The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-06-03

sIDle 1oC onr ml1tary power 10 reach
all the masses Of this unhappy coun-
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Connected with the battle OF Fred
erieksburg is an nnecdote, which
shows the difference between true,
-anpretending courage and the spa
rious article with its po1npous as
sumptions. a general officer riding
! alone, two DAYS after the retreat of
Burnside, stopped to warm ata fire
| where group of Cobb's brigade,
which had defended the stoae-wall,
was lying down in all the lisuessness
OF the obdtCion after fight. The
officer had on common soldiers
overcoat, and was welcomed rs
cavalryman to the fireside. a .coun-
try Lad, 4 farmer boy at home, gave
him graphic description of the fierce
assault and terrible repulse, in his
own simple style, ending his nara.
tive with his ingenious comments
upon lighting i'll general. Il have
hearn men say that they were spilin
for fight, but never did spile fora
fight. Stranger, I've been in every
fight with my regiment, but L never
! did like fighting. But when we was
killing them Yankees so purity behind
that are wall, and they wasn't hurting
us, l was rale sorry to see 'em run.
And l tell you, Mr.. St,lart's man,
that was the only time l ever did like
fighting" Mr. Stuart's man thanked
him for his narrative, mounted and
rode on. rejecting upon certain fu-
rious war speeches he had heard from
men whose warlike exploits in the
field had not yet become the theme
of poetry and of song.
The Ordnance Department at Rich
mond used to furnish, sometimes,
shot and shell, constructed on the
boomerang principle, admirably
adapted to injure our own troops,
and to shoot around corners, but very
harmless to masses of the enemy in
front.
Now it happened on a certain occa.
sion that General Early had received
q lot of new projectiles and deter
mined to test them. 4 battery was
drawn out and q group of officers of
superior rank to himself, Generals
Lee, Longstrcet, etc, posted them
selves at right angles to it to observe
the firing. The first shot turned
over gracefully on its side and went
hlsslng and sputtering close to the
mounted men of rank. Not liking so
broad compliment, they modestly
retired few PAGES. The second shot.
moro obsequious in it's attentions.
gave a closer salutation. The Cap
tain OF the battery now thought it
high time to interfarn
Captain-'I think, General. that
[ had better discontinue the firing.
The shells are utterly worthless.
General +. (eyeing the group of
officers cit looks like there might
be promotion in them! You may
continue the firing, Captain
SToNEwA1L JACKSON.
The admiration for Jackson was by |
no means confined to his own sec
ton. The Federal prisoners always
expressed i great desire to see him, |
and sometimes loudly cheered him.
This was particularly the case at
Harpcr's Ferry, where the whole line .
of 1000 prisoners greeted him with
lusty shouts. Citizens say that the
hostile troops always spoke of him .
va tA>l'"iiAiCtt t1ilSl. ~ ,
gentleman i'll the Valley Of Virginia
relates that when Fremont and Shields
thought that they had entrapped him
beyond the possibility Of escape, /,
Slegels Dutch soldiers passed his !
house singing ''Shackson in shuc,"
Uug.) 'Shackson in u shug." Ana
when they returned crestfallen from
Port Republic. they answered his in
qniry as to what they had done with
'Py tam, the shopper come
ont of the shug, he gone, py tam; if
the rebels don't make him de Pre-
sident, Sirgcls men make him."
While he was making his stcalthv
march around Popc's rear, still as the
breeze, but eventually dreadful as the
storm, Philadelphia paper remarked,
The prayerful partisan has not been
heard from for Il week, which BODIES
no good. 1t sent Pope to fight In
llans in the far. far West. awov
from the pleasant launts about WASH
ingtOn.
''Whcrc is Jackson?" I asked an
IRISH prisoner, who was astonished
beyond measure to find q rebel grasp
upon his shonlder With the apt
readiness of his people he replied,
Faith and that's jist the throuble
all the time, sSre.' Per contra, an
other countryman of the Emerald
Isle, taken in McClcllan's retreat from
4 b,,lN,