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Show brigade, aa ii proven by the list of tb'e killed and wounded that were in the fight. . General Lee watched Pickett 'a charge at Gettysburg, and it is hardly probable that he, absorbed in the movements move-ments of the whole army at Fredericksburg, picked out this one brigade to praise, because, going go-ing to the records, we find there were other brigades bri-gades that fojight on that day on the union side who had a heavier proportion of killed and wounded than did the Irish brigade. They Jid their full duty, they earned the warmest possible place ;n the hearts of their countrymen ; bnt there were other brigades, other regiments, other divisions divi-sions that in the loss in killed and woniided, which is really the tnly test, exceeded that of the Irish brigade by a very large percentage. It is useless now, after almost half a century, to pick out any single brigade in the army and bestow upon it extraordinary tribute as the superior of alL other brigades on both sides; because, first, it is not true, it ir. not even probable, and that General le, after tht war, filled with its memories, should pay such a tribute to a brigade of what were his enemies at the time, is impossible. And then, the words do not sound like the words of an essentially brave man at all. They sound like the words of a thoroughly thor-oughly qualified liar, who was willing, in order to pay extraordinary tribute to a command which perhaps he belonged to, to discount the courage of all the commands around it. No man ever doubted the courage of the Irish in the army ; no American fails to be grateful to thoei Irishmen; "bnrlnihoul(Ib6rcmembere(irthar 82 pereenfof the soldiers from the north that fonght in that war were native born. And if it is necessary, the record rec-ord can be drawn to show that many and many a brigade of the American born suffered each one more loss of life and had more men wounded than did their Irish brothers who went out to die, if necessary, in the cause which they had espoused. : a THE BRAVE MEN OF THE WAR. A few days ago a correspondent of the Sun wrote a communication iu which he made General Rcbcrt E. Ltj in an interview pay most extraor-dirary extraor-dirary tribute to Meager'a Irish brigade. Another An-other correspondent disputes the words and says that General Lee never eould have uttered them, which we think is true. . There was no doubt about the courage of the - old Irish brigade, but General Lee was acrustomd tc having brave men around him, and that he segregated this brigade from all others and told of their unmatched valor at FrederMtshurg is simply impossible, for the reason that the Irish brigade, while filling perfectly the measure of brave men and grent lighters, neither at Fredericksburg nor any other place exceeded the soldiers around that |