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

ade, obligo New York and other cities
to give.up enormous ransoms to 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 a
private note ofthe Naval Secretary and
for an immense bribe turned it over 10
Mr.. Bigelow, who showed it to the EN-
peror and Obliged the work on the Yves
sels.to.be stopped.
Still again, when MeClellan'shad.be been
crushed on the James and Lee marched
toward Washington, with only in his way
General Pope, whose headquarters were
"in the saddle" and whose hindquarters
were: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,000 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 some times forty or fifty miles, and
moved On.
a Marylander 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, for his soldiers would
! mutiny.
EJust 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.
ly what to do." He had in his posses
| sion q copy of Order l91. Bya blunder,
or bad luck some one had got possession
| of it, and Mcclellan was looking into
Lees hand as he played the game Of war.
The Marylander sent warning to Lee,
and 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 Creek followed.
There we're 10000 men agsinst $4,000,
but the army of Lee made such fight as
to keep Mcclellan back, and dispute the
honors of this famous fight.
Lee always believed that the result of
Antietam doomed the Confederacy.
To turn away from gloomy things to
brighter facts, the Confederate army made
for itself q name for courage unequalled
in the history Of the world. On one
occasion at a banquet in Toronto, Gen.
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 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
Conqueror, to Gen. Wolsley.
The south in four years lost $4,000
men out of population of6ve millions,
and Chickamauga was the bloodiest
battle of all ages.
DR.. Laferty closed with an eloquent
peroration in which he 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 lamenting hearers the Illiad
of the South that noble cause that fell
withouta single coward, and which from
the ashes of its destruction had reared
NOM Tl1;un