The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-08-22
GENERAL LEEs D1sxAY.
Was a Changed Man AAsr tAs W.
dsrness


hurled Mcclellan back from before
Richmond on the Peniusula, Pope Ct
the seeond Bah Ran. Barasisie af Pred
ericks5arg and Il polzer ar Chancellor
vile, ccamted upea tbe saIae resalr ~
tactics - nearly alike IN each iIstanc.,
having the samc etlsci az the wilsie--
rss-s. In frant Il Rich1nond in My
and June Is1 while fighting IN the
are of she eircle. he coull and did throw
sutseriar numbers on exFo=sa positions.
and in the Pope e=iHiE1lin, when he sas
s.iefl 10 s,t out Of his -eraIe ~ lsst be
eould, be-. Lev. by his oeieriiy Il hss
movements. sin adopted the sanle tae-
tie~ of striking isliafed and eXPo-~-d
POSITIONS - largely superior numbers
thai could not he wifh-sOad- and ~
Frszierickst,grg ia ps'sifion, behind
breast works. ne withStood EASILY every
aftack. while al ChahcellorSviile the
supreme efIort was nlasle. slthough
against an army double hisoWn-
Bv that almost unparalleled efiort be
threw Jackson sgsinst car right wing,
doubling it up and taking guns and
prisoners By thetheusands,tin Ne earn
estlv repeatsd q favorite Tsstition of old,
w oaId % God night or Biucier would
come.
In each oftheSc instance the attack
was on our right. and Ia each csc sue
esssfal. and ON that Nay day thirty
years ss,o, a. Grants long line poured
over the RaIidan and spread through
the almost Inaccessible forest, placing
it-zlf between Lee and Richmond,
Iei them 70. and a. before, believing
Grant woald think be would fiie tothe
right % keep hiIn from cutting his COM
munications, he araiH. A. three times
before, niassed on cur right and prs-s--
ed his dous,le columns upon the Union
ranks, taking many prisoners, ofitimos
eros=s,d iayonets and IN the Wilderness
Of trees trampled down huudrs-is of
Union f1rces, 20 that when night came
he was hardly checked in his eours.
aud believed that Grant had reoeived
such check that on the following day
ne would rscrsss or make preparations
toward 3 retrograde movement, A. had
been the case with Mcclellan, PoPe,
Burnside and Hooker.
Who can picture his disnay when,
with the dawn Of the next day, he not
only found a fortified superior foroe in
front Of his left, bur his right menaoed
By aggravaIing numbers
II Wa then he knew il vas war O.
the knife and knife % the hilt, and no
wonder he was changed man from
that dsy We know that be dad not
Ike a carnival Of blood, " but b. knew
il nInst come. and BOO wen he knew
t-iat this Wa bat --the beginning Of the
end" The telegraph was then u=.-d,
on the 9Th Of May, 30 Jet Davis know
thar Richmond Was IN danger, thar all
s1perfiuous persons and prisoners mus
De- sent away, and We who were then I'M
Libby received notice that the next day
we were 10 be exchanged, and on the
morning Of May :, 1874. Libby prison
emptied il nas- Of prisoner into the
streets
We literally 'broke up hou~ekeeI-
ing for IN our early prison day, dur
ing the summer ofIs6a, Ne had soi sup
plies ia boxes. 80 that We we've IN a
-8mev, hat comfortable state. We had
books and classes ia mathematics,
French, stenograPhv, etc. and when
the order came O. leave We destroyed
every book We could not eslrTy with "a,
but instead of being exchanged We were
crowded into box ear and sent to Dan
vile and packed into quarters - thick
IL that ~ could not DE down 10 sleep,
b II one would lean against the wall and
the next against him, and 80 through
the room : bur we continually received
tidings of the war and would couverse
Al times with officials and soldiers who
had heen II the front, and IN the inter
course with o-iicer- who met Lee dur
Ing that campaign and from that time
% the clos of the war. In each ease
they agr--d that from thaf day there
yFas a radical change IN his d-meanor
-alwa-s oourteoas aud pleasant, bar
there was tinge Of melancholy in ms
every act and speech.
Too vel he knew that this Wa bGi
the beginning of the end and therefore
he must have known that the responzi-
bilify for the los of life thereafter must
rest upon those who were instrumental
F in prolouging the struggle
/ We do not know, and probably never
I VIII know. whether or not he protested
b. Davis and the rebel authorities
F against further bloJdshcd, bat fully
{ realizing hi- humane disposition and
that be forssaw that every day precious
+ lives were sacrificed and the southern
/ country devastated and drained, We
/ believed he would have been willing
then % Gloss the struggle and sgrren-
der the armies upon the same terms on
which they finally y suceumb=d la ls5j.
II would be ereditabIe 90 him If this
were the ea-e, and II his son or some
one in his confidenee would give 70 the
world his inner thoaght during thO~-
dav. il could De ssen that every man
killed after the Wilderne=s e-Ifupaigu
were sacrificed hy the stuob1rn iact- Of
the rebel authorizes, and We would
like T. know that the brave soldier al
the the head Of the confederate army
Wa not willing party o. the slaught-
er, bui protested asain~t it, Cincinnati
Esysirer.
When Visiting the Invalid