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WAR STORIES More -A^bout the Second Great Battle of Manassas. ?I Atlanta Journal.* Mr. Editor, I want to say that the from thc- commanding geoerid inform personal reminiscences that appear iog me of General Jackson's condition v eekly in The Journal make faeci- and his wants. As it was evident eating : reading for the oid soldier, that the attaek against General Jack They not only give incidents and son could not bo continued ten min deeds, thrilling in interest, but they utes under fire of these batteries, I help to keep the war record straight, made no immediate movement of my Official reports are often partial and troops. Before the second battery -onetimes fail tc "render uulu Ci?H?r oeu?d fcc placed lu position the onemy the things that aro Ca?sar'o." Con- began to retire and that portion of the suming selfishness-the "big I" army was put to flight, spirit, that did it all-i* complacent In giving General Longstreet's re enough to sit on the pedestal of fame port I have given the sense without forgetful that others made their glory confining myself tu his words. His possible. report accords with my recollection, The second Manassas was brought except that I did not see any fleeing on by General Pope pushing his troops enemy in the sense of leaving the forward to overtake General Lee's field in confusion or disorder. Judg scarred army that was really advancing ing from the apparent fleetness of tho with tho music of the victory already courier's horse and our own speed in io the air. Lee retreating! Why, he going forward into action, I would say had pursued Pope up and across the that five mi utes did not lapse from Rappahannock for ten .days. And to the giving of the order to the firing of stop him long enough to test his our first shot. Our position was near metal interposed Jackson with a dar- the turnpike. The enemy was io the ing rush between him and Washing- open field about 500 yards from the too. This bold strategic conception pike. . of General Lee was executed by Gen. General Sykes, the Federal com Jackson with consummate skill. But mander, says his troops were in col it placed his command ip an isolated umns of regiments. This may account position that invited destruction, for the fact that my mind was im Pope recognized the magnitude of his pressed with the idea that the field responsibility and evinced a bad de- W8& densely black with the enemy, gree of generalship when he swung We fired rapidly. Haw could we away from the Rappahannock and miss them? The earth was oovered. rushed after Jaokson to crush him They soon slowed to a halt, broke, re before Longstreet could come to his formed, broke, and once more reform relief. With tact and dash he placed ed and began to retire in a left oblique a strong oommand at Thoroughfare direction to the turnpike, a distance Gap to shut Longstreet's gateway to of more than 500 yards, and all the Jaokson, and then occupied every way through an open field and within point of the compass with strong easy range of our puns, forces and had Jackson in the center. General Sykes also says they re* And now, under the inspiration of treated in col um s of regiment in line suoh pleasing prospects he flashed of battle under a severe artillery 'fire over the wires to Washington Jack- and never wavered. That is trne as I son's inevitable destruction. But saw it, and they were moving slowly Jaokson, who always knew when and and their gait was not quiekened by how to act, baffled the vigilance of the inroads our balls and shells were Pope, upset his well laid scheme, beat making in their ranks at every step, bis forces in detail and kept the entire It is also true, as General Long Federal army at bay until Longstreet steet says, that the retreat began be took his position on Jackson's right, fore the second battery was placed in And now the man who boasted that position. After the retreat began he had never seen anything bot the two guns from some other battery rebel's backs in the west had to look took position on our left and helped them in the face. During the morn- us to push them on to judgment, ing of the 30th Lee, Jaokson, Stuart Captain Boyce says officially "the and others held a protracted consulta- essential service rendered by my bat tion in the rear of our army, and about tery here was in forcing baok a large noon Lee whispered some instructions column of the enemy that was attemp to Jaokson, who immediately and ting to oro BB to a skirt of woods to re without ostentation rode baok to his ioforce this part of the enemy's line, command on the opposite side of the and battling the repeated efforts of a pike. Signs of the coming battle were battery to get in position near the everywhere apparent. Lee was ready creek." and would have brought it on, but Another battery came up at a rapid Pope anticipated him, being beguiled speed and tried to take position on the into an attack on Jackson under the Grove house hill, a position that corn insane supposition that Lee was re- manded ours, but a few shots from treating. Jackson says officially that our guns flew into them so quick that the Federal infantry advanced in sev- they left as fast as they came. From era! lines and when ose waa repulsed that time on we did our mischief with another took its place. And so im- ont let or hindrance, potuous and well sustained were these Now tell us what troops deserve onsets that ho was induced to Bend credit for breaking the force of those for reinforcements and the gallant ad- overwhelming numbers referred to by vance of General Longstreet on the Jackson and that made General Lee right relieved his troops from the anxious. General Longstreet says it pressure of overwhelming numbers' was the battery that he first put in General Loco says that the enemy ad- position. Beyond the possibility of vanced against General Jaokson in doubt that was tho Macbeth Light strong foroe, and a second and third Artillery, commanded by Captain line of great strength moved up to the Boyce. support of those already ongaged; and Now if that was the point on which that these two lines were broken and the tide of battle turned and Lee's fell back in confusion under the well army swept onto victory, then justice directed and destructive fire of two as well as merit should have induced batteries ordered up by General Long- General Longstreet to mention the street and thrown forward by Colonel company and its commander; S. D. Leo. As tho only surviving officer of tho Notioe, if you please,.between Jack- company, I do not wish laurels we did son and these advanoing Federal not win, so if there is any other bat troops was a dense body of woods to tery that claims that "Betsy and I which they were making. And if I killed the bear," let the contention comprehend Colonel S. D. Lee's offi- come now while some one living may cial report he occupied a high ex- be able to settle the dispute, tended hill back1 of Jackson's line, We bivouaced that night just across and the only disposition that he made the pike from where we fought and of his guns during the fight was the moved up tho next morning to the sending of five guns from his right to Henry house. assist Kubanks' battery on thc left Our camp was in the proximity to and ordering Captains Jordan and numerous rail pens that marked the Taylor to change their position so as resting plaoe of Hampton's men who to fire on the enemy in flank and on fell in the first Manassas. And the tho woods containing their roscrves. Henry house was near by. The Fed It will be seen that the federal eral wounded had been gathered in columns that General Longstreet's great numbers and laid in a circle batteries fought were beyond the around the house. But not all. I woods that Jordan and Taylor were to saw several afterwards on tjb'a battle fire on, and could not have been seen field, where they had been nearly from their position or reached by their twenty-four hours without attention, guns. To have don? so they would I walked around the circle of wound have been put to the necesssity of ad- ed men and notfeed that the pile of vatoing along the pike and taking amputated arms and legs was rapidly position east of the woods, mere than growing larger. From h?re X started a quarter of a mile in Jackson's front, over the battlefield. Our troops on Notioe what General Longstreet the ex?-rume right were just in the Isays. From an eminence he saw the edge of the storm. Now and then a federal masses attacking General dead Yank was seen, but they multi .1 ackson, that they were in easy range plied rapidly as I neared the center of of his guns, and he 'had an advantage General Longstreet's position, that ho'bad not expected, and made The ground over which Hood's bri haatb to URO it. Two batteries were gado fought was red. Not with blood Iordered for the purpose, and when but with Duryea's Zouaves dressed in placed, in position werq immediately red trousers, opened. ' Thc Twin Hills, here united by a At this timo I received a message little branoh of rippling water tinged with blood, eloped east and west. The sunrise hill sloped gradually from tho branch to a body of wecd3 cn top cf the hill, a distance of more than IOU yards. xTho west side hil! rose from che branch at an angle of about 45 degrees and was very short. When thc Texans, Georgians and South Car olinians reaohed the crest of this hill j they were within less than a stone's i throw of the Zouaves' ranks in line of j battle at the foot of ' the hill. There laid the first of them that paid the penalty of invasion. Thirty yards up the hill was a line of dead, and as straight as if they had been placed them by hand."" j There were three of these lines be- ' j tween the branch and the woods, and j they bore testimony to the discipline ' and nourige cf Duryea* Zouaves. | They must have made a determined staud at each place, as the dead were so clone together that I could walk to and fro without touching thc ground. And between these lines numbers had fallen as they fell back. Seen from a distance these dead men, with red trousers reminded mc of Mark's description in his gospel of the 5,000 Jews dressed in their bright hued Oriental garmonts reclining on tho grassy hillside to be miraculously fed. They looked like garden beds of flowers. In thc woods just beyond was a de tail of Confederates burying our dead. ! They had dug a trench about six by j thirty feet to inter our brave, ragged boys. It was a scene to move the j fountain of the heart and moisten the cheeks. They had gone into battle, ' living in elbow touch, and now lay dose together in the elbow touoh of death. Near here Colonel J. M. Gadberry fell. What a splendid specimen of manhood gave up his life here for the cause he loved. Over six feet high, well proportioned, straight as an ar row, handsome, commanding in ap pearance. His was an all-round char I aoter. He was a good oitizen and lawyer, a true patriot and brave sol dier. When a young man he raised a company for the Mexican war, but was too late to get it in the Palmetto regiment, which he ha'd the honor to name. He was a member of tho se cession committee and when the ordi nance of secession was passed he hast ened home and went with his company to Charleston and joined Colonel ? Gregg's First South Carolina regiment. This was a six-month's' command? After Sumter fell he went to Virginia j and served out its unexpired term. I While in eamp at Fairfax Court j house Colonel Gregg surprised Gen eral Sohenok's troops at Vienna, j stampeded them, having killed and wounded 117, according to the news paper reports at that time, and re turned to camp without losing a drop of southern blood. Our time was now up and we re turned home. Our little experience in service caused ns to hustle for offi ces in the commands then in prooeBS of organizing. Colonel Gregg raised an other regiment, and Captain Gadberry was elected colonel of the Eighteenth South Carolina regiment. Three of our colonels in Longstreet's corps d?ed ic this battle close together, and three close togetner in Jackson's corps. . Sergeant Young, a very intelligent member cf the company, was on the left of the pike, where we put in our best work, and was asked by two stall' officers who had looked over the battle ground if he belonged to the battery that did that work over there. One of them said he witnessed it, and that he never saw such shooting. Every shot hit its mark. Hitting the mark was not due so much to sciculiuu shooting as it was to the immense numbers there to hit. I saw a great many doad Federals on the battlefield. The sight did not causo any feeling to go out through tho eyes. My only regret was that all I who met us thore were not just as ? those were-dead. However, I do not now wish any of the living harm, and would not harm them if I eould. But I am not yet reconstructed enough to palaver or slobber over them. H. F. SCARFE. Union, S, C._ Cures Contagions Blood Poison. TRIAL TREATMENT FREE.-It is especially the deep seated, obstinate cases that B. B. B. cures. 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"They talk a dang sight about rc sentin' things, and courage and all that, but I ain't sceu any of it yet, and dang if I don't belie ve there's a lot of blow among 'em." "There were two or three northern men in the crowd, and thc rest were native southerners. They treated thc westerner, a tall, burly creature, with great tolerance, probably by using a little agreeable persuasion to the ac count of his ignorance abroad; but several noticed a dangerous light gathering in the eyes of a young fel low who had not said much. Ile wt s himself fully six feet, broad-shoul dered, a well-knit figure, a low voice, and a face as handsome as an Appollo's. He was sitting across the table from the westerner. His whole figure breathed strength and gentleness. Ile did not interrupt thc burly talker. "Yes," the man from the fleecy plains went on, "this talk of the bravery of tho south is all tomyrot. Now, there's Gen. Wado Hampton-" and here an abusive epithet followed. But no sooner had the name passed his lips than the young man with the Apollo faoe leaped clear across the table and caught tue westerner by tbe throat. He pounded and boat and ondgeled him until the others tried to interfere. "No," said tho Apollo, "leave him to me; I won't kill him, I'll just finish him." And he did. When he had pounded him to his satisfaction, and to the satisfaction of the crowd, he gathered up the writhing figure and quietly threw him out of the window. The man with the soft voioe and Apollo faoe was Frank Hampton Has kell, grandson of Gen. Wade Hampton and son of Col. John C. Haskell, of Columbia, S. C. He has inherited the bravery and chivalry of his South Carolina blood and the splendid phys ical strength of the Hamptons, and this same prowess seems to belong to the name Frank Hampton. Gen. Hampton had an uncle and a brother noted for their great strength, whose mantle seems to have fallen ou the present young hero. I have often heard Gen. Hampton tell the following story of his uncle: "My uncle," ho said, "was noted for his powerful strength. Once he was at a country tavern when a big country fellow insulted bim. He said nothing, but stepped to the fireplace, pioked np an old-fashioned iron poker, put it around the man's neck and twisted ic so that it was impossible to remove it. The man begged like a dog. "On another occasion, at a dinner in Charleston, a gentleman remarked that no man could knock down another man the same sise. " 'Oh, yes,' my uncle said, 'I can.' A large negro man, an attendant of on'e of thc gentlemen, was present. Ile was a great favorite in Charleston and was noted for bis strength. Ile heard my uncle's remark and said: " 'Ob, no, Mas' Frank, you cyant knock mc down." " 'Let him try, let him try, Argyle!" "My uncle resisted for a time, but at last stood up, extended his arm and let it fall ou top of the negro's head. Thc mau instantly fell, to the astonishment of the crowd, and then, to their horror, he was found to be dead. None were more astonished than my ryicle. He bad nol used half his strength, he said." There are several stories of Gen. Hampton's own wonderful strength. Once, before thc war, when out bear hunting in Mississippi, his dogs attacked a cow, an animal which grows very dangerous when allowed to run wild in the swamps. The eow took refuge in a small lake near bj. Gen. Hampton, ucl liking such anomalous game for his paok, jumped from his horse and drove the dogs off. He was making for his horse when tho oow suddenly turned, and, with tail erect and head lowered, came hollow ing, pinnging toward him. He nardy had time to jump behind a small tree, and here for some seconds, in a g??se of hide and seek, eluded the infuriated animal. But he knew that such ruse could not last long. Springing out, he caught the eow by her horns, threw her on her side, and, putting one knee on her nook, stuok her [lower horn into the ground Bofore she could extricate herself hn had reached his horse and made good his escape. It was no unusual thing for Gen. Hampton to tako up from the ground, without dismounting, afull-sized buck or cora bear and put it on the back of his horftA; Mahone has said that "Tien. Hampton was the stttongcst maa in the army of Northern Virginia," but to this Gen Hampton always says: "That's all nonsense. I was uot." Bushels of Gold Taken By Robbers. VALLEJO, CAL., Aug. 6.-Gold bricks valued at $340,000 were stolen during last night from the Selby Smelting works. The robbers evi dently had been working on tho job for two or turee months. Thoy bad dug a tunnel from outside the house, beginning with a shaft about three feet deep. Thence they worked under neath ?he vault and striking upwards, bored a bolo in the strong room floor. Tho hole was shaped liko thc man hole of a boiler. Part of thc holes were bored two months ago, it is thought,, ami the last one wa? com pleted during the night. Through that hole they took the gold bricks and carried them to a bank near thc mouth of the tunnel east of the works, where they were evidently placed in a boat. In their hurry the robbers left '.wo of the bricks on the bank. Duriug the night one of ihe work men reported to one of his fellows that he heard a noise iu the strong room and declared it was a ghost. The others ridiculed him for his super stition, bnt uo investigation was made to see what caused the noise. The entrance to thc tunnel was covered with a frame, over whioh the employes and smelters passed evrey day, but no one seemed to notice anything out ol' the way. Sheriff Veale of Contra Costa coun ty, his deputies and Chief of Polico Sanford of Vallejo have been notified and arc now at the works. Thu polico of San Francisco and all the bay oities arc all at work on the case, but so far there is not the slightest clue to the robbers. The work was that of skilled men and their elaborate plans were carried out with out a hitch. They got all the bul lion in the vault, leaving behind only the two bricks which were dropped on the shore. Only one day's accumula tion of refined gold was kept at the works. Yesterday's run was unusual ly heavy and the gold was to have been shipped back to San Francisco to-day. The tunnel that the robbers exca vated was about throe feet in diameter and gave them plenty of room in whioh to work. It is supposed the dirt from the tunnel was taken out at night and dropped in the bay. First reports stated that the tunnel was two or three hundred feet loog, but ac cording to late advices it is only about ten feet in length. The shaft was started close to the wall and was sunk below the foundation. 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