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WAR ST Kosser Dei'ent Washington, January 1")."-General fTboRias L. Rosser, of Virginia, who was the youngest Major General of the Confed?rale Army, who command ed a Regiment at Gettysburg, and who was with the Army of Northern "Virginia from thc first battle to thc surrender, bitterly resents thc criti cism of General Longstreet's cour.se afc Gettysburg. General Rosser was appointed an officer in the Spanish "SVar by President McKinley, and in recent years has been acting with thc jRepubliean party. Reviewing the vori of sonic of the great Confederate .Generals, General Rosser said to thc correspondent of Thc Greenville ?iews : "With the death of Gen. Long street passed the last of thc '?reat soldiers of the Army of Northern virginia. lie fought alone thc battle ?? the 18th of July, 1861, and won tho font 7ictor> of that splendid army. iSfc shared in the glory of all the great fealties thc army fought. He was Ito? ly wounded in thc Wilderness near v^ere Jackson fell, and under similar c?ronmstances, and had he died (herc ?e*v?uld have gone down into history siaV&y side with Jackson and Lee. jLongotseet and Lee, as soldiers, wcro airoila:* in many respects. Moth were gscai defensivo generals, but neither ?an be classed amongst tho successful .fi?naive generals of history. Take .Jackson, forinstauce. His campaign fro** Kcarnstown to Port Republic, in sh* Valley of Virginia, in 1862, wa? j- brilliant as the first Itali ?LU cam paign of the great Napoleon. In re sults ho took McDowell from Freder ??ksburg. Ile left Shields, Freeuiont and Banks confused as to his where abouts, dashed across the mountains, .joined Leo on thc 26th of June, strik ing McClellan tho surprise blow,drove juro to the Jamos and raised tho siege c>7 Richmond. With the dispatoh of .lightning ho wheeled around, met Pope at Cedar Mountain, stopped his advance upon Lee's rear and flunk, aeld him until Lee could ai rive with reinforcements, passed to his rear and .fought thc battle of tho 28ih of Sep tember at Grovetowu Heights, opened tho way for Lee lo press on with his army, and crowned thc campaign with the successful battle uT tho second IBnll Run. Ho crossed thc Potomac .with Lee, was detached, sent hack, captured Harper's Ferry and joined jLec at Sharpsburg in time to stop McClellan and save Leo's army. In 5*1 ay, 1863, when Leo was hesitating ?a the Wilderness, believing that Hooker's movement below Fredericks fcarg was a serious one, with tho fore sight bf gcuius, Jackson pronounced ? aka feint, urged Lee to allow him to aaoTO around Hooker's right, which, 3? audacity, boldness and brilliancy, seemed to paralyzo Lee, and while on tai?wonderful march Sickles got be Tif??a him and Leo with au army weaily equal to his own, Jacksou lpyeaaed- on, turned on, turned Hook er'* right, as" he contemplated, dis.si jaled tho Eleventh corps and all its atvpport, and was within a halfmile of .t!he goal, tho Bullock house, of which \i>ad hy gained possession, Hooker's 3ei7eat would have been impossible aid he at the mercy of the Confeder ate army, when he was shot aud mor tally wounded by his own men. ""Lee,.then in command of an army wast knew no defeat and not realizing ?hai bis groat offensive general had fttfB* taken away from tho army, com ja?tied'Oho fatal blunder of attempting ? abe invasion of tho North. At no - feisae during, that campaign did he aaove with celerity, maneuver to tho 1 oo?prist! of the enomy oe do anything ' ??a brilliant character, marking him -with, the genius of war. The battle af Gettysburg was lost tho first day, although the Confederates olaiinod a victory, and it might havo been turn ed into a victory had Lee been a mas ter-of the art of aggressive warfare. Rot he followed up thc first day by a stubborn attack of tho enemy in au entrenched position, and, failing to dislodge him. seemed to hesitate and Iiis pians seemed to be confused. l?i mally, ho committed a great en or in attacking a superior enemy in an cn .? trenched position at tho strongest X oaint. In tho history of battles very few generals have ever made an attaok ?- on the center of the enemy's position, % ?ad history .gives only one example of -? whore such an attaok has been success ful. That was the.battle of Wagram . "where tho great Napoleon deceived the . Archduke Charles by so threatening Ilia flank as to eau BO him to weaken ?i?s center, when, quick as a flash, Napoleon struck the center of the v caesay with McDonald and his ro v aerves. But then the world has only &weu u8 one Napoleon, and the Wes tero Hemisphere has given us only - -?ma Jackson. When Lee's army was ' beaten from the fatal attaok which he . -effdered on the 3rd of July, he rode ORIES. ls Longstreet. amongst his fleeing HoMiers, begging them to rally and reform on Seminary Ridge, telling them that it was his fault that they had failod and not their owe. No criticism was made of Longstreet at that time. LoDgstrcet was retained in thc uust important corps of Lee's army and served hon orably and faithfully under Lee to tho end. At Appomattox, LongstTr.t, with Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia, at thc clo.se of a mont glor ious achievement, honestly surren dered. Thc Southern Confederacy was eliminated from the map of the world, its flag was forever furled, and all soldiers who surrendered there had cither to return to the union and be come loyal to the flag of their country, or remain hypocrits and traitors, which they could not do if they had honestly surrendered and accepted the tenon that Grant had given them. "Longstreet eamc out of the war with a record for courage, devotion to tho cause he had espoused, aud loyal ty to tho stars and cross Bccood to none. Disabled by wouuds, his right arm hanging lifeless and helpless at his side, his profession, that of a sol dier, gone, he turned his attention to civil pursuits and was struggling for a living when his old friend Grant, then president of tho United States, oilered him service in the Government. Leo was dead. Southern politicians had expected Longstreet to keep the Ares of Southern antipathy to tho North alive, and as they were seeking to in fl?me thc passions of thc people as a basis upon which to unite tho South and to fuse with the copperhead party in the North, as a means for repossess ing themselves of a government they had lost by tho results of tho war, this movement of Longstreet in accepting the offer of Grant tended to break their influence with the old soldiers of tho South. To counteract th'.t, they brought up the charge of disloyalty and disobedience to Lee at Gettys burg, ucver having thought of it be fore, and never, in fact, having a foundation for it. This, in a measure, served their purpose, hecauso tho old sohiiors and their sons iu thc South uro always ready to resent anythiug said or done uufavorablo to Lee. Now, I am mortified to see that even the la dies have Laken this mutter up, and thc Daughters of tho Confederacy at Savannah refused to luy a wreath of laurels on the tomb of the great hero. "I was surprised that Fitzhugh Leo should have charged Longstreet with disobedience, for I don't believe that Gen. Lee over mado suoh a charge himself. After the war T. went to J Lexington and studied lav/ and saw Leo every day and every night. Our comrades and enemies were often dis cussed, but I never heard Gen. Leo speak of Longstreet except ia thc most affectionate manner. Coi. Ven able was professor of mathematics when I moved hack to Charlottesville eighteen years ago, and my relations with him up to his death wcro close and intimate. I never heard him suggest thc idea that Longstreet dis obeyed orders or failed to do his duty at Gettysburg or anywhere else. Gen. Lee relieved Geo. Kwell, one of his corps .commanders at Gettysburg, Trom duly with his army. Ile oriti uised A. I1. Hill severely for his fail ure and mismanagement, at Bristow station, but no man ovor heard him say one word against Longstreet. "Now that Longstreet is laid away Lo rest, all old and true soldiers of the Southern Confederacy will kneel uound his tomb and pray that they may stand at tho great reville with , Lee, Jaokson and Longstreet." W.W. P. - ? ALL OF THE CONFEDERACY. lieu. Gordon and Judge Reagan Seareb Their Memories. (Vicksburg Herald.) The following letter from thc voner lblo and solo survivor of thc Confed erate cabinet will be read with inter net, lt has been elicited, as will be leen, by tho issue joined in a rcecut Herald editorial with certain erron eous statements in Gen.'G ordon' s book )f War Iteminisoenoos : Palestine, Texas, Nov. 25, 1903. Editor Herald, ViokBourg, Miss. Dear Sir: I am in receipt of the Vicksburg Herald of November 22, 1903, which contains your editorial on "General Gordon's Civil War Remin iscences." If there is no mistake as to the statement attributed to him, "that to the lapi Mr. Davis and t?ose who sur rounded him, as well as the Confeder ate Congress, betrayed their utter in capacity to grasp the situation; to properly estimate the oharaoter of the contest, or to adopt any intelligent means of meeting the terribie issue they had to encounter." ?I think the statement is unfortu natl" for thu reputation of that lii iin guislnd fr?iiiivr, ns it i - unfair to I'rcsident Davis, Iii- Cabinet ano thc j Congress of the Confederacy. And i I am glad to see that >ou prisent a part of thc record facts which bliow this to be true, i only say this much now on the supposition that General j (Jordon has been correctly reported. I cannot enter upon a further discus sion of this subject without authentic and fuller information thau I now have. 1 may add that thc closest and mont confidential relations existed all the time between President Davis aud Gen. Lee, and they both certainly reslized their responsibility to each other and to thc country, which made harmony of action between them I necessary to the public safety. The evidenoo is ample to show that President Davis exhausted every avail able means of trying to end the war by negotiations consistent with the preservation of tho independence of the Confederacy. Some unfriendly after-the-war critics have censured him for not inakii'g peace on any terms we could get. ii^*. the truth is he would never havi dared to give up the cause of the Cmfedcacy while wc had armies in thc Geld supposed to bo able lo resist those of the enemy. Kven after the fai'ure of tho negotia tions at Hamptou iioada, soldiers in the army in Virginia, half-starved and half-naked, held meetings and passed resolutions and sent them to the presi dent, protesting against surrender to thc Federal authorities. In view of the character, experience, ability, pa triotic devotion and great sacrifice made by President Davis, it is eur prisiog that anyone who was a friend of the Confederacy should unjustly attack his 'character, services and memory, especially after ho is no longer alive to answer such attacks. Very respectfully, Johu II. Reagan. The text of the matter criticised by the Herald, a part of which is quoted in the above, was tuken fro tho Courier Journal, which adopteu and exploited the prejudicial error to which ex Senator Reagan excepts, con amore. If Gen. Gordon has not "been cor rectly reported" it is tho fault of that champion of tho unfounded strictures it has attributed to him, upon "Presi dent Davin. vis cabiuet and the Con federate (" n. Tress." lt is to be hoped that Mr. Reagan, who can speak here with more authority than any other living mau, will possess himself of "full and more accurate information from Gen. Gordon's hook itself and moro completely dispel its mistakes of memory and imagination. Though there can ho asked no more couolusive contradiction of its account of the conference bctweeu Gens. Lee and Gordon in the first week of March, 1805, than is afforded ic the official correspondence of the former with President Davis and Secretary of War Breckinridgo, as qi nit-j in tho Herald editorial referred to by Mr. Reagan. Thc Herald did not, for lack of space, quote further from tho record ed facts to show that Gen. Lee had an absolutely freo baud in disposing of his army, and to the extent of "mak'iig terms, the best we can get from the enemy," or of abandoning Petersburg and Richmoud at will. We will now say, further, that con tradiction of Gen. Gordon on theso points is shown in a most interesting and luminous official letter from Lee to Longstreet, of February 22,1865. 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Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are the best and safest laxative for the use of delicate women. turntable' contingency of abandoning the positiou ot? the Janies, and ibo ; consequent line of rein al and joint of i concentration, he wrote Longstreet, i who commanded in front of Richmond j while Lee's heado.uarcers were at Pe- j tersburg, saying: "I wish you to con sider this subject and give me your views." To this Longstreet replied at length, February 23-P. 1,253. Ile strongly and cogently combatted tho suggestion of retreating, saying: "We shall lose more mon by a move than a battle." Writing again, on tho 25th, ho says, you oan abandon Petersburg and hold your linc here, and take up the line of tho Appomat tox." So far as tho Ileoord speaks, Longstreet alone urged, and, may have infuenced General Lee against an earlier abandonment of Richmond. Inevitably tho end would have been the same. But, judged by the re sults, to have contracted tho stretched out Confederate defenses to the Ap pomattox line, as Longstreet urged could not have made the end quickci or the smash more complote. I would, on the contrary, probably hov* prolonged the struggle, and migh have proved tho bettor course. The fallacious view of Gen. Lee be ing held in the Bichmond .'?jfens against his judgment by Pr--iden Davis appeared in a number f wa books shortly after the surrende! But such assertions seem to h nv, bee based on no other foundation than mistaken idea of raising tho grea Confederate commander above th reach of forces of which he expresse his recognition in the letter, quote in tho Herald of tho 22ud ult., t General Breokinridgo on March ? 18G5; saying in nub-stance that w were simply being forced to the wa by tho legit?..nate military consequent cs of the superior numbers and n sources of the enemy" which "ha\ been postponed longer than we ha reason to anticipate." After the pul lioatiou of President Davis' book, ac the War of the Rebellion Records, tl erroneous idea of the responsibilil for delay in thc cvacuatiso of Rici mond was completely exposed and e lenced; until reviewed by Gen. Gc don through the version, in his bo< oforeminisoenses, of his conferen with Gen. Lee. What Mr. Reagan says of the toi of thc Army of Northern Virginia the last days of tho Confederacy, "resolutions" adopted at army me? iogs, tho Herald editor can corrobora documentary evidence. With a smi and scrappy package of war papers saved from tho "fir.e" it is not reme: bored now-we have the original ma uscript of -such resolutions, adopt by Humphreys' Mississippi Brigad in tho trenches near Rishmond February, 1865. The following is ken from it: Resolved, That the time has co; when thu South ii imperatively called upon to put ou the whole panoply of her strength that every elementof her power, all her undeveloped resources could be immediately brought into ac tion, to enable her to carry out to a successful end tho great contest be tween despotism and the right of self government. To these "unfriendly after the war critics"-whom Gen. Gordon seems to have joined, unintentionally doubt less, in givir^ aid and comfort to-the late Judge Campbell, one of the Hampton Hoads -commission, paid hin re.ipoots in a published interview in 1869. 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