Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-07-13
a Conv6rsatio1 yvtth a Rebel Pris-

SeV9Tal prlSOueEb EeGeuLIg III Ae9 y REt1J
were brought up over the Baltimore road
on Saturday evening and lodged in the
Arheueum en- route for Camp Chase. They
leave for that place this morpipg. We had
talk with one of them yesterday, Lieut.:
ThoniIs sHollingsworth, of Maryland. an
AIatsnt in. stuarts cavalry. BE is an in
telligent man and impressed US as being
very good material. for asoldier. He says
le has been In about sixty battles and
skirmishes and has never been, wounded
&c knew young Hullihen from 4hereawh6
he says was on Stuart's staff and, o1iwas
wounded some time ago. Holtingswortti,
himself, vas at one time on Stuar.'s staff.
lie says stdaFt Is sociafIy very unpopular
manseefps ksy vain rlds sphssited Out
that as an officer be, has the entire conf
dence of his men. Concerning the late bat
ties at Gettysburg, in all Of which he par
ticipatedI he thtnks they we're .dfag:i he
says our men fought bfaXeiyaand that our
line never once waycted IN those dtesdful
charges of Friday. He, of course, con.
tended that We, hali tho advantage oGposi-
tiou and that opr ammuniion was better.
HeIsays that the &slaughteraon both sides
was very great; and will 'proBdblyfsum up
about equal He admits that Lee was de-
feated in his object Of attack and had then
to falI back. He has mo idea, however,
that We will be able to prevent him from
crossing the river. He refused altogether
to credit the fall Of vicksbnrg. We related
to bin some details Of the surFender from
different sources, which seemed to stagger
his ndbelief q little. /, He admitted that If
the news was true it was great blow
to the South. But etill he maintained that
admitting IL to be true, aud admitting also
that we had whipped Lees army, and that
we would stiil forther whip it and cripple
iR6I even capture il before it got across
tie FLYER. jet for all; We never could con
quer the oonfederacy. he did not believe
that thing possible. Hs believed new ar
mics would be raised, made.up of the old
and young. aud Of the very women them
selves, if it was necessary. We.asRked him
what, he thought the leaders would do 10
case we destroyed iheirsrmies. He thought
they, Eopld leave they country sepdoalso
that aost of the planters who were, able
would likewise gs5il} We asked him whar
hs IDEA ofths re6slli6n 81 Rstsgwhati 1t com
pFehended iitai5,ittss ses-wh4t, 10 lo.he1
words !, Was gitslp hilogopby7 He said that
Ia word, IL wasislayery; that they wanted
a Homogeneous q lave h6l aihg confederation
where the people would all be united ,by
Que central interest and have one commor
bod OF loyalty. We asked BimSwhat hi
ttousEt of thestfght of secession as fun
d.meutaI principle In government. HI
replied that, for himself he had never be
Iieved 10 it, but that many in the soutt
did. He ,hought-dtzptobable, however
that the cOnsti,ation Of the oonfederac,
would be altered after the war, and tina
the principle of secession.would not,beac
skuoWledged.an g5.5s.s 's!fia' 20 z"
what HolIinGswoOrth 0said abOu
himself We would infer that he was man
oEmesps.i In fact his department indicat.
ed a man of education and worldly kpowl'
edge. 10 told us that.it had cost Him since
he had been In therebel service five thous.
and dollars more than he hadareceiSed.
As an instance Of what Il cost an officer to
Keep up anythibg ikea decent appearance,
he told US that .. pair of cav airy boots like
what he, had on, could not be bought in
Richmond for less than eighty dollars a
pairsof his pants, (blue cloth, q good deal
.ltkg's at service cost seventy Eve dollars
and his vest twenty, eve, 1t. Moors showed
him his coat, a, we'll made otficersidress;coat,
ana asked him what such an article would
e,st. he saidLanot lsss than one hundred
and, City, dollars. re- Among other thingsths
said sthats 1t Was common toHpay twenty
dollars fora eanteen of whiskey ora apple
,j,sk s6a thas eoaseqa dttnkiRSgssas
very 4itfis indulge il either by CHEERS ol
priyates 10 The rebel service; We las lke
him il that. did not look b bad for rebel
money, BE said no: it was .enly, because
that things were scarce that that they were
sosytrsxageatly high, He conceded how
ever that either gold or gFeenbacks would
buy arsisles at q reduced rate, because, as
he said, it took either one or the other 70
: buy the goods IN the North which were
smaeglsd though to them, b land apd
si:i avs z,i; si 80 SIS ssiasas -
Concerning the battle of ehaneellofs-
, vile. he though IL was we'll planned 'and
had been so S6hssdedi on all hands in the
rebel army. He did not believe, however,
that Hooker planded II from the fact 10
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