The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1862-05-10

5. was entirely ignorant, of course. The
officer then remarked to him, ats no mat
ter how far it is to the river, we shall whip
you anyhow, andsforce Gen. Grant to sur
render tonight, or early tomorrow morn
ing, and then capture Buell., If he makes
his appearance on the field" Lieut.. S. re-
Piled, "You have got hard fighting to do
before you capture our forces yet and the
Northwestern freemen are not the craven
dogs to lie down after the first brush, and
allow themselves to be taken. !" - 81 No mat
ter" said the officer, 'f we shall whip you
Four men Oon't fight "Upon that sub
ject," said the Lieutenant, "you will prob
ably be better informed before you get
through with tomorrow slight. You sur
prised our. menist this morning, and they
were thrown into some confusion; but even
this days work will show that our men
aciU fight. "Well," said the officer, /"
admire your courage, and wish such men
as You were not fighting against the South.
You cannot Conquer the South and amt
you sorry you engaged in the war; ' No,
SIR" said Lieutenant s., t'and would do it
again. 7 " Do, your peo pie all feel that
way % asked the officer. /" Yes, SIR, re-
piled the Lieutenant llo4 = -l92l21 CT
The officer said no mere but2with sad
look mounted his horse and rode off. One
of the rebel officers aids had ,dismounted to i
water his horse in a creek close by, and be- /
fore remounting came near where the
Lieutenant lay who beckoned him to come /
TO him, and asked him /" who that officer !
was 2" The aid said Sc that is Gen. Beaure- i
gard" The Lieutenant, however, had re- i
,ognized him from his striking resemblance
to- photographs of the rebel General. This |
Interesting incident, the personal experience |
1t the battle of Shiloh Of one of our intel |
igent and patriotic neighbors of Illinois,
md who is now in one of the hospitals in |
! fair way, we hope, of recovery, shows how |
anxious the rebel General was on the even
ng of that memorable Sunday, notwith- |
tanding his success, to know how much /
more he would have TO do that night. And /
hence his eager inquiries, " How far is it to
he river ?" " Where are Buelps forces? ?"
How many men has Buelt2" &C., SCI
Notwithstanding the exhibition of the brag-
,art as betrayed in the boast, " We shall
whip you, q Your men won't fight" &C., /
my one can see that the rebel General was
xceedingly solicitous in regard to the
'robable out come of that desperately con-
ested fight, sf.-srs ..-f-.a ...7 80. /
Lieut. Simmons states that he lay upon /
he field forty-eight hours, and from eleven
CLOCK on sunday, tnS time ne was Woun0-
d, until four o'clock on Monday. afternoon,
he ground where0n- he lay was fought
yer ttesLUs times, and that he was not
rampled to death seems almost a miracle.
Ie also states that the rebels, officers and
1en, stopped and talked with him several
ines, gave him water, and with one ex-
option, treated him kindly. That excsp-
ion was a Texas ranger, who came near
nding his doubtful existence with a sound
ick, saying, " let's kill the id Lincoln
On of a b--h." This is but one of per-
aps hundreds of personal incidents which
aughter, which, # collected M a1d i published, +
rould form an interesting chapter. of cur
ant history. We learn that Lieut.. Sim
IONS will get well. Certainly it is the
rayer o., every loyal heart that he should;
IT our country can lily afford to lose such
rave and noble defenders.