The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-07-01
A PrOclanatOry Person.

Ex-Governor and Brigadier General HENRY
A. WISE. of the rebel army. belongs to that
class of proclamatory officers, of which we
have had ~ome noted specimens in our own
service. We nave heard but little of HENRY
since his defeat at Roanoke Island, but he now
appears again on the stage as commander in the
defence of Petersburg at the time it was at
tackled by KURTz's cavalry, and has issued a
grandiloquent order on the result. As it
would occupy naarly q column of our paper,
we can only spare room for the following ex-
tracts:
Then with overwhelming numbers, they
(the Yankees) were twice repulsed, and sue
ceedcd only at last in penetrating gap in the
line, and in flanking and gaining the rear of a
mere handful of citizen soldiers, who stood
firmly and fought bravely as veterans until or
dered to fall back. Alas some of the noblest
of them tell with foe" cOnsecrating with
their blood the soil of the homes they de-
Tended.
If Sturdivants battery lost one gun 8 better
was captured, and another disabled, and if they
lost a half mile of ground, they gained about
half hour of time and saved their beloved
city by holding on long enough for Sturdi
wants and Graham's and Young's batteries,
Deming's cavalry, and the Forty-sixth
Virginia Infantry, with Woods South
Carolina Company, q company of GONZALES
cents, and company of penitents, to drive
back the insolent foe from approaches which
their footsteps for the first time polluted
With the help of God it shall be the last time
With such troops as all have proved them
selves, commanders may well give assurance
with confidence to the people of Petersburg
people who can thus fight for their affairs
must be aided, supported, guarded by every
arm which can be Outstretched for their de-
fence Comrades! their wives and daughters
are daily and hOully nursing our sick and
wounded, they wipe the hot brow, cool the fe-
vered lip, and tenderly nOurish and comfort
the suffering soldiers in their hospitals. The
angel nurses and the stricken patriots of this
patriotic place shall not fall into the hands
of the rutfian invaders. Its very militia
has set an example which inspires the con-
fidence That Petersburg is indOmitable, and
which consoles and cOmpensates for every drop
of blood which has been split at NOt.away, at
Waithall Junction, and at Drewrys Bluff and
HOwlett's Neck, for the defence of the old
COckade City. Let the reserves and second
class militia of the surrounding counties now
come in promptly, one and all and emulate
this bright and successful eXample-let it holly
hiss to blood red shame the laggards and
skulkers from the streets and alleys of the city
to the lines and let it proclaim aloud that Pc
tersburg is to be and shall be defended on her
outer walls, ON her inner lines, at her corpora
ton bounds, in every street and around every
temple of God and altar of man in her very
heart, until the blood of that heart is split
Reused by this spirit to this pitch of resou-
ton, we will fight the enemy at every step, and
Petersburg is safe.
HENRY A. WISE. Brig. Gen.
Official: A. V, FEARCK, A. A &.