Oct. 1st-Steamer Fanny, 3rd-Greenbrier, 5th- killed, -Shiloh, Tenn., May 23rd and 24th-Fort Royal, V., 25th-Winchester, V. June 16th-Secessionville, S. C., July 1st-Wills Church, Oct. 22nd-Pocotaligo, Dec. 31st-Murfreesboro, Tenn. The Confederates were very successful in the naval battle near Norfolk, Virginia. The Merrimac defeated the Abolition vessels Congress and Cumberland, and other damage was done, which I cannot well remember. In the battle of Kernstown, Jackson, with four thousand men, defeated the enemy, who numbered eighteen thousand. In the battle of Shiloh, the brave Albert Sydney Johnson fell, upon whom the following lines were written. THE BATTLE OF SHILOH. BY MRS. MARY S. WHITAKER. On Shiloh's field opposing armies stand, A war-cry rends the air with deafening sound, Proudly they tread-that gallant Southern host, Fierce grows the fight! On Southrons! charge amain ! Our cup of joy is drugged with bitter grief, (From the Richmond Whig.) While I write about the successes of the Confederates, I will, as far as I can, give an account of their losses. New Orleans, Louisiana, had for some time been surrounded by the enemy, and although it was thought quite safe from capture, yet the enemy made their way in gun-boats to New Orleans, and for some time remained in front of the city, but could gain no entrance without capturing some fort. After much hard fighting, Fort Jackson surrendered (April 25th), and by the first of May, the city of New Orleans surrendered, and was occupied by Butler (or as I have often since heard him called Beast Butler). This name was given him immediately after his proclamation to the women of New Orleans who were not respectful to the United-States-Officers. I will mention one woman in particular-a Mrs. Phillips --who happened to be laughing with her friends as a Yankee officer's funeral train passed by. She was cruelly seized and tried for the offence, her sentence pronounced by Butler, and she put into prison, where she stayed four months. The rule of Butler in New Orleans is especially noted for the murder of William Munford, a citizen of the Confederate States, who was charged with insulting the flag of the United States. The fact was, that before the city surrendered, Munford had taken down the enemy's flag, which had wrongfully been put there. The city had not surrendered; and, even if it had, the act of Munford was simply one of war, not deserving death. The horrible crime was completed on the 7th of June, in the presence of many citizens. None spoke but the martyr himself, "I consider," said the brave young man, "that the manner of my death will be no disgrace to my wife and child; my country will honour them." The pitiful pleading of the unhappy wife did not in the least soften the heart of the brute. The experience of New Orleans gave a good lesson to the South; it showed the consequence of submission to the enemy. Their homes would be taken possession of, their negroes taken and made free, their cattle and provisions eaten up by a brutish lot of soldiers, their trunks broken open, and the contents torn in pieces, or sold to get a supply of whiskey, and many other insults too numerous to mention. The greater part of the citizens of New Orleans were French, many of whom were very anxious to claim the protection of the French Government, but this Government, I have heard, was very much disturbed by the fall of the city of N. O., and therefore refused to take part in the disaster. South Carolina, as well as other States, entertained great hope of assistance from foreign nations, but from what little judge I am of warfare, I think if independence is gained without the help of other nations, the more honour to those who gain it. Various efforts were made by the enemy, in 1862, for the capture of Charleston, the hot-bed of rebellion (as they call it): Charleston having been for some time blocked up by the enemy's vessels, we were deprived of getting even the necessaries of life. Salt, which could not be done without, was at the enormous sum of twenty and thirty dollars per bushel, so that after a time, most people made enough for their own use, and so they got on until they could make and sell to those who could not manage to make their own. I have no doubt that many people have made their fortunes by boiling salt. Shoes were also very expensive. A decent pair could not be had for less than twenty or twenty-five dollars, so that I thought it time to make my own shoes, in which I succeeded very well. I do not mean to say I put on the soles, for this part I got Prince to do for me. Mrs. W was one who did not encourage high prices, so I made her a pair as well, with which she was very well pleased, and gave them the name of war-shoes, but I very much fear the war will last longer than the shoes. And speaking of the war, it is well to mention the spirit with which the cause was taken up in Horry District, in which Conwayboro' is situated. Its voting population averages between 800 and 1,000, and the ordinary strength of the Militia Regiment, about the same. It will be seen by the following record, that nearly, if not the whole of its active arms-bearing men are in the service : Horry Volunteers, Capt. W. C. White, 7th Regiment ... ... ... Horry Rebels, Capt. T. P. Alston, 1st Regiment ... ... Lake Swamp Volunteers, Capt. A. H. Johnson, 10th ... ... Horry Dixie Boys, Capt. W. J. Taylor, 10th Regi- ... ... ... ... Bull Creek Guerillas, Capt. Samuel Smart, Pee Dee ... In Georgetown Rifle Guards, Capt. P. C. J. Weston, 10th Regiment S. C. V., (in the State) 102 80 23 ... 68 ... 30 925 In Waccamaw Light Artillery, Capt. Joshua Ward, Total ... |