Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-07-27
son,b Cnrolinn Prisoner.

south Carolina Prisoner.
After getting through with our Morgan
man yesterday we had talk with south
Carolina prisoner in the Atheneum, who
was brought in on Friday evening last.
He belongs to .Hampton'ss brigade, and is
a ad lieutenant in the LIST South Carolina
cavalry. Hs'is tolera6ly intelligent man
and was educated as physician, and was
prae,icing in Florida at the breaking out
of the war. He halls from the mountain
district of South. Carolina and was well
Acquainted with Elias Earle who was ed
ucated at Bethany college and is now
colonel of the 6rst Florida regiment. The
Sd Iieutenant's name is Anderson. He was
captured near Williamsport by the Ring
gold cavalry, aud his special business in
the rebel army was that of a sharpshooter.
He says that Lee lost about $4,000 killed
and wounded at Gettysburg and coufesses
that their army met with terrible punish
meut there, but still contends that the
| fight was draw. Anderson is thorough
going secessionist-an original one we
take it, having always entertained strong
prejudice against. the North. He, how
ever, was willing to admit that the pros
pect of divided nation had no special
charms for him and that if it were
possible he should prefer that We
could be one great nation rather than two,
divided, quarrelling weak ones. He has
no idea that we will be able to take
Charleston, but after Vicksburg would not
assert that it was impossible. He thinks
the fall of yicksburg was the greatest blow
the South has received and admitted that
if we penetrated to the heart of the cotton
States with our armies, the independence
of the Confederacy would be pretty much
gone question. He is still, however,
sanguine that something will turn up to
put the rebellion on its feet again, al
though be couldn't exactly tell how or
when. Unlike some prisoners we have
seen, Anderson thinks that if the armies of
the rebels were once overthrow and
crushed the people of the South would &C
cept the result as fnality and quit the
war He says that he thinks our people
fight quite as well as those from the South
at least he has never been able to see the
difference. In their armies as well as 10
ours there are companies that finch occa-
sionalIy. He considers our fighting at Get
tysburg as unsurpassed. Anderson spoke
of Union men even in South Carolina-
persons, as he terms it, holding "North-
ern sentiments. He says he does not ad-
mire Vallandigham and that bis people like
man who is either one thing or the 9TH
.er and who does not sail under false colors.
We asked him if such man as Vallandig-
ham could live in his part of the South
that is u man who preached the same dis.
affection against the rebellion that Vallau-
digham does against the Union, and he said
no, that he could not. The people would
not tolerate it even if the rebel government
would. We asked him if he knew of any
man or any uewpaper in the South or in
the army that would take any such posi-
ton, and he said he did not. As we talked
with him our militia, returning from their
campaign on the Island, passed along the
Atheneum. He looked at them with q good
deal of astouishment when we told them
they were mere militia, called together al
the ringing of the bells, and had been out
to defend the city from John Morgan's men
He was impressed with the fecundity of the
city in the way of citizen soIdiery, espe.
cially so when we told him that beside these
Wheeling had furnished her quota of vol.
ulcers to the army. 1t was evidently
an unexpected thing to Anderson to see
so many people yet in reserve for the
chances of war. Lieutenant Moore OBJ.
served to him that our people had'n,
begun to put forth their whole strength
in this war, and Anderson evidently was
bordering u similar reflection in his own
mind. Like all prisoners he was very
anxious about his parole, when aud where
he would probably get it, aud how soon he
would be allowed to return home. He
said that since he had fallen into our
hands Ills treatment had been all he could
desire, and he seemed to be gratified to
6ud out that the Yankees were such a hu-
name sort OF people. His trip up this way
will do him good we think.
MoRGAN,S RAID.
From the Baltimore American.
Rebel raids into loyal States-whether
1raat ANAL