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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1862-10-27
DEATHS,

In the Hospital, at Petersburg, Va, on the Sh Of
July last, after a short illness, Mr.. Calvin Sneed-a
member of Capt. Sturdivant's Company, from Arson
county, leaving 3 wife and infant child. He was .
member of the Methodist Church, a true patriot and
soldier and his friends are sustained with the pre-
clous consolation that he has gone to reap the re-
wards of the faithful in Heay8n.-CoM.
In the Hospital at Raleigh, on the Doth OF May last,
Mr.. TnOs. q. Sneed; q member of Capt. Boggan's
Company, from Arson county. He was the younl est
child Of his parents, who have lost three noble sons
children all meet in Heaven, where parting is no
more.-CoM.
on 18th Sept. 1862, of Diptherla, Martha A, daughter
of Isaac and Mary NJ. Travis, aged 16 years l month
and / day. The subject of this notice was loved and
esteemed by all who knew her, for her goodness, love
wish: handsome, with uncommon intellectual abili-
ties. As q christian she was humble, constant and
genuine. just before her death she exhorted her pa
rents and friends to prepare to meet her IN Heaven.
She has now opened a path upward to which her sor-
rowing parents ana friends must turn their anxious
eyes, and being dead she yet s~peaketh, calling them To
turn from the feeting joys of earth TO the unfading
treasures of Heaven.
The parents of this young lady have been sorely
afflicted within the last twelve months, having lost
nye grown children: Jas. S., from camp fever con-
tracted in the service OF his country, died the gin OF
Sept. 1861. The next was Mary E. the oldest daugh-
ter, having contracted her brothers disease, soon fol-
| lowe him. The next, ThOs. B., was wounded in the
battle OF ane taken prisoner, he linger-
ed = week and died at Fortress Monroe. The next
was Martha A, Of whom we have spoken. The last
was Adolphus NJ. Travis, who died Both of Sept. 1862,
OF dIptheria. Peace TO their ashes, and may God in
His mercy soothe and console the hearts Of those who
have besn so sadly bereaved. D..
AT amp Holmes, near Raleigh, on the 9th uIt.
Mrs. Annie c., wife OF Louis Foust. She had come
TO see her husband, a private in the camp, was taken
i'll, and WAS dead ia twenty-four hours after her arri-
~neighbor, and died in hope of q blissful immortality.
A FRIEND.
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North Carolina losses

1t is impossible even to approximate the
truth In estimating the losses of North Car
DINA, in killed, MANNED and broken down.
during the war. Enough is known to Eli the
State with mourning yet the courage and
gallantry of our brave men are upon every
ones lips, and have extorted praises from
those who have hitherto slandered and ridi-
culed us.
As yet we are still ignorant of the losses
OF many of our regiments in the battle OF
Sharpsburg. We gather the following gen
eral items of the losses in the 18th N. G.
Regiment in that battle, from the Wadesboro'
Argus, but we have seen no full particulars
FOURTEENTH n. C.. REGIMENT
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MoRGANToN, N. c., Oct. 18th, 1852.

EDITOR SPIRIT OF THE AeE: Looking over
the columns of your excellent paper, OF 10Th
Sept, | noticed a compliment to the patriot
ism of the family of William A. Graham
having five sons III the army. We are glad
to hear of the valor of the sons of the Old
North State, but there are several instances
in Old Burke county, of patriotism that elipse
that of the family of Mr.. Graham.
There is a widow Shutter, in INDECENT cir.
cumstances, living on Upper Greek, who had
seven sons, six of whom volunteered in the
service of the Confederacy, and the seventh
wanted to go, but was prevailed on by his
brothers to stay with their aged and in6rm
mother, but he is now gone as a conscript.
Also, Mrs. Elizabeth Lane, a widow, had sew
IN sons in the war until recently,-the
youngest Of them returned home on a dis
charge. Also the widow Tennessee, near
Morganton, has seven sons, six of whom are
in the war as Volunteers.
AS a full demonstration of their patriotism,
they all went as privates, not one of them
being in office. This speaks we'll for Burke,
while there are still other similar cases to be
found. ID. w. STACY.
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At Perryville battle on the 9Th inst, Gen.
Bishop Polk had a narrow escape. About
dark he left his staff and rode in front to stop
the firing, as he supposed, of a Confederate
Regiment o n our own troops. He rode up
to a Colonel and Selling him by the Shout
der asked, Why do you fire on your own
friends :" The officer replied that he did not
know they were. "Who are you !" said
Bishop P. "Colonel of the 23d Indiana"
was the reply. He immediately ordered him
to stop firing, in a rough manner, and before
the Yankee found out who he was, put spurs
: to his horse and got away.
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The FIGHT AT AUGUSTA, KY.-We see it
stated in the Kentucky papers, that when
Col. Duke entered Augusta, white flags were
hung out all over the town, and his men en-
tered with their guns slung and unsuspicious
of attack. Even women, waving handker-
chiefs, and children, were drawn up on the
streets to witness his apparently peaceful en-.
trance. Without warning, he was fired up-
on from windows and behind houses, which
accounts for the considerable loss among his
officers. In the fight which ensued one of
the gunboats was disabled by a shot from
one of his little howitzers, and the other boat
steamed out of harms way. Prentice's son
was shot after the Yankees had raised the
white flag. 1t thus happens that the bad
morals inculculated by the father have
brought their legitimate results to his own
hearthstone, After young Prentice and 9th
ers of our men were thus assassinated, a ter
rib.e vengeance was wreaked upon the perpe-
traitors of these outrages. One Mississippian
rushed into a house occupied by the FEEDER
ais, from the windows of which young Prem
tice and Morgan of Nashville were shot, and,
with his bayonet, dispatched five of the as
~sassins. The two squares occupied by them
were surrounded and burned. More than
three hundred Federals are known to have
DeriShed.
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NOV 5ments in Kentucky.

The tclegra hic dispatches represent Buell.
as endeavoring to flank our army in its re-
treat towards Cumberland Gap.
There is reason to fear, from what is
learned in well informed quarters, that the
movements Of the Yankee General have an
other and even more serious object than is
attributed to them by the telegraph. The
danger is that Buell., instead of attempting to
follow Bragg through East Tennessee, (where
there is said to be positively not food enough
for the inhabitants,) will take a nearer and
better route to the heart of the South, and
possibly aim for Marietta and Atlanta.
These however, are but speculations-so
little are we informed of the realdirection
and controlling purposes of General Bragg's
movements.
1t is thought not unlikely that one object
accomplished by the retrograde movement of
General Bragg will be to secure beyond all
contingencies the vast amount OF army stores
which he is said to have collected in Ken
lucky. These stores are ofinestimable value
to the South, but it will be necessary that
means OF transportation be collected near
Cumberland Gap for their removal.
The Government is understood to have in
formation that the army stores captured in
Kentucky are of great value, and that Bragg's
arm is followed by a train of several thous'
and wagons.
The Knoxville Register of a recent date
says that until Bragg had reached London,
the position where he was last heard from
his whole army, which entered Kentucky by
three different routes, was not consolidated
and that since the concentration OF his forces
has been accomplished there is good reason
to believe that Kentucky will not be eyacua
ted until another battle Is fought.
These theories on our side are encouraging
but they are scarcely mote than hypothesis:
the only certain accounts we can obtain froE
Kentucky, ending with our success at Perry
Vile, where the result won seems simply t
have been the shout of victory" withou
substantial or visible fruits.
Richmond Examiner, 22d.
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The Columbus Sun of the 18th inst. says,
the proprietors of the Eagle Factory have
decided to sell their fabrics at retail to con-
sumers, instead of putting them up at auc-
ton in large quantities. A good example.
Gen. Echols in command of our forces at
the Kanawha Salt Works in Virginia, is ur-
eing the farmers of Virginia to com with
wagon loads of forage and get salt in return.
Gen. JEFF. G.. Davis, has received an order
/, from the War Department, releasing him from
the arrest under which be has hitherto been
confined since killing Nelson.
The passenger train from Richmond to
Staunton on the 10th inst, ran off the track
near Charlottesville, precipitating several
cars over a precipice, killing Z and wound
ing so soldiers. Among the wounded were
two North Carolina soldiers, D. G. McMas-
tiers. Company /, 22d Reg. N. c.. T., injured
in both hips. and w. A. L~oudermilk, Co. c,
Cd n. C. T., both thighs broken.
Matt. Ward, who killed teacher in Ken
lucky some years ago, was recently killed in
! Arkansas. He was a Lincoln sympathizer.
Vengeance slumbers sometimes, but IS sure
20 overtake the murderer.
Gen. Ewell, we are glad to learn, is grad
iually improving from his wounds received il
the last battle of Manassas. Gen. e. is
modest man, but we have few officers NOR
entitled to promotion than he. We judg
he was " Sronewalp' Jacksons right ham
man.
The Confederate government, it is under
stood, has appointed Commander Maury as
Commissioners and Plenipotentlary to Europ
Commander III. is well known as the late di
tinguished astronomer at the National OF
servatory at Washington City.
EXECUTION OF Ten MIssoURIANS. IT
Missourians who had violated their oath
allegiance to the United States were exec1
ted at Hudson on the 2Sth ult. A CORE
pondent of the Philadelphia Press gives qui
3 pathetic account of the sad scene.
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BRUTAL MURDERS BY RUNAWAY NEGROES.
On Tuesday last, Mr.. A. Graves, ESQ.,, &C
companied by George Graves, a youth, and
the nephew of the latter gentleman, crossed
the James River from Surry county, Va, to
transact some private business. On their
arrival at jamestown, they were attacked by
a body of runaway negroes, and cruelty
murdered. Their bodies were then stripped
and thrown into the river. The negro who
rowed them across the river, was also badly
wounded and narrowly escaped to bring the
sad news to the distressed families Of the
murdered men.-Pet. Express.
The EXEMPTION AcT.-The late Exemp-
ton Act, as published in the newspapers,
seems to be incorrect. The law as passed,
exempts "all persons engaged in mining
coke, smelling, and manufacture Of iron, reg.
ular miners in coal mines, and all GOLFERS en-.
gagged in making charcoal" &c.
Chattanooga Rebel.
A LANENTED DEATH.-Many of eur readers
will regret to see in another column, the an
nouncement of the death of our brothe,
w. r. Trawick. At the time Of his deatl
he WAS collecting agent for Army Colportag
in n. O., and had visited many portions o
the State in the prosecution of his Mission
Without brilliant talents, he had sueceede
in his undertakings by indefatigable industr
and close application, and had endeared hin
self to all, by the consistency of his christia
character. A good and useful man has fal
len.-Bi6. Recorder.
Gen. Magruder has been assigned to dut
west of the Mississippi. His district embr
e ces Texas, Arizona and New Mexico. I
passed through this city last week.
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The rebels have retired, and safely con-
veyed their valuables with them. Now, you
ask was the battle of the 9th a victory ? We
answer that We do not regard it so. Our
fearful loss Of life, the loss of a battery, and
the loss of so many valuable officers, are
hardly remunerated by the capture of a bar
rem hill, the killing of five or six hundred
wretched rebels, and the taking of a lot of
guns and prisoners. We were certainly not
defeated; the enemy was forced to abandon
their positions, with the loss of several wag
ons and a large number of prisoners.
RICHMOND, Oct. 22.-Northern papers of
the goth nave been received.
The troops under Hanock and HUMPHREYS
who had crossed the Potomac have returned
to Maryland.
Gen. Morgan dashed into Lexington, KY,
on Saturday morning and compelled the gar
rison to surrender.
The Democrats gain in Ohio $4,000. In
Indiana and Pennsylvania the Democrats
have a majority in the Legislature, securing
two Senators in place of Brights successor
and Wllmot.
Gold 2e& to 80 on Saturday.
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Total,
321

YANKEE OUTRAGEs.-About the 9th of the
present month a squadron of Yankee Caval-
ry, Sd N. Y, advanced into the country from
Newbern so far as Core Greek bridge. On
their return when within about IA miles of
Newbern they halted at the house of an aged
man named Wood, whom they dragged out
of bed and tied to a tree in his yard, whence
they kept him all night. They offered all
sorts of ~indignities to his wife, but did not
proceed to personal violence. But on his
daughter, the only one then present, a young
girl about 16 years old, they perpetrated
the most fiendish brutalities, stripping her
naked, and violating her person in a room
adjoining her aged mother, whose agonies
were only augmented by hearing her cries
of despair and entreaties for relief which
she could not render.
We had heard, again and againyof these
fendish outrages, but refused to believe or
record them, until last Wednesday morning.
when a commissioned .Hl.ssI, W. "ae sl.c1i
and is still on duty in that region, called at
our office and assured US that they were
dread realities. Surely the Almighty has a
day of terrible retribution in store for these
brutes, though concealed from the human
eye. What renders them the more aggra-
waiting and dcplorable, we are assured that
not more than thirty of the incarnate fends
constituted the brutal force. What in the
name of Heaven and woman's chastity are
our troops in that region doing? Are they
asleep or working on farms ? or are they en-
gagged in hunting, fishing and playing cards
If thirty Yankee ~rascals can ride over thu
country and perpetrate such outrages, W
hope Gen. Lee will at once remove every sol
der out of the State.-State Journal.
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HOSPITAL ABUsEs.-A great many com
plants have been made public through the
newspapers, and the attention of Congress
was secured sufficiently at its last session
to procure the adoption, by the Committee
of the House Of Representatives on the Me,
dical Department, of a system by which the
abuses in hospitals can be brought to the no.
tice of that body, if not remedied. The
complaining soldier is to draw up a paper
stating his grievances, and forward it to
some member ofthe committee, accompanied
by the certificate Of a commissioned officer,
that the writer is personally known to him
and his statements entitled to credit, or he
may make an affidavit before a justice of the
peace, and forward, as above stated, accom-
panying it with the certificate of the justice
that the deponent is a man worthy of belief.
In each case the address of the writer must
be distinctly written. The following are the
names and post Offices of the members of the
committee, any one of whom may be written
to: A. R. Wright, Rome, Ga; G. w. Bell,
Brunswick, Mo; John Goede, Jr., Liberty,
Va; J.. S. Chrisman, Monticello, KY; w. N.
H. Smith, Murfreesboro', N. c.; Jas. Farrow,
Spartanburg, S. c.; j. Rails, Centre, Ala;
Thomas Menees, Springfield, Tenn; G. ID.
Rooston, Washington, Ark.
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ADJ'T & INsP'R GENERALS OFFICE,
RInuMnNn Oct Do 1850

1~tIOHMOND, OOt. 70, IOOA'
xxx. Officers Commanding Camps of
Instruction, under the Consumption Acts,
will cause the enrolment of conscripts to be
extended to all men not subject to exemp-
ton, who are between eighteen and forty
years of age.
BY command Of the Secretary of War.
JOHN WRITER'S,
Assistant Adjutant General.
~ The recent Exemption Act will be
published shortly, with instruction as to its
application. A. A. G..
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action. Killed, wouaded and missing

THIRD N. C. REGIMENT.
The Wilmington Journal gives the follow
ing synopsis from the report of Acting Ad-
j%utant Van Bokkelin, of the casualties in this
regiment:
Strength Of tho Regiment before the action j:
Officers, 26
Enlisted men, 566
Number of commissioned officers killed, 8
wounded, 13
/" enlisted men killed or since dead, "a
+" wounded, 1913
missing, So
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Travellers from Winchester report that our
army was crossing the Potomac into Mary
land at the date of their departure, which
was on Monday. But as at a late hour last
night no advices confirming this announce
ment had been received at the War Depart
ment, we are constrained to regard it as an
idle rumor.-Eramiasr, 23d..
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TIE VERY LATEST NEWS.
Fighting In South Carolina!
THE ENEMY DRIVEN BACK.

nj ENEMY DRIVEN BACK.
RICHMOND, Oct. 23.-The following official
dispatch was received here to-day:
To GEN. S. COOPER The Abolitionists
attacked Pocotaligo and Coosawhatchie YES
terday. They were calamity repulsed to
their gunboats at Mackay's Point and Bos
Greek Landing, by Col. w. S. Walker, com.
manding the troops sent from here.
The enemy had come in thirteen cunboats
and seven transports.
The Charleston Railroad is uniniured.
The Abolition. lists left their dead and woun.
ded on the field. Our cavalry are in hot
pursuit. (Siened.)
G. I. BEAUREGARD,
General Commanding.
CHARLESTON, Oct. 24-The fight at POGO
tallgo resulted in a complete victory for us.
Our loss fifteen killed, forty wounded. The
@nemy left thirty dead on the field. His to-
tai loss, confirmed by accounts of prisoners,
not less than two hundred killed and woun-
ded. We took eighty small arms. The
enemy's force consisted of six regiments with
one field battery and two boat howitzers.
Advices from Winchester to Tuesday
night, represent the armies of the North and
South in stdtu quo-that is watching each
other anxiously from opposite banks of the
Potomac.
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Latest from the North.

We received last night, through the kind
ness of a friend, New York papers of the
Goth inst. We make from them the follow
ing summary of news:
THE RECOGNITION OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES
BY EUROPE.
The latest adyices from Europe bring en-
couraging news of our early recognition by
England. The New York Tribune, of the
10th, in an editorial, says:
The last adyices from Europe render it
morally certain that France and Great Bri-
tain will recognise the Southern Confederacy
on or about the LIST of January next, provi-
ded the situation shall remain unchanged till
that time. In other words, if our Generals
should henceforth stand on the defensive,
and In due time subside into winter quarters,
they decide to give up the Union. If our
armies 60 into Winter quarters without
achieving further and more decisive success
es, Western Europe flies to the rescue of the
rebels.
The Washington correspondent of the same
paper writes:
Ladies here Of rebel proclivities, who are
IN intimate terms with the Belgian Legation,
confidently assert that Belgium is about to
lCCOSiiISO III hOOutlCIH SOuICOCId Cy, anu IDaL
her example will be followed by the larger
Powers of Europe.
The Louisville Journal has the following
article on the situation in Kentucky.
sour hopes are not realized by the news
from Buell. and Bragg. It appears that, in
passing through or beyond Crab Orchard,
Bragg was about seventeen miles ahead of
| D,oll W. Ao,,ht aru ,n,,oh noun rho4hn,
Buell. can catch Bragg at all, unless the lat
ter deliberately chooses to be caught. They
| may, perhaps, make a stand at some strong
hold in the Cumberland Mountains; yet it
| does not seem likely, considering their num-
! bers, that they could subsist there for any
length of time. We think the present
probability is that they will attempt to cross
, the Cumberland river into Tennessee, this
doubt be forded at many points. If, however,
fail in the attempt to put the river between
| them.
! If Braggs get safe into Tennessee afterthe
late terrible spoliation of Kentucky, we can
not even conjecture what ths programme OF
action on either side will be thereafter. Bragg
may 20 into Virginia to joie.&ee, or he may
! establish himself at Chattanooga and other
! points in East Tennessee; or he may strike
for the capture of Nashville, and seek to get
back into Kentucky by nearly the same route
he recently travelled. Meanwhile, Buell., at
the head Of his magnificent army, a host ca.
pable of mighty achievements, will no doubt
be governed in action by the logic of hi:
events.
The following extract from a yankee cor
respondent to a northern journal, shows tina
he did not consider Bragg defeated in th'
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The Battle of Perryville.

GENERAL BRAGG's OFFICIAL REPORT.
The following is a copy of Major General
Bragg's official report of the battle of Per-
ryyille, KY: .
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FINE WHITE NOTE PAPRR,

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Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-09-12

CAMP OF INsTRUCTIoN.-The Governor has
recommended in his message the establish
ment of camp of instruction in this State, a
measure likely to pass. We wish to call the
attention of the authorities to Camp Strong,
as the place where such camp should be loca-
ted. We are situated nearer the centre of the
State than any other city on the river, with
easy means of access by both river and rail
road. The barracks, already erected, are prob.
ably the best ones in the State, having all the
advantages which experience has suggested as
being necessary, since the erection of the rest
through the State The location is one of the
best that could be found, pleasant and healthy
with an abundance of the best water; it is the
most desirable place for the purpose yet found
as we are informed by those who know. There
has been, during the stay of the Oath and S5th
less sickness than amongst such number Of
men in any part of the country.
With these advantages, added to the fact
that Muscatine county yet keeps the lead in
enlistments, having, up to this date, sent more
men than any other county, although with
hardly half the population of some, and The
fact that we have not, up to the establishment
of Camp Strong, received any incidental advan
tage from the war, should insure the establish
ment of this camp with us. Our citizens should
take this matter in hand Immediately. AL
that is necessary is that some of then
put forth the proper influences. w
should not underratc this, as it will prove o
great benefit. By all means let some ont
move in the matter We shall speak of thi!
matter again.