, 1862-08-23
NO. SO.


Gen. MoClellans Address to his Soldier
The following was McCelans address to h
soldiers after the memorable weeks battle tough
during the withdrawal of his forces from the Chic
ahominy
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE Potomac, !
July 4th, 1862.
Soldiers Of the firing Of the Potomac :-You-
achievements of the last ten days have illustrate
the valor and endurance of the American soldie
attacked by superior forces and without Dope G.
reinforcements you have succeeded in changinf
your base of operations by flank movement,
ways regarded as the most hazardous of militar
expedients. You have saved all your matera
all your trains, and all your guns, except fe'
lost in battle, taking in return guns and color
from The enemy Upon your march YOU BAY
been assailed day after day with desperate fury b
men of the race and nation, skillfully masse,
and led. Under every disadvantage Of number
and necessarily of position you have in every coll
fct beaten back your foes with enormous slaugh-
ter. Your conduct ranks you among the celebra-
ted armies of history. No one will now question
that each of you may always with pride say
belong to the Army of the Potomac" You hay
reached the new base complete in organization
and unimpaired in spirit. The enemy may at an,
time attack you. We are prepared to meet them.
| have personally established your lines Let then
come, and we will convert their repulse into fina
defeat. Your Government is strengthening 20"
nth tbo eofa M, ~
natior's birthday, we declare to foes, who ar
rebels against the best interests of mankind, tha
this army shall enter the capital of the so Gale
Confederacy; that our national Constitution sha
prevail, and that the Union, which can alone IN
sure internal peace and external security to eacl
State, "must and shall be preserved" cost wha
il may in time, treasure and blood.
(Signed) GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN.
A SAD SToRY.-As Lieut.. Van Arnam, of the
FiftyEight Illinois, was passing the post-ofice IT,
Chicago he was accosted by youthful woman,
who said that, seeing the figures 5s on his ha'
she hoped he might be able to tell her how sb-
could get a letter to an officer in that regimen.
He said he would be happy to oblige her if l~
could. She said that she had written several lei
ters and received no answer. "What is the
name p inquired the officer Lieut.. Fife" ar
swered the lady. 81 am sorry to say that Lieu
Fife is dead he was killed at Pittsburg," !" he sai3
The effect was terrible. Almost instantly the LAD
sank to the ground fainting. When restored h
grief was most distressing Lieut. Fife was b.
husband. But unfortunately the sad budget
not all told. 1t appears that her father was Cap
Kurth, of Company F, Fifty-Eighth regimen
and her uncle was First Lieut.. Kurth and h.
husbend Second Lieutenant of the same regimen
Her father is now prisoner with the most Of h
regiment in the hands of the rebels, and her U
Gle was severely wounded in the engagement
is rarely that such concentration Of misfortm,,
fails upon single family.
Personal LIBERTY LAW REPEA1ED.-W;e
consin has repealed her odious Personal Liberl
Law The Milwaukee Nelos announced the faa.
in the following manner
Wisconsin to Maryland, greeting; The WI
consn Assembly sends across the States to Mar,
land the assertion of sympathy and friendship
the assurance that our people will stand by he
in the maintenance of the Constitution, with p
its provisions unimpaired. In a single week IL
popular branch of our Legislature has blotted o.
her odious Personal Liberty Law, and indorsc
the Union platform of slaveholding State
triumph for patriotism this, worth an age of /
Dor. Maryland and Wisconsin pledged to a con
mon declaration Of principles. Let the who
world rejoice and let us hope that the war b.
tween States living in the same Union and und'
the same Constitution, is hereafter ended, ar
that the age of fraternity and equality has con
once more. We are proud that Wisconsin be-
been the first of all the States of the great Mort
west to extend the olive branch of peace On tb
question Of slavery.
PIcAYuNE BUTLER.-Speaking of the song ~
Picayune Butler" .he New Albany Ledger say,
Before entering New Orleans, after its surrende'
u