The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1885-05-09
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Tof ,p,,Ial ra.ona Iu '1r Na}
C%eniur, more pace than u.lai
devoted ~ lhe Wu = fis. and
sixteen pigr. arc added - he
regular numbU lG, in OrIef that
other subject, ~ public Importance
should ro' bD lightri " hyperion
interest D. Grnrrl Alam Irlaan
a%nccloial papor on General
Grant a. q SOLDIER Gourral ia
dcau. article covers ttl" 0hnlr
period Of General Grant military
experience from hi. brilliant GER
vices in the Mexican War 70 the
surrender " Zoe Al App"m"ti"s
concluding with 80 interesting
ANALYSIS Of General Grants ~ol
dicrly characteristics.
The froutispiecc of the nuinper
il striking portrait II General
Mcclellan, casraSed from a photo
graph taken especially FOR tbs
PURPOSE. General Mcclellan con
trihutc- = graphic account Of THE
PENINSULA Campaign" and makes
special reference 10 hi official and
personal relations with Secretary
stanton and President Liucola
OF peculiar Interest Is 'cnefal
Joseph Il. Johnston "N'nassas +"
Seven Pines phich isa reply to.
jefferson Dayis's criti"i'ms tin
"The Rise and Fall of the 'onicd
eracy") on his military operations
in Virginia General Johnston
describe, IN detail the battles %
Bull Run aud the first DAY H Soy
on Pites aud i~ccnllrrtlou arc
nniem,ricd, a, it were, by Cen
John y lmbodcns entertain.
~ description 81 "INcriru's ofthc
Ittlc Of Manassas snd General
Gustavus " Smith's account of
1.-The Second Day ~ Seven Pines.
General lmbodon relates fresh
succdoie. II General Stun"wsli
Jackson anil other prominent 49,
tors in the battle AMI, IN conrsn.
sion, he throws new light m 'he
Confederate failure ~ pursnr the
Federal army Ia Washington.
General Gustavut w Smith com
manded AZ Seven Pines from the
time Of Gqnoral Johnston lnlurN,
on the evening Of the frat day,
until General Lee assumed com
mani, after the fighting had ceased
on the second day. The fourth
chapter Of "Rocollection' Of a Fri
vate' describes the movement
which saved the Union army from
total defeat at Seven Pincs-thc
forced march Of Summers corps Ia
the aid Of the outnumbcred Federal
tanps at Fair Oaks Station. The
war papers arr illustrated with
careful maps, pictures II incidents
aud Of places, anil numerous por.
traits. Including a full page double
portrait of Generals Lee and john
sipn, from a photograph taken
after the war.
Is "0pen letters an account is
given, 10y John Icyburn, OF "An
Interview with General Robert T..
Lee, in which the latter discussed
war questions, aud expressed ats
faction over the abolition 81 alt.
very.
Other illustrated features Of the
May number are the first Of series
Of two humorOusly illustrated pa
p"rs on THE New Orleans Exposi
tiop,n by Eugene V. Smhley thu
first Of q series Of papers "rypica
Dogs by writer's having spccia
knowledge, the article in the Ma,
number including short accuun,
OF the Mastih, the st. Bernard, th
Bulldog, the Bull.Tcrrier, tn
Greyhound, and the Chesapeak
Duck. Dog, together with ongra'
ings Of a fine animal Of each kim
or fiction The May number CO.
tains a brief story by Mrs. iiol,
Jackson or. H., entitled TT
Princes Little Sweetheart" d
seventh part Of NJ. Howells's no
Ell, "The Rise Of silas Iaphan
and the fourth part Of lien
James's serial, 1.-THE B~ostcnian
The poems u the number are
Edmund Goase, G. p. Cranch, NJ
Charlotte riske Bates, John Va,
Cheney aud, in "Bric.a-Bra
byJ. A. Mace n. Mrs. Alice
Rollins, Stanley we-i, aud oth'