. thither about two weeks age of the uit Court of that city for manslaughter for one year.
Kersbaw, a black smith, and with one Lanier, his employer, which seeing only temporarily adjusted, was renewed on Pocahontas bridge, and even tauted in Kershaw's shooting Lanier in the head with a pistol bullet.
The "ball" proved to be a horse-shoe nail, and was not extracted.
Lanier got so far well as to be able to walk about for a few days, when a sudden pain seized and he retired to bed, whence hin the case of a leaden bullet, presented any surface for flesh to adhere to, but had moved and produced irritation and subsequent death.
The death of Lanier, under the circumstances, renewed the matter, and the civil authorities laying hold of Kershaw as a murderer, his trial and conviction, after several months, resulted.
His release was asked for by a number of respectable residents of the Cockade City.
The Governor also pardoned yesterday a young man named Charles Smith, a native of
rcements were arriving for McClellan, and the reconnaissance in force was for the purpose of ascertaining the extent and nature of the reinforcements.
At all events the effort, whatever may have been intended, was a perfect and entire failure, the shells from our batteries driving them like chaff through the woods and swamps, and enabling our pickets to obtain an advanced position.
On Friday, Orderly-Sergeant H. D. Hanaban, company I, 2d South Carolina volunteers, Colonel Kenneday, of Kershaw's brigade, was found in the woods wounded in the legs, where he had been since Wednesday night. He suffered amputation at the hands of the Surgeon of the 1st California.
He was found in an emaciated condition by Capt. W. P. Tomlinson, company F, 1st California.
The prisoner expressed a great desire to have one fact noticed in the Herald to disabuse the minds of the Southern soldiery, who believe from representations of their leaders that their wounded do not receive merciful and charitabl
t serv't, E. V. Sumner, Brevet Major-General Commd'g Division.
An interview having thus been invited, at 9 A. M. Mayor Slaughter, Dr. J. G. Wallace, J. L. Harye, Jr., W. A. Littele, and W. S. Scott, on the part of the citizens, and Gen. Kershaw, on behalf of the military, proceeded, at the hour named, to the opposite shore, but were not received, as the following note will explain.
It will also be seen that an apology was made for firing on the train which left carrying out the depars.
I should much regret to learn that any departing families had been injured. Very respectfully, E. V. Sumner, Brevet Major-General U. S. Army.
At 2 o'clock, pursuant to invitation, the aforementioned committee, accompanied by Gen. Kershaw, proceeded across the river.
After an interview of half an hour's length, the committee returned with word that a final answer might be expected from Gen. Sumner during the evening. --About 6 P. M., the following note was received from Gen. S
ted on account of the supply of water.
Affairs around Fredericksburg — Flags of truce — Deserters — the rebels, &C.
A letter from "Headquarters, opposite Fredericksburg," date the 23d, after a superfluous announcement that the Yankee army is still on the north side of the Rappahannock, gives the following gossip:
You are already aware that flags of truce are being sent to and received from the rebel commanders at Fredericksburg.
Yesterday we were honored by a visit from General Kershaw and Col Bland, of the rebel army, on behalf of the military authorities, and Mayor Slaughter, to represent the civic portion of Fredericksburg.
The nature of the meeting that took place it is not desirable to make public; but it is sufficient to say that there is an evident intention on the part of the rebels to prevent us from crossing the Rappahannock, if they can. This intention on their part is evident to all from the active preparations that they are making to defend the passage.
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ost unprovoked and wanton exhibition of brutality that has yet disgraced the Yankee army.
Heavy firing of artillery and musketry was heard yesterday morning in the vicinity of Fredericksburg and continued up to the time of the departure of the train.
The enemy had succeeded in constructing three pontoon bridges in the neighborhood of Deep Run and landed a force estimated at from forty to fifty thousand men. These are said to have been engaged by the forces of Gens. Cubb, Barksdale and Kershaw.
The fighting is represented to have been more of the character of heavy skirmishing than of a regular battle, in which our forces were exposed to a heavy fire from the batteries of the enemy planted upon the adjacent commanding bluffs.
Under protection of this fire the Yankees succeeded in effecting their landing, our forces falling back in good order, and with but little lets.
It is generally believed that the grand and decisive engagement will occur to-morrow (Sunday)
P. S.--Sinc
whom he had a long interview.
When it was announced that the wound was considered mortal, he requested one of his aids to send several messages to different friends in South Carolina.--Among others was one to Gov. Pickens, which was reported to us as follows: "Tell Gov. Pickens, if I am to die at this time, I yield my life cheerfully, fighting for the independence of South Carolina."
On the left, where the fighting was intensely severe, the brigades of South Carolinian, commanded by Gen. Kershaw, suffered heavily.
The 3d regiment of S. C. volunteers was nearly annihilated.
In the early part of the engagement their Colonel, Lieut-Colonel, and Major, were all wounded, and the command devolved upon the senior Captain, who was killed in fifteen minutes after assuming the command.
His place was supplied by the second senior Captain, and he, too, fell mortally wounded in a very short time.
Wounded received in Richmond.
On Sunday night the Fredericksburg cars brought down ei
when she reached there.
The passage of the body was marked by both sides with the honors due to his rack, end, on the part of the enemy an escort of infantry, with arms reversed, and marching to the sound of martial music, paid the last honors due to the departed brave.
The sight was a touching one and unless grateful to our than it was cared table to the magnanimity of our foe. On our side everything was done decently and it order, under the supervision of that soldier and gentlemen, Gen. Kershaw.
An incident has just come to our notice which deserves to be recorded; It seems that about the time the enemy appeared on the Stafford bills, Young Irvin of Stafford, a member of Gen. Fitzhugh Lee's cavalry, by accident found himself within the enemy's lines, and being unable to extricate himself, was arrested by the Yankees as a spy, and tried end condemned as a spy for execution.
The facts becoming known to Gen. R. E. Lee, that officer knowing the charge to be base leas, at once
tty near as bad as he was. Samuel wrote that he wished Jackson would come that way, that the reserves would give him fits.
Why, boys, if he would come that way, he would eat you up, Sam's horn and all. Jackson is a brave, daring man, and we have few men in our army that are his equals.
All I am sorry for is that he is not engaged in a better cause."
Capture of arms.
We are informed that Col. James D. Nance, with his regiment, the 3d South Carolina, portions of other regiments of Kershaw's brigade, and a detail of one hundred men from Gen. A. P. Hill's division, was sent on an expedition to Shirley last Thursday, expecting to attack the enemy at that point, and capture a number of arms left there by the enemy in their precipitate retreat.
The command reached Shirley about 1½ A. M., when they bivouacked until daybreak, as the night was too dark for any operations.
At daybreak the command was formed and cavalry scouts were sent out by Col. Nance and Capt. King, of Cobb's. L
enning's, Law's, and Robertson's brigades, of Hood's division, and Kershaw's and Humphrey's brigades, of McLaw's. But let us proceed with the not more than formed their lines, however, before the brigades of Kershaw and Humphreys, of McLaw's division, under command of Kershaw, (McLKershaw, (McLaw not yet having arrived with the remainder of his division,) were ordered to assault the ridge.
Here a desperate struggle ensued.--KershawKershaw carried the position again and again, and lost it as often.
It was evident that the enemy had the advantage both in position and numbers, bowers, excited the admiration of all who witnessed their conduct.
Kershaw captured nine guns, a number of small arms, and some prisoners; an time when Preston and Johnson's divisions of Buckner's corps, and Kershaw, and Humphreys, of McLaws's division, had again become engaged witt 3,000 prisoners were taken.
In addition to the guns captured by Kershaw, Hood's division took twenty-one, thirteen of which were brought o
Georgia Railroad.
Another costly residence — that of the late Judge Reese, about one and a quarter miles from Knoxville — was destroyed by the Yankees.
They also burned the residences of W. W. Walker, Mr. Roth, and one or two others in that vicinity.
The pretext for this vandalism was that they might be used as places of security by our pickets and sharpshooters.
The Federal fired them as they abandoned them.
The severest fighting on the approach of Longstreet in the city, in which Kershaw's brigade lost 50 or 60 men, occurred where the railroad crosses the old road to Campbell's station.
At Lenoir's our troops found about 180 wagons and caissons abandoned by the enemy.
Many of these were soon put in order and appropriated.
There seems to be but one mode of escape for Burnside, and that by crossing the Holston under cover of the guns in position on the South bank of the river, and then moving down the stream and effecting a junction with Grant at some point near Chatta
