The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-03-29

Culloch's case decidedly appropriate.
HOW MINrosH DIED.
1t Is reported that Mcintosh WAS struck near
the right hip with grapeshot, while giving al
order to one Of his aids, and hurled from BIZ
horse. The wound was CHASTITY one, and tho
It must have been very painful, Mcintosh utter
ed no groan, but calmyly gave directions for hi
treatment. A few minutes after he fell into
comatose state, from which he never recovered
passing through Deaths dark portal while hi
attendants supposed he siil lay beside the colder
gates Of Sleep
REBEL HATRED OF sIaRL.
The Secessionists, so far as / can learn from
the prisoners here, are very bitter against Sigel
on account OF his nativity no less than Of his
ability. They attribute their defeat mainly te
him, and say they would not have cared if they
had been repulsed by an American, but to bs
overcome by "d--d Dutchman" is more thar
they can endure with patience.
sxrRAcTs rRoM CONFEDERATE LETTERS.
A number Of rebel letters have been found
upon the battlefield and in the deserted camps
of the enemy, and as they show tho feelings
aud the confidence of the Confederates, will
make brief extracts from two Of them, written
evidently by officers of intelligence. The two
epistles must have been completed before the
dressed, were dropped in the confusion of pre-.
cipitate retreat. In
The first letter is from nfexas captain to his
wife, and reads thus:
"NEw FAYETTEVILLE, Ark, March 8, 1862.
"rhank God, dear Mary, we've got the YAM
KEGS in a trap at last. They cannot escape us
now. We have more than twice as many men
as they, and we have plan to cut them off,
snd annihilate them. Before week has past,
you will hear of terrible defeat Of the Lin
colnites, such an one as will Offset to some ex-
tent our mortifying surrender at Done!son. We
are certain of success, and l hope will be able
to bring FIVE or six Yankee prisoners to Calves
ton next summer.
"The northern men will not fight when they
can avoid it, but we intend to make them this
time, or cut their throats.
'sThe coming battle will free Arkansas and
Missouri from the invaders, and we will then
march on to st. Louis, and take that Abolition
city, and give the oppressed Southerners there
an opportunity to be free once more We hear
that We would be welcomed in st. Louis BY at
least 10000 people who have long suffered from
the tyranny of the mercenary Dutch.s
The second letter from Louisiana Major to
his sister, resident of New Orleans, and bear.
ing date, Little Rock, February 27," is quite
different in tone, as will be seen from this quo.
tation
DEAR SISTER CARRIE: You asked me in your
last letter what thought of the prospect of our
dearly beloved cause. To be candid, l have lit
tie hope for its success now, though last Decem.
Der felt confident we would be recognized be-
fore the coming.June. Idon't like the Yankees
a bit. have been educated to hate them, and
do hate them heartily; but must acknowledge
the South has been sadly mistaken in their
character. We have always believed that the
Yankees would not fight for anything like prin-
ciple; that they had no chivalry, no poetry in
their nature. Perhaps they have not; but that
they are brave, determined, perseyering, they
have proved beyond question.
The trouble with them is that they never get
tired of anything. They lost all the battles at
first, and after Manassas we despsed them. This
year has inaugnrated new order of affairs
We are beaton at all points. We do nothing
but surrender and evacuate; and while hate
the Lincolnites more than ever, respect them
Il can't help it-for their dogged obstnacy and
the slow but steady manner in which they carry
out their plans.
1 have lost heart in our cause There is some
thing wrong-some JEFF. Davis and
our political leaders are either knaves or fools
They drew US into our present difficulties, and
now have no way of showing US out of them.
If the South had known what would have been
the result of Secession, no State, unless South
Carolina, would have gone out of the Union
We all thought we could go out in peace; l
know did, and laughed at the idea of the North
attempting to keep us in the Union by force of
arms. 1t was not possible, we said. We had
too many friends in the Free States. Such a
step would be followed by a revolution in the
North, and the turning of old Lincoln and all
the Abolitionists out of Office.
Oh, well, it cant be helped, Carrie. We are
in for it. 1t is too late to ratreat. We must
fight the thing out. cannot help
believing we will be overpowered We are grow
ing weaker every day. and the North stronger.
fear to look at our future. We can't be subju-
gated, we all say. hope not but if we do not
fly the county, fear We will experience some.
thing like subjugation.
May be I'm gloomy to-day; reckon am.-
Who wouldn't be? l intend to fight as hard as
can, but can't see any way out.
Tear up this letter. Don't let mother or father
or any of our relatives see it. I have expressed
my heart to you because you are my dear sister
and always tell you what believe.
have selected freely from the above letter
because it seems to me to be the most sensible
and truthful one have seen during all the time
have been in the army. No doubt there are
hundreds of SOutherners who feel, think, and
believe as the Louisiana Major does, but who
have either too much pride to speak out, or toe
little moral courage to be candid They must
see they have placed themselves in a position
from which they cannot retire and from which
they have not the power to extricate themselves
SATURDAYS DECISIVE ACTION.
The mastery arrangement of our six bat
teries on the last day of the fight, and the ord
ering forward of all the infantry so as to beal
upon the enemy at short range with thei
death dealing musketry, was the movemen
which gave us our triumph. Rebels could no
avoid the dreadful cross-fres of the artillery
and the continuous volleys Of musketry.
Their officers besought them to stand firm
to remember the sacredness of their cause, an,
the deadly wrongs Of the South; to recall tn,
valorous deeds of their ancestors on other fields
the honor of Secessia, the reputation of Slave
ownia for valor and chivalry, and great man,
other things that would have required the al,
of a system of Mnemonics. But the dull fel
lows would not remember; or, if they did, the
received no beneftfrom the recollection beyon,
certain excellent performances on foot and il
that sort of exercise they actively and prompt
ly indulged.
Running is generally advantageous +
hygine and there is little question it proved 8
on Saturday to the fugacious Southerners. =
They would have found that remaining muc
longer behind must have seriously disagree
with their physical well being.
STERLING PRICE RAvING MAD.
Sterling Price is said to have blaspbeme
and raved like drunken sailor and madma
after his retreat from the field on Saturday
swearing that his troops and those from Al
kansas were all towards to allow themselve
to be driven off like kicked ours by one e-ha
their number. He became so personally offer
sive in his remarks that some of his officer
threatened to resign and others to shoot hin
| whereupon he altered his tone, and asked to
pardcned for hastiness of speech and loss {
temper, resulting from modification over s
| terrible q defeat.
For several months past, Price has been ex
| cessively irritable and abusive, and as he ha
recently augmented his potations in geom,
trical ratio, many of his own men believe hi
insane, and think him filter candidate for II
lunatic asylum than promotion in the army
He appears to have grown extremely moro'
and violent of speech, and every new repul.
increases his frailty. He denouncesseyer
body and everything; is as inaam ~ q
gunpowder ON the Yankees, and sometimes il
dulges in the amiable wish that the enti
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