Show THE A word for the mighty 2 there no help to reach up to the loftiest bead ie there no voice to teach the mighty to be led are kings by wealth or birth to be neglected and the lowlier ones of earth be taken by the hand in a common clay god breathed the breath alia are wo preference in the better way to any soul that lives who has the right to say the rich and great must be discouraged and no way be cleared to set them tree WILLIAM J LAMPTON old abe at corinth here Is another story of the that went through the civil with the wisconsin troops old abe in arched with grant and sherman in the ever victorious ar and never once was injured or captured his style and his power were shown grandly at the attack on corinth we quote the description of mr barrett during a lull in the battle as the enemy was preparing again to fire from the brow of the hill distant not over thirty rods from tee elath regiment the eagle being ex posed in plain sight of the rebels a confederate officer was heard by sev eral in company to say there he Is the eagle capture him boys no sooner was this command given than the rebel artillery opened upon our forces under whose cover a column just discerned in the gathering smoke moved briskly over the crest to break and scatter our steady front and cap ture the prize all this while the eagle scanned with eye every movement on that bill and as the rebel infantry hove clear out in sight he it ts said whistled a startling note of alarm and instantly both armies struck each other in deafening shock commingling with the boom and crash ef cannon that trembled forest and valley shouts from both sides rent the air while death mowed his swath clear through both armies and yet the bloody gaps closed up again and again such is war in general con flicht the eagle leaped up with a des spring breaking his cord or else it was cut by a mime ball and was seen by the combatants circling careering in the sulphurous smoke the nemy pressed nearer exultant as it sure t their prize the bullets flew as hailstones there was a waver lag of a wing was he hita but the war bird rallied again and as he rose higher many a rebel shot went up to bring down the american eagle but on he sped towering above that awful din screaming back to his as gallants eal lants eyeing the battle from his sky eyrie when catching the glimmer of his comrades in the fight and the colors where his bearer stood gazing upward with suspense as if inspired by the roman gods he descended like a bolt of jove to the left of his regiment where mclane flying after him easily caught him up in his arms and panting with ardor and ng with his peculiar air of sat doolan again this is another of gen gordons edories of the irrepressible doolan in the old railroad gap just beyond the bull run range doolan and one of bis commanding officers found themselves fighting side by side in the skirmish that took place there the contending forces were hardly twenty yards apart longstreet did not dare to bring his artillery into play tor fear of injuring his friends jackson could not reach them because of the dish in the hill and meanwhile the bluecoats were firing over the beada of their own troops dropping and exploding shells with deadly ef feet in the confederate ranks this doad things gettin person al remarked doolan calmly as two comrades dropped dead at his feet seven times had the american flag and its bearer gone down the con federate colors had already passed through three hands and had its staff shot away above the handhold but seizing it in the middle its plucky bearer continued to wave it when look at that yank on a white horse somebody cried there across the field at a gallop came a brave bluecoat guerdon in hand cheering and rallying the waver ing federals such a prominent mark of course drew alre from all sides but the rallying hero never wavered doolan s commanding officer borrowed a rifle stepped to the fence rested at on the top rail and took deliberate aim at the horseman As the smoke cleared away the rider was seen to throw up bis arms and fall heavily backward but bis mission was ac tor his troop had returned to the charge the officer shuddered and burled his face in his hands for the moment completely unnerved doolan loading and firing with cheer ful rapidity took in the situation at a glance them s my boots sur he sung out genially I 1 kilt him ye re a colne tolne shot most hoimes but this time an ye berrent up to pat ah but this Is an ll legant scrimmage a man can get a full outfit an niver a bill to pay new york times interesting civil war flag in the state museum at raleigh N la one of the most interesting of the flags used during the civil war it is known as the bethel flag tak ing its name from the first battle of that struggle fought in virginia june 10 1861 in this the first north car dollna regiment of volunteers lost hen ry A wyatt the first confederate sol dier killed in engagement the first north carolina regiment was formed of companies which had responded to the governors call long before the state seceded from the un ion some of these companies were in possession of ane coast forts early in april 1861 the regiment was mo at raleigh its colonel being daniel harvey hill who afterward rose to be lieutenant general the regiment was hurried to the front and I 1 so had the fortune to be at bethel some of the federal forces were be I 1 hind a dwelling house during the fight and five men volunteered to burn it wyatt not yet twenty years of was one of the five and another was robert H bradley now marshal of the state supreme court A bullet struck wyatt and mortally wounded him the regiment was gallant in this action that the state convention then in session ordered that the word bethel be inscribed upon the flag the flag is of silk and bad eight stars as up to that time only eight states bad seceded mr bradley speaks in te about this flag saying when the t arst regiment was mus into service in may 1861 no confederate flag had been adopted so far as carolina was con berned but several companies had col ors of their own company E the buncombe riflemen from asheville bad this flag which the regiment adopted the flag was made by the ladles of asheville and presented by them to the company after the ment was mustered out of service this flag was not placed in the hands of the governor but was preserved by a member of the company from ashe ville who after the war moved to georgia he was james M young and ten years after sent the flag to the governor requesting that it be placed in the state museum tor preserve pre serva alon in the same cae are sword and pis worn by colonel hill a history of the regiment and a map of the bat tie of bethel made by a confederate engineer officer the day after the en ga gement in the museum also is the smokestack of the noted confederate ram albemarle which was built in a corn field on the roanoke river the smoke stack bears the mark of more than two hundred shots shells and bul ets A piece of the armor of the albemarle Is beside the smokestack estaci this having been made from old railroad iron tak en up in this state and sent tc the tredegar Tre degar iron works at richmond where it was rolled into plates two inches in thickness was not a sunday school picnic the following letter recently appeared in the new york sun in the winter of 60 while ang with the union army I 1 met with misfortune was wounded and waa taken prisoner by the confederates about as soon as out of range of bul lets one of the confederates placed his foot alongside of mine and said significantly you and I 1 wear about the same size shoes thereupon I 1 was ordered by him to deliver over the shoes I 1 wore and as soon as they came off my feet he walked away with them leaving me to continue my journey to prison in my stocking feet the stock ings were soon frayed out and I 1 corn plated my journey in my bare feet I 1 did not squeal then and I 1 am not now I 1 was fully apprehend sive of the tact that the war then in progress was not a sunday school picnic and instances like the one above occurred often and often nobody ex pecked to get hit shoes back but here comes a friend of custis lee and in a column long letter in the sun makes a big squeal to er his great grandmother s bible which during the war fell into the hands of union soldiers it I 1 bad that bible in my possession I 1 would return it to custis lee and I 1 would have done so long ago but what surprises me is that such a squeal should come from any one north or south who went into the great conflict of 1861 65 expecting that if the tide turned against him he could squeal and re cover what was lost by the fate of war I 1 cannot believe that this squeal has been made by authority of any of the lees either of the male or the female branch jerome sinclair cincinnati march 2 pleased pap thomas I 1 remember well said the captain when the reinforcements for thomas came up late on the 20 of september some of the regiments came at a run on a scene of excitement and concu slon wherein lines seemed inex ably tangled As the men of the ar riving regiments stood a minute wait ing tor orders one of them looking up to our regiment posted on a ridge said after the manner of one farmer talking across a fence to another all snarled up aint youa old pap thomas trying to doa one of our boys glancing gla acing down in a neighborly way replied he Is trying to drive the johnnies back and he is very par nicular about it he wants to hold these roads then as the waiting regiment moved off to take position the man who had asked the question said in an easy unexcited way you tell old pap the roads are his and if he sees anything else he wants just let him mention it and in ten min utes that regiment was climbing a hill in the face of the enemy s rifle alre years after the war I 1 heard gen thomas say that such conversations encouraged and comforted him because they showed the men in the ranks were taking things coolly chicago inter ocean whales sw m long D stances whales that swim about the islands which lie off the coasts of norway and finland in march and april travel am mense distances in may they turn up at the azores or even at the das and sometimes pay a visit to the antilles they swim fast for in june they are back again off norway some of these whales have been known to bring back evidences of where they have been tor harpoons of the becu liar kind used off the coast of south america have been found stuck in them |