Staunton Spectator
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From Gen. Lee's Army
Mexico Declared An Empire
The Recognition Question
Lieut. Thos. C. Kinney
The Wounded at Gettysburg
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"The wounds of the patients were inflamed and the bandages dry. When asked where their nurses were, they said they only had one or two to each floor, and they could not attend them all. In each corner was a pile of dirt, and the flours were wet from the careless spilling of water when the wounds were wet. We went into the yard, and there were some two hundred slightly wounded and convalescent rebels, able to draw and cook their own rations, eating their breakfasts. In our hospitals these would have been made to take their watches with the helpless as nurses; but they would not raise a hand to help their more unfortunate fellows. So true is this that many of them express the most ardent desire to get into Union hospitals, where they will have proper attendance.
General Armistead
The Hostage Officers
General Morgan's Raid
Impressment of Horses in Staunton
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Last Tuesday was an exciting day in Staunton to all the owners of horses.--The impressment officer had it made known very early in the morning, by having all the ways of egress "blockaded," that "he was about," and that he was as anxious to get possession of equine flesh as was Richard III when he exclaimed on Bosworth field with all the force of his lungs, "A horse! A horse!! My kingdom for a horse!!!" Such was the hurry, and so great the seeming emergency that locks were broken and doors prized off their hinges, as there was not time to wait for the owners to bring the keys. The horses of physicians and undertakers were taken; but were graciously restored to their owners when apprised that the sick would die and the dead go unburied if the horses of physicians and undertakers were not given up. The citizens were taken by surprise, and were at a loss to know what caused such a pressing emergency. They were perfectly willing to give up their horses, if needed, but had some objection to the quo modo--the manner in which the officer performed his duty. They modestly thought that there was a right and a wrong way of doing a right thing, and were under the impression that the officer did the right thing in the wrong way. The persons in the best humor on Tuesday last in Staunton were those who were so fortunate as not to own a horse. They gratulated [sic] themselves with the reflection: Blessed is the man who owns "nary a hoss." These fortunates would hallo across the street to their friends and inquire, "how are you off for horse flesh?" When they would get the reply, "I didn't have any horse flesh, but all my horse bones have been impressed."
Fight at Manassas Gap
Death of Col. Patton
Soldiers, the Great Desideratum
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The great need of the South at this time is more soldiers. All of all defeats and losses are attributable to a want of soldiers. As we have before noticed the President has issued a proclamation calling out all men, not exempted by law, between the ages of 18 and 45. This call is rendered proper, and indeed indispensable, by Lincoln's call for 300,000 conscripts to swell his forces to be employed for our subjugation.
In the language of the Fayetteville (N.C.) Observer, his armies, whatever force they may amount to, must be met, if it should require every man and boy in the Confederacy. It is a hard duty, but it is a duty which cannot be avoided but with the loss of everything that as individuals and as a community the people of the Confederacy hold dear.
The Yankee Congress has already passed laws to confiscate the property of the people of the Confederacy, and to emancipate their slaves, and the savage malignity of their conduct, wherever they have secured a foot-hold in the South, shows, beyond peradventure that those laws will be enforced if they ever get the power to enforce them. Their soldiers have been promised farms in the South as the reward of their services in conquering us; and they must be wilfully [sic] blind who imagine that the hundreds of thousands of soldiers who have had a taste of blood and ample liberty to rob and outrage, will ever be permitted to return to the North in case of the conquest of the South. The only hope of preserving the lives and property of non-combatants in the large Northern cities, would lie in the quartering of those blood-thirsty villains at the South.
Under such circumstances, and our readers know that we have stated them correctly, it is idle to talk of peace, until the North shows a willingness to have peace, or at least to enter upon negotiations. That they are not prepared for this is manifest from their refusal even to listen to so distinguished a Commissioner as Vice President Stephens upon a secondary point.
We repeat, it is idle to talk of peace, until the North shows a willingness to have peace, or at least to enter upon negotiations. That they are not prepared for this is manifest from their refusal even to listen to so distinguished a Commissioner as Vice President Stephens upon a secondary point.
We repeat, it is idle to talk of peace. We must talk of war and wage war until the enemy tires of war. History is full of examples for our encouragement, of more unequal and even more bloody wars, that finally resulted in the triumph of the people fighting for their rights, their homes and their lives. It is the will of God that we suffer occasional disasters. Let us not, by our own will, permit a combination of all the worst disasters that can befall a people--immediate loss of property, liberty, honor, and eventual loss of life also. Courage, then, Southrons! Brave and true men seize the moment of adversity, not to indulge despair, but to nerve themselves against disaster, and to compel victory. Assured that we are beating for the right, nothing but the will of God should conquer us, and that will has been, so far, more manifested in our favor than against us.
Death of Col. William Dabney Stuart
The Conduct of the Enemy
Illness of General Floyd
President's Proclamation
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We invite attention to the proclamation of President Davis appointing Friday, the 21st of this month, as a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer, and express the hope that it will be observed in the proper christian spirit. It will be observed that the President attributes our trials and reverses to the prevalence of the sins of presumptuous self-confidence, and the idolatrous worship of Mammon. Our people have been too forgetful of the living God, from whom all blessings flow, and have been recklessly seeking gain, seemingly oblivious of the fact that it is impossible to serve God and Mammon. It is too true, as the President says, "that the love of lucre has eaten, like a gangrene, into the very heart of the land, converting too many of us into worshippers of gain, and rendering them unmindful of their duty to their fellowmen [sic], and to their God." As long as the people practice the sin of extortion upon each other, and the officers of the Confederacy rob the Government, we cannot expect to be vouch-safed the boon of freedom and independence.
The American Question in France
Meade's Mendacity
Proclamation of Governor Brown
The President's Address
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The President has issued a strong appeal to the soldiers of the Confederacy absent from their commands to return IMMEDIATELY, and promises amnesty to all who are absent without leave if they return within twenty days from this date, after which time all will be treated and punished as deserters. General Lee and President Davis have both issued calls for soldiers to return immediately--the emergency is great and every soldier should be at his post of duty. The address was received too late for insertion in this issue.
"In the hospitals at Gettysburg there are, by the statement of a correspondent of the New York Herald, about 8,000 wounded Confederate soldiers, and 10,000 Yankee. There were more cases of amputation with our soldiers than with the enemy, and they have been more fatal. This correspondent says that their hospitals are much better managed than ours. He says:"