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I I GREAT ijpl? I Continued from Page Two. J ?herman, "Should you capture Charleston I hope that by some acci dent the place may be destroyed, and if a little salt should be sown upon ''its site it may prevent the growth of futuro crops of nullification and se oessiou," and Sherman's reply in his dispatch of December 24, 1864, "I will bear in mind your hint as to Charleston, and don't think salt will bo necessary. When I ?JOVB ino .Fifteenth corps will be on the right of the right wing, and their position will bring them, naturally, into Charleston first ; and if you have watched the history of that corps you will have remarked that they generally do their work up pretty well. The truth is the whole army is burninsr with an insatiable desire to wreak vengeance upon South Carolina " And may it not transoribe upon its pages that other order to his effi cient Lieut. Hunter: "Ho (Grant) further says that he wants your troops to eat out Virginia olear and olean, as far as they go, so that orows flying over it for the balanoe of the season will have to carry their prov ender with them." Of Lee as a General, President Roosevelt, in his life,of Thomas H. t Benton, says : "The world has never seen better soldiers than those who followed Lee, and their leader will undoubtedly rank as without any exception, the very greatest of all the great cap tains that the English-speaking peo ples have brought forth-and. this, although the last and chief of his antagonists may himself claim to stand as the foll equal of Marlbor ough and Wellington." From no more capable source could higher praise be given. In the "Story of a Soldier's Life," Field Marshal Viscount Wolseley, commander-in-chief of the British army, speaking of the Seven Days' battle, says : "Gen. McClellan's splendidly equipped army had been driven from the-peninsula, and Gen. Pope had been made short work of it on the Rappahannock. They were unable to cope with Gen. Lee's army, though it waa far inferior in strength. In faot, the Confederates had won all along the linc, thanks to the ably conceived and well calculated strat egy of tho great Virginian leader and the brilliant tactics of Stonewall Jackson and other oapable soldier* and to the superior fighting qualitiet of their splendid and patriotic rans and file. "That campaign was a masterpiece, both in conception and execution, and did high honor to the soldier-likt spirit and patriotism of the ill shod overworked, badly olothed regimen tal officers, and men of the Southon army. "According to my notion of mili tary history there is as muoh instrao tiou, both in strategy and in taotics to be gleaned from Gen. Lee's opera tions of 1862 as there is to be founc in Napoleon's campaigns of 1796 Though badly found in weapons ammunition, military equipment, etc. his army had nevertheless aohievet great things. His men were so badb jfe shod (indeed, a considerable poriioi W had no boots or shoes) that at th. battle of Antietam Gen. Leo assur?e me he never had more than 85,001 men with him. The remainder o his army, shoeless and footsore, wer straggling along the roads in th rear trying in vain to reaohj him ii time for the battle." Of this vist to Lee, Gen. Wolsele says : "As I waited outside of Gen. Lee1 tent, while bis aide-de-camp entere to tell him who I was and to delivf him a letter from tho Confederat Secretary of War, I remarked it ha *> the name of a colonel of some Nc Jersey regimont printod upon i Subsequently I referred to the fae in my conversation with),him. Il laughed and said : (You will fin every tent, gun, oven our blanket accoutrements and all the militar equipment wo possess stamped wit the United States initials.' Ever incident in that visit is indellibl stamped on my memory. All he sai to me then and during subsequei conversations is still fresh in ni recoll?otion. It is natural it shoul be so, for he was the ablest gener and to me seemed the greatest ms I ever conversed with, and yet have had the privilege of meeting Von Moltku and Prinoe Bismarck. "Gen. Lee was one of the few men who ever seriously impressed and awed me with their inherent great? ness. Forty years have como and gone ?ince our meeting and yet the majesty of his manly bearing, the genial winning grace, the sweetness of his smile and the impressive dig nity of his old fashioned style of dress come back to me among the most cherished of my recollection H. His greatness made me humble and ? sever felt my .own insignificance more keenly than I did in his pres ence. He was then about fifty years of age, with hair and beard nearly white. Tall, extremely handsome and strongly built, very soldier-like in bearing, he looked a thoroughbred gentleman. Care had, however, al ready wrinkled his brow and there came at moments a look of sadness into his olear, honest and speaking dark brown eyes that indicated how mnoh his overwhelming national re sponsibilities had already told upon him. He was indeed a beautiful oharaoter and of him it might truth fully be written 'in righteousness did he j uduc and make war/" Lieutenant-Colonel G. F. R. Hen derson, professor of military art and history in the Staff College of the British army, in his life of Stonewall Jackson,says : "li the names of the great cap tains, soldiers and sailors be recalled, it will he .?eon that it is to the breadth of their strategical concep tions rather than to their taotioal skill that they owe their fame. We have the strategist, a Hannibal, a Napoleon or a Lee, triumphing with inferior numbers over adversaries who are tacticians and nothing more." In speaking of Lee's audaoity in attaking with a force inferior in numbers and equipment McClellan's thoroughly organized army in their intrench menta in the Seven Da) 8 battle, be says : "From Hannibal to Moltke there has been no great oaptain who bas neglected to study the character of his opponent and who did not trade on the knowledge thns acquired, and it was this knowledge whioh justified Lee's audacity. He was no hair brained leader, but a profound thinker, following the highest princi ples of the military art. Thal he had weighed the disconcerting effect which the Audden appearance of the victorious Jackson, with au army of unknown streugtb, would produc? upon McClellan goes without sayiug." Again he writes : "Lee, with his extraordinary in sight into character, bad played on Pope (at Second Manassas) and his strategy was .justified by success. In the space of three weeks he bad oarried the war from the James to the Potomac With au army that at no time exceeded 55,000, he had driven No,ono into the fortifications of Washington. He had captured SO guns, 7,000 prisoners and 20,000 rifles. He had killed or wounded 18,500 Federals, destroying supplies and materials of enormous value and A Lazy Liver May be only a tired liver, or a starved liver. It would bo a stupid as well as savage thing to beat a weary or starved aan because he lagged In his work. So in troating tho lagging, torpid liver it ?9 a groat mistake to lash it with strong drastic drugs. A torpid livor ls but an indication ol an ill-nourished, enfeebled body whose organs are weary with ovor work. Start with the stomach and allied organs of digesti?n and nutrition. Put thom In working order and see how quickly your liver will become active. 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If, BB Moltke aversj the jnoctio?? of two armies on the field of battle is the highest achievement of military genius, tbe campaign against Pope has seldom been surpassed ; and the great counter stroke at Man ansas is sufficient in itself to make Lee's reputation as a tactician. Tried by this test alone Lee stands out as one of tho greatest soldiers of all times. Not only against Pope, but against McClellan at Gaines's Mill, against Burnside at Fredericksburg and against Hooker at Chancellorsville, be succeeded in oarrying out the ope ration of wbioh Moltke speaks ; and in eaob oase with the same result of surprising his adversary. None knew better how to apply that great print i pie of strategy, to marah di vided, but to fight concentrated. In this action Lee violated both of the maxims of Napoleon-never to divido an army into two columns I unable to communicate, or to at tempt a junction in the presence of a concentrated enemy, but Lee knew bis men. He violated the last sec tion of this maxim because he knew Pope, and the first beoause he knew Jackson. It is rare, indeed, that such strategy succeeds. Hasdrubal, divided from Hannibal by many miles and a consular army, fell baok to the Metaurue, and Rome was saved. Two thousand years later Prince Frederick Charles, divided by a few marches and two Austrian army corps from the Crown Prinoe, lingered so long upon the Iser thal the supremacy of Prussia trembled in the balance. But the oharactei of the Virginian soldier was of a lof tier type. It has been remarked thal after Jackson'b death Lee never agaii attempted those great turning move ments whioh had aohieved his mos brilliant victories. Never again die he divide his army to reunite it 01 the field of battle. Tbe reason is no far to seek. There was now n< general in the Confederate army t< I whom he dared confide the charge o the detached wing, and in possessing one suoh general he had been mon fortunate than Napoleon. It is noteworthy that Moltke once at Koniggratz, carried out the ope ration referred to ; Wellington twice, ; at Victoria and Toulouse Napoleon, ^though he several time attempted it, never, except at Ulm with complete success. In his "History of the America War, Lieut. Col. Fletcher, of Eng land,says : "The armies of Grant and* Le were still in the vicinity of Spottsy vania Court House. Tbe forme notwithstanding his vastly prepor derating strength, was awaiting r< inforcoments. The latter, with onl a small and over-worked army t rely on, was expeoting the arrival < troops from the Shenandoah. "It must ever remain a marv bow this. small force, ill snppliei over worked and harassed by coi tinual fighting and marohing b night and by day, oould hold i ground against the almost innumeri ble host in Grant's command. Thi it did BO, inflicting losses far heavh than it sustained and creating a b lief in the mind of the enemy < j numbera far larger than it contains* has been already shown. "Two of tbe three armies of Sig< Meade and Butler had been fore? to seek shelter behind fortified linc the third had been brought to a he to await reinforcements and the a tories which supplied life to tl capital of the Confederacy had be? preserved." Of the movement to the Nor Anna River in the Wilderness oai paign be says : "Here Lee, by t exercise of consummate generalsbi foiled bi? opponent." And of t final end of Grant's endeavor crush Lee in this campaign he eaj "After many battles and losses whioh few wars can afford a paral and whioh surpassed in number t whole strength of tho enemy's for* Gen. Grant had brought his army a position which McClellan h reached with far greater ease and i less expenditure of life two yet previously." From tho History of the Unit States by the distinguished writ James Ford Rhodes, of Boston, quote this concerning Lee : "Tho Confederates had an advi tage in that Robert E. Lee espotu their cause ; to some extent app oiated at the time, this in real Wis an advantage beyond compti tiou. Had he followed the example of Scott and Thomas and remained rosined in service under the old ?lag ? in aotive command *of the Army of the Potomac, how differently might not events have turned out. V '.Lee, now 64 years old, his faoc exhibiting the ruddy glow of health, was physically and morally a spien? did example of manhood. Able to tr soo his lineage fat back into the mother country, the best blood OL Virginia flowed in his voice Draw* ing from a knightly taoe all their virtues, he had inherited none of their vices. Honest, sinodre, simple, magnanimous, forbearing, refined, courteous yet dignified and proud, never laoking self command, ht was in all rea peer* a true man. Gradu ating from West Point hts life had been exclusively that of a soldier, yet he had none of the soldier's had habits. He used neither liquor nor tobacco and indulged rarely in a social glass of wine, and oared noth ing for the pleasures of the table. He was a good engineer and under Gen. Soott had won distinction io Mexico. The work that had fallen to his lot he had performed in a sys tematic manner and with conscien tious care. 'Duty is the sublimest word in our language,' he wrote to his son. Sincerely reiigioue. Provi dence to him was a verity, and it | may be truly said he walked with God. "A serious man, be anxiously watched from his station in Texas I the progress of events nineo Lincoln'? eleotion. ''Thinking slavery as an institution a moral and politioal evil," Cream Vermifuge THE GUARANTEED WORM REMEDY THE CHILDREN'S FAVORITE TONIC. riEW?"-: OF IMITATION?. THE iii-: NUi .< pnCPAMID ONLY BY Ballard-Sno >v Liniment Co* ?T .?TJH?. MO. WALHALLA DRUG COMPANY. W. J. LUNNEY, SENECA. mous stock to ? 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J. P. West, of Webst? Ctty, tow*. " ls a fine, healthy babe and yn> both doing nicely." She aro having a soldier's devotion to his flag and a warm attachment to Gen. Scott, he loved the Union and it was especially dear to him as the fruit of the mighty labors of Wash ington. Although believing that the South had just grievances due to the aggression of the North, he did not think these evils great enough to re sort to the remedy of revolution and [to him secession was nothing less. I .Still,' he wrote in January, 1861, 'a union that oan only be maintained by sword? and bayonets and in which strife and oivil war are to take the place of brotherly love and kindness, has no oharm for me, If the Union is dissolved and the government dis rupted I shall return to my native State and share tbe miseries of my people and save in defense will draw my sword on none.' Summoned to Washington by his obief, Lee had arrived there a few days before the I inauguration of Lincoln and he had Ito make the decision after the bom bardment of Sumter and the Presi I dent's call for troops whether ho should serve the national government or * Viwnnia, The active oom ni and of the Federal army with the suc cession to the obief plaoe war virtu ally offered to him, but with his no tion of State rights and his allegiance to Virginia, his decision, though it cost, him pain to make it, could have been no other than it was. He could not lead an army of invasion into his native State and after the ordinanoe of secession had been passed by the Virginia oonvention he resigned his commission and aooepted the oom m-..ul of the Virginia forces. "Northern men may regret that Lee did not see bis duty in the same light as did two other Virginians, Scott and Thomas, but censure's [Conoluded on Page Six.] CASTOR IA For Infanta and Children. 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