The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-06-23

on sea and land had made them self
confident and forgetful of their reli-
ance upon God; that the love OF lucre
had eaten like gangrene into the
very heart of the land; that therefore
they had no right to complain that
they had been schastened,' but should
receive in humble thankfulness the
lesson which he has taught in our re-
cent reverses."
The following, from the same au-
thority, is summary of the opera
tons of chief Importance during the
month of July.
"July 3d-Victory of Gettysburg;
enemy's loss $4,000.
July capture of Vicksburg; en-
emy's loss. $1,000 men and 22O can
mons. Victory at Helena, Arkansas;
enemy's loss 2.7OO. Evacuation of
Tulahoma by Brsgg; enemy's loss
within few days about 5000.
July 6-Battle of Hanover; Stuart's
cavalry defeated, with loss of 1000
prisoners.
July S-Capture of Port Hudson;
enemy's loss 1000, besides cannon
and ammunition. Battle of Funks-
town; enemy's loss heavy.
July 9-Battle of Boonsboro; enc
my's loss 600.
July 1O-Charleston assailed by q
combined naval and militia force.
July 13-Yazoo City captured; enc
my's loss 500 prisoners, six guns, a
gun boat and stores.
July 16-Capture of Jackson, Mis-
sissippi; victory at Elk Creek, Ark. /;
5000 Confederates under Cooper de-
feated by Blunt.
July 17-Naval expeditions up Red
River and to Natchez; large captures
of stores and ammunition.
July 18-Battle of Burlington, Ohio;
1000 of Morgan's band captured.
July 19-Affair at Jackson, Tenn;
two companies of the enemy captured
of Morgan's band; 800 more captured.
July 22-Cavalry expedition from
Newbern. North Carolina; recapture
of Brashear City.
July 26- Surrender of Morgan with
the whole of his remaining forces to
Gen. Shackelford."
On August LIST, 1863, Jefferson DAY.
is issued an address to the soldiers of
the Confederate States telling them
among other things that the enemy
we're gathering heavy masses of men
for general invasion and concludes
with the following pathetic appeal:
II call on you, then, my countrymen,
to hasten to your camps, in obedience
to the dictates of honor and of duty,
summon those who have absented
themselves without leave, or who have
remained absent beyond the period al
lowed by their furioughs, to repair
without delay to their respective COM
mand and I do hereby declare that I
grant general pardon and amnesty
to all officers and men within the
Confederacy, now absent without
leave, who shall, with the least posi-
BILE delay, return to their proper posts
of duty; but no excuse for any delay
beyond twenty days after the first pub.
LEGATION of this proclamation in the
State in which the absentee may be at
the date of the publication. This am
nesty and pardon shall extend to all
who have been accused, or who haye
been convicted and are undergoing
sentence for absence without leave,
desertion, excepting only those who
have been twice convicted of deser-
ton.
FINALLY, conjure you my country
women-the wives, mothers, sisters
and daughters of the Confederacy-to
use their all powerful influence in aid
of this call, to add one browning sac
rifce to those which their patriotism
has so freely and constantly offered
on their country's altar, and to take
care that none who owe service in the
field shall be sheltered at home from
the disgrace of having deserted their
duty to their families, to their country
and to their God"
With the view in mind that slavery
did not harmonic with the spirit of
our institutions nor with the civiliza-
ton OF the nineteenth century, what
more fitting side light can we throw
on the events of our war for freedom
and humanity than the following from
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