The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-08-11

among the BOYS OF the brigadc.-From
letter of c. |. Howe of Company Il.
Twelfth Illinois, In Chicago Tribune,
October c, 1863
The trials OF war in n struggle SO
desperate and cxhausting as was the
| Civil war. are all-embracimg. Here Is
| an instance OF how most common
table article of today became lux
ury.
Salt is so scarce now In the South
| that il must be dealt out TO the people
as rations i'm the army In Henrico
county when the allowance came no.
tice was given that all applying must
give certificate from the justice in
their district Each head of family
, is allowed one and one-half pounds for
each member at five cents a pound.
Ten days Is allowed for this county
to claim their portion.-Richmold EX-
aminer, September 10. 1863
There were several battles OF the
war la which the Confederate death
list was never reported and was ncv-
er known. Grant suffered heavily in
the Wilderness. with $500 killed and
the total casualties reaching 1900
but Lees forces were thought to have
felt the blow more severely. A South
crn paper gave this account of what
happened on a part OF the deld of
AAtieram,
An officer of the Fifteenth Georgia
says that the Southern loss in the
battle Of Anlletam was enormous. He
says: The Fifteenth We're posted in
j narrow path washed out Into regu-
lar gully and were fred into from
front, rear and left flank The men
stood their ground until nearly two
thirds OF them had fallen. On one
wing. out OF two hundred and ten,
over Cne hundred and twenty were
killed or wounded in twenty minutes
When ordered TO retreat We could
scarcely cTtriCatc ourselves from The
dead and wounded about us. A man
could have walked from The heat OF
the line 10 thc foot on dead bodies
All but two OF the commissioned Of
ncers were Killed AZ night only Gty
men in The regiment wclc 6t for duty
the regiment was forty-four hours
without food or water-Sayanuah re
publican, Nov 10. 1853.
To what extremes the South was
driven for means to keep up the de-
fense of the Confederacy is Illus
lrated in the news item
Savannah is up and doing in behalf
of the suffering men OF the Southern
army. Messrs. w. f. WiltberGer {;
Co. proprietors of the Pulaski house,
have offered the entire stock Of car
pets on the floors of their hotel 10 he
converted into blankets for the sol
dlers. The carpets on The floors Of the
one hundred and twenty rooms will
make blankets FOR over five hundred
men.-Mobile Tribune. October. T.
1868
The courage OF the girls Of the carly
sixties was not less heroic than that
OF their fathers. Here is an instance
of brave girls daring;
A marauding band Of rebels in Ken
tucky on their way to Mt Sterling, |
stopped at the house OF Mr. Oldom, !
and, all of the men being away plum |
dered him OF his horses. among them |
one owned by his daughter Cornelia |
She finding resistance was vain, leap
ed upon a horse and dashed away 10 |
town 10 give the alarm Meeting a |
man. she sent bin back to town for a |
posse and. taking his gun and pistols. |
teumed towards home. She soon !
met three of the rebels with some OF |
the horses, who, unaTmod, had ridden |
faster than the rest. She command |
ed them TO give up the steeds and !
enforced the order with the gun Then, |
them back, she led The horses |
away in triumph Cleveland Herald.
December 9. 1863.