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lewis m. gritist, proprietor, j % |nbfpfnkri Jfamilj ftibspsptr: Jor % |lrontofioit of f|t political, Social, ^pkulfural anb Coitmurtja! Ittfmsfs of f^f Sontjr. ] TERMS--I2.50 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE. VOLT 33. YOEKYILLE, S. O.. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1887. NO. 23. Jt ferial BY H. RIDER HAGGARD, ( AUTHOR OF "KING SOLOMON'S MINKS," "SHK," ETC., ETC. CHAPTER XV. A ROUGH JOCRNET. The four grays wore fresh horses, iu good condition and with a light load behind them, o, notwithstanding the bad condition of the tracks which they call roads in South Africa, John made good progress. By 11 o'clock that day he had reached Standerton, a little town upon the Vaal, not far from which he was destined, bad he but known it, to meet with n sufficiently striking ovW.ra.1 Horn ho ohtainod confirmation of the Bronker's Bpruit disaster, and listened with set face and blazing eyes to the tale of treachery and wholesale massacre which was, as be said, without a parallel in the annals of civilized war. town about sixty miles from Pretoria, where the Triumvirate, Kroger, Pretorius and Joubert, bad proclaimed the republic. But he answered as before, that he must go on till he was stopped, and, ins panning bis horses, set forward again, a little comforted by the news that the bishop of Pretoria, who was hurrying up to rejoin his family, had passed through a few hours before, also intent upon running the blockade, and that if he drove fast he might overtake him. On be went, hour after hour, over the great deserted plain, but he did not succeed in catching up to the bishop. About forty milA from Standerton be saw a wagon standing by the roadside, and halted to see if he could } get any information from its driver. But on investigation it became clear that the wagon had been looted of the provisions and goods with which it was loaded and the oxen driven off. Nor was this the only evidence of violence. Across the disselboom of the wagon, the bands still clasping a long bamboo whip, as though he bad been trying to defend himself with it, lay the dead body of the native driver. His face, John noticed, was so composed and peaceful that, had it not been for the attitude and a neat little blue hole in the forehead, you might have thought he was asleep and not dead. At sunset John outspanned his now flagging horses by lln roadside, and gave them each a couple of bundles of forage from the store that he bod brought with him. While they were eating it, leaving Mouti to keep an eye to them, he went some way off and sat down on a big ant heap to think. It was a wild and melancholy scene that stretched away before and behind him. Miles upon miles of plain, rolling east and west and north and south, like the billows of a frozen sea, only broken, far along the Heidelberg road, by some hills, known as Rooi Koppies. Nor was this all. Overhead was blazing and burning one of those remarkable snnsets which one sometimes sees in summer in Africa. The sky was full of lower* ing clouds, and the sullen orb of the setting sun had stained them perfectly blood red. Blood red they floated through the ominous Ay, and blood red their shadows lay upon the grdss. Even the air seemed red. It looked as though earth and heaven had been steeped in blood: and fresh as John was from the sight of the dead driver, his ears yet tingling with the tale of Bronker's Spruit, it is not to be wonderefl at that the suggestive sight oppressed him seated in that lonely waste, with no company except that melancholy "kakarakakara" of an old black koran hidden away somewhere in the grass. He was not mnch given to that sort of thing, but he did begin to wonder whether this was the last journey of all the many he had made during the past twenty years, and if a Boer bullet was about to solve the mystery of life and death for him. By the time that the horses had done their forage and Moutihad forced the bits into their reluctant mouths, the angry splendor of the sunset had faded, and the quiet night was falling over the glowing veldt like a pall 011 one scarce dead.. There was, fortunately for the travelers, a bright half moon, and by its light John managed to direct the cart over many a weary mile. On he went for hour after hour, keeping his tired horses to the collar as best he could, t^l at last, about 11 o'clock, he saw the ligAs of Heidelberg before him, and knew that the question of whether or not his journey was at on end would speedily be decided for him. However, there was nothing for it but to goon and take his chance of slipping through. Presently he crossed a little stream, and made out the shape of a cart just ahead, around which men and a couple of lanterns wire moving. No doubt, he thought to himself, it was the bishop, who had been stopped by the Boers. He was quite close to the cart when it moved on, and in another second he was greeted by the rough challenge of a sentry, and caught sight of the cold gleam of a rifle barrel. "Wie da?" (Who's there?) "Friend 1" he answered, cheerfully, though feeling far from cheerful. There was a pause, during which the sentry called to another man, who came up yawning, and saying something in Dutch. Straining his ears he caught the words, "Bishop's man." and this gave him an idea. "Who are you, Englishman?" asked the second man, gruffly, holding up a lantern to look at John, and speaking in English. "I am the bishop's chaplain, sir," he answered, mildly, trying desperately to look like an unoffending clergyman, "and 1 want to get on to Pretoria with him." The man with the lantern inspected him closely. Fortunately he had on a dark coat and a clerical looking black felt bat; the same that "Frank Muller bad put a bullet through. "He is a preacher fastencwigb," said the one man to the other. "Look, he is dressed like an old crow! What did 'Om' Kruger's pass say, Jan? Was it two carts or one that we were to let through? I think that it was one." The other man scratched his head. "I think it was two," he said. He did not like to confess to his comrade that he could not read. "No, I am sure that it was two." "Perhaps we had better send up to Om Kruger and ask?" suggested the first man. "Om Kruger will be in bed, and he puts up his quills like a porcupine if one wakes him," was the answer. "Then let us keep the d?d preaching Englishman till to-morrow." "Pray let me go on, gentlemen," said John, ttill in his mildest voice. "I am wanted to preach the word at Pretoria, and to watch by the wounded and dying." "I AM WANTED TO PREACH THE WORD." "Yes, yes," said the first man, "there will soon be plenty of wounded and dying there. They will all be like the rooibaajes at Bonker's Spruit Lord, what a sight that was! But they will get the bishop, so they won't want you. You can stop and look after our wounded, if the roobaatjes manage to hit any of us." And he beckoned to him to come out of the cart." "Hullo!" said the other man, "here is a bag of mealies. We will commandeer that anyhow." And he took his knife and cut the lino with which the sack was fastened to the back of the cart, so that it fell to the ground. "That will feed our horses for a week," he said, with a chuckle, in which the other man joined. It was pleasant to become so easily possessed of an unearned increment in the shape of a bag of mealies. "Well, are we to let the old crow go?" said the first man. "If we don't let him go we shall have to take him up to headquarters, and I want to go to sleep." And he yawned. "Well, let him go," answered the other. "I think you are right The pass said two carta Be off, you d?d preaching Englishman!" John did not wait for any more, but laid the whip across the horses' backs with a will. On the following morning, when Commandant Frank Muller?having heard that this enemy, John Niel, was on his way up with the Cape cart and four gray horses?ascertained that a vehicle answering to that description had been allowed to pass through Heidelberg in the dead of night, his state of mind may better be imagined than described. As for the two sentries, he had them tried by court martial and set them to make fortications for the rest of the rebellion. Tbey can neither of them now hear the name of a clergyman mentioned without breaking out. into a perfect flood of blasphemy. Luckily for John, although he had been delayed for live minutes or more, ne managed to overtake the cart in which he presumed the bishop was esconced. His lordship had been providentially delayed by the breaking of a trace; otherwise, it is clear that his self nominated chaplain would never have got through the steep streets of Heidelberg Boers. Over one batch of wagons and tents John made out the Transvaal flag fluttering in the night breeze, and emblazoned with the appropriate emblem of an ox wagon and an armed Boer, marking, no doubt, the headquarters of the triumvirate. Once the cart ahead of him was stopped by a sentry and some conversation ensued. Then it went on again; and so did John, unmolested. It was weary work, that journey through Heidelberg, and full of terrors for John, who every moment expected to be stopped and dragged off ignominiously to jail The horses, too, were dead beat, and made frantic attempts to turn and stop at every house. But, somehow, they got through the little place and then were stopped once more. Again the first cart got on ahead, but this time John was not so lucky. "The pass said one cart," said a voice. "Yah, yah, one cart," answered another. John again put ou his clerical air ind told his artless tale; but neither of the men could understand English, so they went to a wagon that was standing about fifty yards away to fetch somebody who could. "Now, inkoos," whispered the Zulu Mouti, "drive on! drive on!" John took the hint and lashed the horses with his long whip; while Mouti, bending forward over the splashboard, thrashed the wheelers with a sjambock. Off went the team in a spasmodic gallop and had covered a hundred yards of ground before the two sentries hod realized what had happened. Then they began to run after the cart shouting, but were soon lost in the darkness. John and Mouti did not spare the whip, but pressed on up the stony hills on the Pretoria side of Heidelberg without a halt By -11 o'clock they reached a hotel, or wayside house, known us Ferguson's, and situated oKrmf fwonfv miloc ftvim Prot/inV If*. WAS empty, except for a couple of cats and a stray dog. The inhabitants had evidently fled from the Boers. Here John stabled and fed his horses, giving them all that remained of the forage; and then, once more, started on for the last stage. The road was dreadful; and he knew that the country must be full of hostile Boers, but fortunately he met none. It took him four hours to get over the twenty miles of ground: but it was not until he got to the "Poort," or neck running down into Pretoria, that he saw a vestige of a Boer. Then he made out two mounted men riding along the top of a precipitous stone strewn ridge, some 600 yards or so from him. At first he thought that they were going to descend it, but presently they changed their minds and got off their horses. While he was still wondering what this might portend, he saw a puff of white smoke float up from where the men were, and then another. Then came the sharp, unmistakable "ping" of a bullet passing, as far as he could judge, witnin three feet of his head, followed by a second "ping," and a cloud of dust beneath the belly of the first horse. The two Boers were firing at him. He did not wait for any more target practice, but, thrashing the horses to a canter, got the cart round a projecting bank before they could load and firfe' again. After that he saw no more of them. At last he readied the mouth of the Poort and saw the prettiest of the South African towns, with its red and white houses, its tall dumps of trees and pink lines of blooming rose hedges lying on the plain before him, all set in the green veldt, and made beautiful by the golden light of the afternoon, and he thanked God for the sight. He knew that he was safe now, and let his tired horses walk Blowly down the hillside and across the bit of plain beyond. To his left were the jail and barrack sheds, and gathered about them were hundreds of wagons and tents, toward which he drove. Evidently the town was deserted and its inhabitants in danger. When he got within half a mile or so a picket of mounted men came riding toward him, followed by a miscellaneous crowd on horseback and on foot. "Who goes there!" shouted a voice in honest English. "A friend who is uncommonly glad to see you," lieanswered, with that feeble jocosity we are all apt to indulge in when a great weight is at length lifted from our nerves. CHAPTER XVI. PRETORIA. Jess did not have a very happy time of it at Pretoria previous to the outbreak of hostilities. Most people who have made a great moral effort, and after a severe mental struggle entered on the drear path of self sacrifice, havo experienced the reaction that will follow as certainly as the night follows the day. It is one thing to renounce the light, to stand in the full glow of the setting beams of our imperial joy and chant out our farewell, and quite another to live alone in the darkness. For a little while memory may support us, but memory grows faint On every side is the thick, cheerless pall and the stillness through which no sound comes. We are alone, quite alone, cut off from the fellowship of the day. unseeing and unseen. Moi-e especially Is this so w hen our dungeon is of our own making, and we ourselves havo shot its bolts. There is a natural night that comes to all, and in its unwavering coui-se swallows every hope and fear, forever and forever. To this we can more easily resign ourselves, for we recognize the universal lot and bow ourselves beneath the all effacing band. The earth does not pine when the daylight passes from its peaks; it only sleeps. But Jess had buried herself, and she knew it There wus 110 absolute need for her to have resigned her affection to her sister; she had done so of her own will, anu at times she naturally enough regretted it. Self denial is a stern faced angel. If only we hold him fast and wrestle with him long enough he will snenlr liKRnft words of linntw Ennnrl. inst as. if we wuit long enough in the darkness of the night, stars will come to share our loneliness. Still this is one of those things that time hides from us and only reveals at his own pleasure; and so far as Jess was concerned, his pleasure was not yet. Outwardly, however, she showed no sign of her distress and of the passion which was eating at her heart. She was pale and si'ent, it is true, but then she had always beei. remarkable for her pallor and silence. Only she gave up her singing. And so the weeks went on, drearily enough for the poor girl, who was doing what other people did?eating and drinking, riding and going to parties like the rest of the Pretoria world, till at last slio began to think that she had better be going home again, lest she should wear out her welcome. And yet she dreaded to do so, mindful of her daily prayer to be delivered from temptation. As to what was going on at Moonontein she was in almost complete ignorance. Bessie wrote to her, of course, and so did her uncle once or twice, but they did not tell her much of what she wanted to know. Bessie's letters were, it is true, full of allusions of what Capt. Niel was doing, but she did not go beyond that. Her reticence, however, told her observant sister more than her words. "Why was she so reticent! No doubt because things still hung in the balance. And then she would think of what it all meant for her, and now anl again give way to an outburst of passionate jealousy, which would have been painful enough to witness if anybody could have been there to see it. And so the time went on toward Christmas, for Jess, having been warmly pressed to do so, had settled to stay over Christmas and return to the farm with the new year. There had been a great deal of talk in the town about ttao Boers, but she was too niucb preoccupied with her own affairs to pay much attention to it. Nor, indeed, was the public mind greatly moved; they were so much accustomed to Boer scares at Pretoria, and hitherto they hod invariably euded in smoke. And then all of a sudden, on the morning of the 18th of December, came the news of the proclamation of the republic, and the town was thrown into a ferment, and there was a talk of going into laager, and, anxious as she was to get away, Jess could see no hope of returning to the farm till the excitement was over. Then a day or two later Conductor Egerton came limping into Pretoria from the scene of the disaster at Br on leer's Spruit, with the colors of the Ninety-fourth regiment tied round his middle, and such a talc to tell that the blood went to her heart and seemed to stagnate there as she listened to it. And after that there was confusion worse confounded. Martial law was proclaimed, and the town, which was large, straggling and incapable of defense, was abandoned, the inhabitants being ordered into laager on the high ground overlooking the city. There they were, young and old, sick and well, delicate women and little children, all crowded together in the open under the cover of the with tirtf.Wruy Ktif. PAPVftg ^nts. TVAITOnH and sheds to shelter them from the Serge sumwagon with her friend nnd her friend's sister and mother, and found it rather a tight fit even to lie down. Sleep, with all the noises of the camp going on round her, was a practical impossibility. It was about 3 o'clock oh the day following that first miserable night in the laager when, by the last mail that passed into Pretoria, she got Bessie's letter announcing her engagement to John. She took her letter and went some way from the camp to the side of Signal Hill, whero she was not likely to be disturbed, and, finding a nook shaded in by mimosa trees, sat down and broke the envelope. Before she had got to the foot of the first page sho saw what was coming and set her teeth. Then she read the long letter through from beginning to end without flinching, though the words of affection seemed to burn her. So it had come at last. Well, she expected it. and had plotted to bring it about, so really thero was no reason in the world why she should feel disappointed. On the contrary, she ought to rejoice, and for a little while she really did rejoice in her sister's happiness. It made her happy to think that Bessie, whom she dearly loved, was happy. And yet she felt angry with John with that sort of anger which we feel against those who have blindly injured us. Why should he have it in his power to hurt her so? Still she hoped that he would be happy with Bessie, and then she hoped that these wretched Boers would take Pretoria, and that she would be shot or put out of the way somehow. She had no heart for life; all the color had faded from her sky. What was she to do with herself? She would not stop on the farm after John and Bessie were married; she was quite clear as to that; nor, if she could avoid it, would she return there before they were married. She would see him no more, no more! Alas, that she had ever seen him. Feeling somewhat happier, or at any rate calmer, in this determination, she rose to return to the noisy camp, extending her walk, however, by making a detour toward the Heidelberg road, for sho was anxious to be as long alone as she could. She had been walking some ten minutes when she caught sight of a cart that seemed familiar to her, with three horses harnessed in front of it and one tied on behind, which were also familiar. There were a lot of men walking alongside of the cart, all talking eagerly. She halted to let the little procession go by, when suddenly she perceived John Niel among the men and recognized the Zulu Mouti on the box. There was the man whom she had just vowed never to see again, and the sight of him seemed to take all her strength out of her. so that she felt inclined to sink involuntarily upon the veldt." His sudden appearance was almost uncanny in the sharpness of its illustration of her impotence in the hands of fate.. She felt it then; all in an instant it seemed to be borne in upon her mind that she could not help her- j self, but was only the instrument in the I hands of a superior power whoso will she was fuliilling through the workings of her passion and to whom her individual fate was a matter of little moment. It was inconclusive reasoning and perilous doctrine, but it must lie allowed that the circumstances gave it the color of truth. And, after all, the border line between fatalism and free will has never been quite authoritatively settled, even by St. Paul, so perhaps she was right. Mankind does not like to admit it, but it is, at tho least, a question whether we can oppose our little wills against tho forces of the universal law or derange the details of tho unvarying plan to suit the petty wants and hopes of individual mortality. Jess was a clever woman, but it would take a wiser heal than hers to know where or when to draw that red line across the writings of our life. [to he continued.] Getting the Worth of the Ego.? Blake Milwee, a nativeof Anderson, says j that in one of the many little villages in | which he has at some time or other lived, I the following came under his observation: An old fellow living in the neighborhood, who was noted for his stinginess, came into the little village for the purEose of buying a darning needle, and rought a large egg along to barter for the needle. The the merchant consented to exchange, and after the old fellow had pocketed his darning needle and deposited the egg on the counter he innocently inquired of the merchant if it was not customary to treat his customers. The merchant was not proof against the appeal for a treat, and with much reluctance reached under the counter and brought out a bottle of choice old corn. The egg barterer poured out a tempting glass, and after eyeing it for some time in seeming meditation he looked up into the merchant's face, and with an air of complacent innocence said : "An egg would go mighty well in that, stranger." To see how far the old fellow's presumption would let him go, the merchant donated the bartered egg also. Imagine the surprise of the merchant when, on breaking the egg and it having two yolks, the old rascal claimed another darning needle. How Hk Got Rich.?Somepody conies to me mit>a long lace und asks vhas I Carl Dunder, dot Dutehmans who make so mooch money? Mr. Dunder, you vbassoocha lucky dog! You vhas shust coining money. 'You peginssopooryou doan' ownyourown poots, und now you ride in your carriage! Ah! Fortune vhas an eccentric jade! She smiles on some und frowns on others. I like you to tell me how you manage it. Und I says to him: "My friendt, Luck vhas der oldt man in der poorliouse. If you wait for Luck to come along und help you oudt you wait for de county to bury you. I work liardt; I spend leedle; I plan carefully; I keeps ouut of bolitics, pay my debts, shtands to my word and preaks no laws. What you slimoke und drink pays my taxes.' What time you lose builds my fences und shingles my houses. Gif Perseverance a dollar und he makes it two; gif Half-Heart a dollar und he lets half of it shlip while he is waiting." Child training begins, and child character is formed, much earlier than most persons suppose. A child whose training is not fairly started before he is six weeks old, is likely to be a loser for life because of this neglect. And the permanent trend of a child's character is likely to be given by the time he is seven vears old. Many a'ehild is not counted by his parents old enough to be fairly under training, until his habits and his character are practically already influenced for all time. Thk Rktokt Couhtkous.?Bishop whiio of Pennsylvania, was sitting one day at dinner with that bold financier of the revolutionary times, Robert Morris, when the latter said: "Bishop, I have made niv will and have devised to you all my impudence." "In that case," replied the Bishop, "you have certainly left me the greater part of your estate." "Yes, Bishop," interposed Mrs. White, "and it is plain that you have entered immediately upon your inheritance."?Buffalo Commercial'. K.nkw What Hk was Aftkr.?"There is something in this liitle fellow I like," said an appreciative visitor of a young hopeful he was trotting on his knee. "Say, now," said the boy, "how did you know I had swallowed a nickel." THE PENINSULA. ? "? Ti From Fortress Monroe to Fair Oaks ^ Battleground. GEN. GEORGE B. M'CLELLAN ^ The People Hailed Him as the "Young & Napoleon." ^ an A State of Chronic Nervousness About ^ the Safety of Washington Prevent ed MeClella.ii lYom Being Supporteu an as he Wished?The Second Siege of "W Yorktown?Working Slowly and bl< Painfully Up the Peninsula Toward ^ Richmond?In the Swamps?The ^ Chieahominy. During the winter of 1862 London Punch re- Gk marked that tho American civil war was the to civilcst it ever heard of. Li In tho .summer of 1801 the north had been on crying for a leader. Popular demand was wi satisfied by tho appointment of MaJ. Gen. Mi Georgo Brinton McClellan to bo commander at Tho first promotion came July 27, the second Nov. l, 18C1. It was not till the next spring, 1862, however, that any fighting was done by the array ^ of the Potomac. The quarter centennial tlmo y of that lighting has come. It finds most of t the leaders on both sides gone from tho scene i of all earthly strifo. jf McClellan was not only a West Pointer, but 3 thad seen actual ser- Js vice in the Mexican # war. Ho was born 1826. Ho was gradPoint before he was v 20 years old. The y most promising ^ graduates of West Point are immedithe engineer corps. / corps of the regu- " lar army. Young m'clellan. McClellan was at once attached to this body with the rank of second lioutenant He was really one of the most L. brilliant officers of tho government. Whenever quick, accurate observation and scien- | < tiflc information were demanded, ho was put do forward. At one time he was a government pQ exploring engineer in Washington and Oregon thi territories. Again, he was one of three United y0 Btates officers sent to the Crimea In '55 to f0] study and report on the art of war in Europe. At this time he was Capt. McClellan and ono on of the youngest men who ever attained that f0 rank in the country. In 1S57 he resigned from the army and went tin into railroad building and engineering. When m, the war broko out in 1861 ho was president of rj, the eastern di vision of the Ohio and Mississippi railroad, and lived in Cincinnati. Knowing tfa him skilled in military matters, the ta! Ohio people had him immediately placed to at tho head of the volunteer service of that en state. May 14, 1861, ho was made a major ja general in tho United States army, and ci assigned to command the department of the w] Ohio. in; Shortly afterward took place his campaign wl in West Virginia. He did brilliant service ^ there, service which resulted in keeping West m, Virginia to the Union. th Thcu it was that ho was called to Washing- Ki; ton, and placed over the army of tho Potomac. p < Tho G. A. R. "boys" of to-day will shake s v their gray heads and smile sadly as they cr recall that time when McClellan went to as Washington. According to our American fashion, newspapers and people went wild ch with enthusiasm over him. He was only 84 lot years old, handsome and dashing. He looked & tho perfect soldier. People called him tho 1 "Young Napoleon," and hailed him as tho flb country's deliverer. All through McClellan's ta lcttei-s to his wife aro mentioned the ovations ttu he received as he passed through to Wash- pi( iugton, and oven before that. After his po success in West Virginia he writes to Mrs. ci McClellan: gr "Well, it Ls a proud and glorious thing to \V gee a wholo people here, simple and unsophis- Et ticated, looking up to me as their deliverer an from tyranny." all Again: "I had a very complimentary dispatch M from Gen. Scott last nigh:. He said he was to 'charmed with my energy, movements and vii luccess.' Pretty well for the old man." M an AT WASHINGTON. cn lu Placed in command of the army of the ha Potomac headquarters at Washington, Mc- wi Clellan immediately proceeded to restore the su troops to prime fighting condition after the th disaster c? Bull Run. Any of the peoples of m< Europe could not have believed that we were Mi as ignorant of all pertaining to war as we fa were when McClellan took command at re; Washington. Gen. Barnard, his chief of en- na gineers, tells how their corps had to con- Pc tend with the want-of a special engineer as service. Thero was no properly organized train for conveying suppers' and miners' im- ag plemcnts, intrenching tools and bridge building appurtenances, etc. Axes were given to co the soldiers to carry for use in chopping down co trees, building roads, etc. The soldier carried mi it till lie got tired end then threw it away, ce: Next camp bo got a now one, and so oil. The transportation of even the pontoon equi- en page fell on the already overburdened quar- th termastcr's department during the heavy TL campaigning of the Peninsula. co McClellan set immediately abbut building so an army from tbo stragglers of Bull Run and from tin; recruits that poured in at the second G call. The result of his labors was in time the splendid anuy of the Potomuc. In the judgment of various good authorities McClellan was the best organizer and cquipper of an army cither side had during the war. In his memoirs McClellan writes of this time of preparation: "I passed long days in the saddle and my nights in the office?a very fatiguing life, but one which mude my power felt everywhere < and by every one." lie felt elated, too, by his call to Washing- 3 ton. He writes ut thut time: "President, ^ cabinet and Gen. Scott ail deferring to me. ^ By some strange operation of magic I seem ? to have become the power of the land." McClellan paid particular attention to the defenses of Washington, and in course of n( time made it a well fortified city. After the G battle of Bull Run the Confederates were ad- oj vanced dangerously near to Washington. Centroville, u little town in Virginia only d< twenty miles southwest of Washington, was w regarded as the key to the capital. After Bull at Run even that was abandoned, and all the tb Union urmy went trooping pellmell into R Washington. The Confederate forces under tv Beauregard immediately occupied it. In- lii deed, turn. Joseph E. Johnston afterward ad- dc vunced the Confederate lines even to Munson's Hill, in an air lino only six miles from th Washington. For weeks the Confederate dc flag floated on Munson's Hill in plain sight of tithe marble dome of the Capitol. fr Ceutreville and Manassas, both far too close A to Washington, were the points at which the fe Confederate army ai concentratocl after uj Jt YjKk Bull Run. Beau- ta regard commanded in UP t0 e,1C^ CI ^J|7y Then ho was sent df m Johnston became \~\HT general in chief of the 0 o 11 f ederate army of tho east, cc McClellan called tli ^/j$ y V i?r more and more w 'F / recruits for his ai a r m v. President tb GEN. JOE JOHNSTON. Linco]n and the ri -liin.it .11.1 Hint.. Knot- Ui? V uuuu t moil \aj ouLiaijr uiin. *->J ""W |/v lust of October McClellan had a well equipped er army ot 184.285 men, hia effective force, uj ready for lighting. There was an aggregate or of 1(18,818. The people expected the Young cc Napoleon to light. Ho talked about striking an effective blow and making a "short, ni sharp, decisive" campaign, which should finish fe the war. Opposed to him at Centreville and 15 Manassas was a Confederate force of 50,000 m offectivo men. pi President Lincoln was exceedingly anxious th that the favorite general should strike the tii grand blow he had promised. "If something CJ is not done soon," said Lincoln, "the bottom st will fall out of everything." McClellan announced that the "crushing yt feat or the rebel army at Manassas1' was | t object, and that an advance against it ] hould not bo postponed beyond Nov. 25." ! lat date came and went, the year 1861 faded ; t and 1862 was ushered in, and still no ! eat blow was struck. In February, in a tor to President Lincoln, the general says: : "I have over regarded our true policy as ing that of fully preparing ourselves." February passed and still no "blow," expt of the kind which one meets upon paper. By March 1 the people of the United States xl run up a debt of $600,000,000 in equipping id preparing armies, chiefly that of the Pomac. In the months of inaction, too, with the vast d constantly increasing army lying idle at asbington. the Confederates had actually scked the Potomac by planting batteries on e Virginia side of the Potomac some twentyre miles below Wasbington. Press and people :ro howling for something to be done, and esideut Lincoln was well nigh distracted. Jn. McClollan for some time refused even communicate his plan of campaign to Mr. ncoln. Once the anxious president called the general, who sent back word that he is ill and could not see him. But next day sClellon was dressed and out riding. To all tempts to urge him forward he replied that ready._ THE PENINSULA. < _______ TBB WAR IN VIRGINIA. rurn now to your map, run your finger wn tho Chesapeako bay, and stop at that rtion of Virginia between the James and a York rivers, Run your eyo up that, and u will see that it is a long tongue of laud rmed by those two rivers, and lying north>st and southeast That is "tho Peninsula," d there is where McClellan's battles were light. Well up toward tho upper end lies 'chmond, tho objectivo point of the army of o Potomac. Slightly to the north of RichDr.d you will notice a long, crooked little i'cr, which flows tho south and lpties into tho Wm mes. That is the 3k <f\ frl hicahominy, m.-' lere much fight?ro men than all 7amps lio the gen. magruder. umblhig bones of thousands of as bravo men ever shouldered a musket. A private letter written at the time deires that Casey's (Federal) division alone it 3,900 men from sickness during April and ?yThere was serious difference of opinion out tho lino of march which should be kon. There was a sort of triangle of thorities to be consulted in forming tho in of campaign. One was President Linln and his cabinet, another was Gen. Median, a third was the committee of coness on tho conduct of the war, Senator Ben ode, of Ohio, chairman. In January, 18(12, lwin M. Stanton became secretary of war, d thereafter was a most active element in 1 military affairs. President Lincoln had one plan of attack, cClellan another. The president's plan was move on the Confederates direct at Centrelie and attack them in their stronghold. cClellau's was to go down the Chesapeake d then work up to Richmond, Va., and pture tho capital of the Confederacy before e army at Ceutreville could prevent it. It s not been deciaed to this day which plan is the best. Either one might have been ccessful if carried out quickly. As it was, ere were delay and hanging back and urgu?nt, while weeks and months were lost. cClellan's plan was finally adopted. But the ct remains that from that day on McClellan garded tho authorities at Washington as his tural enemies. In his letters duriug the ininsula campaign occur such expressions these: "Those hounds at Washington are after me aiu." In these words he refers to President Linln and his cabinet and tho congressional mmittee, including in the lump certain ilitary commanders. Especially he conived a deadly enmity to Secretary Stanton. March 8, 1802, the president issued his genal war order No. 8, directing the army of e Potomac to move down the Chesapeake, le permission was given with the express ndition that Washington should never be stripped of troops as to be endangered. March U th? Confederate army evacuated sntrerille. It had lain, with 50,000 men, SSfrjL twenty miles from dffij ed to an army three March 5 Gen. , Joseph E. Johnston the Rappahannock, geit. iikixtzklman. ftuci Qfter that there sver was any more chance to get behind the onfederate army and take Richmond. Tho jportunity was lost. There was nothing for it now but to move >wu the Chesapeuko and then work up toard Richmond in the face of tho Confeder<e army. Two routes wero proposed, but lat adopted was McClellan's own, going to ichmond by a march up the Peninsula, boreen the York and tho James rivers. The le of march is shown on our map by a )tted line. March 17 the army of the Potomac began leir move to Fortress Monroe. They went >wu the Potomac and Chesapeake bay in ansports. Twenty thousand men, largely esh recruits, had been left at "Washington. 11 the subsequent differences and unpleasant eling between Gen. McClellan and the ithorities at Washington may bo summed ?in a verv few words: The president, secre ry of war and congress were unwilling to crease Gen. McCiellnn's army by the reiforeemont-s he constantly demanded Iksiuse they feared it would leave Washington mgerously exposed. ON TO RICHMOND. Gen. McClellan had expected the constant i-ojx'ration of the navy in tho campaign of ic Peninsula. Gunboats and transports ere to move up the rivers, conveying troops id supplies, mid hovering as a protection to io force that moved by land between tho vers. The James river was at that time in isscssion of the Confederates, but the genal hojied, " by rapid movements," to open i the James river and capture Johnston's my nrul Richmond Iwfore re-euforcements >uld arrive from the west and south. For some timo previous the United States ivy had been engaged in watching tho Conderate ram Merrinuic at Fortress Monroe, ut the duel between the Monitor and Merriac, off Hampton Roads, March 9, and tho esence of tho Monitor at tho . fortress left lat point a comparatively safe base of opcra011s. Sound military critics agree that Mclellan should have taken Norfolk before arting up tho Peninsula, But ho did not. He left it, with the navy ud in full operation and the Merrimac steaming and screaming defiance about tbe bay. At the same time he expected and insisted on the co-operation of the Federal combined land and naval attack upon paigii," puts that ' " down as JlcCIel- GE!f- K' D- KEYES' lan's first disappointment. He began the march up tho Peninsula April 4,1862. His army was divided into two columns, right and left Tho right marched up along York n\e~ to war a lorKtown, unaer uen. neintzclman. The left, commanded by Gen. Kcyes, followed tbe James river up toward Williamsburg. By following tho lino of march upon the map, tbe courso of tbo two columns will bo clear. Keyea was to proceed as rapidly as might bo on the west and occupy Halfway House, a point on the"hairrow dividing ridge which formed the watershed between tbo York and James rivers. Ho was to halt hero and by all means prevent either the escape of the Confederate garrison at Yorktown or the throwing in of re-enforcements to them. Keycs was expected to reach Halfway House April 5. But he did not. Tho two months' rain of tho spring of 180:2 began as tho Federal army began to move. Tho roads l)ecamo at somo points impassable for artillery. Another thing: In all tho years that tho United States had been a country there never had been nu accurate map made of this part of Virginia. Of the region immediately in front of Ileintzelman's column there was no better map than the ono mado when tho Brit ish besieged Yorktown i,i 1781. A government survey of tlio Peninsula had been made in 181-8, but later than that there was nothing to go by. The land before McClelland army was an unknown region of swamp, with rain pouring night ami day, and lines of heavy Confederate fortifications between it and Richmond. Of all this the two advancing columns know nothing,, except just that it rained. That was plain enough. April 5 Keyes marched five miles out, encountered the Confederate fortifications at Lee's Mills and stopped. Seven miles below Yorktown there was a line of fortifications quite across the solid ground of the Peninsula, which, between the head of Warwick river and York river, narrowed to three miles Besides that the Confederates had dammed the deep creeks flowing into the James and Warwick rivers, which had backed the water into impenetrable bogs. The Confederate army of the Peninsula was under tho immediate command of Glen. J. Bankhead Magruder. He had prepared or begun three lines of fortification across tho Peninsula. The first one was seven miles below Yorktown. While McClellan had been equipping his army and getting a "good ready," at Washington, the Confederates had been fortifying between him and Richmond. It was the Warwick river and tho fortifications along its course which stopped McClellan's army, both Ileintzelman on the right and Keyes on the left. This river on tho maps McClellan had access to flowed parallel with those rivers, nearly southeast In reality it flowed across the Peninsula between the rivers. It made a formidable barrier, fortified as it was. Keyes' column stopped at Lee's Mills, on the Warwick, and encamped there. Heintzelman's column approached nearer Yorktown, where it was also stopped by the Warwick. This was ilngruder's second and most important lino of fortifications. The fircf-. hnd hoon abandoned March 1. The old | line of fortifications thrown up by the British | in 1781 had been revived by Magruder. Along i the line of the Warwick, stretched across the j Peninsula, were 11,000 Confederates, and this ! was the force opposed to McClellan with his I army of 85,000 men. President Lincoln kept dispatching to him to "strike a blow." Magruder expected an I attack. His troops lay upon their arms in : tho trenches several days awaiting the attack. I Opposite where McClellan's army lay, near , Yorktown, there were only 5,000 southern j troops. There was sonio skirmishing, nothing I more. If McClellan had immediately attacked j Magruder he could have forced his lino and taken Yorktown without doubt. For six days tho 5,000 Confederates held Yorktown against McClellan's 85,000. Then it began to be plain what he was about. He was digging in the ground around Yorktown, throwing up earthworks, preparing to place heavy siege guns and go into a regular invest* j ment. He cut l oads and built bridges. And still it rained, and McClellan's soldiers sickj ened and died in the swamps of tho Wari wick. One of the Confederate fortifications on tho ! Federal right was known as Dam No. 1. April 10 a reconnaissance of tho Confederate position was made here by souio of Gen. William F. Smith's men, under orders from ! the general in chief. Tho Warwick was waist deep, but some Vermonters hei roically waded across and gainod the Confederate rifle pits, which they held for half an hour. They were forced to withdraw, tho Confederr. es being quickly ro| enforced. Once more some other Vermont | troops wero ordered across, under protection S of twenty guns, tho division battery. But j they were met by a heavy fire and wero ordered back. Gen. Smith was exceedingly anxious to mass the division and make a bold ? break, but his chief forbado it. Smith felt sure tho attempt would have been successful, for bis men were in fighting inood. He declared tho few Vermont boys performed more indi GEN. SUMNKR. tinuul bickering between the general and Washington. McClellan demanded always more troops, and the president and his cabinet refused to let Washington be denuded. McDowell's corps, which hod remained at Washington, was to follow and join the army of the Potomac. But the president did not consider that Gen. McClellan had kept ln's agreement to leave Washington sufficiently protected, and refused to allow McDowell to move. This added to McClellan's irritation and inaction. For quite six days McClellan had lain on tho Warwick with a force several times larger-than his enemy. After that it was too late to force the Confederate lino. April 10 Gen. D. H. Hill arrived with re-enforcements to the Confederates, and April 1-1 Gen. Joseph E. Johnston himself came and took command in place of Magnider. April 10 McClellan writes that if Franklin's and McCall's divisions of McDowell's corps could bo sent bim that ho would at once attack Gloucester Point, opposite Yorktown, tako it and storm Yorktown from tho rear and in front by land. Franklin's division was sent tardily and did not arrive at Yorktown until April 20. ''A few days" after that McClellan mado a reconnaissance of Gloucester Point. Plenty of time was taken for preparation. It was going to lie a siege on a inagnillccnt plan. Scaling ladders were made, and by the 3d of May everything was "nearly" ready. May 4 came, and lo! tho Confederates had evacuated Yorktown. The scientific siogo of Yorktown had come to naught. The Confederates had delayed the Federal army a month in the swamp trenches along tho Wurluinl/ linrt Tlu'c truva fho Onn^flSoi'ntjw timn to recruit, organize and drill re-enforcements, till x formidable army was got together. "" " * '^FAII'. OAKS STATION."* The Confederate army retreated to Williamsburg, eleven miles further up the Peninsula. Here the third line of the Confederate fortifications crossed the Peninsula. Johnston's retreat was accomplished the night of May 8. It was before Yorktown that captive war balloons began to be used. AROUND WILLIAMSBURG. ( McClellar. occupied Yorktown and established his headquarters near there. He sent his cavalry, with artillery, under Stoneman, May 4, to pursue Johnston. Stoneman caught up with Stuart's cavalry near the j Halfway house. Here was a lino of Confederate works waiting for him. In front of him was a large redoubt of earthworks called Fort Magruder. There was some skirmish i?g, uiuu ouoneinon retreawxi w wtuu vue arrival oi' infantry to co-operate with him. As he did so he left his own cannon behind him, ' ingloriously stuck in the mud. May 4 Hooker had marched with the infantry by a shorter road on the right to join Stonemau. Gen. W. P. Smith followed by the Lee's Mill road on tho left. After him moved Couch's and Casey's divisions. Kearney's followed Hooker on the right Sumner's corps followed next day. Franklin's and Fits John Porter's divisions were to be Bent u^ ^the York river fronx Yorktown by water. Gen. McClellau stayed till the last at Yorktown. The Federal troops engaged in the fight at Williamsburg were Hookor's and Smith's divisions and Kearney's divisions, besides part of Couch's. On the Confederate side Longstreet commanded. Hooker fulfilled his ordei's to the letter. At daybreak, May 5, he came in sight of Williamsburg. Knowing that plenty of reenforcements were behind him, he attacked | at once with his 9,000 men. All the while the plan of the Confederates was to retreat slowly toward Richmond, keeping a strong , rear guard back of them till they could place i the Chickahominy between themselves and t the enemy. It was a masterly movement. i It was this strong rear guard which began i tho battle of Williamsburg, though re-enforcements from the front speedily were sent t back. i Hooker, fighting hotly at the front, sent re- t peatedly to the commanding officer fbr help. , But the simplo fact is there was no com- i mondiner officer. A conflict of authoritv arose between Sumner and Heintzolman, who disliked each other. So nothing was done to relieve Hooker. Not paying any attention to Hooker, who was fighting on the Federal left, Sumner decided to make a movoment on the right. A Confederate redoubt on Cub Dam creek, east of Fort Magruder, was reported empty. Suinner ordered Gen. Winfleld Scott Hancock to go and take possession of it. He did so, and likewise took possession of another earthwork in advance of it He wished to take a third one, still nearer Fort Magruder, and repeatedly sent for re-en forcements to enable him to do so. Sumner twice ordered them to go to his aid and twice countermanded the order. Hancock sent again urgently, and that timo Sumner ordered him to fall back. Thus Hancock got no more support than Hooker did. It seemed, somehow, to be a battle without a head. Hancock was extremely loath to obey such an order, knowing the advantage that might J bo gained. Ho determined to obey as slowly as possible. Meantime the enemy poured in upon him. lie began retreating slowly before ' them. Suddenly he turned on them and opened a terrific musket fire. As the smoke from that cleared away somewhat ho shouted to his men: "Now, gentlemen, the bayonet." His soldiers made a tremendous biyouet ( charge. That decided the day. The Confed- ( erates broke and fled. They lost on that part ] of the battlefield alone 500. "Hancock was ( superb," Gen. McClellan telegraphed next < day. 1 So Hooker and Kearney on the left and Hancock on the right saved the day at W il- j liamsburg May 5, .1862. ( But the Confederates got off and continued , their retreat toward Richmond, just as they 1 bad intended. Next day the pursuing army captured a few of their guns, which had mired in the mud and been abandoned. That, with some stray prisoners, was the sum , total of tbo Federal sjwils of war after this battle. The Union forces lost 2,228 in killed and wounded, the Confederates 1,5(10. 't Gen. McClellan was not on the Held till near , 5 o'clock in the afternoon. He was at York- ( town superintending the removal of the ( forces that were to go up the York by water. Word was sent to him at 1 o'clock that the | battle was on, and hotly, and urging him to go to the front. He answered simply, "I ] think they can take care of that little matter." In his book?McClellan's own hook?lie says: "Could I have arrived at 1 o'clock, it is very certain that Smith, supported by Couch and afterward by Casey, would at once have debouched from Hancock's ground and have cut j off the retreat of the greater part of the troops engaged against Hooker." 4 DAN WEBSTEU. Gen. McClellan rode from Yorktown to Williamsburg, fourteen miles, upon bis favorite war horse, Dan Webster. The general's aides called him "Devil- Dan," and lie could trot a steady gait all day. McClellan never parted with the faithful beast, but kept him . till Dan diet!, in 187*J. TO THE CHICKAHOMINY. After Williamsburg, McClellan's army fol- < lowed on toward Richmond. There were j always delays, though, sometimes from one , cause, again from another. Part of the troops were sent back to Yorktown, where they wero . embarked on transports and sent up the York j to Eltham's landing, above West Point, j Franklin's division, which had been on land . only one day since they left Washington, ueur , the middle of April, was the advance at j Eltham's latlding. Franklin's men had an . indecisive little encounter with the retreating j Confederates. It took a good two weeks for the Federal * army to move from Williamsburg to White ] House, where the next headquarters were. . The distance traveled was forty miles, and a , part of the army was now within seven miles of Richmond. Certainly Gen. McClellan got steadily nearer Richmond. The Federal forces were concentrated between the Pamunkey ami the Chickaliominy. ( The Pamunkey was the south branch of the c York. The Chickuhominy lay between the ? Federal army and Richmond, just as Gen. ^ Johnston meant it should. In a war map of j. the situation before Richmond, published at . that time day after day in one or tae leaning E newspapers of the United States, the Chickahominy river does not appear at all. The newspaper correspondents with McClellan's ^ army evidently did not know there was such ^ a sti-eani. They found it out before the sum- ? mer was over. After "Williamsburg McClellan reported that ho had only 80,000 men. In response to ^ his urgent demand for more troops, Mc- j. Dowell's corps of 41,000 men was ordered to ^ go to him by way of Fredericksburg. 5y ^ following these points constantly on the map the reader will get a distinct idea of the j. Peninsula campaign. McDowell was not ^ under MdClellau's command, but led an "in- g dependent co-operating army." Gen. Shields' ^ division was drawn from Banks' force in the Shenandoah valley, and added to McDowell's corps. ^ McDowell was ordered to leave F,redericks- q burg and join McClellan the middle of May, which was the time McClellan fixed his head- ^ quarters at W hite House, on the Pamunkey. j White House was the property of Mary ^ Custis Lee, a great-granddaughter of Martha ^ Washington, married to a son of Gen. Robert E. Lee. On the site of this building had stood one in which Washington courted and married tho widow Custis. McDowell did not get ready to march for j ten days, May 26. Then came the Stonewall j Jackson scare in the Shenandoah valley, and once more it was all up with the plan for joining McDowell to the army of the Potomac. DcDowell was ordered back in haste and commanded to send 20,000 men at 11 once to the Shenandoah. k " SEVK5 PINES. McClellan had been clearing the way for JcDowell to join him. HANOVER COURT HOUSE. Between McDowell's front at Fredericks^ )urg and McClellan's right before Richmond here was a force of 12,000 Confederates, ["hey were Anderson's and Branch's brigades ind a part of Stuart's cavalry. Branch's jrigade was at Hanover Court House, foureen miles north of Richmond. To clear hese 12,UW away, to destroy tne onages over lie South Anna and the Pamunkey, which vould keep the Confederates from gelling in he roar of the Union army from the right, ind to cut the railroad from Richmond to Northern Virginia, Fits John Porter was sent ivith 12,000 men. May 27, in a heavy rain, he battlo of Hanover Court House was fought, and Porter routed the Confedirates. Bridges were destroyed according to he plan, which was in other respects carried out, except that the railroad from Richmond ? Fredericksburg was not cut. "Lacking hat," wrote Lincoln to McClellan, "the scrap >f the Virgiuia Central from Richmond to Hanover Junction is simply nothing." N CAMP ON THE CHICKAHOMINY / The historic Chickahomiuy is a fork of the fames, which rises to the northwest of Richnond, flows southeasterly, nnd empties Into he river about half way between Richmond ind its mouth. North of Richmond it flows learly east and west. Meantime, early in May, Norfolk had lieon ibandoned by the Confederates. Gen. Huger, vho held it with 15,000 men, was ordered to he defense of Richmond. That left the fames open to Federal gunboats well up toward Richmond. McClellan'8 army advanced through the nud and rain to tho bank of the Chick mummy, xvt;yt? auu ucmi^ciuiaua wt :rossed it with ono brigade. Kearney was jn the west, at Savage station. Hooker's iivision-of Heintzelman's corps was stationed jo the southward to guard White Oak Swamp bridge. Sumner's, Franklin's and Fitz John Porter's corps remained on the left or north>rn bank of the Chickahominy, with McClelan's headquarters at Gaines' MilL Keyed' :orps was only five miles from Richmond, and X>ok position at Seven Piues. In Richmond ;here was consternation. A niece of Mr. Davis wrote to her mother: "Uncle Jeff thinks we hod better go to a safer place than Richmond. He is miserable. [ fear ho cannot live long if he does not get >ome rest and quiet" In this state of mind, Mr. Davis joined Church. His niece writes: "Uncle Jeff was confirmed last Tuesday in St. Paul's church. Ho was baptized in the morning before shurch." It was expected that McClellan would take Richmond speedily, and the Confederate government made preparations to leave it BATTLE OF FAIR OAKS. May 31 McClellan had, on both sides of the Chickahominy, an army of 126,000. Johnston, who was well informed of the Union movements, resolved to attack the two Federal corps south of the Chickahominy, at Fair Oaks station. Couch's division was the extreme right of the Federal forces, and occupied Fair Oaks, a little railway station. Casey's division was grouped a little southeast of Couch's, around tho Seven Pines ' tavern, so called l>ecause there are seven pine trees there. Between these two points tho bloodiest fighting was, and it is therefore cor rect to mention the battle by either name. Johnston commanded the Confederates. Hie position of tho two armies will be seen from the map. The Confederate^ advanced * in three columns to the right, left and front of the Federals. Longstreet and D. H. Hill attacked in the front, Huger on the left and Gustavus W. Smith on the right at Fair Oaks. Owing to the wretched roads it wns noon before thef attack was made. Gen. Naglee's Federal brigade was in advance 011 the front, and caught the first heavy4 fire. He ordered a bayonet charge to save his artillery. It was given with a will, and then Nagle's and Casey's divisions fell back to Couch's second lino. Casey lost some of his cannon. A hot enfilading fire hod cut down many of i- Pa. A,,?O liis men. jlu luu i cui ui wuuu a iuiu a divisions were the corps commanders, Keyes snd Ileintzelnian, with, as they faced the south, Keyes on tho right and Heintzelmau on the left. FAIH OAKS BATTLE GROUND. Casey was pressed backward to Fair Oaks _ itation with re-enforcements that had been * sent him by Keyes. There was deadly fightng around Fair Oaks. At the same time ;here was a desperate contest about Seven Pines, ami Peck's brigade of Federal troops was forced back. Confederates swarmed in n on the Union right, left and center, touch's left was turned, and his division cut n two, and Kearney, who had endeavored to inve tho left, was driven back. Gen. Sumner alone saved the part of the irmy south of the Chickahominy from annililation. He had ordered a bridge built on lis front across the Chickahominy several lays before. This was the famous Grapevine bridge. There were only two bridges resides this by which the Federal troops night cross the Chickahominy. These were Bottom's bridge and the railway bridge. At 2:30 o'clock McClellan ordered Sumner a cross the river to the aid of Keyes and leintzelman. The fact that the Grapevine iridge was already luilt saved the day, what there was left >f it. Sumner GgL IB :rossed in haste ?fore. Confederate Jen. Johnston was gen. g. w. smith. eriously wounded, and the command ;evolved on Gustavus W. Smith. He Iso was wounded, but even that did not stop he fight. About dark, Sumner ordered a ayonet charge of five regiments, which broke he Confederate line, and the fight was ended or May 31. Richardson's brigade and the artillery had ieen mired in tho mud, but they come up .uring the night. Next morning, Juno 1, at o'clock, the Confederates made another atack. Richardson commanded on the Fedral side, and was on the lookout There ras an indecisivo fight of several hours. Gen. ). O. Howard lost his arm here, and Gen. 'homa3 F. Meagher, the patriot, fought aliantly with his Irish brigade. On the kinfederaU side Gens. Roger A. Pryor and lahone, afterward United States senator rom Virginia, commanded the Confederates. Jen. Leo and President Jefferson Davis rode ut in a carriage to see the fight from Richaond of May 31. i June 1 the Confederate army, with its J hnrra anil n jnninnifmn urna 1-nmAw/vl frt fl ?" ?HOH4UU?UUiVHIU) TWfUO UCillg ICUlUtCU w licbniond all day. Toward evening the Con- fl ederates under Pryor went there too. That vas the lust of the Fair Oaks lighting. Each ide lost some 7,000. It was ajbloody fight. BH In the morning of June 2, Hooker nade a reconnoisance toward Richmond, iut the attempt was abandoned. - M