The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-05-24
sNION AND REBEL GENER.
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ways gets up Early, albeit there was one,
Who resigned, who was habitually Pryor In
rising. Though the rebel officers are ratbii
or noted for rapid movements, there are
Two decided :PoIksg ssmqng- thPnHspd one
who is continually cooni6g} yG a6es not
come along
But We have. Slocum ourselves, and
though we may have General Hunt at
fer the Rebels, some of our commanders
including the old Hunter himself occasions
ally fail TO bag the rascals, seeing which,
General ketchum ought to resign,I unless
be can prove that he knows Howe. By
hanging on the enemy's rear, it seems to us,
that Gen. Hindman, as least, ought to be
caught. .SHGuIOJ
This war has brought forward. more or
less conspicuously, several military names.
There are Pickett of Virginia, Battle of
Tennessee, and Slaughter Of Alabama on
the rebel side. Phifer would do to put in
the band and Field isn't inappropriate for
q scene Of operations, Steele is not so bad
either, and we find Steele eonmon to ar
mics. There is no use for Shields In 1ur
modern warfare, at any rate since the
Shenandoah valley campaign of 1862,
though the resels continue TO employ Ar
chers. II
Mountainous as some parts of the South
are. there are two Hills down there that
seem particularly hard to get over, and
Breckenridge Dense FORESTS, heavy
Woods, aud difficult Rhodes are oecasion-
ally to be seen Boggs and Brooks diver.
sity the prospect, though it must be stated
that the latter are not produced by Rains
of North Carolina, and OF course not by the
Rams that fell at Stone river. We edon't
know much about the rebel Dane, but are
advised that this is different from the fa-
nous Long street. How long that is we
are not apprised, though We have seen the
mention of Miles In our army We have
no deueral Hills We have Meade, a
Parke, Woods, Brooks, and Tower, the
latter however, not remarkably tall.
There is no whisky in the Southern or,
my, owing, we suppose, to the difficulty OF
procuring that article. There is however,
Or lately was, kimmel, and whatever ale
can be got'o of Adams As to our own
army, though we keep Butter, We don't
indulge IN anything stronger than Meade.
There is Porter on the list, though he is
cut at present. This refers to the Andrew
brand Fitz.John, (n,t Demi john) Por.
TER the Admins tratlUm swore OH from In
Nov 1862 What with the laws OF Con-
yre,s in regard 10 the abolition of sailors
grog, and Gen Grants temperance order
IN the Army of the Potomac, We may per !
haps look for total abstinence some of these
days. George Washington Morell is one
OF our Brgadier Generals; We wish all
Brigadier Generals--and MAJOR Generals
ioo for that matter--were as moral as
George Washington.
is the rebels seem to have thrown the
Lees Of their society into the war; the mer.
chants and tradespeople are not remarka'
bly, well represented. There aretwo Coop
ers, Gardener, Leadbeater and Taylor
Or two. The rebels have their Parsons
and we have our Pope. The only working
men represented among our Generals are
the Potters and Taylors, excepting the
Smiths, and the rebels, by the way, have
them, too ...a ..&-....-
We don't see how the enemy can want |
food as long as they have Hogg Mouton
aud Greens On the other hand, If we
should ever get out of beef, we can fall
back an our Viele We hear that General
Pike, who resigned the Confederate service
some time ago is making overtures tor
pardon His case will probably be turned |
over to Provost~MarshalrGeneral Fry.
III re has been great deal of talk about
National Banks. carried on through the 7
Treasury Department. 1t will not, how
ever, escape notice that the War Depart
ment also has its National Banks located |
in Louisiana and Texas I'd
Ifthe Administration fails to put down,
cut t. pieces, and bore out this internal re
bellion. it is not for want of tools we
have Sickles, and we have Shears, nor must
we forget tho old Barlow. We don't just
now remember much that has been done
by our Augur, but we have had several
that would not bore. We might make some
sharp remark about General Blunt, but
punning disagrees with US.
The rebels have General named Trem>
ole. He must be relative OF General
Ricketts,. They also have Gen, Witbers;
we hope he will be wrung "Let the
Gated lace vince" Gen.. Wise is a we'll
known confederate Wecan beat that We
have General Solomon, There is, we be- !
licve, only cue General Cheatham in the
cnemyis forces BY snane ;teongh a large
nun,bersin point -os ftact I'VE 'are afraid
there is more than one Gen. Hooker in the
Federal ranks. . - 90 esTd
The Confederates say they are fighting
TOR their homes, Until recently Holmes
was fighting for them, but none to hurt! i
JEFF Davis has just put a Price on Afkan-
sas land. bu, we reckon Red River will run
rcdder yet if he stays -in--tbat vicinity
they say.the stream ID coming up, but it ist
Rank, aud the latest quotations reported
Steele going down. +
They have General In the eSouth named
-Corse. He had better go to Toombs.
The secesh have buried two Garnetts.-
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