Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-08-03
The French Won MoItke.

As Won Moltke was hardly known to
readers out of Prussia anterior to the splen-
did campaign which ended at Sadowa, the
man TO whose brain will he due whatever
of successful strategy shall characterize the
French arms in the coming war is as yet
unnamed. Gen. Louis Jules Trochu is to-
day undeniably the best soldier of France.
| He is now So years of age. a graduate of
| the staff School of st. Cyr, he was made
Lieutenant in 1910, and promoted to Cap
taincy in 1843. His first staff service was
with that fine soldier, Bugeaud, in Alge-
ria. Chef d'escadron and Major in 1916,
and Lieutenant-Colonel in 1853, his first
European service was in the italian cam
paign.
At the commencement of the Crimean
war, he was made Chief of the General
Staff, and by reference to Kinglake's His
tory, it will be seen that in all conferences
with Lord Raglan, Trochu, rather than st.
Arnaud or Canrobert, was spokesman on
the part of France. Throughout the cam
paign, having been made General of Bri-
gade in 1854, he occupied this position of
confidential staff officer of the Commander
in-Chief an office analogous TO that of Gne-
isenau under Butcher, given in just recog-
milton of his military ability and skill.
In 1864 he reached his grade of General of
Division. Two years after, he was charged
| with the preparation of plan TO reorgan-
| ize the army. Instead of, as has been sug-
| gested lacking the Imperial confidence,
he has it in the most fiattering degree.
His essay upon organization, LArmee
! FfUHcdjse, published in 1867, ran through
| ten editions. Trochu is known to have an
ticipated the event of a war with Prussia
| \ recent pamphlet from his pen, which
unfortunately cannot be obtained in this
country, developes an immense deal of
| study of the Rhenish frontier as a fighting
| field, and palpably indicates the national
/ impulse a. occupying the strategist's mind.
Should the war survive its first battle Il
fortnight, and promise, as seems, very
likely, TO be long one Trochu's name
may chance to appear at the head of the
French armies.-ArDeyand Nary Journal.
|
The Confederate Cemetery at Elmira, NY.
We have seen a late letter from our es-
teemed friend, Mr.. Thomas n Davis, of
this city, who has been absent for several
weeks past on trip through New York
for the benefit of his healthy in which he
refers TO visit TO the Confederate Gene
terry at Elmira, in that State. 1t will be
remembered that Elmira was the site OF
one of the military, prisons of the United
States Government during the war, and
that great many Confederate soldiers died
there during their confinement, of theil
wounds or of sickness. Mr.. Davis repre-
: sents that the cemetery in which their re.
mains are gathered is handsomely enclosed
and regularly laid out, the walks being
neatly trimmed and gravelled and the
graves covered with grass, flowers and
shrubbery all evincing marks of constant
care. Whether this attention is rendered
} by the citizens, the Government or the
} town authorities, Mr. Davis says he is moi
! able TO state, but it certainly reflects credit
on the taste, skill and fidelity of the par
ties who have il in charge. From four L
six thousand Confederate heroes sleep theil
last dreamless sleep in this distant enclo
! | sure.
The Southern people should take com
fort in knowing that their dead are so wei
+ taken care of and their memories 30 faith
= fully hOnored in the distant and alief
+ country in which they breathed their las
? away from home and friends. If ",
knew that such attentions were paid 10y
, the people who were then our enemies, i
Z would add many wreaths to Federal grave,
l in our next Memorial DecOratiOn.-Ly Hch
, burg V0.) RcpubHcdn.
} Would you tell lie for ten cents -
t asked a Boston Sunday school teacher o
r her class of boys. 4" No, maam - was til,
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