Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1862-05-29


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From Richmond
Timou, the correspondent of the Charles
ton Courier, writes
I have had an interesting interview with
an officer Of our army who was recently
within the enemy's lines, and who conversed
freely with their most prominent command.
er. He says Gen. Mcclellan aud, indeed,
most of the old army officers, are courteou,
and gentlemanly; but the material Of which
their followers is composed is repulsiVe,
dissolute, vulgar, obscene and blasphemous.
Their insolent bearing toward the Surgeons
who went under flag of truce to attend upon
our wounded after the battle of Williams
burg, would UNANIMOUSLY adoru the conduct
of President Geffrard's black minions.-
They alleged that our troops mutilated their
dead-insulted and buffeted their wounded
and in retaliation they proposed holding
our Surgeons as hostages -! To the perpe-
tration of so fragrant an outrage the latter
dauntlessly defed them. "Tell me, Doc
tor" said an upstart political General,
chow you account for the brutality with
which your people treat our wounded and
dead?" "Upou the ground, sir" replied
the Surgeon, 'that your people are migrate
ful-incapable Of telling the truth-and
that your leaders have to stimulate ferocity
as a substitute for truth" "What, do you
mean to deny the truth of my representa-
ton ?" said the vandal. "Imeaa to assert,
sir, that they are palpable lies" was the
rejonder.
My informant represents General Wool
as being bordering upon dotage. He is
absent minded and rambling in his speech,
vascillating and very foolish in decision.-
General Mcclellan, he adds, is much over
rated as commander but very polite and
magnanimous. He freely contesses that
the abolition opposition to him is very great.
Of our Generals he spoke in the highest
terms. Beauregard and Joe Johnston he
called great men; Early and Longstreet,
he added, were stobborn as twin devils and
Gen. G.. W. Smith be called his warmest
personal friend. ellis talents" he added,
"are allied to genius. Under circumstan-
ces of adversely he will rise above them
grandly." When the interview came to a
close, the last words of Mcclellan were,
"Farewell |! I hope We shall soon meet in
peace and harmony" "Did you say on
the Chickahominy?" responded my friend.
Soon after, the latter was introduced to the
wife and daughters of one of the Federal
Generals. They closed their doors and en-
braced him avoWed themselves secession
lists and cut the Confederate buttons, as
keepsakes, off the sleeves of his coat. They
asked him to implore the Corfederates to
fight to the death, and in death, for that if
subjugated, the condition of the Brazilian
slaves would be preferable to their fate
"You can whip these Yankees" they added
enthusiastically. "You whipped them the
other day at Williamsburg; you can whip
them everywhere but on water ; retire from
their gunboats and you will drive them
back in rout and defeat-they feel it." As
a confirmation of this opinion of the ladies.
Gen. Hancock told one of our officers tina,
he never saw such brilliant fighting as that
of the Confederates at Williamsburg. "Im'
mortality" he said, "should be inscribed
upon the banners of the 9th North Carroll.
ma and Oath Virginia Regiments" "They
fought like heroes" interposed an English
officer, s'and the bearing of the Confeder,
ate cavalry was splendid-equal to any
thing even Ihave ever seen." "Ah, yes, u
said Hancock, "with such infantry and
cavalry, when we are one people again, We
can whip the world" "But one people we
never again can be-" said the Confederate
81 suppose, Doctor" asked Heintzleman,
ssyou call the result at Williamsburg g
Confederate victory?" "Certainly-hoW
many men did your division lose there ?''
"About two thousand" "At the smallest
calculation, then, your total loss in killed
and wounded must have been over 5000
you have all Of our wounded, twenty OF
thirty excepted, in your hands, they do no
number four hundred, and the ratio il
killed cannot exceed one third that mum
ber; your papers admit that you had thirty
thousand men in action who assailed abou
five thousand of our retreatiDg army; Will
this number you were beaten back will
great loss; We have four hundred of you
prisoners and yet you shout victory Sucl
victories will never conquer the South.
wonder why your people cannot afford t
look facts in the face, and sometimes speaE
the truth ?" "Oh," exclaimed the fraul
Englishman, "we cannot afford to confes
defeat even in a skirmish. The people o
the North won't brook that. Such con
fession would cost the best of US his com
mission" ~ pity people," responded
the Confederate, "who require such false
and artificial stimulants, as would do dishon
or to the vanishing courage of Bob Acres.
n9 We have examined counterfeit
81 bill of the Bank of the State of Sout
Carolina, which seems to have been mad