Editor's Table [pp. 313-320]

1863.] Niwrs Tabke. 317
"r~olo Ige sea nds-,,th' j.........o
"Prolonge~sends~thesujoinedanecdote~tMrs. Rebecca Hurt Hardaway and' Miss
which has never apteared in print."..Mary Louis~a Hurt saw the direction for
".preparing army bandages published by all
REGIMENT WITHOUT THE N army srgeon inteN. Y. Herald lli Ma a
We believe that no one but "-;ra. Bil 1861. Tkey purchased two bolts of un ly" could have managed menin the army bleached musl in which, in'strips of differ as he did.. -Always affording a cheerful ent widths from one to four inches and
example on the tiresom- marc}h or in- te.eight yards long, filled one of Colgate's
heat of t)attle, listening to their pettyi,e- large size soap boxes. This was entrusted
vances, fancied or eal, and showing ready an officer who was ordered to Manassas.
sympathy with tnem in their privations- On Saturday before the great batile Dr.
and yet scornirtg and lashing,in his pecu- Nathax Bozeman,of New Orleans, arrived
liarly. severe manner,- the skulker or the at Manassast with orders to report to Ger'l
Ynalingerer,' his stron ative. sense ad e hEJhnstont
thorough knowlSdgy o:f human natu;re On Sunday morninghe remarked -to this
(which is often) "unco weak", ad Oier that tliere nmust be great suffering
sometimes interpose a good steut hoged'that day, ast he had jiist' ascertained that
between a Parrot gun and its mrtai part there was an etire;deficiaencyof bandages
fordrotection) supplies the: deciency of among themedicalsorps:?When the box
tacdcs and the severe diDeipt. of the nar of bandages all properly arranged and
tinet. No better ilustration of this could neatly rolled for, use was shown, he could
be given than the history of-the 49th Va. scarcely credit the evidlence of the sigh,t
Regiment in al: th battles from the first ant after examini them he exaeclaimed Manassas to the last fight into which thleir "This couldte h6ebeen chane; it:as
Colonel rovgallantily an t,.:....
Colonel so gallantly led it. providential, and I regard it as an augury
In one- of the bloodiest ba4tles fathe of our success this day."
war, the Forty-Ninth being o the reserve Soon after the battle he addressed a note
at the time, had stackedarms, and the mn to the ladies acknowledging the timtnely re w,ere filling their -,aateens and broiling ception of the box, and the use to which
pork on their ramrods, when courier'fast their Work had been ut for the benefit of
and ftrious" r.Oe up with order for the; rend and foe alike.
regiment to go up to the front at,:"double.- And in this connection, alow me o re quick.'" Immediately Ex::. Lli:ly rose in late an incident whfich I heard from an
his stirrups, vith te sharp brder, Fall in ambulance drivertthat Sunday night. Many
Forty-Nin%," whih keeng repeated, and of the Yankees who were most diangerouisthe line not formed as promptly as the ly wounded were brought off with. o- oWn
emergency required, the Colonel again in for treatment.
stentorian tone criedout::i Fall in Forty — Among the number was one of genune
Ninth Virginia! I will be d-ai i? Wt,:ersfiehl stock, who had receivel the
march the regimnt of and ke v; -marked attention of the Ro ekbridge or
d-.d on of:y an the thicket." It is need- some other battery, a.d —,had lost a leg.
less to say the 49th was soon at te front Reviving somewhat from the jolting,or
and doing goodi work. n.the cool night air, he commenced a con ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~tair, he~n goommn[d workii'..
...ersation with his Jehu, and after many
'.:eries; asked where he -lived " when at
The.Stateent below may be strictly home -"
true, in spite of:the fact that for some On being answered, Alabama, "Wal
months before the-, of Manaashte ceow," qlotli Joziathan, "I rather calculoe
-U fere's -;igood opening in your tow for aw
ladies o~-f Rich-mon~d wee uslenad hoetnakeri aint thiere l1"
in makbandages. The Richmond ban[- But Jonathan alas like many of those
dages mnay not have been sent to Mana,ssas. who crossed.Bull Run that dat, settled a ya
,,,'..' 8 I]. VA:' }"large 1 pzit a eewl h~u-dr de yards south of tihe
N.maa' Fi'R~rjrssrvaG, VA., 1 okl co'mmis'sary: store-house.
April 18, 1863.'
Ed...tsthern Literry,i fesen&~r.,'
Sin,In. the Fidd:4':Fir.eside, an articie Piunh's last oosndruam's; "What's the
was pblished in AgustjS I8 1 tlihin, in.i..e
which the devotionI of t wo'~noea of the cliere'nee between your great coa; and a
South in our present struggle was firtl. y eu- baby' One you wear, the other you was.;'
logized- and the statemest'made that all
the bandlges used for the.irst few days af- At lant'.-. r /''g''.'
ter the rn-rablei battle of aanpssas,Jay An atlanta. g er advertises sardines
21, 1861, was the handiwork ofwo sses... and sherry under the head o'f,(':Per*>
of Alabama, residing near Coelmbus, Ga. cencee of the Pasit."'