New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1862-03-17
Honor TO II Private Soldier.

From the Montgomery Aivertiser
In the Executive Office at the Capitol in this city,
may be seen the battle 1ag OF New York reg
ment, captured in December last by privste in
Col. Wnston's regiment, accompanied with a reel.
tai of the incidents attending its capture. The fol-
lowing correspondence relative to the flag may
serve to show that the position OF private soldier
il not without honor and that by personal courage
and daring he may win for himself an honorable
name in the history OF his country. Let no private
soldier who reads this letter despair of obtaining
honorable mention for meritorious and gallant con.
duct on the bloody fold:
ExEcrr1vE DEr4rrryr}
NIL. H Linchsrgh Havana, Green. coan y, Ala:
My Dear Sr-I have read with feelings of State
pride an account Of the personal herosm displayed
by your son. William II. Linebaugh, youth Of
eighteen years of age, aud an honored private
in the Selma Independent Blues, Eighth Alabama
Regiment, in capturing the battle flag of the en-
emy in skirmish at New Market Bridge, on the
I'D December last.
Information has reached this Department that
the flag, after it had been presented by the captor
to his commander, Col. John a. Winston, was, by
the Colonel, returned to him as personal trophy,
and that yonr son had se.t it home 10 his beloved
father My dear sir, can well imagine with what
satisfaction your eyes gazed upon this captured
banner, once the ensign of great and glorious
Union, but now of a despotism hateful to Ala.
bama, ami fast exciting the contempt of the civil
lied world, which had been torn down and tri-
umphantly borne away by yonr intrepid son;
bn, as the Executive OF the State, beg to notify
you iHhl hlaDhHlh Glu!'s tuiS houe youlil d6 lIeF
son and as the banner was captured by him
from the enemy while in her service and in her
name, Alabama claims the honor of being made
the recipient of this menlento of his worth and
daring. | have, therefore, respectfully to request
that you will surrender the banner to me, that it.
NAV he deposited in the State Capitol with an
appropriate recital, Illustrative of the gallant act
which secured it., to be preserved with other me-
mentoes Of a sacred and glorious period in the
history of tlabama.
with great respvct, am your oNod,mt servant,
JOHN Gill SHORTER.
The Advertiser publishes the reply of Mr.. Line
baugh. We regret TINT we have not space for it,
The father yields chserfully to the request of the
Governor.
BINDING ON LAwEEks.--A 4 Cincinnati paper,
speaking of the Confederate prisoners at Colunl-
bus, says:
Since their arrival their names, rank, reside
noes, regiments, occupation, age, size, color Of
dress, ETC., have been taken down by Col Camp-
bell To-day, when Tom Clay, grandson of Henry
Clay, was asked for his occupation, brother otli-
Ger answered. :" q lawyer; - to which young CLAW
replied, Lawyer, lt---ll! am a gentleman. Put
down my occupation az a Southern gentleman"
ELuD1NG THE BLOCKADE We understand that a
half dozen or more vessels have left Charleston
harbor within two weeks past, freighted with cot
ton. We think it suspicious circumstance that
they escape so easily, and unchallenged by the
b!ockaaug vessels Tuc Liucontes love cotton
and they may let it pass 80 more securely to
getp possession of it at Havana, Nassau, aud other
convenient points. TCohmbia Is. CO Guardian
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! A report is current that Brgadier. General Dan
| Sickles has been shot By of his soldiers