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Thanksgiving Day in Pennsylvania.
"ILAntusnunn, Oct. 21.--The Governor
issued the following proclamation :
In the name and hi the authority
pf the Commonwealth of ( Pennsylva
pia, Andrew G. Curtin, Qvcrhor of'
the said Commonwealth.
A PROCLAMATION.
WitEnnAs, It is a good thing to rem
der thanks unto God for all his mercy
and' loving kindness; therefore,
I,'Andrew G: Curtin, Governor of
the Commonwealth.of - Pennsylvania,
dorecommend that Thursday, the 27th
lay of November next, be set apart
by the people of thiS CoMmonwealth
as a day of solemn Prayer and Thanks
giving 'to the Almighty—giving Him
infinble thanks that he has been gra
ciously pleased to protect our free in
'stiLutions and Government, and to
- keep us from sickness and pestilence—
'and to cause the earth to bring forth
her increase, so that our garners are
choked with the harvest—and to look
so favorably on the toil of his child
re-n, that industry , has thriven among
us r itnd' labor has its reward; and also
that Ile has delivered us from the
hands of our enemies, and filled our
officers and men in the fie:d with a
:loyal and intrepid -spirit, anti given
-- theni 7 Viettiand that ho has toured
out-npon us (tam, r ly) otAer
great and manifold blessings.
Dese'eching Him to help and govern
us in his-:.steadfilst fear and lo'-o, and
to put into our minds good desires, so
'that by his continual help we may
-have a right judgment in all things;
and especially, praying him to give to
Christian Churches grace to• hate the
thing which is evil, and to utter the
.teachings of truth and righteousness,
declaring openly the whole counsel of
God ; and most heartily entreating
Hint to bestow upon our civil rulers
wisdom, and earnestness, and counsel,
and upon our military leaders zeal and
vigor in action, that the fires of rebel
lion may be quenched—that we, hieing
armed with his defence, may be pre
serVed ; from all perils, and that here
-after our 'people, living in peace and
•quietuess, may, front generation to
generation, reap the abundant fruits of
His mercy, and with joy and thank
fulness praise and magnify His holy
—name.
Vim under niy hand and tlie great
seal of the State, at Harrisburg, this
twentieth day of October, In the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
Itiindred and sixty-two, and of the
Commonwealth, the eighty-seventh.
ANDREW G. CURTIN.
By the Governor.
DA SLIFER, Sce'y of Commonwealth
WASHINGTON DICTATOR.—Some re
ference has been made to the dictato
rial powers conferred upon. General
Washington during the War of the
Revolution.' They are contained and
enumerated in a resolve of Congress,
lated the 27th of December , 1776, (to
be found in Spark's edition of t W'ri
lings of Washington, Vol. iv., page
550,) and were limited to the term of
Fix months. With a single exception
they relate exclusively to the organi
zation and control and support of the
army and confer no civil authority.-- , •-
The exception allude'd to is of a char
acter to deserve attention at this mo
pica. It is the last enumerated pow
er and , reads thus : "To arrest and
ponfine persons who refuse to take the
;Continental currency, or are other
:wise di6.ffeeted to the'American cause;
and return to the States, of which they
'pre citizens, their names, and .the na
ture of their offences, together with the
. witnessesto prove them."
The _Damage to the Baltimore th Ohio
.Railroad.—The breaking up of the
'l.3altimore and Ohio railroad is one of
- he sad results of reducing our armies
last spring., The. cause of the rebel
Mite in the premises was the fact that
'the General Pope's army was greatly
Served in its exigency by the rapid
transport of Gen. Cox's Division from
Ve.st,ern Virginia. The rebels know
• the value of railroads in military ope
rations, and hence, while they keep,on
-building them in the South, they do
,their best to destroy ours in the North.
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WILLIAM LEWIS, Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XVIII.
The Fight at Chaplin Hills—the
Heroism and Horrors of a Battle-
Fields
[Corrospondence of the Lola9vlllo Journal.]
TIARRODSIWRG, Ky., Oct. 11, 1862.-
1 purpose to relate, as an eye-wit
ness, the modern incidents of this
" Dark and Bloody Ground,v which I
am confident will surpass, both in
ho
roism and horror, those of the old " In
dian days" of Harrod and Boone, or
of any other stricken field, at this, our
battle of" Chaplin Hills," fought on
Oct. 8, 1862.
General Buell having completed his
preparation of the Federal army, had
been pressing General Bragg of the
rebel army invading_ Kentucky, from
within ten miles orLouisville, by the
different roadS leading toward Frank
fhrt, Taylorsville, 13ardstoNN'n, and
Shephertkville, since the Ist of Octo
ber, driving in the rear of his army
and cannonading on each of' the roads,
with more or less skirmishing each
day, as we marched forward for sev
enty miles.
Bragg moved his main army from
Bardstown to Springfield, and as Bu
ell's troops converged near that place
on the Gth, Bragg made a stand to
check us east of the town. Heavy
cannonading and shelling took place,
and the fruits were several slaughtered
men and horses. some prisoners and a
devastated country—barns and hous
es, hay-stacks and fences being swept
away by the fire enkindled by burst
ing shells. Bragg was compelled to
fall back.
Aga n that day he made a stand on
the precipitous eastern bank of Pleas
ant Rim. Another engagement took
place, Bragg being compelled to recede,
leaving the same desolating marks—
the face of the dried-up country being
again swept fhr and wide as by the
besom of destruction Ile tried to
burn the bridge after passing, but was
pressed too hard to effect it.
On the morning of the 7th, Bragg's
rear guard madez stand and prepared
for battle, at an almost impracticable
hill for our cavalry and infantry, east
of Lick Run. A few field pieces of
ours proved the position to be unten
able, and Bragg drew off his pieces
and men: On the afternoon of the
7th, he made another stand, with his
rear_ on the crescent-shaped hills of
Chaplin's branch of Salt river, and
planted his artillery, shelling us. Our
battery dismounted one of his pieces
- • iti imrct • them over
the hill. The rebel troops gitye it up,
(I presume in a mistake) mid a great
mistake it proved to be for them, as it
was the central stronghold and very
key of the whole position, proven by
the obstinacy with which it was fought
for the whole of the next clay.
Our army had been march w ing since
October Ist, through a country that
afforded but little water for man or
beast, and that of a very impure quali
ty. There having been no rain for
many weeks (I may say months), riv
ets and creeks were dried up. I saw
not one drop of running water on the
road from Louisville to the battle-field,
70 miles, except a little trickling
among the loose gravel -south of
Bloomfield, twenty miles distant. In
the lowest places of the beds ofstreams,
were larger orstnaller pools of impure
water, tasting and smelling of the or
dure of the cattle of the country, and
our horses and mules that had been
ridden in to drink the filthy compound
frantic to get that as they would be in
the deserts of Arabia. Where the
shallow pools were rocky, the soldiers
were fain to fill their canteens far in
the night after the cavalry horses had
done stirring it Where there was -a
gravel bottom, the poor fbllows made
a natural filter by scraping hOles with
their hands near the edge of the wa:
ter, and you would see a long, dark
lino waiting patiently through the long
hours of the night for it to trickle in,
and, their canteens, carry it two
and three miles to camp. I paid one
poor soldier a quarter of a dollar for a
drink of his cow ordure and water,
and felt that he had done me au ines
timable fltvor. The rebel army had
drained all the wells on their march,
and we could only get the slow trick
lings into them; as we marched along
crowds of our men were waitingaround
them all the day and night. Not one
Federal soldier • uttering a complaint
that I heard, or was there a single
quarrel for that which was so precious
to cool the tip of the tongue. It will
be understood that on this march of
two great armies over the same road,
the horrors.of thirst were aggravated
by the condition of it. Each column
of troops could be traced many miles
away, by the clouds rising from their
march at least half a mile high in the
air. The dust was instep deep to the
infantry. You could not see the sem
blance of a man on the march in the
road, but it all flitted by like a great
phantasmagoria or a horrid nightmare
dream, day and night, continuously in
ono stream of cavalry, artillery and
infantry, with a score of miles of am
munition-and baggage wagons. Our
front moved in day. and encamped..as
•far as the eye could see the fires on
the hill sides and in the valleys at
night; the rear moved on at night to
encamp in the day. Men and horses
were choked and strangled, and dust!
dust!! dust!!! and no relief of'rain or
water to cheek the suffering.
It is over now, but I have a 'recol
lection of it that will last me to my
grave. The enemy
knew they had its
in the " dry valley," and were deter -
ined to keep us there at any expense
of blood and men. They boasted at
Harrodsburg on the 7th and on the
day of the fight, that water was fifteen
miles in our rear, and that thirst would
be our tle.struction ; that they had the
springs in front and would hold them.
They proved to be not Pertmacions
01104:14 F... 6 make zood their bpast
HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1862
At 2 A. M. on the Stb the rebel ar
my forced back on our cavalry pickets
on the central crescent-shaped bill;
the cavalry sending for reinforeemen ts,
two regiments of infhntry and a bat
tery of artillery were sent to make
the positions good during the night.
Bide firing continued until day dawn,
when " flaShed forth the red artillery"
on the enemy advancing to re-take the
position ho should have kept the even
ing before. Battery was opposed to
battery as they threw themselves back
on the roads from Perryville to flank
us toward Lebanon on our right and
toward Bloomfield on our left, and
crush out our advance before the cen
tre or rear could come up, until the line
of battle was extended one mile on
our right, and four miles on mar left,
in shape like a gigantic reaping-hook.
Their artillery was of the- best con
struction, and was handled in the most
admirable manner, as witness the
murderous precision of their fire;
smoothbores, rifled guns, and the un
erring and fhr-shooting " Parrott," of
all calibres, from sixty to thirty-pound
ers, raining on our heads and around
us storm's of shot and shell, shrapnell,
grape, canister, and every conceivable
projectile invented by man to slay his
fellow-man. The earth now is literal
ly covered with iron and lead for miles
upon miles that was thundered forth
by both armies from before day-dawn
until the second hour of the moon
light. The roar of artillery was inces
sant trout centre to right and from
centre to left, except a partial lull. in
the afternoon, when the enemy was
marshaling his forces for his last &km
perate and fearful attack on our left.
Then as he extended his lines, ours
were extended; as ho, opened a batte
ry we galloped one up in opposition,
until the fire appeared to be intermi
nable, when the artillery was all un
masked.
Our infantry regiments that were
formed fon.the support of our artillery,
were attacked by the rebels with the
Most desperate valor; charge after
charge was made all day on our cen
tre, but it was of no avail. The cheers
of our men could be heard above the
roar of battle a mile, as they repulsed
him, and charging in turn drove him
back. The roar of the cannon; the
death-like shriek of the elongated shell,
the whiz of the round shot, and the
whir and rush of the many varieties
.ofdeath-dealing rifle balls, the rattle
of the musketry, with the boom of the
cannon and the sharp-ringing, air-sha
-king explosion of the Shell, making
the air hideous with noises, were
enough to 'make the strongest man
stand aghast and to realize that the
dread king of terrors was himself di
recting the storm. And, horror of
horrors, men who had sucked at the
same breast took deadly aim at each
other in this State of Kentucky in
this civil war. Surely Ciod's peculiar
curses will be rained down on those
who inaugurated •this fratricidal strifb
for nothing but lust of political power
or an abstract idea.
We held our ground firmly all day
and night on our centre. On our right
our tide of battle prevailed, and the
enemy were swept back past Perry
ville, and we captured there a large
number of prisoners and ammunition
wagons, which were sent to our rear
during the night. On our left were
his most determined attacks in the en
deavor' to force us south, cut off our
supply trains from Louisville, and force
us into a country more desolate than
the one we held. His attacks there
were fearful ; his men, with reserves,
marched from their coverts of wood in
solid lines up to our regiments, posted
in line of battle, with his artillery play
ing on them from his cross batteries on
the distant hill-tops under cover of the
woods. Our batteries had to be placed
on open heights, as he had chosen his
position of battle on his retreat, and
our artillery and infantry were both
exposed and in full view. His skir
mishing infantry took every advantage
Of tree and stump, stonewall and fence,
as he came on, and some of our regi
ments were decimated before the charge
and shock of arms took place. He
was repulsed and driven back, but
came up again and again to the charge
in the most gallant and determined
manner, and at last, at a fearful cost
of life to hiinself, captured and hauled
off to one of his hospitals, one of our
batteries, and silenced two others that
he was unable to move; the horses be
ing all slain: His army was so horri
bly cut up that he was compelled to
retreat before day-dawn on the 9th,
and 'left our battery at his hospital
with the wheels chopped up.
A great part of the men of both ar
mies who fought this battle were those
of Shiloh, who were used to scenes of
blood and carnage, and unwilling to
retreat on either side, which accounts
for this deadly struggle—they say that
Shiloh was but tho introduction to this
consummation of battle.
The bravery and the heroism were
unparalleled. Of hundreds of such in
stances, I give a few. One Illinois
regiment of Federal troops stood on
the crest of a hill until all the field
officers had fallen, and there was no
one to command, their ammunition
was all expended, and that they died
like Romans, on their post, is proven
by the fact that the next morning of
sunrise I counted forty-four of them
lying, shot dead in the forehead or
throegh the heart, in their exact
straight line of battle, with their.arms
at their sides. There were one hun
dred and fifty more arms lying in the
same straight lino, proving that num
ber had been too severely - wounded to
carry their arms to . the rear when or
, clued back. There were fifty more
lying dead in the sip= field with their
arms ' b ide them, SW: before they
gained the cover of the next bill, and
the enemy Checked by the reserve reg
iment. One 'regiment of Federal
-PERSEVERE.-
troops from Michigan stood in line of
battle awaiting the storm ; at the first
close volley their standard was shot
away, and the flag torn to shreds; the
soldiers beside the standard bearer,
caught RIO flung up In the.air the tat.
tered remnants of the stars and stripes
until there was a heap of sixteen men
shot on the spot. When the broken
remnant of the reginicnt fell back, they
carried all the tattered fragments of
the old symbol as carefully as a mother
bears her child.
The standard of the 79th Pennsyl
vania Infantry was shot down six
times, and as often reared aloft, and when
forced from the field, the Colonel car
ried it off.
The 9th Pennsylvania Regiment of
cavalry sent out three times in solid
Column to draw the fire of the different
batteries of the enemy that were con
cealed—was rained upon by cross bat
teries with every conceivable artillery
missile. With no orders to move, and
unable to return the long range fire,
they sat on their horses like statues,
excepting those who were struck, and
went to the rear. When ordered off
the field each time, they went off at a
slow parade walk:disdaining to strike
a trot, after receiving fire for two hours.
One Federal regiment, the Sixteenth
Michigan, and a Georgia rebel regi
ment, met in line of battle in open
field ; they deliberately planted their
standards at 40 yards distance from
each other, and stood and loaded,
aimed and fired; both flags were shot
down—the Georgia regiment almost
totally destroyed, and their banner
captured.
In front of the destroyed Illinois
regiment was a worm fence, from
which the rebel soldiers took such
deadly aim; in nearly every fence cor
ner lay a dead or wounded rebel sol
dier; the fence was fired by the burst
ing shells, and in the morning a fear
ful sight met our eyes—in the ashes of
the fence lay a scorched and black
ened•mass of humanity, a roasted man,
and to all appearances, from their
struggles,, many of th CM Only wounded
when the fire caught them. The death
of our,poor meny even with all the ag
onies of thirst on them, in the scorch
ing sunshine and the dust and the chil
ling of the long, elld October night,
was merciful compared with the tor
tures these men net in the slow but
sure approach of the flames creeping
along the fence to the spot where they
lay writhing. A flock of sheep were
in the field ; the carcass of the dead
ernes lay - scattered and thc.
wounded ' ones crept into the same
fence corners with the men, and man
and beast were roasted and charred
together.
* The terrible inhumanity of the com
manders of this rebel army is proven
by the fact that on the left they had
driven us back on our second line of
battle. They had possession of that
part of the field, and held it until they
retreated at day dawn. During that
time their dead and living were liter
ally roasted (it is the actual, horrible
fact.) Our dead, and many of our
wounded, lay there stripped by them
of all their coats, hats, and shoes, and
sonic of them of pants, and in the
morning they raised their heads with
ghastly chattering jaws, unable
,to
speak, and fell back senseless. There
was mßny a wounded man who was
stripped, who had the life frozen out of
him on that bleak hillside on the cold
October night when it 'required blan
kets or a fire, to keep a 801114 well
clothed man comfortable.
The enemy carried, through the day
and night, his thousands upon thous
ands of wounded to his rear, crowding
and crushing them into Perryvilld to
overflowirig,and into every farm house,
shed, and stable within throe miles of
his line of battle. Pardons and or
chards were strewn with them. As
usual, the fierce cannonading brought
on a rain; the evening of the 9th was
cold and chilly—piercing to the very
bone. I
,went to ono of their hospitals
on the morning of the 10th. The
house, sheds, yard, and garden wore
crowded to overflowing with crushed
and wounded Tennesseeans and Geor
gians strewn around on the cold wet
straw and earth, with a poor tattered
blanket for covering to keep off the
peltings of the pitiless storm through
that bitter night. Poor human nature
could not withstand the chilling air
that pressed the vitality out of them,
and in the morning I saw two long
rows of white corpses awaiting the
soldier's hasty burial, and I was confi
dent, as with chattering teeth the poor
survivors begged to have their blan
kets dried at the fire, that the cold
night air had slain as many as our
bullets had done.
The miserably weak rebel hospital
force left to cope with the awful work
before them were totally- unable to at
tend to their wants at any of their hos
pitals, but death was fast making their
work less. The amputated legs and
arms were lying piled up like cord
wood.
The Federal dead were all buried by
their comrades on the 9th and 10th.
On the morning of the 10th I estima
ted three thoqsand dead rebel soldiers
lying on the ,Fight, centre, and left, in
an extent of six miles of theline of
battle, their commanders Mitiching off
leaving them unburied—never even
sending in a flag of truce asking us,,to
give them sepulchre. They were then
lying mangled and torn ? festering and
parleying, and the hogs devouring
them ! It is the actual, horrible fact !
The citizens of Perryville then began
to bury them to prevent a pestilence,
but there are hundred of them lying
where OAS:,
.prawled to die,, between
the logs and in the ravines and bushes
arid ledges'of rocks, that will never bq
found until the hist trup will round,
whcp, if their conscience does not
sinite them before, these gaunt skele
tons will rise up in judgment before
these unchristian and inhuman men—
the chiefs and leaders of this bloody re
hellion, who turned their backs on their
suffering and unburied men, and held
high church at Harrodsburg next day,
where, with backs well clothed and
stomachs well filled, were congregated
Bragg and Smith, Hardee and Cheat
ham, Buckner, Marshall, and Morgan,
and last, but not least, on this fist of
names, Leonidas Polk, late Bishop, not
even asking for their dead " a little
earth for charity."
The righteous Lord is long suffering,
but for all , these things these men will
be called to judgment, leading these
poor, misguided men to whiten this
land with their bones and distributin g
whisky to them without stint on the
morning of the battle. Truly this
land is made a darker and a bloodier
land than the inhuman Indian made
it in days of yore.
Were these poor men dogs even,
they should have been better cared for
by their leaders and not have been left
to the mercy of the elements, and the
dead to be eaten up by the hogs roam
ing the woods. If this is the Southern
chivalric idea of treating your fellow
man who has served you faithfully to
the death, God save me from chival
ric honors. I fear they would press
me to perdition. Can it be wondered
that on the stacks of arms they had
piled up to be burned near their hospi
tal we should find paper inscriptions
of "home or hell," portending a muti
ny in plain terms. That their com
mon soldiers are brave, our own dead
And Founded too plainly attest in
characters of blood.
They swept up (while their great
leaders kept at a safe distance) again
and again to our batteries and were
decimated and driven back repeatedly
eye they silenced three of ours on the
left. Our artillerists, when closely
pressed, filled the cannon with infin•
try cartridges by the capful and swept
whole scores of rebel soldiers to de
struction at each discharge. I coun
ted in one heap twenty-one men lying
torn and dead, sixteen in another heap,
fifteen in another, while around -they
lay scattered like leaves swept from
the trees.
This has ended the memorable bat
tle of Chaplin Hills, where Braxton
Bragg, commanding the rebel army
invading Kentucky, made his stand
on his retreat, on ground chosen and
engineered by him, and lost his battle,
crushing his regiments so much as to
nearly annihilate_many-of.them. Eer
m-pri-eic hundred
men fought at it. And of those there
were fifteen or twenty thousand either
had the semblance of humanity crushed
out of thelik cri• lie and 'linger in over
crowded hospitals or in the hot sun
shine and chilly night air to yet die
of their wounds by thousands, or trav
el to their graves through long weary
years of pain from wounds never to
be healed, and with amputated limbs,
begging their bread from door to door.
We have since pressed his army to
Harrodsburg, where ho made prepara
tions for another battle. He burnt the
bridges and left the ground on our ap
proach. We are now pressing, his
rear closely south and east. If he
makes any more stands, we expect to
have these horrors re-enacted again
and again until this invading army is
swept from Kentucky, which they
have devastated as a plague of locusts
would. Carr. JONES, CO. A.
How the Late Elections are Viewed
in the Army.
A letter from General Milroy's com
mand to the Cincinnati Gazette, says:
The feeling manifested by the best
men in the army here, in reference to
the late elections in Pennsylvania,
Ohio and Indiana, is very strong, and
of a character which might readily be
inferred frotri then:Opinion of the proc
lamation. Their freely expressed de
testation ofsuch men asVallandigham,
Vortices, Cox, and the "lesser lights"
of that school—of such papers as the
Cincinnati Enquirer, Columbus Crisis,
Pittsburg Post and Wheeling Press—
is such aslo cause a thrill of joy in the
heart of every patriot, whose love of
country is, greater than his party
prejudice. 11.owevor the peopl6 may
be deceived and misled by the machin
ations of such men, striving under the
sacred name of Democracy, to carry
out the programthe of that midnight
conclave of *traitorous cowards—the
Knights of the Golden Circle—the ar
my, at least, 'will prove true to the
Constitution and the Union it , is
SWOII to support; and after the war
against armed rebels is done, will turn
its attention to plotting, canting hyp
ocrits, who are endeavoring to put
"fire in their rear" at home. West
ern Virginians express the most pro
found astonishment that such men are
permitted to prate their rampant
treason in Ohio. ' Here it would not
be' allowed for a moment; and the
-man who would dare to call this an
" Abolition war" in the presence of
Virginia soldiers, would do, so at the
peril of his life.
The conviction is very general that
in the late election the rebels have re
ceived greatYencouragement by , the
evidences they seem' toxive of a " di
vided North." It is believed, also, to
a very considerable extent, that the
Northern, Democratic leaders are in
.seeret league with, the heads of the
Southern fJonfederacy • and that, in
the event of a successful campaign,
which will destrpy all hopes 1:4'" mde :
pendence" on tho part of the SOo,b,
peace will be offered by the rebels on
something like the " Crittenden Com
promise"basis ; - and then, by 'flip tlld
of their Northern sympathr4ers
eo-workes, Davis, Tecnnblyigfisll,
and' the' remainder of siol4'Southern
Democrats," will Ir?o 'return'ed to their
old places of" honorand profit" in the
General Government, that is if,: iu
$1,50 a year in advance.
TERMS
Iview of the " horrors" of war," the
dread of" high taxes," and the most
persistent howls about "niggers," the
people of the North can be brought to
set the seal upon their own eternal
shame and degradation. The false
pretences of 'peculiar love for the
" Constitution as it is," by those Nort
hern traitors, who wore always ready
to change it at the behests of the se
cession leaders, is thoroughly under
stood, and properly appreciated in the
army.
A Graphic Picture• of a Southerx
Empire.
The London Daily Hews draws AN
picture of the character of the South
and the probable consequences which
would follow its achievement of" inde
pendence:"
"As far as England is concerned,
we may judge from the past. Many
people say, in excuse for their state of
mind about the war, that they detest the
Amesicans. Very well; and what does
this mean ? It means an association
of ideas made up of troubles about
search of slaves at sea, and brag about
the Monroe doctrine, and threats of
Canada, and slanders about our cruis
ers in the dulf, and outrage on San
Juan, and the bullying of the General
Harney-s, and the sharp practice of
cabinets at Washington, and aggres
sions upon our seamen in port, and
universal rudeness to our representa
tives in the States, and to our Govern
ment through American representa
tives in England..
"All this, with impressions of Hi
bustering, threats about Cuba, an un
repressed clandestine slave trade, lynch
law, marauding Ti Kansas, brag about
liberty; together with tar and feathers,
cow hiding slave markets, human stock
breeding, and all the rest of 4-r-these
impressions combine to make up the
sentiment expressed by the avowal, "I
detest the Americans! But for every
element of this impression confederate
society is answerable. It was the
South resigning at Washington, the
South importing ne , roes, the South
sending Walker and Lopez into the
territory of an ally to stir up insurrec
tion, the South sending ten. Harney
to San Juan, the South getting uP
Monroe doctrine, the South lynching
clergymen, and burning alive travelers
suspected of. disapproving slavery—
the South as universal aggressor, bul
ly, braggart., traitor, mischief maker,
nwril bore—thEkt,§94oV.
getting to detest more and mora4very
year. Wait follows, if the same South,
inflated with pride and revenge, could
actually recover her dominion ?
"The Dred Scott decision would be
actively enforced, and the whole ter
ritory of the Union made slave soil.—
The popular vote would be overruled,
or practically precluded, • as hitherto
in the South; and. rights of education,
of free speech,' and a free press would
be extinguished. Labor being discred
ited by the extension of slavery, the
pauperism and degradation of the free
workers of the North would corrupt
society to its core. The concubinage
of the South would spread beyond tie
present dividing line, and the morals
of the whole nation would be &in dag
ger of becoming like digs§ ofttlic slave
States, whieh are grosser than can be
eonceived of in any other partof Christ
endom:'Every ether nation would be
perpetually on the verge of war, or
engaged in it, kocauso the slave power
cannot abstain from aggression, nor
maintain its position by the arts of
peace.
" We should see a retrograde period
arrive more disastrous to civilizatiOn
than the advent of the first Napoleon.
We should see a buccaneering nation
turning the progress of political liber
ty into a mockery; destroying 'the
freedom of the seas, and tho seCurity
of territory, and-the prosperity of la
bor. We sinsuld-see the natural laws
of industry and trade tampered with,
civilization turned baca, a canting pa
gaibism set up in the name of Christi
anity; and the Old World, infested
with the piracies of the New, in every
department of politics, of business, of
territorial possession, and of intellectu
al and Moral intercourse. lithe Con
federates could prevail and reinstate
the spirit and policy of the South at,
Washington; it'Would be the_ greatest
calamity that has befallen 'the world
for centuries: But'it will not' be.—
The American people will not permit
it; and the rest of the world; once
aware 'of the danger, will not endure it!!
Surrender of Harper's Ferry.
Report of the Investigating Com
mittee.
The Commission, consisting of Maj.
Gen.. D. Hunter, U. S. A., of Vols.,
Pres. ' • Major General George CadWill
ader, U. S. A., of Vols.; Brig. 'General
C. C. Augur; U. S. A. of Vols. ' ; Major
Donn Piatt, A. A. General of Vols.;
Captain P. Ball, A. D. C. ofVols. ;' Col.
G. Holt, Judge Advocate General,
called by the Government to InOsti
g'ate the conduct'of certain officers con
nected with, and the circumstances at
tending the abandonment of Maryland
Heights and the eltrrender Htirper!s
Ferry, have the honor to _report 01'6
following : •
On the 3d of September General
White entered Harper'i Terry With
his force from 'Winchester. The tr;f,
day be was erdered to Martinsburg to
take command of the fOrpes there:—
On the 3.2 th of September ho again re
turned to Harper's Perry,, where he
remained Until the sUrrender without
assuming the command.
On the 7th qt' septombev q,tioval
3.loolellan, the most of-his forcq 111,y
ing preceded him, leftVadhington
under orders issued some days previ
ously, to'clrivc the enemy from Mary
.
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CALL AND 6ZAIC46 SPECIA!ANO itptr,
AT LEWIS' ROOE, STATIONERY & MUSIC STOUR
land. That night he established hl4
headquarters atlOck:yillc, from "hied}
place on the 11th of September, 116014
egraphed to General Halted( havq
Colonel Miles ordered to join him 0
once.
On the sth of September, Colonel
Thomas H. Ford. Thirty-SeCond
took command of the forces on Mary: .
land Heights. Forces were plaeq444l,
Solomon's Gap and at Sandy /rook,
Those at Sandy Hook, under, 'Colonel
Maulsby, retired by Col. Miles' griler
to the eastern slope -of Maryland
Heights two or three days prdvious tq
their evacuation by , Colonel Ford. Oa
the 11th of September the force at
omon'a Gap was driven in kly the en q,
my. Colonel Ford called uion
Miles for reinforcements. The One
Hundred and Twenty-Sixth New York
and the Thirty-Ninth New York (Gar: ,
ibaldi Guards,) were sent him on Fri;
day, the 12th of Septeniber, lola on
morning of the nth he wasfurther:re;
inforced by the Ono Hundred and Fif
teenth New York and a portion -cola
Maryland regiment under Lieutenant. ,
Colonel Downey.
Col. Ford made requisition for axes
and spades, to enable him to construct
defences on the Heights, but obtained
none, with the exception of tan ales
belonging to some Maryland trolls,
hiring all that could be obtained, d
slight breastwork .of trees was. eon
structed on the 12th near OM. crest a
the Heights, and a slashing'Of. timber
made for a short distance in front; of
t•..
the breastwork.
The forces under
_Col.. Ford ,worg
stationed at various points on the. Ma.
ryland Heights, the principallorceke.
ing on the crest of the bill near thq
breastwork. and loot; out":•
commenced on Friday thel2thoog
the crest of the hill.
Early on the• morning of the 14th,
the enemy made an attack on the crest
of the bill, and after some Aitne,Alie
troops retired in some confusion 'to the
breastwork, where they were* rallied.
About 9 o'clock, a second attack was
made, which the troops behind thq
breastwork resisted for a short titri9,
and until COL Sherrill, of the One hun t .
dred and twenty-sixth N. Y. regiment,
was wounded, and carried off the field,
when the entire Ono hundred: an 4
tireniy-slxth regiment, as soimi. *4l
nesses testify, all but two 'companies,
Major Hewitt states, broke, and fled,in
utter confusion. Men and most ofthe
officers all fled togothenp9 effort being
m_n(lc'*G_i.tilly the ri)g. nun, atop 4
CoiOn et Ford, Liont„Barras,:Aetiot
Au tan t, offieem
re g iments, directed by Wee,
then on the Heights. -
Soon after, the remaining forces • at
the breastwork, fell back, undom sup :
posed order from Major Hewitt, wh9
himself says that- he gav,o no sneh or
der; merely sent instructions to the
Captains of his own regiment thap,:if
c) T
they were compelled taigg al: !
in good order. Orders wore given by
Colonel Ford for the troops' to return
to their position. They, advanced*
some distance up the Heights, but did
not regain the breastwnrks.
,That evening C o l o nel , F4B Rti•
Maryland Heights for sorno•hours, con
sulting with Col: Ford;., left, 64;
tWecn : ll: and 12' o'eleek, Witheatdi ;
reedy ordering Colonel Ford to cyatt
uate the Heights, but instruetiliihitn,
in case he was comPelled*t r o to
Spike his guns, and • throw the ',heavy
siege guns, down the mountain. •
About 2 o'clock, perhap4 a little la
ter, by the order: of Colonel PoFd; ,the
Heights, were abaridoped; the gnus tie
in g spiked according to "inStruetionS.
, On Saturday, Col. D'Ertassy Opt
over to the
,Maryland Heights, four
companies under Major , Wood, whp
brought off, without oppositionjour
brass 12-pounders, two of Whidliwore
imperfectly spikcd,4nd a wlig4l 19.41
of ammunition. , • •
General Whito;, on his ref.iii:,: , to
Harper's Ferry on' the 12th of s4itein
her, suggested to Colonel -. 211iles, % the
propriety of contracting, hiS•lines,on
Bolivar Heights so as to maye a 'better
defence, but Cid: Milei adhered' tii 'WS
original line of defence, stating that 4Q
was determined to makc'his . stand;Ori
Bolivar Heights. Gendxal Virl4fte alio
urged the importance 'of holdi rig M.ary.
land Heights, even , Should. It 'teguire
taking ti entire force ever there from
Ferry.. ' . Col. Mires; under his
orders to held, Harper's. Ferry to, the
last', 'extrMnity;' while iultnitting , the
i inportance Of Idaryland. Heights, stunn
ed to regard them as applying tp tlfe
town of Ilarper:s Ferry; and
even to,
thig
tO leave Harper's,F,orrY eyett to, g0,.51 i n
Mdryland lreightS,,l,vdtild, ho,disohey
ing' his instructions.' " i
,;,:"',. --' ~:;.
General McClellan eStabliehetl ‘ 4l,p.
headquarters at . ,Frederick, City;i on
the 13th'of September. Cfrl the night
ot the is t h ; .after the evacuatiOn iof
31arYland Heights, Cq. Milos difecte4
Captain (now Major) Rusiblf, 'of, the
Maryla'nd cavalry, to take With i liiiii,'n,
few men and endday,orite" - get,threner
the enemy's lineS and readh";Soine . .g
our forces—GeneraLlATOGlellan, if Os
sible---apd to - repertt O
he klipia .of
il
Iliiiper's Terry, that it,cottld fioi: `64
mit more:than fertY.eight lionrinnle4s
reinforbed, and to urge, the sending Of
reinforcements. Captain Russell reach
ed' Potlevil MeClellan's 'headqUart,o r itt
at Frede'ri'ck, at 6; A. M.,'ori . - Sunda*,
the 14th• of Septeintler> . '#N4 Ttfil:4
4S - directed by .Colonel Mile!?: •,,', tufiti,. :
diately upon'his airivab - Gfinprat xt.,.
Clellan sent - off a messenger,"as Capt.
Russell understood; to General Frank-
lin. - '
' 'At 10 A. M., Captain Rus.sell loft.
for Conoral Frei*lin's, een] and; witii.
a commumoittion to Genova Franklin
r . rqin GonerailteClellan..' e reached
Oeboral Franklin aboyAl) o?clopk t tli4t
afteinOon, and found him . engaged
With the enoM;l7,ap C . J•hapton!s Gap!.:•—•
The onem3i wore d)iven'ffoin tho Gap,
and the nowt morning, tho 13th Con.
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