New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-07-28

Gsnersl Grants present campaign In virginia Not
p,aoes only but Generals in plenty too. Cen Grant
bmseG with his staff and without IT, Standing by his
horse and his horses standing by themselves. plain
blunt. homespun man as one would wish TO seei good
to look at n hcu one feels wsvering and deprcssed
man OF business not for show and instiling strength
and faith into the tindes who studies that quiet sen
si;e. honest Gycs
Gen. Burnside too in equal variety Of attitude and
circumstance, ursi other Geuerais-Griiin Haacock'
Birney. Barlow. Giiboon. Wright Neil Martindaie'
Russell and Meade. Here we study these brave
patton. hard working they 1.-Two and move. not
in holiday trim. but, every day finds them in thc
rough undress Of their active ergFossng and stsrny
real work.
| To the TRIBUSs reporter too this figure well re-
membered of Assistant Secretary Of War Dana, looks
pleasantly familiar sitting at rest for little while in his
chair in the door Of bis tent.
Equally interesting with these pictures Of we
hold in deserved honor and aSectionarc the pictures
Of the places whore they working have worked.
Hero are City Poin; and Bermuda Hundred, real as
life itself with all their hustle and confusion-crowd of
wagons steamboats, vessels Of al sorts and Sizes mot
lev crew fall OF animation and interest. Port Royal
White IioIse Landing Wilcox Landing. each and al!
delicate finished above ALL rrs pictures OF soms OF The
places where being acted The one drama which makes
all other dramas dat stale and Improbable 10 US at
home. ''.''
Perbaps In our carelessness we shopld have forgot
ton 20 nsk Mr. Brady whether thero was no news 70
bring VS. Of the black soldiers aud their whereabout
But We are 20 be reminded, it seems. Hero we nave
the Rebel Battery taken by Burnsdes coiored troops
we ,houd Ike IN sea the men that did it. and thank
them muteiy here perhaps II LOOK, we shall lind
them Not them indeed. but " Execution OK negro
in front Of Pstsrsburg"-hS We may see; anh lest We
miss the ghastiy horc We have II In duplicate
gaiows white death-cap, soldiers on horse back LOOK
ing on ample record II and counted enough to
satisfy us OF the black soldier. His existence is
an ilnpcrtnence We shall know nothing Of him, but
that he il hanged occasionally.
Tho Burial P,aoe at FreJsricksOurg and group Of
wounded soldiers there. bring plainly befors ussharp
stern and uDdsguiscd the bitterness OF this business
That ugly box, those COW cred stretchedout bodies
whose s,ockinged and bare feet stick out wIithed aud
twisted as death eii ticn-what horrid eioquenco Is
theirs how sad il is there is glory in II. 40 tri
umph il il uuspeakably sad. Sleep in peace. dear
brothers who lie there slain for and Ours Rough
bu:ia after rough lie and bitter days but your reward
is sure God his stripped from you with yosr hesh al
trace OF the combatn his pure. re-creating eyes on,
tho beauty Of your life Of duty lives and eternal Pcsc'
rewards the sacrifice which death for duty mode.
To tho ariist-eye tbese photographs offer hundred
bcautes The deeaoy Of the distance the foliage tn
sharp, clear, uncoD'uscd confusion OF tho crowds
yharves and piers and landngs how admirable Il is al
OF IT, In the small photograph ~ The Sanitary Conmis
sion there arc very delicate transcripts OF trees
and tsefo is most charming study Of arrow head anf
piher water weeds in the "Pon'oon Bridge over th'
ismes" which, II painted would be OF '0nrse. mos
ridiculous In closing let observe how beautiful al
theso lt,ls landscapes are in arrangement and tone
how snhty delicate without convrn;ion, tao compost
lion Of the masses the lights and da:ks This At ny
lie d;ssnceno odschool picture could better meet al
such dcrnn,ls Claude ever tcnicrer or sweeter
but never there such nnUc truth OF detail as re
wards the closer inspection. No Pre- Raphnee eyci
approached such miraculous truth IA this And ye
Nature clearly by his work OF hers that pcrfcc
tynih and flthUlnnss Of detail are not inoonsisten
with the most beautiful effects which conventions
artist. OF tho Old school would seem TO claim as tsc
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