The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-05-09

| TO glve..up enormous rAnsOma 10 escape
destruction, and this money would have
equipped navy and furnished the
South with all it needed TO carry on the
war.
an employee Of the builder stole q
private note ofthe Naval Secretary and
for an immense bribc turned it over 10
Mr. Bigclow. who showed it to the En-
peror and obliged the work on the YES.
scls. to.bc stopped.
stillagain, when Mcclellan ".had.been
crushed On the James and Lee marched
toward Washington, with only in hia way
General Pope, whose headquarters were
sin the saddle and whose hindquarter~
wcre:.soon whirling through Washington,
only an accident prevented Confederate
| success.
! Lee moved on to Maryland. Washing.
ton was in danger. Mcclellan, deposed
in disgrace, was again summoned to COM
mand as a desperate resort. Lee captur-
ed at Harper's Ferry 1l,C0Q men, and
then wrote his famous order No. l9l, in
which he described his plans for the
next ten days and gave each of his corps
commanders their full directions. He
divided his army into sections, separated
By sometimes forty or fifty miles, and
moved on.
A Maryiander ofSouthern sympathies,
who visited Mcclellan in his camp, found
him sick in body and mind. He said he
did not know where Lee was. Stuart
had cut off all sources of information.
He dare not 60 forward, for if defeated
he would be disgraced and deposed. He
dared not retreat, fer his soldiers would
mntiny.
NJust then courier entered the tent
and handed him an envelope. Mcclellan
opened it and read the contents. Jump.
ing to his feet with appearances of exul.
| tation he exclaimed "Now, know exact
" what to do" He had in his posses.
sion copy of Order l9l. By blunder,
or bad luck some one had got possession
of it, and Mcclellan was looking iuto
Lees hand as he played the game of war;
The MaIylander sent warning TO Lee,
ard the scattered sections of the army
we're summoned to unite by swift couri.
ers. But the men came in exhausted By
forced marches, and then the battle on
Antietam Greek followed.
There were 5000 men against $4,000,
but the army of Lee made such a fight as
to keep Mcclellan back, and dispute the
honors of this famous fight.
Lee always believed that the result Of
Antetam doomed the Confederacy.
To turn away from gloomy things to
brighter facts, the Confederate army made
for ilselfa name for courage unequalled
in the history Of the world. On one
occasion at a banquet in Toronto, Cen
eral Garnet Wolsley asked General
Preston, of the staff Of General Albert
Sidney Johnston, if the South could not
have held out longer.
Gen. Preston replied that as q matter
Of physical endurance the South could,
but that in four years the Confederacy
lost more men than Great Britain in all
her wars from the time of William, the
Congueror, to Gen. Wolsley.
The south in four years lost 222,000
men out of a population of6ve millions,
and Chicksmauga was the bloodiest
battle Of all ages.
Or. Laferty closed with an eloquent
peroration in which be pictured the
wonderful progress of the South since
the war, and said that in future time
another Homer might arise and sing to
listening and lanenting hearers the llliad
of the South that noble cause that fell
without single coward, and which from
The ashes of its destruction had reared
new Illium.