The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-09-20
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In the Long Ago in Dixie

relative to the trying times during
the Civil War are taken from The
Spirit of the Age, a newspaper pub
lished in Raleigh, N. c., and dateC
June Is, 1868, then in its 18th vol
ume. Alexander M German was
the editor and proprietor. 1t is only
a 5-coIumn, 4-page paper and the
subscription price then was $500 a
year, about three times what is now
charged for weekly paper, consid-
ering the size.
The paper is in fairly good state
of preservation. 1t carries the ads.
of the Greensboro Female College,
Tar River Male Academy, N. C, Mu-
tuaI Life Insurance Co., Exchange
Hotel, Raleigh, various wants and
for sales, notice of exchange of men
between Confederate and Union
lines, proclamation by Gov. z. B.
Vance forbidd;ng exploration of GER
tain articles over the State, ETC.
The articles referring to war times
are especially appropriate at this
time:
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
Exciting events are again trans
piring on the Rappahannock Hooker,
OF satisfied with the thrashing Gen
LIE gave him little over a mouth
ag,, has again crossed the Kappa
LaLnocx and been driven back in
confusion and disgrace. On the 5th
inst. he threw over a column of five
thousand men at Deep Run, two miles
below Fredericksburg, with whom
our pickets exchanged a few shots
aud retired On the morning of the
9th, with banners waving, the Yankees
moved forward to take possession of
Hamilton's Crossing, 1aboring under
the impression that our troops had
left that point. When within mile
and a half of the railroad TWO or
three of our brigades started from
the bushes and with shouts and yelIs
made dash at them; when, with
out firing a gun, the Yankees
wheeled and fled incontinently back
to their entertainments at Deep Run,
making such remarkable good time
that Onr troops did not get in mus
ket shot of them.
On the same day (the 8th) a large
body of troops, estimated at twenty
thousand, showed themselves on the
Stafford hills opposite Deep Run
and started to cross but did not
do so. In the meantime, a large
portion of our cavalry moved up
the river, as was universally sup
posed on an offensive movement,
but Gen. Lee, understanding the en-
emy's feint. had sent them there to
meet the enemy at the point they
had selected to cross. The success
as well as wisdom of his movement
is shown in the following brief des-
patch from Gen. Lee himself:
CULPEPER, June 6, 1853.
To General S Cooper:
The enemy crossed the Rappahan-
mock this morning at 5 O'Clock at
the various fords from Beverly to
- Kelly S, with large force of cav
airy. accompanied by infantry and
artillery. After a severe contest till
5 p. m. General Short drove them
across the river. r. E. LEE.
AS Gen. Lee is always cautious in
the language he uses, rejecting the
extravagances of many in sending
dispatches, we are justified in re-
garding this battle as very consid-
cradle affair.
This is doubtless but the opening
of another extensive campaign in
Northern Virginia. Both armies have
been largely reinforced, but we have
no fears of a contest with Gen. Lee
by the Yankees, let them come in
whatsoever numbers they may.
A dispatch from Richmond on the
10th brings no intelligence of the
collision between the two armies,
the enemy still maintaining his forti-
fed position on this side of the river
near Deep Run. Heavy columns of
smoke were seen rising along the
hills on the Stafford side for several
miles up and down the river, sup
posed to be the enemy burning bag
gage, stores, etc, preparatory to
moving up towards Culpeper. Three
hundred Yankee prisoners, captured
by Gen. Stuart's army on the 9th,
had arrived in Richmond.
P. S.-By later advices from the
battle at Culpeper on the 9th inst,
we have the following particulars
taken from the Richmond Exam
liner: