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WAR SI When Lee ISTee&e? Micah, < Yesterday was the anniversary of one of thc greatest battles in tho his tory of tho world-Gettysburg. Around this little village in Pennsylvania 40 years ago the forces (ff Robert E. Lee hurled themselves -against thc great armies of Moado, the federal command er, aud there resulted a battle Bangui nary io the extreme, thc result of which was a victory to neither side. Yet it was a loss to Southern arias, for it forced Lee to give up his offen sive warfare into thc country of tho enemy end caused him to fall back upon his own country already impov erished by thc ravages of mighty ar mies. South Carolinians did their part at Gettysburg, although the glory was in great measure given to others-and gloriously did all the Southern troops deport themselves in this great battle. It is on record in Goo. Lee's own handwriting that had a certain brigade of South Carolinians been there, the fortunes of the battle would have been quite differont. It is singular that ctho great commander-in-chief should think that the tide of the bat tle could have been turned by just one brigade-when so many thousands of troops were engaged-but tho follow ing is a Copy of the letter written by Gen. Leo to "t?tfboy general:" Headquarters Army of Northern Virginia, August, 18G3. Dear General: I regret exceedingly ttfe absence of yourself and your com ma' <l from tho battle of Gettysburg. Tu ure is no telling what a gallant brig ade, led by an efficient commander, might have accomplished when vic tory trembled in the balance, I verily believe the result would have been different if you had been present. Sincerely yours, R. E. Lee, General. To Gen. M. Jenkins. 4 _ This letter is on file somewhere in the archives of the State capitol and Col. M. P. Tribble who is working on the Confederate rolls is looking for it so that it may be returned to the fam ily of the gallant little general who was killed in the battle of the Wilder ness, the fatal fire being from a body of Confederates. Gen. Longstreet wounded at the same instant, and the Wilderness fight was lost. Much against their will Jenkins and Corse of Virginia were detailed by President Davis to sot as a guard for Richmond during Gen. Lee's invasion of Pennsylvania. Gen. Longstreet in his history has said that it was a great mistake for the two Snoot brigades in the entire army to have been lefi at. Riehmond, and the letter of Gen. Lee also indicates what great dependence the oommander-in-ohief had in the little brigadier, who was one of the "gamest" men and one of the best soldiers in the entire army-State, July 9._ Gen. Longstreet on Gettysburg. In another column is oopied an edi torial from The State, in whioh is re viewed Gen. John B. Gordon's article relating to the battle of Gettysburg, and incidentally.is raised the question of responsibility for the defeat of tho Confederates on that memorable field. Gen. Gordon is said to place himself < squarely among those who charge the fault to Gen. Longstreet, and without intending to take issue with Gen. i . Gordon and others who hold to that : ? .^iow, we believe it is only rigb* and < j proper that the gallant commander of ; ibo First Corps should be heard in his < own behalf. For four years wo were, in this corps < under Longstreet's command,-and had < frequent opportunities . to * know his m?thode and practices on tho field, but in all those" "year's not a whisper was ever heard against his soldierly - .-conduct and prompt obedience to or - tiers. Ten years after the war closed, when Longstreet's .political .status was a grief and annoyance to - the men of his oorps, an attack was made upon his reputation as a soldier beoause he did not obey Gan. Lee's orders to at tack at sunrise on the second day at Gettysburg. ' W? Venture to ' say that auch a chargo would novar, have found ' ntterance if Longstreet had . kept out cl politioa. If it can be shown that the sunrise fattie was not ordered, what becomes of the charge against Longstreet? Gen. A. L. Long, military secretary tc Gen. Lee, says: "I do ?os reeolleot of hearing of an order to attaok at sun ilse, or at any other designated hour, fending the operations at Gettysburg during the first three days of July, 1863." Col. Charles Marshal! says t *'I have no personal recollection of the order to*whioh yon refer." Col. Charle* S. Venable says: "I did not know of any order for au attack on ORIBS. cl the Hoy G-eneral, Jenkins. the enemy at sunrise on the 2ad, nor caa I believe any Buoh order was is sued by Gen. Lee." Col. W. H. ^aylor says: "I neyer before heard ol" the 'sunrise attack* you were to have made, as charged by Gen. Pen dleton. If such an order was given you I never knew of it, or it has strangely escaped ray memory. * * * I regard it as a great mistake on tho part of those who, perhaps because of political .diff?rences, now undertake to criticise and attack your war re* cord." The foregoing is the testimony giv en by five members of Gen. Lee's per sonal staff, the men of all others who were closest to him in time of battle, and certainly they had a right to speak. Their letters to Gen. Long street were written in 2875, shortly after the attack made upon him by Gen. Pendleton, and whioh appear to disprove his charges as to the becocd day at Gettysburg. The third day's operations aro more important, and further detail is necessary to understand thc situation. Gen. Longstreet says: "Ho did not give or send me orders for tho morn ing of the third dav, nor did he rein force me by Pickett's brigades for morning attack. In the absence of orders, I had scouting parties out dur ing thc night in search of a way by which we might strike the enemy's left and push it down towards hiscen tre. I found a way that gave some promise of results, and was about to move tho command, when Gen. Lee rode over after sunrise and gave his orders. His plan was to assault the 1 enemy's left centre by a column to be composed of MoLaws' and Hood's divisions reinforced by Pickett's bri gades. "I thought that it would not do; that the point had been fully tested the day before by more men, wlen all were fresh; that the enemy was there looking for us, as we heard him dur ing the night putting up his defences; that the divisions of MoLaws and Hood were holding a >mi e along the right of my line against twenty thou- ' sand men, who would follow their withdrawal, strike the flank of the as saulting column, crush it, and get on our rear towards the Potomac river; ? that thirty thousand men was the .< minimum of foroe neoessary for the 1 work; that even such force would i need olose oo-operation on other parts 1 of the line; that the column as he > proposed to organise it would have < only about thirteen thousand men, (the divisions having lost a third of i their number the day before;) that < the column would have to march a i mile under concentrating battery fire, ? and a thousand yards under long- ? range musketry- that the conditions < were different from those in the days i of Napoleon, when field batteries had i a range of six hundred yards and { musketry about sixty yards." I Gen. Longstreet then gives the dis- 1 oussion that took plaoe between them 3 as to the distances and strength of t the attacking oolumn, and desoribes 1 the disposition of the troops under i the order of Gen. Lee, which was i soon followed by ass nuit a of the ene- 1 my. He says that Gen. Leo knew ( "I did not believe that success was I possible," and that "he should have I put an officer in oharge who had moro i confidence in his plan." Thedescrip- t don given of* the movements prelimi- t nary to Pickett's oharge is graphic ^ and. spirited. Gen. Alexander sent a t note to Pickett, saying to come at t once if at all, or he could not givo 1 proper support with his artillery, when Gen. Pickett said to Longstreet: ' i "General, shall I advanco?" Not a S word was spoken in reply, only an affirmative bow from Longstreet, and Pickett leaped on his horse, riding rapidly to his command. Then came the shook of that famous oharge, and when the onslaught was over, the broken filos marched back with steady step. When the commanders were engaged in collecting the mon after the repulse, Gen. Lee is reported as saying to an officer who was assisting, "It ia all my fault." Another offioer says that Gen. Lee repeated this re mark in -his hearing on the 5th of Joly. Col. Goree, of Texas, says he was present just after Pickett's repulse, when Geii. Lee so magnanimously took all the blame of the disaster upon himself. He relates another impor tant circumstance ab occurring in the winter of 1863-4, when he was sent from East Tennessee with dispatches, to Gen. Lee. Upon his arrival at Orango, Va., Gen. Lee asked the offi cer into his tent, and remarked that he had been reading the reports in Northern newspapers of the battle at Gettysburg, whioh satisfied him that if ho had permitted Gen. Longstreet to carry out his plan, instead of mak ing the attack on Cemetery Hill, it would have been successful. This statement was eon ii ru: ed by a letter from Gen. Lee, which is quoted hy Longstreet. . . Thia flUD?mar" of Lon-street's de fence of his conduct hardly docs him justice, but we do not recall that any newspaper has ever stated his posi tion when the battle of Gettysburg was under consideration. His book, "From M an asses to Appomatox," is a valuable contribution to Confederate history, and yet it has been read only to be harshly criticised for what he says about Gettysburg, because he makes the capital mistake of being disrespectful when dealing with thc facts relating to Gen. Lee. His pro vocation for discussing these facts were the assaults made upon his own record by Gen. W.N. Pendleton, chief of artillery, and by Gen. Fitz Lee, a nephew of the incomparable leader of the Army of Northern Virginia. The bitteruess with which he was attacked does not justify much that is said concerning his commander, and Gen. Longstreet has added this grievous blunder to his unfortunate political alliance, the two grave mistakes of hit life serving to dim tho splendid re cord made at Williamsburg, Manassas, Seven Pines, Fredericksburg, and OD down to Appomattox.-Greenville Mountaineer. Where Relics are Preserved Which Toucf Men's Hearts. An interesting feature of the Con federate Museum in Richmond, al though foreign to its design, is th* furnishing of a poiot 'appui to ex Federal and Southern soldiers, thosi charming bits of unwritten history. A Northerner entering the Missis sippi room, and pausing before a eas containing the suit worn by Jeffersoi Davis when captured, said to th guide: "I have seen these clothes before I was one of the wardens in charge o Mr. Davis' cell at Fort Monroe, anc seeing this coat on a chair near hi couch and desiring a souvenir of him I out off the right-hand rear button which I still retain." As he spok the two mon passed around the cae to find the button in question conspic uous by its absence "The sentinel who relieved me, the visitor continued, "coveted hi pipe. Mr. Davis, however, was a inveterate smoker, and, knowing tl distress its loss would entail, ? inte ceded in his behalf and it was spare? It was a meerschaum, stained dov? the.bowl a half inch as evenly i though done by'measure." There was co pipe of the ex-Pres dent on exhibition in tho buildinj Some one in charge remembered hov ever that there were some Davis r lio? paoked in a drawer. The k( iras prodneed, a search discovered trorn caso, in whioh was a pip itained just as the stranger had d loribed. The museum building is of intere in itself; tkr.mti from the relics which mshrinea and the memories eluate iffg about it as the White House the Confederacy. Ereoted by E lohn Brookenbrough in the ess lay s of Richmond, and situated what was then a 'fashionable quart? t is a type of the oity homes of Vi ;inia gentlemen in that latter part ;he eighteenth and the beginning -he nineteenth century. From I Brookenbrough it passed by purono ,o Mr. James Morson, who sold it lis cousin, the Hon. James Seddon, member of thc peaoe commission he n Washington, and later Jeffers Davis' Seoretary of War. Mr. Lev 3renshaw, of the Maxell Creight Hills was its next . owner. It vi lought of him by the oity, part?a 'uroished and made the exeouti nansion of the Confederacy. Duri ho five years following the war, wi Virginia was under martial law, it v he headquarters of Gen. Weitzel, he Union army, and wheo vaoated lim served SB a publie sohool. The custom, dating from the S ender, of decorating the graves Southern solllers buried in Rich mc icmetorica gradually crystallized ii tn organization known as the "Hoi rood . Memorial Association," i rhon its president, Mrs. Jos. Bry lonoeived the idea of establishii epooitory for civil war records i elios at the Confederate capital, i esenting all the seceding Sta* laterally suggested itself as its 1< ioa. The oity dedioated the formar WI Souse for the purpose; fonda s raised to make it fireproof, and >aoh Southern State, with its ah md color?, a regent, a resident of State represented, and a vico reg living in Richmond, were plaeet marge, who collect hy loan, gift, purchase, whatever ls of historio v mpon the period; and that they 1 been faithful to tho trust the vas mmnlation elnoe opening of tho tA tog, in 1896, attests. The stone steps leading cp fren streets which the visitor to tho i sum ascends havo been' pressed, only by warriors and . statesmen won undying fame in defense ol lost cause, but by the private soli and sailors who made their ach menta possible^ e?.d,. too, J?y th< daughters of the South, thronginj weekly receptions. On the east porch iu pointed out tho spot from whick the President's little ?un fell and was killed; and every room is hallowed by seme saor?u ubauuiation. In the Georgia room (one of the spa cious parlors of the executive man sion) is the priceless collection of Mary de Renne, of Savannah, be queathed by her son, Dr. Everand de Renne, and embraoing an extensive war library, with record?, letters, maps, portraits, and cabinets of the most interesting mementoes. An ob ject of interest to the cultured is a 1 revolving stand of Confederate etch ings by Dr. Voiok of Baltimore. The cartoons scattered among them, with their clever politioal hits and unmis takable caricature likenesses appeal to a wider public. A straw hat in one of the cabinets, made by a girl ten years old, recalls how Southern children shared the enthusiastic devotion which inspired their elders, while bits of homespun from Georgia looms, nap kins woven in Augusta, nankeen cot ton grown on her soil, and candles from her wild myrtleberry, tell not only of her ingenuity and enterprise during thc struggle, but mark her phenomenal progress in the year's i succeeding it. Above the mantel of the seoond par lor, now the "general reception room," is a life-size painting of Jefferson Davis; a picture of the petit jury im paneled to try him, with its comming ling of white and black faces, hanging below. Other noteworthy piotures are water colors of Confederate scenes by William Sheppard, of Richmond, with a collection of oil paintings by Chapman, representing the siege of Charleston. Here, too,? valuable li brary is aooumulating, an interesting faet oonneoted with which is that t; prominent citizen of Boston is ono of its largest individual contributors. Mrs. Davis' bedroom, in which Win nie Davis was born, and now the South Carolina room, adjoins, a few of its distinctive miscellanies being a paint ing of the last flag which floated over Fort Sumter, donated by the Wash ington Light Infantry, of Charleston ; socks knit by the mother of Jahn C. Calhoun, "the father of secessions;" General (now Bishop) Capers' war saddle, Wade Hampton's pistol, used also by Jefferson Davis during the Mexioan war; a full-length painting of General Stephen Elliott, the hero of Fort Sumter, with paintings of Piokens, the secession governor; Gen. Hampton, and others; the whole form ing one of the largest collections in the building. ." Above the mantel of tho North Carolina room is a framed copy Of the State's brilliant war record. Other features are the tattered, blood-stain ed flag of Company A, of the First North Carolina Regiment; the uniform/ in whioh Gen. Pender was killed;, a flag made by the young ladies of St. Mary's School, of Raleigh, with other historie objects, all meriting examina tion. Silver Spurs worn Ly Gen. Albert Sidney Johnson at the time of his death, and made from Mexioan coins, are pointed out in the Arkansas room, as are a life-size portrait of Gen. Cle burne, and a flag oarried through the war by the Ninth Regiment of Arkan sas Infantry, and presented to'the museum by Rev. Father Lacey, of Pine Bluff. Among the noteworthy . objects in the Florida room is a spinning wheel uBed during the Revolutionary and oivil wars; the flag of the Marion Light. Ar ti lier y, made of a crepe shawl; a portrait of Stephen Mallory, Seoretary of the N avy, and Beaure gard's oamp chair. The Texas room boasts the only Btained glass window in the building. Other features peonliar to it are an in laid memorial tablet to Albert Sidney Johnston from the citizens of 'Corsi cans, with a carved memorial chair to General Magruder from the Jefferson Davis Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy in Galveston, and a memorial chair to T. A. Baffin from the employes of the Houston and Texas Central Railroad, of Ennis. A life-size piotnre of Gen. Boone, from the ladies of Huntsville; the Texas coat-of-arms, from the pupils of the Sam Houston Normal Institute, and a handsome oil painting of . Winnie Davis, the gift of Mrs. Molly MaoGill Roeenburg, of Galveston. Putting Irons on Mr. Dav ls; Capt. Jerome B. Titlow, of the 3rd Pennsylvania artillery, who was officer of the day at Fort Monroe when Gen? Miles had Jefferson Davis thrown do??c on the ground with violence and held there while irons were riveted on his ankles, writes the following in teresting letter to the Army and Navy Journal: St. Paul, Minn., Juno, ?9,1903. To the Editor of tb 3 Ai-97 and Navy Journal: In a recent issue of your paper I noted a communication reflecting upon the strictures of Gen. Nelson A. Miles, United States army, has put upon soldiers of the United States ia the Philippines in regard to "barbarous and inhuman treatment," ?nd I also noto your editorial comment upon the communication, and in so far as your correspondent has drawn ? parallel between these kola and the , act of Geo. Miles io placing irons up on Jed orson Davis-in Fortress Mon ? roe in May, 1865, I beg to correot the opinion which you have formed in the premises. Gen. Miles never bad official orders to put irons upon Jefferson Davis. I was officer of the day upon the date in question, when irons were put upon Mr. Davis. Gen. Miles called me in to headquarters and told me that he had "authority" to place Mr. Davis in irons, and in confirmation of his orders Gea. Miles exhibited to mo a personal letter from tbe then Secretary of War, Stanton, which evidently was in re ply to a communication from General Miles, in which the Seoretaryin effect said: "If you consider the safeguard ing of the prisoner requires it you may place him in irons, at your dis oration/' There was nothing mandatory from the Secretary of War, all was left to the discretion of the commanding offi cer; nor was the communication off! cial, and I am sure that a review of the files of tho adjutant general's office will reveal no officiai communication making it mandatory upon Gen. Miles io put Jefferson Davis in irons, and, further, I shall say that it was not an aot necessary to insure the safe reten tion of the prisoner within the custo dy of the United States. Jerome B. Titlow, Captain Company K, 3d Pennsylvania heavy artillery, officer of the day at Fortress Monroe upon the day that Mr. Davis was ironed, and under whose command the work was done. Took Desperate Chances. i Bethany, 111., July 1.-Advices just reeeived from China state that Dr. W. H. Logan, formerly of this city, has entirely recovered from an attack of appendicitis and returned to his station and resumed his work; Dr. Logan and his wife have been mis sionaries in China for a number of years. They were foroed to flee from the country during the boxer troubles, coming to Bethany, where the phy sician praotioed his profession until pesos had been restored, when he re turned to his former station in China and again took up the work of a as:s? siotiary physician. The point where Dr. and Mrs. Logan look af ?er the wel Ifare of their converts is 800 miles from the nearest place where an American or European physician is located. A short time ago Dr. Logan was at tacked by an illness whioh rapidly de veloped into an acute attack of ap pendicitis. Realising that bis only hope of recovery lay in an operation, involving the removal of the vermi form appendix. Dr. Logan oalled his wife and imparted to her his diag nosis of his own ease. Mrs. Logan, being o trained nurse, brgan the prep arations for cn operation. Unassisted and guided only by the instructions given her before her husband relapsed into uuoonsciousnes under au anes thetic, Mrs. Logan, with the instru ments of the suffering missionary phy sician, performed the hasardons ope ration on her unconscious helpmate? Dr. Logan returned to consciousness to find the' cas?' had' passed entirely out of his hands. In a short time Mrs. Logan determined to remove him to where he would have the benefit of ?killed surgeons. With her sick hus band and young baby she ,undertook a journey of 800 miles by rail and wagou to where attention could be scoured. The dootor-stood the jour ney well and upon his examination hy the attending surgeons Mrs. Lo gan was informed that her operation was one that would have been cred itable to the most skilful operator. - His satanic majesty must have a lot of branch offices. Of tb* American working man ia gen erally well filled. In some cases it is ' too well filled. It contains too many kinds of food, and very often the food ia of the wrong kind-hard to digest, and, containing little nutri- j^. ' rion. __. Aa a couse- ggrafe q?ence ? aany a work- c*Tfcf mg pian develops sotn? " IT? fy form of stomach Jfk T trouble which inter- "SL^ftaw feres with his health ^?WyLWBBSb^ and reduces his ^^^^^^^^^^^ alUed o^gatiV of ?MM Bl tritton^ tn? use of. . JSfftfiSF *v mi Dr. Pierce's Golden J> Wfflk ViSs? fiftoe^wiprrarfir^TO .... " , j - j sny food wcolA et* diai?, tfctn Vktaey andi U?r trouble and my backgot.ir?a?c vt 1 coate h ?careel? pet around. At hut t h&d all th? coen- 8 plaints at once, t>e mer? I doctored the -wons I S eoTnntn t?a years p?fe?d. 1 had become ?o g poorly X conld only nSk in th? hoe* by the I aid cf a choir, and X ?rt *o thin I had. ff???. *P t '.** thinking that leonidjpot be cored., Than t ona ol my neighbor ?ak?, J Tate my adrice attd f take m. Slercfa Gtfden MtdWl ?fccww and i make a new man oat ot ?wscU.1 The fltrtv StU* ^Iped^e ad I iVbuaht t would ?fe i ? Soother, ?nd after I t*wd ?^?^a*t bottles In about ?bc wetfcn, I wo? weighed, and {bund I had gained twe?ty*awtm 67Tpoonda. X am aa atout and healthy foday, I think, as I ?Ter waa,? TRBB. I>r. Pierce's Co&unon Sense , Wedlcal Adviser, paper covers, is a*nt_/r** on receipt or xi one-cent stamps to pay expense of mailing only. Address ux. IL^V. Pierce, Boffa?o. N.Y. ! ^^u^^Ma^^^Lvc;-/ B Ifcr Infanta &ad Children jHSHnTI16W?d You Have neasar?dltest.Contains neither OT /vp JE''JP . F KOT NARCOTIC. 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