our disinclination to give prominence to any of the almost innu- bright names in our Southern of chivalry and patriotism, we must justice, that
Captain Lindsay of
Albemarle, has signalized him- rendered service to the cause which innu- the marked compliment paid by at the
battle of Manassas which would have re d by a substantial recognition of supe- His name has never been men- editorially that we are aware of, and yet and his battery" must have become to every Southern render as house He will be astonished now to see of him; but after all the noise his have been making, it is no more that some faint echo should come This gallant and enterprising of the most distinguished of the Virginia Military Institute, after the secession of
Virginia Governor Letcher was looking for a suitable person to command a the
Potomac, the
Superintendent of recommended
Capt. Walker. has shown the wisdom of the ap- command of a company, to equipment
Mr. John Purcell and liberally contributed,
Captain at once proceeded to the neighborhood Creek, at which, and other the
Potomac, he has been engaged in half a dozen battles with the enemy's and tendered the most seasonable and in defeating every attack they have batteries.
The marches he with his artillery from point to point has been astounding for their rapidity and it would seem impossible for an enemy a gun at any point on the but,
presto, Lindsay Walker and his battery are there, although they may have a few hours before.
man and horse of the famous ment seems to consider every roar of on the
Potomac addressed to themself personally; at all events, they bristle a ‘"Did you speak to me, sir?"’ and such an answer as the occasion demands.
They as gaily to a bombardment as most made a frolic, and, happily yet, these engagements have been all sport to them, but to their enemies.
Lisbazy, and his merry little battery, were in the force marched from Aquia to the supported
Beauregard at
Manassas, the energy of which can only be comprehended by saying made as good time to
Manassas as the from it. In that great battle it most signal services.
It was at a hour and place, as described by one of correspondents, that our cool and cheer worked his way to the "perilous of battle with a polite request to ‘"let his little Derringer's."’ At the close he fired the final shots of the day, that lovelier whole ranks of the flying like the ten strokes of a skillful bowl was then that the glorious
Beauregard that compliment which was the just of this unpretending but most efficient and soldier, and, as an evidence of his presented his battery the great gun which had been captured from the enemy.
We rejoice in the reputation which this high-minded and gallant gentleman has attained, and trust his course may be upward and toward.
