The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1906-03-07
WAR STORIES
ee, ,COmmander-in.Chief Of
,federate Army.

neeoiess and rlotous abundance. Be-
tore his eyes rose, day after day, the
mournful clouds of smoke on eyerv
side that told Of old people and their
grandchildren driven, in midwinter,
from the only roofs there were to
shelter them, by the flames which the
wantonness Of his soldiers had kin
died. Yet if e single soldier was
punished for q single outrage or theft
during that entire movement we have
found no mention Of it in all the volu-
minous records Of the march,"
May not this aveuging pen of his
tory which Sumner invoked record
that order of Gen. Halleok, chief Of
staff and military adviser to President
Lincoln, which said to Gen. Sherman,
"should you capture Charleston 1
hope that by some accident the place
may be destroyed, and if little salt
should be sown upon it's site it may
prevent the growth of future crops OF
nulIidcstion and secession" and sher-
mans reply in his dispatch OF Deoem-
ber "a, 1864, II will bear in mida
your hint as to Charleston, and don.
think salt will be necessary. When
l move the Fifteenth Corps will be On
the right of the right wing, aud their
position vii! bring them, naturally into
Charleston first; and if you have
watched the history Of that corps you
will have remarked that they general.
~ do their work up pretty we'll. The
Truth is the whole army is burning
with an Unsuitable desire t. wreck
vengeance upon South Carolina"
| And may it not transcribe upon it's
pages that other order to his efficient
Lieut.. Hunter: "He (Grant further
says that he wants your troops to
eat out Virginia clear aud clean, ss
far as they go, so thst crows flying
over it for the balance Of The season
will have to carry their provender
with them"
VI Lee as a general President
Roosevelt, in his life of Thomas Fl.
Benton, says:
1.-THE world has never saen bet.
ter"
In action Lee violated both Of
the maxims of Napoleon-never to d.
vide an army into two columns un.
able to communicate, or attempt a
junction in the presence of a oonoen-
tTstea easm5; but Lee h1ow dis m5u.
He violated the last section of this
maxim because he knew Pope, and the
first because b. knew jackson. It ia
rare indeed that such strategy sue.
eeeds. Has drubal divided from Hon
nibal by Eany miles and Consular
army, fois back to the Metsrus, ana
Rome was saved. Two thousand
years later Prince Frederick Charles,
divided by. few marches and two
Austrian army corps from the Orsv,nl
Prince. fingered so loug upon the .Iser
that the supremacy Of Prussia, sFem-
bled in the balance. But the 'oharao-
ter Of she 'Virginian soldier was og a
loftier type. 1t has been remarked
that, after Jaokson's death Lee neve.
again attempted those great turning
movements which had achieved his
most brillisnt victories. Never again
did he divide his sruny to, reus!.e i.
on the feld Of battle.s The reason il
not far 70 seek. There was no general
In the Confederate army TO whom he
| dared confide the. charge .of the de.
tached wing, and ID possessing, one
such general he;sad been mora fortu,.-
nate than Napoleon s3 ,:s s :.;E. :.,= i !:
IL is noteworthy that Mol Tie once.
at Koniggrats, carried out The opera.
tion referred to:2 Wellington, svice, at
Victoria and Toulouse: Napoleon 81.
though he several, times attempted Isl Il
never, except at$ Ulm, With complete. ].
success. IL. ,:$s,i $S 81
In hise'.n History os the American ,at
War;" Lieut.. Col; Fletphsr, 81 Eng-
land, says:
:;''"rhe srmiss cs Grant apd Lese,sss,sisar1 ~;
still ia the vicinity Of Spot ttsylvsnis
cours home. The! former Il 2noi III 81 Isl.
atandipg hfs :yastl % 6 Sip,sep,oon dsrssiaK| m
Strength Was aWaifi ips N ra:st,fc u fcstoss;
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