...nial of the chivalric knight, the ideal hero of song and of story? I will give some illustrations of an authentic character of the coolness and self-possession of the private in the ranks. From Colonel Sweitzer , of McClellan's Staff, I got under a flag of truce an anecdote of one of my couriers at Seven Pines. In carrying an order from me through the woods, he came unexpectedly upon a regiment, whose unif...