The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-04-07

,, Iola Aarbor With trifiing losses. To attail
nnu i@ne PGint bad cost Gen. Grant frightfu
, %oer OF lives. Nor could it be said that h.
~ any important successes to offset this loss
h.tti a not defeated his adversary in any of til,
that Sa has OF the campaign, nor did it seen
Inc army Of Northern Virginia, not reinforced
untH 1t reached Hanover Junction and ther
oS.y ny about 5000 men, had repulsed every
a forcs ana in final trial Of strength with
n aorce vastly superior, had inflicted upon the
ene1,y, In about an hour, loss of - 600 men.
;mno,t nsn we urge upon military students the
ths camSs UI gFin 1get an attentive study to
t Wnet their appetite by stating the compare
i've mum bers Of the two mics. Lees numbers
sbs s 20 o dss of May were nearly as pos
joined at Hanover Junction by 5000 more.
zen. Grant opened the campaign in command
81 At.l6I men. Within that month, and in
h ioo rom s.. sne very commencement of the
1000 900 additional men before he crossed the the
:sns1, river: Lees army" Gays Mr. Cooke,
sne men were IN rags, and worse still, but one
commencement o9nn Of May, the men were gauut,
| 80 arduousa campaign" We submit to ali mill.
tary readers never did 1000 men quit them
| more gloriously than those tatterdemallios
aa me SON: SIR wsss Scott
Ia Is
brave blood has been shed in vain-it sends q
roaring voice down through all time" It is
nSs necessary TO comment upon the magnificent
munitions Of, war supplied to the 25O, 900 mon
who followed Gen. Grant; but whom militarv
sPiSare:, While q fsm!i.rizing themselves with
selves unable to study tho irregular CONFLICTS
Of two armed American mobs, We venture to
toll sa, them that in all that constitutes true
m nnsnI' the Transatlantic Civil War far
surpassed the Franco-German conflict, No.
tning is easier, says the steward of Molier's
miser, than to give great dinner with plenty
OF money the really great cook is he who can
Grant in 1864 drew upon an almost inexhaust-
lille treasury; Gen. Lees account was heavily
overdrawn before the campaign began. Never
tSs Day and
believing that the ragged, famished and suf-
feripg regiments of Secessia, numbering alto
gether bnt 50, 600 men, would have discomfited
nents, if Gen. Sherman and his Western army
had not revived the spirits and reanim ated the
courage of his dropping colleague in Virginia
''char ca"sa Dis placuit, sed ricta Catoni.
Referring to the battle of Gettysburg-the
o great stain upon Lees naup as a general,
the writer says:
Never had the Condolences been so full of
fight; and on the first day of battle, the Fed
erals who, under Gen. Reynolds, caue into COL
is,on wath Stonewall Jackson's old corps, then
commanded by Ewell, were driven like chaff
efore the wind. Lees true policy, after recon
chance, and in no degree by his own deliberate
choice, Gen. Meade had been driven, was to
have abstained from attacking his enemy.
You are at the head of an invading army"
wrote Napoleon to Marniont not long before
the battle of Salamanca, and ought never to
fight q battle except on ground Of your own
choosing; Try, a nj 81, nj naais; choose your
own battlefield, force your enemy to attack |
you upon it,, and never yield it SO long as one
living Frenohnan is left" Wise words, which |
1t would have been we'll if Gen. Lee-who, by |
Icons campaigns or maxims-had known and
taken to heart during those three opening days !
of July which, in 1863, he passed in Pennsyl- |
vania; But even after the second day of bat
tie, which had taught him the strength of his |
enemy's position, there was time for him to
have reconsidered his plan, and to have fol-
lowed Gen. Longstreet's advice. We close the
volume of Gen. Lees life with the con viction
hat the contemplation of this battle of Gettys-
burg will forever prevent his being ranked as
great offensive general. But, en- rcranche,
he offensive-defensive he will bear COMPARE
on with any general of modern times. His
actical management of the troops which drove
away from before Richmond in 1862
nd of those which won the battle of Chancel-
orsville in 1868, is above all praise. But it
vas in purely defensive strategy that he most s
hone. We are willing to stand upon the cam
aign of 1864 and to abide the Judgment which
heightened and impartial students will he
to pass upon it.
The fame and character of Gen. Lee will
GREATER be regarded in Europe and in America
nder dual aspect. In Europe, we shall con- .
der him merely as q soldier; and it is more
han probable that within the present century
70 shall have accustomed ourselves to regard =
i'm as third upon the list of English speaking
eneras, and as having been surpassed in sol =.
ierly capacity by Marlborough and Yelling Q
IN alone. In America, when the passions Of
le great civil war shall have died out, Lee
ill be regarded more as o man than as O SOL
Ter. His infinite purity, self-denial, tender L
ess and generosity will make his memory .
ore and more precious to his sountrymen b
hen they have purged their minds of the
:ejudices and animosities which civil war in I
ariably breeds.
TREATMENT IN CASE OF HYDRoPHoB1A,
he subject of much discussion, Mr.. =
urt True. WAS bitten by rahid dnn last