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WAR SI Graphic Description o derness by a JSHi Kditor Atlanta Journal: ? notice lu a recent issue ul' your paper an article under tho caption, "This the Bravest Mau Roosevelt liver Saw." lt ?refers to Majoi Micah Jenkins, son ol' ihc late General Micah Jenkins, comman der of a brigade of South Carolina in fantry in Longstreet's first army corps. The article reads, "Killed in the Hat tie of Gettysburg By thc Same Volley that Wounded General Longstreet." 1 want to correct that mistake. Gen eral Jenkins was not in thc hattie of Gettysburg, us he had been, much against his wishes, assigned to the Department of North Carolina prior t<> General Lee's memorable advance into Pennsylvania. Nor was Longstreet wounued at Gettysburg, but in the battle of the Wilderness on the morn ing of the 6th of May, 1804, General Jenkins was killed by the samo volley that wounded General Longstreet. The circumstances connected with tho death of that very distinguished offi cer were as follows: All day thc 5th and until about 10 a. m. the 6th, Gen eral A. P. Hill's corps had been con tending against vastly superior num bers of federal troops. On tho fatal morning of the ?th Hancock had ad vanced his corps on Hill's position, and forced the latter almost buck to his artillery lino badly broken and worn out by incessant fighting. Dis aster to tho Confederate army seemed assured, Ancrai Leo was with tho 5'Uihery and dircoiing tho re-forma uou of the broken lines. He had sent for his old war horse (Longstreet) and waB anxiously waiting his coming always reliable and on hand at tho right moment, he is seen coming down tho Orango plank road, his magnifi cent mon on the double-quick, resist less as tho ocean tidol Gregg s Tex ans are deployed into lino and imme diately advance with that never to be forgotten yell. The immortal Lee springB to the front to lead them; they halt. He must go back or there will be no advance of Texans. A bronzed faced demon of the battle front genii} take i tho bridle rein and turns tho head of his charger. Loo sorrowfully rides over to Longstreet; on goes tho Texans. Loud roar tho cannon with shotted breath, and moro a .vf ul tho yellB of battle demons. Tho Texans strike Hancock's oxultaot advance; the shook is tremendous; neither lino recoils; but tho tangled forests trem ble, and tho tangle-haired Texans and the blue veterans of Hancock settle themselves down to the science of bntohcring ono another. The slaugh ter on both sides is awful. Benuing's and Law's brigades como to the aid of Gregg and tako a hand in tho work that is on; with a yell tho whole line charges. The Federal line is forced back, but Wadsworth comes to thu aid of Hancock; the tide of battle ebbs and flows. Wadsworth is killed; Longstreet strikes tba federal left flank; rolls it up in a confused mass toward the plank and back on the Brook road. Everything now indica ted a completo victory for tho Confed erates. General Longstreet rode for ward to prepare and take advantage of tho opportunity to inflict a decisivo blow on Grant's army. With that end in view Jenkins' fresh brigade is moved forward to the plank road. Supplemented by Kershaw's bri gade, General Longstreetrode forward to reconnoiter tho situation, accom panied by General Jenkins. Mnhonc's men seeing a movement in their front and the indistinct viow obtained owing to thc density of the forest mistook them for tho enemy and fired killing the Gallant Jenkins and wounding Longstreet, a most lamentable mis take. As a federal soldier I know that it will not be expected of me within the scope of a;i article intended for the close call department, to write a biog raphical sketch of so distinguished an officer as General Micah Jenkins, were I fitted for thc work, which I am ucl. Yet the temptation is so great to say something more, that Iventure a brief retrospective view of that hero's war record, and under my own observation as colonel of the regiment designated, the Palmotto Sharp Shooters of South Carolina, wo joined him at the battle of Manassas, or Bull Run, as tho federals have it. In the hottest part of that field, near the Henry house and down the slope, where so many of the Hampton Legion fell and whore valiant deeds and good generalship crowned .tho young Confederacy with viotory and everlasting fame. To Beauregard, Jackson, Bee, Bartow and Kirby Smith, the latter a citizen of Connecticut, under General Magruder, we find the gallant Ccl?nel.-Tonkins Vru'J. 1 the defenses of Yorktown^ A' Alt. * the evacuation of that strong hold Jenkins' regiment, with others, covered the retreat and f aoing about oj Williamsburg met the overwhelm ing advance of the enemy, inflicting ORIES. i* the Hattie ol' tho Wil- j cliigan "V"e teran. ter?" ib lo i". . in Iiis i .?.uk s und cheeking Iiis- advance until the Confederate army sind subsistence trains are at a sufi: distance and proper line of de fense established. At West l'oint and other places his regiment had fought thc hurd hattie of the rear gu:.rd until the anny was .-afc ou thc s'nih .-i<:<- of thc Chickahominic Uiver, his regiment having suffered untold hardships aud severe losses in men and oiliccrs, for which he received just recognition for his gallant and meritorious conduct i ii face of un o v e r w h e 1 m i n g e ii c m y. Next we (ind him at the battle of Seven Pines, or Fair Oaks, with his gail..ut regiment undone other driving before him a whole federal division, gaining a good position, held thc bat tle held and inflicting a loss on thc enemy about equal to the number of men in his regiment, only abandoning his position when tho ?r.ny was with drawn to the former defences of Rich mond, in the dark hours of the Con federacy which followed tho battle of Seven Pines, when Johnston's vague plans and operations puzzled and con fused thc president. A new star appeared on the Con federate horizon. It illuminated the whole American continent. Its reful gent rayH penetrated tho remotest bounds of the Old World. That mag nificent and glowing orb personified in thc wonderful Robert E. Lee gave now life to the Confederacy, vigor and swiftness of movement. Plans were speedily consummated; hostile guns must not cover thc capital; the siege must bc raised, the enemy beaten to cover. Jackson in tho valley re ceives a message, his foot cavalry are put in motion. He boats Banks and Shields, down tho valley as with a flail. Consternation is in their path. One takes refugo in Harper's Ferry; the other across the Potomac. Tho great Hailer returns aud brushes Fre mont out of his path, drops back a few foot-soro Spartans as pickots for Fremont to gape at uutil his (Jack son's) return. Leo crosses the Chick ahomiuio at Meadow Ridge aud drives the enemy to ii* common center about Grapevine Bridge and Woodbury Bridge. The seven days' battle is on. The second day, June 27, 18?2, Long street strikes tho enemy's left and Jackson the right flanks. The battle rages all the afternoon. Tho enemy hold their ground. Late in tho ovon ing Lee makes thc final effort to count that day's victory his own. Tho Tex an brigado under Hood are hurled like a thunderbolt against the left center. Colonel Micah Jenkins with his vali ant Palmetto regiment and ono other against tho extreme left. Tho left center is broken and shattered iuto fragments. Jenkins fires one volley aud charges with cold steel. The enemy broken, slaughtered, and thc survivors driven into the swamps of the Chickahominic-and only thc sheltering wings of night saved us from complete annihilation. The writer's regiment, ono of thc most magnificent regiments in the army, 12 companios, 1,140 mon, was almost a total wreck, and Jenkins held our beautiful banner. Col. James A. Hoyt, editor of tho Greenville Moun taineer, then a captain in Col. Jen kins' regiment, has told tho story cor rectly iu the Veteran. Leo is victor. McClellan is on the retreat to the James River. The B?C^C of Richmond raised. The otb of the battle days, June 30. Jenkins takes tho advance of tho battle of Frazier's Farm. Boats back tho ene my. Holds the battle ground. Ile has commanded R. H. Anderson's brigado in both battles. Hisreginion tal loss is severe, '-imsclf scvorely wounded. Tho Palmetto regiment alono sustaining a loss of 375 aud no prisoners reported After a inarch of over two huudrcd miles, on half ra tions, wc find General Jenkins again on tho old battle ground of Bull Run. or Manassas No. 2, on Longstreet's right. Porters' federal corps left, this time ho fights Maxey Gregg's, old cuemics of Gains' Mill. Jonkins' brigade has some desperate Gghtint and himself again severely wounded, and brigade loss about 450. Ho ii one of the officers mentioned in Gen. Longstreet's report of thia battle for extraordinary bravery and unexcelled j heroism. His brigade, now in com- ! maud of Colonel Joseph Walker, of tho Palmetto Sharpshooters, advances into Maryland, and goes into aotion in tho battle of South Mountain, sus taining a loss of 20, then baok to Sharpsburg, or Antietam. Their field of operation was not far from Gen. Loo's headquarters, becoming desper ately engaged and drove the onemy at every point, losing 208 officers and men, holding their battlo ground and browning their wounded Jenkins with glory and sustaining tho proud reoord of thc old brigade. Thus Leo had beaten McClellan's anny olf the peninsula, destroyed the grand anny ol' the man whose head quarters were in the saddle and had fought the combined annies at Antie tam to standstill. This ia the most blojdy and desperate of the ages. The only marl: of vic'ory to be credi ted to either was their battlefields. During the Gettysburg campaign the gallant Jenkins, being assigned to the department of North Carolina, performing valuable service also around Richmond, Petersburg and the Black Water, he very urgently re quested in his many applications to the department commander and the authorities in Richmond tobe permit ted to share thc battlefields of Lee's anny along with the divisions with whom he had been so long, and often in bloody conflict in d?fense of his cherished rights and glorious Stars and liars, but alan, his vish was only gratified when Lee and Grant met in thc wilderness on the Orauge Plank road, that fatal Gth of May, 1804. Although his cause aud minc was at war, I loved him uone thc less, lie was noble and brave, and such as he gave a world-wide glory to tho Auicri-1 can field embattled. Tho spirit of such men do not sleep with the tene ment of clay, but lives again in great deeds. The newer generations of the southland will have their Lees and Jenkins, but nowhere else on this convex world. It would be sad indeed were we only to find them in dusty and time worn volumes and on cold and mutilated stone. It is pleasing to note the presence of tho distin guished officer of whom my feeble pen has written personified in young Major Micah Jenkins, the hero of Santiago, one whose daring deeds have won the applaudits of the Western Hemis phere. T. R. Lackle, 4G7 Vinewood Ave., Detroit, Mich. Lute a lieutenant lGth Mich. Vet. Vol. Infantry. What He Was There For. There is at least one court in the world, an English midland assizes, the judge of which is not afraid to say that blaok is black. Thc Bil ming ham Post gives tho following glimpse of his method of dealing out justice: A respectable looking mau was in tho court iu thc autumu session. The charge was theft. The aggregate value involved was eonsideiable, and the plea was guilty, but it was alleged that there were extenuating circum stance:;. The defense introduced a medical expert to testify for tho prisoner. He said that the self-confessed theif had kleptomania. "What s that? ' asked the judge very gravely. "Er-it's-er-a-disease, my lord,'' said the a?touii>hed expert. "What kind of a uisease?" asked the judge. "Well, it's a-er-a mental disease that causes the subject to appropriate property not his own," stammered the physician. "Make? him steal?"' asked the judge. "Yes, my lord, that is generally tho effect." "I kuow the disease," said his hon or, a grim ?mile in his eyes. "I know the disease, aud I am sent here to cure it.1' - A faint suspicion entering the mind and brooded upon will often develop into jealousy, anger, and hatred; while, on the other hand, pure and noble' thoughts cherished will make ibo character purer and nobler. - Mrs Muliigm-"And eo you have nu mother now?" Motherless Boy-1 N'u, uiutu." Mrs. M-"Wei1, me boy, whenever you feel the want of a good thrashing, c?meteme and I'll hu u mother to you." The Old and '.he New. The first English settlement at Charleston was io 1G80, when Charles II was King, and tho city in conse quence is one of the oldest in thc I'uited States. It has no?, not been great?y disturbed by the march of pro gress, and it stands to-day in quaint and pleasing contrast with thc beauti ful and very modern Exposition, "Thc Ivory City," that has been erected h its suburbs. In no city of America, probably, is there such striking juxtaposition of the old and the new as in Charleston. Historic St. Michael's is in thc imme diate vicinity of three very ornamen tal public buildings of recent construc tion and entirely modern architecture. But the old predominates Thc con servatism and Hedateness of antiquity pervade the city's atmosphere. There | is a inarkod desire on the part of some of its more enterprising citizens to place the old town in the procession of American cities that look to thc futuro rather thau the past-the Exposition is a manifestation of this spirit-but although the Exposition is in itself all aud cveu moro than could be ex pected, the efforts at progress seem to set oddly on a people whose habits and train of thought have long been in opposite direction. Tho most that is being done fm- the Exposition is by tho railroads that lead to Charleston. The people either do not understand the art of boosting their show, which a more Western or more modern com munity would under like circumstan ces practice with an enthusiastic zest, or else they scorn an innovation that would so disturb their accustomed quiet and traditional reserve. In an ancient building near the docks in Charleston there is a hole in tho wall made by Sir Henry Clinton's cannon in 1780. This hole is proudly pointed out to visitors, but it is not easy to decide whether the chief source j of pride comes from tho interest in the historical incident of which it is in a manner a monument or the fact that it lias never been repaired. At the beginning of tho century Charleston was tho fourth city of im portauce in the country. It ranked next tu Boston, New York and Phila delphia being tho only others that ex ceeded it. Its population in 1850 was 42,985, and in 1890 it was 55,807, a growth of less than 30 per oent in a half century. But with all this Charleston is in many respects one of the most favored localities in America, and in the ful ness of time, when the untoward con ditions that have in the past beset it have passed away, it should become a great city. It has had many misfor tunes. Besides the civil war and re construction, Charleston suffered from a cyclone in 1885 and an earthquake io 18S6. But it is a city beautiful for situation; it has one of the finest har bors on the Atlantic coast, a climate that is unsurpassed, and it is so lo cated that it should command a splen did trade. lr suffers some from the rivalry of its more enterprising neigh bor, Savannah, but uiere should be room for two great cities on thc South Atlantic coast. There aro four large nnos uo further apart in the North. Charleston is to have a largo navy yard, for which tho Government has already purchased land. When this ia completed and when tho construc tion of au isthmian canal turns trans atlantic trade South, Charleston should and doubtless* will take ona new growth. No city is more interesting tc visit than Charleston. The Exposition is beautiful aud all that could bo ex pected of snell a display, and the city itself is rich in historic suggestions from the carly colonial period, through nullification aud secession to Ben Tillman's liquor dispensaries. Tho antique und the new ure most inter estingly blooded in Charleston, and "Let the twins de OLD D pots and pans, floor? and doors-?nd yet : ry thing clean and bright-lessen* the o be "Blue Monday." It makes it poss n tho washboard. only by THE N. K. FAIRBANK COM] o? O vii altogctbcr there arc few places on the continent where more can bo found to intercbt the intelligent visitor. The Exposition ought to bo largely patron ized.-Nashville Banner. Seme Postal Dorri's. "It is astonishing how questions pour in regarding mail matter and its treatment," said a postal official, "-ind it shows on thc part of tho general public a woeful lack of information with which it ought to bc familiar. I have from time to time jotted down some poRtal 'dent's' which will bo found of value. ''Don't mail your letter without placing at least one two-cent stamp thereon. Of course, you will say that you always do this, but there were 150,000 patrons of the mails last year who did not. "Don't fail to writo the name and address of the person for whom your letter or package is intended, plainly on thc envelope or face of the pack age. You may find comfort in tho knowledge that more than 100,000 pieces of mail matter without a line of superscription were received last year at the dead letter office in Wash ington. "Don't misdirect your mail, even if half a million people annually write the wrong address upon the pieces they drop in the boxes. "Don't send loose coin in envelopes. If it is not stolen it often works out of the corners. Don't send bills either. If the postal thief who steals your money is caught, he will go to prison, and you will be the cause of it. Use the money order or the registry sys tem when you wish to transmit money or valuable artioles through the mails. "Don't, if you have come from a foreign country, fail to place the cor rect address of your correspondent in the old country, on the envelope. A quarter of a million of these incorrect ly addressed foreign letters are annu ally returned to the United States to be returned to their senders, if their names and addresses can be obtained. "Don't fail to place your name and address in your letter or on the envel ope if you wish your missive returned to you in ease of non-delivery. Some people send money, and say: 'From mother,' or 'From papa.'\ We all had mothers or fathers. No elue is afford ed to either the sender or the addres see in case of a non-delivery. "Don't omit your name, your post office or your State when writing to department stores in cities for goods. Macy people do omit one or more of these essential particulars, sometimes all, and it causes confusion. "Don't think you can beat the game wheo pou receive a polite letter from a stringer in the city telling you how to get rich quickly for nothing. You will be out if pocket and sadly fooled, if you entertain this popular belief. "Don't fail to prepay full rate upon your foreign mail, both letters uud packages, even though the former will go forward to destination without any prepayment of postage at all," and the latter if partially prepaid. Double postage is collected abroad fe the amouut duo. "Don't forget with domestic mail that while a letter will go furward if it bas a single rate of postage paid there on, two cents, the balance to be col lected of the addressee, newspapers and packages will not. They go to the dead letter office. People confuse these instances of foreign and domes tic mail, and loss results. ''Don't he so careless as not to seal the flap of your envelope, and if you fail to do this don't afterward com plain to the department that 'some body opened my letter ' Thousands of people do this every year. "Dan't forget that postal thieves do not get al) the money-loiters that are not delivered. 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