Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1864-06-23

evening. None Of our feet was struck From the az
Cacy Of our fire. it Is presumed the Yankees we're lees
fortunate.
Lieut. GWn, Of tie marines, who was with our sharp
shooters on shore is reported to have killed two Van.
kee sailors stationed in the upper rigging Of one of tie
Yankee feet Our informant ia aseaman the Hampton
and was on duty aboard her during the entire day. He
was with Walker in Nicaragua and has seen service in
South America and other parts of the world, and Is
therefore competent judge Of the conduct Of and
officers in action. He says, what we very well know,
that all the officers of the 6set were as cool and de-
lberate aad We learn from another source that they
could not have been more SOY as Captain j. S. Maury
and the officers and crew of his ship that squadron
the Yankees can collect win ever defeat the James river
feet
THH So RICHMOND HOwnEERs AND lsF NORTH CAROLINA.
A correspondent of the Presbyterian, Of this city,
concludes a letter as follows:
Three years ago a band Of youthful srtlerisIs went
forth from their native city to meet the invading fee
msn-v.h scarcely an exception none Of them had
reached the ssrner years Of manhood, and yet they
went forth to conquer or TO de- Bear5lsss faces and
merry blue eyes were among theuhs ell site step and
the IbuOyancy of youth belOksued the viii to be and
make brave soldiers Of our brave AID beautiful merop
oils. How proudly they marched through the wild,
streets Of noble Richmond and She if proud of her
gallant sons sent forth Der daughters fair to bid them
stand Ike the sturdy ysomanry Of old in the coming
conflict or else Writs Il cir names in letters of blood
on the book of grateful counsry's remembrance At
Bethen those yout ful soldiers drove back and
qusred the vain boasng men Of the North-a gallant
North Carolina regiment Of infantry supported that pus
ria company Of artlersls aud led on by the dAnntesi
Hill, won for itself name of glory. Three years
afterward that company Of artillerSts new
grown old in wars" stood with that same
Carolina regiment, and faced ID charging
lotmau. Toe company is sadly changed now,
for msny who fought with then sleep in the soldiers
crave; some fell a. Charleston at First Fredercks
burg, some at Observation-Disclosures sleep swsJ off
Gsysburgs bloody field, thirty-nine we're lost to US
az SpotIsylVana @. H.. and many stand with the SD
company who were strangers 10 US then. The old
ls Carolina is vastly changed too, for irhere are the
500 men who landed % Yorktown IN 6lY Ask the
pale moon as she, in her queenly beauty, proudly
courses through the midnight skies ii ever che has seen
those gallant missing stretched full length the
Geld Of battle Ask the stormy winds if ever they
have blown mady over the graves Of those gallant
CsrOnans whose places are now vacant IN that brave
cid regimentS lie who was Ooonel then rose rapidly
until Lieutenant Generals wreath worn by him,
and though with some he has fallen into disrepIte, yet
few days since his worth again made evident-its
Lieutenant Colonel then, sleeps il the cold dark
grave-its Major thea is a Brgader General now aud
there is WhO then almost unknown Captain,
and he, few weeks since, returned from Cardinals
coat wearing evergreen garland Of victory entWined
on Pymt uths field, perhaps you think this general
hOdz)-snd the stars Of Division General are his re-
ward.
That regiment and thai company fought nobly, as
hey did at Bethel and an almost blOodess victory now,
as then, was tho result
LATEST IRON YAEKEEDoM.
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