The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-06-04


pEyor1oS OF WEST POINT PEOPLE.
Around the Point, General Scott was,
without exception, idoliZed by all the
cadets and Iaboring civilians. He
spoke to most of those whom he passed
on the way, and when riding, an al
most feudal attachment existed in all
this quarter to both the man and the
soldier.
A SPECTACLE OF 1872.
Among the folks who have come to
the Point, are several soldiers OF the
war of 1912, feeble old men, quite bare
of hair, and feeble of perception, who
are paving to the corpse the last rever-
ence 10 the captain of their youth. l
saw one of them tonight crossing from
Garrison's-a deaf, forgettul, halt old
gentleman, who with difficulty asked
the way to the hotel, and forgot imme-
diately both the question and the reply.
He said, on the piazza at Roe, that he
fought at Lundy's Lane, and wiped ms
eve on a faded coat-sleeve, ruinously
brushed into respectability.
THE BURIAL PLACE,
selected for the illustrious soldier is in
the cemetery of the post, by the side OF
the officers who were killed during du-
ring the rebellion and inferred there.
The spot to be selected for the final rest
ing place of the Generals remains is a
prominent point of view, easily to be
seen from the Academy, from OLD Fort
Putnam, from Redoubt Hill, and from
every other point, on both sides of the
river, in this vicinity.
LATE REITNICENsEs.
On the morning after the General's g
arrival at West Point, General McCul-
lom called on him and said that sa-
lutte was to be fired in honor of his visit.
The General was very much affected
by this, and when he heard the guns
he said: 1.-The last of human glories
are passing away" Although cheerful
he seemed to be very much impressed
with this tribute to his worth, and the
tear glistened in his eye. On Saturday
game of whist-"a good game" accord
ing TO the statement made to your cor
respondent.
PREsENTISIENTs.
The day before he died he said to an
officer, who asked him if he could dc
ANYTHING for him: "No, have come
here for you to bury me-"
A LINEAL descendant of Bombastes
Furioso is favoring the English public,
through BlacklVood'S lfagazine, with a
remarkable series of papers entitled
"Me moirs of the Confederate War
This gentleman is such a prodigy OF
valor, that it really makes ones blood
curdle to read his only too modest ac-
count of his own exploits. The puis-
SAINT knight doesn't do justice to him
self. With fear and trembling we
transcribe page from his memoirs;
Having been refused the Generals
permission to join in the attack, gal
loped on my own account, about nun
dred yards to tile right OF the road In
the direction of the hostile sharpshoot-
ers, tChoSe particular attention ut once
engaged, a number OF bullets flying
around my head unpleasantly quick
and near. Having got within about
forty yards of their position, 1 shouted
out to them to surrender, but in the
fdncied security offered by the broad
foaming stream which flowed between
them and their assailants, they treated
my summons with defiance, and an
swered only with n brace of bullets, one
of which nearly cut off lock OF my
hair.
Erasperated out of all patience at this,
spurred my horse and dashed with a
tremendous leap into the middle of the
creek, and for moment Its waters
seemed to close over my head: but
quickly Surmounting the torrent, my
brave horse gallantly swan to the OPP
posite shore, and, by strenuous effort
ofevery sinew, succeeded in scrambling
up the steep bank to the high ground
above. The 6oLdneSS and rapidly Of this
feat seemed to perfectly phralyze the
objects of my tUrdth-a corporal and n
private of the Sd Indiana cavalry-who,
as I pounced upon them NTH WpLyted
Sword, threw away their arms and beg
ged for mercy on their knees.
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