diers will steal Uncle Charlie's The Surgeon was apparently not clothes!"

A South Carolina Chaplain furnishes the next incidents.

well versed in the Scriptures, at least in the history of Moses, for he paused as if puzzled, and repeated, "bricks without straw, bricks without straw. Why didn't

In the summer of '63, our brigade was ordered to Mississippi. - the fool say bricks without mud?" After leaving Jackson, we had a A gentle smile at the Doctor's wearisome march to Big Black, Biblical learning passed round the but spite of dust, thirst and heat, circle. the soldiers would cheer up when told that they were approaching a town or village. They expected to see the ladies out with their little flags, hear their words of encouragement and receive little

In February '64, our regiment was ordered to Florida. As the train was slowly moving up to the Depot at Valdosta, Georgia, a regiment of cavalry encamped

delicacies from their fair hands, there came rushing around to see

which our homeopathic haversacks did not contain. One dread

the infantry. Our quartermaster

fully hot day it was announced that sergeant inquired if there was any

the town of B. was just ahead,

and the drooping spirits of the

fainting men seemed to revive.After going a mile or so, we came to some straggling houses. I happened to be with some Texas soldiers, when one of them asked a

fighting below. "Yes," replied

they, "fighting like hell-you'll

catch the devil when you get there."

"I feared as much," quietly answered the sergeant, "as soon as I saw the usual sign, the cav

little boy, the only person visible, alry in the rear!"

how far it was to B.

"This is B.," said the solitary inhabitant in great astonishment. "Well," replied Texas, "if I ever get home, I'll buy me a town, if it costs me five dollars."

At the time the enemy was advancing on Reams' Station in Virginia, there was a deep snow and the roads were almost impassable. The horses of the cavalry were in miserable plight. One man came My next is the counterpart of along on the remains of what had Longstreet's "Wave Offering." - once been a pony, with bones proWe were in camp in the good old truding and skin hanging loose. North State, where lightwood was The rider wore an enormous pair plentiful and we could read by of Mexican spurs, but spite of his our camp fire. One night as we vigorous applications, the poor anwere all seated around the bright imal stuck in the mud and could light, our Surgeon read to us from not extricate itself. "Halloo," a Richmond paper, in which a shouted the infantry, "take your Confederate Congressman com- horse up on your spurs and shake pared a certain measure to mak- the mud off him. He'll get along ing "bricks without straw."- well enough then."

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day, he gravely remarked,

We had as the caterer of our moralizing influence of war. One mess a German Jew. He was sent out one morning to buy cucumbers. He came back with a basket full of old fellows, yellow as gold. When asked about them, he said, "Yaw, tey is coot. Te plack nigger vants to sell mit me te green ones, put py tam I tells him I vants te ripe!"

The day of the battle of Boonsboro, when the division of Gen. D. H. Hill so gallantly defended the pass in the mountain, our brigade, attached to Longstreet's command, arrived at the scene of action about 4 P. M. The Yan

kee shells were bursting furiously around, and the whole mountain seemed to be swarming with their

"I'll tell you what, boys, if this war goes on much longer, another Devil will have to be appointed. This old fellow can't attend to all the business that will be on hand." W. J. M.

We would remark editorially, that if this appointment ever became necessary, it must have been during the "March to the Sea."

R. McC., of Lexington, Kentucky, sends us the next two anecdotes; the first, at the expense of the Southern boys, and the other, a hit at the "defenders of the Union."

A paroled Federal officer, stoptroops climbing the rugged heights. ping at one of our hotels, got into

a conversation with one of our

We met a family retreating, whose peace and quiet had been disturb- boys, as to the cause of the greater mortality among the Federal, ed. The father was carrying a than among the Confederate little child in his arms and was

leading off in the retreat. The troops. "We are better marksmother was holding on to the men," said Johnny Reb, "and

fighting the battles of freedom, it was to be expected that we would be more earnest, and fire with more coolness and precision."

"Well, " drawled Brother Johnathan, "I accounted for it differently. slick with grease and dirt, that our balls glanced off without hurting you!"

You rebs were so

The morning after the arrival of Gen. Kirby Smith, in Lexington, Kentucky, Sept. 1862, two of our fashionable Union girls were standing in a porch, looking at the ragged boys strolling around. One of the young ladies turned

A private in our company, a knight of the shears, and a mere mite of a man, but true grit in a fight, had noticed, and perhaps felt, in his own case, the de- up her pretty nose, and said

"how dirty and nasty those counterfeit and uncurrent money rebels look, not nice and clean was passed off among the illiterlike our 'boys in blue. " One of ate people of East Tennessee, East the party, thus sneeringly al- Kentucky and Southern Virginia, luded to, over-hearing the re- and the soldiers tried to justify mark, as it was intended that he these practices to their own conshould, took off his old slouch sciences by the claim that they hat, and making a Chesterfieldian were in the service of their counbow, said, "pray excuse our rags, try, and that the hucksters asked ladies, we came to Kentucky this exhorbitant prices for fruit, vegtime to kill hogs, and of course, etables and farm products. The put on our greasy clothes. Our most stringent orders were pubnext visit will be a courting expedition, and then we will have on store clothes and biled shirts."

lished against frauds upon the country people, and officers were on the alert to catch offenders.One day a soldier was caught in One of the most faithful and the very act of passing an uncurefficient of the many excellent rent note on the Bank of which chaplains in the Army of Tennes- his Colonel had been the Cashier. see, sends us the anecdote below: He was brought under guard be

The soldier assumed a very indignant air and answered: "Who brings such a lying charge against

I was chaplain in Bate's brig- fore the former Bank officer, now ade, which was for some time on commanding the regiment. "So, duty at Cumberland Gap. There sir," roared out the irritated we lost the much loved and truly Colonel, "You have been passing lamented Zollicoffer, whose tem- unsound money. How dare you perate, firm and wise administra- commit such an act of rascality tion in East Tennessee was win- in violation of orders?" ning over many disaffected hearts to our cause. The Colonel com manding our regiment had been the Cashier of a Bank, which had me? I passed a Bank note with suspended payment with a large the name of my own Colonel upon number of notes in circulation.- it. One of my first duties as a Our soldiers thought it but fair soldier is to respect every paper game to pass off uncurrent notes with the honored name on it of among the disloyal. Some even the head of my regiment!" went so far as to write home for "wild cat money," as these notes were called. A good deal of

P. S. He was not punished.
Cherokee, Ala.

S. M. C.

EDITORIAL.

We would call special attention brigade, though belonging to the to the article, "Rodes' Brigade at attacking division, and behaving

gallantly, was, from its position, less exposed. It is proper to state that Rodes does not give a list of casualties in his Report, and we quote from memory, but

Seven Pines." The four brigades which captured the enemy's earthworks, camps, and guns, are not mentioned at all by Mr. E. A. Pollard, while he extols two other brigades, which had nothing feel sure that we do not overwhatever to do with their capture, estimate it, and think it perfectly and were not even engaged on exact. Mr. E. A. Pollard estithe great day of the fight. We mates the Confederate loss, in this feel confident that we can men- action, "really of no consequence," tion six regiments, which each at four thousand. If he is correct, lost more in killed and wounded (and how can so distinguished an than the two glorified brigades com- authority be in error?) then the bined! This is history with a three brigades suffered more than vengeance ! Such blunders are two-thirds the entire Confederate the more unpardonable, as the loss. We had, altogether, on the field of Seven Pines was but a field, at one time or another, not few miles from Richmond, and less than 40,000 men. The 6,441 the great historian might, after the men in these brigades, sustainfight, have gained authentic facts ing thus over two-thirds with but little personal trouble. whole loss, ought to have reIn that event, we would have had ceived some little notice from the gratification of knowing that the eminent historian, but not the eminent war-historian had one word is said about them! seen one battle field!

the

In one sense, every Confederate victory was "really of no consequence," since the great objectSouthern independence-was not attained. But the memory of

Mr. E. A. Pollard says of that battle, that it was "really of no consequence." So it may have seemed to him in his quiet office, at Richmond. But it wore a very heroic daring will live forever. different aspect to the attacking and will be embalmed for all time division, though its gallantry has in the minds and hearts of the been wholly ignored by the emi- whole American people. And on nent historian. G. B. Anderson no field of the war was superior, carried into action 1,865 men, and aye, we believe, on no one was had 866 killed and wounded. equal, heroism shown to that of Garland carried in 2,065 men, and the three brigades unnamed by lost 740. Rodes carried in 2,511 the great historian of the war.men, and lost 1,110. These were Veterans from them, who fought the three brigades directly en- from Richmond to Appomatox, gaged in the attack. Rains' have told us that they saw no

such desperate fighting elsewhere. trous fingers of Maj. Gen. Butler, Think of regiments moving for- U. S. A., but many of us were ward without a pause, when all surprised at his appearing in the their Field officers and half of the character of a wit in his recent rank and file had been struck speech in Richmond, Virginia. down. Think of companies charg- The Sherman-Shellbarger joke has ing steadily onward with all their tempted many an aspiring man to officers and four-fifths of their an effort to produce something men hors du combat. One com- equally rich and racy. But all in pany of the 6th Ala. lost (if our vain! The time, place and imposmemory is not at fault) 23 in kill- ing circumstances are all wanted and wounded out of 26 engaged. ing. Just imagine the guardians When their Colonel (the heroic of society, the great, good and Gordon) told the three survivors wise men of the nation solemnly to withdraw, they were loading declaring that property is inseand firing with all the coolness of cure at the South, and must be a parade day. made secure by putting it into the hands of non-property holders for

Such achievements, coldly viewed from a safe room in Richmond, safe keeping; that life is insecure may have appeared to be "really at the South and therefore the igof no consequence." But Vir- norant, the vicious, the vilest of ginia, North Carolina, Georgia, mankind must have the issues of Alabama and Mississippi will life and death under their control! talk of them for generations and We pity the man, who is vain generations, with ever increasing enough to think that he can get pride and enthusiasm.

up a bit of fun, which is one-thousandth part as piquant as this precious morceau. The hero of Fort Fisher and Dutch Gap was conceited enough in his Richmond speech to attempt a rivalry of the

During the trial of Wirz, the Radical press, to show the mildness, humanity and tenderness of the Federal Government to Confederate prisoners, stated that out great wits at Washington. He

of 5,025 prisoners at Elmira, N. told his negro audience on that Y., there had been but six deaths occasion that he had seen many of in three months. The Elmira them at the front! If they were Gazette, however, corrected this at the front, the General must small error and showed that there been there also, for Burnside had had been 1,310; one out of every use for his own "powerful fieldfour imprisoned! We had sup- glass." Maj. Gen. Butler, U. S. posed that "the party of great A., at the front!! We must admoral ideas" was more addict- mit that it is capital, superb, reed to stealing than to any other vice, but it seems that falsehood and slander are very dear to them also.

freshing, but Great Warrior! it is immeasurably short of the Congressional joke! Don't be discouraged, however, it took many months to perfect you in spoon

We have all heard of the dex- culture. Patience, persistence,