The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-03-19


in which the facts OF history have beer
wllfully garbled and perverted
1t is not singular then that some men
and we regret to say Southern-borll, ar,
unconsclously inclined in their enthusi
asm 1or the Japs to minimize the gal
lantry of the Confederate soldier, who
for instance, at Franklin. Tenn, withou
the support of artillery, assaulted the
federals, in entrenched position, with
guns OF heavy calibre, the Federal front
being entangled with brush-"c "chevau>
de Frlsse, an immense ditch and other
means of resistance, as bloody battle
as has been fought between the Japs and
| the Russians. The battle of Franklin
was CT the hercest possible character
he Contederates, moved down by
grape and canister and the terrific VOL
leys OF the infantry, advanced steadily
and irresistibly, and when inside the
works engaged in hand-to-hand strug-
gle with the bayonet and sabre and pis-
tol. General Cleburne and four brig
adler generals were killed and four gen
erals were wounded, and in the regi-
mental line in some regiments every Of
flcer from colonel down we're killed or
wounded. So great was the admiration
of a Federal officer and a competent
critic that he declared that greater valor
was never exhibited by any troops than
was shown here by the Rebels"
There never has been a parallel such
as the resistance offered by General Ma
gruder with 1900 men to General Nc
Clellan with an army of $4,000 infantry,
S. batteries of $50 guns and 10000 cav
airy. Magruder with this handful of
men held Mcclellan in check over two
weeks until Johnson could move his
army from the valley to the peninsula.
There is no such record in the war be-
tween the Russians and the Japs.
he Jackson campaign in the Sher-
andoah valley, where with few thous-
and men he whipped three armies in as
many days, the Federals being 2 and 3
to I, has never been equalled in the
worlds history, and no such achievement
is to the credit of the Japs or the Rus
slams.
Magruder' onslaught against McClel-
Ian, at Malvern Hill, has not yet been
in the Jap-Russian war. Never
did men move with greater determine
ton and recklessness of death than the
Confederate soldier
Sharpsburg was terrific battle and.
the heriosm displayed by the Confeier-
ates can never be surpassed
At Charlottesville, Jackson, as he
swept and fell on Hooker's rear, at right
flank, was never equalled by Napoleon
during the zenith of his fame
At Gettysburg the charge by Pickett's |
division was as great an achievement as !
there is recorded in war, and it would |
not be possible for the Russians and the |
)aps to surpass it.
In the Wilderness is given an example |
of the prowess of the American soldier |
in death struggle which was as heroic |
as it was desperate, and at no stage of |
the war between the Russians and Japs |
has there been more desperately fought |
battle.
The attempt to make ''puns' by COM
parison the va1or and heroism of the
American soldier, Confederate and Fed
eral, to those familiar with the records
Of history, especially of their own coun- |
try, is ridiculous
While Colonel Livermore has adjust !
ed, as alleged, his basis of reckoning,
Colonel G. F. R. Henderson. professor
Of the Art and Science of War in the
British War College, some years since,
in an appendix to his Life of Stone
vail Jackson,' gives the forces and the
osses suffered in all the great battles
IF all the civilized nations in the eight
eenth and nineteenth centuries. and the
battles of the American civil war stand
amongst the most terrible.
In 1860 the population of the Union
vas over 100000, of which 100000
we're in. the Northern States, 100000
n the Southern States, of which 100000
we're slaves.
What is the population of Japan and
Russia? The North mustered over
100000 men, while the South had less
han 100000. The North had access to
he world; the South was compelled to
ely on her own resources. /
If we give credit to the statements of
he number of men in the Russian and
apanese armies, the aggregated forces 4,
t Mukden was not less than a half a
million Of men, being the greatest since
he days of Xerxes. In the war between l.
he States the weapons were generally
eadly in their effect, while man today
nay be pierced with a dozen bullets of
ne modern arm and not know it, but let ,
S return to the British authority, Col
mel Henderson,. Accor ding to this au-
1ority the bloodiest of Napoleon's bat