The Camden confederate. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1861-1865, 1864-07-13
Yankee and Confederate Generals
"A Play upon Names.

"A Play upon Names.
CELEBRITY is considered big thing iu
war. So is promtness. We believe
there is only one General in the South
ern army who always gets up Early,
albeit there was one, who resigned, who
was habitually Pryor in rising. Though
the rebel officers are rather noted for
rapid movements, thele are two decided
Polk's' among them, and one who is
continually Cumming, yet does not come
aloug.
But we have a Slocum ourselves,
and though we may have General
Hunt after the rebels, some of our
commanders, including that of Hunter
himself, occasionally fail to bag the ras.
Gals, seeing which General ketcher
ought to resign unless he can prove
that he knows Howe. Ky hanging to
the enemy's rear, it seems to US that
General Ilindmau, at least, ought to be
caught.
This war has brought forward, more
or less conspiciously, several military
names. There are Pickett, of Virginia;
Battle, of Tennessee; and Slaughter,
of Alabama, on the, the rebel side
Phifer would do to put in the kand,
and Fields isn't inappropriate for the
scene ofoperations.--Steelc is not 50
bad either, and Steele We find common
to both armies. There is nc use for
Shields in our modern warfare, at any
rate since the Shenandoah Valley
campaign of 1862, though the rebels
continue to employ Archers.
Mountainous as same parts OF the
South are, there are two Hills down
there that seem to he particularly hard
to get over, and Breckinridge. Dense
FORESTS, heavy Woods, and difficult
Rhodes are occasionally to be seen.
Boggs and Brooks diversity the pros
pect though it must be stated that the
latter are not produced by Rains of
North Carolina, and Of coarse not by
the Rains that fell at Stone River:
We don't know much about the rebel
Line, but are advised that this is differ
ept from the somewhat famous Long,
street How long that is we are not ap'
prised, though we have seen the men
tion of Miles. In our army we have nc
General Hills. We have a Mead, Il
Parke, Woods, Brook, and Tower;
the latter, however, not remarkably
tall
There is no whiskcy in the Southern
army, owing, we suppose, to the difficulty
of. procuring that article. There is,
however, or lately was, kimmel, and
whatever ale can be got out Of Adams
AS to our own army, though we keep
Butler, we don't indulge in anything
stronger than Meade. There is-a Porter
on the list, though he is out at present
This refers to the Andrew brand. flt'
John (not demi john Porter, the Ad
ministration swore off from in November
1862. What with the laws of Congress:
in regard to the abolition of sailors grog
and Gen. Grants temperance order IL
the army of the Potomac, we may perhaps
look for total abstinence some of these
days. George Washington Morrell is
one of our brigadier generals we wish al
brigadier geuerals-and major general:
too. for that matter-were as moral Il:
George Washington.
As the rebels seen to have thrown the
Lees of their society into the war, the
mechanics and trade people are remaka
bly we'll represented. There are two
Coopers, a Gardner, Leadbeater and
Taylor or two. The rebels have thell
Parsons and we have onr Pope. The
only working men represented among
our generals are the Potters and Tay ylors
always excepting the Smiths, and th'
Confederates, by the way. have them
too.
We don't see how the enemy can want
food as long as they have Hogg, Mouton
and Greens. On the other hand, if We
should ever get out of beef we cap fall
back on our Vielc. We hear that Cen
eral Pike, who resigned the Confederate
service some time ago, is making over,
lures for pardon. His ease will probably
be turned over to Provost Marshal Gen
cral Fry.
There has been great deal of talk
about National Banks carried on thrcugh
the Treasury Department. 1t will not,
however, escape notice, that the War De-
partment also has its National Banks
located in Louisiana and Texas.
Iftho Administration fails to put down,
cut to pieces, aud bore out this Internal
rebellion, it will not be for want oftools.
We hav Sickles and We have Shears, nor
must we forget the old Barlow. We
don't just now remember whether much
has been done by our Augur, butwe have
had several that would not bore. We
might make some sharp remarks about
General Blunt, but punning disagrees
with US.
The rebels have a general named Trem'
ble.-He must be relative of our Gen.
Rickets. They also have Gen. With
ers we hope he will be wrung "Let