The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1864-03-17

burg Republican publishes q letter
from an army. correspondent ear
SemArville Ford, Virginia, hicll
gives the following account OF the
Yankee reenlistment:
Two gentlemen, who have been
scouting in Prince WilliaasssS;'ooun |
ty, and :havo gust returned from
there, stsid ia. our camp last night,
and report that there has been a
heayy fight among corps 0f Yam
kee troops stationed near. A3rissoe
Station, under the following. Cir
'cumstances:- ---
A. -deysiIad been appointed for re:
enlistinS-the men of this corps, and
a large number of barrels of wkii!<-
ey had been brought down and
/ the heads Knocked out and the
men inviteu to drink. in order to
get them up to the sticking point.
Some of the Dutch and Irish pitch
ed in, got tight, and arrayed them
selves in tho line of the re enlist
ed, but the calculating. fun blooded
Yankees, together with a large
portion of the whole, smelt the rat
and refused to participate; where
upon the re- enlisted men commenc-
ed taunting the rest, and a general
row followed, all parties seizing
sAaa;r arms. The fight lasted for
hours, and the firing is said to
have been terrific. The command
ing officer had six pieces of artil-
lery opened ON the insurgents
and finally succeeded in restoring
qniet. Five hundred men are re-
ported as killed, and a long train
of ambulGnces and. wagons were
loaded and sent off with wounded
1 presume there is no doubt as tc
this affair, as officers in this regi
ment have received letters from
thei, families in the neighporhooc
CONFIRMING the fact, and stating
that they heard the firing, &C.
Two thousand of the men imp'ica
ted in this matter were placed il
irons, which fact will give yo,
somo idea of the extent and impor
tance of this affair. This i
bad lately, as reported by il pri<
oner.
=, Two Yankee regiments, who's
; term of service bad expired, wer
ordered to advance against th
rebels, which they refused to dc
;; and d brigade was ordered agains
thcm. Tho two regiments ar
said to have whipped the brigad
both losing about one hundre'
men killed and wounded.
The CONFEDERATE DEAD AT GEL
, TYsBuRa.--There appears, says th
Philadelphia Era, to be consid
1'erable feeling ia aud around Gel
ltysbarg, that place be set apar
for the burial of the Confcderat
dead who are now buried pyomi;
cuously over the battle field or i,
the vicinity. The recent rain
, have washed the places wher
, they are buried, and the bones ar
! exposed; besides which, in a shol
:. time, the land will be put in cult
! vation, and no trace Of their las
: resting place will be left. Commo
t humanity would dictate remove
t to some spot, not in OF about ou
: own National Cemetery, but th
purchase of ground somewher!
/ where their Southern friends ma,
. whenthe rebellion is crushed, an
Q ali is pence, make their pilgrimae
here. Cur State should not maf
= the purchase, nor could It 4
expeefed but If the Sofitherne
sEould !exprcss suchs a desire, al
:. would carry it to completion "
should say-let It ba done, for II
sake Of cor common bumanity.-
d Tie hostility Of The dead has cease
but let them bic in a spot wheI
a father, mother, can visit the
= last resting place, ''when this cr
el war is over"
ANerroncous impression obtai,
y, as to the appointment of Gre
Bragg: lie Is not and cannot