event which
ensures the liberty of our country. We congratu-
late every man of you, whose glorious privilege it
to participate in this triumph Of courage and of
truth-to fight in the battle Of Manassa. You have
created epoch in the history of Liberty, and I'M
born nations will rise up and call you blessed"
Contiaue this noble devotion, lookng always to
the protection of just God. and before time grows
much older we will be hailed the deliverers of
nation Of ten millions of people.
Comrades! our brothers who have fallen have
earned undying renown upon earth, and their blood
shed in our holy cause is precious and acceptable
sacrifice to the Father of Truth and of Right.
Their graves are beside the tomb of Washington;
their spirits have joined with his in eternal COM
munion.
We will hold fast TO the soil in which the dust of
Washington is thus mingled with the dust of our
brothers. We will transmit this land free to our
children we will fall into the fresh graves Of our
brothers in arms. We drop tear on their laurcls
and move forward 10 avenge them.
Soldiers! we congratulate you on a glorious, tri-
umphant and complete victory, and we thank you
for doing your tohOlS duty in the service of your
country.
(Signed) j. E. JOHNSTON,
General c. S. A.
(Signed) G. T. BEAUREGARD,
General c. S. A.