RICHMOND, July 24.-A vast concourse assembled early yesterday evening at the Central Railroad dépôt, DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE to await the arrival of the train from Manassas. So COL. JAMES CAMERON. BY H. CLAY PREUSS. A plain, substantial farmer, Whose works of brain and hand But when his outraged country He dropped the spade and ploughshare, That shook the summer air, His stalwart form was there! The best war-blood of Scotland A true man to his country And died a hero's death! The mem'ry of his virtues Shall blossom far and wide, -National Intelligencer, July 31. "CAST DOWN, BUT NOT DESTROYED. BY "A. E." Oh, Northern men-true hearts and bold- Till traitorous foes its sway confess! Not lightly was our freedom bought, 'Midst want and peril, sternly brave. And thrice six years, with tightening coil, Still closer wound by treacherous art, Men-children of our common soil Have preyed upon the nation's heart! great was the crowd, that, in anticipation of the arrival of the wounded, it was deemed necessary by the committee appointed to receive them to set a strong guard to prevent the pressure of the people around the train when it should arrive. By this means the track and a considerable space on either side of it was kept clear, though the car-tops, fences, and all the eminences in the vicinity were thronged with the expectant crowd. At 74 o'clock, the first train arrived, bringing 20 wounded soldiers, and the bodies of four of our dead-Gen. Bartow, Col. Johnston, a private of the Montgomery Guard named James Driscoll, and another whose name we could not learn. During the excitement attending the anxious inquiries after friends, and the crowding to look upon the dead and wounded, it was whispered through the crowd that President Davis was on the train. Immediately a rush was made in search of the distinguished statesman and chieftain, and a thousand shouts rent the air with wild huzzas as his well-known face and figure were discovered. Though travel-worn and evidently fatigued by the trying scenes through which he had passed in the last two days, the President could not deny the enthusiastic citizens the pleasure of hearing from his own mouth something of the glorious deeds so recently achieved by our brave and invincible patriot soldiers. In a strain of fervid eloquence, he eulogized the courage, the endurance, and patriotism of our victorious troops; and to the memory of our honored dead, who shed their life's blood on the battle-field in the glorious cause of their country, he paid a glowing tribute, which could not fail to dim with tears the eyes of the least feeling among his hearers. He pronounced the victory great, glorious, and complete. He said we had whipped them this time, and would whip them as often as they offered us the opportunity. In alluding to the vastness and importance of our captures, he said we had taken every thing the enemy had in the field; sixty pieces of splendid cannon, of the best and most improved models, vast quantities of ammunition, arms enough of various descriptions to equip a large army, hundreds of wagons and ambulances of the most luxurious make and finish, and provisions enough to feed an army of fifty thousand men for twelve months.* The headlong retreat of the enemy he compared to the wild and hurried flight of a scared covey of partridges. He said that, so great was the terror with which the repeated onslaughts of our men inspired them, taking wildly to their heels, they threw from them their guns, swords, knapsacks, and every thing that could in any way retard their escape. * A Federal officer has computed the details of this assertion, and discovered that it would require over twelve thousand wagons to transport the amount of provisions, said, by Jefferson Davis, to have been captured by the rebel army. With another allusion to the glorious valor of our better adjourn this camp meeting, and go home and troops, who had accomplished this great victory, and drill.”—Boston Transcript. reminding all of the great cause they had for returning thanks to Him to whom alone thanks were due for this blessing on our arms, he concluded amid the tumultuous applause of the assemblage, and was escorted to his hotel. At 9. 30, a large concourse of citizens and visitors having assembled before the Spotswood House, the President was again called out, and again stirred the popular heart with his eloquent recital of the brave deeds done by our troops in the late battle. He was preceded on this occasion by Col. Chesnut, of South Carolina, (an aid to Gen. Beauregard,) in a chaste and eloquent speech. This unannounced arrival of our President took the citizens by surprise. Had they known of his coming, such an ovation would have greeted his return as never before was witnessed in the Old Do minion. Just behind the train which brought the President, there arrived a second, bringing 585 Hessian prisoners, 25 of whom were commissioned officers, and 30 of Ellsworth's Fire Zouaves. Passengers by this train inform us that several hundred other prisoners were left at Manassas, and that our troops continued to bring them in hourly; and that many of them came into our camp and delivered themselves up. The 585 brought to this city were immediately marched to Harwood's factory.-Richmond Enquirer, July 24. A REBEL'S LETTER.-The following letter was taken by one of the pickets of Col. Gordon's Regiment, (the Massachusetts Second.) It shows that the privates as well as the Generals of the rebel army can tell big stories: "CAMP JACKSON, MANASSAS JUNCTION, July 23, 1861. } and have nothing of any consequence to complain of, "DEAR MOTHER AND FRIENDS:-I am safe yet, which is more than many a fellow-soldier can say. "I suppose you have heard what an awful battle we had down here last Sunday. I was not in it—as it so happened I could not get with my regiment, and glad I am I was not. This morning I went out on the battle-field, and, hard-hearted as you term me, I was horror-struck at the sight. Men (Yankees) lying around in every direction, dead and wounded. I suppose I must have seen at least 500 men and 200 horses-some places as many as six horses lying side by side. It is supposed their loss is over 5,000 men killed and wounded, and they took somewhere near 1,000 live Yankees prisoners. Oh, they were whipped decently. They chased old Scott so close, he had to leave his coach, and lost his epaulettes; and if reports are true, he lost one of his cowardly legs. Our regiment took the famous Sherman's Battery. Well, we have taken near 50 pieces of rifled cannon, and run them clean off the field. Beauregard, of South Carolina, led our regiment. They (I mean the regiment) whipped the Ellsworth Zouaves, that muchdreaded band of ruffians. Yes, I have seen them claimed a score of the "pet lambs" in a breath. myself—yes, more than a hundred of them, as high "Do not!" "We are ordered to retreat," said the as six in a bunch, dead as a door nail. They had commander. "Wot 'n thunder's that!" 'responded 75,000 men against us, and so sure was Scott of sucone of the hard-heads, who evidently did not compre-cess, it is reported he brought up one hundred ladies hend the word exactly. "Go back-retire," continued from Washington to see him conquer Southerners;— the commander. "Go back-where?" (but some one got hurt.) Jeff. Davis came up here field." "Leave? Why, that ain't what we come for. on Sunday, and was on the field himself. Gen. JackWe're here to fight," insisted the boys. son was wounded, two fingers shot off; Gen. Bee here with 1,040 men," said the commander. "There killed. I do not know our loss-250 killed, not are now 600 left. Fall back, boys!" and the more, and it may be less, but 200 men lost will cover "lambs" sulkily retired, evidently displeased with all. It commenced about 6 in the morning, and lasted all day. They had a fight here on Thursday too, hear of us will be at Washington. We are deterbut it was nothing to this. I suppose the next you mined to have it."-Boston Journal, Aug. 16. Ar Bull Run, when the order came from the headquarters for the retreat, word was passed down the line to the New York Zouaves. "Do not!" ex the order. "Leave the "We came Two of the New Hampshire Second were leaving the field, through the woods, when they were suddenly confronted by five rebels, who ordered them to halt! or we fire." The Granite boys saw their dilemma, but the foremost of them presented his musket, and answered, "Halt you, or we fire!" and, at the word, both discharged their pieces. The rebel fell, his assailant was unharmed. Seizing his companion's musket, he brought it to his shoulder, and said to the other, "Fire!" Both fired their guns at once, and two more rebels fell. The others fled. The leader's name was Hanford-from Dover, N. H. As the Maine troops were leaving the field of battle, a soldier stepped up to one of the officers of the 5th Regiment, and requested him to lend him a knife. The officer took out a common pocket-knife, and handed it to the soldier, who sat down at the side of the road, pulled up the leg of his trousers, and deliberately dug a musket-ball out of his leg, jumped up, and resumed his march. When the news of the repulse reached the camp meeting at Desplaines, Ill., Rev. Henry Cox, who was preaching at the time the intelligence was received, remarked, on closing his sermon, "Brethren, we had COL. HAMPTON, upon having his horse shot from under him, seized a rifle, and said, "Watch me, boys; do as I do." He then shot down successively several of the Federal officers who were leading their forces against him. Gen. Beauregard then came up, and said, "Take that battery." Just at that moment the flag of the legion was shot down. Beauregard said, "Hand it to me; let me bear the Palmetto flag." He did bear it in the fury of the fight. Col. Johnson, of the legion, was slain in the charge. The Hampton Legion promised to defend the flag presented to them by the ladies of the Palmetto State while one of them remained to step the field of conflict. That this promise will be sacredly redeemed, no one will doubt, when he comes to learn that of the eight hundred who went into the field on Sunday, one hundred and ten sealed their fidelity with their blood, that being the number of their killed and wounded, according to the unofficial reports.-Richmond Whig, July 24. She weeps; sheds tears of grief, of sorrow, And of PRIDE. Gov. SMITH'S reigment, the Virginia 49th, was in | The South weeps o'er her slain; the thickest of the fight, and all of his companies And well she may; for they were jewels suffered considerably. His own horse was struck From her diadem. by a ball. His adjutant, Lieut. Caleb Smith, was wounded. Lieut. Ward, commanding a Fauquier company, was killed, as were also a number of his men, beside others who were wounded. Col. E. C. Carrington, of Washington city, formerly of Virginia, was one of the prisoners taken in the battle of last Sunday. LOUISVILLE, KY., July 24, 1861. -Louisville Courier, Aug. 10. WHAT THE REBELS SAID THEY CAPTURED. MEMPHIS, TENN.-The serious results of the victory He returns involuntarily, in humiliation and shame, have been ascertained at the War Department to be to his mother State, which he left in respectability sixty-nine pieces of artillery, 23,000 stand of arms, and with fair prospects. His hundreds of patriotic 800 wagons laden with stores and munitions of war, and influential relations in Virginia point the finger of and a quantity of provisions so huge as to appear scorn and contempt at the traitor. The capture of almost incredible. Never dreaming of defeat, and Col. Carrington will make Abraham need a new Dis-only occupied with the advance of their grand army, trict-Attorney. His eloquence and his arms have proved alike futile against his mother State. He has disgraced himself, not her. A citizen of Fairfax Court House says that when the retreating enemy passed through that village, in an answer to the question whether they had been defeated, they said there were hardly enough of them left to tell the story; that it was foolish to talk about fighting the Southern soldiers; that they fought not like men, but devils. They begged for water, and betrayed every sign of extreme terror and exhaustion. An officer of the army, who arrived here yesterday, says that he witnessed the onset of our soldiers, the Arkansas Regiment, he believes, on the New York Zouaves, and that it was a terrible spectacle. They threw down their guns, and made the charge with their brandished bowie-knives. The Zouaves at first seemed petrified with amazement. Then, as their assailants knocked aside their bayonets, and fell upon them with their furious blades, they fairly screamed with terror, and fled in the utmost consternation. They were nearly exterminated.-Richmond Enquirer, July 24. THE BATTLE AT BULL RUN. "Forward! my brave columns, forward!" But in the quick, and mighty rustling of their feet, Men, whose every bosom held a noble heart, the liberal commissariat for their immense forces had converted the town of Centreville, distant five or six miles from the battle, into one great warehouse for provisions and army stores. The provisions of every kind captured at this grand depository are sufficient, the President asserts, to feed an army of fifty thousand men for a whole campaign. To save their immense wealth of stores, it was at Centreville that McDowell attempted to rally his flying army. A large division of fresh troops, with heavy guns in position, met the remnants of his vanquished forces, and forced them into a momentary halt; but so demoralized were his men, that at sight of our pursuing columns, they again scattered, and were chased like hares from their lost position; nor did our cavalry cease from their bloody business of cutting up and riding down the cowardly hounds until within four miles of Arlington Heights. At this place (Centreville) our troops had the good luck to find a large table spread with a sumptuous dinner, and almost untouched, as the rout, which commenced about the fashionable hour for a dining feast, had left but poor stomachs for digesting rich food. A correspondent from Manassas has just shown me a number of bills of fare for the dinners to which McDowell had invited his friends to enjoy with him on the route to Richmond, indicating that they expected to repose a short time at Fairfax Court House, Manassas, and other convenient localities on the way. The bills of fare are mostly in French, and quite costly as to the cuisine. Twenty-five baskets of champagne and a dozen of claret were also found at Centreville-the centre of "good things;" and a soldier who was present has just informed me, that when our brave hungry boys arrived at the village and took possession, they at once commenced a sad havoc upon these delicious drinkables, during which a sprightly officer in one of the Rappahannock companies, named Hopper, mounted upon the table, (then relieved somewhat of its load,) and proposed the following impromptu toast:- "Our sincere thanks to the gouty old Scott; may his captured batteries soon send a shower of grape from which he can fill his wine bottles." It is needless to add, that our lieutenant was vociferously cheered; and the boys, out of respect for the great man's memory, drank standing and in silence.-Memphis Argus, July 29. RICHMOND, VA.-It is reported here, and almost universally believed, that five full companies, attached to one of the Yankee regiments which participated in the battle at Manassas last Sunday, surrendered to Gen. Beauregard on Friday last. These men, it seems, in their haste and fright, missed the road to Arling ton, and became lost in the Virginia forests near the | of battle in our favor, decided the fortunes of the Blue Ridge. Worn down with fatigue, famished with field." hunger, and despairing of ever making their way out without being discovered, they hailed one of our scouts, and requested that their condition be laid before Gen. Beauregard. All surrendered, and were kindly furnished with nourishment. It is presumed that they will be sent to Richmond. It is also stated that a house in the vicinity of Fairfax Court House, which was suspected by our troops, was surrounded last Friday, and found to contain sixteen Yankee officers, who were not quite active enough in their movements last Sunday, and took refuge in this building. They were all bagged, of course, and will be securely held until it is ascertained what disposition is to be made of the crew of the privateer Savannah.-Richmond Dispatch. SECOND NEW HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT.-Both Gen. Scott and the Brigade Commander Col. Burnside, have expressed the warmest appreciation of the extraordinary firmness and steadiness of this regiment while under galling fire and during the retreat. Col. Marston was severely wounded in the beginning of the engagement at Bull Run, and although gallantly returning to the field, the command devolved upon Lieut.-Col. Fiske. Col. Burnside himself relates, that, testing the resources of his brigade, he said to Col. Fiske: "Will your men obey such and such an order?" To which Col. Fiske replied: "My men will obey any order." The following paragraph from the Washington National Republican shows how far this confidence was justified : A member of the Palmetto Guard writes to the Mercury as follows:-"The day was lost when our two regiments came up. Our troops were falling back, and had retired some distance. Col. Kershaw gave the command Forward,' and, after some ten or twelve rounds, away went the Yankees. I understand Beauregard said our regiments 'saved the day' a second battle of Waterloo. · "No regiment ever entered a battle under more depressing circumstances than we did. All along our line of march men were retreating, and saying to us we are defeated. But we went forward, and the day was won." 66 THE correspondent of the Charleston Courier tells this story at the expense of the Virginia chivalry :— Among the prisoners is a noble-looking and intelligent Zouave, one of the few decent exceptions in the crew. I saw him on the field, just after he was taken. While passing a group of our men, one of the latter called him some hard name. 'Sir,' said the Zouave, turning on his heel and looking the Virginian full in the eye, 'I have heard that yours was a nation of gentlemen, but your insult comes from a coward and a knave. I am your prisoner, but you have no right to fling your curses upon me because I am unfortunate. Of the two, sir, I consider myself the gentleman.' I need not add that the Virginian slunk away under the merited rebuke, or that a dozen soldiers generously gathered around the prisoner, and assured him of protection from further insult." "THE SECOND NEW HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT.-Dur- Ar the battle of Bull Run, some Congressmen were ing the late engagement, the Second New Hampshire taken who had come out to see the fun. One of Regiment behaved with the utmost gallantry. Arriv- them seeing our representative, the Hon. Porcher ing on the field the second regiment, they were in- Miles, accosted him with, "Hallo, Miles, my dear felstantly called upon to support the right of the Rhode low; how do you do?" Miles looked for a moment Island battery, and with the coolness of veterans, surprised, and replied, "Sir, I have not the pleasure although swept by the fire of the rebels, formed line of your acquaintance. What is your name?" To of battle and remained in this trying position for which he quickly replied, "I am Mr. of New more than an hour. When ordered to charge, they York. Don't you remember me, old fellow? We rushed on with great impetuosity, driving the enemy were in Congress together. I only came out to see from their position to the woods, and sweeping every the fun." To which Mr. Miles replied, drawing himthing before them. At one time, when a retreat was self up with dignity, "Sir, I don't know you. I can't sounded, Companies A and B remained in their posi- recognize any one who comes out to witness the subtion half an hour after every other company had re-jugation of my country as an amusement;" and treated, and poured in a destructive fire upon the rebels, who were advancing to outflank them, only retiring when capture or annihilation became inevitable.-Boston Journal, Aug. 6. A CORRESPONDENT of the Charleston Mercury, writing from Richmond, Va., says: "It is settled, without question, that at one time during the fight, our army was on the eve of being defeated. This was in the early part of the afternoon. Scattered and exhausted as were our men, victory, for a time, inclined to favor the overwhelming army of the enemy, and its General, believing he had gained a victory, despatched the news to Washington. Happily, at this critical juncture, Kershaw, Cash, and Kemper stemmed and turned the adverse tide, driving the frightened foe before their accurate fire and rapid charges. Both Beauregard and Johnston rallied their forces, and led them in person to the attack. Soon after, Elzey's and Smith's brigades, of about four thousand men, came up opportunely and reinforced our army. This reinforcement, with the heroic rally made by the Generals, after Kershaw turned the tide turned on his heel, leaving the New Yorker to enjoy the fun of bare floors and rations not such as he has been accustomed to at Willard's or Barnum's, and from which, no doubt, he will come a wiser, if not a better man. An old soldier is here who fought in the Creek, the Seminole, and the Mexican wars. He was in the fight at Manassas, and he says he has never seen any soldiers, regulars nor any others, who stood fire as our army did at Manassas. They were perfectly fearless and unflinching, heeding neither the falling balls nor their falling comrades, but keeping up a steady and persistent fire. He seemed to think it was glory enough to fight in such company. I heard a similar testimony paid to Magruder's men in the Bethel fight. The officer who came over from Fortress Monroe with a flag of truce, was one who had been a friend when they were in the regular army together. He said, "Magruder, your battery must have been manned by regulars, or it could not have done such execution." He replied, "So far from that, they are only boys; the half of them have spelling-books in their pockets."-Charleston Courier, July 27. |