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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Experiences of a Northern man in the Confederate army. (search)
possible by reflecting that it was well for me to have a good deal of practice in fasting to prepare myself for the field. We sat down to table to a meal rather moderate in quantity, and I refrained with Spartan fortitude from indulging my desire to eat ravenously. Presently, however, other courses followed, and I found that a. plentiful supply of good plain food was around me. You will readily believe that I then quickly changed my tactics and adopted those of the thrifty soldier, Dugald Dalgetty, who victualed himself on suitable occasions to last for a campaign. After this dinner I was not slow in discovering that the newspapers had, as usual, grossly exaggerated and falsified in their accounts of the food-scarcity at the South. Among forces in the field, among persons living in districts, which had been overrun by the armies, and among refugees from homes occupied by the enemy, there were frequently distressing privations, but elsewhere throughout the country there was not,
Fannie A. Beers, Memories: a record of personal exeperience and adventure during four years of war., Part I. (search)
ed health and became a pet. This was Bob Wheat, son of an Episcopal clergyman, and he had left school to come to the war. He next went to Cuba with Lopez, was wounded and captured, but escaped the garroters to follow General Walker to Nicaragua. Exhausting the capacity of South American patriots to pronounce, he quitted their society in disgust, and joined Garibaldi in Italy, whence his keen scent of combat summoned him home in time to receive a bullet at Manassas. The most complete Dugald Dalgetty possible; he had all the defects of the good qualities of that doughty warrior. Some months after the time of which I am writing, a body of Federal horse was captured in the valley of Virginia. The colonel commanding, who had dismounted in the fray, approached me. A stalwart, with huge moustache, cavalry boots adorned with spurs worthy of a caballero, slouched hat and plume; he strode along with the nonchalant air of one who had wooed Dame Fortune too long to be cast down by her fr
The Daily Dispatch: June 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
ablish in America, and it may be that the system of white slavery, which, under the name of free labor, is endeavoring to force African slavery from every portion of this continent where Europeans can be substituted, has something to do with the course of the Prussian Government, as it unquestionably has with the compact and enthusiastic support given by Germans in all the free States to the present war. Whatever the motive, we have no apprehensions of these military adventurers — these Dugald Dalgetty's--whom Lincoln is importing from Europe to lead his Hessians against the Southern States. Prussia ought to know by her own history the power of a patriotic people to defend their own firesides against the greatest odds, and if she does not know it, her deputies will learn a lesson which she may be called upon to imitate, perhaps with indifferent success, before many years. She has an eagle eye on her own continent that looks upon her with no peculiar love, and the day may come when t
The Daily Dispatch: October 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], $20 reward (search)
Foreign officers. --The Lincolnite journals boast of the great number of foreign officers in their service. If they had the smallest modicum of national, or even sectional, pride or self-respect, they would refrain from glorying in what, properly considered, is their shame.--It speaks poorly for their vaunted military superiority over the South that they must scour the whole earth not only for materials to fill their ranks, but officers to lead their armies.--The South has no more reason to fear the imported than the native officers of the Lincoln army. They are in general mere military adventurers, Dugald Dalgetty's, who can never stand against the cause and the men of the Southern Republic. No respectable European officer, who has been successful and is considered a valuable man at home, is going to embark his fortunes in such a crazy vessel as "The Grand Army."