The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-05-28
o'd Abe, snd been restored TO the command
OF MIS- drunken brigade The ws.binrtcp

correspondent Of the baltimore su, vr,.s,.
General Daniel y. SlckIes. v-ho.s uomine-
u IN fA BTiGadisr-G enerei, sfter beyins h,en
once reJscted, was cen firmed hy ,se Senats
has bean ordered to resume tas co,cmand ~
th Excelsior brigade. now on the Iireiuin
FentI sula. AnumbsT the mem bars OF that
brteaf which was eGgegsd In fhs battle Of
Williamsburg, were taken prisoners by the
Oonfederates, but were released on parols and
are now here at the Soldiers i.sst Gen erel
Sick!es visited them taBt evening, snd was
snth usi aaticaliy received in Il brief speech
he referred to the 70 n weeks' separation from
them 10 which he had been compelled. and
said "Dnriag this separation You have
sought honor and glory on TIE battlefield.
HeektnE Justice, and have obtained II. ZAP
pianee.l L am rgein your General. Re-
newed applause l was not 10 the las Fl zht;
but it was not my fan't. In the usxt one
bOpe to lead yon."
II Is understood that, g. the instance Of
tbsse psrolet prisoners os war. General
Slcsies to-day endsayored 10 induce the War
Dapar tnert to make au arrangement for
their I'm mediate oxch uss, that they may re-
Join their several res tments. lie himself VIII
1T once 60 forward to ne asat of war.
TIE KILLING or hos SOfsarfE. scoFr-rgsYAr,
Ksg VsastoE OF THK ArpAIs.
In the Yankee House OF Rerre.sr ta.ives a
commune alton had bssu received from the
Secretary of Way. In answer to resolution,
sncics'ag rapport from Gen. Gsary IN ss-ss-
sior ~ tas innrtier o. the Hon. Robert L
Scott and Mr.. Matthews. who were killed
hatween Wsrrsn ton and Salem, Va. 4 North
err paper gives the following summary Of tie
report:
Tae report states that an armed party,
headed ny MIR Scott and a Mr.. Matthe wa,
went - arres: two soldiers Of the 7th Wis
maraudtnx Ia tbs IeiG h borhood, aud on their
attempting to enter the farm. honse in which
the soldiers were. they wers resisted and In
the hfftay Msssrs, Scott and Matthew's were
killed, And one or the soldiers woundsd--the e
other making his escape, The wounded sol
der stated that they both belonged to the IN
Wisconsin regiment, ard h been taken
prisoners by the rebals, from whom they es
looking for their TeSimSnt. They bad, how
ever. been com mttttag deprsdations through
the section OF country through when they
passed. Hener | 2eary, before the atfray
having heard OF their depysdations, had sen t
out squad Of cavalry to capture them.
HOW SOLDIER TssLs Oh BATTLsTisLr.
An arrny correspondent writes:
/ DO not surrose i have ulucb pa ysscal or
In oral courage. butths sensations under Are,
Judging from my experience, ere different
from what's expected.
reasoning man at first feels alarmed, BIZ d
. his impulss IS TO run away, and, if he has no
reason TO stand, he probably does ruu +, hnt,
at each exposure, be grows lexs tiu,d, and,
altar hearing canister and grape about his
ears a dozen times, begins to think he IL not
destined 10 be hur..
he s.il feels rHther uneasy, rerhaps: but
the danger becomes fascinating. and, though
he don't wish to no hit, he likes to have nar-
row escap pes, and voluntarily places himself
% e. position where he cen iuCur more risk.
After little while he begins 10 reason the
n,a ter; refl .cts upon the dC3tfIn OF rroba
blltt!es. ana h Nv much pow eI snd lead Is
necessarily wasted before any man is killed or
wounded.
Why should he be, he thinks, 20 much more
unlucky than many other pearie. aud he soon
can hear the whizzing OF bullets with r. toler
able tearss Of tquanimisy, tho ugh he invoi.
unfairly Godges, or tries 10 dodge, the cannon
balls G. shells that 60 hOwilng around his
i'm mediate II neigh oorhocd.
In the afternoon he il quite a dlh rent crfa
ture from y hat he waS III the morning, and
| involunteriIy smile. TO sac nan bs.ray tht
| same trep,daHon which he himself ex nj bi teG
| few hours before.
| The more he 10 exposed 10 fire the better he
/ csn bear It; and the tinid bsing Of to-day il
the hero Of to-morrov; Hnd he u no runs fro n
danger on the fret battle fl sld will run in TO II
on tha next and court the heard &c once sc
dreaded.
| Tnis courage, as il IL Lyied, Is iitt1s mora
| with most men than Custom; aud they learn
! to daspise what has cften threaten ed without
! causing them harm II wounded, thsy learn
| wounds ars .esa painful to hear than they bad
| supposed, aaj thea tne dOctTiue Of prObabili-
| ties teaches them once more they are loss ia
bic TO Pc wounded again. SO the mental pro
cess goes on nutil the nerves become by de
q ees the suhlsc. Of will. and he only fears
VIII has not The will to be brave.